Queen Elizabeth II has passed away - keep posts civil and respectful

bainbridge said:
My office is closed but we expected this because the queen was our patron.

The stone of destiny (aka stone of Scone) was mentioned today, but I've still not heard if it's coming down to London for the coronation.
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Been a few news commentators saying it will be moved to London for the coronation but thats next year.
Chris Wilson said:
I wonder what those oblong beige coloured boxes are by the pillars in the earlier photo? Are they encased radiators or something else?
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Yeah looks like heaters to me - looks like mesh at the top to let heat out

omnomnom said:
Doesnt mean he should be assaulted though.
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100%
 
cheesefest said:
Any retailer or eating, coffee shop establishment open during the Queen’s funeral should be ashamed of themselves. Making staff work for very little custom.
I don’t know when they start to issue the His Majesty’s passports. Need to print them off.

Do you think the Passport Office will stick a sticker onto the Her Majesty’s?
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Why? It’s a bank holiday, trade will be roaring! Hospitality have had it awful, I’ll be out spending money at the pub and cafes and enjoying the extra day off.
I’ll watch the funeral on the tv but will
Enjoy the day.
 
omnomnom said:
Doesnt mean he should be assaulted though.
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He definitely shouldn't have been assaulted... But then again pulling him away and getting him to stop disrupting the procession ASAP until police can take him off somewhere would be justified imo - only mistake was being too heavy handed and pushing him when the police already had him imo. I can 100% see why the 'assailant' did that though, considering what an ass the heckler was being at a very sensitive time and location. He was lucky it stopped there tbh... Play stupid games win stupid prizes and all that...

One of those situations where for everyone's benefit it's necessary to moderate free speech a little bit. I'm generally pro free-speech, but there are times when saying certain things in certain ways are just so blatantly inappropriate and non-constructive that an appeal to something like 'outraging public decency' or 'breach of the peace' or whatever is right, and Police need to get involved.

Some of the other policing incidents reported on today seem much less debateable though - like the story of police approaching some guy with a blank piece of paper on Parliament Green and telling him that he could be arrested if he wrote 'not my king' on it. Absolutely ridiculous and a bit scary.

I'm not sure this will actually click with them, but I'd like to think that some of these examples of people being harassed by police for potentially causing offence will make the more progressive activists think again about how authoritarian they want the state to be on free speech / offense issues...
 
My company for some bizarre reason is dragging its feet making it official that they will honor next Monday as a Bank Holiday. The little **** wits better pull their finger out
 
200sols said:
Why should someone be arrested and/or assaulted for shouting what he did? I wonder if Andrew was sweating?
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Broken window principle applies to behaviour as well as petty crime IMO. Manners cost nothing and funerals, any funeral, isn't the place for getting your five minutes of fame. The attention seeker got the attention of those two blokes and I was very happy to see that.

If I'd been stood next to him I might have had a stress-related fit and accidentally elbowed him in the stomach.
 
cheesefest said:
Any retailer or eating, coffee shop establishment open during the Queen’s funeral should be ashamed of themselves. Making staff work for very little custom.
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What about the people who need the money for the shift they would have been working that day? A full days wages could be the difference between them eating or paying the bills these days.
 
Andrew_McP said:
Broken window principle applies to behaviour as well as petty crime IMO. Manners cost nothing and funerals, any funeral, isn't the place for getting your five minutes of fame. The attention seeker got the attention of those two blokes and I was very happy to see that.

If I'd been stood next to him I might have had a stress-related fit and accidentally elbowed him in the stomach.
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Agreed. He didn't get hurt anyway (unfortunately).
 
tom_e said:
What about the people who need the money for the shift they would have been working that day? A full days wages could be the difference between them eating or paying the bills these days.
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My employer has given those who were scheduled to work 19/9, extra holiday to book it as could be many that have already booked the entire annual leave for them which ends in March.
 
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