Aww boo hoo, someone disagrees with you... affectionate or not, she knew damn well it would attract press attention at a time he could really do without it. Fuck you, next...

Jeez a whole week with your in-laws?! You’re a saint!

A shining example of what I don’t get about Ariana Grande - media full of stories about what a wonderful person she is, how she helped mac miller with sobriety blah blah. Then she goes and publicly calls out a mentally unwell person in her songs and videos. Frankly she can fuck right off with her bullshit in future.

Then I’d suggest as an American you know fuck-all about our culture. The queen is held in great affection by many many people here.

Precisely!

Yeah that would suit me too - plenty of people still visit Versailles without a Royal family. Although we’d like to keep Harry and Meg please, especially in his dress uniform...

The Queen’s message is as the head of 50+ commonwealth countries, and is broadcast across the world as a propaganda piece, they don’t really care about the optics of a gold piano for low-income people living here. Like the US wouldn’t have Drumpf broadcasting from a Target sofa (as much as faux leather and gold metalli…

Yeah they love a bit of diversity, until it comes to the writing staff...

Lol, I’m picturing the Queen as Rose in Titanic floating on her gold piano, but leaving  no room for the rest of us ;-) (there was definitely room for Jack on that thing!)

I’m not here to defend the monarchy as a whole, but frankly there are people in poverty across every country on earth, including republics. Blaming the Queen for that is a bit much given it’s a government decision about how to manage the economy.

You’re partially correct- they’re supported by the sovereign grant which is effectively wages for doing their official roles, but they also have a lot of private income (from land their ancestors stole from a lot of our ancestors in the UK and Ireland)

It’s difficult to quantify as there are sunk costs from having a monarchy that aren’t included in the net calculations about how much they earn us. Particularly security, as I understand it they include personal security but not things like the whole army regiment that protect the palaces (that are never used for publi…

Yeah a lot of it in the palaces belongs to the nation, then the Royals have their own country houses with their own heirlooms in them. Their houses and heirlooms were still most likely stolen by their ancestors, or paid for by working their serfs to the bone (or african slaves for the ones who owned foreign plantation…

There’s always some idiot waiting to pile on Her Majesty at this time of year. Most of those items are antiques passed down from other monarchs and part of our nation’s history - what else should we do with the gold piano, flog it to a super-rich Russian for their kids to flaunt on insta?

I love gift cards! No-one really gets my taste so it’s either gift cards or I get god awful ‘live/laugh/love’ type homeware that will end up in landfill. And frankly it’s hard enough being autistic at this time of year without playing the guessing gamr of buying people presents. Even my husband returns the gifts I buy …

Our neighbours downstairs did that but it didn’t work; dragging their stuff through the hall deposited a load of bedbugs that the rest of us then walked into our apartments and got infested ourselves. Fuckers.

To be fair, as a Brit I wouldn’t have known that name was offensive without visiting sites like this. I’ve never met a native American or first nation person, and the only exposure we tend to get here is in the old movies (which I now realise are hella racist) or in symbolism like the “Washington Redskins” (ditto). Som…

Best description of this douchebag I’ve ever heard!!

I’m not really brave enough to do that yet for some reason - maybe because I already spend a lot of time alone and there’s a lot of weird pressure . Glad it worked for you and kitty :-)

It really does help - it’s nothing fancy but it’s clean and dry, snd we’re planning regular clearouts to avoid hoarding junk up there :) I’ve been googling what a closet is and now I have house-envy!