lol @trashfuture UK you seeing this?
Try queueing at a pub bar and see where that gets you
I now have a pint of what seems to be room temperature river water. What’s next?
I find your lack of tea inside this diagram to be … disturbing
English people. The Scottish, Welsh and Irish mostly disapprove of the monarchy. Very few people aside from the English actually like these people. I guess that goes with the territory of being a billionaire family for hundreds of years.
I know a northerner who is virulently an anti-monarchist. His whole family is.
english people
Oxymoron.
Well they haven’t separated either so 🤷🏻♂️
In terms of overwhelming media coverage think of them as the Brit version of the Kardashians (maybe from a few years back no idea how often the Kardashians are in the news these days).
Other than that I think we probably never greatly reduced the role of our monarchy at the end of ww1, the way much of the rest of Europe did, because at that point we were still global reserve currency and similar to Americans in later decades up to more recently - things seemed to be going relatively well and we’d just ‘won’ ww1 so why change it? Our coal production peaked around 1921 (iirc), after that the £ began its decline before the British empire was bankrupted by ww2, Bretton Woods happened and the US took over as global erserve currency. We did alright with a somewhat socialist society until the late 70s, from which point neo-liberalism took over and we have raced rightwards, like the US, and the monarchy needs to go but is the least of our problems.
We are wistful for the days when our biggest problem was getting rid of kings and queens. Our first order of business is getting rid of bigots and racists. Then we can focus on alleviating the stranglehold of business, which will clear the path for dealing with climate change and investing in our health and education.
I object to this diagram. Ants would almost certainly love a plate of beans on toast too.
Indeed.
Does this mean the British are a subset of ants?
Well according to this diagram, there are just ants and weak ants. So, yes.
WTF is “beans and toast”? The beans should be ON the toast
The real divisive question is where is the cheese? And I’ll try to remain as neutral here as possible.
Do you melt it onto the bread, providing a protective layer and preventing the bread from absorbing too much bean juice, or do you put it on top the beans, like a psychopathic dog molester?
I stir the cheese into the beans before I put it on the toast. Thus I have been exiled to Western Canada.
I’m a psychopathic dog molester
Please don’t take this out of context
What a ridiculous idea to put cheese underneath your beans. Only a demented madman would even consider such an idea. That’s just shitty, ruined cheese on toast…
Also the queen’s dead now so… yknow
We still have a queen she’s just not the monarch.
Freddie Mercury is also dead.
Yes but he was a queen everyone has loyalty to
Queen Camilla? The noise you hear is Diana turning at 9000 rpm in her grave
She voted against the monarchy, I don’t think she wanted to be queen
beans and toast are the ingredients necessary to make beans on toast.
Do you have a sauce for that claim?
Yes but it’s just brown and water
We find these truths to be self-evident.
Queueing seems like such a natural thing to do. Is it just a free for all in other places?
The entirety of Scandinavia: Definitely not.
Here they take your phone number and send you a text when your whatever is ready
I bring to you, Black Friday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEZ3PRPJLws
No, no, no, no. Like this: https://youtu.be/agIEa5Z1KrI?t=48
Ya know, I’ve never been to a vigil. I have no idea if there’s pushing and shoving here for those kind of events.
Whenever I hear “King Charles” I think “Who? That can’t be right”.
Yeah, even me as mostly anti monarchy had some respect for the queen. Now it’s just ‘who cares.’
She did her job very well, and I’m not convinced the enormous benefits outweigh the obligations.
Yeah, I always found it weird when people would act like they have it so cushy. On a material comfort level, sure, but on basically every other level it sounds awful. You couldn’t pay me to put myself or my children through that.
Footballers who get paid a packet and can then vanish into obscurity if they so choose? That sounds like the good life.
Hard pass on the gilded cage thing. I’m no monarchist, so now that the single nationalised granny initiative is over I’m wondering whether we’ll keep them. Inertia will probably keep it going for a while yet. Transitioning away from them seems like it’d probably somehow be even more expensive and troublesome than living with them. A bit like trying to totally rid a large building of mice.
Not even in a material comfort level. Buckingham Palace is in a very bad way with threadbare furnishings, the roof caving in, a massive rat problem, and large parts abandoned. The current King refuses to live there.
I’d have been very happy to vote for Elizabeth as the first president of the UK Republic.
Fake news. These lads can definitely lift up to 5000 times their weight.
Maybe but ants aren’t allergic to sunlight
This made me chortle, to my surprise.
The Brits don’t take stuff to they colony, but away from it. But if ants were sentient they’d call it an empire too, most likely.
