Queen Elizabeth Platinum Jubilee

[Anonymous]

Starting a new thread in the hope that it survives.

[Anonymous]

Well it probably won't since you didn't state the rules.

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Did anyone else they’re putting a hologram in a solid gold state coach for the festivities? The level of Hunger Games is just astonishing…

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Solid gold coach? I wonder where the raw material was looted from.

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Anonymous wrote:Solid gold coach? I wonder where the raw material was looted from.

India and Africa, like everything else valuable that they own.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else they’re putting a hologram in a solid gold state coach for the festivities? The level of Hunger Games is just astonishing…

I'm hoping the Queen makes a good amount of appearances. Apparently they are planning for her to sit a few out.

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Anonymous wrote:Solid gold coach? I wonder where the raw material was looted from.

*Solid* gold? No.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Solid gold coach? I wonder where the raw material was looted from.

*Solid* gold? No.

Well referencing it as gilded gold is the kind of semantics that jumpstarted the French Revolution. Belongs in a museum.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else they’re putting a hologram in a solid gold state coach for the festivities? The level of Hunger Games is just astonishing…

If you think there’s such a thing as a solid gold coach, you don’t know much about gold.

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They projected holograms on Stonehenge. Bizarre.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Solid gold coach? I wonder where the raw material was looted from.

India and Africa, like everything else valuable that they own.

+1. Filthy colonizers

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What a vulgar display of their murderous and violent history.

Can’t believe in 2022 people still find any of this acceptable much less admirable.

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Looks like the BRF is incapable of reading the room.
All these millions of people dead from the pandemic, global wars and economic instability and here they are carrying on like it’s a 100 years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:They projected holograms on Stonehenge. Bizarre.

I was thinking about this last night and why its so 'anathema' to me as an American. There's not a single person in this country, dead or alive, which we treat with such reverence that their image would be hologrammed on national monuments or buildings for a week. Not even George Washington.

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Any Brits on this thread who can estimate what percent of British people enjoy this stuff, versus what percent find it disgusting, versus what percent are just apathetic to it all? As an American, I'd be curious.

I find the whole idea of monarchy offensive and especially the aspect of it where the royals parade around in gold coaches and expense clothes, dripping in diamonds, on the taxpayer's dollar, but then argue it's good for the country.

And yet, as someone who is not a British subject, I also find that some part of me enjoys this stuff. I will get up early to watch the weddings, for instance. I like reading about the fashion even thought it's mostly terrible. I think the monarchy should be abolished but it's not my monarchy so I still enjoy some royal-watching and don't feel that guilty about it. They are like weird, untalented celebrities.

I also sort of love the idea of this all happening if only because Prince Andrew has been barred from participating in any of it and I'm certain it is destroying him from the inside out. Which is probably a more tortuous punishment for his grossness than most other things you could come up with. So I'm sort of pro-Jubilee primarily to stick it to Prince Andrew, I guess. Not super cost effective, I guess.