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[โ€“] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

English taxpayers paying for another coronation ceremony be like: ๐Ÿฅถ*

* can't pay to heat their house.

[โ€“] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago

Don't knock it, we get a day off when they die and a day off when we get a new one.

Sometimes we get a day off when they've been on the throne for a set number of years.

So for that reason I'd like to keep them.

Give us two extra bank holidays a year, and you can King Ralph all these motherfuckers.

[โ€“] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

I mean, it did bring more money into the economy than it took out of it, same with Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, so we could profit off of this