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Please be quiet!

Sax

09:34 / 09.04.02

I'm trying to have two minutes' silence for the nation's favourite grandmother.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:37 / 09.04.02

"Honestly, officer, I meant no disrespect- quite the opposite in fact. I'm wearing my trousers at half-mast."

Why didn't MY favourite grandmother get two minutes' silence? (Although she was mostly deaf, anyway, so I doubt she'd have minded had she still been alive.)

higuita

09:41 / 09.04.02

Shhh!

[drinks gin and places bet on horse respectfully]

Bear

09:42 / 09.04.02

I hate all that, they just did it in the office. People pretending that they care, well I think some of them actually do. They've taken out the TV to show the funeral, have you seen the queues? Mothers dragging their kids along "she really wanted to see the coffin"....

Well it was nearly silence here, someone forgot and was talking in his loud Wolverhampton accent about him trying to wind surf but he kept falling into the sea apparently...

Sax

09:43 / 09.04.02

Is it true she's being buried in a solid gold coffin with the Koh-I-Noor diamond placed respectfully in her mouth, as one would insert an apple into a pig's maw?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:48 / 09.04.02

Nobody listened to me. I tried to tell 'em. "Cut her head off, stuff the mouth with garlic and bury her at a crossroads", I said. I said it here, I said it at work, I even said it very loudly while in public several times, but would they listen?
Would they fuck.
I give up. LET her army of the undead march. We'll see who's laughing THEN!

Fist Fun

09:49 / 09.04.02

Most of the people I work with aren't British so they were all being respectful and stuff, sensitive to culture an that...they kinda looked a bit confused when the British contingent didn't give a toss...lots of carrying on with work, talking loudly, etc....

Chubby P

11:14 / 09.04.02

Just been into Bristol town centre and half the shops are shut for the morning "out of respect to the queen mother". More like shut "so we can have a half day off work." Why couldn't my office have shut so I could've had a lie in? (I mean, pay my respects in a horizontal position.)

bitchiekittie

11:17 / 09.04.02

I was wondering about that, if youd get a day off.

tee hee, you have to be held captive by all the media coverage, the crap traffic, AND you dont get a day off. suckers!

The Puck

11:45 / 09.04.02

Imagine my horror, this morning when dealing with my gentlemans cramp as so i wouldnt have to do a handstand to pee, i realised i was knocking one off while the whole nation was being silent, so i used the black sock and had a tear in my eye when finished it seemed like the right thing to do.

suds

11:51 / 09.04.02

i missed it all because i was sleeping; and then i woke up and read a book called 'travelling light' about a man who is dieing of aids aged thirty.
neighbours isn't on today. i don't remember feeling like this for diana.

w1rebaby

11:57 / 09.04.02

Well, everyone here is very sad to see her go. On the other hand I do work for Gordon's.

higuita

12:07 / 09.04.02

I tell you what, it blew my theory about her being the animatronic creation of Jim Henson out of the water. Unless they put in crap batteries.
Maybe we could use cgi. Virtual royalty - it'd be a bit like Sweden.

How did you feel about Diana, Suds? I spent a month or so getting abuse every time I tried to interview someone (you're a journalist? you scum!) and as for going out with a camera bag... I mean, it came as a bit of a surprise, but I wasn't about to go and place flowers at the tree she planted in the city centre (as did one of the people who gave me a right old gobful in a pub). In the end, I just got defensive and started telling people to shut the fuck up.

rizla mission

13:54 / 09.04.02

Eating my lunch today, trying to find something not Queen Mother related on the wireless, I reflected that I'd really like to own a house that was on the route of the funeral procession, so that I could lean out of the upstairs window and shout things like "GET OFF MY GARDEN YOU FLAGWAVING FUCKS!" and "FUCKING TOADYING PATRIOT WANKERS!" and throw things at them and piss on their heads and so forth until I got arrested or lynched.

bitchiekittie

13:55 / 09.04.02

Id pay good money for a video of that

Not Here Still

18:53 / 09.04.02

I got told off for breaking my silence (during which I thought about all the dead people in my family instead) with the words "Gin-pickled" "Nazi-appeasing" and "Old Crone."

Well bloody hell. I was silent, wasn't I?

Not Here Still

18:55 / 09.04.02

Oh, and Rizla: I doff my cap to any man who still calls the radio the 'wireless.'

I'll bet the only time you listen to John Peel really is when he's doing Home Truths on Radio 4...

pointless and uncalled for

18:57 / 09.04.02

I seem to have become the office satan since advising my co-workers that a majority of the British didn't really care too much about the death of an old granny and that if we did we would be incredibly busy indeed. They were even more mollified to hear my comments that the observation of silence was a small price to pay for an impromptu break.

Bear

19:11 / 09.04.02

Can someone point me to links about the Nazi stuff, I had a quick look about but couldn't find anything??

Mazarine

21:57 / 09.04.02

My stateside reaction was "She actually died? For real? No shit? Wow, Barbelith is gonna have a fuckin' field day."

Baz Auckland

22:22 / 09.04.02

I found this a few weeks ago when looking for the same thing

I saw 5 mins of the funeral this morning before leaving for work. As the hearse was driving down Whitehall, people kept clapping... were they supposed to be doing this?

My excitement on hearing the drone of the bomber was crushed when I realised they weren't going to re-enact the blitz by doing a run on Buckingham Palace....

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:43 / 09.04.02

To help you come to terms with your national grief:

http://www.mediapill.com/features/worldof/queen_mum.html

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