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Round my way, (inner city-ish Bristol) as far as I've noticed:
Pro:
One house on my road has a bit of bunting out the front
The Fire Engine pub has a sign telling people to come in and celebrate the Jubilee.
Anti:
The Plough is doing an anti-monarchy Festival.
The Red Lion is apparently doing likewise.
Everywhere else seems to be neutral - no street parties that I'm aware of.
What's it like round your way?
I think some bunting is going up tonight but I assume it's for next WE's annual street party rather than the Jubilee nonsense.
Obvs we're away for the street party - way too much like organised fun for us....
Other than that, zilch.
Yet to go out, but the traffic map on google suggests it's like the '18 Royal wedding or the early days of the first Covid lockdown, absolutely deadly besides the M3 and M27/A31.
Great weather, great day for a bike ride!
At home there's nothing going on. At my parents though it's full-on flag-shagging everywhere.
I'm at my parent's just now, small village in rural Lincolnshire.
Most folks have bunting up, party on the village green on Saturday
not a single flag or strip of bunting in our street. a couple round the corner but otherwise a non event here.
More than 140 streets in Croydon will close over the weekend for celebrations.
Croydon is proper patriotic.
not a single flag or strip of bunting in our street. a couple round the corner but otherwise a non event here.
Makes me proud to be British!
Against monarchy in principle - except that can you imagine who we’d have as head of state if we voted for them?
Maybe if she started paying tax properly including inheritance tax? And didn’t claim benefits.
Street party here tomorrow. Beers and barbecue on a bank holiday? I’m not going to bother arguing and upsetting folk.
A couple of houses out 100 on the estate with some plastic (single use) flags and bunting. Apparently there's going to be a picnic on the park on Sunday. Pretty low key here really, think most people just grateful for the long weekend.
Two houses in my street of 62 houses. One next door, invited us round for a celebratory drink. I said we were busy on Sunday, didn't like to say at an anti-jubilee drink down the Eccy Road.
Bit of bunting and some union flags round our way, not the most offensive thing really, I just hope people have a jolly fun long weekend rather than a triple piss up mega-brawl...
There was an interview on the radio in Australia this morning with the new federal government’s minister for a republic. Seemed a reasonable chap.
I've not heard of anything official in Glasgow, though I expect the Ranger supporting pubs of the East end will have something laid on.
Probably some Jubilee inspired bar brawl.
Nothing I can see in Ash (Surrey) other than my local having live music and invitation to come along. And estate agents windows with union jack flags.
The local Co-Op has a bigs sign with Union Jacks on it and a LCD font styled opening hours list for the next 4 days saying they are open exactly the same times as they normally would be.
Which is nice.
God save the Queen
A fascist regime
They made you a moron
Potential H-bomb
God save the Queen
She ain't no human being
There is no future
In England's dreaming
Don't be told about what you want
Don't be told about what you need
No future, no future, no future for you
God save the Queen
We mean it, man
We love our Queen
God saves
God save the Queen
Tourists are money
But our figurehead
Is not what she seems
God save history
God save your mad parade
Oh Lord, have mercy!
All crimes are paid
When there's no future, how can there be sin?
We're the flowers in the dustbin
We're the poison in the human machine
We're the future, we're the future
God save the Queen
We mean it, man
We love our Queen
God saves
God save the Queen
We mean it, man
We love our Queen
God saves
No future, no future
No future, no future
No future, no future
No future, no future
No future, no future
No future, no future
No future for you
We mean it, man
Always thought it was Ma’am not man. If I’m wrong, my wording is better and more sneery.
I’ve not heard of anything official in Glasgow, though I expect the Ranger supporting pubs of the East end will have something laid on.
Hadn't realised it had got so bad at Ibrox that they could only afford one Ranger now. 😉
Rotten sneers Maaaaaaan
Mocking hippies
Quite a few houses with bunting in our street (cup de sac) and assume people will be having a beer/chat/bbq but we’re away at our caravan so haven’t got involved. If we were there I’d have a beer with folk.
The village near the caravan is having something in the village park. Bouncy castle, face painting and bbq etc. we’ll head over for a couple of hours then we’ve got a table booked in the village pub for food.
I’m not against it, and for someone born into it and who probably didn’t expect to ever end up in the role she’s in, I reckon she’s done a reasonable job and yes Liz will be getting the best medical care, but she’s still “doing her job” at an age most people have well retired.
Although for me the best bit is an extra BH.
@cheese@4p you appear to be correct. My version’s better though. We don’t need to sneer at hippies these days.
Put out some bunting, will head into town to see the fireworks this evening over the castle. Needless to say, Windsor has been carpet bombed by bunting and flags. The builders opposite seem not to have got the Bank Holiday message, however.
There's a massive flag hanging outside the local town hall. It's advertising the annual Duck Race on Saturday.*
The Eccentric Old Boy™ next door told me he was going to go put the bunting up. I thought "here we go," expecting an explosion in a flag factory. His efforts are... well, he tried I suppose. I'll take a photo in a bit.
(* - walking past the Duck Race banner earlier this week, I said to my partner "hey, I should enter, could win that! Ducks can't run that fast, surely?" She gave me a withering** look and said "don't be stupid, it'll be swimming.)
(** - insert obvious joke here)
(cup de sac)
I believe that's outlawed in several countries nowadays.
Not much up where I am, but a few shops and the like have some bunting in the shops. I've no interest in it either way, so for those who are celebrating, they seem to be enjoying themselves, for those not, they seem to be enjoying getting annoyed, but everyone seems quite happy with a day off work (or most people are off work).
Given how anti-social I am, it wouldn't surprise me if there was a street party going on outside the door - I wouldn't notice it.
I’m sat in a pub beer garden that is festooned in plastic red white and blue tat. I’m drinking a special edition beer (Wye Valley Majesty) and I’m wearing a red white and blue shirt.
I’m off to a Jubilee party shortly.
I wanted to try this beer.
My 5 year old niece has invited me to her Jubilee party (she wanted one as missed the one at school last week due to chicken pox) she instructed me to wear red white and blue.
I’m feeling rather self conscious and wish I could be out on my bike somewhere. At least I’m listening to the cricket
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Plenty of bunting in village. Most people who live on our lane are having a little 'street party' tomorrow (including my wife and parents-in-law). I'll be out on my bike.
Everyone happy with that arrangement 😁
Its nice and sunny up here at the moment so hopefully everyone will have a good time.
Wall to wall forelock tugging in my little corner of Devon.
Party on the village green, bunting or flags on most houses.
I’m wavering between whatever floats your boat and sneering condescension
Next door's got flags and bunting, for their BBQ on Sat. (Last Sunday's was for their masonic/daily mail readers' friendship and support group. I was finishing building a garden store on the boundary and heard more nonsense than is good for the blood pressure about the EU and wokery. So crude it could have been drama students asked to improvise round the word gammon. Popped my head over to apologise for a few sounds of sawing "this is no way to spend a Sunday...")
Waddya gonna do? (In our case, be away.)
Would wearing my https://www.halfords.com/cycling/cycling-clothing/jerseys-and-tops/anc-halfords-retro-cycling-jersey-m-670167.html jersey be a suitable subtle nod to Liz on today's ride, without going too mad? 😆
Combined with a village festival out our way. A Beacon being lit tonight and other stuff going on
Lots of bunting and stupid weird knitted stuff on the village green
She gave me a withering** look
Appalling. I'll send you my bill later.
didn’t like to say at an anti-jubilee drink down the Eccy Road.
I'm intrigued how you ensure everyone knows you're having an anti-jubilee pint and not a pro-jubilee pint. I'd hate to for people to think I was enjoying myself because of the jubilee rather than in spite of it.
Yoga belt of Brissle. More Ukrainian flags than union jacks. Drove through Monmouthshire this morning, quite a few bunting adorned pubs.
just got back from a 60km road ride through one of the Saxcobergs shires, 1 in 20 ish house with flags/bunting (bar one village where it was 50::50) and only 2 of 8 villages had something on and none of the pubs had decoration.
locally anyway there seems to be a strong correlation between houses that have OTT gaudy crimbo decorations and flags celebrating Brenda the german tourist.
Just had several flypasts of military helicopters in formation. Never seen anything like that before, more impressive than I might have imagined.
*looks out of window over German city* No nothing here! 😉
Lots of bunting, flags, parties and village show type events round here. No hysterical flag shagging thank god, just people using it for a get together.
Very disciplined group from Derby Mercury passed me out in the lanes this morning, 10 of them in perfect two up formation. The riders at the back had Union flags flying, just to make any anti cyclist gammon drivers heads explode.
Just driven Sheff to manc and back to pick son up from uni.
Signs so far- a woman walking a corgi in burnage. Not Liz Windsor.
A few flags and bunting strips along the A6 through high lane disley furnace vale. Including some very faded union flags in the window of the funeral directors. Look like they’ve been draped over a few coffins over the last several years.
Hope valley is festooned in red white and blue from castleton to hathersage.
The Peak District is full by the way. If you were thinking of setting off now, you’re too late…
I’m wearing my favourite smiths t shirt from the 1985 album whose name we dare not mention these last few weeks.
Been invited to a garden party of sorts this afternoon at friends of ours who are rather more royalist than us so needed something to wear. They got tickets for the party in the place on Saturday in the draw 🤮
Just spammed the group chat with those lyrics up there ^^^^ as was listening to it on Spotify as another message came in…
Hip hip hooray!
where do you live ernie, just saw some helicopters a couple of mins after you (just North of Guildford)
Are you sure it's not just the start of a coup?
The choppers were for the Palace flypast.
Unless Putin is raising the stakes....
Combined with a village festival out our way. A Beacon being lit tonight and other stuff going on
Lots of bunting and stupid weird knitted stuff on the village green
We may be in the same village! Fireworks and beacon lighting tonight, church service and bell ringing tomorrow, Saturday off and then street party on Sunday.
where do you live ernie
Croydon. There were several Chinooks, all were big helicopters, too many to able to count quickly. They weren't flying in a straight line but mostly in formation. One Chinook and a couple of others seemed to be doing their own thing.
I have never seen so many helicopters in the sky at the same time. I think what added to it all was the loud pulsing drone they all made. A bit intimidating really, had to remind myself that they were British.
I’m so glad I’m not one of you miserable sods.
Printed out loads of flags and we’ve got a little party and BBQ in the garden tomorrow then we have a street fete type thing on the Saturday which is going to be fun.
Working today though.
Plenty of flags etc in the local villages round here. I’m a take it or leave kind of guy. If people want to have a bit celebrate about something it can’t be a bad thing & if you don’t (like most on here it would seem) then fair enough just don’t go knocking those who do.
I’m a miserable git when it comes to England & football.
On our journey from Denny to Glasgow (via Kilsyth, Milton of Campsie, Balmore Road, Boclair Road, Bearsden, Milngavie, Anniesland etc) we spotted one house with Union Jack and bunting in Banton.
Unbelievably one house in my highland hamlet has bunting up. They will be avoided from now on and probably ostracised from the community.
If people want to have a bit celebrate about something it can’t be a bad thing & if you don’t (like most on here it would seem) then fair enough just don’t go knocking those who do.
Flag shagging should always be ridiculed.
The Wife had put the bunting up before I’d got out of bed. The camping flag pole is now up complete with Union flag of 2012 vintage. The last time it came out.
She’s now baking scones and Victoria sponge. Patriotism goes as far as how many cream teas we can cram into one weekend.
One of the community groups normally does a “party in the park” mid-summer, they’ve moved it to this weekend, so that’s Saturday afternoon sorted. Local school choirs, local bands playing on a big stage, WI tea tent, local brewery, BBQ, wood fired pizza, little kiddie fair ground rides, village fete affair. My mates band are playing and have quite a good local following, so should’ve fun.
We have National Day on Monday and our own royal family to steer us through that. With any luck the weather will be decent and I may break out a Swedish flag, but that's not essential.
No sign of it at all around here. It is the leith Jazz festival weekend tho and that is everywhere. I suspect any business displaying bunting would be boycotted at best. No pubs, no shops, no houses with bunting
On our journey from Denny to Glasgow (via Kilsyth, Milton of Campsie, Balmore Road, Boclair Road, Bearsden, Milngavie, Anniesland etc) we spotted one house with Union Jack and bunting in Banton.
For those who do not know that mainly a list of the most middle class bits of central Scotland - so nothing there is very telling
Scottish Borders here and not seen a single thing relating to Jubilee. The total lack of enthusiasm totally reflects my attitude to the whole thing. People are struggling to feed their families and we are meant to celebrate someone who has lived in palaces at our expense for 70 years. Meh.
Just seen that my mother has been going mad with flags, etc over the day. They live under the flightpath for the fly-by and were out waving flags at the planes.
I despair.
With over 140 road closures due to the Queen's jubilee and the apparent lack of celebrity fervour elsewhere I'm starting to think that Croydon must be the most patriotic borough in the UK:
https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/queens-platinum-jubilee-croydon-roads-24123783.amp
Not bad for a borough where more than a third of its residents were born overseas.
On our journey from Denny to Glasgow (via Kilsyth, Milton of Campsie, Balmore Road, Boclair Road, Bearsden, Milngavie, Anniesland etc) we spotted one house with Union Jack and bunting in Banton.
For those who do not know that mainly a list of the most middle class bits of central Scotland – so nothing there is very telling
We can conclude that there's probably at least one Rangers fan in Banton
Not bad for a borough where more than a third of its residents were born overseas.
Pritti’s told them if they don’t wave flags she’ll personally organise the airports to get them to Rwanda.
Literally nothing different around mine (just south of Edinburgh). The usual saltires and ukrainian flags and nhs rainbows but nothing new. We just had the town fete thing last week and despite being quite horses-and-tweed-and-hyacinth-bucket it didn't have much jubilee stuff either.
I feel quite at home tbh- I don't hate it, I'm generally approving of this particular queen and everyone likes holidays, but I'm not into it and it seems neither is just about anyone else
Scot borders too and heehaw.
Schools getting a half day tomorrow (usually just Friday mornings so we are getting that.) Even more annoying my weekend beer was due for delivery today but instead it'll be sitting in a van somewhere.
Abundance of bunting here in our village, although it does seem to be sporadic. Beacon lighting later to be accompanied by 70 rockets to upset the horsey folks. Spitfire and Hurricane due over later though so looking forward to seeing that.
A visitor from the south I presume posted on the local FB page if there were any Jubbly events happening on the island…distinct lack of responses although I think one of the primary schools hung out some bunting. Just about sums up the attitude - OK for wee kids and bowler-hatted sectarians, the rest…meh.
Was Andy brewing his COVID when he saw Liz the other day?
Diplomatic Covid maybe?
We can conclude that there’s probably at least one Rangers fan in Banton
🤣🙃
No sign of any bunting or flags around Dundee.
Beacon lighting later to be accompanied by 70 rockets
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I am not really bothered about the whole thing,but there are some nice high towers North and South from us,so I do like the idea of Beacons lighting the hill tops in a LOTRs style. 🙂
Some Jamboree activity here (medieval Kent village). Flag flying high above the church.
The Great and Good Village Elders were out adorning the cricket pitch with cheap plastic flags this morning.
Apparently they’re going to set fire to something at 9:45 tonight. Best show willing or it might be me.
My neighbour Mr Gammon quite vocal this morning about the unpatriotic traitors stuck at Heathrow who are trying to leave the country.
Rural Aberdeenshire and nothing here other than one house with the butcher's apron in the window.
That said, I did drive through Ballater and Braemar last week and they seem to be mad for all things jubilee unsurprisingly.
It’s occasions like this that remind me that though I look the same, dress the same and speak the same language as you Brits, you really are a different breed. I’m kind of embarrassed for you, in the nicest possible way. 😀
Nothing going on here.
The fairly elderly neighbour was out doing some gardening and she was moaning about the telly being "full of that bloody Jubilee thing".
I watched the flypast bit on TV. At 3.30, my Mum (who lives in London) messaged me to ask what time the flypast was. 🙄
Told her it was 2.5hrs ago.
Flag shagging should always be ridiculed.
I’ll remember that when England’s playing.
Not much here either, thankfully. The whole forelock tugging shitshow can GrTF.
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I’m so glad I’m not one of you miserable sods.
But the Queen, and royal family in general.
They have no power, cannot interfere in politics, nor criminal actions in the form of appeals and miscarriages of justice. Basically only there as a party girl handing out party favours and honours for whichever current despot our government is in bed with.
The lunch Queenie had with mad dog dictator and full time butcher President for life, Idi Amin, must have been swinging.
where do you live ernie, just saw some helicopters a couple of mins after you (just North of Guildford)
I’d always assumed it was Moscow 😃
One solitary Union Jack on our street, but town is absolutely covered in the things. Mind you, it’s the annual 1940’s weekend, so it’s always like that. We’ve got a spitfire and hurricane fly past down the valley on Saturday
They’ve politely asked, as usual, for people not to come dressed as SS officers, but I’m sure enough people will to counteract the Union jacks. Stars and Stripes are just as noticeable.
Flag shagging should always be ridiculed.
You can join in with local events without being a flag shagger, you know, meet friends, kids enjoy activities, support local groups and businesses, have fun maybe?
The lunch Queenie had with mad dog dictator and full time butcher President for life, Idi Amin, must have been swinging.
Well she probably didn't want to upset the Zionists, you know how touchy they can get.
In the (Shrop)shire we have escaped the evil eye of Mordor (STW sneering misery merchants). We are fully buntinged up, and having a chilled weekend with friends and neighbours, having fun & drinking beers in the sunshine. Sorry to disappoint.
I'm on holiday in Portugal. Back on Tuesday evening. So I guess we will be celebrating the event sort of.
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On our journey from Denny to Glasgow (via Kilsyth, Milton of Campsie, Balmore Road, Boclair Road, Bearsden, Milngavie, Anniesland etc) we spotted one house with Union Jack and bunting in Banton.For those who do not know that mainly a list of the most middle class bits of central Scotland – so nothing there is very telling
More importantly, why's he avoiding the brigg!
@Fruitbat, can you head back via Croy and tell us how many union flags are flying there 🤣, used to live near Denny for a few years, good luck with your endeavours!
Here the local grouse worriers are organising a bonfire ( beacon?), to which the plebs are graciously invited. And a few rather sad posts on the local FB group asking whether there are events. Otherwise life goes on.
I see that the Guardian predictably has some sage advice for its distraught affluent middle-class readers:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/01/how-to-survive-the-jubilee-weekend-for-republicans