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god save the king (feddit.uk)
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[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 49 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I assume this is Northern Ireland, so obviously this isn't so much a 'we love the King' mural as a 'this is a unionist area' mural.

This is probably better than a picture of a man in a mask and a UDA flag.

Growing up in the 80s and knowing the context, this doesn't seem like the worst possible time line for Northern Ireland.

[-] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 10 points 8 months ago

Maybe we should all move to NI. Although, that's kind of how the problems started.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 11 points 8 months ago

Prescriptions are free, we have no water bills either. The crime rates aren't really that high, the violence stuff basically only happens if you get involved. This may seem a weird thing to say but paramilitaries are generally not as bad as smaller gangs in some parts of the world, and they're easily avoidable if you don't mess with them (Although if you're English you are better living in a Unionist area, Irish people would be better in the Nationalist areas). It's actually not a bad place to live!

[-] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

There are still active paramilitary groups in NI?

[-] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago

Varying levels of ‘active’. Planting roadside bombs and shooting at police is very rare nowadays and makes big headlines.

Low level violence (generally aimed between groups, not at the public) is semi-common, increasingly around religious holidays and marching season.

It’s dramatically better than the 80s and 90s, but taken a few steps back after Brexit & sovereignty issues compared to the 2000s/2010s

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 8 months ago

They're basically drug gangs and/or like to police their own communities nowadays

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 points 8 months ago

It literally has a quote on it about Northern Ireland. Although it would serve as both a "we love the King" mural as well, people here are pretty patriotic (which is a normal pattern in anywhere in the world where national identity gets threatened, like mainland UK in WWII or cold war era America)

[-] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Really depends where you are for people to be "patriotic" I live in a mixed area outside lisburn and most people around it couldn't give a fuck about the royal family or British shite, go into a nationalist area and it'll be the same. Places like sandy row or shankill obviously will have more people who are proud to be British and fans of the royal family.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 8 months ago

In a mixed area though obviously wouldn't have it because it's mixed. Same with nationalist.

[-] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Right, so the majority of people here aren't patriotic. Recent studies/polls shows that most people here don't identify as British so that would be those that identify as Irish/Northern Irish and they're unlikely to be patriotic to Britain.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago

That's not what the 2021 census says. 31% identify as British only and 19% as Northern Irish only

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 30 points 8 months ago

I think it's more of a thing that someone realised they accidentally time traveled or had a coma. Charles III was basically inevitable.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 12 points 8 months ago

Not necessarily - if the Queen had hung on long enough...

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

She has, she does, she just couldn't stay in the view of the public anymore but we know

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 8 points 8 months ago

Ah yes, I'd forgotten that The Transmutation would make public appearances difficult for her.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago

🤣

[-] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 8 months ago

Unless they're from the timeline where Ireland invaded and occupied Britain in the 90s.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 8 months ago

Charles III takes the Irish throne and then invades Great Britain and usurps it from his mother? Sounds quite interesting

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 21 points 8 months ago

"Except the fucking Catholics, obviously. She wished them nothing short of leprosy."

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Eh. Old Lizzie did alright toward the end. Her ancestors and governments were quite monstrous (especially that weapon Thatcher). However, she breached protocol during her state visit to Ireland in 2011, to start her speech in a formal Irish language introduction. Further, she came the closest that any monarch that I'm familiar with to offering an actual apology to a former colony for the way that her country had treated them over the centuries.

[-] ceviem@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

Northern Ireland and it is people.

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Northern Ireland is people!

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

it’s people

Right?!

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Man literally has cancer

[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 9 points 8 months ago

I think this is the side of a house, not a gravestone.

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

I think this is the side of a house, not a gravestone.

Yet

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago

Are you advocating they bury him under the house? I think that might devalue the property having a dead body under it

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I think it might actually increase the value. Not everyone can say the have a modern monarch interred under the sofa!

[-] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 months ago

It took me longer than it should have to figure out that this was not, in fact, an advertisement for Crown Royal, a brand of liquor available in the U.S. (and presumably elsewhere?).

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

Never heard of it, tbh.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

I love how every comment, and the post, is from a different instance.

[-] azonagi@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

;-)

[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 3 points 8 months ago

One of the best things about geocentric instances on the fediverse, imho.

People from all over can chat about it, with the host instance having a little bit of local knowledge.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago

my mother ceased

she sure did

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 8 months ago

This is DEFINITELY Belfast

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 13 points 8 months ago

Larne, apparently. (Also, lol they corrected the "it's")

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 9 points 8 months ago

My bad. I went to larne once and it actually made me depressed.

[-] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Could be worse, could've been carickfergus.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago

I don't think Carrickfergus is worse honestly

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Who's body did they stick his head on?

[-] Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

hard to see the "never"

[-] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I'm not much into the British politics, so what's the problem here? The dude was the heir, everyone knew he would be king, that's what "heir" means. As far as I know he didn't do much as king to ruin the timeline, because he thankfully just couldn't. So basically nothing really happened, one rich dude inherited some money from the other rich dudess, that's all, what's the fuss?

[-] lledrtx@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I'm assuming this is some guy plastering his house with the King's picture - the sort of thing you'd expect in a monarchy rule, not democracy.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

That's Norn Iron for you...

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