Jubilee sentiment tracker

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.