|
Holy poo poo, the BBC have a livestream of the coffin, you get a few seconds of shuffling past it and then you’re moved on, well worth the queue
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 19:36
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 00:02 |
|
|
After all that queuing, I’d want a minimum of a selfie with the open casket, maybe a bit of ventriloquism or something
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 19:38
|
|
|
I've been getting work emails from our suppliers all day that are variations on the theme of not opening on monday out of respect for her majesty. Reading behind the lines, there's a strong theme of "we're closing because we're afraid of being firebombed by Daily Mail readers if we dare to stay open". Our business has decided to close specifically because we're worried about getting firebombed if we don't.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 19:54
|
|
|
I shall be using all my power tools, and digger, that day.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 19:59
|
|
|
*next person moves to coffin* (Everyone at home mentally)GO ON PUSH IT OVER! *person leaves* (Everyone at home mentally)Awww. *next person moves to coffin* (Everyone at home mentally)GO ON PUSH IT OVER!
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 20:01
|
|
|
happyhippy posted:*next person moves to coffin*
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 20:02
|
|
|
Oh ffs, now regret matching along the from side ginger " God save Queen" Or maybe King, can't tell. I hope 85s jus a little old man on a pushbike with a record player strapped to the back.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 20:15
|
|
|
notaspy posted:A bit of google mapping shows this to be about 4 miles. If you walk it it would take over an hour but queueing will, erm, increase that. No, they won't. Volunteers from the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance have been drafted in from all over the country to do crowd control/welfare/first aid provision, 24/7. If anyone dies it's because they are wilfully sacrificing themselves on the altar of monarchy, there is too much bloody paperwork involved for the volunteers.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 20:16
|
|
|
Soylent Yellow posted:I've been getting work emails from our suppliers all day that are variations on the theme of not opening on monday out of respect for her majesty. Reading behind the lines, there's a strong theme of "we're closing because we're afraid of being firebombed by Daily Mail readers if we dare to stay open". Our business has decided to close specifically because we're worried about getting firebombed if we don't. I think most places hands were forced when all the schools shut.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 20:23
|
|
|
I’m going to open the brewery on the Monday. We’re right at the end of the 5mile line too so might get some people who have joined the back of the queue over the weekend.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 20:26
|
|
|
Halisnacks posted:I literally cannot think of any person or group of people, dead or alive, that I would queue 30 hours to see. I queued about 5 hours to get in to a secret Metallica gig down the Marquee about 30 years ago.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 20:44
|
|
|
My worst queue was three hours to get tickets for a Biffy Clyro show. It turned out to be only a 45-minute show with no support 
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 20:48
|
|
|
People do this for each new iPhone don't they?
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 20:55
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/curiousiguana/status/1570067806028464128 https://twitter.com/curiousiguana/status/1570067817436745730 Red Oktober posted:I’m going to open the brewery on the Monday. We’re right at the end of the 5mile line too so might get some people who have joined the back of the queue over the weekend. Her Majesty reportedly had enough drinks on her standard daily schedule to qualify as a problem drinker, so I think to stop the provision of alcohol would be a disgrace to her memory. Lizzie drank gin and dubonnet before lunch and consulted with Churchill, I think we can assume she liked a good piss-up as much as anyone. PT6A fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Sep 14, 2022 |
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 21:00
|
|
|
The real respect isn't walking past a box, it's waiting 30 hours to walk past a box
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 21:02
|
|
|
Rarity posted:The real respect isn't walking past a box, it's waiting 30 hours to walk past a box 1 hour = 1 respect
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 21:04
|
|
|
is Charles not still waiting to be interviewed by the Met as part of that cash-for-honours thing that went on a while back?
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 21:05
|
|
|
I'm pretty sure when you become King the President gives you a pardon.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 21:08
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/GrieveWatch/status/1569798117436051457 I have four of these buggers, do I just stop feeding them, it's what lizzy would want right?
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 21:11
|
|
|
I mean, that's legitimately the state of the country she left behind and apparently we're all lining up to say what a good job she did. So yeah, starving the baby guinea pigs seems apt.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 21:14
|
|
|
So by Monday, all that will be allowed is to slowly wander the streets*, openly weeping, seeking out those who are insufficiently maudlin, or thinking about dem hamsters. And then to point and wail mournfully at them... * unless you are at Center Parks
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 21:22
|
|
|
This is where playing Paranoia comes in handy.Josuke Higashikata posted:I have four of these buggers, do I just stop feeding them, it's what lizzy would want right?
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 21:26
|
|
|
OzyMandrill posted:So by Monday, all that will be allowed is to slowly wander the streets*, openly weeping, seeking out those who are insufficiently maudlin, or thinking about dem hamsters. And then to point and wail mournfully at them... I'm just gonna sit home and play video games op
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 21:34
|
|
|
OzyMandrill posted:So by Monday, all that will be allowed is to slowly wander the streets*, openly weeping, seeking out those who are insufficiently maudlin, or thinking about dem hamsters. And then to point and wail mournfully at them... I keep thinking of that bit in Excalibur where Arthur has given up doing kingly stuff and the land is in decay and the people destitute, Lancelot (who shagged Arthur's wide Guinevere) is wandering the land leading a band of depressed people a'weeping and a'wailing.. Looked for a clip but couldn't find one.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 21:37
|
|
|
Ah I remember that from the Official British History Book, it's after Brutus Beefcake fights the sea men, but before the scrap with Brian Boitano and the Irish giants.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 21:41
|
|
|
Guavanaut posted:Brutus Beefcake Who'd he ever beat?
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 21:57
|
|
|
Michael Gove's family or something, learn your history  Our Island Story posted:So Albion took possession of the little island, which until then had been called Samothea, and he changed its name to Albion, as Neptune had said should be done. This is what Tories want to teach in schools.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 22:01
|
|
|
Guavanaut posted:Ah I remember that from the Official British History Book, it's after Brutus Beefcake fights the sea men, but before the scrap with Brian Boitano and the Irish giants. What *would* Brian Boitano do if he were here right now? I assume the BBC will tell us sometime during the rolling coverage when they run out of everything else to say.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 22:04
|
|
|
Watching 5 minutes of the Liz box live stream is honestly loving fascinating nonsense. When I put it on a group of about 10 fash police (redundant I know) complete with caps with cameras attached were getting to the front of the queue so the camera decided to zoom in on them looking very stern and solemn, before they get to the front of the queue and each do their little bow or salute or whatever. Then the camera angle switches and we see the four soldiers with their massive stupid hats bowing and swaying slightly, and the other guards with their massive pikes looking bored as gently caress. All the while there's just random members of the public milling about like they're waiting at the post office. It's such an alien thing to do for me, I cannot get into the head of anyone who voluntarily stands in an hour long queue to look at a box (which you can't even see because of the massive flag covering the thing, who knows if she's even in there) for 10 seconds.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 22:06
|
|
|
Are we allowed to clap on Monday as a sign of respect?
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 22:09
|
|
|
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/...5UdtHB-7DUKrm2Aquote:Viewers of ITV's This Morning have criticised the actions of one of the show's reporters as she spoke with well-wishers queueing to see the Queen's coffin. Huge lines have already formed in London with hundreds of thousands of people expected to try and view the Queen as she lies in state inside Westminster Hall. How dare you not spend your 30 hours queuing in miserable suffering YOU loving PLEB 
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 22:09
|
|
|
The whole “she’s not even in there probably” conspiracy thing just seems like a bridge too far, what would the point be other than “haha look at the peasants falling for our massively over complicated bit of grief theatre, what a load of silly pricks”? That probably makes it even more likely to be true though so 
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 22:11
|
|
|
peanut- posted:Wouldn’t worry about this tbh. Unless you’re hanging around by the giga-queue for some reason, chances are you won’t even notice anything unusual is happening. I'll be near it, I think, but won't have to interact with it unless they reroute it.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 22:14
|
|
|
History Comes Inside! posted:The whole “she’s not even in there probably” conspiracy thing just seems like a bridge too far, what would the point be other than “haha look at the peasants falling for our massively over complicated bit of grief theatre, what a load of silly pricks”? its irrelevant whether some body is in some box. but she is in the box.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 22:15
|
|
|
History Comes Inside! posted:The whole “she’s not even in there probably” conspiracy thing just seems like a bridge too far, what would the point be other than “haha look at the peasants falling for our massively over complicated bit of grief theatre, what a load of silly pricks”? I didn't realise this was a conspiracy, that wasn't really my point if this was in response to me. It's just an outline of a box, it's not exactly an open casket. Just a loving weird thing.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 22:16
|
|
|
They're trying to paint the whole thing as a big family funeral for the nan of the nation but then they get mad when there's singing and a big deal about snacks. Can't have it both ways. Want to see the First Sea Lord start a fight over some ham sandwiches while sniffing back tears and poking someone in the chest repeatedly.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 22:18
|
|
|
Schroedingers queen
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 22:19
|
|
|
Guavanaut posted:They're trying to paint the whole thing as a big family funeral for the nan of the nation but then they get mad when there's singing and a big deal about snacks. Can't have it both ways. Just they wait to the bit of the funeral where everyone goes to the pub to get pissed and your aunt and uncle get caught shagging in the toilets ...That's how it always goes, right?
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 22:21
|
|
|
we had shots of vodka handed out on trays on the door in to my Glaswegian grandad's funeral reception then we discovered our entire branch of the family have the wrong surname cos he did a fraud to claim redundancy from the shipyards twice so just changed his name
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 22:24
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 00:02 |
|
|
History Comes Inside! posted:The whole “she’s not even in there probably” conspiracy thing just seems like a bridge too far, what would the point be other than “haha look at the peasants falling for our massively over complicated bit of grief theatre, what a load of silly pricks”? There's no way she's in the box. Imagine somebody manages to get a lucky start, dodge past the funny hat men to knock the coffin over, and she comes flailing out live (dead) on the Beeb. Not happening. She's not in the box. It's a bunch of used horse tack and Andrew's old hard drives for ballast.
|
|
#
?
Sep 14, 2022 22:41
|
|
