Queen Elizabeth II dies

That's one thing I've always been curious about. The head of the church gig comes with the job, it's not voluntary. Surely some kings and queens aren't believers but have to go along with the charade?

Festering in your own decomposed tissues and fluids for eternity is a grim prospect.

I am discussing the histrionic coverage, and yes, if the coverage is that histrionic I will happily take jibes at it.

Shocking disrespect....

For Boards, don't you realise that we are changing the world one post at a time. 🙂

Have you been at the garlic again? You know it makes you talk gibberish.

It's all nonsense of course, a fairytale for a nation that thinks it's still rich.

Rich how? rich as in the 5th largest economy in the world, or rich in history and culture with a 1000 year old Cathedral today being used in the ceremony for the monarch?

It is a phobia when behind the mask of contempt, your ideology is just as warped when taken to extremes, as the one you claim to have contempt for.

One in Ireland which ironically begun with 'no mandate' similar the British Royal family itself - and that mandate was only retrospectively achieved.

In your mind your main problem is there is a 'them and us'. In that 'them and us' mindset you become a prisoner in your own mind.

Maybe this song might cheer you up a bit, so you can be cheerful about your perceived enemies misfortune?

And you can escape the mental turmoil of having to see QEII celebrated by the vast majority of her mainland? It is much easier for you mentally to gripe, bitch, moan, find fault. That is what a blinkered ideology does to a person. You become trained to hate, groomed in your 'true faith' of virulent Irish Republicanism. A Republicanism wrapped in the myth of Gaeldom by Pearse and 'blood sacrifice'. Appropriated from the old Catholic notion of suffering, being a good thing.

Which is only a very recent ideology and manufactured 'Irishness'. In my view a true Irishman would see the glorified myth of Irish Republicanism for what it is. Stage Irishness.

Much in the same way that a person in Britain should be able to stand back and see the 'Stage Britishness' of the British Royal family.

But blinkered ideologies, symbolism and myth are hard to shift. And when they are two opposing ideologies in the mind of a person such of yourself, that is the cause of the all the trouble.

You are thus incapable of seeing things from the other side, you then lack compromise, the enemy is dehumanised as 'other' and is held in contempt. Such contempt is caused by Ulster. But in the long run it will only give you an ulcer.

why should we show respect for people engaging in performative grief, because that is what it really is when we examine the hysteria that has gone on over the past 10 days?

why should we show respect for people who are happy to spend millions on this and a monarchy in general while hundreds of thousands of people go hungry? while the public services of that country are ran to ****?

the people who have engaged in the nonsense over the past 10 days deserve criticism and to be belittled as far as i am concerned, because the behaviour is just not normal or proportionate, and if they are offended that is their issue.

they can morn away but they are not entitled to morn at the expence of everything and everyone else, appointments canceled that people have waited a hell of a long time in some cases for, for this as an example.

the fact britain is our nearist neighbour is meaningless in this context, we owe it nothing in this regard.