God save the Queen (RIP 21-4-1926 - 08-09-2022)

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greenmark
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jamesedwards wrote:
Wed Sep 14, 2022 6:42 pm
Derek27 wrote:
Wed Sep 14, 2022 6:16 pm
jamesedwards wrote:
Wed Sep 14, 2022 6:04 pm


A tough word to spell. I suppose they had a reasonable stab at it? :lol:
Luckily for them, the queue's got longer so it's now London Bridge. :lol:
Second attempt just now. Better effort but still no cigar...
Msut be a London thing. I have no idea what you're on about.
Emmson
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I like the democratic nature of the file by, no dress code plenty of jeans and trainers, diverse ethnic group, all ages - apparently no celebrities jumping the queue. The changing of the guard, very elaborate but perfectly in sync. Some things we still do rather well in dear old Blighty. :D
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Emmson wrote:
Wed Sep 14, 2022 8:15 pm
I like the democratic nature of the file by, no dress code plenty of jeans and trainers, diverse ethnic group, all ages - apparently no celebrities jumping the queue. The changing of the guard, very elaborate but perfectly in sync. Some things we still do rather well in dear old Blighty. :D
We've always been a world leader when it comes to queuing and queuing etiquette
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Emmson wrote:
Wed Sep 14, 2022 8:15 pm
...apparently no celebrities jumping the queue.
I don't think Biden will be joining the back of the queue. :)
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Derek27 wrote:
Wed Sep 14, 2022 8:55 pm
Emmson wrote:
Wed Sep 14, 2022 8:15 pm
...apparently no celebrities jumping the queue.
I don't think Biden will be joining the back of the queue. :)
Not the funeral in general, the coffin file by, it's very democratic and egalitarian.
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Emmson wrote:
Wed Sep 14, 2022 9:13 pm
Derek27 wrote:
Wed Sep 14, 2022 8:55 pm
Emmson wrote:
Wed Sep 14, 2022 8:15 pm
...apparently no celebrities jumping the queue.
I don't think Biden will be joining the back of the queue. :)
Not the funeral in general, the coffin file by, it's very democratic and egalitarian.
I don't see any people in wheelchairs or a ramp to help them down the stairs!
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Derek27 wrote:
Wed Sep 14, 2022 9:33 pm

I don't see any people in wheelchairs or a ramp to help them down the stairs!
There is wheelchair access to one side - no need for ramp on those stairs. There have been plenty of people in wheelchairs paying their respects.
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Derek27 wrote:
Wed Sep 14, 2022 9:33 pm
Emmson wrote:
Wed Sep 14, 2022 9:13 pm
Derek27 wrote:
Wed Sep 14, 2022 8:55 pm


I don't think Biden will be joining the back of the queue. :)
Not the funeral in general, the coffin file by, it's very democratic and egalitarian.
I don't see any people in wheelchairs or a ramp to help them down the stairs!
Wheelchair users not allowed. They are prone to spontaneous combustion. Did you not know this Derek?
But joking (?) aside there is this.
https://www.parliament.uk/business/news ... formation/
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jamesedwards wrote:
Wed Sep 14, 2022 6:42 pm
Derek27 wrote:
Wed Sep 14, 2022 6:16 pm
jamesedwards wrote:
Wed Sep 14, 2022 6:04 pm


A tough word to spell. I suppose they had a reasonable stab at it? :lol:
Luckily for them, the queue's got longer so it's now London Bridge. :lol:
Second attempt just now. Better effort but still no cigar...
A very apt What Three Words
Emmson
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OK SCRUB my previous post about egalitarian nature of the lying-in-wait file by :twisted:

https://news.sky.com/story/mps-skip-que ... s-12697808

even some journalists are queue skipping DISGUSTING
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Emmson wrote:
Thu Sep 15, 2022 11:08 am
OK SCRUB my previous post about egalitarian nature of the lying-in-wait file by :twisted:

https://news.sky.com/story/mps-skip-que ... s-12697808

even some journalists are queue skipping DISGUSTING
Little bit unfair that by Sky imo. I haven'tt been watching any of it but when flipping through the channels last night Sky were showing a line of police officers filing past the coffin. I doubt they had to queue for very long but nobody made an issue out of it.

You expect the general public to complain about stuff like that especially online but it shows what the media have become when they resort to that level of pettiness too.
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Not for me Pat, I want to be in the know about things like that. I adore

Transparency
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Emmson wrote:
Thu Sep 15, 2022 1:52 pm
Not for me Pat, I want to be in the know about things like that. I adore

Transparency
'In the know' and 'transparency' imply some kind of cover up or scandal.

If the headline was 'MP's bribe Beefeaters to jump the queue' or 'Theresa May elbows granny out of the way' then that would be a story.
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Derek27
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I'd rather die than join the back of that queue. I've often walked out of shops if there's a queue at the tills.
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Derek27 wrote:
Thu Sep 15, 2022 2:08 pm
I'd rather die than join the back of that queue. I've often walked out of shops if there's a queue at the tills.
Yeah me too Derek, this is not not the greatest queue in British history as that would be on the beaches of Dunkirk in May 1940
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