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If they're prepared to queue all night in the pissing rain, how about they all make a donation to a homeless charity. Or am I asking too much ?

i think it's considered unpatriotic and disloyal (or something like that) to ask that.

like asking whether people wouldn't have been better making a donation to a charity that does something useful rather than buying flowers to put outside the palace/ castle / local town hall
 
Oh aye, I mean I've always tended to work "office hours", but my OH has always been on shift work - either irregular shift patterns or night shifts, I don't think he's ever had a guaranteed weekend off in his life!

But... I think in general there are sections of society that are more likely to have time to queue for potentially more than a day to shuffle past a box, and people who are retired are more likely to have that sort of availability, or more able to make that sort of gap in their calendar at fairly short notice for something they want to do.
 
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If they're prepared to queue all night in the pissing rain, how about they all make a donation to a homeless charity. Or am I asking too much ?
You're asking too much. My pet cause is more important than yours, because naturally of course, I'm more important and than you.

Come on, surely you concede that because your opinions are different than mine, its you that has to be morally inferior?
 
i think it's considered unpatriotic and disloyal (or something like that) to ask that.

like asking whether people wouldn't have been better making a donation to a charity that does something useful rather than buying flowers to put outside the palace/ castle / local town hall
I've just interviewed 2000 of them. They all said "Fuck off! We never give to charity, but we might if you redouble your efforts to patronise us about our morality, values and priorities."
 
I've just interviewed 2000 of them. They all said "Fuck off! We never give to charity, but we might if you redouble your efforts to patronise us about our morality, values and priorities."
Patronising someone is offering them some kind of support or solidarity in a way that betrays your feeling of superiority. Saying straight up that they're fucking ridiculous is in no way patronising.
 
Patronising someone is offering them some kind of support or solidarity in a way that betrays your feeling of superiority. Saying straight up that they're fucking ridiculous is in no way patronising.
I am sorry that Raheem had to publicly correct you like this StakerOne, but perhaps at least you understand the concept of patronising a bit better now?

See how it's done?
 
Usually there's nothing that makes my heart sink quite like a group of white British people getting ready to do the conga. This may be the one occasion when I'd have enjoyed it.
They could all do a Mexican wave from back to front and back again. It'll help them all with their circulation and keep them awake.
 
If they're prepared to queue all night in the pissing rain, how about they all make a donation to a homeless charity. Or am I asking too much ?
It's not really a question of too much, is it? It's like being given a puppy to cuddle and asking why it isn't a larger slice of battenburg cake. This behaviour's not about sensible, practical reasoning about how we should behave - a magically appointed special old lady died and that's what matters.
 
If they're prepared to queue all night in the pissing rain, how about they all make a donation to a homeless charity. Or am I asking too much ?
Was it raining last night down there in Londinium then? I've checked the weather forecast for London for the next few days and sadly alas for a low chance of a few spots today it looks like it is going to stay dry all the way to Monday
 
Good news, it's been arranged with MRS o87 that I can be 'somewhere else' for the funeral.
Anyone in N. Somerset up for a knees up?
 
The Guardian has published this from its archive (20s is 20 shillings, for you younger readers)


Man who broke the silence fined
18 February 1952

Anthony George, 26, of Fontaine Road, Streatham, who was said to have not observed the two minutes’ silence on Friday, was fined 20s at Guildhall magistrates court yesterday for insulting behaviour. He said: “There was no political motive. I objected to the commercialism of the King’s funeral. That is why I did not observe the silence. I did not realise it would infuriate people.” PC Eric Rolfe said that George walked up Fleet Street and made unnecessary noise with his feet. The crowd got angry.
 
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