The Queen is Dead!

[woops]

Many will celebrate cos they love the queen and some no doubt will revel in the kitsch of it all but there's another layer of doing it just cos that's what you do, not for either of the above reasons

 

[catalog]

So you want to talk about what the flag means now? Or something else?

 

[catalog]

Many will celebrate cos they love the queen and some no doubt will revel in the kitsch of it all but there's another layer of doing it just cos that's what you do, not for either of the above reasons

Well the uncharacteristic Thursday off has thrown a lot of people

 

[luka]

Many will celebrate cos they love the queen and some no doubt will revel in the kitsch of it all but there's another layer of doing it just cos that's what you do, not for either of the above reasons

thank you edmund. catalog is being slow to try and annoy me. i know his techniques of disruption.

 

[woops]

also makes me think of things like the clapping for the nhs. something infantilising about it.

there's also something about clapping for the NHS instead of funding it, celebrating the queen as figurehead of a nation while watching said nation fall to bits, like some kind of widespread simulacrum @version

 

[catalog]

thank you edmund. catalog is being slow to try and annoy me. i know his techniques of disruption.

I'm not!

 

[woops]

clapping for the NHS instead of funding it

this happening quite openly and brazenly

 

[luka]

i have had to do online courses recently and there's always an ambiguity around whether people are truly thick or if they know how to use the appearance of thickness to acheive ends such as (waste time (lower expectations of their performance (disrupt the lesson (annoy the teacher
perhaps no one is ever really thick but we get so used to pretending to be that we forget we are in fact just pretending.

 

[forclosure]

It feels like we are past a sneer about the flag, I do see that. I don't get a sense of revulsion when I see it now. It feels quaint really.

i don't find it quaint at all

 

[luka]

how do you find it?

 

[catalog]

i don't find it quaint at all

There is something different when it's in bunting triangles, on someone's house. It's not like a massive flag on a pole. Or no?

 

[forclosure]

its less i don't want people to not have their street parties its more I want nothing to do with it the whole thing is a sham

everything about it

 

[forclosure]

There is something different when it's in bunting triangles, on someone's house. It's not like a massive flag on a pole. Or no?

nope i got off the bus on the way back from Dalston saw it waving in the breeze and let out an audible "uuuugh"

 

[catalog]

Fair enough

 

[forclosure]

i've only seen it twice in wood green but i imagine it'll be strewn about the place soon

i can't put it down to some kind of basica anti-royalist thing its not one aspect its the whole picture on all levels

 

[woops]

THEre;s a pub in canonbury that has had this poster up for ages, framed

its the cover of a book about east end jubilees

 

[forclosure]

@catalog @luka i think the crux of it for me is that i dunno about you man but i feel like a man without a country and have always tended to

 

[catalog]

@catalog @luka i think the crux of it for me is that i dunno about you man but i feel like a man without a country and have always tended to

Yeah OK, I mean, that makes sense. I don't feel that so strongly I suppose.

 

[forclosure]

yeah i'm Black British sure and its my home but i'd sooner be struck by lightning than try to pretend as if i've felt any connection to the royal family Edward Elgar and did those dry crusty feet in ancient times and all of that

 

[forclosure]

so then you tie that in with all this jingoism the tories being in power from when i was in year 9-10, the history of the crown and how that was maintained, the black diaspora and just where things are at now?

it's like what the fuck do i want with any of this shit?