RIP Queen Elizabeth

[Legs]

You'd have thought that they could afford to have comfy chairs in Westminster Abbey! A couple of grand for some cushions for all those dignitaries, whose overriding memory of the day is going to be how sore their arses got!

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

I don't know about nationwide. I completely missed it.

Has been in the media for the last week in a huge variety of media outlets. E.g

https://www.cityam.com/uk-to-hold-one-minutes-silence-on-sunday-at-8pm-for-queen-elizabeth-ii/

https://pembrokeshire-herald.com/78...-for-the-queen-will-be-held-at-8pm-on-sunday/

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...s-death-says-no10_uk_631f0e1be4b0eac9f4d94188

 

[geocycle]

I don't know about nationwide. I completely missed it.

Me too! I gave up broadcast news on tv and radio some years back so self select online and must have overlooked that one.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I don't know about nationwide. I completely missed it.

Us too....

In other news a flag has appeared on the door of the house opposite Margo and Jerry's. We republicans will not be swayed!

 

[DRM]

Us too....

In other news a flag has appeared on the door of the house opposite Margo and Jerry's. We republicans will not be swayed!

We did too, was too busy with Better call Saul on Netflix

 

[Mike_P]

Walking to Aldi yesterday morning two boys were behind and I heard one point out to the other "no you won't, theirs no school tomorrow". Switching off from news of any form must have reached new proportions if school kids are not aware when they have day off.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1571610095120781314

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Walking to Aldi yesterday morning two boys were behind and I heard one point out to the other "no you won't, theirs no school tomorrow". Switching off from news of any form must have reached new proportions if school kids are not aware when they have day off.

I don’t know about you but when a school kid , watching the news was boring and not something I did.

 

[Mike_P]

I don’t know about you but when a school kid , watching the news was boring and not something I did.

As I said news of any form, having a day off school was always the big news of the day when I was at school.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Us too....

In other news a flag has appeared on the door of the house opposite Margo and Jerry's. We republicans will not be swayed!

Is it at half mast ... or half-doorframe as the case may be.

Tell them they have hung it upside-down and that this is disrespectful. There's a 50-50 chance that they have and a 0% chance that they will know the difference. Cos nobody does.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

As I said news of any form, having a day off school was always the big news of the day when I was at school.

But you’d get that from the teachers not the news on TV or elsewhere

 

[Ian H]

Has been in the media for the last week in a huge variety of media outlets. E.g

https://www.cityam.com/uk-to-hold-one-minutes-silence-on-sunday-at-8pm-for-queen-elizabeth-ii/

https://pembrokeshire-herald.com/78...-for-the-queen-will-be-held-at-8pm-on-sunday/

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...s-death-says-no10_uk_631f0e1be4b0eac9f4d94188

Thank-you. I shall remember to look more carefully next time a monarch dies.

 

[winjim]

Is it at half mast ... or half-doorframe as the case may be.

Tell them they have hung it upside-down and that this is disrespectful. There's a 50-50 chance that they have and a 0% chance that they will know the difference. Cos nobody does.

I know the difference although the way I remember it could be considered either extremely disrespectful or entirely appropriate depending on your view of British history and constitutional affairs.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I know the difference although the way I remember it could be considered either extremely disrespectful or entirely appropriate depending on your view of British history and constitutional affairs.

Even if they do know the difference and know they have hung it the right way they will still look to double check, and when they do @Fab Foodie will be able to say "Made you look, made you stare, made you lose your underwear"

 

[DRM]

I know the difference although the way I remember it could be considered either extremely disrespectful or entirely appropriate depending on your view of British history and constitutional affairs.

Also can be used as a distress signal, iirc it was used as a warning on a Naval battleship that something was amiss, also that an enemy is causing a problem