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Queen Elizabeth II | 1926-2022 | Rest in Peace

Jippy

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lefty_jakobz said:
We have decided to go hill walking on Monday to avoid watching the funeral, not because we are anti-Royal or any thing just don’t really fancy sitting watching a funeral all day
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I'm at work and sadly don't get a bank holiday not being in the UK now.

I suppose being there maybe it does feel like you're being forced to mourn. Looking from afar, it seems it's more the default assumption that you're mourning etc. Everyone from the media to business is treading on eggshells around that, while also pushing the nationalistic narrative of the country being unified in grief at the death of this major global figure.

The majority though are moaning that Brentford-Arsenal went ahead, but not United v Leeds.

I bet you those hills are full of walkers avoiding it.
 

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Jippy said:
Just avoid BBC, ITV and the newspapers til say Wednesday and it will be fine.

The media seems hellbent on portraying everyone as mourning, but surely it has zero impact on the majority of the population's lives in reality- it's annoying the football is postponed, disgraceful that medical appointments are being cancelled and protestors arrested, but actually 'forcing' you to mourn?
Forced is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
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Yeah I agree with this. That’s why I find it strange people wanting to avoid it but coming here to continually complain about it.

Seems an odd way of getting on with things to me.
 

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I'm not sure there has ever been more delicious ironing than queuers up in arms over people skipping the queue because of status.
 

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That'sHernandez said:
Stewart Lee's special Tornado has been postponed twice as well, the bastards.
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Yeah I saw his piece in the Guardian. Surely he can come up with an updated 'These days...' skit from the last week.

Irwin99 said:
I wonder if all this has moved anyone into actually disliking the royal family and what it stands for when prior to this they were mostly indifferent?
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I reckon mixed, with loads revelling in the nationalism, but you'd hope celebratory articles like this might piss at least some folk off in a cost of living crisis, following on from a decade of zero wage growth.

Astonishing wealth of Royal Family members revealed after it DOUBLED in a decade

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19841963/wealth-royal-family-members-revealed/
 

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Irwin99 said:
I wonder if all this has moved anyone into actually disliking the royal family and what it stands for when prior to this they were mostly indifferent?
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A generation which was fed lies by their parents will hopefully have a more truthful perspective due to the renewed coverage.
 

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Irwin99 said:
I wonder if all this has moved anyone into actually disliking the royal family and what it stands for when prior to this they were mostly indifferent?
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I think it's pushed me into the dislike camp. It's not the funeral and all the pomp and ceremony, it's just that it's reminding me of the unfairness of it all. Normally we don't see them much on the news, this has just made it all very obvious.
 

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Penna said:
I think it's pushed me into the dislike camp. It's not the funeral and all the pomp and ceremony, it's just that it's reminding me of the unfairness of it all. Normally we don't see them much on the news, this has just made it all very obvious.
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You’re made of solid gold Penna x
 

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I'm surprised we are still using a very traditional queuing system rather than booking slots online, or using a ticket system.

Surely the country could stretch to at least using some Post Office machines.

"Mourning lane number four please!"
 

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Mr Pigeon said:
She's literally lying in a fecking Palace right now as thousands of people risk their health to stand in line to walk past her, and her funeral will cost millions of pounds. In comparison most of our grandmothers are bunged in a hole after sitting in a morgue for a few days. But, yeah, don't say anything naughty about someone's grandmother such as "should this really be paid for by taxpayers" because that would be disrespectful...
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Very disrespectful (too soon!). There is a time and a place for that.
 

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Irwin99 said:
I wonder if all this has moved anyone into actually disliking the royal family and what it stands for when prior to this they were mostly indifferent?
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I think most people are still indifferent. A lot of this is just bandwagoning and the media being dramatic and whipping up a frenzy as per usual. There’s a lot of piss boiling going on which is quite funny though.
 
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