A thread for those who are not royalist

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IF YOU ARE A ROYALIST, DO NOT READ.

I’m getting fed up with all the posts saying we need to show respect blah blah blah.

Well, I don’t care. I won’t be watching the funeral either.

I’ve seen so many memes shared that have made me laugh, but I won’t share them here cos I reckon the thread will get deleted.

So if you aren’t a royalist, come and talk about anything and everything. Share a funny meme. Or something sweet

I’ll start with the sweetest thing I’ve read in whole

Yeah, this. To people from other countries we are being presented as fuckwits who want to live under a feudal system and pay obeisance to our betters. No thanks.

I’ve got an Italian colleague visiting and he couldn’t believe it. The Italians are not noted for holding the emotion in but he said that all the ostentatious travelling to London to cry for the camera looked like a performance for social media.

I decided last night that the idiots strewing marmalade sandwiches around have already written, in their heads, the script of “Farewell HM The Queen Gawd Bless ‘Er” (a tragicomedy starring Hugh Grant and Judi Dench with a cameo from Maggie Smith as Paddington) and are looking forward to seeing themselves portrayed as the hearty salt of the earth subjects. Until then they will settle for starring in their own social media.

Thank you whoever mentioned the Grievewatch Twitter page - it's had me laughing for the last 10 minutes. This was one of my favourites 😂

Oh, and the MourningGlory video - it's given me hope that we aren't all fawning serfs!

Thanks, Jackie!

I've had to mute a WhatsApp group and snooze some FB people because of the fawning nonsense. As I said in another thread, when each of my parents died, I didn't expect strangers to join me in mourning or attend the funerals. I fully understand that a head of state is better known but this isn't someone who had any connection to me.
DH showed me a map of the queue to see the coffin yesterday and we really struggled with the mentality of queuing for 36h to see what essentially is a wooden box.

May take a social media break from Friday to Tuesday as I don't think I can stand it.

Grievewatch on Twitter is brilliant!!!

Great thread - good to find some like minded posters!
Found myself muttering “oh fuck OFF Paddington” when watching the news last night.

🤣

I have just heard that a young woman I know through my work has had cancer surgery postponed on Monday.

She has a four year old and a 7 week old baby.

My extremely limited patience for this grief circus has finally run out.

It's an utter disgrace

The whole royal family apparatus is so out of date and backward looking that despite decades to prepare they are messing this up badly .

There will always be those ( weird) individuals who love poking over the arcane etiquette but it's over kill , it's gone on too long and ultimately I think they are forcing their hand re 'mourning' because they sense at some level that the nation is not united in this

That's appalling

I honestly don't understand how anyone can justify this madness, I really don't.

It’s awful that medical appointments are being cancelled

Yeah, I feel the same. And yet weirdly Scotsnet is a Sturgeon-hating SNP BAD stronghold, there's little room there for genuine discussion either.

Not sure this is the place for me any more either.

I actually wonder what the sentiment would have been had she died 20 or 30 years ago?

Lots of the fuzzy cringe Paddington stuff seems to be cos she was an old lady, innit, and they love being patronised and infantilised, don't they love?

If she has died at, say, 65, I suspect there would be slightly less case and cause for this amount sentimental claptrap.

That's disgraceful, she's essentially being told her life doesn't matter because we are "all mourning" the death of massively privileged 96 year old women, i hope she gets her surgery ASAP.

We wouldn't have had social media for a start or 24 hour news coverage ,so I think there'd would still been a fuss ,it wouldn't have been shoved down our throats as much .

I had to stop reading that thread. Just a pile of condescending offensive nonsense. But the most worrying thing was I'm guessing some of the posters thought they were being nice and not condescending arses.

Normally I’d miss all of the ridiculous coverage but we are on holiday with my parents and the cottage has a TV which is their main form of entertainment. I’ve all but moved into the summerhouse to escape.

I cannot believe the endless hours being devoted to this. It’s nauseating and so boring. I’ve set my Facebook feed to suppress any posts on the queen’s death so I do get a break there.

I’m currently making plans for Monday which do not include watching the funeral.

Good God!

Words fail me!

This is all getting totally out of hand now. Personally, I can take or leave the RF as they don't affect me in any way but, as many PP's have already said, this 24 hour news coverage on EVERY channel plus the horrific lambasting of H & M who just wanted out of this circus is outrageous IMO.

Sorry clicked too soon as the most outrageous of all are all these medical surgeries and appointments - many of which could mean life or death - is truly shocking!

Can't believe the Queen would have wanted this. Purely driven by sychophants!

I've been at my dad's, he's a royalist, I did a lot of eye rolling.

I've booked to go to the local carvery on the 19th. It does not have a TV.

People are going to be cold and hungry this winter, meanwhile we still have to pay a fortune to this family who do, well what exactly?

Harry created the Invictus games - well done.

Katherine Kent taught music in Hull then gave up her title and has supported music education and attempted to get a child into the royal box at Wimbledon.

Anne seems to have taken her charity work seriously.

As for the rest?

One thing that di slightly amuse me was the more and more desperate the TV people were to find someone to interview.

"So Mr X you once saw a woman walking a corgi that you thought might be the queen, but you realised it wasn't but the corgi still might have been the queen's, tell us about that day"

"Ms Y you once went on a date with a royal protection officer, what did he say?"

Lol I'm boycotting the BBC now because of its ridiculous coverage but I did catch a bit a few nights ago where a reporter was stopping people outside Buckingham Palace, one guy was clearly awkward and was trying to be polite, but said I have to go as his wife and kids were getting to far ahead of him 🤣

I’m not an anti-royalist, as in I quite liked the queen, and I’m not actively republican. But bloody hell, I’ve been really shocked by the extremes of this. I can’t believe people are losing their surgery appointments, or even their holidays, it’s not fair or needed. I can understand wanting to set up a bank holiday in her memory, but do that and have it on birthday or something, not at short notice - people are having a tough time and things like that make it even harder. And the attitude to people protesting is appalling. I feel like we’re in some kind of forced kowtowing situation and it’s very uncomfortable and dodgy.

I thought the mourning and coverage should/would be roughly at the level they were for Philip. I know she’s more important, but there’s only so much blanket coverage and fandango a country on its knees can cope with.

Thanks for thread OP, I feel sane again!

Local Facebook page has just announced that the food bank is closed on Monday. So people can be respectfully hungry I imagine.

Oh and yes about the interviews! I saw one where they were interviewing a very small child clutching some flowers, obviously brought along by parents and not interested at all. Interviewer goes “So did you love the queen?” “….Yeah” “So you brought her some flowers?” “….Yeah” “What was your favourite thing about the queen?” “….Yeah” and on and on. FFS, there’s other news you could cover!