God, every time I go down to visit my folks over the weekend and actually end up seeing the state of standard British telly from my mum sticking it on in the background, it's like... how weirdly English royalist can the UK media be, why the fuck are you making a fawning documentary on Prince Edward? - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

halduncan.com • 8 days ago

God, every time I go down to visit my folks over the weekend and actually end up seeing the state of standard British telly from my mum sticking it on in the background, it's like... how weirdly English royalist can the UK media be, why the fuck are you making a fawning documentary on Prince Edward?

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halduncan.com•8 days ago

the UK chattering class are just increasingly becoming the weirdest brain dead freaks, it's like there's an entire industry wholly composed of lib gobshites existing solely to waffle on at a daytime chat show level about how quirky the culture of the 90s was but also why the royals are good actually

halduncan.com•8 days ago

"for sixty years he's been the quiet strength behind the crown" HAHAHA

England, what THE FUCK is wrong with you? Why are yez like this? Who in the everlovin name ae fuck gies a rat's arse abut the failson theatre kid Windsor whose claim tae fame is ropin his family intae It's a Posh Cunt Knockout??

halduncan.com•8 days ago

is the Buck Hoose PR department *payin* for this drivel? honestly if ah wis chattin tae folk at a party an someone telt me they'd just made a telly documentary oan Prince Edward ah'd make ma excuses an get the fuck away fae them, that's just weird mate, yer a fuckin weirdo

dis418.bsky.social•8 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaTcIzLk880

artybel.bsky.social•8 days ago

What did your folks think about your opinions? I find it really hard to watch most of the shows my mum likes without swearing. We ended up watching 24 hours in A&E most of the time she stayed with me recently cos we both enjoyed it lol. Blood and gore over politics 🤣

ftmshepard.bsky.social•8 days ago

The three things I saw on British TV while I was in London were
-nearly decade old have I got news for you rerun (???)
-fawning documentary on LizII's coronation
-really good irish-language drama

So.
????

lizking.bsky.social•7 days ago

There’s one channel that does seem to be just end to end fawning drivel, it’s horrendous. Pratchett was right about the design fault in humans, that they bend too easily at the knees. Grim.

sinboy.bsky.social•8 days ago

I'm sorry. A what?

halduncan.com•8 days ago

I can't remember the exact phrasing but the advert was blithering on about how important he is, the contribution he makes, it was hilariously desperate, like how the channel's continuity announcer could narrate that bollocks with a straight face is beyond me