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.
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…
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.