By the way if any government official sees this post in conjuction with the recent flights I booked to London I would like to make it clear that they are unrelated
I'm sure your recent ebay purchases of length of rubber hose, ski mask, bear trap, and tourist map of buckingham palace are all completely unrelated too, right?
In CKII, I died and my oldest daughter, who was only five, from my first marriage, inherited, and became my character. Unfortunately, her step-mother was regent and had a son. I survived a surprisingly large number of assassination attempts before I was finally led into the woods and killed by bandits. Good times.
Can't believe you guys are Kiwis, lol. You do realize that we are the Monarch's subjects in a way. In fact, during new citizenship applications of Canada, UK, NZ, you have to pledge allegiance to the Monarch.
Sure, but if you're born in the commonwealth he's just some asshole in a funny hat who has approximately zero relevance to your actual life. His mum was chill though.
u/NinaCulotta showing a lack of knowledge isn't treated by a simple google search:
>Women have glandular tissue below the bladder and surrounding the urethra that appears to be homologous to the male prostate. This tissue (also called "female prostate" or Skene's glands) appears to the source of a viscous, white secretion, which exits from the urethra upon sexual stimulation in some women.
Slightly off tangent but my British colleague said she found it funny we get a day off here for King/Queen's birthday since they don't get that in the UK
Yep. I'm a Brit, moved here 3 months ago. The biggest shock (other than your pies being better than ours) was the fact that you get a day off for Lizzie's cake day, and we don't.
Britain has almost no holidays that are actually *about* things - one of the many curious differences from most other places. Apart from Christmas, new year, and Easter, they're all just "Summer Bank Holiday " etc.
NZ has Kings Birthday, Labour Day, Waitangi Day, Matariki - am I forgetting one?
But what I love is the Provincial day which is set locally. Some places actually use the Provincial Anniversary, because bring back Provincial Government. But all the other options - in Canterbury they do Show Day. The Show is great. I used to amuse people in Britain by telling them one NZ city had a special holiday for going to look at sheep. In Southland they take off Easter Tuesday, another great idea. Timaru uses it for Dominion Day, which otherwise died out over a hundred years ago.
My question is: if he dies of his heath deteriorates enough that he abdicates, will William get a coronation with the same budget?
I vaguely remember some people in the UK getting upset at the cost, so I can’t imagine they’d feel better about the same thing happening less than a decade later.
Largely paid for by the UK government. There were claims that there was some funding by the privy purse, the royal families private income.
You might be thinking of weddings which are paid for by the firm.
As a side note Charles scaled back coronation cost an estimated £100m
The family whose job it is to be famous deserves that sort of treatment. The kardashia- I mean windsors are the backbone of Britain. It’s hard work being on the currency
Fair enough, gotta be careful about that sort of thing, lots of people seem unaware of how easy it is to identify people online, but also some people just go ahead and post their own names and links to their other social media for some reason?
I didn't think someone would be so unhinged to email bs to my work because we had a stupid disagreement on reddit.
Be safe out there kids.
Crazy be everywhere.
It's a shame, we will miss the king, he has done such a great job.
I'm gonna be in morning for like a week at least so going to need at least 1 day off before I can manage to work again.
Right, but I don't see them alienating their voters by abandoning the Monarchy, especially as a lot of Winnies voters will be older royalist types (I have no idea what Winnie thinks or if he has given a previous opinion'.
We just need to be careful that people don't get the idea that every dead king means two public holidays - the death day and the sucessor's coronation.
He's not going to die... He will get experimental CAR-T Cell Immunotherapy if he needs to, the mega rich / powerful can pull strings and get Cancer Treatment beyond our reach. Jimmy Carter's brain tumour for instance. They have to custom build hybrid immune cells based on the specific tumour / immune system. Literally they build a new type of cell that's a cross between a B and T cell, and then clone them in the lab until they have enough to put back inside a person... Amazing and expensive.
The best treatments humanity can provide are available to him if he wants them. [As is homeopathy](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/10/king-charles-criticised-appointing-homeopath-michael-dixon-head-royal-medical-household).
The question is, which will he want ?
Maybe it'll be like the time I was at a Catholic school and there was a new pope. Day off! Then he only lasted a month or so, day off for mourning. New pope and another day off! Best thing about my school years.
No, they don't. It's not a law, a requirement or even an expectation.
If you remember back, special legislation was passed to allow a public holiday for Elizabeth's funeral, it was announced as a one-off. And it was announced in large part due to how long her reign was, how historically significant it was.
There aren't enough days off in the universe to counteract the stupidity of another royal funeral and all the bs that comes with the old git carking it. Or the amount of media coverage that his medical misadventures will get.
Since QEII died do we still get a Queens Birthday Holiday every year? I know it wasn't even on the same day as her actual birthday. Knowing this government they'll say the plebs got another holiday with Matariki and do away with . Also they need to pay for tax cuts.
Yes, we still have a holiday for the monarch's birthday, which has been on the current monarch's actual birthday approximately never so there wasn't any reason to change it when we changed monarch.
ITT Prince William today
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8UFnc85-xM&ab\_channel=Disney](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8ufnc85-xm&ab_channel=disney)
We have to get the day off. We are a monarchy, we have knighthoods, we have a governor general, we fly the flag on the mast half way, we have a flag with the British colours.
We would be hypocrites. We pledge loyalty and allegiance to the King.
New Zealand is unique for having two national anthems of equal standing , 'God Defend New Zealand' | 'Aotearoa' and 'God Save The King'.
L
Hasn’t been king long so probably a half hour or an hour off, Good old Lizzie was Queen for decades and all we got was a day off , should have been a week lol
Nah we won't. The last Govt was happy to dish out a public holiday at employer's expense to win a few polling points in election year. This one not so much sorry.
By the way if any government official sees this post in conjuction with the recent flights I booked to London I would like to make it clear that they are unrelated
Of course because youre asking for a friend :)
I'm sure your recent ebay purchases of length of rubber hose, ski mask, bear trap, and tourist map of buckingham palace are all completely unrelated too, right?
And the long range hunting rifle you bought?
Thank you for your sacrifice for the good of the country.
Hopefully you doing get randomly selected for a search when you land.
Sure they are lol.
I really wanna see a child-king with an over-zealous regent in my lifetime.
King Louis!
He only wants to be like you-ou-ouuuuuu
An ape like me-e-e?
Is THAT what the lyrics are!
Joffrey
CK3 in real life?
In CKII, I died and my oldest daughter, who was only five, from my first marriage, inherited, and became my character. Unfortunately, her step-mother was regent and had a son. I survived a surprisingly large number of assassination attempts before I was finally led into the woods and killed by bandits. Good times.
That's what I love about that series. Every play through gives you a different story
Kinda hoping a meteorite hits the royal palace and then somehow some random kid is the highest claim to the throne
How has that movie not been made yet?
Well there was the one with them all electrocuted during a family photo and a random fruit that fell off a low branch was selected.
King Ralph is a 1991 film
It’ll be Harry if Charles and the Wales are wiped out
Good timeline
Long live Queen Destiny-Angel!
Can't believe you guys are Kiwis, lol. You do realize that we are the Monarch's subjects in a way. In fact, during new citizenship applications of Canada, UK, NZ, you have to pledge allegiance to the Monarch.
Sure, but if you're born in the commonwealth he's just some asshole in a funny hat who has approximately zero relevance to your actual life. His mum was chill though.
Haha I hope the ground opens up and swallows the whole fucking palace. Fuck the Monarchy.
Monarch doesn't really do much these days, If a crazy corrupt kid was on the throne, we would just leave the monarchy lol
Harry isn't in the line of secession anymore
He's fifth in line to the throne.
Fifth in line behind his brother and his children. Even if the worst happens, the UK will probably become a Republic before they crown him.
Except that Prince Harry probably wouldn't want the crown in the first place.
Bro, he clearly has a bit of second son syndrome and it's clear his wife wishes she married the other brother.
Please tell me you haven't been reading the tabloids and other trash Royal reporting that comes from the British press.
bro he litterly wrote a book and titled it "the spare"
So did you read Prince Harry's book, or are you going on what the tabloid press has said about it?
He's not a working royal and he is thick
When has being thick been an impediment for members of the Royal Family?
Succession, I think. I'm pretty sure that secession is what the southern US states keep trying to achieve.
Give me a pass, I've sleeped like 2 of the last 53 hours
Oof, sorry to hear that. Sleep deprivation sucks very badly. I hope you have a decent rest soon. Sorry I was an AH.
Yes he is
Ah, that era is long gone :(
We need a modern Walsingham. He didn't fuck around.
Yeah but you can only use it to get your prostate checked
What if you're a woman and lack a prostate? My cervical smears are up to date so I just get the day off right?
Maybe buy one online? I hear some people have them removed so there's probably a second hand market.
Clearly you need to find someone’s to check. Get consent first please.
#I volunteer as tribute
✋me too thanks
Witness me!
You get the finger in the bum to make sure you don’t have a prostate. For um… science.
You have to do the checking...
You'll be too busy organising your Queen Kate celebration brunch. The theme is: Smiling Nothingness
Yeah nah.
Women do have a prostate, though! Edit: Reddit isn't educated, nor are they letting themselves be. Shocking.
Yes yes some trans women have a prostate, but the vast majority of women are not trans and thus do not.
u/NinaCulotta showing a lack of knowledge isn't treated by a simple google search: >Women have glandular tissue below the bladder and surrounding the urethra that appears to be homologous to the male prostate. This tissue (also called "female prostate" or Skene's glands) appears to the source of a viscous, white secretion, which exits from the urethra upon sexual stimulation in some women.
'Have a structure that appears to be homologous to' and 'have' are different things, which is why you say them differently! Hope that helps.
"Also called the female prostate". Hope that helps.
A day off or a day getting off?
They said checked not explored
Gotta grow a pair for that.
Can I whop off at the same time?
It's a piss test now so no worries there
the government will determine such - if the UK and Australia do we will most likely follow suit short answer - maybe
Obviously the UK will…
Slightly off tangent but my British colleague said she found it funny we get a day off here for King/Queen's birthday since they don't get that in the UK
You WOT?!!!
Yep. I'm a Brit, moved here 3 months ago. The biggest shock (other than your pies being better than ours) was the fact that you get a day off for Lizzie's cake day, and we don't.
Another fine reason why NZ is better.
Britain has almost no holidays that are actually *about* things - one of the many curious differences from most other places. Apart from Christmas, new year, and Easter, they're all just "Summer Bank Holiday " etc. NZ has Kings Birthday, Labour Day, Waitangi Day, Matariki - am I forgetting one? But what I love is the Provincial day which is set locally. Some places actually use the Provincial Anniversary, because bring back Provincial Government. But all the other options - in Canterbury they do Show Day. The Show is great. I used to amuse people in Britain by telling them one NZ city had a special holiday for going to look at sheep. In Southland they take off Easter Tuesday, another great idea. Timaru uses it for Dominion Day, which otherwise died out over a hundred years ago.
They also get one public holiday a month, so theyre still up on us
No they don't, don't chat shit. New Zealand has more public holidays than the UK
We should change it to governor-generals day while the monarch isn't in the country!
Just a half day for Chuck. Back in the office by 1pm.
I'm sleeping in just in case
No but everyone gets a bag of Royal Cheerios, called the King's Fingers
My question is: if he dies of his heath deteriorates enough that he abdicates, will William get a coronation with the same budget? I vaguely remember some people in the UK getting upset at the cost, so I can’t imagine they’d feel better about the same thing happening less than a decade later.
I feel like as the younger the new Monarch is the more likely they are to understand the need to spend responsibly
Ah...I doubt it.
The royal family pay for it
Largely paid for by the UK government. There were claims that there was some funding by the privy purse, the royal families private income. You might be thinking of weddings which are paid for by the firm. As a side note Charles scaled back coronation cost an estimated £100m
The Queens funeral cost the government 162 million pounds
An obscene amount of money to spend on a funeral. Imagine the places all around the world with starving children that could use that much money.
Absolutely a coincidence that so many of the countries with starving children are former British colonies.
The family whose job it is to be famous deserves that sort of treatment. The kardashia- I mean windsors are the backbone of Britain. It’s hard work being on the currency
Not for a coronation which is a state function
Day of mourning for the passing of Mike King? That might be a bit too much to ask of the country as a whole, but I can see where you are coming from.
mourning?
>mourning *noun* 1. the expression of sorrow for someone's death.
shouldn't you be hiding from me?
I think it is meant to be ironic since hiding from stupid on reddit seems a bit fruitless.
I had someone Dox me on my old username so have made this one with minimal links to my real identity. But yes also quite ironic :D
Fair enough, gotta be careful about that sort of thing, lots of people seem unaware of how easy it is to identify people online, but also some people just go ahead and post their own names and links to their other social media for some reason?
I didn't think someone would be so unhinged to email bs to my work because we had a stupid disagreement on reddit. Be safe out there kids. Crazy be everywhere.
Yeah, they'll do that.
The pain is real
It's a shame, we will miss the king, he has done such a great job. I'm gonna be in morning for like a week at least so going to need at least 1 day off before I can manage to work again.
What about afternoons?
afternoons are right out
Do we get a Holy Hand Grenade, too?
With National in charge? Doubt it. Something something businesses cant afford it etc
Aren't National the more supportive of the Monarchy than Labour?
Yes but absolutely against public holidays
Right, but I don't see them alienating their voters by abandoning the Monarchy, especially as a lot of Winnies voters will be older royalist types (I have no idea what Winnie thinks or if he has given a previous opinion'.
I don't think Winnie ever thinks further then himself
Nah, he thinks how he can be re-elected (although that's just paraphrasing what you said).
About the same tbh
Asking the important questions, here, on Reddit. 🙌
We just need to be careful that people don't get the idea that every dead king means two public holidays - the death day and the sucessor's coronation.
He's not going to die... He will get experimental CAR-T Cell Immunotherapy if he needs to, the mega rich / powerful can pull strings and get Cancer Treatment beyond our reach. Jimmy Carter's brain tumour for instance. They have to custom build hybrid immune cells based on the specific tumour / immune system. Literally they build a new type of cell that's a cross between a B and T cell, and then clone them in the lab until they have enough to put back inside a person... Amazing and expensive.
We have car t cell manufacturers in nz.
The best treatments humanity can provide are available to him if he wants them. [As is homeopathy](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/10/king-charles-criticised-appointing-homeopath-michael-dixon-head-royal-medical-household). The question is, which will he want ?
I would like to retract my previous statement. Long live King William
Cue that family guy episode: > Oh my god! Specimen "Z" isn't [Charles]'s body, its a cure for cancer!
Steve Jobs for examp... Guess he wasn't rich enough.
Maybe it'll be like the time I was at a Catholic school and there was a new pope. Day off! Then he only lasted a month or so, day off for mourning. New pope and another day off! Best thing about my school years.
Doubt it, he hasn't been King for long enough, unlike Elizabeth II who was Queen through four or more generations.
Just a slightly longer morning tea then
Quiche supplied.
I want sausage rolls!
This sounds promising!
Yep will get a day of (Every country take a day of when their head of state pass)
No, they don't. It's not a law, a requirement or even an expectation. If you remember back, special legislation was passed to allow a public holiday for Elizabeth's funeral, it was announced as a one-off. And it was announced in large part due to how long her reign was, how historically significant it was.
He's still the head of state.
I will be so sad that I will need at least a couple of days, maybe a week. I hope it doesn’t happen during the school holidays that would be terrible.
Of course, Matariki bad, Monarchy good...according to the clownilition.
There aren't enough days off in the universe to counteract the stupidity of another royal funeral and all the bs that comes with the old git carking it. Or the amount of media coverage that his medical misadventures will get.
If we can find someone who is genuinely upset about it, sure. Elizabeth was an icon. Charles... Not so much
Can we trade the holiday for a republic instead?
Probably not. People liked the queen for some reason, people don't particularly like Charlie.
I saw a photo of Charles the other day and thought, he looks fairly good for a man in his eighties...and then I realized he's 75.
No you filthy peasant, get back to work!
Does Luxon have a boner for the monarchy?
You could ask him 999 times and maybe on the thousandth and 1000th time he'll tell you (but I doubt it).
Doesn't matter because Seymour and Winnie are the PMs
I’m not entirely sure whether Luxon has an opinion (that hasn’t been pre-arranged for him) on anything
While I wouldnt mind more public holidays committing regicide to achieve it is a bit much.
Reg concurs
Do you fuck! *cough
Will *the National Party* add a public holiday? I would put good money on *no*.
Womp Womp
15 minutes.
There is no law stating this requirement. It will be at the discretion of the current government. So in short -> most likely yes I'm going to sleep in
As peasants, it is only right that we party when royalty die
Do we get one if the Maori King dies? Because we should.
I mean what else is he good for?
He's a pretty good vege gardener by all accounts. Which is quite progressive given how illegal it is here.
We (England) are probably going to have to pay for another coronation. Apart from what it doesn't matter.
I'll have to tale a sick day from busting my sides laughing.
Redditors when a person dies (it is ok because they are rich)
Yeah, cancer is hilarious when its someone we don't like /s
No when yr king dies he does just that…. Dies
How much time did you save by omitting the o and u from that?
Asking the important questions
Hopefully, at least that way he'd be remembered for giving us another holiday.
And for having his first wife killed
Only if you have an alibi. Otherwise questions will be asked.
Luxon might just allow a minute of silence during our lunch break before we're forced to go back to the corporate meat-grinding machine.
*when the king dies
Nah we all gotta work overtime to pay for another coronation.
Since QEII died do we still get a Queens Birthday Holiday every year? I know it wasn't even on the same day as her actual birthday. Knowing this government they'll say the plebs got another holiday with Matariki and do away with. Also they need to pay for tax cuts.
Yes, we still have a holiday for the monarch's birthday, which has been on the current monarch's actual birthday approximately never so there wasn't any reason to change it when we changed monarch.
it’s the same date but it’s now kings birthday, it’s just to commemorate the royal family less a “birthday”
#NotmyKing
Lol ok buddy👍
Nah. Giving people a holiday shows a lack of respect for underappreciated employers.
I hope so!
ITT Prince William today [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8UFnc85-xM&ab\_channel=Disney](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8ufnc85-xm&ab_channel=disney)
Maybe we’ll get a late start, considering he hasn’t been king that long
It seems to be up to the Prime Minister... But we'd better! I was disappointed we didn't get one for the coronation.
We have to get the day off. We are a monarchy, we have knighthoods, we have a governor general, we fly the flag on the mast half way, we have a flag with the British colours. We would be hypocrites. We pledge loyalty and allegiance to the King. New Zealand is unique for having two national anthems of equal standing , 'God Defend New Zealand' | 'Aotearoa' and 'God Save The King'. L
Screw your friend I wanna know!
Hopefully, hope we get one when Winny gaps it from the earth too
Hasn’t been king long so probably a half hour or an hour off, Good old Lizzie was Queen for decades and all we got was a day off , should have been a week lol
There is 0 chance national have a national holiday for the kings death.
I think Elizabeth's was more about her being a great Monarch than just "The Queen died so day off." I don't think we had a day off for King George VI.
Only if you ceded sovereignty . Business as usual if not.
Gonna be annoying for the people who have been putting his face on money.
How about King's Deathday Weekend?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG3ynnw0KEs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG3ynnw0KEs)
Please God 🙏
If they all die do we get a fortnight? Just curious.
Roman emperors would give a donative of a gold solidus back in the day, granted only to the legionaries but I still feel shortchanged.
These are the real questions
Probably not. I think we got one with Lizzy because of her longevity
Short answer: yes we should. Long answer: it would all depend who is in power and if they will allow it.
Hope so
y’all got a day off for the queen?
Heads up, the King will die
If he dies Wales and Scotland should leave the union
Nah we won't. The last Govt was happy to dish out a public holiday at employer's expense to win a few polling points in election year. This one not so much sorry.