Fuck the King.

[herzlos]

It seems to have had a pretty meh reception. Estimated 18.8m people tuned in to watch it, which is significantly less than the 26m who watched Elizabeths funeral last year. Mind you, people could afford electricty to run a TV and food for a watch party last year.

You'd have never known it was on in Scotland; there was a viewing area set up near Edinburgh castle which had maybe 20 attendees, and Glasgow had a parade or something with just enough people to hold up letters that spell "God save the king".

All I've seen about it have been piss takes on social media, and the bits I saw looked totally ridiculous.

Was it any 'better' down South?

[pacific]

I found it amusing that a town down the road from me, in South Wales, had to cancel it's Coronation party planning because it had absolutely no donations (zero £) to cover the costs.

[crispy78]

While I don't want to go down the Daily Express route, Queen Of Our Hearts and so on - I can't help but feel sorry for Diana. Aside from how his kids have turned out, the situation now is exactly what Charles would have got if he'd just been allowed to marry Camilla in the first place. Diana really didn't need to get put in the way.

Have I Got News For You had a brutal line on the subject, that I'm amazed got aired: along the lines of "Charles is as in love with Camilla now as he was the day he married... Diana" Drew a big oooooh from the audience.

[maddocgrotsnik]

May 9, 2023 4:42:20 GMT -5 herzlos said:

It seems to have had a pretty meh reception. Estimated 18.8m people tuned in to watch it, which is significantly less than the 26m who watched Elizabeths funeral last year. Mind you, people could afford electricty to run a TV and food for a watch party last year.

You'd have never known it was on in Scotland; there was a viewing area set up near Edinburgh castle which had maybe 20 attendees, and Glasgow had a parade or something with just enough people to hold up letters that spell "God save the king".

All I've seen about it have been piss takes on social media, and the bits I saw looked totally ridiculous.

Was it any 'better' down South?

To be honest, enough folk to hold up those letters and at least one who could spell is quite good going for Glasgow

Most I saw here about a South as South goes was a rather sad three person party. That being said, I didn’t head into town proper on the day as I watching telly and busy being skint.

[herzlos]

I guess there must have been clusters of excitement about it then, or everyone was enjoying it in private.

I've seen maybe 4 houses in our town of about 10,000 people, with a lot of unsold union jack tat in the Asda.

May 9, 2023 8:19:08 GMT -5 pacific said:

I found it amusing that a town down the road from me, in South Wales, had to cancel it's Coronation party planning because it had absolutely no donations (zero £) to cover the costs.

I especially love that the people organising it didn't even want to put their hands in their pockets for it.

[nfe]

There were definitely several large parties in Glasgow. No news teams would be going to lodges or Rangers pubs, though.

[Haighus]

May 2, 2023 6:15:31 GMT -5 herzlos said:

May 2, 2023 5:31:08 GMT -5 Least censored on the planet! said:

You mean private schools? Or does public schools means something else than what I think it means?

I agree with everything else!

In England, private schools are called public schools, and public schools are called state schools. Don't blame me, I think it's bonkers.

They are "public" because they are open to anyone (who can pay for it), and aren't restricted by region, religion etc. They are also, for some reason that's totally not about corruption, usually registered as charities and thus are exempt from tax.

The official line is that education can be a charitable act, even if someone is paying as much as £45k/year to receive such charity. 

It's totally bent, and attempts to remove the charitable status from schools has been always been resisted by impartial politicians who happen to send their kids to these schools and are friends with the people who would have to pay the taxes.

State schools are free at point of use (tax funded) but have catchment areas you need to live in to attend. Previously I think you had to get approval from the local Priest to attend Catholic schools too, but I don't think that's really a thing anymore, at least up in Scotland anyone can attend or work in a Catholic school.

Technically, public schools are a subset of private schools. There are plenty of private schools in England that wouldn't be considered public schools, such as prep schools or private schools for disabled kids etc.

Public schools are all particularly old, prestigious, and expensive. There are not many of them. Eton is the best known, I grew up near Shrewsbury so that one is familiar to me, and I knew someone that went to Uppingham. The "public" moniker made a lot more sense 300 years ago when most schools had specific requirements beyond being rich, and is really archaic now state education is available to all up to 6th form.

Fully agree that they should not be charities.