news & politics:discussion

[Zoo Music Girl]

7 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

 

Pinko lol

[Guest]

This isn’t a good sign but maybe the people queueing are really the enemies?

[Neil]

1 hour ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

I feel like jumping the queue due to privilege is 100% in the spirit of what the queue is about! All very on brand.

last night four famous people jumped the queue to get straight into Westminster hall, names of charles, anne, andrew,  and edward.

[Zoo Music Girl]

27 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

This isn’t a good sign but maybe the people queueing are really the enemies?

You know it's possible to have opinions about more than one thing at once right? 

[Crazyfool01]

Biden on his way …. Doesn’t seem to fancy a chat with Truss yet .., 

[Rufus Gwertigan]

4 hours ago, Ozanne said:

This isn’t a good sign but maybe the people queueing are really the enemies?

As I understand it he wants to scrap employment rights for agency workers as well. 

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

[steviewevie]

£30bn tax cuts in Kwasi's mini budget thing next week apparently...that will help wealthy people with this cost of living crisis even more...they'll put some more into their savings....which will certainly help stimulate Growth.

[lost]

3 hours ago, Barry Fish said:

 I do find the idea of having a modern day monarchy to be really strange and frankly laughable. 

The divide here seems to be split between people who see this as a literal celebration of hereditary rule and those that see it as something else.

So take the Scots wearing their kilts and sporrans. Its equally laughable to wear a sporran to store your gold coins in the age of contactless payments but its not about that, its about culture and identity.

Its not for me but if the queen wasn't there the masses will always create these heros to look upto, it'd just be say Kim Kardashian or this years love island intake instead.

[steviewevie]

4 minutes ago, lost said:

The divide here seems to be split between people who see this as a literal celebration of hereditary rule and those that see it as something else.

So take the Scots wearing their kilts and sporrans. Its equally laughable to wear a sporran to store your gold coins in the age of contactless payments but its not about that, its about culture and identity.

Its not for me but if the queen wasn't there the masses will always create these heros to look upto, it'd just be say Kim Kardashian or this years love island intake instead.

would people queue for up to 24 hours to see their coffin though? My daughter said to me she wouldn't queue for 24 hours to even see mine, which was sweet of her.

[lost]

4 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

would people queue for up to 24 hours to see their coffin though? My daughter said to me she wouldn't queue for 24 hours to even see mine, which was sweet of her.

I bet if they'd of stuck say Michael Jackson out. Definitely. Still remember some of the scenes from the 80's around him.

[Guest]

For sure you’ll always get people that would queue up to see their own heroes if they are lying in state. As I’ve been saying it’s each to their own and it’s not doing any harm. It’s quite sweet in a way.

Some people probably think people queueing up over night for the gate to open at Glastonbury is strange but again it’s not doing any harm. 

[steviewevie]

10 minutes ago, lost said:

I bet if they'd of stuck say Michael Jackson out. Definitely. Still remember some of the scenes from the 80's around him.

well...I mean I could say I bet they wouldn't....not in this country for certain...but impossible to prove...

I wonder what the queues will be like for David Beckham's coffin?

[steviewevie]

6 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

For sure you’ll always get people that would queue up to see their own heroes if they are lying in state. As I’ve been saying it’s each to their own and it’s not doing any harm. It’s quite sweet in a way.

Some people probably think people queueing up over night for the gate to open at Glastonbury is strange but again it’s not doing any harm. 

it's more than just a hero thing with this queue though...goes deeper...people queueing for all sorts of reasons...patriotism, sense of duty, a moment in history, everyone else is etc.

The Glastonbury thing is just because there isn't enough fucking room in the place so you need to get in there early to get a good spot.

[steviewevie]

London looks a bit mental. You wouldn't even know about any of it in Manchester, apart from the odd black and white pic of Liz.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

it's more than just a hero thing with this queue though...goes deeper...people queueing for all sorts of reasons...patriotism, sense of duty, a moment in history, everyone else is etc.

The Glastonbury thing is just because there isn't enough fucking room in the place so you need to get in there early to get a good spot.

Oh yeah it’s much more than a hero thing for the Queen.

It is a big reason but people still do it for Glastonbury and I’m sure some would question those people but they wouldn’t deserve the anger either that has been expressed here over the last few days. 

[Crazyfool01]

2 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

Oh yeah it’s much more than a hero thing for the Queen.

It is a big reason but people still do it for Glastonbury and I’m sure some would question those people but they wouldn’t deserve the anger either that has been expressed here over the last few days. 

It’s a body in a box … which you see for 20 seconds if lucky …. There is absolutely no comparison with the Glastonbury queue for the worlds best 5 day party … and many people walk straight in … 

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

It’s a body in a box … which you see for 20 seconds if lucky …. There is absolutely no comparison with the Glastonbury queue for the worlds best 5 day party … and many people walk straight in … 

There is a comparison for the reasons I’ve stated and there’s nothing wrong with either. Just saying some people will not understand people queueing through the night but they probably won’t be as angry as some are for some reason on here.

[Crazyfool01]

and the likelihood is its just an empty box ..... she will be starting to smell a little now 

[Guest]

Be kind and try to understand why people are doing it. It’s not hard. 

[Crazyfool01]

baffled ... I wonder how many did it without posting to social media at some point 

[Guest]

It is baffling why some are so angry at people standing in a queue. 

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, Ozanne said:

It is baffling why some are so angry at people standing in a queue. 

who's angry ? ....

[SheffJeff]

Just now, Crazyfool01 said:

baffled ... I wonder how many did it without posting to social media at some point 

That's what I wonder... I only know one person who's been who's a friend of my Mrs and its been plastered across his twitter/instagram/Facebook for days. I doubt he'd have bothered if it wasn't for the likes.

The comparison to queueing for glastonbury is a nonsense even if we weren't on a festival forum... you could just as easily say 'people fly for 14 hours to Thailand so why can't they queue for 14 hours to see the queens coffin'. Because one is fun and one is to tick/see some strange box.