The Queen is Dead!

[luka]

emotional engineering on the mass scale

 

[luka]

usually they have to wait for an olympics for something like this, but that never feels quite grand enough

 

[woops]

usually they have to wait for an olympics for something like this, but that never feels quite grand enough

this is something older than any of our lifespans, so far unique

 

[sus]

I hear they are locking people up for playing football on weekends instead of mourning into the new year

 

[sus]

really makes all this "britain is the epicenter of neoliberalism" business a farce, I mean—clearly it is still a highly religious and anti-rational state, rather than some engine of homo economicus at mass scale

 

[luka]

its both

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

it's neither. Monday was the final farewell, didn't you realise? The sun finally set on the old thing. It's all patched up rags, kidnapping and arson from now on. And that's if we're lucky! If we're unlucky, archons and acres of charred rib cages.

 

[WashYourHands]

it's

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[martin]

I've gotta say (apart from UP THE BHOYS 🇮🇪) that I found this whole spectacle refreshingly tame compared to Di's mournfest - still the only time in my life I thought I'd woken up in a parallel universe and would be torn to pieces if I dissented.

 

[william_kent]

I've gotta say (apart from UP THE BHOYS 🇮🇪) that I found this whole spectacle refreshingly tame compared to Di's mournfest - still the only time in my life I thought I'd woken up in a parallel universe and would be torn to pieces if I'd dissented.

over the last few days I've found a new respect for Jedward

 

[IdleRich]

I've gotta say (apart from UP THE BHOYS 🇮🇪) that I found this whole spectacle refreshingly tame compared to Di's mournfest - still the only time in my life I thought I'd woken up in a parallel universe and would be torn to pieces if I dissented.

Was gonna ask how it compares to the Diana thing - what's the consensus on that?

To me, from afar, the Diana one seemed kinda bigger somehow... maybe cos it was unique at the time. However it didn't seem to be used so much to say "hey look Britain is great, admit it!" - hmmm, am I saying that there was actual genuine sadness with Diana? More likely it's just that twitter hadn't been invented.

 

[luka]

its totally different. that was spotaneous emotional contagion this is a stage managed mega ritual of death

 

[luka]

but we've all been subjected to it and its left a discernable impact. you can walk through london and feel something huge has taken place, something has changed

 

[martin]

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Was gonna ask how it compares to the Diana thing - what's the consensus on that?

To me, from afar, the Diana one seemed kinda bigger somehow... maybe cos it was unique at the time. However it didn't seem to be used so much to say "hey look Britain is great, admit it!" - hmmm, am I saying that there was actual genuine sadness with Diana? More likely it's just that twitter hadn't been invented.

No, the sentiment then was anti-monarchy. Charles was seen as a retarded dimwit who'd been phone-tapped telling some horse-faced toff he wanted to be her tampon, and the queen was viewed as a fusty old bitch who'd cast poor doe-eyed Di to the gutter (and maybe paid someone to kill her) for shagging an Egyptian grocer's son. It didn't make ANY sense. It was Saint Di overload from dawn to dusk...but in terms of mass hysteria, the last month was nothing compared to that. I remember not even being able to buy a pack of fags in New Cross because it was 00.01 and the 24 hours of respect for the People's Princess had begun.

 

[IdleRich]

its totally different. that was spotaneous emotional contagion this is a stage managed mega ritual of death

Yeah that's what I mean, this one seems directed, used for various purposes. Although I could have that all wrong being miles away.

 

[william_kent]

Yeah that's what I mean, this one seems directed, used for various purposes. Although I could have that all wrong being miles away.

no, you're correct - this one was an interminable lecture all about a life of "duty" and "service"

translation: just fucking take it, you serfs

 

[IdleRich]

I'm seeing a lot of "Well you can't criticise Britain now" or "you must be proud now" etc which is obviously fucking nuts... we had an old lady die, amazing stuff eh?

The most ludicrous one was Darren Grimes saying the fact that loads of foreign dignitaries were there means that brexit hasn't isolated Britain in any way.

 

[luka]

 

[Leo]

I though posting tweets was frowned upon.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Yeah, what's up with Kwarteng? Is he just off his tits, or what? Reminded me of George Osborne.

I though posting tweets was frowned upon.

Only when I do it, of course.