Spurs (H) - Postponed due to the passing of the Queen (pg67)

[goater1985]

So, what you're saying is, I should sit at home and be solemn and miserable for the next ten days because a 96 year-old woman has died peacefully in her sleep? I take it I have to work during these ten days, can I still crack a joke and banter with my colleagues during this time? Or would that be disrespectful? Must I wear black for the next ten days? Can I watch Netflix and Disney Plus during this time or is that enjoyment also disrespectful?

I understand and fully respect that some will be sad and want to mourn, but don't then assume the whole country is one bleeding heart of anguish, because it isn't.

I lost my Grandfather and Grandmother earlier this year, they were my King and Queen. I was cut up but I didn't dwell and deprive myself of one of my greatest pleasures when that happened, so I sure as shit I'm not going to do it now.

You've got the media trying to convince us the nation is harrowed whilst simultaneously showing us footage of the same nation taking selfies and smiling outside Buckingham Palace. The whole thing is a piss take.

Absolutely spot on.

Ridiculous decision to cancel football and force it on people.

 

[xgorton]

Yeah, what a pain. This should've been planned better...

Don't be a coont, people will lose lots of money no need to postpone.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Yeah, the game must go on... long live the football.

Why is it disrespectful for sport to continue then?

 

[Stoned Rose]

Is your job a game?

Was football just a game when it was allowed to crack on in Covid whilst the rest of us weren’t allowed to see any ****?

 

[Fordyboy46]

I will be pissed off as it's my first visit this season, trains booked as well. But what will be will be

 

[Irishblue93]

I will be pissed off as it's my first visit this season, trains booked as well. But what will be will be

Same as. Over from Ireland for 2 nights. Gig on Saturday night to which could be off.

 

[Zenmanc]

the rest of us weren’t allowed to see any ****?

That's what I call a brutal lockdown... no access to internet either?

 

[Leeky]

Minute's silence followed by the national anthem and black armbands would have sufficed.

Probably would have been more respectful as well. Never mind, we must have our hysteria.

Not at the dippers game

 

[PaulPowerScreamer]

(Not directed AT you, but at the prevailing sensibility you are expressing.)

And the reason you are free to say that is?

A little ‘istree lesson needed for some. And, no, my Granny was not the “official” Queen, either, regardless of my personal feelings, but that didn’t mean I disrespected who was.

So you are saying the reason we have freedom of speech in this country is *checks notes* the queen?

 

[SebastianBlue]

We will never see her like again. And the postponement of football this weekend is absolutely the correct thing. We get so much wrong in this country. The rightful mourning at the passing of the country’s head of state is something we should and will get right.

Respect to the Queen, but a woman who lived to be 96, who wanted for nothing materially in her entire life, passing away peacefully in luxury most of us can only hope to ever experience, should force thousands of businesses and individuals—most already struggling to stay afloat in the middle of an economic crisis—to lose large amounts of money? So people can do something that can be done perfectly well *without* having their livelihoods threatened?

Has the world gone completely mad?

There’s respect and then there’s taking the piss.