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The epitome of Britishness. A queue to end all queues. A spectacle that deserves its own thread.
Will you be in THE queue?
would love to be. but no.
Still trying to figure out the logistics of getting to London village
There is a train (s) that can get me there around 01.30 am Saturday so quite tempted
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.
It needs wasps and an inability to escape them to be a proper epic queue for the ages. Like at Alton Towers!
Will there be tutting? And eye-rolling? As well as the shuffling?
If so, I’m in!
There's a tracker here:
No, I won’t be there.
Endurance queuing. Probably quite good training for the Strathpuffer.
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…
Just no.
Will there be tutting? And eye-rolling? As well as the shuffling?
If so, I’m in!
I have never queued up to look at a coffin but I doubt that tutting and eye-rolling is the expected protocol.
Have you ever been to a funeral binners?
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.
It's all getting quite sinister isn't it?
I quite like the royal family, but the north korean behaviour of the British public is really beginning to trouble me.
I'll probably go and push in at the front yeah?
Livestream of people walking past the coffin for the voyeurs / insomniacs.
I wonder if we’ll get tourists coming to see the queue. Perhaps they will come to view it and then be overtaken by a need to join it.
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.
I was once forced to queue for several hours to get into Kings carol service
Saved yourself some time and gone to see a better choir at Pembroke just down the road.
I wish people would remember how to queue at fkn bus stops in London these days…
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
I wish people would remember how to queue at fkn bus stops in London these days…
In my experience it’s normally ok if the bus stop only has 1 or 2 destinations. If there are 3 or more routes it’s a bunfight.
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
You’ve a squillion of the English, Daily Mail reading middle class in a ten mile long queue.
I bet they’re blaming Meghan, the EU or just foreigners for the length of the queue
I bet there’s no foreign visitors in the queue either.
bet they’re blaming Meghan, the EU or just foreigners for the length of the queue
Blaming??
I'm sure many would be mortified if the queue wasn't several miles long.
Yeah it's long, but it's nothing compared to the queue for the gondola at Fort Bill WC. That's the World Cup, not the bogs (though that was long too).
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.
Bloody hell Frank! This was a bit of harmless fun and now you’ve tried to make it serious. I hope you feel ashamed of yourself. No queue for you!
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.
Lol.
There is a live stream of a stationary coffin
The whole thing is beyond bizarre
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.
I would imagine Mecca attracts bigger queues
Doubtful. I mean bingo is pretty popular for sure but that queue is massive.
Why isn't it an open casket?
If it's good enough for my Granny, it's good enough for Liz
I bet it’s an empty coffin.
No bloody way!
Who wants to queue for anything?
No. Nope. Nein!
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.
seems to be some yelling going on outside now.
I'm watching, I can't tell why but it's becoming compelling, a bit like a visual version of ASMR
I'm also interested. The main demographic is pretty much what I expected but there is a real cross section as well, lots of younger people, single men, etc. I don't really get it but in an odd way I like the simple Britishness of it (I know way more nationalities are there, but they're all being very British about it)
Favourite visitors so far though were what looked like three extras from Live and Let die.
I’m watching, I can’t tell why but it’s becoming compelling
Slow TV. But it's going to go on a lot longer than Sleighride or the bus across the Yorkshire Dales.
Are they queuing properly in Mecca though?
No, there's usually a stampede, a crush and many dead.
I bet there’s no foreign visitors in the queue either
Apparently random selection for a vox pop on Radio 4 this morning included some Canadians and some Kiwis who had come over especially for the funeral, and had gone straight from airport to queue.
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They may have just picked the the interesting ones to broadcast though
pisstaking aside, and accepting there are some there because of virtue signalling, or a sense of duty, there are some people who are genuinely and deeply touched by this. A youngish guy just now, eyes full of tears. Whatever the thoughts on why and whether there should be a royal family or monarch to feel that deeply about, I don't think even the staunch anti-monarchists can deny that the Queen was much loved and admired by very many people from all walks of life.
Why isn’t it an open casket?
Remains to be seen?
There’s a tracker here:>
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.
Why isn’t it an open casket?
Remains to be seen?
@tenfoot - bravo sir! 😂
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.