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Sep 16, 2022 1:09 PM
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philipinoraven
It’s not glorious. It’s fucking demented.
certainlynotaserialkiller
Gingeringeri
The Queue as toilets and water points but you can't leave it to use them? Finns are good at queuing too but I don't understand.
Vergenbuurg
OptimisticMisanthrope
The Brits get The Queue and we Americans just get Q. Are we the wish.com of countries?
flipflopped360
Lived in Naples Italy; Italians queue like sands in an hour glass. The flight back to the U.K.? A perfect line winding around the gate.
ChristosMylordos
Finns and brits should have somekind of queue competition. Queue-off
NotoriousDoubleDipper
I’ll get in line for that
bannedagain80
wouldn't that be shuffeling at .5 kilometers per hour?
Thisguyrighthereagain
Normal island where sane people do normal, sane things. Send help.
DietCokeIsTheBest
2.5mph is not a brisk walking pace at all. It’s quite leisurely in fact
nicelyvillainous
I mean, 3mph is where a lot of people switch from a fast walk to a slow jog? Leisurely is about 1.4mph. Depends on leg length
DietCokeIsTheBest
3.5-4mph is a brisk walk. Jogging is really awkward at 3mph.
ltjektanoporkins
DigiT00l
That is a weird look, with west as the top
somethingsomethingwittyhere
Made for viewing on phone screens I guess.
TinyLiehon
Must be windy this close to the water. Couldn't they have put them between buildings for some extra shelter?
TheN8
That's about 4.5 miles, incase anyone isn't familiar with London.
CookingFunt
It literally has mile markers on showing it to be 5.5 miles?
acinonyxjubatus
They had to pause joining the queue earlier today, and people have been queueing to join it once it re-opens. Makes you proud to be British.
mithiwithi
A queue to join a queue is about the only way the situation could've gotten even more British.
Artebudz
Add a bit of drizzle and complaining about the weather
daffodilpies
There is now a queue to join the queue. Or a ‘QE2’ if you will.
PlaceHolderTitle
Who are these random people in the Queue? The anonymous queuers? These Queue-Anons if you will.
hismarcmaterials
Bootlickers mostly.
ShiftingPattern
"Days" is a gross exaggeration. The queue is currently 4.9 miles long (very nearly capped) and the wait time is only 11.5 hours.
TurduckenMcNugget
"only"
ShiftingPattern
As compared to "days?" Yes. "Only."
CrazedDrifter
Dashingdane
"We apologise for the inconvenience"
RadiDaddy
Shooting this scene seems very prescient. “Someday the queen will die, people will queue up to see her & they’ll need a meme. Aaand action!”
Wikipedo
Queuing in the UK is much more frequent than that, I assure you
somethingsomethingwittyhere
umbrellamaker
This! This was my one and only thought after reading that. This very scene
LoveTriscuit
This is a doctor who episode.
zombywoof68
Remember, the word "queue" is just one audible letter followed by four uselessly silent vowels standing in line behind it. In a queue.
RideTheStimutacs
Letters aren't pronounced the way they're spelled though. "W" begins with a D.
IceWeaselX
You can thank the French for that.
AgamemnonsMemes
And not much else.
zombywoof68
brickius
Someone needs to put some cones out and redirect the start to the end, so it's one ever living circle
2Ghoul4School
Mr. Bones' Wild Ride: British Edition
DameDePiques
Slowly walking in a circle until they die of exhaustion, like pine processionary caterpillars... Brilliant!
bridgebrain
Ventralfinn
The Kaabant
TinyLiehon
That's half the plot of that one Doctor Who episode
Noctourn
Its so British that they actually did that for an episode of doctor who
ronswansonsbrother
Recursive mourning
kurash
That describes our entire existence pretty well. You're born, you mourn, you die, others mourn you. Forever, until there is no one left.
DameDePiques
To break the circle, be an absolute asshole so none one mourns you. Follow me for more life hacks.
brickius
Station people along the route to should "shame" at anyone who tries to leave, how long would they shuffle round this tragic conga?
brickius
It could be days, months
ronswansonsbrother
Shame!!!
NotoriousDoubleDipper
So, it is basically like an attraction at Disney World
duoplicity
It is a royal, "Queuen"
a2s2020
Queuedos to you
schlockchurch
British slurs are awful.
dudehiemer
By now in the USA there would have been 13 shootings and 561 police beatings with a line that long.
mike8464
Per hour
BurlRavenscroft
but it'll all be worth it to piss on mcconnell's grave at the end
00LimaRomeo
You need to fix that.
OuchMouse
Thoughts and prayers
merdock379
Americans have neither the physical endurance nor the the attention span for such an undertaking.
dudfey
Dude the queue has been going for 2 days, there are apparently 210 shootings in the US per day, 13 is rookie (ROW) numbers
blaghart
And 200 of those 210 shootings are done by cops.
dudehiemer
I wasn't counting the police shooting unarmed queue goers.
vash77
Megamerican
Wasn’t there a Doctor Who episode about this? It took place in RVs and people had been in line for decades.
Ryanator50
I think that was futurama.
Ghostwish
No @Megamerican is right. And they got through to discover the people on "the other side" had all died of some horrible plague.
Ryanator50
Oooh I didn't see that one
feryooday
“Gridlock”. it’s a fantastic episode
TheFastpaws
Wait until the tour bus from China shows up and all hell breaks loose.
terrasatti
I just escaped Burning Man, which has 12-16 hours on the way out. They "Pulse" which means they stop the entire line except the front 10%
terrasatti
which allows the rest of the line to shut off their engines and nap for an hour. Every hour, you move forward into the empty space.
terrasatti
They could do that for this, I suppose. Allow people to nap.
Ryanator50
I don't get why british people get so excited about standing in line. If I went to hell the devil would punish me by making me stand in line
someuser
We don't get excited about it. It's just a stereotype that we're happy to run with because self deprecating humour is funny
Monkeyface8
We are bred to it. It defines us. We are excited to join a queue, and low- key just WAITING for some elbow to queue jump so we can (1/2)
Monkeyface8
(2/2) SCATHE that bastard with the white-hot laser beam of our loathing and contempt, expressed via a tutting sound. We mean it to STING.
TheAnswerIsViolence
Can't leave the queue? Do they flog you if you try? I think it's definitely possible to leave it.
DeathsFriend
You get locked up in the tower of london for the rest of your life for leaving this queue. Could be worse could be at Center Parcs on Monday
orbitn
nah, there's a glass pillow that can have your name on it if you disrupt the queue
Clarysage
Leave the Queue?? Nonsense. Why would anyone want to leave such a good queue?
DidSomebodyCallForAnAdult
I'm pretty sure you're forced to give up British citizenship if you ever leave or disrupt a queue, and this is the royal queue no less.
orbitn
straight to the tower if you disrupt a royal queue.
Seanspeed
lol I think they meant you cant just like, ditch off for a moment and come back.
TheAnswerIsViolence
You'd need to be able to use those restrooms. Figured the wristbands would be enough to save your spot.
whitepolarbear
I mean, if you are hanging around people to the front and back of you, you start to build a bond that they will look out for your spot.
BenderBenderBender
“Ditch off for a moment” - another incredibly British aspect added to this post. Thank you.
JadeMcLeod
Who the fuck takes two hours to walk five miles...? What do they consider a "brisk" pace???
TheN8
The pace is governed by how quickly people walk past the coffin, you can't walk at 2.5mph if there's 20,000 people in front of you.
JadeMcLeod
Right, that's not what the post says though. The actual queue takes DAYS, not hours. The post says that 5 miles takes 2 hrs normally
Boksha
You have to realize this is how British people walk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-v7w5CL6EU
SeeMyVests
Honestly disappointed that wasn’t a link to The Ministry Of Silly Walks
Boksha
That's how I start walking when I'm forced to walk at a speed OP calls "a brisk pace".
bladderinfection
Lots of piss saved up by the time you get to her. Just sayin’.
SlightlySlighted1337
I read this in an Irish accent.
bladderinfection
K - 7th grade Irish Catholic School. My fifth grade teacher was a nun over on an exchange program from Cork.
ILovedUnicornsFirst
Lol Tell us how you really feel. Damn.
bladderinfection
“While billionaires sleep soundly & homeless people die, my bladder will always be full.” - @bladderinfection
ILovedUnicornsFirst
I need to drink more water.
Wankbiscuit
Just imagine a guy selling t-shirts at the exit saying "I voluntarily shat myself waiting in the Queue to see a royal corpse".
GuitarBobMonterey
Brilliant.
TinyLiehon
They've been sciencing the shit out of this eventuality for over a decade. There's restrooms you can visit (hence the wristbands)
lower88rider
And all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
HoochIsCrazzy
do you actually see the corpse? Is it open casket?
LurkerOfDarkness
No, open is a very american thing that is quite uncommon in the rest of the world.
GayCanadianJew
I don’t think so
Church14
I sincerely,hope it isn’t open.
LuLuPennyAndOdium44
i watched the youtube for a bit and it looks covered - like walking past a monument really
StillNotYouTube
How do we know she's really in there? It's a conspiracy!
Twrecks123
Hey. THERE ARE PUBLIC TOILETS. It’s a British queue, not Fyre festival.
sirava
Yes, these are *civilized* lunatics, thank you.
Gayforbae
But wouldn't that mean getting out of line, er... queue... to use it?
PillsburyFroBoy
Nope! The Queue goes into the bathrooms and then back out again! (I'm joking, but that would be funny to see)
Gayforbae
An assembly line of shite. Aka the British empire.
Rivenhelper
Yeah, this isn't the line to vote in a red district of the US. They can have water, food, and bathrooms.
Baalzak
Lol but one small correction: that only happens in blue districts that have red governments.
Rivenhelper
I think you mean "red areas with large minority/poc population"