They should stuff her and let us throw milk cartons at the old boot.

She's not, at all, well

They may as well go ahead and put a dance floor on top of the burial plot.

Margaret Thatcher was the best prime minister since Churchill.

Anyone who blames her for killing off British industry has clearly forgotten what it was like before she was elected. The UK economy was heading down the toilet in a big way and had been since the sixties. She was like a doctor who amputated your leg because it had gangrene and saved your life. Most people would understand what happened and thank the doctor for saving their life but some tards forget that they had gangrene when they arrived at the hospital and blame the doc for them losing their leg. Thatcher did what had to be done and no one else had the guts to do.

/Not sarcasm.
//Or a troll.

I didn't realize until I RTFA this time that a state funeral is part of an elaborate protocol of funeral types and not merely an acknowledgement that somebody important died.

TFA: Both the Queen Mother and Princess Diana had a Royal Ceremonial funeral, a slightly less formal affair. And there were four non-Royal State funerals in the 19th Century - Nelson, Wellington, Palmerston and Gladstone.

RabidDog: They may as well go ahead and put a dance floor on top of the burial plot.

I hope they remember to put a urinal there too.

slackist: RabidDog: They may as well go ahead and put a dance floor on top of the burial plot.

I hope they remember to put a urinal there too.

Oh, no need for a urinal.

She should have a state funeral, and the it should be organised and run by the lowest international bidder.

Free 'the' with every sentence. Today only the.

How many important Prime Ministers have there been in the past century? That's not the same as asking your favorites. For example, I consider Nixon an important president and a bad one.

Hmm, I see all the Socialists in Britain are totalfarkers. Well, that's ok, once the Tories get back into power, you can find another place to live.

mikemoto: Hmm, I see all the Socialists in Britain are totalfarkers. Well, that's ok, once the Tories get back into power, you can find another place to live.

Says a Texan? Whut?

Margaret "Norwegian Blue" Thatcher?

I thought England was into "green" funerals (whatever that means).

Gavino: slackist: RabidDog: They may as well go ahead and put a dance floor on top of the burial plot.

I hope they remember to put a urinal there too.

Oh, no need for a urinal.

She should have a state funeral, and the it should be organised and run by the lowest international bidder.

I'll do it for 20p. I'll throw petrol all over the scabby corpse then charge people 20p to put the fire out with their own urine.

JesusIsNowBlind: then charge people 20p to put the fire out with their own urine.

not a sound investment

British satirical news quiz Mock The Week on this:

Link (new window)

Its a measure of how effective Thatcher was that Labour* had to adopt many of her policies (or at least promise to leave them alone) in order to get elected.


/ a bit oversimplified but true in the essentials
// * non-USA spelling just for you LimeyFarkers.

Feel free to hate her, but she

(a) was one of the three (Reagan, John Paul II) that were most responsible for the end of Soviet communism, and

(b) was nearly single-handedly responsible for breaking the stranglehold of unions on the UK economy.

HERO.

ZAZ: How many important Prime Ministers have there been in the past century?

Churchill >> Thatcher

Tuirns out, she's only "Mostly Dead".

Couldn't she just get a "County Funeral"?

Glasgowsfinest:AM
They should stuff her and let us throw milk cartons at the old boot.




Dammit. Not another Thatcher is Satan thread. Too many brain dead socialists on fark. Well, God bless her.

RabidDog: They may as well go ahead and put a dance floor on top of the burial plot.



/Got nothing

Well, she will be soon. She's very ill.

bronyaur1: Feel free to hate her, but she

(a) was one of the three four (Reagan, John Paul II, David Hasselfhoff) that were most responsible for the end of Soviet communism, and

(b) was nearly single-handedly responsible for breaking the stranglehold of unions on the UK economy.

HERO.

FTFY

zz9: Margaret Thatcher was the best prime minister since Churchill.

Anyone who blames her for killing off British industry has clearly forgotten what it was like before she was elected. The UK economy was heading down the toilet in a big way and had been since the sixties. She was like a doctor who amputated your leg because it had gangrene and saved your life. Most people would understand what happened and thank the doctor for saving their life but some tards forget that they had gangrene when they arrived at the hospital and blame the doc for them losing their leg. Thatcher did what had to be done and no one else had the guts to do.

It was more like frostbite on the toes but the unions refused to have the foot removed so she went ahead and took the whole leg.

princebaldric: Dammit. Not another Thatcher is Satan thread. Too many brain dead socialists on fark.

They're nostalgic for the Winter of Discontent

Grigor_Chuk: bronyaur1: Feel free to hate her, but she

(a) was one of the three four (Reagan, John Paul II, David Hasselfhoff) that were most responsible for the end of Soviet communism, and

(b) was nearly single-handedly responsible for breaking the stranglehold of unions on the UK economy.

HERO.

FTFY

I'd argue the man who was "most responsible for the end of Soviet communism" was Joseph Stalin. I'm not sure that Lenin's model would have been successful, but Stalin's series of "five-year plans" were a disaster. It was a nation doomed to failure. Gorbachev tried to modernize it enough to last, and couldn't pull it off. China saw this long before anyone else and made adjustments to survive.

You can say that Reagan and the boys did give the Soviet Union that final shove that pushed them over the edge (maybe), but it was going down regardless of who was in there.

She was delicious.

blacksho89: Well, she will be soon. She's very ill.

I think I'll go for a walk

jake_lex: I'd argue the man who was "most responsible for the end of Soviet communism" was Joseph Stalin. I'm not sure that Lenin's model would have been successful, but Stalin's series of "five-year plans" were a disaster. It was a nation doomed to failure. Gorbachev tried to modernize it enough to last, and couldn't pull it off. China saw this long before anyone else and made adjustments to survive.

I realize you're probably talking about China's economic liberalization (such as it is) since 1979, but please read up on the "Great Leap Forward", which started in 1958, five years after Stalin's death. China did not modernize because they saw the Soviet Union had failed; they made plenty of mistakes on their own that resulted in millions of people starving to death. And economic liberalization started in 1979 because by that time Mao had died and they had gotten rid of his closest cronies in power.

Can someone show me where Margaret Thatcher's brain is? This thread, despite subby's Python reference, is in serious need of win.

Game With Stones: Can someone show me where Margaret Thatcher's brain is? This thread, despite subby's Python reference, is in serious need of win.

Her brain isn't that hard to find. Her hearth, on the other hand, would probably only show up on an electron-microscope.

She was coughin' up blood last night...

Cornwell: Game With Stones: Can someone show me where Margaret Thatcher's brain is? This thread, despite subby's Python reference, is in serious need of win.

Her brain isn't that hard to find. Her hearth, on the other hand, would probably only show up on an electron-microscope.

I'd imagine her fireplace is in her house somewhere.

This is a late parrot: She's not, at all, well

Comma, much?

zz9+1

I'd ask my Brit friends what was up with all the Thatch-Hate, and they'd say "It's not what she accomplished (which they considered good) but how she did it".

Oh well. Hopes she gets a great send off.

Wouldn't this make a better photoshop thread than anything else?

/goes to the religion and fattie threads for a proper ten minute hate fix

zz9 Margaret Thatcher was the best prime minister since Churchill.

Anyone who blames her for killing off British industry has clearly forgotten what it was like before she was elected. The UK economy was heading down the toilet in a big way and had been since the sixties. She was like a doctor who amputated your leg because it had gangrene and saved your life. Most people would understand what happened and thank the doctor for saving their life but some tards forget that they had gangrene when they arrived at the hospital and blame the doc for them losing their leg. Thatcher did what had to be done and no one else had the guts to do.

/Not sarcasm.
//Or a troll.

Like shutting down the only manufacturing corporation that turned a million $ profits in it's first year of operation and it's 2nd. Oh and it also helped to curtail violence in Northern Ireland, created over 2,000 jobs in NI AND in England (not to mention it took those people off of welfare), as well as bailed other companies out too because it used local some local suppliers as well. Plus after she shut it down, all investors were paid back almost .99 cents on the dollar that they invested.



Yeah, great woman of vision there.

BTW, what British cars there are still owned by UK interests?

Hmmm....am I the only one who, before finishing the headline, thought that it was the Labour Parties funeral that was being arranged? It seems they're doing worse than the Republicans this year.

Faddy: It was more like frostbite on the toes but the unions refused to have the foot removed so she went ahead and took the whole leg.

Bravo.

Imagine what the country would be like if the (not-)working classes weren't on life support.

Claude Ballse: zz9 Margaret Thatcher was the best prime minister since Churchill.

Anyone who blames her for killing off British industry has clearly forgotten what it was like before she was elected. The UK economy was heading down the toilet in a big way and had been since the sixties. She was like a doctor who amputated your leg because it had gangrene and saved your life. Most people would understand what happened and thank the doctor for saving their life but some tards forget that they had gangrene when they arrived at the hospital and blame the doc for them losing their leg. Thatcher did what had to be done and no one else had the guts to do.

/Not sarcasm.
//Or a troll.

Like shutting down the only manufacturing corporation that turned a million $ profits in it's first year of operation and it's 2nd. Oh and it also helped to curtail violence in Northern Ireland, created over 2,000 jobs in NI AND in England (not to mention it took those people off of welfare), as well as bailed other companies out too because it used local some local suppliers as well. Plus after she shut it down, all investors were paid back almost .99 cents on the dollar that they invested.



Yeah, great woman of vision there.

BTW, what British cars there are still owned by UK interests?

Yeah... don't let the whole fraud investigation case spoil your pleasantly painted image of the Delorean or anything.

"Ninepence".

This is a late parrot: She's not, at all, well

"Busy day?"
"Busy! I just spent four hours burying the ex-Prime Minister."
"Four hours to busy an ex-Prime Minister?"
"Yes! She wouldn't keep still, wriggling about and howling her head off."
"Oh - she wasn't dead, then?"
"Well, no, no, but she's not at all a well ex-Prime Minister, so as we were going away for a fortnight's holiday, I thought I'd better just bury her to be on the safe side."
"Quite right, you don't wan to come back from Sorrento to a dead ex-Prime Minister. It'd be so anticlimactic."

princebaldric: Dammit. Not another Thatcher is Satan thread. Too many brain dead socialists on fark. Well, God bless her.

Nothing brain dead about this socialist, my loony friend. I had the sense to up and leave the island before they vote Lord Snooty in.

/couldn't care less