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Has the Queen died?

Karl Masks said:
This is fucking insane.
Imagine if this had happened during the 40 degree heatwave. That'd sort the wheat from the chaff
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They're already dropping over. I saw one weaving a bit. This one actually did topple over.



How embarrassing is that? Thing is, I think they switch out every 15 minutes. (I think to give them all a chance to say they attended the queen to her last, or some such).
 
A380 said:
Yuwipi Woman is this what Q anon was actually about all that time?
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They've managed to mash up nearly everything together from JFK, Princess Di, to Marilyn Monroe. At the moment they seem to be fascinated with arrests in a prostitution ring in Florida that netted everything from Deputy Sheriffs to schoolteachers. Naturally this fits right in with their idea that teachers are "grooming" students.
 
Some people think Warhammer 40k is a fascist adjacent adolescent power fantasy and an excuse to part parents with huge sums of money.

I'm no longer certain. The fiction has nothing on this dystopian reality

Yes I posted this
 
Yuwipi Woman said:
They're already dropping over. I saw one weaving a bit. This one actually did topple over.



How embarrassing is that? Thing is, I think they switch out every 15 minutes. (I think to give them all a chance to say they attended the queen to her last, or some such).
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I saw that live because I was checking how long the gap was between rotating those staff at the time, seemed more like 20 minutes.

Anyway they had two prior opportunities to stop him falling off the platform in that way. In the minute before that fall, which happened during the changeover, he had already staggered to the side once, then staggered more severely to the side and off the platform, but he kept going back. Officials saw both of those and didnt intervene, they let him stand there for another ~20-30 seconds before that far more dramatic forwards fall happened, and only then rushed in. The live feed was then cut for some minutes.

All of these clockwork automaton impersonations seem absurd anyway at the best of times, but even more so when something like that happens.
 
elbows said:
I saw that live because I was checking how long the gap was between rotating those staff at the time, seemed more like 20 minutes.

Anyway they had two prior opportunities to stop him falling off the platform in that way. In the minute before that fall, which happened during the changeover, he had already staggered to the side once, then staggered more severely to the side and off the platform, but he kept going back. Officials saw both of those and didnt intervene, they let him stand there for another ~20-30 seconds before that far more dramatic forwards fall happened, and only then rushed in. The live feed was then cut for some minutes.

All of these clockwork automaton impersonations seem absurd anyway at the best of times, but even more so when something like that happens.
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Twenty minutes seems about right. I don't think that standing that still for any length of time is natural for the human body. It's designed to move, not tighten up like that for an extended time. In addition, I'm wondering if they'd called in some retired people to help. A lot of those guards look well past their prime. When I was running events, I used to "award" prestigious events to people who had performed for me in the past. (Sometimes I made sure they got the leftover alcohol to take home too.) I wonder if that's what's happening there.
 
Yeah I dont really know how the whole guards things work in terms of roles for people who have at least reached the stage where their hair is rather white. I dont know what the different hats mean either - he was in the first batch of those who had that sort of cap on that hour, having replaced a series of people with the hats that make them look like they are part of some elaborate curtain cords.

As for the exact timing of changeovers, the whole thing is rather drawn out so they might start the process every 15 minutes but by the time the new ones have lurched into position and the old ones departed, it takes more like 20. They rotate the police with a similar sort of frequency too.

I could easily imagine falling down if I had to remain motionless like that. My mum also said she'd read that they had been up real early that morning rehearsing too, though whether that applied to that batch of people I cannot say.

This is what happens when I allow myself to observe this sort of tedious spectacle, I get into tedious detail! But I clearly didnt feel compelled to research the hats properly.

The only other thing out of the dull routine that happened while I was watching was that someone in the queue got way closer than normal to her coffin and left something that I couldnt identify on the steps leading up to it. Nobody reacted.
 
elbows said:
This is what happens when I allow myself to observe this sort of tedious spectacle, I get into tedious detail!
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Yep. It is a good opportunity to people watch, however scripted this event is.

The only other thing out of the dull routine that happened while I was watching was that someone in the queue got way closer than normal to her coffin and left something that I couldnt identify on the steps leading up to it. Nobody reacted.
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I saw an older gentleman that looked like an old warhorse straight from central casting, complete with red beret slung at a jaunty angle.
 
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elbows said:
Yeah I dont really know how the whole guards things work in terms of roles for people who have at least reached the stage where their hair is rather white. I dont know what the different hats mean either - he was in the first batch of those who had that sort of cap on that hour, having replaced a series of people with the hats that make them look like they are part of some elaborate curtain cords.

As for the exact timing of changeovers, the whole thing is rather drawn out so they might start the process every 15 minutes but by the time the new ones have lurched into position and the old ones departed, it takes more like 20. They rotate the police with a similar sort of frequency too.

I could easily imagine falling down if I had to remain motionless like that. My mum also said she'd read that they had been up real early that morning rehearsing too, though whether that applied to that batch of people I cannot say.

This is what happens when I allow myself to observe this sort of tedious spectacle, I get into tedious detail! But I clearly didnt feel compelled to research the hats properly.

The only other thing out of the dull routine that happened while I was watching was that someone in the queue got way closer than normal to her coffin and left something that I couldnt identify on the steps leading up to it. Nobody reacted.
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I used to work with a guy who was in the Queen’s ceremonial body guard. They are the chaps dressed up like ‘beefeaters’ - Yeaoman Warders at the Tower* ie with the Tudor hats with flowers. It’s a volunteer role open to people who were senior NCOs in the uk forces ( I think , maybe retired officers can do it too?). He wasn’t a flag shagger but was a royalist but mostly did it because he got some pretty good trips out of it.


* I think the Yeoman Warders get paid along with accommodation at the Tower of London. But the then they basically work as full time tour guides. The selection criteria is similar, retired senior NCOs.
 
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