[soulboy]

The BBC has 24 hour live streaming of the coffin. The queue is 3 miles long to gawp at it. It's akin to an acute religious mania that has gripped these people.

It seems like a rerun of Diana mania.

I used to think (hope) that the few eccentrics who camp outside Windsor with gifts and poems for the royals were a microscopic aberration.
It seems that they walk among us in far larger numbers than I imagined possible.

Palace sources report the queue to file past will be capped at 10 miles.
By the most direct streets, that would stretch to the Redbridge Roundabout.
People will have to be fit, and well hydrated to survive that.

And neurotypical. I wouldn't want to standard in that queue with the "characters" that they are interviewing on the telly for two minutes, let alone hours. It does speak to one of my pet hates though.

I'm autistic and really struggle with crowds and queuing. I have to have somebody save my place and find somewhere to give my head a wobble while I pace back and forth at regular intervals. That is the case when queuing with a few hundred people at an airport, let alone many thousands of people. Nobody is prepared to let you take a ticket and wait in a sensorially neutral area. I'm not sure how that stacks up against the requirement to consider reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act.

[AOB]

The BBC have returned to normal scheduling this afternoon. Disgraceful. We need to know what Major General Plummy Voice and Lady Toff Fox -Hunter have to say about Charles's day of reflection. An angry email to BBC's Newswatch about this outrageous disrespect is being composed.*

* Plenty probably are. Many a true word and all that.

[davidjay]

I do have sympathy for the BBC, being stuck as ever between the Defund the Peedo-Loving Marxists Sport Are Kween mob and the Not My King Rot in Hell Evil Colonialist tendency.

[Andy McDandy]

I've avoided it, on account of having a job and a firestick. My dad used to say there was a particular type of royal commentator the BBC would haul out for this sort of thing, utterly servile and probably last saw daylight in the 50s. Have we had many of those turn up?

[Youngian]

I've avoided it, on account of having a job and a firestick. My dad used to say there was a particular type of royal commentator the BBC would haul out for this sort of thing, utterly servile and probably last saw daylight in the 50s. Have we had many of those turn up?

Have little viewing experience as to whether the cyberNat ‘they would say that’ narrative that BBC Scotland is run by toady Unionists has any credibility. Judging by the last few days, they’re on strong ground.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Tories back calls for late Queen to be know as Elizabeth the Faithful arguing 'the Great' has been linked with 'despotic rulers' like GENGHIS KHAN and King Herod

A campaign has been launched to give the late Queen the title of 'Elizabeth the Faithful' because 'the Great' is rather common and has been used by despots and conquerors.

Senior politicians including Boris Johnson, the former prime minister, have referred to Elizabeth II as the Great since she died last Thursday at the age of 96.

But Security Minister Tom Tugendhat referred to her as 'the Faithful' last week and today a former Conservative Party Treasurer insisted that it was the best moniker to use.

In a letter to the Daily Telegraph, Lord Farmer said that it reflected 'the fulfilment of the pledge that she made on the cusp of adulthood to serve us her whole life.'

He added: 'Superficially she was indeed great, but more than 110 monarchs have been so designated – including the Herod who ordered the slaughter of the innocents, Louis XIV (whose rule made the French Revolution all but inevitable) and Genghis Khan.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... thful.html

[Abernathy]

Saw someone on Twitter make what I think was a jocular, but actually pretty practical suggestion: The queue is now 5 miles long. Why not simply bung Brenda’s box back in the hearse, and drive it slowly along the length of the whole five mile queue so that everyone gets to pay their respects as it passes by. Job done - everybody can go home and chill.

[Watchman]

Fuck me!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... lutes.html

[AOB]

It probably would have been easier if the coffin did a UK tour, like the Olympic Torch. Or to avoid traffic issues, fastened with ropes to the underside of a blimp which could criss cross the UK.

[Oboogie]

It probably would have been easier if the coffin did a UK tour, like the Olympic Torch.

As happened in parts of Scotland. My sister, who lives in the Aberdonian suburb of Cults, wandered 200 yards down the road to grab a couple of pics as the cortege passed by on Sunday. A few others did the same. No queues, no fuss.

[Bones McCoy]

It probably would have been easier if the coffin did a UK tour, like the Olympic Torch. Or to avoid traffic issues, fastened with ropes to the underside of a blimp which could criss cross the UK.

It worked well for Queen Eleanor of Castile.

[kreuzberger]

It probably would have been easier if the coffin did a UK tour, like the Olympic Torch.

As happened in parts of Scotland. My sister, who lives in the Aberdonian suburb of Cults, wandered 200 yards down the road to grab a couple of pics as the cortege passed by on Sunday. A few others did the same. No queues, no fuss.

Isn't that Culls, just up-stream from Aberdeen ,where the car keys spend more time in the fruit-bowl than the 4x4?

That would explain a lot and possibly too much.

[Oboogie]

Never heard of Culls, Google tells me it's in Norfolk.
No, this is definitely Cults, it's on the A93 which hugs the Dee to Balmoral via Banchory, Aboyne and Ballater.

[Abernathy]

Charlotte Minchell, 66, from Bromley, said she got talking to people in queue and was happily surprised to find she was surrounded by people who 'share the same values'.

The people queuing up to shuffle past a royal casket share the same values ! Who’da thunk it ! ! ?


I wonder whether they all loved “Good ‘Ol Boris” as well?



[apologies for perhaps being overly jaundiced about all this ]

[Youngian]

Charlotte Minchell, 66, from Bromley, said she got talking to people in queue and was happily surprised to find she was surrounded by people who 'share the same values'.

The people queuing up to shuffle past a royal casket share the same values ! Who’da thunk it ! ! ?


I wonder whether they all loved “Good ‘Ol Boris” as well?



[apologies for perhaps being overly jaundiced about all this ]

Took the dog down the coast only to see a 12 mile queue of traffic the other way from well wishers leaving Sandringham. Not a problem as there’s a very picturesque country route to circumnavigate the main road. Expected a steady stream of traffic from a few dozen people who’d used their initiative and checked the sat nav to avoid such Bedlam. Didn’t meet a single motorist for miles.

[davidjay]

The backlash is coming:

[Malcolm Armsteen]

[Youngian]

Queue shaming is now a thing

[AOB]

I've just noticed a Sky News YouTube video about a woman going round the queue for a second time. She's probably not the only one.

[AOB]

Another, a birthing partner to her pregnant daughter, has abandoned her in favour of the Queen. Just like the ones dragging babies and toddlers down there to wait in a 12 hour queue, utterly selfish.