Not looking good for Queenie

Deadman

Offset said:

Deadman said:

I get it, but even if Jimi Hendrix came back to life I still wouldn’t want to go through the turmoil of being in such close proximity to the general public for such a long period of time.

I would!!!

Ok, maybe that was pushing it a bit 

Sassafras

I wonder how the funeral would have proceeded under strict lockdown regulations. Would all the mourners have been arrested for breaking the maximum of 6 people gathering rule?
Or would it would it have been classified as a Boris Johnson birthday party type exemption?

DrCornelius

Sassafras said:

I wonder how the funeral would have proceeded under strict lockdown regulations. Would all the mourners have been arrested for breaking the maximum of 6 people gathering rule?
Or would it would it have been classified as a Boris Johnson birthday party type exemption?

Bearing in mind the lengths the queen went to to work within covid restrictions during her husbands funeral then I assume they would have made it a private one to avoid the risk of mass law breaking

Keiko

The Americans have got all this to come when Tom Cruise dies.

tony99

Deadman said:

 I’m not into this mass hysteria stuff and am grateful for Monday off so I can put my feet up with a bottle of red and loads of nibbles and catch some of the proceedings. 

Ooh that sounds fab. I wasn't gonna bother but you've convinced me now.

bertie

tis Mrs Berts b/day on Monday..............................  Ive told her,  no cards, presents and 12 hour silence in respect,  save me Win and Wilf singing her a relevant Beatles song for her.

Sporky

DrCornelius said:

Bearing in mind the lengths the queen went to to work within covid restrictions during her husbands funeral then I assume they would have made it a private one to avoid the risk of mass law breaking

I have no issue agreeing that she was jolly dignified about that.

beed84

Deadman said:

BBC reporting one woman who’s queued up 7 times to see the coffin over and over. No wonder there’s a queue then! Pictures of parents with knackered looking kids who’ve been out all night too. I’m not into this mass hysteria stuff and am grateful for Monday off so I can put my feet up with a bottle of red and loads of nibbles and catch some of the proceedings. 

I get it, but even if Jimi Hendrix came back to life I still wouldn’t want to go through the turmoil of being in such close proximity to the general public for such a long period of time.

Agreed. As Seneca once said: "You ask me to say what you should consider it particularly important to avoid. My answer is this: a mass crowd ... I never come back with quite the same moral character I went out with ..."

Seeing that clip of the heckler (and all involved) is a good example as to why it's worth keeping a safe distance from the mob. Wherever you go there'll always be one. Even at the Queen's funeral procession.

Kittyfrisk

bertie said:

tis Mrs Berts b/day on Monday..............................  Ive told her,  no cards, presents and 12 hour silence in respect,  save me Win and Wilf singing her a relevant Beatles song for her.

"Why don't we do it in the road' ?

bertie

Kittyfrisk said:

bertie said:

tis Mrs Berts b/day on Monday..............................  Ive told her,  no cards, presents and 12 hour silence in respect,  save me Win and Wilf singing her a relevant Beatles song for her.

"Why don't we do it in the road' ?

that was last years

thecolourbox

Devil#20 said:

What did the bloke shout at Andrew? I thought treason was abolished under Tony Blair. 

Treason wasn't abolished, just that the sentence of hanging for it (and violent piracy) was abolished in 1998. I believe it was something put forward by the former MP of where I grew up in fact, by that point he was a life peer in the Lords though.

I think, if I recall correctly, the European Convention of Human Rights stopped the restoration of the death penalty in any of its members, in early 2000s, 2003 or 2004 I think?

Headphones

rsvmark said:

The times reports the most recent YouGov poll today.

Support for the monarchy as an institution is 62% in favour and 21 against. Largely unchanged from previous polls

73% think Charles has responded well, and 5% don’t.

63% think Charles III will make a good king and 15% don’t. Roughly doubling previous polls.

it seems rather more clear cut than Brexit then.

Doubling what?  Oh, it means these are the second poles?

bloodandtears

bertie said:

Kittyfrisk said:

bertie said:

tis Mrs Berts b/day on Monday..............................  Ive told her,  no cards, presents and 12 hour silence in respect,  save me Win and Wilf singing her a relevant Beatles song for her.

"Why don't we do it in the road' ?

that was last years

When I'm 64?

Sambostar

Keiko said:

The Americans have got all this to come when Tom Cruise dies.

Let's hope they don't run out of match boxes

JezWynd

Sporky said:

JezWynd said:

Sporky said:

Bike racks in Norwich closed as a mark of respect. 

Calm down dear. The space was needed as a repository for floral tributes.

Calm down poppet. No need to get all hysterical about a simple report of the news.  

 It's getting serious...

Sporky

At least they haven't closed the news stand thingy! 

Offset

JezWynd said:

 It's getting serious... 

Blas' me.  That in't gorn ter gew down well...

Mind you - NFN.

west

Kittyfrisk said:

bertie said:

tis Mrs Berts b/day on Monday..............................  Ive told her,  no cards, presents and 12 hour silence in respect,  save me Win and Wilf singing her a relevant Beatles song for her.

"Why don't we do it in the road' ?

Kittyfrisk

Everyone has lost their minds & what little reason they had.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-62889396

The way things are progressing, we really are approaching the era of arrest for thought crime.

DrCornelius

Kittyfrisk said:

Everyone has lost their minds & what little reason they had.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-62889396

The way things are progressing, we really are approaching the era of arrest for thought crime.

I’ll repeat my earlier comment - you’ve got to be a special sort of c*@# to heckle someone walking behind his mums coffin - I can’t believe you can’t see that ?