She's literally lying in a fecking Palace right now as thousands of people risk their health to stand in line to walk past her, and her funeral will cost millions of pounds. In comparison most of our grandmothers are bunged in a hole after sitting in a morgue for a few days. But, yeah, don't say anything naughty about someone's grandmother such as "should this really be paid for by taxpayers" because that would be disrespectful...
Queen Elizabeth II | 1926-2022 | Rest in Peace
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
He’s such an underwhelming figure. One of the worst speakers.
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There was no way the minute silence at Goodison was gonna go ahead without the boos, was there. Fair fecks.
I'm torn here. On the one hand, this is an ugly example of the elites using their privilege to avoid ordeals that ordinary people go through. On the other hand, that guy chose to bring his 10 year old daughter and his disabled mother-in-law for a 13 hour queuing.
It's a draw.
So many of our politicians seem to be utterly pathetic and lacking any wider world view, example a is the speaker of the house describing Lizs funeral as 'the most important event the world will ever see'
And fair fecks to them. The stories of the people queuing up for hours upon hours only to have the likes of Schofield and Willoby and MPs (with their 4 additional others) being allowed to jump the wait must be a right kick in the balls…
Class.
That's beautiful.
Its England after all. Tbh it makes sense as a lot of English nationalism is just about being as miserable as possible. Also on a very basic level, what is there to celebrate ? She didn’t anything other sit in giant blood soaked palaces and her “job” was to view general public as literally a lower class .
So 20 hours of brain softened peasants slowly moving to their end goal of seeing a rotting corpse is a perfect send off.
The nervous looks of players and officials as they wonder if they should keep clapping...wonderful wind up!That's beautiful.
Yeah I get the hate the Royals get, but it feels almost like we are being forced to mourn her and if you don't then its as if you are committing treason.
I love how The Queue has its own wiki page now.
The chanting and clapping synchronises so well
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Just avoid BBC, ITV and the newspapers til say Wednesday and it will be fine.
The media seems hellbent on portraying everyone as mourning, but surely it has zero impact on the majority of the population's lives in reality- it's annoying the football is postponed, disgraceful that medical appointments are being cancelled and protestors arrested, but actually 'forcing' you to mourn?
Forced is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
Schofield getting a well deserved roasting on twitter. Always knew he was a wrong un.
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Stewart Lee's special Tornado has been postponed twice as well, the bastards.
Surprised they didn’t use the other queue (the “accessible” one)
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We have decided to go hill walking on Monday to avoid watching the funeral, not because we are anti-Royal or any thing just don’t really fancy sitting watching a funeral all day
This Morning have issued a statement defending their actions/denying they queue jumped…
“Hello everyone, we would like to clarify something. We asked Phillip and Holly to be part of a film for this Tuesday's programme. They did not jump the queue, have VIP access or file past the Queen lying in state but instead were there in a
professional capacity as part of the world's media to report on the event.”
Funny that Susanna Reid (who does actually present/discuss news stories rather than sit in a studio talking about misbehaving pets and how tasty the chicken tastes) managed to queue for several hours in her own time.
Always funny when people/organisations choose to double down instead of saying nothing or saying they could have done it differently.
Which year?
I'm at work and sadly don't get a bank holiday not being in the UK now.
I suppose being there maybe it does feel like you're being forced to mourn. Looking from afar, it seems it's more the default assumption that you're mourning etc. Everyone from the media to business is treading on eggshells around that, while also pushing the nationalistic narrative of the country being unified in grief at the death of this major global figure.
The majority though are moaning that Brentford-Arsenal went ahead, but not United v Leeds.
I bet you those hills are full of walkers avoiding it.
Yeah I agree with this. That’s why I find it strange people wanting to avoid it but coming here to continually complain about it.
Seems an odd way of getting on with things to me.
I'm not sure there has ever been more delicious ironing than queuers up in arms over people skipping the queue because of status.
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I wonder if all this has moved anyone into actually disliking the royal family and what it stands for when prior to this they were mostly indifferent?
The country will go back to normal after the funeral right?
Right?!
Right?!
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Yeah I saw his piece in the Guardian. Surely he can come up with an updated 'These days...' skit from the last week.
I reckon mixed, with loads revelling in the nationalism, but you'd hope celebratory articles like this might piss at least some folk off in a cost of living crisis, following on from a decade of zero wage growth.
Astonishing wealth of Royal Family members revealed after it DOUBLED in a decade
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19841963/wealth-royal-family-members-revealed/
A generation which was fed lies by their parents will hopefully have a more truthful perspective due to the renewed coverage.