My Mrs and her parents ended up going last night. They got to Canada Water for 6:30, walked in an unofficial pre-queue for 3 hours, then got given a wristband. They are now waiting for the tube having finally got in at around 6am.
Insanity. If Lewis goes he should be stripped of all previous best poster awards.
How did anyone think Lewis wouldn't go? He's the most real British person I've ever came across and it's the death of a hugely long standing monarch. I'd think less of him if he didn't go.
Yeah but you can't spend years sneering at anybody else when you think they're being a bit wet and then spend hours in a queue to walk past a coffin and expect not to be heartily lol'd at.
If, in fact, he has gone.
The Mrs got home at 8. 14 and a half hours after leaving.
Lewis 😂
Seems the queue-o-meter has bottomed out at 4.9 miles and they aren't counting this 'pre-queue' business. Sad times. Time ticker up to 14 hours though. As Giggles says, this is the most quintessentially British thing imaginable. I hope all of the little cafés and whatnot on the route are just opening 24/7 and then planning to take the rest of the year off. Bet Matt Hancock's mates are out there somewhere with the world's supply of mini-Union Jacks.Originally Posted by Spikey M
My Mrs and her parents ended up going last night. They got to Canada Water for 6:30, walked in an unofficial pre-queue for 3 hours, then got given a wristband. They are now waiting for the tube having finally got in at around 6am.
Insanity. If Lewis goes he should be stripped of all previous best poster awards.
I'm going at like eleven tonight, by which point it will have hopefully become slightly less stupid.
Won't it just be full of drunken idiots who've not really thought things through?
Is it worth the risk opening and getting cancelled (burnt down) or would feeding the loyal queuers be ok? I get a feeling in this day and age 'feed us but don't charge us' will be the cry.
Well, and lonesome oddballs with nothing better to do with their time.
You think? Surely a load of people have had to wait for the weekend to get involved.
What you need is it to start pissing down to flush out the wimps.
After work of Friday is the worst time to go I'd imagine.
I assumed everything would be open until Monday and by then the queuing is largely done with, no?
But yeah, I can well imagine people expecting free tea or whatever, and some gombines being all too happy to oblige.
Sad news Lewis.
The queue is at capacity and entry is currently paused. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO JOIN UNTIL IT RESUMES!
Queuing to look at an empty coffin. Amazing.
If it was the Queen of Portugal or Italy.....
They abolished their monarchies like they all should be.
Doing things that don't really need to be done and you probably don't really want to do, for seventy years, and not publicly complaining about it once is probably deserving of all the trappings that come with it.
If I have to do five things in a year I don't really want to do I lose my shit.
It's the symbol of a nation. Monarchy or the Aldi car park in Reading. You choose.
Start a thread with live updates from the queue, Lewis.
A Twitter thread.
So... are there loos scattered along the queue or what?
Losers, yeah.
I'm a twit
Guys, it's a historic event.
A new all night thread.
My phone battery is shithouse so no chance of that.
We need some form of updates so pick up a charging pack on the way.
Who lives closest to the back of the queue? Nip down with a power pack, FOR THE GOOD OF THE BOARD.
I'm a twit
What updates do people expect? Hours of "still taking two steps per half hour with Team Saddo", then "saw a coffin" surrounded by blokes in funny hats"?
Fucking hell. Some loon who works with my Mrs has shared footage of him bowing to the coffin. Sad sack must have time stamped his arrival and then rifled through the BBC feed when he got home.
Well there goes Lewis' plan.
Ideally he'd get talking to people in the queue. Actually, he should take Igor, get him pissed, then watch the queue vanish within a couple of stories.
This board has been making the mundane interesting for over 20 years now, so I don't see why Lewis' trip to London would be any different.
Lewis' work mates on Monday morning.
Personally the only update I want is how many different styles of half and half Charles/Liz scarves are available.
And if Lewis had been there last night he could have been in the queue with Sir David Beckham.
Pranksters should just record themselves trying to queue jump at various points and seeing the gammons react.
I think a twenty-four hour queue is beyond me. How has that developed?
Pussy.
Surprised nobody in the queue has been knifed yet.
Two coppers were.
I'll see what happens in the next few hours. There are trains until eleven, and it's an open return that I can use another time so won't have wasted any money.
There was a little seven year old kid on the ITV news there who had queued with his mum for 14 hours to see her/an empty coffin.
Social services should be getting involved there. Same for anyone else joining the queue now with kids which still seems to be happening in the background on the news.
I know you lot have it drummed into you early, but a trip to London to see the Queen is not actually child abuse.
It's down to twenty-two hours we might be on lads.
Just read that there’s a VIP line. Even more reason not to go. What makes Philip Schofield any better than the poor fuckers who are risking their lives for 14 hours in the mongole queue. Despicable.
Schofield heard 'VIP line' and '14' and levitated there.
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