Queens Jubilee, what's the craic

Little Louis was very unimpressed by all pictures

I'm not. Kim Kardashian is celebrated across the world and I wouldn't feel any pride in her if she were Irish. It might be nice if someone Irish were celebrated, but I'd still want to be proud of the person's reason for celebration. Monarchy, or any other inherited title, doesn't do that for me.

When did we rejoin the realm? Or have we colonised them? Confuzzled

It was a great weekend in London, even though I wasn't there specifically for the celebration (royals don't do much for me personally), it was still a great atmosphere and people seemed extra friendly and happy when chatting or walking past them. On Sunday there were a few parties here in the town I live in too so hopefully people enjoyed themselves. Back to real life now, no tax payers money for me, just a factory to graft in. Might smarten myself up a bit and see if I can marry in?

Was over in Herfordshire for the jubilee weekend and it was all a bit meh. I thought it would be a lot bigger but in the area I was in there was barely one house in 10 with the union jack bunting out. Went to the lighting of the beacons for the Queen locally on Thursday night and there was less than 400 people there in a town of 15,000 people. It was some contrast to then watching the BBC, ITV and Sky news reports that gave the impression there was a national party and a huge outpouring of patriotism going on, the hyperbole from the journalists reporting on it was never ending. As an English mate remarked to me it had nothing on the 2012 Olympics which was a massive outpouring of national pride and patriotism.

It was the same at Liam Gallagher at Knebworth. There was 125,000 people there, the vast majority who were English but I saw way more Scottish flags at it than union jacks. Most of the crowd were under 50 years of age and they didnt seem bothered one bit about celebrating the jubilee. So I got the impression the entire event was just blown up by the media beyond any proportion to what people were actually doing on the ground. But maybe it was different in other places.

still a billion times better then the snake oil salesman flip flop failure fartage on GBeebies who ran away the minute the announcement that brexit won happened.

oh no, we really, really aren't.

what is there to be jealous of exactly? over privilaged individuals who have what they have because of birth right and an invisible space wizard? an institution who's fans are like followers of a cult who would happily starve in the name of those over privilaged people who couldn't care a less about them?

lots to be jealous of alright.

I see them wittering about Ulster.

But only two thirds of Ulster is in NI.

It's all very confusing.

I get the impression it was more a thing for older people and that the younger crowd were less impressed. Even at that big Jubilee concert on Saturday, the majority of the crowd seemed to be over 35 / 40.

yeah very much an older crowd at the jubilee concert. And as my English mate commented very much a white one too, we were playing a game of spot the black person and there was virtually none there. No Indians or Pakistanis in the crowd either despite millions of immigrants to the UK. My mate said the crowd was like Surrey goes to London for a day out. Would make you wonder what the future holds for the Royal Family if they dont appeal to large sections of the British population and their constituency is made up of 90% old white people despite the diversity of British society.