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>> No. 453901 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 2:08 pm
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ARE LIZ thread

Big event, saves clogging the weekdays thread

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-62834633
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>> No. 453902 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 2:15 pm
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>15:11

>Signs that something serious going on, says former royal correspondent

Hold your horses, lad.
>> No. 453903 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 2:33 pm
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Look at her hands in the BBC website's picture of her. They're practically purple. She must be freezing. Bloody energy companies.
>> No. 453907 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 3:10 pm
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Doesn't quite seem like she's dead. More like a developing media frenzy.

Old people can take their time. My grandad had a fainting seizure once, he was in and out of consciousness for over two hours and we really thought that was it, but he recovered from it pretty much fully. He had some heart problems, but it wasn't a heart attack as such. Doctors were slightly puzzled. Gave us a right scare. He then held on for about another year before dying peacefully in his sleep.
>> No. 453908 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 3:22 pm
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Nah, she's gone lads. Probably in her sleep or early on today. There's long been speculation that they wouldn't drop the news with a bang, so instead what we're seeing is a drop feed to set people up for the official announcement.

All the family are on their way to Balmoral. They interrupted Bargain Hunt for the bulletin. Huw has his black tie on. The way Liz Truss and Keep Starmer were informed was definitely a big giveaway.

Fuck it she probably never even met Liz Truss on Monday, it was just CGI like Carrie Fisher in The Last Jedi.
>> No. 453909 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 3:30 pm
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>>453908

Didn't figure they'd keep us hanging like that on the day.

You can't deny that something's up.
>> No. 453910 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 3:37 pm
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I think we're in the "morphine and wait" part of her dying. Well, she's getting the morphine, everyone else is waiting.

>>453909
People don't necessarily die that quickly, it could take a few days yet.
>> No. 453911 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 3:39 pm
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CNN just posted that she's gone, before rapidly deleting.
>> No. 453913 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 3:43 pm
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To those who say she's already dead: remember when you media geniuses were sure Boris was on the way out when at no point was he even put on a ventilator?
>> No. 453914 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 3:46 pm
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Useful reading:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge
>> No. 453915 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 3:46 pm
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>>453913
No, because that was fucking forever ago. I can't remember what I posted here two days ago, let alone two years.
>> No. 453916 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 3:57 pm
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_London_Bridge
Don't be expecting a bank holiday lads.
>> No. 453917 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 4:01 pm
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>>453901
So we all agree this is really it?
>> No. 453918 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 4:28 pm
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>>453916

>The media would be informed by announcement to PA Media and the BBC through the Radio Alert Transmission System (RATS) and to commercial radio on the Independent Radio News through a network of blue "obit lights" which will alert presenters to play "inoffensive music" and prepare for a news flash,

So... Radio 2 will be even more bland than usual?
>> No. 453919 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 4:30 pm
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>>453917
The odds of a full recovery are, in my opinion, negligible. I think she is still alive now, and I expect she will die over the weekend. But I'm not any sort of insider. She could already be dead or she could, potentially, even turn out to be fine. But I doubt she's fine. If I was a betting company, I would stop accepting bets on her dying.
>> No. 453920 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 4:35 pm
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>>453918
I tuned into Radio 2 earlier when I first heard she was ill, to see what sort of music they played. It was the news, and it was even other news stories, but then the first song they played was Sing by Travis, and I thought, that's bad-news music if ever I heard it.
>> No. 453921 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 5:43 pm
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>>453920
This BBC coverage of a fucking gate is just ridiculous.
>> No. 453922 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 6:10 pm
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>>453921

Protocol dictates that the official announcement will be made by a footman attaching a notice to the gates. The BBC are clearly expecting it.

>>453918

We expect that they'll switch to a wholly instrumental playlist with no DJ chatter in between songs, so it might be an improvement.
>> No. 453923 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 6:33 pm
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RIP
>> No. 453924 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 6:34 pm
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She's gone lads.

RIP ARE LIZZY

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61585886
>> No. 453925 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 6:40 pm
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Every radio station on my FM dial is currently playing an obituary, with the exception of 106.9 Silk FM, which has gone straight from the traffic to "Relight My Fire" by Take That.
>> No. 453926 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 6:42 pm
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Called it.

Are Lass owes me a tenner now, get in.
>> No. 453927 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 6:45 pm
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>>453921
I thought that at the time, how daft.
>> No. 453928 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 6:46 pm
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RIP.

Was it even a year after her husband? This decade has been quite morbid so far. The death of the queen was definitely one of those "[Shigeru] Miyamoto will die in your lifetime" things that I would often see people say. Now, it's here.
>> No. 453929 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 6:47 pm
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Fuck. I had just given up waiting because Radio 1 was playing some hard dance rave shit. I can't believe they would mislead me like that.

I've always heard Prince Charles wouldn't be King Charles, and would use another name. What will he be? Can I call him King Charles?
>> No. 453930 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 6:50 pm
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>>453926
Yeah, but she's only got money from last season. You really want a tenner with the new players on it.
>> No. 453931 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 6:50 pm
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It’s Graham Potter I feel for.
>> No. 453932 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 6:50 pm
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LONG LIVE THE KING.
>> No. 453933 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 6:53 pm
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RIP Liz ;_;
>> No. 453934 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 6:56 pm
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>>453928
There's a good chance she'll not be the only British monarch dead this decade.
>> No. 453935 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 7:02 pm
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>>453934
Modern drugs can keep these freaks alive forever.
>> No. 453936 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 7:03 pm
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bloody hell lads!
>> No. 453937 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 7:04 pm
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>>453928
Phillip died April 2021
>> No. 453938 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 7:04 pm
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>>453934

Andy will have an accident in the carpet-bagger wing?
>> No. 453939 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 7:10 pm
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I'm more sad than I like to admit.

The other Liz is speaking right now.
>> No. 453940 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 7:12 pm
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Hah.
>> No. 453941 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 7:17 pm
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>>453939
This. I have issues with the whole ridiculously rich and elite business, but it's the ruddy Queen.
>> No. 453942 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 7:27 pm
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Hell of a year eh fellas
>> No. 453943 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 7:30 pm
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>>453939
There can be only one Liz.

Though it's quite funny that noted republican Liz Truss gets to announce a new king. As a bonus, it appears that she announced "Charles III" about 20 minutes before Clarence House confirmed it.
>> No. 453944 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 7:31 pm
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>>453935
Evidently not
>> No. 453945 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 7:33 pm
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>>453938

He'll just end up quadrispazzed on a lifeglug.
>> No. 453946 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 7:37 pm
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>>453943

Succession is automatic at the moment of the old monarch's passing. With no objection to be expected from Charles, it was fair to assume even before the announcement came.
>> No. 453947 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 7:41 pm
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I wonder if we'll get any official confirmation as to what happened.
A 70 year reign brought to an end by tripping over a dog?
>> No. 453949 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 7:51 pm
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>> No. 453950 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 7:51 pm
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>>453946
That's great Mr Witchell but everyone else was talking about the name Charles would adopt upon his accession, not whether he would become king.
>> No. 453951 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 7:57 pm
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>>453947
The rumours are to do with the colouration of her hands and it being a sign that her heart was packing it in.
>> No. 453952 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 7:58 pm
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>>453946
For years there has been talk that he wanted to be George VII, and normally the name wouldn't be officially decided until the morning after.

I'm guessing that, Liz Truss being Liz Truss, she came out and said it, ruined the moment Charlie had been waiting for his entire life, and then he had to get Clarence House to announce that name.

Every statement from Buck House to this point had referred to simply "the King".
>> No. 453953 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 8:00 pm
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>>45394747

I watched my nan die in an old people's home. She was 90. There were no obvious causes, she wasn't gravely ill besides being frail in the way you can expect a person that age to be. But one day, she simply woke up very unwell. When we went to visit that day, I was shocked at the state she was in, and I asked one of the nurses if there was nothing they could do, but she just told me that my nan had "begun to let go," and that we should just allow it to happen. Of course they probably saw that kind of thing unfold every other week at that home, but it was pretty disturbing for us to witness.

So anyway, at that age, you don't always need a distinct cause of death as such. You just die.
>> No. 453954 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 8:11 pm
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I've never seen memes come out this quickly, it's pure gold.
>> No. 453955 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 8:16 pm
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>>453951
I wonder how many times Liz the lesser will come out with a variation of "The power given to me by our beloved late Queen." in the coming weeks.
>> No. 453956 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 8:17 pm
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Right, I'm bored of it now. Thank fuck for streaming, Nicholas Witchell puts me right off my dinner.
>> No. 453957 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 8:18 pm
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>>453954
I feel like this is the first major instance of essentially the entire internet community saving up memes in preparation for months, ready to post at a moment's notice. A notable event for meme historians, I would say.
>> No. 453958 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 8:26 pm
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>>453954
>> No. 453959 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 8:43 pm
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Stable Diffusion humbly offers this tribute to Her Majesty.

Prompt: a portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in the style of Lucian Freud
>> No. 453960 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 8:45 pm
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>>453959
Rest In Peace, Liz.
>> No. 453961 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 8:49 pm
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>>453959
The mods can't handle an x-ray of a USB wire. No way will they stomach a painting of the royal bosom.
>> No. 453962 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 8:53 pm
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So do you think they'll get Brian May to play God Save The Queen at the funeral?
>> No. 453963 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 8:56 pm
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>>453961
That boy's coinpurse was extremely visible, you need your eyes checked.
>> No. 453964 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 9:02 pm
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>>453963
So was his cock; it was the tangled up part.

Is it because he was a teenager? There's definitely an x-ray of Andy Murray's cock on /spo/ that didn't have people reaching for the smelling salts.
>> No. 453965 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 9:03 pm
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A dignified (and very flattering) portrait by Stable Diffusion in the style of Botticelli.
>> No. 453966 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 9:04 pm
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>>453964

>Is it because he was a teenager?

Yes, obviously. I don't think there's any legal precedent on whether an x-ray of a 15-year-old's gentleman vegetables is indecent, but I doubt that the mods want to be the test case.
>> No. 453967 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 9:25 pm
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>>453939
I always knew I'd be sad. I was genuinely angry at work that we didn't all get sent home, and she wasn't even dead yet. In fact, I'm surprised at how fine I am. I didn't think I'd be used to King Charles so quickly.
>> No. 453968 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 9:31 pm
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>>453967
Just wait until it's his face on the money and stamps. That's when it'll get weird, although we'll probably hear God Save the King before then.
>> No. 453969 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 9:41 pm
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Should we start saving bank notes and coins so we can flog them in 50 years time when they're valuable?

Might be a solid investment to just stick a few fivers in photo frames considering the way inflation is going.
>> No. 453970 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 9:49 pm
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>>453969
Have the mint got Charlie coins & notes lined up?
Are we going to get current raddled old Charles, or jug-eared younger Charles?
>> No. 453971 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 9:56 pm
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>>453970
They'll have some drafts lined up, but formally the Royal Mint have to send designs to Charles and the Chancellor to sign off. Most likely these will be based off a new royal portrait.

The new coins will have Charles facing to the left as they alternate this each time there's a new monarch.
>> No. 453972 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 10:13 pm
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>> No. 453973 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 10:17 pm
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>>453969

>Should we start saving bank notes and coins so we can flog them in 50 years time when they're valuable?

Given that they have been around for 70 years, there's absolute tons of them in circulation. They will probably not become rare enough in a meaningful way for a long time.

If Charles only reigns for a few years, then his notes and coins could be more valuable in 50 years time than those with his mother.


Even Google is toning it down tonight.
>> No. 453974 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 10:33 pm
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>>453973

The new plastic ones have barely been around a decade. Doesn't the BoE take note out of circulation and destroy them anyway? I was under the impression that's why they end up rare, it's not just like vinyl records or something.
>> No. 453975 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 10:42 pm
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>>453974

>Doesn't the BoE take note out of circulation and destroy them anyway?

They do, but loads of people will keep theirs in the same belief that they'll be worth something someday.
>> No. 453976 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 10:47 pm
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>> No. 453977 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 10:50 pm
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>>453975>>453973
I still get 1971 1 & 2p's in change now and again.
When you think of how many hands they must have passed through.
>> No. 453978 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 11:11 pm
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>>453977


>> No. 453979 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 11:13 pm
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>>453977

>When you think of how many hands they must have passed through.

Did you swab them for cocaine traces?
>> No. 453980 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 11:29 pm
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You've been warned. No wanking until after the funeral, you hear?
>> No. 453981 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 11:34 pm
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>>453980

It's what ARE LIZ would have wanted.
>> No. 453982 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 11:34 pm
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Do you reckon Casualty will be on this Saturday?
>> No. 453983 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 11:37 pm
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Tbh I'm waiting to see what Kunt does in tribute.
>> No. 453984 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 11:44 pm
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Even if she's wearing a really ugly green suit.
>> No. 453985 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 11:46 pm
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News coverage is getting repetitive by now.

Been sort of watching Sky News in the background here the last two hours or so while doing some work stuff, and they're now just showing the same segments over and over.
>> No. 453986 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 11:48 pm
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>>453973
>>453975

Well, according to a quick google what I done, a fiver from 1972 is worth £73 in today's money.

Nevermind if it becomes collectible or not, at that rate I can just shove a grand under a pillowcase, and by 2072 I'll have £15k. Why has nobody else figured this out? Jesus, savings accounts are for mugs.

I'm such a genius.
>> No. 453987 Anonymous
8th September 2022
Thursday 11:54 pm
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>>453985
Suppose all they can really do is wait for new official happenings.
>> No. 453988 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 12:03 am
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>>453987

Well she's not going to die again, is she.
>> No. 453991 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 12:30 am
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>>453986
Are you just calculating inflation and thinking that a £5 note from the 70s will mean you have £73 quid? Mate...
>> No. 453992 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 12:31 am
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>>453991
>> No. 453996 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 7:19 am
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>>453983
I think you need to take a break from shoehorning Kunt into everything. He's been phoning it in for years now; he hasn't released a genuinely good song since c. 2015.

If he does find his creative spark again let us know, but otherwise this is the equivalent of someone constantly bringing up Rick Edwards when they're an irrelevance these days.
>> No. 453997 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 7:27 am
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So when's Charles going to start campaigning for his firmly held beliefs? He's been waiting for this for so long, and doesn't really have long to get stuff done.
>> No. 453998 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 7:30 am
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also, which is going to be the first country to ditch him as head of state, having been holding on 'cos Liz was a good old bird...
>> No. 454000 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 8:45 am
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>>453998
are there many left? As long as Canada/Aus/NZ are still in the flock, I couldn't give a rats ass otherwise.
>> No. 454001 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 8:50 am
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She's much beloved in Virginia.
>> No. 454002 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 9:13 am
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>>454000
There are 56 member states in the Commonwealth, with Tuvalu and Nauru being the smallest.

72 nations competed in the Commonwealth Games this year, which includes the likes of Jersey, the Falklands and Norfolk Island. There was not a single competitor representing South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Lads, we know what we have to do.
>> No. 454006 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 10:06 am
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Getting ready for a Teams meeting right now.
>> No. 454007 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 10:16 am
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>>453997
Constitutionally, I don't think he can. That's part of why he was always so into these things as a prince.
>> No. 454008 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 10:47 am
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When and how many bank holidays do we get?
>> No. 454009 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 10:50 am
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>>454008
I read that the day of the funeral will be a public holiday, but it'll probably be on a weekend so no luck, I'm afraid.
>> No. 454010 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 10:50 am
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>>454008
The funeral is on the 19th so I expect we'd get that and the coronation off, but no guarantees.
>> No. 454011 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 11:19 am
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oops. That's a lot of caterers and show stands fucked...
>> No. 454012 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 11:37 am
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Went out into town and up to Asda this morning. Things seemed surprisingly normal.
>> No. 454013 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 11:39 am
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>>454010
Is there a long time between the coronation and funeral?
>> No. 454014 Anonymous
9th September 2022
Friday 11:44 am
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Do you think the Queen will get more flowers outside Buckingham Palace than Princess Diana did? I certainly hope so, but people did go utterly mad for Prinny D.
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