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I hope the VIP line is also massive.
Took Beckham 12 hours apparently so it’s hardly a party either. Whichever queue you join at this point you’re a crackpot.
Beckham was in the plebs line.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-62932781
:D
Someone needs to start drafting a 24 style script for The Queue. Have Vlad nuke the funeral at the end or something.
Fuck sake :D
Lewis must have brought igor after all.
I'll be honest, I think Beckham queuing for 12 hours with the riff raff is pretty cool.
It's a truly glorious PR stunt.
And he still won't get the knighthood.
Geezer will do anything to get that knighthood in the bag.
Personally I think the fella was just doing a very touching (arf) tribute to the morals and values of our Royal Family.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
You'd better be on that train Lewis.
I'm on the platform. :cool:
Legend.
And some good news.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62933685
Looks like the wait is down to a mere 19 and a half hours now.
Absolute masterstroke, isn't it. Glowing press all over the shop.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
On the plus side, people are turning on "Phil and Holly".
You'd have thought messaging a work experience kid and gag ordering it would do the trick, but if skipping queues to get to "are majestie" is the key then I can deal with it.
Bring on the disingenuous apology.
+2 for this. Even though it was an obvious publicity stunt as you'll see it still can't stop the good feeling I have about him doing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex
Knighthood in the post.
Philip Schofield is perhaps the current apex of relatively innocuous people who I shouldn't really be bothered about yet absolutely despise.
We got to the park at 2:15 and the sign said fourteen hours. We are now at Tower Bridge so that might be the upper end of the scale.
Made any mates? Bet you’re cold.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
If you take his life as an attempt to run away from the fact he's been touching boys (not sure if of age or not), it all makes a lot more sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...droidApp_Other
Looks like Lewis got in.
Probably a conspiracy theorist wanting to check, my Mrs is convinced the box is empty.
Schrodingers Queen.
As conspiracy theories go "she's not in the box" seems fairly innocuous.
I mean how long has she supposedly been lying in state in different places and getting carted about in hearses now? Google tells me it's a lead lined coffin which possibly answers my question there, I dunno.
It's either a slowly decomposing body in a box or an empty box. Either way, a queuing time of 12 rides on the Nemesis Revenge during the Summer Holidays is a bit silly bollocks.
Spikey is protesting too much. I bet he wanted to join the queue but his missus put a leash on him.
She's obviously in the box.
Spikey is posting from the queue.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7om
I’d laugh if someone bum rushed the coffin, knocked it over and it was empty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Nemesis Revenge doesn't exist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
99% it's empty. They wouldn't risk it.
Whatever it is. I haven't been for about 20 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
Risk what? Someone giving her CPR them killing her again? Or does someone saying mean things to a box carry more weight if she's actually inside?Quote:
Originally Posted by John Arne
Wouldn't the body be decomposing?
Zombie Queen deciding she's not ready to stop reigning yet, chomping down on all those twerps who've gone to see her, zombie apocalypse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
That said there'd still be some dimwit whose last words would be what an honour it is to be zombified by Her Maj.
I don't really know the specifics of these things but if you embalm a body (which I suppose they have) doesn't it give it a bit more of a prolonged expiry date?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kikó
The box isn't empty. Where else is she, chilling in a fishmonger's in Aberdeen, waiting to be smuggled down to Windsor next week?
In fact isn't Lenin's actual body still on public display in Russia? He's been dead nearly a century. I'm sure we can sort something out that prevents Her Majesty from stinking out Westminster for a few days.
We probably outsourced the embalming to capita who have her looking like one of those Spanish painting restorations.
It's almost a month before you bury anyone over there so I'd easily say they've got the whole process down at this stage.
Yeah, they've fast-tracked this, there'll be plebs that died before her still waiting a few weeks yet.
Was going to say the exact same thing. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
The specifics of Lenin's embalming are quite fascinating. The body on display is largely prosthetics from the waist down. One hell of an achievement but the whole body isn't intact.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex
Robo Ma’am it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
Aye, I spent maybe more time that I would care to admit reading about it after I made that post. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
It is fascinating. It sounds like they just keep him in very controlled conditions and re-embalm him every 18 months. Apparently when they originally, temporality embalmed him and then laid him out it was -7 degrees in Russia, so he was still in good shape a month and half later and they just decided to try and permanently preserve him. 98 years later he's still (sort of) there!
Can confirm this to be the case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Think all funerals on Monday being cancelled didn't help much.
You been through yet, @Lewis?