[Abernathy]

Here’s a thing. Cracking ceremonial funeral and all that, but what about the funeral tea? People must have been starvin’ after all that marching about and coffin toting.

Didn’t Brenda leave a few quid behind the bar? There must have been fish-paste sandwiches at the very least, surely ? But no, not even a manky scotch egg.

[Arrowhead]

What are the team's plans for tomorrow, then?

Completely slipped my mind in the end. Spent lunchtime blasting out Niney The Observer, The Upsetters and Dub Specialist at a room-shakingly high volume before suddenly realising the error of my ways and spending the rest of the afternoon in quiet mode.

[Spoonman]

Quick hop into the south with wife and kids for the occasion of "extra day off all together".

Bundoran's never seen a September day like it!

[kreuzberger]

Quite. Who has ever engaged such an event without a crushing hangover anyway?

In my time, I have had a few matriarchs on my shoulder and it tends to get a bit sore when you rack them up, but a post-totally-mortem stiff gin and a fag works wonders.

Before hoisting up my sister's frail and surprisingly light coffin, my brother and I set about the Armagnac. That helped. And, for my sister's do, her favourite curry house laid on the catering. Granted, that was somewhat odd but it hit the spot. I doubt that the Windsor Pizza Express was much put out this afternoon.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

My grandmother's wake is still spoken of in hushed tones thirty years later. I had to take two days off work due to the hangover.

[Bones McCoy]

Did anybody else think the Skye boat Song was an odd choice for a royal funeral.

It was played on the pipes, without words; but the words commemorate the successful flight of the king over the water.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Apparently she chose all the music; I did wonder if it spoke to some hidden Jacobite sympathies.

[davidjay]

I was disappointed with the wand breaking. I expected something a bit better than a sawn-off two-piece snooker cue.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

It did look a bit wimpoid.

[Spoonman]

More than 250,000 people saw the Queen lying in state in Westminster Hall in London, says culture secretary

https://news.sky.com/story/more-than-25 ... y-12701726

Impressive. Meanwhile across the Irish Sea...

New attendance record set at National Ploughing Championships

A new attendance record has been set at the National Ploughing Championships today in Ratheniska in Co Laois.

115,500 people came through the gates according to the organisers. That is the highest attendance ever recorded on a single day in the history of the event...

...It is estimated 300,000 people will attend the event over three days.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/09 ... econd-day/

And let's not get started on Garth Brooks doing five nights worth of open air concerts in Croke Park, Dublin over the last two weekends. Not that I'd have be seen dead or alive at any of them.

[MisterMuncher]

Funny, I don't mind a ploughing competition. Neighbour of mine was a long-standing champion back on the eighties and nineties. It was a surprise to me then, and remains one now, that above the Irish championship, there's an International level

[Spoonman]

Funny, I don't mind a ploughing competition. Neighbour of mine was a long-standing champion back on the eighties and nineties. It was a surprise to me then, and remains one now, that above the Irish championship, there's an International level

Oh, I meant just a Garth Brooks concert when I said I wouldn't be seen at it!** If I had feck all else to do and a ploughing championship was taking place locally (with someone willing to give me a lift) I might actually go just out of curiosity.



** When I told a few folks near where I live that if Garth Brooks appeared in my back graden that I'd close the curtains, they looked at me as if I murdered their first born son!

[The Weeping Angel]

Pretty much sums up all the discourse on twitter about the Queen and the empire

[MisterMuncher]

Nah.

It's an equally childish generalisation, and serves to delegitimise any grievance with the crown, and by extension Britain.

In general, the anti-royal side was no more fanatical or detached from reality than the pro-royal crowd.

[The Weeping Angel]

No I'd it's a good summing up of the discourse online.

[MisterMuncher]

It must take dedication to ignore the sort of hagiographic bollocks I'm taking about, so fair play to you for that

[Andy McDandy]

Non-British friends of mine have raised the issue of Brits seeing everything through a British filter, and the tendency, when this is pointed out, to reply with "well, if you don't like it here, fuck off". Rather frustrating.

[MisterMuncher]

A cartoon with the boy saying "and for the rest of her life, the Queen could only shite candyfloss due to her injuries in duelling Hitler" would be an equally "accurate" summary.

[The Weeping Angel]

If you want to know how bad the discourse was consider this meme that was being shared.

Apparently she was responsible for the wars in Yugoslavia and the thousands of Icelandic fishermen who she ordered murdered.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

The fact that some dipshit on Twitter makes a dopey meme doesn't make it representative, true or important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRAAP_test