Monarchy

[Megadrive Man]

Is it safe to turn the TV on yet?

[Numero Veinticinco]

Just now, MegadriveMan said:

Is it safe to turn the TV on yet?

Oh no. Not even close. 

[Gnasher]

28 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

Aye, and I'm potless till I get paid on Thursday.

Unlike a normal bank holiday most shops and attractions have closed.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Just waiting for one of these poor horses to go mental and bolt.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

19 minutes ago, House of Dirk said:

 

'No one does it like the Brits' are the shouts you hear. They are right, no one else goes to this level of circus.

Oh, I don't know 

[Carvalho Diablo]

One horse just kicked out at a soldier.

[Carvalho Diablo]

These Beefeaters are all about 70 year old and 30 stone.

[Harry's Lad]

2 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

These Beefburgereaters are all about 70 year old and 30 stone.

Yep.

[Bjornebye]

How tall is that bastard with the glasses on? Got to be 7ft plus. Dick like a baseball bat. 

[Chip Butty]

2 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

These Beefeaters are all about 70 year old and 30 stone.

Thats the cake eating battalion. 3 Gateau. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

I've come to the conclusion that I must be the only person in the British Isles without a medal.

[Carvalho Diablo]

1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

How tall is that bastard with the glasses on? Got to be 7ft plus 

Ballcock for an Adam's apple.

[Bjornebye]

One of the generals to the right of the coffin looks like Pat Bonner. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

Fox News coverage, sponsored by Papa John's, just said this part of the parade is known as the march of the bootlickers.

[Mook]

2 hours ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

6 billion? Fucking hell, where’s that come from? Full fact says the funeral cost around 8 million quid, so the idea that this cost 6bn seems a little bit of a stretch. 

It was me who stated the reported cost of the entire thing over the official mourning period would be around £6 billion of public money. I read it in one of the broadsheets last week.

 

This would include policing, security, shutting down two capital cities over a period of days, the funeral & an unscheduled bank holiday amongst other things. 

 

It could well be a bit off but the whole farce is certainly going to cost the country an awful lot of money at a time when it's in short supply for a lot of us.

 

Edit - Apologies, the £6bn reported figure seemingly includes the Coronation...

 

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/how-much-state-funeral-cost-queen-elizabeth-b1025105.html

[Chip Butty]

Noticed earlier one of the guards marching alongside had blue flowers in his Bearskin, does anyone know the significance of that?

[Trumo]

4 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

How tall is that bastard with the glasses on? Got to be 7ft plus. Dick like a baseball bat. 

 

Robert Wadlow is alive? They'll be trying to reanimate the lifeform that is not actually in that hearse right now.

 

[Guest]

How can they see with those hats covering their eyes? Are they remote controlled?

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Trumo said:

 

Robert Wadlow is alive? They'll be trying to reanimate the lifeform that is not actually in that hearse right now.

 

She's hot on the left there. I hope he never goosed her, she'd be like the queensway tunnel 

[DalyanPete]

5 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

I've come to the conclusion that I must be the only person in the British Isles without a medal.

He's only been in the job just over a week. Once this is out the way The King's Award for Food should be on its way and well deserved too 

[Bjornebye]

Cracking grass for a kick-around that 

[Mathewbet1]

Some of them military music has been good. 

[House of Dirk]

25 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

Not many people have been sovereign of 32 independent countries, to be fair. Actually, is there anyone else? 

Not really selling it to me. A circus is still a circus.

 

I get that lots of people (not necessarily here) are living for this today or even just have a general interest from the point you raise, or even from the perspective of history. But its been ten days of constant, almost unavoidable drivelled in grief at unforeseen levels of saturation, that it can almost drive someone insane. It almost feels like lockdown today and that fucked people up. Regardless of whether she was queen of Slough and Windsor or a good wedge of the planet.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Sandy, Mick and Emma the pony, little do they realise they'll be put to sleep by this time tomorrow.

[DalyanPete]

3 minutes ago, Chip Butty said:

Noticed earlier one of the guards marching alongside had blue flowers in his Bearskin, does anyone know the significance of that?

Blueshite get everywhere. His own little fightback for moral dignity.