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Re: The Queen

Post by Gfamily » Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:50 pm

Grumble wrote:
Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:44 pm
shpalman wrote:
Thu Sep 15, 2022 5:58 pm
Or, alternatively, it's from https://twitter.com/curiousiguana/statu ... 6028464128
If it wasn’t for that post I don’t think I’d be aware there was a queue
General disgust that MPs get a pass to jump the queue.
You don't jump queues.
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Re: The Queen

Post by Grumble » Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:51 pm

Bird on a Fire wrote:
Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:48 pm
Grumble wrote:
Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:44 pm
shpalman wrote:
Thu Sep 15, 2022 5:58 pm
Or, alternatively, it's from https://twitter.com/curiousiguana/statu ... 6028464128
If it wasn’t for that post I don’t think I’d be aware there was a queue
Yeah yeah, I saw you pushing in at the front for a gander at a dead old woman in a fancy box. "Wasn't aware there was a queue" pull the other 1 m8
I have a colleague who went down yesterday, on her day off, to have a gander at the dead queen. Not saying I’m not aware a lot of people are going, but I had no idea people were queuing for hours. I didn’t ask said colleague about it.
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Re: The Queen

Post by Stephanie » Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:55 pm

Bird on a Fire wrote:
Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:06 pm
Stephanie wrote:
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Re: The Queen

Post by Millennie Al » Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:57 pm

plodder wrote:
Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:07 am
It's not a considered, deliberate, step by step logical process where people say "well I won't be angry at this particular thing because I think you'll find in Article 6 of the Convention of Succession there is actually a sub clause that clearly delineates between properties owned by the Crown and properties appropriated by the Crown and actually I think you'll find that that ought to reassure you that there are actually provisions in place" because they'll be too busy setting fire to sh.t.
That's the same sentiment that, when MPs have it they say they have had enough of experts, so they just go with their prejudices.

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Re: The Queen

Post by jdc » Thu Sep 15, 2022 11:23 pm

bob sterman wrote:
Thu Sep 15, 2022 6:00 am
And if someone rolls out the "generates a lot of money from tourism" line
The French do alright and look what they did to their royal family.

Comparison of tourist spending UK v France using totally cherry-picked stat: https://www.statista.com/statistics/644 ... ts-france/ & https://www.statista.com/statistics/287 ... ingdom-uk/

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Re: The Queen

Post by jdc » Thu Sep 15, 2022 11:24 pm

Millennie Al wrote:
Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:57 pm
plodder wrote:
Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:07 am
It's not a considered, deliberate, step by step logical process where people say "well I won't be angry at this particular thing because I think you'll find in Article 6 of the Convention of Succession there is actually a sub clause that clearly delineates between properties owned by the Crown and properties appropriated by the Crown and actually I think you'll find that that ought to reassure you that there are actually provisions in place" because they'll be too busy setting fire to sh.t.
That's the same sentiment that, when MPs have it they say they have had enough of experts, so they just go with their prejudices.
Looking forward to seeing some rational rioting this winter.

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Re: The Queen

Post by TimW » Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:25 am

The back of the queue is currently shown to be the what3words location toward.being.former
Seems fair, shame it takes 11.5 hours to get there.
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Re: The Queen

Post by Woodchopper » Fri Sep 16, 2022 8:05 am

This is in bad taste but made me laugh. If you're offended by that sort of thing don't click: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments ... king_this/

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Re: The Queen

Post by lpm » Fri Sep 16, 2022 4:35 pm

This queue.

Time to get the professionals in. Disneyland and Alton Towers.

They know the answer. Increase the capacity of the ride via multiplying the product.

20 queen boxes, not one.

Important that every experience is identical, all 20 attractions having soldiers and crowns and candles and all that stuff. Visitors must be unable to tell apart the one with the actual queen hidden inside a box. Each customer must experince exactly what they currently experience.

Should get the queue down to an hour.
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Re: The Queen

Post by Gfamily » Fri Sep 16, 2022 4:38 pm

lpm wrote:
Fri Sep 16, 2022 4:35 pm
This queue.

Time to get the professionals in. Disneyland and Alton Towers.

They know the answer. Increase the capacity of the ride via multiplying the product.

20 queen boxes, not one.

Important that every experience is identical, all 20 attractions having soldiers and crowns and candles and all that stuff. Visitors must be unable to tell apart the one with the actual queen hidden inside a box. Each customer must experince exactly what they currently experience.

Should get the queue down to an hour.
The uncertainty of whether it's the 'real one' makes it a bit shroud-ing 'er catafalque, no?
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ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
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Re: The Queen

Post by lpm » Fri Sep 16, 2022 4:51 pm

Here's a survey on why people are queuing for the show.

All these motivations are satisfied by my multiple body-box solution. Customers will get the same experience, plus won't be too exhausted to browse the gift shop on the way out.

https://twitter.com/robjohns75/status/1 ... 0859017216
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Re: The Queen

Post by El Pollo Diablo » Fri Sep 16, 2022 5:20 pm

Gfamily wrote:
Fri Sep 16, 2022 4:38 pm
lpm wrote:
Fri Sep 16, 2022 4:35 pm
This queue.

Time to get the professionals in. Disneyland and Alton Towers.

They know the answer. Increase the capacity of the ride via multiplying the product.

20 queen boxes, not one.

Important that every experience is identical, all 20 attractions having soldiers and crowns and candles and all that stuff. Visitors must be unable to tell apart the one with the actual queen hidden inside a box. Each customer must experince exactly what they currently experience.

Should get the queue down to an hour.
The uncertainty of whether it's the 'real one' makes it a bit shroud-ing 'er catafalque, no?
Tomb Of The Unknown Queen, style thing?
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Re: The Queen

Post by Gfamily » Fri Sep 16, 2022 5:23 pm

El Pollo Diablo wrote:
Fri Sep 16, 2022 5:20 pm
Gfamily wrote:
Fri Sep 16, 2022 4:38 pm

The uncertainty of whether it's the 'real one' makes it a bit shroud-ing 'er catafalque, no?
Tomb Of The Unknown Queen, style thing?
Quantum uncERtainty
My avatar was a scientific result that was later found to be 'mistaken' - I rarely claim to be 100% correct
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
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Re: The Queen

Post by Bird on a Fire » Fri Sep 16, 2022 11:11 pm

At the end, Noel Edmunds could reveal which is the real Queen box.

Let people change queue based on their various "systems". For a reasonable processing fee.
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Re: The Queen

Post by Bird on a Fire » Fri Sep 16, 2022 11:13 pm

Alternatively, the Catholic church might have a system to enable large numbers of people to make a pilgrimage to parts of a famous corpse. And they're f.cking coining it, even more than Disneyworld.
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Re: The Queen

Post by El Pollo Diablo » Fri Sep 16, 2022 11:26 pm

Could do a tour, she's already been embalmed, meight as well make use of it.
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Re: The Queen

Post by jdc » Fri Sep 16, 2022 11:41 pm

I still think we should have Weekend at Bernies'd her and avoided all this fuss.

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Re: The Queen

Post by jdc » Fri Sep 16, 2022 11:45 pm

I mean it's just so tiresome.

Please tell me we don't have to do this every time a racist parasite dies.

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Re: The Queen

Post by Bird on a Fire » Sat Sep 17, 2022 12:02 am

El Pollo Diablo wrote:
Fri Sep 16, 2022 11:26 pm
Could do a tour, she's already been embalmed, meight as well make use of it.
Festival of Brexit II: Literally just the queen's corpse, leaning out of the window of the antiques roadshow van, driving at a solemn 5 mph through every village in the land.
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Re: The Queen

Post by Bird on a Fire » Sat Sep 17, 2022 12:03 am

jdc wrote:
Fri Sep 16, 2022 11:45 pm
I mean it's just so tiresome.

Please tell me we don't have to do this every time a racist parasite dies.
I'll do it once again, if they all agree to die at the same time, rip the plaster off like
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Re: The Queen

Post by Woodchopper » Sat Sep 17, 2022 2:20 am

Bird on a Fire wrote:
Fri Sep 16, 2022 11:11 pm
At the end, Noel Edmunds could reveal which is the real Queen box.

Let people change queue based on their various "systems". For a reasonable processing fee.
No need to have fake Queens. The church solved the problem years ago by having people worship different bits of saints in different places.

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Re: The Queen

Post by lpm » Sat Sep 17, 2022 3:56 am

Too low mps is root of the problem (mourners per second).

80 mps solution:

https://twitter.com/_RichardParry_/stat ... 9975862272
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Re: The Queen

Post by bob sterman » Sat Sep 17, 2022 6:47 am

Woodchopper wrote:
Sat Sep 17, 2022 2:20 am
Bird on a Fire wrote:
Fri Sep 16, 2022 11:11 pm
At the end, Noel Edmunds could reveal which is the real Queen box.

Let people change queue based on their various "systems". For a reasonable processing fee.
No need to have fake Queens. The church solved the problem years ago by having people worship different bits of saints in different places.
It's not very CofE but you don't necessarily need actual bits to worship in different places. Could have bits of bread represent the body? Or for a modern 21st century update - some other food?

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Re: The Queen

Post by Woodchopper » Sat Sep 17, 2022 7:16 am

bob sterman wrote:
Sat Sep 17, 2022 6:47 am
Woodchopper wrote:
Sat Sep 17, 2022 2:20 am
Bird on a Fire wrote:
Fri Sep 16, 2022 11:11 pm
At the end, Noel Edmunds could reveal which is the real Queen box.

Let people change queue based on their various "systems". For a reasonable processing fee.
No need to have fake Queens. The church solved the problem years ago by having people worship different bits of saints in different places.
It's not very CofE but you don't necessarily need actual bits to worship in different places. Could have bits of bread represent the body? Or for a modern 21st century update - some other food?
I like that idea.

Everyone likes Nando’s. How about we all eat some in remembrance of her. Maybe collectively in a big room on Sundays.

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Re: The Queen

Post by El Pollo Diablo » Sat Sep 17, 2022 7:19 am

bob sterman wrote:
Sat Sep 17, 2022 6:47 am
Woodchopper wrote:
Sat Sep 17, 2022 2:20 am
Bird on a Fire wrote:
Fri Sep 16, 2022 11:11 pm
At the end, Noel Edmunds could reveal which is the real Queen box.

Let people change queue based on their various "systems". For a reasonable processing fee.
No need to have fake Queens. The church solved the problem years ago by having people worship different bits of saints in different places.
It's not very CofE but you don't necessarily need actual bits to worship in different places. Could have bits of bread represent the body? Or for a modern 21st century update - some other food?
Well tbf that is very CofE. Reformation innit.
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