Geri ❤️

On 8 April 2013, former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, died of a stroke at the Ritz Hotel, London, at the age of 87.

And that day is today. You may dance a merry jig and drink a small beer, good citizens of England xx

Woot Woot

Apr 8 at 5:32pmWeb
Show threadPatrick HadfieldApr 8

@Geri Elvis Costello - Tramp The Dirt Down.

To celebrate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi_YQul7XXk

Tramp the Dirt Down

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Show threadSarah WApr 8
@patrickhadfield @Geri
Brilliant song.
Show threadGeri ❤️Apr 8

@Sarahw @patrickhadfield never heard it before, not being a big fan of Elvis, but its agitated pop is wonderful.

He's a 'tricksy' lyricsist

Thank you, Patrick xx

Show threadPatrick HadfieldApr 8
@Geri @Sarahw I love his lyrics - I would say "clever" - but I know what you mean! ;)
Show threadAlexanderVIApr 8
@Geri feels like her ghost is still a-haunting.....
Show threadEstarriol, lucozade dragonApr 8

@AlexanderVI @Geri

her ghost is PM in the UK.

Show threadRichard AyresApr 8
@Geri ding dong
Show threadRichard AyresApr 8

@Geri

Tramp the dirt down - Elvis Costello
https://youtu.be/pi_YQul7XXk?si=4i9LL027js9hceya

Tramp the Dirt Down

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Show threadGeri ❤️Apr 8
@rayres my good friend @patrickhadfield had already mentioned this tune xx
Show threadRichard AyresApr 9
@Geri @patrickhadfield ah - fediverse and its non-deterministic reply arrival times
Show threadFiona  Apr 8

@rayres @Geri I wanted to post that one, but I guess I’ll have to go for this classic instead:

https://youtu.be/ZGyDMRKDaSc?t=88

Put a stake through her heart and garlic ’round her neck, to make sure she’ never come’ back!Isn’t that a pretty horrible thing to say, when her funeral is going on right now?Too bad! TOO bad!

View from Scotland on Thatcher's funeral

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Show threadFranchescaApr 8
@Geri What about Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland? (actually, she almost became a casualty of The Troubles, also at a hotel)
Show threadMonica RooneyApr 8

@Geri I’m with this woman

https://archive.org/details/ascottishwomanonthedeathofthatcher

A Scottish Woman On The Death Of Thatcher : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A Scottish woman reacts to the news that Margaret Thatcher has died.Too bad, too bad

Internet Archive
Show threadSarah WApr 8
@monicarooney @Geri
Yay!
Show threadGideon HallettApr 8
@Geri I celebrated by rushing out to get a pint safe in the knowledge that the Milk Snatcher was no more.
Show threadGeri ❤️Apr 8
@gmh I'm a vegan but I take your point xx
Show threadJ Paul GibsonApr 8
@Geri in 1984 i almost cried when i heard she nearly died in the brighton bombing. in 2013 i almost laughed when i heard of her demise. what changed in the years between… not her, but me. i left NI to go to University, where i met people who taught me to think for myself, and made friends with many who did not judge me for my ignorance. what i learned from them is worth more to me than what i learned from academic achievement. this is why i believe in free higher education.
Show threadGeri ❤️Apr 8
@jpaulgibson she caused the deaths of 1,000s of people English and Argentinians
Show threadPlague Island ResistanceApr 8
@Geri I pissed on her grave once. 😊
Show threadGeri ❤️Apr 8
@JoeGrowling good man, I think there are bars around it now. No matter the kegel exercises, I could never get any accuracy lool 🤣
Show threadAndy FletcherApr 8
@Geri @JoeGrowling they need to put a big rock on the grave to ensure she stays in it.
Show threadHedgewizard 🐈Apr 8

@X31Andy @Geri @JoeGrowling

Billy Bragg was a regular where I worked in West Dorset. When she died he said "I've made an offer to Conservative HQ to conduct the funeral service personally. By her own doctrine they should be bound to accept the lowest bid, so I've said I'll do it for a fiver. I'll even throw in the cardboard box"

Show threadGeri ❤️Apr 8
@Hedgewizard @X31Andy @JoeGrowling lool
Show threadPlague Island ResistanceApr 9
@Geri https://www.reddit.com/r/me_irlgbt/s/sj3uk5WZ1u
Show threadGeri ❤️Apr 9
@JoeGrowling oh, where is this? Never mind the wee, I think acid dissolves concrete? Xx
Show threadPlague Island ResistanceApr 9
@Geri https://maps.app.goo.gl/jaKh5tczHtQ8BZnE9
Bevor Sie zu Google Maps weitergehen

Show threadGeri ❤️Apr 9

@JoeGrowling might require two visits

Suspect lots of cameras everywhere

X

Show threadMartin RustApr 8
@Geri What's it good for to spit on the dead. She did have moments she deserves be celebrated for. When I, just a couple of years ago, first heard and saw her speech at the UN assembly in 1989, I didn't believe my ears and eyes.
"It is life itself—human life, the innumerable species of our planet—that we wantonly destroy. It is life itself that we must battle to preserve."
https://youtu.be/VnAzoDtwCBg?si=-DuwTS6bwe_bTisr
#MargaretThatcher
Margaret Thatcher - UN General Assembly Climate Change Speech (1989)

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Show threadGeri ❤️Apr 8
@martinrust you write your post. I'll write mine, love. 1,000s died because of her
Show threadstony karkApr 8
@Geri damn. A lot of people who die from strokes don’t suffer before they pass, it’s just “lights out” before the forever nap. I guess there is no god after all.😕
Show threadRobin BartonApr 8
@Geri Thatcher and Reagan had a child and it was called Trump
Show threadOberst EnzianApr 8
@Geri Fuck that dead crow. Glad she’s dead. Too bad President Trump and his band of defective mutants haven’t joined her in Hell yet.
Show threadSarah WApr 8
@Geri
Still dead 😁
Show threadTim BApr 8
@Geri It was an early 40th prezzie for me 😆 
Show threadMarcus Marcius MarcellusApr 8
@Geri Felicitations to our English cousins! And I’d suggest, if I may, that a fair few non-English people might wish to join in the merry jig.
Show threadGeri ❤️Apr 8
@marcas 💃
Show threadMarcus Marcius MarcellusApr 8
@Geri If I might be permitted to lapse into the native language my family assiduously forgot five or so generations back: Dár comrádaithe Sasanacha, is do gach duine atá meas aige air féin, lá saortha ón cailleach sona daoibh!
Show threadGeri ❤️Apr 8
@marcas erm. ....
Show threadMarcus Marcius MarcellusApr 9
@Geri Oh, alright: "Happy Liberation From The Witch Day to you, our English comrades and everybody with any self-respect". An ndéanfaidh sé sin an jab?
Show threadRobin AdamsApr 8

@Geri Hefner - The Day That Thatcher Dies

https://youtu.be/CxgsW57u2Vs

The Day That Thatcher Dies

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Show thread🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦Apr 8
@Geri I already have daydreams of doing a Frank Underwood on Trump's forgotten grave.
Show thread‍🌬️Apr 8
@Geri yay 🥳🍻
Show threadDean F.Apr 9
@Geri Fun Boy Three wrote a song about Thatcher: "The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Aslyum."
Show threadFrans Super 🇺🇦🇵🇸🍋[FCKPVV]Apr 9
@Geri She was a conservative cow, a reaganesk and trumpesk moron and a very bad prime minister. But as of her abdication there have been 'leaders' in the UK that have done so much worse than her. John Major, David Cameron, to name a few. And wasps that still buzz around the hive's entrance: Farage, the bootlicker.