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Post by elstoof on Sept 19, 2022 17:01:05 GMT
He gets to dress up as Santa for the Xmas do now that the eldest son is finally king
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Post by 😎 on Sept 19, 2022 17:04:00 GMT
I was in our hospital for a procedure and they had it playing on all the screens. Nothing more solemn than retching and gagging as they shove a tube down your nose and throat while she was being laid to rest.
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Post by Zuluhero on Sept 19, 2022 17:07:36 GMT
Gotta admit, The journey through Windsor and the 2nd service was a bit more sad. Somehow more final. It kinda hit home. No tears, but definitely feeling like it's the end of an era.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2022 17:08:34 GMT
I was in our hospital for a procedure and they had it playing on all the screens. Nothing more solemn than retching and gagging as they shove a tube down your nose and throat while she was being laid to rest. it's what she would've wanted |
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Post by Dougs on Sept 19, 2022 17:12:57 GMT
I found it hard not to be struck with pride several times over today. We don't do a great deal right, but christ that was an incredibly moving day. Some of the pictures from the Mall and Windsor will be iconic long after we're gone. I didn't watch much after the service, but agree that we do this sort of pomp and ceremony very well indeed. I can't imagine the pressure of being a pallbearer. Fair fucks to them all. I know they would have rehearsed it countless times over the years, but different when it's for real. |
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Post by sport✅ on Sept 19, 2022 17:20:16 GMT
Still think NK did it better. More military and more wailing.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 19, 2022 17:27:26 GMT
I do wonder if we have set Charles up to fail (or not be massively popular). We have deified The Queen all week and it’s fair to say that, as a country, we absolutely smashed the insanely big state funeral so you couldn’t really blame people for saying ‘this guy fucking sucks’ going forward.
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Post by cubby on Sept 19, 2022 17:42:26 GMT
Duke of Norfolk smashed it and he'll smash it again for the coronation.
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Post by sport✅ on Sept 19, 2022 17:44:50 GMT
Utter ledge.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Sept 19, 2022 17:50:56 GMT
The BBC have done themselves a lot of good when it comes to any impending decisions around the licence fee, delivering so much coverage at such a high technical quality for a global audience.
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Post by X201 on Sept 19, 2022 17:58:19 GMT
The BBC have done themselves a lot of good when it comes to any impending decisions around the licence fee, delivering so much coverage at such a high technical quality for a global audience. You don’t understand the Tories do you? This will make zero difference |
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Post by Rich on Sept 19, 2022 17:59:46 GMT
Yeah. A couple of Daily Mail articles will quickly be able to kill the good will earned off and get their base frothing again.
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Post by Frog on Sept 19, 2022 18:05:43 GMT
I was in our hospital for a procedure and they had it playing on all the screens. Nothing more solemn than retching and gagging as they shove a tube down your nose and throat while she was being laid to rest. Have struggled to find anything to knock one out to all day with the coverage being on every channel. You sir, have changed that. I hope that makes you feel a tiny bit better. |
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Post by mothercruncher on Sept 19, 2022 18:06:58 GMT
I watched the Marines and thought, those hats would all be perfectly flat all of the time in North Korea.
But none of them were condemning their parents and their parents’ parents to the gulag if they fucked up, so fair enough, I guess.
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Post by djronz on Sept 19, 2022 18:28:41 GMT
What time is match of the day on? Id like to watch the highlights.
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Post by hedben on Sept 19, 2022 18:31:56 GMT
I do wonder if we have set Charles up to fail (or not be massively popular). We have deified The Queen all week and it’s fair to say that, as a country, we absolutely smashed the insanely big state funeral so you couldn’t really blame people for saying ‘this guy fucking sucks’ going forward. The tricky scenario for Royalists is if Charles dies relatively soon, and we’re expected to go through all the pomp and ceremony and lionising all over again, for someone who isn’t regarded with anywhere near the same reverence. That could get a lot of people questioning whether all this is worth the tourist money, or whatever the other pro-monarchy arguments are. Although admittedly you’d probably also have people keen to see William have a go while he’s (relatively) young. |
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 19, 2022 18:42:00 GMT
I always thought that Charles was generally regarded by the British public as something of a buffoon - kind of like Boris Johnson, I suppose, minus the humanising (and misleading!) appearances on Have I Got News for You.
It's perfectly understandable that his stock has risen over the past week-and-a-half - his mum died, and royalists and republicans alike can sympathise with such a bereavement - but the honeymoon period will come to an end before long, whereupon his public perception will return to pretty much where it was before Elizabeth popped her clogs.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 19, 2022 18:55:54 GMT
I think that's true but by necessity he'll take a step back and probably won't be allowed to say the same sorts of things that got him into bother before. So I imagine that will fade over time. 74 soon, doubt it'll be more than 15 years tops
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Post by geefe on Sept 19, 2022 19:29:02 GMT
Any highlights? Managed to not see a second.
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Post by razz on Sept 19, 2022 19:35:33 GMT
Any highlights? Managed to not see a second. Switch to BBC1 they're doing the highlights now |
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Post by simple on Sept 19, 2022 19:37:39 GMT
Yeah. A couple of Daily Mail articles will quickly be able to kill the good will earned off and get their base frothing again. Exclusive report incoming next week on how greedy Huw Edwards was paid instead of hosting for free out of devotion to his country |
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Post by lew on Sept 19, 2022 19:40:26 GMT
If anything I've been surprised by the outpouring for Charles. I think all that awkward Diana business has been all but forgotten. People just want normality and without the Queen, are desperate to have that sort of figure at the top, that and the general public feel they're with him in their own grief. His behaviour over the last week with greeting crowds have gone a long way either.
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Post by X201 on Sept 19, 2022 19:52:48 GMT
Some channels aren’t showing adverts.
We get a picture of the Queen and a bit of Elgar for five minutes
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Post by Nemesis on Sept 19, 2022 20:21:09 GMT
I think Charles will dial down all the pomp and ceremony going forward and make it a much more streamlined setup. I get the feeling he’s never been much of a fan of it.
It was a sad day, taking the crown off the coffin was one hell of a moment.
my Mum had the commentary feed on and it had its moments where they needed to just be quiet. Thankfully they cut the commentary feed for Westminster. I watched the second part later on the commentary free feed and it was a million times better.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 19, 2022 20:36:00 GMT
It is quite interesting. They actually ran out of things to say about the queen because there isn’t actually much to say. She’s never really said anything other than pre-prepared speeches. She became queen when nobody knew her, TV had only just started broadcasting again and so on. We really don’t know anything about her. Charles very much has not had that luxury and we know everything about him and every word that ever left his mouth.
I’m sure the papers would have thought Elizabeth was an arsehole if they had 70 years to tear strips off her.
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Post by baihu1983 on Sept 19, 2022 20:50:14 GMT
Some channels aren’t showing adverts. We get a picture of the Queen and a bit of Elgar for five minutes Watched my download of the latest House of the Dragon episode, ad breaks just 3 minutes of the purple sky logo. |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 19, 2022 20:51:07 GMT
Some channels aren’t showing adverts. We get a picture of the Queen and a bit of Elgar for five minutes That's not creepy in the slightest. It could be worse, it could be like Thailand's reaction to their king dying. |
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Post by retro74 on Sept 19, 2022 22:31:23 GMT
I didn’t watch any of it but I’ve not watched any TV coverage since she died so wasn’t going to start today
What I did find strange though was driving to the golf course the roads were really busy. Even the car park was rammed and we got the last space in the main car park, it’s not usually that busy on a Saturday
Odd really as golfers are gammony old fucks so I thought they’d have lapped it up. Maybe other courses in the area closed out of “respect”
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Post by deebs on Sept 19, 2022 22:56:50 GMT
It was a sad day, taking the crown off the coffin was one hell of a moment. Took me by surprise at how my eyes filled up a bit at that. I suppose it's the details you don't think about that squeeze past. |
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Post by Nemesis on Sept 20, 2022 5:51:17 GMT
It was a sad day, taking the crown off the coffin was one hell of a moment. Took me by surprise at how my eyes filled up a bit at that. I suppose it's the details you don't think about that squeeze past. Ahhh you old softie you. |
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