[raydan]

The Queen Is Dead, Long Live the Queen: 10 Songs About Queen Elizabeth II

https://variety.com/2022/music/news/que ... 235365273/

[Strutz]

Tricks Tricks:

Holy shit people really hate her apparently. People attributing every bad thing britain has done (both before her reign and after) to her.

Do... do people actually think the monarchy makes political decisions anymore?

It's awful isn't it? Misdirected anger/frustration.

[DrCaleb]

[Strutz]

King Charles will be making his first speech in 10min.

[llama66]

Fairly good address by His Majesty.

[Scape]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lSArZevr9 ... e=youtu.be

Long live the King!

[bootlegga]

rickc rickc:

bootlegga bootlegga:

Sad to see her go, RIP Your Highness.

Hopefully Charlie abdicates in favour of William - if he doesn't, I'm done with the monarchy.

Kings and Queens are addressed as: Your Majesty. Princes and Princesses are addressed as: Your Highness.

Whatever...

rickc rickc:

You might be done with the monarchy, but it is not done with you......not by a long shot.

Meh, they don't matter in my day to day life, other than perhaps their faces being on our currency. I couldn't care less about her passing to be honest.

[bootlegga]

JaredMilne JaredMilne:

To be honest, I felt the same way about Princess Diana's death back in 1997. I never understood why people treated her like the second coming of Christ or why they went into hysterics at her death, as if she were their sister or mother or something like that.

Frankly, I found it all more than a little insufferable.

Agreed, it was insufferable.

I knew people who were devastated by Lady Diana's death, and my reply was, "Do you care that much about the dozen people who die every week in car crashes here in Alberta?"

They would talk about how tragic her life was, and I replied, "Living in the total luxury, being waited on hand and foot, eating like royalty, travelling the world on someone else's dime. Yep, that's tragic alright!"

It was really telling when Mother Teresa died a few days afterwards and the world barely noticed it happened. Now that was a tragic death IMHO.

[bootlegga]

Tricks Tricks:

Holy shit people really hate her apparently. People attributing every bad thing britain has done (both before her reign and after) to her.

Do... do people actually think the monarchy makes political decisions anymore?

I don't understand the hatred, but I do understand the indifference.

[raydan]

Making a man, Queen... how woke can you get?

[Scape]

I think the Queen would want us all to live the way she did, with free public housing, basic universal income, and full government health care.

[DrCaleb]

bootlegga bootlegga:

It was really telling when Mother Teresa died a few days afterwards and the world barely noticed it happened. Now that was a tragic death IMHO.

Then you don't know much about Mother Theresa. That woman was pure evil in a white wrapper.

[DrCaleb]

raydan raydan:

Making a man, Queen... how woke can you get?

After 75 years of living with his mother, the guy finally gets a job.

[Tricks]

bootlegga bootlegga:

Tricks Tricks:

Holy shit people really hate her apparently. People attributing every bad thing britain has done (both before her reign and after) to her.

Do... do people actually think the monarchy makes political decisions anymore?

I don't understand the hatred, but I do understand the indifference.

I can definitely understand indifference. But I'm talking people wishing her death was painful and that she was some sort of purveyor of genocide. Like silly shit.

[Scape]

People have issues and they see the Queen as a placeholder for it. She did her share of dark deeds, just like the rest of us, but what they are attacking isn't the person but the ideal. Demons are in their heads and they are suffering.