Sounds like the Queen isn't feeling too bright.
The 9-5 grind and that monotonous factory work finally catching up with the old lass?
No doubt she'll last till about 110 now.
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Sounds like the Queen isn't feeling too bright.
The 9-5 grind and that monotonous factory work finally catching up with the old lass?
No doubt she'll last till about 110 now.
It'll be HM King Charles III, HRH is for plebs.
Isn't he going to be George VII or something or did they give up on that idea?
I think he taking the name 'Floyd'.
HM King Floyd
I thought that was based on the previous Charleses being a bit shit, although Charles II has probably been rehabilitated since then.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
Charles II was well known for shagging around, so it fits Charles III as well.
Will they just change a couple of words of the national anthem or is this the chance to go a bit jazzy at last?
There was always talk of him not taking Charles when he got the gig.
Camilla is beaming and Charles is verging on despondent at this speech. :sherlock:
One step closer to the throne for Lord Kiko.
Old sausage fingers, you mean?
Might as well make a HM King William V thread.
Fuck that noise. Skip straight to George and go for a King Joffrey stint.
My fingers are not sausages.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
No wonder the Germans are discriminating against you.
Lolololol
That seems to have been squashed pretty quickly.
Reckon this could be it. (Can’t link properly on my phone)
https://twitter.com/kateemccann/status/1567835585212997640?s=46&t=7st5EEfDbDNexrreFYx1cA
Under medical supervision apparently. Probably wait till the work day is over to announce she's dead.
Fingers crossed for the Charles in Charge theme.Quote:
Originally Posted by wullie
Charles and William on their way to Balmoral, and announcing she's under medical supervision when you would think she would be under 24/7 supervision anyway given her age and status, is quite telling. A late night announcement might be on the cards here.
That meeting with Liz obviously sent her over the edge
Probably as good as time as any to abolish the monarchy.
She was probably on borrowed time when Phil went. She just hung around long enough to tell Boris to fuck off.
Although she did look very frail in that picture with Truss. Hands all bruised like she'd had IVs hooked up. Truss' tweet looks a bit weird if she's not on death's door.
"Comfortable and resting" apparently. Catfished again.
RIP The Queen, Long live the King.
All those clips doing the rounds of teenage Truss saying she hates the monarchy, maybe all this "thicko horrible incompetent Tory" thing has just been a long term assassination plot and she's poisoned her.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waffdon
That's my headcanon now anyway.
The last two guests on BBC (the one on now openly speculating what time they'll announce it) are dressed all in black. Seems they know but they're not allowed to say until the guard places the note of mourning at Buckingham Palace.
Looks worse and worse in every appearance, her hands were literally dead in colour when meeting Truss with only makeup probably keeping us all from shitting ourselves at the sight of her. Proper sad :(
London Bridge is down?
Even the nonce is heading to Balmoral.
Yeah, that seals it, she's on her way out if not already.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
The kids have literally just gone back to school, she can absolutely fuck off if she's thinking about dying and triggering some sort of week of national mourning.
Do we get a day off?
I always thought we would, but Wikipedia thinks otherwise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Quote:
As agreed by the Queen and the prime minister, the day of the funeral will be declared a day of national mourning, although a bank holiday will not be granted.
This Guardian article from a few years ago outlines what will/might happen: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-london-bridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC5hzJNWIrY
If you can get past the insufferable narrator, this lays out the process.
Huw Edwards took the chair from the previous presenter at 8 minutes to the hour dressed in all black.
She's already dead, isn't she?
Have they put the dour music on all the radio stations yet?
George Ezra 'in the mud'.
Yeah I think so. "Comfortable and resting" is just code for "dosed up with morphine".Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
BBC One have cleared all programming, just killing time until they're allowed to announce it (which might be a while until Harry gets there).
I tested Radio 2 on the way back from lunch, some downbeat singer songwriter number, but Radio 3 was quite jolly. They probably don't give a fuck.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
Absolutely this based on my recent experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
Next Friday if she passes on today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
I'm on holiday in France from next Thursday, thank fuck for that.
This is a horrendous week for Rangers and Lewis
We've got Forest away next Friday so I'll be fuming if that's moved.
His Majesty's Rangers getting that new monarch bounce.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waffdon
My horse is supposed to have her first race on Monday. Gonna be annoyed if it’s called off.Quote:
Originally Posted by thommo
Harry and Meghan on their way to Balmoral too.
Got a feel of deadline day on Sky Sports this. Waiting for Harry Redknapp to rock up and do a car window interview.
Apparently the press have had it confirmed but can’t announce it until Charles has announced it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Soldier
Reckon Kanu would put in a good shift as King
The good news is despite BBC 1now just being rolling footage of Huw Edwards morosely narrating a gate Pointless is still on, just shifted to BBC 2.
Crowds are building.
This is going to be a new spectacle of national shame, isn't it?
None of the fans have turned up with dildo's though, the boring cunts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Soldier
There will be footage of people celebrating somewhere at somepoint I imagine. Get out on the streets with a camera Boydy and Waff.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
It’s a shame the football is gonna get cancelled as Aberdeen/Rangers this weekend would have been absolute carnage
I imagine Giggles is throwing a party tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
With no guests though.
Whatever the political beliefs, there’s no joy in an inoffensive old woman dying.
Not even on the bench. Must have shat it
Not quite true, KC3 will be absolutely buzzing. Bringing his own backroom team to the Palace as well apparently (this has genuinely been reported).Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
I was trying to judge if Radio 2 on the way home were playing the death playlist, quite downbeat so it's possible, I'm sure George Ezra will have been pleased to make it on. Rocket Man is definitely not what she would have wanted, though.
He got injured on Sunday (obviously) and is missing for 3 weeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waffdon
Explain?
He's pretty injury prone and picked up another hamstring injury.
The fucking bio alone is bad enough.
Cheers, lads.
Long live the King.
London Bridge is down.
Bye then
Hearing people on the news refer to the King is a genuinely weird feeling.
How did the BBC break it? By the time I turned on they'd cut to their pre-prepared anthem thing. Did they just cut to that as soon as it dropped?
CBBC switched to news coverage, but In the Night Garden still going strong on Cbeebies.
This feels weird.
Boris is going to be so seething he's not in charge for this.
Imagine going from Churchill as your first PM to Liz Truss as your last.
Nah they did a cut back to Huw looking particularly somber just before that. Read out a statement a couple of times just about her having died and the King remaining in Balmoral and returning to London tomorrow. Then cut to the anthem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Her final patriotic act was hanging on to outlast him.Quote:
Originally Posted by -james-
It does. I'm at all religious or spiritual but I can't help feeling she was the last thing holding the full force of Satan back from the gates.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
If you read up on the life of Churchill he's probably the closest PM we had to BoJo. WW2 has cleansed his image, but he was fucking useless (and a massive cunt) outside of war. It's the yank blood in both of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bernanke
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Good that you took that fully seriously.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kikó
EDIT: Or did it genuinely make you lol? In which case, that's made me smile.
The end of western civilisation as we know it. Here comes the apocalypse.
Has anyone tried singing the new anthem? It sounds so wrong.
Be nice if EA made her an Icon card on the next FIFA. 96 rated right winger. RIP God Bless
I can't remember the last time I sang it as GSTQ.
https://i.imgur.com/trQKQUH.pngQuote:
Originally Posted by 7om
Quick sell galoreQuote:
Originally Posted by Dark Soldier
It was good. Satan rules amongst us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Ideal time to change it to something less shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by -james-
Some stint all the same.
And more inclusive.
Erm .... here's my stupid question for the day:
Has there ever been stamps with another monarch on them? I joking said at work whether they'd put Charles on the money. How much of a brand is Liz's side profile?
Went on BBC Football to get a description of this Marquinhos kid's goal. Instead got 4 headline pieces on the queen. Okay.
Yes, obviously.
Stamps will be getting re-printed and postboxes too.
Keep the tune for familiarity, but make it about our NHS.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Will this get us a day off work? I don’t work Mondays so it better not be a Monday.
I think it will. Truss wants some brownie points and it's big enough to warrant it. Unless the Jubilee holiday counts double like a Christmas birthday. Boo.
Boris' statement, the shameless fuck. :D
Boris getting in there with a statement :D wanker
Boris the fucking cretin.
I like that BT aren't allowed to do a pre-match for the United game, but they are allowed to show some old Liverpool highlights set to a techno soundtrack.
If they don’t allow football for the next two weekends there won’t be any proper football until October since internationals are in two weeks :sick:
I really hope they don't cancel the football for that long. Would fuck up the schedule too considering the World Cup, how are we going to cram another 2 games in down the line?
Black armbands, play on. She never liked football anyway.
It seems Ian Darke was hoping the United game got called off.
They shouldn't cancel anything, it's not 1939.
They weren't allowed to discuss a match they were about to show live? :cab:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cord
Indeed. Do some silences or applauses if you must, maybe in the 96th minute seeing as every game lasts that long these days, but fuck postponing them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Oh and what I would love to know is who knew and when. Surely Nicholas Witchell must have done fairly early doors, so fair play to him for sitting there all afternoon pretending she was still alive.
The sports broadcasters should treat this as a dress rehearsal for when Sir Alex Ferguson dies.
Allowed may be the wrong word, they certainly chose not to though.
They also started the actual coverage by pointedly saying it was UEFA's choice the game goes ahead.
They put on some Ligue 1 highlights instead which is a lot more respectful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
I've just had a look at the responses to the Twitter announcement Lewis posted and fuck me, the broadcasters and establishment bodies are fighting a losing battle if they want to introduce respect into the proceedings.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
The whole family hate him, so he's probably still getting fed fake statements claiming she's perked up a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Reckon your old man knew through his contacts?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
All previous/current Best Poster winners were notified at least an hour before it went public.
I think Americans that love the Royal Family are my favourite Niche. They absolutely ADORE the Royals. They don't know anything about them, but they adore them none the less.
We've already had three home games postponed because of the Commonwealth Games, she's taking the piss if West Brom on Saturday is off now as well.
Why would they cancel football for this? Like my brain honestly can’t make up a reason.
Reckon Farage is printing off the queen's face to slap on his blow up for a bit of fun tonight
They all think he's a knob so he was probably SEETHING at all the read but unreplied WhatsApp messages he was sending.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Practically speaking, could be a lot of police resources diverted to various events surrounding it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike
Otherwise, as a mark of respect, i.e. how you can play trivial games when the Queen has died, albeit I think the number of people who think like that (and there will be millions of them) isn't what it used to be.
:moop:
BT Sport showing their respect with no adverts at half time of the United game just a splash page with their logo.
Balls.Quote:
Originally Posted by thommo
Hopefully the non-league holds firm.
My car needs to go into the garage Saturday morning and I'm worried I'll struggle to get to Sunderland, so it's not the worst news.
The football announcement.
me mam just shared this on facebook and now im in tears rip are lizzy
Quote:
Phillip came to me today,
and said it was time to go.
I looked at him and smiled,
as i whispered that "I know"
I then turned and looked behind me,
and seen I was asleep.
All my Family were around me,
and I could hear them weep.
I gently touched each shoulder,
with Phillip by my side.
Then I turned away and walked,
with My Angel guide.
Phillip held my hand,
as he lead the way,
to a world where King's and Queens,
are Monarch's every day.
I was given a crown to wear
or a Halo known by some.
The difference is up here,
they are worn by everyone.
I felt a sense of peace,
my reign had seen its end.
70 years I had served my Country,
as the peoples friend.
Thank you for the years,
for all your time and love.
Now I am one of two again,
in our Palace up above.
J.Boyle (heartfelt)
I need some tissues, welling up here.
(heartfelt)
The angels at the pearly gates
All turned to me at once
Making Pizza Express gags
About my son, the nonce
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by wullie
she will never be forgotten do a lap with sir tom my queen
https://i.imgur.com/8nEmhuT.png
Wonder if she’ll tell diana exactly how she bumped her off
If he did, he wasn't gracious enough to share.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Isn’t that from the Giggs trial?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Soldier
no shush pen show some respect
she was quite beautiful in her younger years look how happy she is here can we close the forum for 24 hours out of respect please my heart is broken
https://i.imgur.com/wDaIU1g.jpg
Didn't some BBC bod accidentally announce she had died this afternoon [obviously quickly recanted/redacted]?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Somebody ':D' DS so he stops.
I will never stop mateQuote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Kingslander :cool:
Wall to wall coverage. Make it stop.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
...
Is that how it works?
thanks mate its all i wanted
:D
DS’ mom should sign up to the board and post these herself #legend
Jesus, Trev. Turn it off.
The response from TalkSport. :D
:D
Somebody on twitter has leaked Trev’s mobile number and thousands of people have been trying to call him. Going straight to answer phone.
Lagboat. :cool:
There's always a fall guy when a monarch dies. Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, the Princes in the Tower, Edmund de la Pole, Trevor Sinclair.
I managed to wake up, drive to work and chill out for 20 minutes before finding out.
Phil fucking De Franco broke the news to me :D
Edit: Apparently it's from January, weak.
The Australian Federal Parliament has been suspended for 2 weeks with Albo and the Governor General to fly to England to meet the King.
Spav must be seething.
I reckon it was about 1pm at the latest. BBC News hastily ushered in Huw Edwards dressed in black at 13:52, so they clearly knew then.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
Radio update: Radio 2 has retreated to classical music, Radio 1 chanced 'Blinded by your grace'. Bit upbeat for me so I'll be writing to Ofcom.
Weirdly, I think the best/most eloquent tribute I've seen so far is that from Paul Keating, the Lizard of Oz himself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Queenslander
How's Trevor Sinclair getting on? Done a Marco Boogers yet?
I forgot about the Lizard of Oz. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/...06-p59u7f.html
I recall the furore when he touched her shoulder or whatever it was.
https://i.ibb.co/B6Fqx6k/8155124-3x2-940x627.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
The balls on Keating.
96 gun salute eh? Finally some JUSTICE! Well, almost.
Football look like they're choosing to cancel the weekend games even though the government have said they're fine to go ahead.
PL are useless twats.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/62846756
The absolute cunts.
Next weekend's games too apparently. Best part of a month off for those not involved in internationals. :cool:
Balls. I was looking forward to them trying to get an armband on McClean and all.
I'm struggling to see how it is a "mark of respect" to not play.
Cricket and golf seem to be playing from tomorrow, though. The posh boys know how to do it.
On a similar note, I've seen a weird amount of opposition to the King from right wing twitter (because of his pro-green stances). The world is turning upside down.
Same. If she'd died suddenly, at say 50-odd I could understand it more, but she was in her late 90s.
Prince, sorry King Charles could win a lot of public favour if he came out tonight and said please carry on as normal.
Has he defintely gone with Charles 3? I recall there was talk a while back that he'd pick something else when the time came because Charles 1 and 2 were a bit shite.
Is that him gone straight in anyway or is there a big coronation thing that has to be done too?
He's in straight away (as Charles III), presumably will get crowned next year.
The only break in the monarchy since the 800s or whenever England started was when your mate Ollie Cromwell was in charge. Other than that, one succeeds immediately when the previous one dies.
The cool thing about cancelling all the football the day before is everyone who has booked travel and accommodation will definitely get a refund.
Derry City vs Bohs going ahead :uhoh:
I never knew he was ever head honcho, I thought military leader or royal underling or something like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
He lopped off Charles I's head (real battle of the knobheads, that one), then ruled as Not King for a bit, then when he died Charles II came back.
His infamous Irish campaign was earlier I think, so he's probably remembered there as a general.
Some top tier reporting from the BBC
Is this what we're going to get for the next fortnight?Quote:
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experi...ce05dd59a6.jpg
Margaret Thompson, 83, says she saw the Queen drive past her on a visit to Cardiff when she was a young child.
She tells us:
Brilliant, it was. That was as near as I got to her, but she looked lovely.”
I looked at Buckingham Palace once. Really makes you think.
I'm sorry for your loss, Margaret.
They really do scrape the barrel. Huw Edwards was having to stall all afternoon yesterday and it got to the point where he was talking about the rain in Aberdeen and if it would affect the Royals driving from the airport to Balmoral ffs
I don’t even know how they can use policing as an excuse in Scotland certainly. There’s hardly any police at any game if not any. Just stewards.
Monday meetings in Edinburgh City centre going to be a fucking nightmare.
On hold to EE and the music being played is hilarious. What a bunch of weird people in this country.
His Majesty's Rugby Football League is still playing. What is football thinking exactly, other than possibly trying to prevent Liverpool from tarnishing the brand?
I think this might even be the answer, that lot are animals.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
A lot of people (directly and indirectly) missing out on work as a result.
It's pretty weird that money hasn't prevailed. Whoever does the fixture scheduling is currently in a dark room, weeping, as well.
They've made a pretty colossal error, I think (all other major sports are back on as far as I can see). Bad sport, run by bad people in a cocoon incapable of judging anything on the outside.
There will be great scenes at the rugby codes, cricket, golf et al.
Celtic will have done us proud, too. Not even a tweet :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
First GSTK will be at the cricket, by the looks. The king bit I can handle, but 'send him victorious' is going to catch a few out. Check your pronouns.
They'll have to put the lyrics on the big screen.
With a little crown bouncing along the words so everyone keeps the same time.
What’s this guff about? Surely there’s not much point in clubs paying respect if they’re going to loophole their way out of it.
Have UEFA quite rightly said that they're not postponing any games?
Irish racing is on tomorrow. :)
Shame my horse is running at Kempton and not Leopardstown. Hopefully UK racing goes ahead on Monday, mind.
I thought it was on tomorrow in the UK? Definitely is on Sunday anyway. It’s just football by the looks of it that’s off all weekend.
You’ll never get a result in Ireland, unless you’re in with the gangsters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
Thought that was quite good from our new King.
What did Trevor Sinclair do? He seems to be getting the sack from TalkSport for it.
Something about black and brown people not mourning her.Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
He’s probably right in the sense that it’s the same as someone doesn’t need to rejoice in the dead, everyone shouldn’t have to give a fuck either.
Then again she was a symbol with zero power so I don’t really see how anger could be directed there rather than governments.
An hour for any thread. Has the site here shut down too like the BBC?
There's no football to post about.
We're all too grief-stricken to post.
Let us mourn.
Never thought it'd be the Queen that killed the board.
I'll have a Melilla update at some point this evening Giggles, but that's about the best I can do.
I have been earnestly following so I look forward to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Football is barely posted about here anyway. If Utd or Liverpool aren't playing on a Saturday it's tumbleweed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
There's no other weird stories in the UK news for us to take the piss out of in the News of the Day thread either.
Has everyone stopped being weird in mourning or can it just not be reported?Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
Get a Haxball server up, Giggs.
I’ll never be that bored.
The Queen loved a bit of Hax.
So much so she apparently referred to her favourite estate unofficially as Haxballmoral.
I was going to go with Hax-Coburg but that's much better.
Talking of Balmoral and given it's 50,000 acres or so, can anyone just wander round it or is the whole thing fenced off and guarded? If so, what in the fuck does that look like? There must be a small army living there.
Ffs :D
I'm welling up.
God save the Queen.
I was wondering this because Scotland has stronger 'right to roam' laws than England, but there are exceptions for residences and working buildings, so maybe they just secure the area immediately around the castle and wherever anyone happens to be. But yeah, you appear to be able to mooch around a lot of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
You can (and I have) stroll onto the bits that aren't near the castle.
As for the football getting canned discussion, is it possibly a policing in London issue? They must be expecting a bit of a day tripper swell over the next week.
My wife's work have taken Celebrations off the shop floor. :D
Fuck's sake. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Miguel Delaney had an article out saying it’s nothing to do with policing for this weekend. Says next week may be an issue so games will probably be off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Just watched Boris' speech in the House of Commons and he refers to her driving them around Balmoral in her Land Rover without any security present, much to the amazement of the ramblers they came across.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
He also said the BBC interviewed him a few months ago about the Queen and asked him to talk about her in the past tense. Which makes sense of the clip I saw of King Charles doing the same thing. At least wait until she's dead to get your documentary you fucks.
Bank holiday for funeral confirmed :drool:
I'm already off. :moop:
When is it?
I don't know if it's confirmed but Monday 19th is the end of the 10 days of mourning.
Me tooQuote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
That confirms it then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waffdon
:cry:
The corgis know.
There are some very strange people out there.
Molly, get a hold of yourself.Quote:
t's like when a grandparent passes... even if you don't know them that well, you get the feeling you don't know what to do anymore. She's been around our whole life, we don't know anything apart from the Queen. Now that she's gone it's unknown waters, she's not there anymore. As a woman growing up knowing that it's a woman in charge it's always been kind of personal. I like the fact that a woman's in power... it won't change anything now that we have a King but I think for the young girls out there it will be different looking up to a man.
Molly Bews, 20, from Liverpool
It's good that this nonsense of a role model having to be exactly like you to be a role model is now taken as gospel.
They should make a woman of color King.
https://i.imgur.com/s1CpxHe.png
Already have.
The queen is dead, long live the kween.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepe
Yaaaaassss
What age is the new man?
Me three. Not sure why Shindig is throwing out the :moop:. Cancel the AL and you're grand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike
73 but he's the son of a 96 year old and a grandson of a centenarian. Give him 20 years, basically.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Probably not worth skipping him at that rate.
Just received this email (addressed to me and 152 other visible addresses), probably my favourite scam I've ever received. I love the idea that Charles would be sitting around administering this from a gmail account.
Congratulations you're among the list of people Queen Elizabeth || of England choose to award $5,000000 dollars as charity work ,
Due to brief illness before she passed away, we automatically stop work by send information to the list she gave us and started mourning our Queen with tears on 8/Sept/2022,
Unfortunately the son of Queen Elizabeth || of England Prince Charles have ordered us today to begin to send information to the list of people the Queen gave us before she passed away,
That he promised her mother he will finish the charity work she started before she passed away by giving out the money to the people in the list to help and support them financially, the fund's will be giving to those who contacted him before the burial of the Queen, kindly contact Prince Charles for more information about the funds
charlesaprince733@gmail.com
You should do some scam baiting.
Charles A. Prince 733. :cool:
Should send that to that lol professor making the rounds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
The fucking queen is travelling 30 seconds outside my flat door tomorrow on its way to Edinburgh :lol:
6 hours they’re planning to take from Balmoral to Edinburgh. What a fucking shambles
Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Don't worry, Trevor has since realised his comments were simply a by-product of poor mental health, which obviously absolves him of any actual culpability. He has since gone for a run to exercise his demons.
Or, an alternate take, has sobered up and is desperately playing damage control to avoid the P45 from Talk Sport, which is probably already in the post.
It's too much. They need to go.
They were doing so well keeping to themselves amidst all the shame of racism and paedophilia, that it was easy to just let them be, but this whole period has been a shambles. The BBC in particular.
On the contrary, the sheer number of plebs flocking to London for this highlights how the monarchy should exist until it no longer becomes profitable.
I'm mainly just confused over Paddington's apparent metamorphosis into the Grim Reaper.
#BendOverForBankHolidays
Have a hunt around twitter and you’ll see it was harry and the mrs that pulled the trigger.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
A lad I previously thought was pretty sensible has posted pictures of him laying flowers outside the palace, made the trip especially :moop:
Not including the loyalist crew I’ve had 3 people already on my Facebook with the apron up on their profile picture. Like actual sensibly aged (40+) real Irish people. Disgraces.
Whatever about the rest of it, I nearly spit out my tea at the last bit :D
What absolute knackers.
People have travelled MILES to stand at the side of a city bypass and wave at a car. :harold:
You were there MJ, don't kid anyone.
I drove past the cortége on the way back from the golf. Absolutely surreal seeing that number of people/cars at the edge of the A90.
Are they driving the body all the way from Scotland to London?
Think it gets the train down from Edinburgh.
I thought they were flying for some reason.
Would have thought the train would be more fitting.
I won't be going to London for any of it, but if this procession was going through your town I think you would watch it. It's a pretty major historical event.
She wouldn't been seen dead in The North.
There’s a lot more Unionists in Dundee than I hoped. Disgusting.
The nonce also likes a bit of incest it seems.
That tweet, fucking hell.
Someone was arrested in Edinburgh for holding up an ‘abolish the monarchy’ sign. Literally a police state :lol:
Have they even grounds to arrest someone for that?
It'll be some shit like 'outraging public decency'.
They balanced it out by protecting that idiotic chippy owner who filmed themselves 'celebrating' the other day.
That number of people like that's a lot more than usual i.e 0.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Shearer The 2nd
Beautiful.
I remember standing on the side of the road to see John Paul II pass by in the poncemobile. I don't know if it was 'worth it,' but what else could I have possibly done with those 20 minutes that would have been better? Now, if someone is traveling for this kind of shit then lol.
Fuck me it's carnage round here. They have had to close off a load of roads round Sandringham as it has been too busy. Facebook and Instagram yesterday was just full of people posting about how they had been there. Fine if you want to go and pay your respects do it but why do you have to fucking post about it on social media.
Another thing as well why are companies so fucking desperate to get in on the act all changing their logo's to black just to make sure they aren't missing out. If they actually gave a shit I'd understand but they don't it's just want their marketing department have told them to do.
It's like the one month a year they pretend to give a fuck about LGBT.
You can see why companies do that, though. They’re probably shit scared of *not* doing it and getting piled-on by the twitter retards.
I get it but own it and just say we respect the fact the Queen has passed away and to show our respect for that we will be closed on the day of her funeral. Job done maybe even a post to that effect. Instead what the cunts will do is change their logo to black and white and be absolutely gagging to open the second they can next Monday.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7om
It’s all just posturing, isn’t it. Seems to be 90% of what we do as a society nowadays.
I appreciate the need for said person to have a crowd-pleasing rant, but is that what's actually happening? I'm not sure it is, on this occasion. Feels worlds apart from Diana.
If you take GB News presenters and the like to be representative of the mood of the nation, then I think it's a you problem.
It's just people whipping up a story that doesn't exist. For the most part people have behaved perfectly normally on this one - Queen dies, people are slightly moved and some want to celebrate her life and pay respects - but that isn't particularly newsworthy so a NARRATIVE is needed.
Another awful aspect of modern life.
The problem with those sort of thinkpieces is that they go on for too long to fill the space, so it just ends up being absolute wank even if the initial seed of an idea was decent or there was some humourous take to be had.
Also seems a bit off to be getting lectured on wokeness/being backward by the people of fucking Papua New Guinea. Don't they still <insert culturally insensitive comment here>?
They're showing her Charles and his siblings standing around her coffin now on BBC as people walk past. I hope someone shouts nonce at Andrew.
Enjoyed this from The Guardian’s live-blog:Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
“They have chosen not to be armed with swords, as they have the right to do so.” :D
All the ceremony involved in this is so bizarre. That sounds like they’re lining up for a battle royale.
fucking YOINK
:D
What was he shouting?
And that's the last anyone heard of Baz.
Probably for the best. His horse is shit.
Prince Andrew you're a disgusting old man or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
https://i.ibb.co/DGSJzf9/FB-IMG-1662974310236.jpg
'Wot u sayin bout er madge?'
You on that BeReal thing?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62879563
Stores including John Lewis, Waitrose, Aldi and Lidl have said they will be shut in the UK on Monday 19 September, as a sign of respect to Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her funeral.
Homebase, WH Smith, B&Q, Primark, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Argos, Ikea and Blue Diamond Garden Centres have all also said that they will close stores on the day.
All John Lewis department stores and Waitrose shops will be shut on the day of the funeral, although a small number of Waitrose stores along the route of the procession may remain open.
Fuck off.
Rightly so.
Indeed. It's one day, in over 70 years.
I can’t believe I spent the last decade in employment and managed to fuck this free day off.
We are sending over a war criminal to attend the funeral. :lol:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fede...13-p5bho3.html
I read about him a few months back - proper psycho if it all ends up true.
I know, right.Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
Businesses close in bank holiday shocker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
Who are these sad cunts who are walking past her lying in state and are queueing for 12 hours? Fuck me what is wrong with people?
Don't think that's sad at all. It's an historic occasion.
Not sure how far down the list of things I'd like to spend a day doing you'd have to go before "12 hour wait to see a coffin" would be the option.
What does that even mean? You gonna rave about it during your next dinner party? Fuck off.
It looks good for the socials.
I'm surprised at the supermarkets I thought they would be gagging to get open as soon as they thought they could. It's the right thing to do by the way pretty much everything should be shut on Monday even if I'm not massively into the Royals there is no reason to need everything to be open.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
Should have just called him a nonce.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
I used to live opposite a Tesco Extra many moons ago and the massive queue before store opening on Boxing Day was always good for a laugh. Some of them obviously just wanted those sweet sweet reduced selection boxes, but it also laid bare that there is a small section of society that actually can't deal with supermarkets being closed. Gammons that need their daily paper to shout at being the main representative.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luke Emia
Yeah, in the pandemic when the local Sainsbury's closed for an hour in the morning at 9-10am or something, there was always a queue of men 65-90 unable to process the idea of not going there to get the paper at that time.
I'll give you this being weird, mind.
Seven times! Go about your day, madam.Quote:
We're hearing more from people queuing at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh to see the Queen's coffin before it is taken to Buckingham Palace later today.
Elizabeth, undeterred by the long wait time, has queued to see the Queen's coffin seven times now.
"It's beautiful when you enter into the cathedral. The atmosphere, the presence. There's something definitely divine there - it's beyond words. I feel deeply moved every time I go through," she tells BBC Breakfast.
"Every time I've gone back again and again because Queen Elizabeth II was irreplaceable and I wanted to pay my respects. But it was more than that, it's an experience I didn't want to miss."
Traffic fucked again in Edinburgh.
What are the odds that she isn't even in the coffin? Would they risk it?
#FlatEarth
Wait a second, the queen lived in Scotland?
She lived at Sandringham (Norfolk) in the winter, Balmoral (Scotland) in the summer, Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle the rest of the time. Must have been to Holyrood ocasionally as well, and whatever that place is in NI. Wales, don't think so.
And most importantly she lived in all of our hearts.
Hillsborough Castle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Live long wit de angles 4ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
I'm not sure whether I think this is hilarious or she's actually just mentally ill and I feel sorry for her. Either way, bizarre.
I'm always disturbed by those recordings. Guaranteed to be some obese cunt with a neck beard.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...-fife-62889396Quote:
Originally Posted by -james-
🤡
He’s no worse than those God botherers that stand in the town yelling stuff. In fact he’s better because he spoke the truth.
Two Shinners and Charles roasting the DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson.
:lol:
Chuckie three sticks not as stupid as he looks.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62893476
Center Parcs originally said they'd close on Monday with guests having to leave their holidays for a night :D
They've now reversed the decision after backlash and guests no longer have to check out for 24 hours.
I heard that on the news earlier. Fucking mental.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62890879
Pretty solid guest list. I love the idea of Macron, Bolsonaro and Emperor Naruhito all being loaded onto a bus.
Love that they felt the need to clarify that Putin IS NOT invited.
Good target for him to nuke.
Putin would just be a distraction, but the Russian Ambassador should be there. They attended in 1952 and relations were hardly great then.
If ever there was an event to hand out TTH business cards, that's the one. Who's our poshest member we can try to get an invite? Floyd?
The insincerity is reaching fever pitch. They had a retired soldier on the radio this morning saying that she also served her country and went to war. I must have missed the grainy archive footage of her landing on Normandy Beach.
The veterans are incredibly thick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
It’s not even close.Quote:
Originally Posted by Offshore Toon
I was in the same room as the Queen twice, but never met her. Probably not enough for an invite.
I think I told the story before of how my family have a signed photo of Prince Andrew, so maybe if I wave that at the guards they'll let me in.
I don't imagine many people try to meet Andy these days so they would probably march you straight over to him and you'd end up on some kind of watch list.
Interesting that Jimmy has a picture of a nonce on his mantelpiece. Update the spreadsheet.
Isn't it on a piano? There was a post about it. Which I may be proving I can't remember.
This procession is so surreal, but I think I love it.
I'm too much of a LAD to get in, but my wife's aunt is friends with Camilla. I'll ask her if she can get me an inviteQuote:
Originally Posted by Offshore Toon
Is that the first time you've casually dropped that in and, if so, how?
Get her signed up.
Chaz stumbling upon Penaldo's posts calling us weird for having a monarch:
https://youtu.be/MaTmPclU90Gc
Yeah, it looked swish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
I'm no real big fan of an ongoing monarchy, but this is probably the stuff you get by having one [anyone can have access to Royal Palaces and whatnot] which makes it if not worthwhile, then at least interesting.
Pretty lol that Harry, the only one who has probably seen proper active service, is under the bus with the nonce not being allowed to wear his military uniform.
I know the planning for this has been in place for decades and it's probably just a rehash of what happened 70 years ago, but the execution of it all is something to behold.
I don't think I've ever used a fountain pen. Why is he having to?
Probably some tradition. Ball points aren't regal enough. I can't think of a fancier pen.
Sharpie.
Crayons.
They could have both worn uniform at the lower rank that they actually qualified for during their active service careers, so I don't know why they didn't just do that (unless there is some reason why they couldn't). The Nonce in particular had a pretty impressive career and saw action in the Falklands War.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
Nobody around the coffin moves. Good show.
Looked like he tried to stay in his pose whilst going down [at the cost of his face].
Also, the youtube livesteam of where the queue starts is must watch stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJxD...CMedia%26Sport
3 miles.
Can top out at about 10 miles apparently. Will it make it?
If it doesn't the British public will be labeled ABSALOOTLY DISCUSTIN for not turning up in larger numbers by those that did.
What a weird place this island is. Holy lord.
It turns out - duh - that you can't wear it once you leave the service.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
I fucking love The Queue. The best thing to come of this.
Any estimate on how long these people are actually having to wait?
That's more like it.
The Mrs has just announced that she is going up with her mum and dad at 5am tomorrow. :moop:
"Do you want to see if you can get any last minute holiday?"
Err, no love, we're too short staffed and I have a meeting. Have fun though.
Unpatriotic swine. You'll be cancelled now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Another victim of police brutality :/ justice for the 98Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
I'm basically in Lewis' camp. If the Hearse drove past my house I'd go outside and "pay my respect" but there are people I actually know that I wouldn't go to London and stand in a 5 mile queue for. Lunacy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Don't mind Lewis, I can bet he's about third from the front on his tenth lap of the queue at this stage. He'll be still waving those two tiny flags in his sleep tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
God Save The Queue?Quote:
Originally Posted by -james-
I think you're the weird one if you wouldn't. It's a historically significant moment (not a Hearse driving down my road) even if I'm not particularly arsed about the Royals.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
Supporting this circus in any capacity is pretty mental tbh.
You're such a lib dem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
I'm now wavering on not going. My friend is in London, and he floated going at a silly time when the queue is liable to be shorter. If it isn't then forget it. I could do four hours, not ten.
Seems to have stalled at 4.2 miles.
9 hour wait though, good grief. I guess maybe it will drop as time goes on but you just know there are going to be loads of loons going round and round like that mad bint in Scotland.
Love a bit of stolen valour. The YouTube videos are amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
https://youtu.be/sOj07ClhEi8
I didn't even know that was a thing. Mind blown.
I wouldn't queue 9 hours to look at my own Mum's coffin.
I could understand if she's actually on show but you're queuing 9 hours to see a box and some guards. I bet she's not even in there.
Are you suggesting she faked her death? :sherlock:
Saturday and Sunday are going to be mental.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
Or, everyone thinking that will mean it's actually the best time to go.
Or something in the middle.
Fuck, I am a Lib Dem.
I actually said this to my Mum yesterday when we were discussing this very situation. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
Her response (quite rightfully) was "I wouldn't want you to".
A friend of mine messaged me today to ask if I wanted to meet up after work to go look at The Queue.
I probably should have said yes just to see if we can get a queue going to look at the queue.
Train booked. Roll on the ten hour queue. :gs:
If you're serious, fair play Lewis.
Any odds on a bridge collapse?
For anyone who has met Lewis, is he just a troll or an actual wrong ‘un IRL
Man of the People.
There's no reason both can't be true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waffdon
We need a poll to filter out the weirdos. I'll get one up tomorrow if nobody bothers before.
Give us a shout when you're at the front so we can whack the live stream on. Maybe bring a TTH sign.
My Mrs and her parents ended up going last night. They got to Canada Water for 6:30, walked in an unofficial pre-queue for 3 hours, then got given a wristband. They are now waiting for the tube having finally got in at around 6am. :D
Insanity. If Lewis goes he should be stripped of all previous best poster awards.
How did anyone think Lewis wouldn't go? He's the most real British person I've ever came across and it's the death of a hugely long standing monarch. I'd think less of him if he didn't go.
Yeah but you can't spend years sneering at anybody else when you think they're being a bit wet and then spend hours in a queue to walk past a coffin and expect not to be heartily lol'd at.
If, in fact, he has gone.
The Mrs got home at 8. 14 and a half hours after leaving. :happycry:
Lewis 😂
Seems the queue-o-meter has bottomed out at 4.9 miles and they aren't counting this 'pre-queue' business. Sad times. Time ticker up to 14 hours though. As Giggles says, this is the most quintessentially British thing imaginable. I hope all of the little cafés and whatnot on the route are just opening 24/7 and then planning to take the rest of the year off. Bet Matt Hancock's mates are out there somewhere with the world's supply of mini-Union Jacks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
I'm going at like eleven tonight, by which point it will have hopefully become slightly less stupid.
Won't it just be full of drunken idiots who've not really thought things through?
Is it worth the risk opening and getting cancelled (burnt down) or would feeding the loyal queuers be ok? I get a feeling in this day and age 'feed us but don't charge us' will be the cry.
Well, and lonesome oddballs with nothing better to do with their time.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
You think? Surely a load of people have had to wait for the weekend to get involved.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
What you need is it to start pissing down to flush out the wimps.
After work of Friday is the worst time to go I'd imagine.
I assumed everything would be open until Monday and by then the queuing is largely done with, no?Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
But yeah, I can well imagine people expecting free tea or whatever, and some gombines being all too happy to oblige.
Sad news Lewis.
The queue is at capacity and entry is currently paused. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO JOIN UNTIL IT RESUMES!
Queuing to look at an empty coffin. Amazing.
If it was the Queen of Portugal or Italy.....
They abolished their monarchies like they all should be.
Doing things that don't really need to be done and you probably don't really want to do, for seventy years, and not publicly complaining about it once is probably deserving of all the trappings that come with it.
If I have to do five things in a year I don't really want to do I lose my shit.
It's the symbol of a nation. Monarchy or the Aldi car park in Reading. You choose.
Start a thread with live updates from the queue, Lewis.
A Twitter thread.
So... are there loos scattered along the queue or what?
Losers, yeah.
Guys, it's a historic event.
A new all night thread. :drool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lofty
My phone battery is shithouse so no chance of that.
We need some form of updates so pick up a charging pack on the way.
Who lives closest to the back of the queue? Nip down with a power pack, FOR THE GOOD OF THE BOARD.
What updates do people expect? Hours of "still taking two steps per half hour with Team Saddo", then "saw a coffin" surrounded by blokes in funny hats"?
Fucking hell. Some loon who works with my Mrs has shared footage of him bowing to the coffin. Sad sack must have time stamped his arrival and then rifled through the BBC feed when he got home.
Well there goes Lewis' plan.
Ideally he'd get talking to people in the queue. Actually, he should take Igor, get him pissed, then watch the queue vanish within a couple of stories.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian
This board has been making the mundane interesting for over 20 years now, so I don't see why Lewis' trip to London would be any different.
Lewis' work mates on Monday morning.
https://i.ibb.co/p2CjFt9/16004622-72...3037671795.jpg
Personally the only update I want is how many different styles of half and half Charles/Liz scarves are available.
And if Lewis had been there last night he could have been in the queue with Sir David Beckham.
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Browning
Pranksters should just record themselves trying to queue jump at various points and seeing the gammons react.
I think a twenty-four hour queue is beyond me. How has that developed?
Pussy.
Surprised nobody in the queue has been knifed yet.
Two coppers were.
I'll see what happens in the next few hours. There are trains until eleven, and it's an open return that I can use another time so won't have wasted any money.
There was a little seven year old kid on the ITV news there who had queued with his mum for 14 hours to see her/an empty coffin.
Social services should be getting involved there. Same for anyone else joining the queue now with kids which still seems to be happening in the background on the news.
I know you lot have it drummed into you early, but a trip to London to see the Queen is not actually child abuse.
It's down to twenty-two hours we might be on lads.
Just read that there’s a VIP line. Even more reason not to go. What makes Philip Schofield any better than the poor fuckers who are risking their lives for 14 hours in the mongole queue. Despicable.
Schofield heard 'VIP line' and '14' and levitated there.
:D
I hope the VIP line is also massive.
Took Beckham 12 hours apparently so it’s hardly a party either. Whichever queue you join at this point you’re a crackpot.
Beckham was in the plebs line.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-62932781
:D
Someone needs to start drafting a 24 style script for The Queue. Have Vlad nuke the funeral at the end or something.
Fuck sake :D
Lewis must have brought igor after all.
I'll be honest, I think Beckham queuing for 12 hours with the riff raff is pretty cool.
It's a truly glorious PR stunt.
And he still won't get the knighthood.
Geezer will do anything to get that knighthood in the bag.
Personally I think the fella was just doing a very touching (arf) tribute to the morals and values of our Royal Family.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
You'd better be on that train Lewis.
I'm on the platform. :cool:
Legend.
And some good news.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62933685
Looks like the wait is down to a mere 19 and a half hours now.
Absolute masterstroke, isn't it. Glowing press all over the shop.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
On the plus side, people are turning on "Phil and Holly".
You'd have thought messaging a work experience kid and gag ordering it would do the trick, but if skipping queues to get to "are majestie" is the key then I can deal with it.
Bring on the disingenuous apology.
+2 for this. Even though it was an obvious publicity stunt as you'll see it still can't stop the good feeling I have about him doing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex
Knighthood in the post.
Philip Schofield is perhaps the current apex of relatively innocuous people who I shouldn't really be bothered about yet absolutely despise.
We got to the park at 2:15 and the sign said fourteen hours. We are now at Tower Bridge so that might be the upper end of the scale.
Made any mates? Bet you’re cold.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
If you take his life as an attempt to run away from the fact he's been touching boys (not sure if of age or not), it all makes a lot more sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...droidApp_Other
Looks like Lewis got in.
Probably a conspiracy theorist wanting to check, my Mrs is convinced the box is empty.
Schrodingers Queen.
As conspiracy theories go "she's not in the box" seems fairly innocuous.
I mean how long has she supposedly been lying in state in different places and getting carted about in hearses now? Google tells me it's a lead lined coffin which possibly answers my question there, I dunno.
It's either a slowly decomposing body in a box or an empty box. Either way, a queuing time of 12 rides on the Nemesis Revenge during the Summer Holidays is a bit silly bollocks.
Spikey is protesting too much. I bet he wanted to join the queue but his missus put a leash on him.
She's obviously in the box.
Spikey is posting from the queue.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7om
I’d laugh if someone bum rushed the coffin, knocked it over and it was empty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Nemesis Revenge doesn't exist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
99% it's empty. They wouldn't risk it.
Whatever it is. I haven't been for about 20 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
Risk what? Someone giving her CPR them killing her again? Or does someone saying mean things to a box carry more weight if she's actually inside?Quote:
Originally Posted by John Arne
Wouldn't the body be decomposing?
Zombie Queen deciding she's not ready to stop reigning yet, chomping down on all those twerps who've gone to see her, zombie apocalypse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
That said there'd still be some dimwit whose last words would be what an honour it is to be zombified by Her Maj.
I don't really know the specifics of these things but if you embalm a body (which I suppose they have) doesn't it give it a bit more of a prolonged expiry date?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kikó
The box isn't empty. Where else is she, chilling in a fishmonger's in Aberdeen, waiting to be smuggled down to Windsor next week?
In fact isn't Lenin's actual body still on public display in Russia? He's been dead nearly a century. I'm sure we can sort something out that prevents Her Majesty from stinking out Westminster for a few days.
We probably outsourced the embalming to capita who have her looking like one of those Spanish painting restorations.
It's almost a month before you bury anyone over there so I'd easily say they've got the whole process down at this stage.
Yeah, they've fast-tracked this, there'll be plebs that died before her still waiting a few weeks yet.
Was going to say the exact same thing. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
The specifics of Lenin's embalming are quite fascinating. The body on display is largely prosthetics from the waist down. One hell of an achievement but the whole body isn't intact.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex
Robo Ma’am it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
Aye, I spent maybe more time that I would care to admit reading about it after I made that post. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
It is fascinating. It sounds like they just keep him in very controlled conditions and re-embalm him every 18 months. Apparently when they originally, temporality embalmed him and then laid him out it was -7 degrees in Russia, so he was still in good shape a month and half later and they just decided to try and permanently preserve him. 98 years later he's still (sort of) there!
Can confirm this to be the case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Think all funerals on Monday being cancelled didn't help much.
You been through yet, @Lewis?
If he has been then he was in the Schofield line.
He's probably gone round again.
Presumably, statistically speaking, someone is going to die in THE QUEUE.
I struggle to understand how people can be in a moving queue for so long. With an overnight queue at least you aren't shuffling forward every few minutes so you can just camp and get comfortable, but this shit is beyond me.
:eyemouth:
Best not to worry about it Toon. For once a load of people are doing something that I never would, but they're not preaching about it or telling others that they should be doing it and they're a cunt if they don't.
It's quite refreshing and a throwback to how things used to be before all this absolute arse came along.
I've been out of the country since Thursday morning and basically every single missive I've received from Blighty ever since has been about the queue, even though I don't know a single person who has gone in it. Has it culturally taken over, like some sort of virus?
It's not that bad, but I suspect it's taken over to the extent it has as there really isn't anything else newsworthy to say about the Queen dying and there hasn't been for days.
It's our Mecca now.
It's a shame Lewis has been lost to London though, I imagine it going down as it would have done to Kaleb on Clarkson's Farm if the Amazon crew hadn't been there with him.
I joined the queue at 02:15, and got out of Westminster Hall at I think 15:25, so less than the initial fourteen hour estimate. The park took about an hour but was constantly moving, but then they throttle it between there and Tower Bridge and leave you standing around for an hour, and then again at Tower Bridge, which must have been more like a two hour wait because we didn't move until it was light. From then it keeps moving, but at an annoying rate where it moves fifty feet, then stops for a few minutes, then roughly the same. That means you're not actually waiting around forever, and there are plenty of things to keep you refreshed and not pissing yourself along the way, but you also don't really get a rest. I'm reasonably strong and fit, but my legs and lower back were in bits two thirds in. Respect to the old people and kids doing it. That said, I think if you were sufficiently well briefed about its flow, and didn't chance upon a super detective grass, you could quite easily cut most of it out and blend back in.
We were also in the group that got fucking kettled - no other word for it - when Charles and William came down. A Welsh policeman appeared, told everyone to 'pick up the pace' (an old woman fell flat on her boat and he just ignored her), only to find the end of the path blocked off. I happened to be side near the barrier, mainly because I had been walking on the wrong side like a rebel, but when I heard the same stupid Welsh copper say 'William is coming down' I offered to swap with a mother and child we had been queueing with so they could have a better view of him. If I had known the gaffer was coming, and that they would get to shake his hand, I wouldn't have offered. Serves me right for being nice.
That MASSIVE let down aside, I'm glad I did it.
I hope someone is watching the livestream. Lewis better make a gesture at the camera
How did it feel in the hall itself? Oh and where does the Schofield queue start?
Ffs we could have had a TTH member shake the King’s hand? That was our big break you bastard.
We could have potentially got a shout out at the funeral. :face:
Could've slipped him a TTH card. BOTTLEJOB of the century.
It didn't do anything to me other than on an interest level, but that probably says more about me than it. I got told to move along because I was looking at the medieval ceiling, but my dawdling meant I got to see them change the guard, so lol at the referee.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Lots of Northern Irish people in the queue, and they all seem to be able to locate each other like bees.
Stop playing the hard man and admit you cried.
It’s handy enough spot the 6 fingers or hunchback that comes from interbreeding so they’re easily picked out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
I shook his hand when I was a little kid.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7om
How’s the queue the second time round Lewis?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62944148
They've been .... really quick to publish the names and addresses of these two.
Two incidents in a procession of what could well be millions, and YOU WILL NEVER BELIEVE...
You could rape your way through a crèche and your details wouldn’t be out there as quick.
And you wouldn't be in court two days later.
Impressive that the Westminster Mags are open on Monday.
Surprised they're not going for "treason".
Public don't care about this sort of stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
You're the expert.
Looks like playing the long game on the queue was the best strategy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62946729
Rehabilitating the nonce in full swing on the BBC top headlines section.
The firm need to do him in really, he's such a cunt that there's no hope of getting him to shut up as long as he's still breathing.
He did himself in with the interview they told him not to do. Just arrange more of those.
Cleaner than a car crash anyway.
Heard the new boss is big into homeopathy. Lol at that.
People need to lay off Prince Andrew.
So he paid for some brass, and yeah that brass turned out to be a YTS. Not his fault.
She knew why she was there, so don't be giving it all the innocent victim now lady.
Not many people have it in them to come blazing onto the board after months away to declare themselves staunchly pro-noncing.
I suppose we have to credit your resolve if nothing else.
Maybe children should think about their actions before they get into the child trafficking business?
The spirit of Pavel lives on forever
That's some re-entry.
That'll be the quote the prosecution bases a lot of their case around
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Originally Posted by Dquincy
That can't be serious. :D
Otherwise that's up with Pavs 'girls who wear short skirts deserve to be raped' quote.
Oh dear.
Dnoncy :cool:
:D
Speaking of nonces, didn't realise the queue jumper has form...
The groom cupboard.
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Originally Posted by Shindig
Alot more people are starting to find out about this now. Hopefully that's the end of him and Holly. If we can find a way to take down Gino D'Acampo and that hideous Bristolian woman then we're golden.
Brilliant. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
Is it not better that they are all confined to a specific area of tv that can be easily avoided?
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Originally Posted by Shindig
Very good.
Andrew fighting back the tears.
Rehab ahoy.
This procession is not as good as the one the other day.
That had a real sombre/portentous feeling.
Whoever turned up from Saudi Arabia it looks like they've been put right at the back round the corner.
You'd think that briefcase they gave Charles would've secured the first couple of rows.
I don't think I've ever concentrated on walking like I did not wanting to fall down the stairs in Westminster Hall, so these lads who have been on coffin duty must be going a mile a minute.
Lovely bit of brass there. Song was good too.
Leave Josie alone, unless she is forced to start an OnlyFans in which case I agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Religion really is dreary isn't it.
Aye, I don't miss it.
I wonder how many of us attended a C of E. Bored me to absolute tears.
I did. This shit gets more dreadful every time.
I work in a Catholic school and it's a strong faith school, so church has become second nature over the past five years.
Will we see her get lowered into the ground and Charles chuck some dirt on top?
If you do you might have to hang around until mid-afternoon.
Deep England.
Do these people know which version they're meant to be signing? It doesn't sound like it.
I have never, ever heard the second verse before.
I quite enjoyed that. The fancy dress and the tunes mostly. The church nonces can fuck off.
This organ outro is absolutely brutal mind.
The one thing the bead-rattlers get right about religion in this day and age is that it should be all uniforms and bollocks. Part of being a Big Club is acting like one. Tomorrow the Church of England will go back to jeans, trannies, and wondering why nobody turns up anymore.
There was an anti-abortion rally around here not too long ago. A bunch of young men wearing some badass uniforms and carrying banners that looked straight out of a medieval battlefield. I can see how some would be convinced to join that.
Same as wrestling. It should be roided meat heads and freaks. Instead they’re all wet wipes now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Part of the problem though is that people can't or won't maintain those high standards consistently, especially in this day and age, and dare I say post-Covid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Our Father is quite harsh with a lot of part-time parishioners.
That's a good comparison. Maintain kayfabe. Don't expose the business.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7om
Or your cock in the case of Andrew.
Be pretty funny if Charles drops dead next week.
We would get another bank holiday. :youpi:
Yeah, but we'll get two out of him if he lasts, one for the coronation and one for the death. Got to play the long game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bam
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Originally Posted by Alex
Good thinking.
Its the absolute pits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cord
Who's the actual giant in this procession?
I'm not watching but is it David Morgan-Hewitt, the original absolute unit?
"The last glimpse of the famous balcony for the Queen."
Huw, she can't glimpse anything.
It's not him but fuck me he's big.Quote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
He's front left of the procession pulling the cart thing [as you look at it head on], in a mourning suit. Looks about seven foot tall.
Barron Trump.
The proliferation of American-style cheering is one of the very worst post-1997 developments.
Things you shouldn't yell at a funeral procession: "Woo!"
I enjoyed that whole thing. I feel like we’ve watched something quite special there. Brexit Britain does it again.
Only caught a few mins of it at various points but it looked like a really historic event.
https://i.imgur.com/9YzZI5r.png
The King and Queen of Bhutan topping the dress code at the minute.
I went to a Catholic school and did work experience there, and much to my eternal shame I sorta got a bit anti-religious teenage edgelord. Well, to the extent of saying to the teacher I was shadowing something like "er, actually hearing all that hellfire and brimstone stuff being taught to young kids is...a bit weird isn't it" and she was like no it isn't. Fair enough. Okay i hope you enjoyed my story.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScousePig
At one point I came up with a magnificent theory in my own head about how Catholicism came to be like it is via generations of priesthood being sexually repressed and therefore needing to (literally) wank over the Virgin Mary. I honestly can't remember the logical steps involved, but I'm usually right about these things, and even if I'm wrong, it's the Catholic Church so who cares.
What no way.Quote:
Originally Posted by igor_balis
It appears to be this lad. I hope WWE are watching with a Big Ben/Tower of London gimmick ready to go.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
Did we send government people or the equivalent?
He can be in a tag team with Lofty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Lofty, dressed like Giant Haystacks, calling himself the 'Windscale Pile'.
Miggledy and Micheál were both there, I believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
:D
Some of those horses look twitchy as fuck.
The latter probably needed to renew his allegiance anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
The difficult situation for me in Year 6 is the Sacrament of Confirmation. It's the first Sacrament the kids get a real say in, and as their (non-Catholic) Catechist I need to make it clear to them that it is their choice ultimately, but really they should be doing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by igor_balis
Did anyone grab a screenshot of Lewis in tears by the coffin?
Is that the one where all the girls get dressed up like its their wedding?
Weird as fuck, but par for the course.
Pretty creepy watching the coffin descend, wasn’t it? Charles looked on the verge of cracking as well.
I see there are no ads on Sky Sports. Are they cancelled across every channel there today? :D
Yep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
NFL stream even cut to Sky News at 8pm last night to show a minute's silence.
Whatever about a minutes silence, what the fuck offence are adverts that are on all day every other day of life? Some of this shit is mental, even by the standards of the madness of the past week.
Matthew Magee. He is 7’2”.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
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Sounds like Holy Communion. The Sacrament before Confirmation.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
The worst part about communion is when you realise church wine is horrid. As soon as my parents gave me the option, I stayed at home and watched MotoGP.
That's not been a thing for the kids since Covid. They just take the bread now.
The queen couldn’t even beat the Euro 2020 final ratings and she was on every fucking channel, the nonce sympathiser.
Yeah that's because all the weirdos were out crywanking together in crowds rather than huddling indoors waiting for England to crush their dreams (and then crywanking.)
Aye, if they counted the queue it would've smashed it.