Be Excellent To Each Other

they’re not royals anymore; therefore, they’re just a rich couple having a baby

So even royalists like Mali shouldn’t give a shit now tbh

If you were wondering why Piers hates Meghan.

I wasn't, really, but it just shows what kind of character he is.

I could understand him being a bit miffed if she cut off all communications with him after they'd been getting on quite well, but maybe she realised what a twonk he was after she met him F2F as well as being occupied with Harry.

Been a while since the other pillar of this thread got a look in.

In a written statement, Priti Patel has announced that the government will legislate to introduce first past the post for mayoral and police commissioner elections.



HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....sorry, that wasn't a joke? I mean, seriously?



Err....10 years ago, for one body. And I think there was some nonsense about the NHS at the time.

Probably not the shittiest thing she's proposed of late, but annoying none the less. Bah.

The palace has said 8 days of national mourning so they can do one.

8 days of national mourning. Oh and you can all go back to the pub as of Monday.

That'll go great

Do we get a day off? If not, I'm out.

What does ‘national mourning’ entail?

Like clapping for carers, but in black.

I Googled it, and the independent said this:

“ The occasion gives citizens the chance to reflect on the dead, consider their life and work and perhaps even meditate on their own mortality.”

Pretty sure the last year has been reminding people of their own mortality more or less constantly.

I don’t begrudge royalists that this is significant to them, but when you think of the hundreds of thousands of humans that have died in the U.K. of covid it just seems odd to make a fuss of one man who lived a long, long privileged life.

He really is a hateful creature.

I hope we are all still VERY SAD.the state of the nation depends on it.

Sartorial nightmares

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-styl ... 31195.html

He should be made to wear the highest rank that he earned a serving Naval Officer, which as I understand it is Lieutenant Commander. He should be proud of his own achievements, the sweatless peado.

Edit: Turns out he managed to get to Commander. Still a pretty good career, you creepy predator.

Probably a good idea if Prince Andrew avoids Captain Birdseye cosplay for a bit.

But he retired, so he does not get to wear a uniform. Like most veterans, he can wear his medals

Good Mourning everybody.

Hope you're looking forward to the first stage of the Great United Kingdom Everything-Must-Go Closing Down Sale.

Looks like a warm day! Everyone will be sweating in their finery....well apart from Andy. obv.

An ex-colleague of mine who's also an ex-servicemen and a staunch royalist has been posting his thoughts on the prince's death on Facebook.

I don't think he reead what he typed before he posted the last one. I'm guessing he might have had a couple of beers as well.

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Looks like North Oxon is being divided, just when my MP was really making a name for herself.

No change for me.

Liz drops the C bomb.

All, of course, predicted by Eclectech at the time of Charlie's nuptials, and now sadly lost to time with the ending of Flash.

I didn't watch the Speech but I'm fascinated by this shot.

Charlie and Will look like they've had massive falling out on the way to a party (and we know this is the stock image that'll be used whenever they have a tiff), whilst Camilla seems to be the only one who's enjoying a lovely day out.
Queen’s Speech by ukhouseoflords, on Flickr

The thing that has annoyed me to an extent is that this speech was really the audition for the Big Chair, and it was delivered terribly.

"We'll discuss this when we get home"

Christ, the fucking state of that place. Who did they get to do the decorating, Donald Trump?

What are you all doing with your double bank holiday weekend?

I'm half tempted to go to London to watch the flypast

Probably staying at home to avoid travel chaos and keeping the telly off to avoid royal lickspittles.

I'm spending the Friday at the UK Board Games Expo. Never been before so pretty excited.

Whatever MrsPaz wants to do.

We're having a party on the Wednesday for family and a few close friends as we weren't expecting anybody to come to Barbados. This has now morphed into wedding 2.0 though.

BBQ on the Thursday for those that are still around and fancy it, then just chilling with family for a couple of days. I've taken the following Monday off to recover.

Darwin has a jubilee party at school before they break up, and it’s fancy dress. Luckily they’ve expanded it out to fairytales in general as it said to dress as kings, queens, princes, princesses, dragons, etc, so we think Darwin is going to go as the wolf from Red Riding Hood. I was going to use the Willy Wonka coat to build a Prince costume (by which I mean The Artist Formerly Known As) around, but the boys got sick and then other stuff happened and I couldn’t get to it.

For the weekend itself I’m hoping to finally get to see my Ma as that kept getting cancelled due to Covid, illness, etc recently, and she’s in for big surgery tomorrow, but she’s insisting she’ll be well by then. Trying to stay hopeful for that, and hopefully will have a barbecue (disposable because I wimped out of making a choice, finding decision making difficult at the mo).

HazMat's year groups have been given different decades of Brenda's reign to dress up as. So one is going as 1990s mel B, and the other 1970s Dee Snider. I don't understand it, either.

And we'll see Queen in Manchester, pop to a party, then going to a cottage with my parents.

That’s quite a cute idea. Are your girls breaking up next Thursday? D’s school are on half term for the bank holiday so they are having a ‘school bank holiday’ next Friday.

No idea

Got to book the guinea pigs in to their hotel.

No, as that's why we aren't going to

Bearded Theory music festival

I think the thread title may need an update soon.

The Queen was looking really worse for wear this week and now all her family are travelling to see her, as her medical team have concerns for her health.

That's their job tho

Black border, Grim...?

He’s gone Charles III. Lets hope third time is a charm

<Narrows eyes>

A bit late for a major rebrand, after all. Still, all hail Queen Camilla!

Quite strange being on holiday and getting the news whilst idly checking my phone in a restaurant. A table near me started playing the BBC coverage with sound on and then having to explain it all to the waitress.

End of an era.

In the words of another Charles, "good luck and don't fuck it up"

Amidst it all, maybe it’s the ne plus ultra period. Buckle up and sharpen those pitchforks