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EvilHawk posted:I cannot get into the head of anyone who voluntarily stands in an hour long queue to look at a box
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Drinkslinger posted:My worst queue was three hours to get tickets for a Biffy Clyro show. That sucks. (come see my Biffy tribute sometime, we do two hours usually including plenty of the old (good) stuff)
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darkwasthenight posted: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. Yeah. No doubt there are some insane conspiracies about it (I haven't looked, I just assume), but that just seems like a reasonable precaution. Although I assume the stream is on a monitored delay in case someone says something untoward in their 5 seconds in front of the casket anyway.
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EvilHawk posted:Watching 5 minutes of the Liz box live stream is honestly loving fascinating nonsense. It's hypnotic. Someone will have an "ASMR Queue for the Queen (inaudible whispering and respectful sobbing sounds)" youtube by the end of the week. Except not the bit where they change the guards every 20 minutes. Everyone in the queue looks OK considering they've been standing outside for 24+ hours and none of them have brought a jacket. When I was a little girl* I thought the Coldstream Guards had to stand still on guard duty for a whole day, like 9-5, except maybe for a lunch break where they could scratch their nose and take the heavy hat off for a bit. It used to worry me that they were really uncomfortable, and whether they'd lose their job if they sneezed or something. And by 'little girl' I mean until I was about 19 or 20.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:we had shots of vodka handed out on trays on the door in to my Glaswegian grandad's funeral reception Your granda was cooler than I'd expect for someone related to you. Rarity posted:https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/...5UdtHB-7DUKrm2A IMO you shouldn't be allowed to eat doughnuts ever again if you queue for 30 hours to walk past a wooden box with a dead old woman in it.
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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. SHE ALWAYS SAID SHE'D LEAVE THAT FACKIN TEAPOT TO ME!
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NORMAN, LOOK AT THAT LOT, HOLDING OUT THEIR MOBILE-TELEPHONES LIKE APES!!!! THEY SHOULD BE BOWING RESPECTFULLY NORMAN, THEY HAVE NO MANNERS, THEY DON'T KNOW THEIR PLACE, NORMAN!! LOOK AT THOSE WOMEN, NOW, NORMAN, NOT ONE OF THEM WEARING BLACK!!! THAT ONE IS WEARING A T-SHIRT NORMAN! THAT LOT ALWAYS WEAR BLACK NORMAN, SHE DOESN'T COUNT, DON'T BE SO IMPERTIENT!!!!!!!!!!
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In news that should actually matter... https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1567827195149651969 ...replacing one unaffordable increase with another unaffordable increase, not "saving" anything. Meanwhile the EU is looking to get back €140 billion (likely more, as member states can set their own lower thresholds) in windfall profits taxes. And since Princess Buffy isn't looking to do windfall taxes because profits aren't evil, we'll be funding this as the energy companies claw it back.
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and what about businesses? Like not even high street ones but the ones people have mentioned here that underpin everything we take for granted? useless cunts
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Sep 15, 2022 00:12
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I read in the big book of our islands stories and we are a nation of shopkeepers, so there's always going to be shopkeepers who can come out and run all the shops when we get through this as an island with our stories. That is a very positive picture.
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lol wrong thread. anyway look out for me on the coffin webcam
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Josuke Higashikata posted:https://twitter.com/GrieveWatch/status/1569798117436051457 Post pics of the piggies, we'll advise the best course of action.
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Josuke Higashikata posted:https://twitter.com/GrieveWatch/status/1569798117436051457 they look a bit like tiny corgis so they should be acceptable
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so this footage on the bbc of the coffin watchers is still live. 1am, still people walking past
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Was crossing Waterloo bridge and the coffin queue was already 8-12 deep and stretching well down toward Blackfriars. Fuckin' weirdos.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:so this footage on the bbc of the coffin watchers is still live. 1am, still people walking past Just had a look, riveting stuff. This is worth the license fee by itself.
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big scary monsters posted:Just had a look, riveting stuff. This is worth the license fee by itself. She took one with her. https://twitter.com/fluffyscarsdale/status/1570234218709680130?s=46&t=nhCFiLU1n80iB5ZwbJ44aA
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Tortilla Maker posted:She took one with her. Best bit of the night.
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https://www.royal.uk/send-message-condolencequote:Please send your message of condolence using this form
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 I’m going to the Roald Dahl museum this weekend. Apparently, the extra stuff they had planned for Roald Dahl Story Day (13th of September) is too disrespectful, but all the other live stuff they do is fine? Maybe they’ll block the bit of the museum where the Queen has the BFG round for breakfast…
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Out of respect for the royal family they'll double down on the bits where he said Hitler had a good point about the Jews.
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Okay but philip schofield is gay
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NotJustANumber99 posted:we had shots of vodka handed out on trays on the door in to my Glaswegian grandad's funeral reception My family ended up with a similar but incorrect surname after a drunk doctor (in the 1920's) spelt my fathers surname wrong. My father never bothered to change it during the war but my brother got the correct surname when he was born; this then caused a paperwork mess in the hospital so the rest of us got the incorrect surname to save the hassle. Dad finally changed his name before he died, bit loving late for the rest of us though. lol My incorrect name is easier for people to spell so i'm happy to leave it as is and i've got no kids anyway. 
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The extra bits are cancelled for a whole year! Must have been very disrespectful. Oh it's just one day? That they've cancelled this year? Bit of a shame. I guess?
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I'm surprised my town's steampunk festival hasn't been cancelled yet. Fingers crossed the clockwork golem queen doesn't set anyone off.
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Ash Crimson posted:Okay but philip schofield is gay While this is true I'm curious what prompted you to post it?
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Tesseraction posted:While this is true I'm curious what prompted you to post it? Do not look for reasons. For you will find only madness.
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Just Another Lurker posted:My family ended up with a similar but incorrect surname after a drunk doctor (in the 1920's) spelt my fathers surname wrong. Was watching a YT video where spelling wasn't that great back in the day for a lot of people including those making records like marriages and births. Its why researching your ancestry is harder in Ireland and such, as they were more fluid with spelling. So much the video said there was 5 family members who had 5 different spellings of the same last name.
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TACD posted:Good news! The queue is not an hour long! Just reading the news this morning with someone who'd entered the queue at 11pm and finally saw the coffin at 7am. I live in London, I could be in the queue within the hour if I really wanted to, but, err, why?!
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The funniest take I've heard on the whole ancestry thing is that by great cultural effort a certain section of society has managed to turn their origin story into admin work. Nowadays of course you can also turn it into lab work. And then things get very interesting when the two stories don't quite match.  
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DarkCrawler posted:
Only if you want to fill out your Panini Sticker Album.
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Is it an open casket? Feel pretty ripped off if I queued for 30 hours and didn't get to see the body.
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No, it's a flag over a box. You can blue peter yourself one at home with a flag and a box.
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Should've just taxidermied her like Jeremy Bentham and kept her as forever queen.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Oh it's just one day? That they've cancelled this year? Bit of a shame. I guess? Yes? Me and my kids are perfectly capable of having a nice day out celebrating books that they love without it impacting anyone else, I find it incredibly frustrating that they’ve done this.
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I think they should have arranged the coffin viewing thing as a roundabout rather than like a dual carriageway. Then they could have had multiple queues off in all directions of london rather than just one big one.Scientastic posted:Yes? Me and my kids are perfectly capable of having a nice day out celebrating books that they love without it impacting anyone else, I find it incredibly frustrating that they’ve done this. As in I mean they havent cancelled something for an entire year, theyve cancelled a one a year day event. Which might be bad for those like you who miss out, its more understandable than pulling an entire years worth of events.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I think they should have arranged the coffin viewing thing as a roundabout rather than like a dual carriageway. Then they could have had multiple queues off in all directions of london rather than just one big one. That would lead to a much higher chance of Mecca-style tramplings. So yes, agreed. Of course, The S*n would blame the commoners
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keep punching joe posted:Is it an open casket? They shot her in the face like Joe Pesci.
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happyhippy posted:Was watching a YT video where spelling wasn't that great back in the day for a lot of people including those making records like marriages and births. Why am i not surprised, N.I. didn't get their best for countryside practices, especially pre NHS. 
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