My wife has just sent me a link to somebody selling a queue wristband from the viewing of the Queen lying in state on eBay for a 3 figure sum. I'm not a royalist, in fact I'm quite ambivalent about the whole thing and I don't get offended easily - quite the reverse - but profiteering from viewing the monarch lying in state is pretty low even by my standards. Not only that, there are people who have actually placed bids..!!!
If you're a bit cold, you can put on a jumper. If you're too hot there's a limit to what you can remove without being arrested. And even then, it probably won't do any good. My pet hate is hot or even over warm feet .
I’m completely neutral about the selling of the wristbands. Many people collect Royal memorabilia and if they want to buy the item, where’s the harm? Demand, however, does seem to be lukewarm because the three wristbands I have just seen listed have failed to attract a single bid so far. There are also lots of listings of national newspapers marking the Queen’s death, typically priced from £5 - £10. Where do you stand on that, @Chris-P-Bacon?
What has interested me is the demographics of the queue. I’m not surprised by the first two but very surprised by the third: slightly more women than men, a slight majority of Conservative voters, 60% Remainers.
Maybe because covid (and long queues) has disproportionally affected elderly racists?
"elderly racists" ??
A higher proportion of leave voters were in the older age brackets and expressed a distaste for immigration and multiculturalism as a reason for their vote. By the time the impacts of Brexit kick in many people who voted for us to leave will no longer be with us due to age-related deaths. There were also studies that showed that the covid death rate has been higher in areas where lots of people voted leave and the death rate is higher amongst older people. The amount of leavers remaining is likely to be a lot lower now.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The doleful ringing of the Church bells for an hour this morning. Every dog in the village howled in unison. Apt in a way I suppose as the Queen was keen on her dogs but given the tone of the bells, I wondered if it was more likely to be a long hidden "memory" of the howl by the leader of the pack. The clock chimes, wedding/funeral ringing never causes them to react in this manner.
I wondered if it was more likely to be a long hidden "memory" of the howl by the leader of the pack. The clock chimes, wedding/funeral ringing never causes them to react in this manner.
One of our dogs was a howler - most of them don't. The one who did would howl at police/ambulance sirens, the phone ringing and the particular song that OH had on his phone as his ring tone (not only when it came from his phone). The greyhound we had at the same time couldn't do the howl but she did her best to join in with her little whine, also to the phone ringing and she'd also do it if the smoke alarms went off. I never quite worked out why that particular set would start them off. Sirens, OK, and from there to smoke alarms but then why did the howler NOT howl to smoke alarms? A phone ringing but OH's ring tone was a very specific connection to the fact it's a phone and not to the actual sound.
I'm sure there's a logic in a dog's mind but I can't figure it out
Probably in the village, one dog started for some reason of his own and that's what set the rest off.
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What has interested me is the demographics of the queue. I’m not surprised by the first two but very surprised by the third: slightly more women than men, a slight majority of Conservative voters, 60% Remainers.
Let's compare and contrast
I'm sure there's a logic in a dog's mind but I can't figure it out
Probably in the village, one dog started for some reason of his own and that's what set the rest off.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”