Queen Elizabeth II 1926 - 2022

[Sid]

Is this the right place to mention this? Because I haven't been actually following the coverage all that closely - just enough to get the general story of what all is going on - but even in what I've seen I've noticed this.

Nice reminder to never ever form an opinion after the use of one news source only.

 

[Beebo Brink]

 

[Beebo Brink]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

With Brexit, we shouldn't forget the effect of years of lies and misinformation about the EU from the right-wing press.

Even if you don't read the Mail, the Express and the Sun, for the last 30-odd years you've not been able to enter a newsagent's, a corner shop or a supermarket without seeing a load of anti-EU headlines several times a month, at least, and that kind of constant drip-drip-drip of propaganda must have an effect.

Similarly, in the interests of political balance, the BBC used to invite UKIP MEPs onto political panel shows far more frequently than MEPs from other parties, which meant that we never got a balanced picture of the work of the European Parliament.

And the referendum campaign itself was just dreadful -- Leave came out with lie after lie after lie about the benefits of leaving the EU.

Furthermore, the Leave vote in many areas wasn't a vote for nostalgia or the past. Rather, it was a vote for change, against the ruling economic consensus, which really wasn't doing anything for those areas that used to be the old industrial Labour heartlands.

"Leave" offered the possibility of change, and since Labour under Jeremy Corbyn were lukewarm, at best, about the benefits of remaining in the EU, the case for the EU was being made by people like Cameron and George Osborne, the architects of austerity.

Anyway, that's done, now, and we have to live with the outcome.

This article is quite interesting on why people get involved in communal rituals of mourning -- it's apparently more complicated than at first it seems.

I’m an expert in crowd behaviour – don’t be fooled that everyone queueing in London is mourning the Queen | Stephen Reicher

Despite what we hear from the media, the reasons so many are gathering are complex and various, says psychologist Stephen Reicher

www.theguardian.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Interesting thread on The Queue

 

[Free]

Maybe if y'all called it "a line" you wouldn't be so fascinated with them?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Maybe if y'all called it "a line" you wouldn't be so fascinated with them?

The Elizabeth line is even longer.

 

[Isabeau]

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This article is quite interesting on why people get involved in communal rituals of mourning -- it's apparently more complicated than at first it seems.

I’m an expert in crowd behaviour – don’t be fooled that everyone queueing in London is mourning the Queen | Stephen Reicher

Despite what we hear from the media, the reasons so many are gathering are complex and various, says psychologist Stephen Reicher

www.theguardian.com

Loved this (also the video you posted earlier with the man doing the vox pop).

Short read but explains well how varied the views of people are during, yes, the Queen’s passing, but it also could be applied to all national happenings/tragedies. It often seems like we are bunched into camps of for or against, true patriot or traitor.

It happens even on what seems like trivial matters on social media. Drives me nuts. I guess it isn’t always easy to have nuanced conversations with more than a few people at the same time.

 

[Free]

The Elizabeth line is even longer.

That's a rail queue.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I have taught my cats to line up on a person's back on command. Now I just need to get John de Lance to help so I can get them to queue on cue on Q.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Maybe if y'all called it "a line" you wouldn't be so fascinated with them?

It would certainly be easier to spell.

 

[Sid]

Nah, don't spoil the British traditions. They love their queueueues.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Thread

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Sid]

"The most important event the world will ever see."
I guess he is invited to the ceremony in Westminster Abbey or even Windsor Castle.

And people with such mindset and understanding of the world are allowed to influence politics as Speaker of the House of Commons.

Personally I thought it was the misfortune of His Majesty the King with writing with a fountain pen.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

So many world leaders in one place makes for diplomatic minefield

Seldom has so dense a concentration of dignitaries converged in one place as the throng that came to pay their last respects to Nelson Mandela at a stadium in J

www.thetimes.co.uk

Evernote link

How to avoid a hissy fit from world leaders at the Queen’s funeral: the diplomat’s guide

Keep apart leaders who hate one another, watch what you feed them and make sure that President Macron is near the front to avoid “a hissy fit”.This is the adv

www.thetimes.co.uk

Evernote link

Fingers crossed that it all goes reasonably smoothly.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Nah, don't spoil the British traditions. They love their queueueues.

I forget where, but I recently saw someone opine that 'queue' was their favorite word, because it has 4 silent letters.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I forget where, but I recently saw someone opine that 'queue' was their favorite word, because it has 4 silent letters.

Page 6 of this thread?

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

It would certainly be easier to spell.

It's just a "Q", with a gaggle of silent letters standing in line.