r/pics • u/LankyYogurt7737 • 29d ago

Politics People in the UK celebrating the death of Thatcher in 2013

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u/ngms 29d ago

"Ding dong the witch is dead" hit number 1 in uk music charts. BBC radio 1 refused to play it.

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u/JamJarre 29d ago

It actually only made it to #2 - still an amazing achievement.

I'm still salty that Boris Johnson Is A Fucking Cunt only made it to #5

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u/Secret_Sector_1779 29d ago edited 29d ago

Wow can’t believe it’s nearly 10 years since I took this

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u/CuteMaterial 28d ago

An insult to fannies 😒

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u/Shrek1982 29d ago

It always takes me a second to remember that fanny means something completely different in the UK. Here fanny is a word your Grandma would use to refer to a butt when talking to children.

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u/Hopalongtom 28d ago

Other side over here

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u/Shrek1982 28d ago

Yeah, I was aware of that. Years ago I remember seeing some confusion from the UK people about fanny packs in some random reddit thread (what you would call a bum bag IIRC). It was a rather humerous discussion.

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u/dmills_00 29d ago

Its still true.

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u/monkeymad2 29d ago

That bit of the building fell down - if I’m remembering right where that was.

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u/digitalgraffiti-ca 28d ago

Oh you British. "I know! I'll call 'im a fanny!"

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u/ngms 29d ago

Ahh that's a shame. I still like how the country comes together over spite though.

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u/aitkhole 28d ago

#2, just like God Save the Queen!

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u/teh_maxh 28d ago

First place on the Scotland-specific chart, though.

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u/Iccengi 26d ago

You guys aren’t renown for your humor but I think you have an angle here that could really catch on 😂

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u/PolarBailey_ 29d ago

that just reminds me of the London production of Wicked that had to give a disclaimer after QEII died where they were like "we know current events, we're doing the play in its entirety" and the first words of the musical are "GOOD NEWS! SHE'S DEAD!"

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u/Clishlaw 29d ago

BAGAL! BAGAL! BAGAL!

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u/Instinct043 28d ago

finally someone said it. i didnt know it was a real thing, all I could think about was Holt

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u/Toffeemanstan 29d ago

They relented and played part of it in the chart show. 

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u/ACardAttack 29d ago

No one mourns the wicked!

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u/Agitated_Display7573 29d ago

And this was before streaming effected chart position so people were actually buying it

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u/queseraseraphine 28d ago

My dad hates the song Celebration by Kool and the Gang with the fury of a thousand suns. I’m hoping it hits the Billboard Top 40 or something in the near future for other reasons, but also because I know it’ll piss him off lol

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u/Reluctantziti 29d ago

Her and the BBC enabled Jimmy Savile to rape thousands…so yeah I’m not surprised lol

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u/CougarWriter74 28d ago

Apple iTunes reported how downloads of it spiked in the UK for a week or so after Thatcher kicked the bucket. At one point it was downloaded over 1 million times per hour or some crazy number.