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A civil service friend has told me they have heard operation unicorn is in effect. So I think it’s all over.

I’m no royalist, but this is genuinely the end of an era.

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 3:44 pm I’m no royalist, but this is genuinely the end of an era.

This.

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 2:46 pm

Man who typically sneers at ‘snowflakes’ demands you stop making Queen jokes

https://newsthump.com/2022/09/08/man-wh ... een-jokes/

The BBC’s rolling coverage of nothing actually happening is starting to get on my tits. Shots of private jets landing at Aberdeen and images of the gates of the Balmoral estate intersperse Huw Edwards and the execrable Nicholas Witchell, both in black ties, riffing and waffling endlessly about Brenda, whose reign Witchell keeps insisting “continues”.

They tried to bring some relief on by having Edwards speak to Fergus Walsh, the BBC’s Medical correspondent, to answer viewers’ questions, such as what is meant by “medical supervision”, and what does “comfortable” mean? Walsh could have answered correctly that “medical supervision”means being kept alive, and that “comfortable” means they’ve started her on the morphine, but he didn’t. He waffled and wiffled about how for a 96 year old she’d mostly enjoyed rather good health, and how the Royal media operation was usually pretty vague - you don’t say !

Lordy. talk about Waiting for Godot.

“We must stick to the facts,” urged Witchell after two hours of speculative bollocks about Her Maj’s health.

Fill the space. Don't dare go off air in case you miss something. Keep talking. Avoid dead air.

Spoonman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 4:24 pm

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 2:46 pm

Man who typically sneers at ‘snowflakes’ demands you stop making Queen jokes

https://newsthump.com/2022/09/08/man-wh ... een-jokes/

That isn't what twlldun or me for that matter are saying.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 5:02 pm ...Avoid dead air.

Charles is as fit as a trout, unless you're heard summink different.

Apparently, when Brenda is officially broon breid, every single member of Parliament will have to swear a new oth of allegiance.

I feel much more affected than I thought.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 6:34 pm I feel much more affected than I thought.

Me too. Which feels very odd.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 6:34 pm I feel much more affected than I thought.

I know what you mean. It’s a very odd sensation.

Also, it’s things like this from the BBC:
"The King and the Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow."

That ‘King’ is going to look weird for a long, long time.

That made me catch my breath. Odd.

George VII?

No I prefer Charles III.

Just read “my deepest condolences to The King.” Very strange.

It feels very strange. I was born in the reign of his grandfather, but for almost my whole life monarch has equalled 'queen'. I wonder if people have always felt this disconnection at the death of a monarch? Is monarchy deeper in my psyche than I thought? Like the Bible.

We shouldn't have a monarch, but we do. So this seems a good take.

Sir Tony Blair, the UK prime minister between 1997 and 2007, said: “We have lost not just our monarch but the matriarch of our nation, the figure who more than any other brought our country together, kept us in touch with our better nature, personified everything which makes us proud to be British.”

Huw Edwards is a fucking wonder. Brilliant, but choking at times.