Queue Watch: Dedicated BBC Queue Tracking discussion and analysis - HRH Her Majesty the Queen (Dec'd)

[Hollis]

 

[DaveCinzano]

View attachment 343435Idea for a show lynn; knowing me knowing queue, I interview people in the queue and hear their fascinating anecdotes about standing in the dark for 12 hours

No? Okay, bear with me... Queue Do You Think You Are..?

 

[Numbers]

RIP Queue

 

[Plumdaff]

The country will now enter ten days of mourning for the queue.

 

[marty21]

Should we not close the thread as a mark of respect?

I'm in the queue to join it ffs

 

[ruffneck23]

The queue is dead.

Long live the queue.

 

[two sheds]

I'm in the queue to join it ffs

The thread responses should really be moderated before they appear so that there's a proper queue to join it.

 

[A380]

Queue Vardis?


(Westminster Abbey, then an Angus Steak House and home to Kettering…)

 

[moomoo]

One of the last people to go through has just been interviewed. She said queuing for 9 hours was the best thing she’d ever done. Even better than the birth of her children.

 

[moochedit]

Even better than the birth of her children.

To be fair that does hurt a bit (or so i'm told)

 

[Numbers]

 

[Artaxerxes]

The queue lives in you Simba

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

RIP The Queue and it's stiff upper lip dunkurk spirit.

Just realised I must have posted this on the wrong thread yesterday.

The Queue | Strava

What a spectacle. I managed to run all of it where it wasn't blocked off. . . And contrary to reports, I don't think I saw anyone look upbeat. It was five solid miles (probably more as it zig zaged whenever it was able) of miserable looking chops, barely anyone even talking. . . . Just like a...

www.strava.com

I ran the length of the queue and back and investigated westminser.
(a few more pics and details on strava link)
Already by 1pm the crowds in Westminster (not queue) were getting intense as people started setting up camps to watch the procession for today.

 

[rekil]

Spoiler: The queue has seen things you people wouldn't believe

 

[A380]

Of course proper hardcover mourners would have completed the QEII triathlon: deposit a stuffed Paddington * in St James’s Park, gone straight to the end of the queue, queue, and then immediately camp out on the Mall…


* Not a euphemism.

 

[Ted Striker]

Today - the day of the actual funeral now has a distinct 'boxing day' feel imo - the main event has finished, all the effort went into yesterday (well last few days), and its TVs turn to put a shift in..

 

[Numbers]

We’re having a glass of Bubbles for breakfast, for Queue And Country.

 

[DaveCinzano]

What, you think the engineer won't be able to fix my washing machine?

He's en route and he's called Andor

 

[Skim]

J’ai cherché la queue et j’ai trouvé la saucisse végane. Incroyable!

 

[8ball]

If you’d asked me six months ago what me and millions of others would be doing today, I’d never have guessed it would be “watching The Emoji Movie”.

 

[DaveCinzano]

J’ai cherché la queue et j’ai trouvé la saucisse végane. Incroyable!

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Liberté, egalité, breakfast baguette & tea

 

[smmudge]

Oh I've found where the queue has migrated to now, outside my local asda at 5pm today....

 

[killer b]

oh.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Maybe they went twos up? Plus there wasn't so much on the telly back then.

 

[quimcunx]

Long live the Queue!

Kueue.

 

[skyscraper101]

Came up on my linkedin this AM

 

[Yossarian]

Gsv was saying he saw it pointed out that there was really nothing stopping them from giving everyone a ticketed hour slot to queue up or something (as they are presumably doing for people with access needs), so it's almost as though they wanted there to be an enormous queue of 'devoted citizens'.

Did anybody on the organising side ever explain why they decided it was a better idea to have a dayslong stream of exhausted, disheveled people shambling past the coffin than to have some kind of online booking system for time slots?

There definitely seems to have been an element of "look how devoted they are, look how long they'll wait, look what we can make them do..."

 

[Cloo]

Came up on my linkedin this AM

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I saw that too - some people must have been so tempted to touch the laptop

 

[emanymton]

Did anybody on the organising side ever explain why they decided it was a better idea to have a dayslong stream of exhausted, disheveled people shambling past the coffin than to have some kind of online booking system for time slots?

There definitely seems to have been an element of "look how devoted they are, look how long they'll wait, look what we can make them do..."

To stop people like us booking all the slots and not turning up?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Did anybody on the organising side ever explain why they decided it was a better idea to have a dayslong stream of exhausted, disheveled people shambling past the coffin than to have some kind of online booking system for time slots?

There definitely seems to have been an element of "look how devoted they are, look how long they'll wait, look what we can make them do..."

I think you have answered your own question.