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I'd make damned sure that there are restrooms and medical help to take care of the people who may have over-estimated their ability to wait in the line. These a

I'd make damned sure that there are restrooms and medical help to take care of the people who may have over-estimated their ability to wait in the line. These are people who are witness to the death of someone they have a strong parasocial relationship with, and this is their one chance to pay their respects. The length of the queue, and the experience of those in line are sharing, is an expression of that respect, minimizing it is disrespectful. Not everything needs to be commodified and sold back to us. -- My experience when there is an "online check in" (like at the hair-cut place) is that most people in the queue aren't actually there, and it doesn't actually help. I got there at just the right time, and the 7 people who showed up later ended up having to wait in order anyway.

krapp 4y ago
>The length of the queue, and the experience of those in line are sharing, is an expression of that respect, minimizing it is disrespectful. Is it really an expression of respect, or of how little Britain's government cares about the peoples' dignity, health and time versus shutting the entire country down for a mass civil ritual of obsequient suffering before the nobility?
- mikewarot 4y ago
  Nobody is being compelled to stand in that line. They're not shutting the country down, they might shut down part of the Government, of which She was the head. We have pomp and ceremony when our head of government changes in the US. We also have State funerals for select people.
  - krapp 4y ago
    >We have pomp and ceremony when our head of government changes in the US. I don't agree with it here, either, but at least our heads of state are ostensibly normal citizens and don't claim power by divine right or purity of noble blood. In the context of a funeral for royalty, the spectacle just seems more implicitly degrading. But that's just my opinion - I despise aristocracy of any stripe. Seeing stories about people's cancer treatments being cancelled and rescheduled, schools and businesses shutting down, police snatching people off the street for any form of protest against the King, a multi-billion dollar cost to the taxpayer which the royals could easily have paid out of pocket, etc. makes the whole thing seem like an exercise in class humiliation.
mikewarot 4y ago
This is what the queue was like, and about: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/the-queue-queen-elizabeth https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/the-queue-que...

krapp 4y ago

>The length of the queue, and the experience of those in line are sharing, is an expression of that respect, minimizing it is disrespectful. Is it really an expression of respect, or of how little Britain's government cares about the peoples' dignity, health and time versus shutting the entire country down for a mass civil ritual of obsequient suffering before the nobility?

mikewarot 4y ago
Nobody is being compelled to stand in that line. They're not shutting the country down, they might shut down part of the Government, of which She was the head. We have pomp and ceremony when our head of government changes in the US. We also have State funerals for select people.
- krapp 4y ago
  >We have pomp and ceremony when our head of government changes in the US. I don't agree with it here, either, but at least our heads of state are ostensibly normal citizens and don't claim power by divine right or purity of noble blood. In the context of a funeral for royalty, the spectacle just seems more implicitly degrading. But that's just my opinion - I despise aristocracy of any stripe. Seeing stories about people's cancer treatments being cancelled and rescheduled, schools and businesses shutting down, police snatching people off the street for any form of protest against the King, a multi-billion dollar cost to the taxpayer which the royals could easily have paid out of pocket, etc. makes the whole thing seem like an exercise in class humiliation.

mikewarot 4y ago

This is what the queue was like, and about: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/the-queue-queen-elizabeth https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/the-queue-que...