Royalty

I think I'm a Celtic fan now.

The worst of Celtic and Rangers fans are equally bigoted bastards. Picking a side isn't a good call.

https://youtu.be/H_Jb2gqu5xw

You should be sent to the tower for posting that today !!! v funny

Does everybody know about his WC stuff?

More people might if commentators wrote things out in full instead of in covet initials to signal the extent of their knowledge.

David Beckham
World Cup

Do you not think giving up your freedom and devoting your life to public service and cos play gains some respect? I'd say she's earned it.

Personally I'd like to see the monarchy greatly reduced / disbanded. But right now reinforcing our constitution against the government is the main priority.

Oh right, Qatar.

I know it's not one or the other but I'm less fussed by Beckham than by the powers that be giving it to Qatar in the first place. A properly beyond batshit decision.

devoting your life to public service and cos play

This is bullshit, they're drowning in inherited wealth and privilege, I'm sure not having the freedom to do their own shopping in Tesco or meet Barry down the local doesn't play too harshly on their minds, and all the many public service commitments are rubbish too, opening some shit and meeting a few normals then having a nice dinner isn't hard, but is entirely pointless, just don't have people do it, those ribbons can be cut by literally anyone.

I don't know any royals but I know several people born into privilege who have utterly miserable lives doing their "duty". Surrounded by security, no privacy, no freedom etc etc.

I don't feel sorry for them or think it's that tough for them but I think it's fair to recognise that it's often not actually a privilege. It's not a life I'd choose for any sum of money or status.

Honestly I think it must be grim. Not struggling to feed yourself and pay your bills grim, but grim nonetheless.

I suppose they must become institutionalised at some point, and their lot in life becomes normal. It's not freedom though.

Big Suze has arrived at the Abbey.

Where's Fergie? Is she excommunicated?

Even the ribbon cutting involves entitlement. A friend worked for Tata steel in Wales and Clarence House got in touch to say Charles and Camilla would like to visit to show support. Fair enough. Oh, and Charles would like to come in his special train. Er, OK... Then his people come out for a look and say the station is too far from the plant and that they like to see the furnaces but they rather not wear the safety clothing. Tata ended up having pay for, and build a temporary station and a clear protective clear barrier so they could be photographed by the furnaces without safety gear on.

Tried to go to work this morning.
-Took half an hour to find an open petrol station.
-Got pulled over on the m11 by Babylon asking what I was up to.
-Got to work, no one else there(I work alone but on a busy farm).
-Bumped into farmers wife, got called a disrespectful sod and asked to leave.
-Went to allotment and harvested chillis instead.

Enforced mourning can fuck off. I can’t afford this nonsense.

Must be great fun to have to witness a preview of your own funeral.

-Took half an hour to find an open petrol station.
-Got pulled over on the m11 by Babylon asking what I was up to.
-Got to work, no one else there(I work alone but on a busy farm).
-Bumped into farmers wife, got called a disrespectful sod and asked to leave

Fucking Hell! Especially the second one on this list... you got pulled over by the filth for driving on a motorway!?

^^At least you know it will be paid for and there will be someone turning up...

Fuck that noise though, if they don't want it, I certainly don't want them to have it, both the privilege and the apparent horror of being so privileged, give it almost all away and go chill for the remainder of your life.

I am disrespectful by nature, but what am I supposed to be respecting? An irrelevant family of grossly over priveleged and overpaid parasites who are apparently above the law?

We can only hope for a choral arrangement of 'Going Underground'. I'm off to cut the grass at respectful funereal pace.

Yup, I was fucking fuming about that.
Wasn’t speeding, lane hogging or anything else. Just ‘spot checking why people are out today sir as it’s unusual. Do you have to be out and about today?’
The motorway was quiet but still plenty of lorries and people clearly off to work.

Heading north out of London as well. Not like I was on my way into town in a van emblazoned with ‘fuck these lizard cunts’ on the side.

Got pulled over on the m11 by Babylon asking what I was up to.

This is epic dystopia stuff. Were the roads empty other than you & the po-po?

give it almost all away and go chill for the remainder of your life.

I get it. I agree. But I think you are underestimating what a sense of duty actually means. It's archaic and fucked up but I can understand it.

^^
It was dead heading into london(it’s normally crawling from the m25 into the a406) and yes it was very quiet at 7.30am going north but definitely still plenty of vehicles around. Just eerily quiet everywhere.

I don’t drive a loud or dodgy car, anyone on here who knows me personally is well aware I’m a bit of a low-grade scumbag at a first glance but I speak politely and generally am not up to shady things.

Felt like a proper slap in the face to be pulled like that. Asked for a receipt from the po but wasn’t given one(I’m sure you can request one under any circumstances tho so you can explain to employer etc if you’re late).
It did feel a bit weird and like he didn’t want to be there either.

Just ‘spot checking why people are out today sir as it’s unusual. Do you have to be out and about today?’

Blimey. So staying home is semi-compulsory? The anti-lockdown / ‘it’s the great reset’ nutters may have had a point, now we just stay home without being explicitly told to.

Nice that they played the opening track from Carter USM's debut album. It's what she would've wanted.