Queen Elizabeth II | 1926-2022 | Rest in Peace

[Vidic_In_Moscow]

I’m getting more and more angry about the idea that the Europa league games should be cancelled…

calm down love

 

[Wheato]

State of this ffs. The amount of posters here mocking the death (or eventual) of a 96 year old woman has suprised me. Dislike the monarchy all you like but she's not exactly Jimmy Saville. Have some fecking respect.

This isn't mocking anyone, you soppy git. It's called satire. The fact that the entire country is waiting on news, and Fabrizio Romano could be the one to break the story is funny on many levels. Especially with this being a football forum which is of no importance to anyone but ourselves.

 

[Infra-red]

I’m getting more and more angry about the idea that the Europa league games should be cancelled…

Only games involving English clubs. If it was the other way around and Felipe VI of Spain died today, I would expect Real Sociedad to cancel tonight.

 

[Traub]

I’m getting more and more angry about the idea that the Europa league games should be cancelled…

Nah they can't do that. Fans are already in stadiums surely.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Only games involving English clubs. If it was the other way around and Felipe VI of Spain died today, I would expect Real Sociedad to cancel tonight.

Really?! Have to say the thought wouldn’t cross my mind.

 

[Adam-Utd]

Nah they can't do that. Fans are already in stadiums surely.

They won't cancel tonight but the weekends fixtures definitely will be

 

[Penna]

I mean, those on here who've lost a parent will appreciate that the first thing you do when you know things are bad is try to get to see them before they die. It's kind of what non-royals do, too.

 

[Twins]

We're not cancelling the caf when it happens, right?

 

[Red Shorts]

Wonder how much my coins with her head on it will be worth?

 

[Smores]

That's what I figured, but I wasn't sure if songs change etc. It just all seems a bit surreal doesn't it.

Well the original was for King George (insert number) so yeah it'll go back to gracious King.

 

[Camy89]

The reign is really coming down now.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

They won't cancel tonight but the weekends fixtures definitely will be

Fecking hell. You guys…

 

[predator]

Yeah can't see tonight being cancelled. It's the europa league. The premier league however is another story.

 

[horsechoker]

 

[Moriarty]

"Manchester United are playing football on the day of the Queens death"

It's what she would have wanted.

 

[JamesB__]

BBC dudes wearing navy ties. Maybe she ain’t dead yet.

 

[Red Shorts]

Meghan not going.

She's too busy writing the sequel to the Oprah interview, and the Queen's last words to her.

 

[Camy89]

The way the newsreader (can’t remember his name) says ‘as you can see the heavens have opened’…and just hesitated for a second thinking ‘terrible turn of phrase you cnut’

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

they're acting as if the world has ended. a 96 year old woman has died. historically important. ok. my suspicion that this would resemble stalin levels of insanity and hysteria appears to have been on point.

the levels of indoctrination are impressive. when stalin died everyone in the west said "look at how they all pretend to care about him because they're afraid of what happens if they don't mourn". explain this one to me, then. none of you knew this woman. you saw her on television. maybe you met her once at a mass meet and greet. it's madness.

I’m not mourning or bothered if others do/don’t (and I don’t know why people get so upset about others being upset.. it’s all a personal thing?)

For me though, it’s hard not to see this as some point of note in my lifetime, a historical moment. Again, I won’t mourn her (even though I did actually shake her hand once at a “mass meet and greet”), but I get why media make it a big thing .. just wish we had better presenters who weren’t so hand wringing.

 

[Simbo]

they're acting as if the world has ended. a 96 year old woman has died. historically important. ok. my suspicion that this would resemble stalin levels of insanity and hysteria appears to have been on point.

the levels of indoctrination are impressive. when stalin died everyone in the west said "look at how they all pretend to care about him because they're afraid of what happens if they don't mourn". explain this one to me, then. none of you knew this woman. you saw her on television. maybe you met her once at a mass meet and greet. it's madness.

She’s pretty much the most famous person in the world and has been so for 70 years.

Add to that the British culture/tradition around that (yes we have one) and the fact she is the head of state of 15 different countries.

 

[Reditus]

couldnt have happened at a worse time. 4 in a row. Cant let that momentum stop

 

[Samid]

Fecking hell. You guys…

All domestic fixtures over the following 10 days will be cancelled. These lot are super weird.

 

[RedDevil@84]

they're acting as if the world has ended. a 96 year old woman has died. historically important. ok. my suspicion that this would resemble stalin levels of insanity and hysteria appears to have been on point.

the levels of indoctrination are impressive. when stalin died everyone in the west said "look at how they all pretend to care about him because they're afraid of what happens if they don't mourn". explain this one to me, then. none of you knew this woman. you saw her on television. maybe you met her once at a mass meet and greet. it's madness.

New to celebrity frenzy? It almost never makes sense.

 

[sullydnl]

Fecking hell. You guys…

Be lucky if it's just this weekend's PL fixtures. The actual funeral will likely fall on the next weekend and aside from anything else I wonder how well the police would actually be able to manage a weekend of PL fixtures and the Queens's funeral at the same time.

 

[neverdie]

The Death of Stalin film did pop in my head when thinking about all the royals turning up around her deathbed.

https://mubi.com/films/state-funeral

Starting with images of Soviet citizens learning of Stalin’s sudden death and ending with the dictator’s internment in Lenin’s tomb, “State Funeral” unfolds like a silent pageant, the only narration provided by propagandistic eulogies over loudspeakers. (Think of Armando Iannucci’s “The Death of Stalin” without the antic wit.) Using images taken by 200 camera operators stationed throughout the far-flung Soviet republic, Loznitsa creates a portrait that is simultaneously dreamlike and immediate, poetic and polemical, with the Soviet Union’s multitude of ethnic communities expressing state-approved grief in weird lockstep. It’s easy to dismiss it all — the copious tears, the never-ending queues, the ever-larger wreaths being carefully placed and preened over — as so much political theater. This is the man, as Loznitsa’s postscript reminds us, who exterminated millions of Soviet citizens. But he’s also the man who saw the USSR emerge victorious from the ravages of World War II. Without subtitles, and only the fascinating tableau of faces to go by, it’s hard to know what’s in the hearts and minds of “State Funeral’s” subjects. Like 2010’s “The Autobiography of Nicolai Ceaucescu,” Loznitsa’s film stands as a work of archival ambition and psychological ambiguity, as much about obedience and cultish denial as it is a visually stunning time capsule (the black-and-white and color images have been dazzlingly restored). It’s not every day one can witness mythmaking in real time.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

That’s fascinating. No comedy shows allowed to be broadcast for 12 days!

 

[horsechoker]

That’s fascinating. No comedy shows allowed to be broadcast for 12 days!

Relief for Mrs Brown's Boys fans

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

The Death of Stalin film did pop in my head when thinking about all the royals turning up around her deathbed.

Racing each other in through the gates of Balmoral in their Range Rovers.

I’m picturing the will reading scene from Hotel Budapest and Charles going mental when he finds out she’s left everything to the head butler at Balmoral.

 

[predator]

Clive Myrie the newsreader on BBC just looked very distracted and clearly has just been told something in his ear.

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

United app just beeped with pictures of the players arriving at the ground.

Bruno showing some respect in a black tracksuit

 

[TheNewEra]

"Worlds press gathering"

 

[TMDaines]

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[Andycoleno9]

Who becomes king in case of her death? Charles or William?

 

[TheNewEra]

Who becomes king in case of her death? Charles or William?

Charles

 

[Camy89]

I’m not mourning or bothered if others do/don’t (and I don’t know why people get so upset about others being upset.. it’s all a personal thing?)

For me though, it’s hard not to see this as some point of note in my lifetime, a historical moment. Again, I won’t mourn her (even though I did actually shake her hand once at a “mass meet and greet”), but I get why media make it a big thing .. just wish we had better presenters who weren’t so hand wringing.

Yeah agree. This is a hugely historic moment if she’s died. She’s the second longest reigning monarch ever and is deeply ingrained in British culture and tourism etc alongside being monarch for many other nations. Her passing is not only massive British news but world news.

Does this impact/upset me? No. It’s poignant, yes. I often think that those that just make fun of the media frenzy around these things just let their hatred of monarchy to blind them from the significance that today could hold.

 

[Penna]

Who becomes king in case of her death? Charles or William?

Charles, he's William's father. He's next in line.

 

[Zarlak]

96 year old woman who was once the richest woman in the world lives 2 decades past the average life expectancy.

She's had a cracking life, but noone can complain that it's her time to go. It'd be sad if she was 36 and it was before her time, but it's not. She's had a great life, and she's probably knackered herself and happy with everything she's accomplished.

 

[Mmm-Qatarian]

Who becomes king in case of her death? Charles or William?

I'm hearing they might give it to Tuchel.

 

[Scarlett Dracarys]

We're not cancelling the caf when it happens, right?

No because it's mostly Irish folks in here.

 

[KirkDuyt]

Can't we just globally agree to do away with all monarchies once the active monarch dies. Even in The Netherlands this is all over the news. Old woman dying, so sad.