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Buckingham Palace has announced that Queen Elizabeth II has died.
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You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 08 2022, @06:49PM (27 children)
Fuck the office of queen! We fought a war over this shit!
However, Mrs. Elizabeth seemed to have become a fairly ok person in her older age and RIP and best wishes to all the folks that loved her.
(Score: 5, Touché) by NateMich on Thursday September 08 2022, @06:58PM (17 children)
Well don't worry then. That office should be vacant for a good while.
(Score: 3, Flamebait) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 08 2022, @07:10PM
One down one to go!
(Score: 3, Touché) by cykros on Thursday September 08 2022, @08:58PM (15 children)
Unless you count Camilla, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom.
Prince Philip had to wait years to outgrow the title of mere Duke. The Queen's biggest failing in life seems to have been raising a family that couldn't even muster the class necessary to be an upstanding trailer park resident. Her uncle had the decency to abdicate; her son on the other hand sees fit to bestow the title of Queen upon his whore.
As the saying goes though, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. That she made a life of doing so despite the number of horses in her life hellbent on dehydration stands to her credit.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday September 09 2022, @02:50AM (2 children)
Is there supposed to be a problem here? Seems a reasonable thing to do.
I find it interesting how much abuse people are willing to heap on these people just because they don't live perfect lives.
(Score: 3, Touché) by acid andy on Friday September 09 2022, @11:32AM (1 child)
Whereas someone who isn't born into all the wealth they could ever need and suffers as a result should just try harder because it isn't that hard, eh khallow?
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by khallow on Friday September 09 2022, @11:51AM
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Friday September 09 2022, @07:44AM
You want to make Camilla drunk? What whs that?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Friday September 09 2022, @03:46PM (6 children)
I'd say the Queens biggest failings were doing nothing about Apartheid and the colonies in Africa and India (in her younger years) but hey....what's a bit of slavery and oppression amongst friends!
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 09 2022, @06:16PM (5 children)
Curious. How many colonies did England and/or the UK still hold when Elizabeth was crowned? And, uhhhhhhhmmmm, apartheid? Was that the norm in former English colonies? I have an idea that you are somewhat confused on the issues you are raising. Whatever evils the English and the UK visited upon the world, they did lead the way in ending slavery. At risk of sparking a new wave of outrage, I'll paraphrase a comment I made in another discussion: The English aren't the only evil in the world, nor are they the worst.
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday September 09 2022, @07:39PM (4 children)
Pretty sure she was in office in 1993 when Apartheid ended....
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday September 09 2022, @07:41PM (2 children)
Americans seem to forget how shockingly recent Apartheid was....
(Score: 2) by turgid on Friday September 09 2022, @08:18PM (1 child)
Particularly in the United States of America. When did segregation end there? Was it the 1960s? Their "democratic government" was even shooting student protestors as late as 1970.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2022, @03:54PM
Progress?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 09 2022, @11:19PM
Well, you answered part of the question. Now, just to be sure, apartheid was a South African thing, right? And, who colonized South Africa? Yeah, sure, England was in on it, almost from the beginning. But, who actually colonized and settled most of South Africa? Those Boers had a lot to do with everything, from the first days, right up through today.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 09 2022, @05:52PM (2 children)
... her son on the other hand sees fit to bestow the title of Queen upon his whore.
No he didn't. His mother is the one who bestowed the title. And that title is not "Queen", but "Queen Consort".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 09 2022, @06:17PM (1 child)
I'll point out that it takes a right royal wanking fuckwit to care about royalty.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 09 2022, @07:51PM
I'll point out that I correct mistakes whenever I see them, no matter the subject or my personal opinions.
You should see my record and would be surprised at how hard it would be to derive my personal opinions from that.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by turgid on Friday September 09 2022, @08:13PM
I say this as a republican Brit pro-Scottish independence: that is totally uncalled for. What a terrible thing to say about our new King and his wife. People get married and divorced. That's life. They're human beings like the rest of us. You got a flamebait mod from me.
Whether you like monarchy or not, that's what we've got.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2022, @07:48PM (7 children)
Headline News: Monarch Not Beheaded
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2022, @07:53PM
Bah, and they pretend to follow tradition.
(Score: 5, Informative) by HiThere on Thursday September 08 2022, @08:22PM (4 children)
Isn't that reserved for kings named Charles?
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday September 09 2022, @11:41AM (2 children)
In Britain, yes. Over in France, it's kings named Louis that are much more in danger.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Nuke on Friday September 09 2022, @12:44PM (1 child)
Not statistically sound. Weren't they nearly all called Louis?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday September 09 2022, @06:09PM
Aren't they only allowed to have like 3 different names in thee first place? (serious question, this Yank doesn't know much about monarchy)
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Friday September 09 2022, @12:41PM
Henry VIII got his rocks off by beheading queens.
Beheading kings was only if the killer was kind. Being stuck up the a-hole with a rod happened more often - a red-hot was optional.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2022, @08:32PM
Murdoch Not Beheaded?
Why not?
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Friday September 09 2022, @12:17PM
So did we. To pick out the main ones:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Three_Kingdoms [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite_rising_of_1715 [wikipedia.org]
(although back then, some of you were also some of us)