British media struggle to make Prince Philip an object of national mourning

[leicester]

Well, as long as Mock the Week and Hugh Denis gives him a proper sendoff, we’re all good.

* * Mock the Week Newsreel - Prince Philip & The Queen * *

[noahdjango]

tight.
apparently these guys are “coffin dancers”
unfortunately…

edited: doesn’t seem like I can do embeds without an account

[the_borderer]

@wolfman_al2

Okay, I kinda get that the Britons as subjects have too endure this North-korea style mourning nonsense for that vile, old racist fossil,

I’m British, and I don’t get it. It looks like we have another week of this shit to endure.

[Tamsin_Bailey]

I’m finding it endlessly tiresome already. It’s a flag shaggers dream.

[Tamsin_Bailey]

[Ratel]

@smulder

There haven’t been any of those for a few years now, and of course Philip was only 99

I think I’m still right.

[the_borderer]

@smulder

There haven’t been any of those for a few years now

Has Jacob Rees-Mogg died too? We need to have fireworks and a street party right now!

[VeronicaConnor]

@joed

I agree, but I’m not British (or Canadian or Australian or from any of the other places that they “rule” over) so it’s not really my call to make.

I am Canadian, and have never met another Canadian who gives a rat’s ass about the British Royal family. Our connection to all that is superficial at best. There’s a ceremonial Governor General position in government, but it’s just not a thing we think about or that affects our lives in any way.

[subextraordinaire]

The FBI is a bit sassy

[jra]

Where can I register my complaint of too much coverage of complaints of too much coverage of Dead Phil?

[ficuswhisperer]

Yup, still don’t care.

[pvanb]

I’m not surprised it isn’t real, but I want to believe.

[nick_warr]

They’re hapsburgs, and you gave them to us, damnit.

[anon39846808]

@jra

Where can I register my complaint of too much coverage of complaints of too much coverage of Dead Phil?

Please direct all of these inquiries to Graham Chapman.

[anon39846808]

@nick_warr

They’re hapsburgs, and you gave them to us, damnit.

Indeed. The BMW era Mini Coopers are as British as the Queen!

[Richard_Kirk]

@freshacconci

Or maybe – just maybe – the whole idea of a monarchy should be scrapped as anachronistic, elitist, anti-democratic and just plain silly.

If you don’t like that, wait until you see what the UK elected government has been doing lately…

[smulder]

@snigs

Kardashians, I’ve no idea why these people’s lives are considered newsworthy

They are related to O.J. Simpson’s lawyer

Really, that’s the reason

[smulder]

@Ratel

I think I’m still right.

He was a living link to the 1920s, which were part of the twentieth century

[wolfman_al2]

Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha actually. But they cut ties to their german side of the family in WW1 when they rebranded themselves as Windsor. For the same reason old Phil renamed himself from “Battenberg” to Mountbatton in WW2. And I am disgusted that I know that much about those people…

[fnordius]

Axel Springer Verlag is the reason. That, and the known German aristocrats are either boors or embarrassments or in the rare case of the Wittlesbachers*, quietly happy to avoid the limelight and just own a brewery and run the Kaltenberger festival. And German oligarchs are camera shy, so it’s cheap and easy to just buy sensationalist crap from Britain and the Netherlands, or Monaco.

*the former royal line of Bavaria