How do they stop people from queueing for the queue? Or is it just a mass free-for-all when it reopens?
Extend the queue!! It’s a thing of beauty that should be allowed to reach its full potential
Wise move, any longer and we risk it gaining sentience.
Why don’t they simply have 5 coffins spread around the country?
Chop the queen into bits and place her in coffins all over the country it’s the only logical way
Why even is there a giant queue?
Can’t they have just done it where people apply for a time slot online?
This is a bummer. Probably never going to get to see her given all the logistical mess.
Honestly, they needed more than four days for this.
The lying in state stream has also appeared to disappear off of BBC iPlayer
> A press officer from the government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has been spotted making his way to speak to queue officials, PA news agency reports.
> Thousands of mourners are still filing through the gate at Southwark Park, despite the announcement that the queue to see the Queen’s lying in state has been paused until 4pm.
> Asked if the queue has been paused yet, the press officer replied:
> “I’m not sure, I need to go and find out.”
Stop. The. Queue.
How much greater is demand going to get once people are off work for the weekend?
They should just drive the coffin along the queue line and have this all wrapped up in about 10 minutes.
We have real opportunity to add something meaningful to the global community here:
The Worlds Longest Conga Line!
Right the queue isnt working: time to revert to ‘getting served at the bar’ technique. That is, a massive scrum with everybody employing their native wit and guile to utilise whatever physical attributes the Lord God has bestowed upon them to achieve the holy goal.
Clearly the larger men will be pushing forward like a rugby scrum, but do not underestimate the determination of the little guys either: they can crawl and writhe like snakes on the floor beneath the notice of the larger blokes. Women? Weaker sex mate.
There may well be suffocation and trampling issues, but god of course knows his own, and anyway who wants to live without Our Liz? The weeping, wailing and screaming would be off the scale, tumultuous, and would quake the earth, so loud that even heaven itself would know the grief of losing our beloved quean.
So aye, damn the queue- Cry England and release the dogs of war. Let it be everyman for himself.
I’m done with this queen shit and I actually kind of resent this (and her) now.
Hospital appointments cancelled (despite two year of covid backlog). Funerals cancelled. Food banks closed.
QEII personally decided on the features of her funeral. She could have said: I want services to continue. I want donations to food banks and charity instead of fucking flowers and marmalade sandwiches. But no. The lowest income will be paying for this rich old lady.
I’m a monarchist, but this has changed my views
They should have set up an organised queuing system where people are given a time to come back or something so they don’t have some absolutely bonkers queue. But you would think since this has been in the works for years they’d have a much better more organized queuing system than, queue up and maybe see the coffin
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I wonder if there is any coffin groupies who are following it around.
Why cant they line these people up and carry the queen in a hearse for people to see. Done in half an hour, tops
What I’d like to know is why there are people joining the que at the back when it is public knowledge that the que time is around 14 hours.
What absolute lunatic decides; ‘Yes I will wait 14 hours to view a closed coffin’
I don’t get why people want to queue up to see a wooden box? I hate waiting in line at the supermarket. I don’t think I’d queue in a line as long if I had Kelly Brook waiting at the end for me.
Thank goodness the French don’t have a monarchy. A French queue of this magnitude would have probably turned into another revolution.
Doubt most people would go to this trouble for someone they actually knew let alone some rich old lady they never met.
Honestly fail to see why people are compelled to camp over night to see a coffin.
What I want to know is how the hell are they filtering out the nut jobs? The amount of people passing the coffin, at least a couple of them are going to try something crazy. I’m guessing they’ve had a few incidents but just don’t report them.
You have now joined a queue for the final queue. Please hold.
I’m a monarchist but I don’t fucking understand why people go to shit like this and wait 10+ hours for it.
This is a one-time sporting event.
We should have finishing times like the London Marathon.
These people are so weird why would you queue to walk past a coffin of someone you don’t know
Queues and dumbly bowing to Monarchy, how every British!
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How do they stop people from queueing for the queue? Or is it just a mass free-for-all when it reopens?
Extend the queue!! It’s a thing of beauty that should be allowed to reach its full potential
Wise move, any longer and we risk it gaining sentience.
Why don’t they simply have 5 coffins spread around the country?
Chop the queen into bits and place her in coffins all over the country it’s the only logical way
Why even is there a giant queue?
Can’t they have just done it where people apply for a time slot online?
This is a bummer. Probably never going to get to see her given all the logistical mess.
Honestly, they needed more than four days for this.
The lying in state stream has also appeared to disappear off of BBC iPlayer
> A press officer from the government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has been spotted making his way to speak to queue officials, PA news agency reports.
> Thousands of mourners are still filing through the gate at Southwark Park, despite the announcement that the queue to see the Queen’s lying in state has been paused until 4pm.
> Asked if the queue has been paused yet, the press officer replied:
> “I’m not sure, I need to go and find out.”
Stop. The. Queue.
How much greater is demand going to get once people are off work for the weekend?
They should just drive the coffin along the queue line and have this all wrapped up in about 10 minutes.
We have real opportunity to add something meaningful to the global community here:
The Worlds Longest Conga Line!
Right the queue isnt working: time to revert to ‘getting served at the bar’ technique. That is, a massive scrum with everybody employing their native wit and guile to utilise whatever physical attributes the Lord God has bestowed upon them to achieve the holy goal.
Clearly the larger men will be pushing forward like a rugby scrum, but do not underestimate the determination of the little guys either: they can crawl and writhe like snakes on the floor beneath the notice of the larger blokes. Women? Weaker sex mate.
There may well be suffocation and trampling issues, but god of course knows his own, and anyway who wants to live without Our Liz? The weeping, wailing and screaming would be off the scale, tumultuous, and would quake the earth, so loud that even heaven itself would know the grief of losing our beloved quean.
So aye, damn the queue- Cry England and release the dogs of war. Let it be everyman for himself.
I’m done with this queen shit and I actually kind of resent this (and her) now.
Hospital appointments cancelled (despite two year of covid backlog). Funerals cancelled. Food banks closed.
QEII personally decided on the features of her funeral. She could have said: I want services to continue. I want donations to food banks and charity instead of fucking flowers and marmalade sandwiches. But no. The lowest income will be paying for this rich old lady.
I’m a monarchist, but this has changed my views
They should have set up an organised queuing system where people are given a time to come back or something so they don’t have some absolutely bonkers queue. But you would think since this has been in the works for years they’d have a much better more organized queuing system than, queue up and maybe see the coffin
[deleted]
I wonder if there is any coffin groupies who are following it around.
Why cant they line these people up and carry the queen in a hearse for people to see. Done in half an hour, tops
What I’d like to know is why there are people joining the que at the back when it is public knowledge that the que time is around 14 hours.
What absolute lunatic decides; ‘Yes I will wait 14 hours to view a closed coffin’
I don’t get why people want to queue up to see a wooden box? I hate waiting in line at the supermarket. I don’t think I’d queue in a line as long if I had Kelly Brook waiting at the end for me.
Thank goodness the French don’t have a monarchy. A French queue of this magnitude would have probably turned into another revolution.
Doubt most people would go to this trouble for someone they actually knew let alone some rich old lady they never met.
Honestly fail to see why people are compelled to camp over night to see a coffin.
What I want to know is how the hell are they filtering out the nut jobs? The amount of people passing the coffin, at least a couple of them are going to try something crazy. I’m guessing they’ve had a few incidents but just don’t report them.
You have now joined a queue for the final queue. Please hold.
I’m a monarchist but I don’t fucking understand why people go to shit like this and wait 10+ hours for it.
This is a one-time sporting event.
We should have finishing times like the London Marathon.
These people are so weird why would you queue to walk past a coffin of someone you don’t know
Queues and dumbly bowing to Monarchy, how every British!