Not looking good for Queenie

Gilly

bertie said:

Sassafras said:

Rebar said:

They didn't wait long to start laying people off   https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/13/king-charles-staff-given-redundancy-notice-during-church-service-for-queen?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Can't say I'm surprised. Just shows how much the monarchy think of their loyal subjects.

yeah Im sure Charles has been planning that personally over the last few days.............................. top of his agenda I suspect,

Yeah he has far more important things to worry about:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62901408

Stratavarious

Should have used a gel ink.. 

munckee

Hattigol said:

VimFuego said:

is the h*t shitting compulsory? 

I don't know your personal digestion habits but if you go 31 hours between stool drops, you'll be fine.
Otherwise, take two hats - one for wearing on your head.

I've gone 4 days plus while at glastonbury before,  didn't do me any harm, although I've never been checked for colon cancer to be fair.

CHRISB50

Offset said:

Reverend said:

I just noticed they reckon the queue could up to 30 hours at its busiest.

You'd have to be a pretty ardent monarchist to stand in that particular line.

I know someone who is queueing. He's a twat. To be fair, he was a twat before he joined the queue.

I guess at the end of the day, live and let live. But I do not understand the desire to queue for up to 30 hours, to walk slowly past a coffin.

How do they even know she's in it?

VimFuego

CHRISB50 said:

Offset said:

Reverend said:

I just noticed they reckon the queue could up to 30 hours at its busiest.

You'd have to be a pretty ardent monarchist to stand in that particular line.

I know someone who is queueing. He's a twat. To be fair, he was a twat before he joined the queue.

I guess at the end of the day, live and let live. But I do not understand the desire to queue for up to 30 hours, to walk slowly past a coffin.

How do they even know she's in it?

I'm sure the lizard overlords have the right sort of technology to create a convincing dead body!

Offset

Hattigol said:

I Kittyfrisk said:

Let's see.  So far in this short discussion we have had potentially legally questionable libellous statements "Andrew is an unpleasant sweaty nonce, but even sweaty nonces should be allowed to mourn their mothers."

Agreed. People should remember that he completely denies being sweaty at the time. 

That aside, Andy has at least found a new role for himself:

Emp_Fab

CHRISB50 said:

Offset said:

Reverend said:

I just noticed they reckon the queue could up to 30 hours at its busiest.

You'd have to be a pretty ardent monarchist to stand in that particular line.

I know someone who is queueing. He's a twat. To be fair, he was a twat before he joined the queue.

I guess at the end of the day, live and let live. But I do not understand the desire to queue for up to 30 hours, to walk slowly past a coffin.

How do they even know she's in it?

Wouldn't that be amazing?!

Thousands of people queuing for days to walk past an empty wooden box!

I so wish that was the case!

Bunch of twohats.

guitars4you

chris78 said:

Kittyfrisk said:

Rebar said:

They didn't wait long to start laying people off   https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/13/king-charles-staff-given-redundancy-notice-during-church-service-for-queen?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Shocking news if true.
That would make it an almost literally a 'good day to bury bad news' scenario.

Imagine how people would react if the Clarence House staff worked for, oh, I don't know, let's see...  P&O?

This is how little people know about the monarchy. This is standard practice and the Queen’s staff will also have lost their jobs, literally at the minute the Queen died. It happened when the Queen’s Dad died

I believe the same when Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother died in 2002 - The Queen Mother had something like 80 staff - Plenty of stories talking about her debt/overdraft that ran to a few millions when she died and was paid by the Queen 

Offset

CHRISB50 said:

Offset said:

Reverend said:

I just noticed they reckon the queue could up to 30 hours at its busiest.

You'd have to be a pretty ardent monarchist to stand in that particular line.

I know someone who is queueing. He's a twat. To be fair, he was a twat before he joined the queue.

I guess at the end of the day, live and let live. But I do not understand the desire to queue for up to 30 hours, to walk slowly past a coffin.

How do they even know she's in it?

Her strict final instructions may have been to be cremated.  So all people are queueing to see is an urn of ashes placed inside a wooden box.

Wouldn't that be delicious...

Lewy

I just did a pickup swap on my Strat and all the while I gave myself a BBC-style royal procession commentary...

"And now....yes... here's comes the soldering iron. Sir Percival, what will he be thinking at this point"

"Well, first and foremost he'll be wanting to make sure he tins the leads properly, and of course doesn't leave the iron in place too long"

"Indeed, indeed....and perhaps time....also to reflect on... the conference call that he's supposed to be dialling into?"

"Very possibly. Of course it's not known yet - and may not be known for some time - whether he'll be finished before she gets home, and of course she'll be very keen to understand why he's prioritised this over taking out the bins ...."

Made it go quite quickly. I shall be seeing what other mundane tasks I can apply it to.

Sporky

Offset said:

Her strict final instructions may have been to be cremated.  So all people are queueing to see is an urn of ashes placed inside a wooden box.

Wouldn't that be delicious...

I think eating the queen's ashes is likely to be (a) a long way from delicious, and (2) probably treason.

Also I seem to recall reading that the box is lead lined - was she radioactive? Like a tiny well-dressed Godzilla?

thecolourbox

Lewy said:

I just did a pickup swap on my Strat and all the while I gave myself a BBC-style royal procession commentary...

"And now....yes... here's comes the soldering iron. Sir Percival, what will he be thinking at this point"

"Well, first and foremost he'll be wanting to make sure he tins the leads properly, and of course doesn't leave the iron in place too long"

"Indeed, indeed....and perhaps time....also to reflect on... the conference call that he's supposed to be dialling into?"

"Very possibly. Of course it's not known yet - and may not be known for some time - whether he'll be finished before she gets home, and of course she'll be very keen to understand why he's prioritised this over taking out the bins ...."

Made it go quite quickly. I shall be seeing what other mundane tasks I can apply it to.

A quite brilliant life strategy. We like to do similar with a David Attenborough type commentary

"Here, we see the male in his natural habitat - making a mess in the kitchen to provide food for the female. Note his use of the contents of a bottle of red extends not only to the cooking pot, but also poured liberally into his parched and grateful mouth"

"See how the female exhibits the almost hypnotic compulsion of turning the heating up while the male is distracted by looking at the Fretboard"

Etc etc

Dominic

I bet the box is empty .........it just woudn't be able to do all those tours ,laying in state etc .
I imagine that her body has been taken for embalming or whatever they do to Royals and is probably switched in once they do the private internment.

mrkb

Flight delays to avoid being too noisy........

Sporky

They should criminalise farting for the day. 

mrkb

Sporky said:

They should criminalise farting for the day. 

I don’t think the oldies in the audience will be able to hold it in that long.

Sporky

They should learn to be respectful. Lots of royalists will be feeling a bit punchy. A loud bottom burp is going to end in riots. 

TeleMaster

You know what the last 5 years or whatever have been mental, and these multiple once in a lifetime events that have been crammed into half a decade are going to be engrained in my mind for particular reasons. 

Brexit - people going on tv the day after the vote saying they voted leave because of bananas and then instantly regretted it when the results were read out like 'WHAT HAVE I DONE?'. 

Covid - loo roll and pasta wars. 

Ukraine/Russia war - £2/L petrol and people fighting on forecourts over £1.99/L petrol. 

The Queens death - Morrisons lowering the beeps of their tills out of 'respect' and the most crazy virtue signalling I've ever seen. 

I want no part of it. I'd rather walk than be involved in petrol wars, use a towel to wipe my arse than go a million miles on £2/l petrol to get one pack of loo roll from a supermarket that has powered beeps out of respect. At least I'll have some sense of dignity. 

Offset

mrkb said:

Sporky said:

They should criminalise farting for the day. 

I don’t think the oldies in the audience will be able to hold it in that long.

I'm aware of a member of this forum for whom that will prove difficult.  To say the least.

RocknRollDave

I have nothing against people who choose to pay their respects to the Queen at this time, but at the same time I have to admit I just don’t get it.