Bang on.What are you expecting? People to be crying there eyes out Infront of you or constantly talking about it?
Of course people are going to carry on as normal.
You’ve walked past people and not heard them talking about the queen - that means no one’s talking about it? One of the most talked about events in decades, but apparently no one cares to even mention it where you live. Come off it.
My grandma died and two days later I had to go into work and carry out meetings as normal. Know one would know I was sad or upset about it. Going off what your saying people are only sad or mournful if it’s visible..
So 4 friends meet up, they've not seen them since the Queen has passed and no one mentions it AT ALL ? I find that hard to believe, don't you ?
30 hours — you could get an ambulance on emergency call out in that timeNow reporting people will be slowing walking for 30 hours in a queue just to see the coffin. Fucking madness.
Well I own a Borgi - Border Collie cross so your assumption/theory sounds right.Dorgi is a corgi/dachshund cross, I think. I think they're an attempt to get round nasty genetic issues that corgis have.
Dorgi is a corgi/dachshund cross, I think. I think they're an attempt to get round nasty genetic issues that corgis have.
There are 2 of them, and apparently Andrew and Sarah gave them to the Queen last year. Doesn't seem unreasonable for them to take them back.
"But that still doesn't mean that the death of the Queen isn't the biggest thing to happen in our country since the end of WWI"Most people don't care about a lot of things in this country and occupy themselves with their family and friends and the little things in life. One in three of us don't even bother to vote. But that still doesn't mean that the death of the Queen isn't the biggest thing to happen in our country since the end of WWII. There wont be another event like this that gathers people and world leaders in our lifetimes. There are likely to be 2million people descending on London in the next week.
Suggesting no one is bothered because you haven't talked about it, doesn't render it a non event, It will be largest event the UK is likely to see and possibly the world in so far as world leaders gathering to show their respects to someone they held in very high esteem. That is just the way it is.
Pretty sure the Dorgi originates from the royal family, the dachshund was Margaret’s.
I don’t have much hate in me, but I hate people like that and have absolutely no hesitation in calling them rude cunts to their faces.Snap.
When I was at Uni I worked part time in a Bookshop. One day this snooty woman came to the till. She had bought 3 cheap books and the price was £3. She took 3 single pound notes and dropped them one by one on the counter. I looked straight at her with a look of fury. Picked up the notes one by one, put them in the till one by one. Put each book into a single bag and dropped them, one by be on the counter. You should have seen her face. I just stared her out, she picked them up and left. The manager of the shop was standing beside me and gave me a look.
I don’t take that shit off anybody. I told him.
He just shook his head and smiled.
Manners cost nothing. She may have been snooty, but she had zero fucking class.
"But that still doesn't mean that the death of the Queen isn't the biggest thing to happen in our country since the end of WWI"
The biggest event since World War II? Is that a serious comment?
It’s your choice to work for the New Statesman…As part of my job I deal and work with a lot of people who you’d describe as being very left wing. I’d describe my own politics as being liberal and modern, too. I had an EU flag flying from my living room window in 2016!
But over the last few days I’ve seen some awful, cruel things being said on social media and around my workplace. Really inappropriate nasty stuff. And those on the left are supposed to be the nice, tolerant ones?
It’s all quite upsetting and overwhelming to be honest. The last time I saw such horrible things on social media was during brexit.
I’m not even a flag waving royalist. I just think people should have a bit of respect and understanding.
It’s like unless you’re a Corbyn supporting “hang them all!” socialist your opinions and feelings aren’t valid, and you’re somehow fair game to be subjected to piss taking and bullying.
I’m trying not to engage but it’s very hard. These people live in a radical left wing bubble and lots of them don’t understand that there’s a whole world and spectrum of valid opinions beyond their own.
I don’t even want to go into work today it’s that poisonous.
Feel like Trevor Sinclair, the racist hypocrite?
He moaned about racism being outlawed since the 60s and linked it to the Queen and black/brown people not mourning her death (when the two have got nowt to do with each other… I’m also not mourning, by the way), when he’s been charged for being a racist before now.
Nobody should be paying any attention to what he’s said.
I am no Royalist but the death of Diana was a far bigger deal for me, if only because it was someone so young and lost her life because of a tragic accident.It's probably overstating things, but I doubt there has been much that has made the front pages of newspapers all over the world, including local papers, have produced statements quite like Macron's and the Pope's, or seen the US order that all flags on federal buildings be at half-mast for 10 days.
It may be that it's about the biggest from an international point of view. Given how many queued for the Queen Mother, I have no conception of how the lying in state at Westminster will be managed.
It’s probably the biggest event in the country since Harry and Meghan’s wedding, although the final of Euro 2020 got a few out on the streets too."But that still doesn't mean that the death of the Queen isn't the biggest thing to happen in our country since the end of WWI"
The biggest event since World War II? Is that a serious comment?
I know this is going to upset people, so I'd rather those people ignore this post (should be easy then!).
I think she was a somewhat decent person with flaws, torn between family and duty with no say in what happens in politics, but there ARE people that feel like Trevor Sinclair.
You have been warned...
Off the scale hatchet job by MSNBC....
I am no Royalist but the death of Diana was a far bigger deal for me, if only because it was someone so young and lost her life because of a tragic accident.
And far more importantly this country has had wars/ Terrorist attacks which put the passing of a 96 year old lady in prospective, and I say that in no disrespect to the Queen in any way.
Yes, I believe so. Name me another event that has had 2 million people gathering? just for clarification, its not the most important event, but its the biggest event in so far as it has galvanized the most people?"But that still doesn't mean that the death of the Queen isn't the biggest thing to happen in our country since the end of WWI"
The biggest event since World War II? Is that a serious comment?
Yes.Yep. It also means everyone feels compelled to give their opinion on everything, which is fine to an extent, it’s what forums like this exist for, but it can lead to a lack of empathy very quickly.
You are Marty McFly and I claim my £5.Yes, I believe so. Name me another event that has had 2 million people gathering?