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I feel like there are shenanigans to be had here.
Appeals only sligtly less than the queue to get into Wimbledon.
As I'm a true Brit when I saw the queue I felt compelled to join it. After about 15 hours someone mentioned it was for the Queen so I left, I had assumed it was for a new iPhone or something.
Its nauseating. Most of the people in the queue would not do the same for members of their own family.
As TJ said earlier, mass hysteria.
Most of the people in the queue would not do the same for members of their own family.
That's a strange thing to say.
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
Have you been through passport control at Luton Airport?
The epitome of Britishness
People always suggest its a British thing to queue. What's the alternative? Do people really not take turns in other countries?
Is everything really just a free for all?
Could see a lot of fights happening.
They seem to have increased the Queens queue to a two-lane job now.
Sensible.
I'm liking the changing of the guard thing and the unnecessarily silly walks.
They change them every 20 minutes I think which seems a bit frequent to me.
This queue will be insignificant compared to the queues for food rations and lumps of coal that’ll soon be upon us.
They seem to have increased the Queens queue to a two-lane job now.
Please, please can it be called the Elizabeth Line?
They seem to have increased the Queens queue to a two-lane job now.
Please, please can it be called the Elizabeth Line?
Posted 6 minutes ago
QUE II?
You could turn it into one hell of a pub crawl.
Kind of feels like a game of Mornington Crescent - as you finally reach the coffin after hours of convoluted movement around London obeying a particular set of archaic rules known only to the participants, you get to shout MORNINGTON CRESCENT! as you file past.
Or maybe it should be Mourning-ton Crescent...
Yes!
I bet there’s no foreign visitors in the queue either.
There's plenty from the people interviewed by the BBC this morning.
I’m liking the changing of the guard thing and the unnecessarily silly walks.
They change them every 20 minutes I think which seems a bit frequent to me.
Those hats look pretty heavy to be wearing with head bowed. I bet their necks get pretty stuff, pretty quickly! Maybe there are loads of them that want a go, too? They should get Daniel Craig to do a shift as a cameo!
They seem to have increased the Queens queue to a two-lane job now.
Sensible.
Dear lord! If they're expecting the lanes to merge, we may end up with a civil war.
People always suggest its a British thing to queue. What’s the alternative? Do people really not take turns in other countries?
Is everything really just a free for all?
Have you never waited for a bus at a resort in Lanzarote ?
A handful of Brits will be there in an orderly queue, well ahead of time and within milliseconds of the bus turning up, a hundred Germans will appear with sharpened elbows and a steely determination to avoid eye contact. All notions of queuing are gone and the scene resembles the last days of Saigon as our Teutonic cousins trample their own children into the pavement in an effort to climb on board.
In fairness this method would make the livestream of the coffin more entertaining?
The most awesome non-queue I every fought my way through was at Venice railway station left luggage. Early evening just before all the inter-rail popular trains left for other European destinations. I'll never forget it, the choice was get stuck in and get it done, or miss your connection. Brilliant.
Fake, attention seeking 'look at me' virtue signalling drivel.
Would rather crap in my hands and clap.
I wonder how many of them realise they cant take a selfie for their insta****terbook feeds of them in front of the coffin. That should get rid of a good number.
If this is what people really want to do with their time then that up to them but I really really cant even begin to comprehend why they would want to.
I bet it’s an empty coffin.
I reckon too, they did a switcheroo!
It is a great word though, The actual important letter at the front, with 4 more waiting silently behind.
Does STW we need a meta thread to discuss what Queen related threads it is respectful to have? We've already got;
The Queue thread
The Thoughts (and What Should Be Done With The Monarchy) thread
The Surprise Bank Holiday thread
Honourary Mentions:
The Sweaty Nonce thread has gone full Queen
The Liz Truss thread has gone full Queen
Missing any?
Please, please can it be called the Elizabeth Line?
RE the Tube line.
All the other routes are labeled without the word Line.
Hammersmith
Circle
etc.
and then theres
Elizabeth Line.
so is it the Elizabeth Line line?
and if so, is this queue the Elizabeth Line line line?
Still a way to go to buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
It is a great word though, The actual important letter at the front, with 4 more waiting silently behind.
But, remove the silent letters and you get The Q:
If this is what people really want to do with their time then that up to them but I really really cant even begin to comprehend why they would want to.
They interviewed someone yesterday who was self-employed so had lost a couple of days pay to travel to London and shuffle along in a queue for 10 hours
They asked her why and she said: “some people do nothing with their lives, but I’ll be able to tell my grandkids that I did this.”
Rather pales by comparison to "daddy, what did you do in the war" really, doesn't it.
I wonder how many of them realise they cant take a selfie
All of them? I don't think the idea of taking a selfie of yourself with a coffin figures in the minds of many people.
Made the mistake of switching on BBC Breakfast this morning. Only to see The Queue... And an interview with a "Royal correspondent" about The Queue. I didn't catch what she said. All very baffling.
and shuffle along in a queue for 10 hours
If I'd committed to the promise of a 30 hour queue and it only took 10 hours I think I'd be disappointed.
I suppose you could always go round again.
I don’t think the idea of taking a selfie of yourself with a coffin figures in the minds of many people.
Hard to prove the catafalqutual.
(Yes I worked hard on that. Very hard. Word repurposed from Jimmy Saville's time lying in state in a Leeds hotel as people filed past to pay their respects. The name of the hotel you ask? The Queen's. Makes you think...)
They should get Daniel Craig to do a shift as a cameo!
Word up.
I don’t think the idea of taking a selfie of yourself with a coffin figures in the minds of many people.
I suppose you could always go round again.
When she was lying in rest in Edinburgh there was a lady on the news who was boasting about the fact that she had been round seven times!
I know this sounds really snobby but looking at the photos of the queue, the people in it and listening to some of the interviews, the queuers don't really come across as being our finest and smartest members of society.
Thanks for making my point Kayak, that uncle fester lookalike is clearly some sort of psycho - it's not something that you expect to figure in the minds of many people!
Lord be praised for I have seen across the mighty Thames and witnessed the queue.
"They should get Daniel Craig to do a shift as a cameo!"
As a yoof I knew Gary Bullock / Gary Connery who parachuted in as the Queen. He got jailed last month for GBH. That's not been on the news.
That selfie photo of Uncle Fester posing looks like the corpse is lying in a massive satin fanny.
The queue tracker doesn't seem to be working anymore:
I was thinking of joining the end if it had died down a bit.
I find the grief some people have for a person they have never met, why a whole nation has to mourn, the constant TV coverage mystifying but can understand it to a degree. However, the desire to stand in a queue for hours and hours and hours to shuffle past a box covered in a flag in a big empty room is just bizarre.
If people want to do it though, then let them carry on.
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.
TBH if I was in London I'd probably go for the historic 'I was there', sometimes it's nice to experience events in real life rather than through someone else's lens.
State funerals aren't really like buses, you could be waiting a while for the next 🙂
Anyway I like a good send off.
Queuing is big business
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134231027602
https://twitter.com/maisiethetortie/status/1570134595055800321?s=46&t=mVEj6sFE-HI2aKPIuorfpg
I was watching the shenanigans at 12:30am last night, for chill out purposes and something actually happened! It cut straight to an outside shot as soon as it occurred though:
https://twitter.com/PressTV/status/1570297070300401666?t=EnN1BEsQUg37G4-4JyPabA&s=19
My mate is on watch today. He's Yeaoman Warder at the Tower ordinarily.
At least the shifts are short, bloody warm and uncomfortable in that uniform. It's the Household Div that will be sweating the most, that armour isn't light.