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The epitome of Britishness. A queue to end all queues. A spectacle that deserves its own thread.
Will you be in THE queue?
would love to be. but no.
Still trying to figure out the logistics of getting to London village
There is a train (s) that can get me there around 01.30 am Saturday so quite tempted
I queued up for an hour last month just to see a Hari Krishna shrine, so who knows where my curiosity of people's strange and mysterious beliefs will take me next.
It needs wasps and an inability to escape them to be a proper epic queue for the ages. Like at Alton Towers!
Will there be tutting? And eye-rolling? As well as the shuffling?
If so, I’m in!
There's a tracker here:
No, I won’t be there.
Endurance queuing. Probably quite good training for the Strathpuffer.
I was once forced to queue for several hours to get into Kings carol service because my cousin was reading some nonsense about three kings…I was only about 8 and got bribed with a bag of chips and a beano. Still remember the sheer tedium now and that was after we got in…
Just no.
Will there be tutting? And eye-rolling? As well as the shuffling?
If so, I’m in!
I have never queued up to look at a coffin but I doubt that tutting and eye-rolling is the expected protocol.
Have you ever been to a funeral binners?
Guinness Book of Records should be there. Surely a contender for the longest queue in history? What a post-Brexit boost that would be for the country that invented queueing!
No, but I hope this thread doesn't become yet another opportunity for the usual suspects to tell us all how deluded, subservient etc. those that do are.
It's all getting quite sinister isn't it?
I quite like the royal family, but the north korean behaviour of the British public is really beginning to trouble me.
I'll probably go and push in at the front yeah?
Livestream of people walking past the coffin for the voyeurs / insomniacs.
I wonder if we’ll get tourists coming to see the queue. Perhaps they will come to view it and then be overtaken by a need to join it.
I shall be cycling past the queue tomorrow morning with a cheery hello to anybody who is awake. It’s not for me but good luck to them.
Probably perfect queuing weather, not too hot, not raining 🙂
No I won't be going - but I respect that those joining the queue knowing how long they'll be waiting must have very strong motives.
Apparently two and a half miles at the moment - can you sleep or will those who are awake sneak past if the queue moves? What about loos, food and all that.
I was once forced to queue for several hours to get into Kings carol service
Saved yourself some time and gone to see a better choir at Pembroke just down the road.
I wish people would remember how to queue at fkn bus stops in London these days…
Guinness Book of Records should be there. Surely a contender for the longest queue in history
I would imagine Mecca attracts bigger queues during Hajj. In fact there could be queues of refugees either crossing borders or at refugee camps that exceed this
I wish people would remember how to queue at fkn bus stops in London these days…
In my experience it’s normally ok if the bus stop only has 1 or 2 destinations. If there are 3 or more routes it’s a bunfight.
Are they queuing properly in Mecca though? In an orderly fashion and tutting or mumbling under their breath when somebody has saved a spot for a friend? If not then I don’t think it counts as a proper queue
I have never queued up to look at a coffin but I doubt that tutting and eye-rolling is the expected protocol
You’ve a squillion of the English, Daily Mail reading middle class in a ten mile long queue. If you could somehow harness the energy from the sheer volume of tutting and eye-rolling going on you could solve the cost of living crisis in a second
You’ve a squillion of the English, Daily Mail reading middle class in a ten mile long queue.
I bet they’re blaming Meghan, the EU or just foreigners for the length of the queue
I bet there’s no foreign visitors in the queue either.
bet they’re blaming Meghan, the EU or just foreigners for the length of the queue
Blaming??
I'm sure many would be mortified if the queue wasn't several miles long.
Yeah it's long, but it's nothing compared to the queue for the gondola at Fort Bill WC. That's the World Cup, not the bogs (though that was long too).
bloke - it's going exactly the same way as the 'Thoughts with the Queen' thread.
It's clear that many of the posters making critical and vituperative comments on the other thread should stop watching coverage of the event they're criticising, go off to do something constructive and stop being keyboard warriors.
They could go to London, join the queue and articulate their opinions to get some personal and immediate response to their views.
Bloody hell Frank! This was a bit of harmless fun and now you’ve tried to make it serious. I hope you feel ashamed of yourself. No queue for you!
People keep moaning about the amount of coverage this is getting in traditional media and how tiresome it all is, yet people keep creating new and commenting on Royal themed threads here.
Lol.
There is a live stream of a stationary coffin
The whole thing is beyond bizarre
I genuinely questioned how many of these people are there to pay their respects, rather than to be able to say ‘I was there’ to their mates and family in future. Same goes for all the crowds outside. It’s all a bit ghoulish if you ask me.
I would imagine Mecca attracts bigger queues
Doubtful. I mean bingo is pretty popular for sure but that queue is massive.
Why isn't it an open casket?
If it's good enough for my Granny, it's good enough for Liz
I bet it’s an empty coffin.
No bloody way!
Who wants to queue for anything?
No. Nope. Nein!
Off to that there London tomorrow, looks like I'll be missing the queue though, seems a shame really that you don't have to queue to marvel at the queue.
seems to be some yelling going on outside now.
I'm watching, I can't tell why but it's becoming compelling, a bit like a visual version of ASMR
I'm also interested. The main demographic is pretty much what I expected but there is a real cross section as well, lots of younger people, single men, etc. I don't really get it but in an odd way I like the simple Britishness of it (I know way more nationalities are there, but they're all being very British about it)
Favourite visitors so far though were what looked like three extras from Live and Let die.
I’m watching, I can’t tell why but it’s becoming compelling
Slow TV. But it's going to go on a lot longer than Sleighride or the bus across the Yorkshire Dales.
Are they queuing properly in Mecca though?
No, there's usually a stampede, a crush and many dead.
I bet there’s no foreign visitors in the queue either
Apparently random selection for a vox pop on Radio 4 this morning included some Canadians and some Kiwis who had come over especially for the funeral, and had gone straight from airport to queue.
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They may have just picked the the interesting ones to broadcast though
pisstaking aside, and accepting there are some there because of virtue signalling, or a sense of duty, there are some people who are genuinely and deeply touched by this. A youngish guy just now, eyes full of tears. Whatever the thoughts on why and whether there should be a royal family or monarch to feel that deeply about, I don't think even the staunch anti-monarchists can deny that the Queen was much loved and admired by very many people from all walks of life.
Why isn’t it an open casket?
Remains to be seen?