[MisterMuncher]

With all the mentalists we now have in the Dept of Education, I’m half expecting some halfwit to come up with the idea “that to create a unified country, a new monarchy would be a good excuse to bring in a royal oath for each morning assembly”

Good luck with that down the Falls Road Primary.

It would set back the cause of integrated education by decades, and that is something that would predominately really hurt Unionist areas and children.

[Oboogie]

Bet a large majority of royalists mourning on the streets also believe King Arthur was real. He burned Guinevere’s cakes.

Was he the one who slayed the dragon, or was that St Pancakeday?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

King Arthur was real. He burned Guinevere’s cakes.

Fnarr fnarr...

[Watchman]

Slightly bad taste; but I’m waiting for the news when some old biddy, having queued 12 hours in the rain, keels over, and the family inform us, “it’s how she would have wanted to go!”

[Bones McCoy]

Radio 5 live reports that 40% of the country have

wept at the news of the Queen's passing.

Unless they are using some new PC brigade definition of wept, that seems like a very dodgy statistic.

[satnav]

When I went out running earlier there was a queue of cars a mile long outside are local hospital which is known as the 'Royal', I think that is taking a mark of respect a bit too far! The media have created a pandemic of queuing.

[Watchman]

I wonder how long it will be before the Mail/Express go to one of their traditional “space fillers”; Caernarfon Castle is Down: Operation Wingnut, what happens when the King dies

[Abernathy]

what happens when the King dies ?

I dare say it’ll be a precise re-run of everything that’s happening now.

[Watchman]

what happens when the King dies ?

I dare say it’ll be a precise re-run of everything that’s happening now.

Exactly!

[AOB]

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.

[Watchman]

Just as a matter of interest; unless she's now a member of the undead, is it actually a live stream

[Bones McCoy]

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.

[Abernathy]

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.

Indeed. It’s a kind of collective taking leave of the senses. Utterly bizarre. I’m trying to understand it, trying to put myself inside the heads of those in the 3 mile lonq queue, and I’m failing completely.

At base, when I hear some vox pop victim on TV say that standing in a queue for six hours just to get a 30 second glimpse of a coffin with a crown on the lid is a small price to pay to “pay my respects”, I can’t help thinking something like :”What madness - I’ve done it just by turning on my telly. “

Insanity.

[kreuzberger]

This seems to just about cover the BBC.

[Abernathy]

And another thing. All this fetishisation of Liz’s coffin is, when you stop to think about it, downright weird. The transporting the box the length and breadth of the UK. The slow processions walking along behind. The “standing guard”. The lying in state.

Only some of it reflects the traditional practices of obsequies carried out by ordinary Britons.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

This, too, shall pass...

[davidjay]

This, too, shall pass...

It's going to seem like it's lasting into the next century though.

[Youngian]

I stood in a royal queue for the experience on Christmas morning at Sandringham. For ten minutes and then my feet got cold, fuck that. A cop told me some camp overnight and it wasn’t even a queue but people just standing awaiting the royal family due to walk past them in the next three hours. Another country.

[AOB]

Reporters interviewing people who have been in to Westminster Hall. It's fascinating stuff. "I bowed. Then I walked mournfully out."

I'd have been sacked if I was a reporter. "If I was to tell you that for security reasons the body of the Queen is not in the coffin but actually in an undisclosed location....."

[Andy McDandy]

In Robert Rankin's novel "The Garden of Unearthly Delights", he describes a post-apocalyptic sect who devote themselves to the memory of On the Buses*, and stand for hours each day at a makeshift bus shelter awaiting Varney, who will take them to the Terminus.

Our hero's response? "You're a cult! A bloody cargo cult!".

*It's Rankin, deal with it.