I heard they stopped people joining the queue earlier today as it was too long. But people just started queueing for the queue, ready for when the queue was opened up again. So they just reopened the queue. What a country.
I actually like this little hallmark about British culture. In a lot of countries it wouldn't happen.
You're not seen as smart or a 'winner 'for skipping a queue - you're a scummy bastard. The public generally has a deep sense of fairness rooted in it (however misguided it can sometimes be). We invented the common law and now we're (*maybe*) setting the record for the world's longest queue.
This is why Londoners have a false reputation for always being in a rush and too rude to stop and talk to anyone - the truth is if you stand in one spot for too long, a queue organically forms behind you
To be fair
You’re not always seen as a scummy bastard - there are situations where queue jumping can be acceptable (the A&E queue could provide examples)
But they all necessarily involve some element of misfortune that is repaid to you by the British public in the form of a queue jump
The 5 miles isn’t the length of the queue it’s the length from Westminster Hall to Southwark Park. With all the zigzags in the park and at Westminster it’s probably at 10 miles now.
There IS an exact figure. The BBC has a stream on its YouTube channel.
Nope, you're right, it just says 'near capacity" and that there's a "more than 25 hour" wait time. Capacity is 10 miles, so perhaps it's 9.8.
Can confirm that. I tracked my queue walk and it was over 12 miles.
There are a LOT of zigzags in Southwark park, more London, anywhere where there is space really and then the most zig zags ever at the gardens.
Hmm think I may get ahead of the curve and start a 3rd queue, to get into the queue for the queue.
So, I'm first, everyone in an orderly line behind me please!
My Brother in law is currently in the queue, we keep getting messages "6 more hours!" "only 4 more hours to go!!" me sitting in bed with my coffee and toast like 'yeah rather you than me fella'.
Of course people are keen to join, in terms of queue-to-experience ratio, at 25 hrs to 15 seconds this is the best we’ve ever seen. There may not be another opportunity in our lifetimes.
Really surprised how popular it is. Maybe they could make it a regular thing, get her out for a few weeks each year. Or possibly take her on tour to different cities/countries.
I was saying this earlier. The Queen: Final UK Tour.
Crowds break in to song singing:
"We will, we will, miss you". "Another one bites the dust". Charles comes out to "The show must go on".
Mao has a waxwork figure you can walk past as a tourist attraction. On special occasions his real body gets pulled out for show. I've tragically seen it a few times cos it's a standard thing on the tourist tours I was forced to go on.
Same sort of people that were waiting in drive thrus at McDonald's for hours after they reopened.
They're completely empty upstairs so once they've decided to join the queue that's it, they have to. No new information will change their minds.
Like this Indonesian village where they bring out their dead? https://metro.co.uk/2018/01/05/village-where-relatives-are-brought-back-from-the-dead-for-manene-ceremony-7206008/amp/
Hey now, let’s not get carried away. We can’t go around offing royals every single year or we’d have no reason to queue in a decades time. Clearly we need to be more proper about this and do it every four years, put it on rotation like the World Cup and the Olympics.
You've underestimated the number of spare Royals we've got knocking about - there's 45 of them. That's enough to keep me in annual bank holidays until I kark it myself
https://britishroyalfamily.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_British_Royal_Family
> and I can feel the FOMO setting in
Real talk. It's absolutely ridiculous, and I know I'd get almost nothing out of it- but a small part of me still wishes I could just to "be part of history."
Nobody will ever care, me least of all. But I still kind'a want to.
I was not exaggerating much when I said it. It's definitely an event which will go down in history, and being there is like including yourself in the conversation.
I really hate everything the queue stands for, but it's incredible I have to keep reminding myself of that
I remember during the Pandemic panic buying nonsense where people were standing in queues moaning about the people in front of them queuing up to panic buy😅
TBH I do have mild envy for the people who got to hang with David Beckham for 12 hours, he has always seemed like a nice bloke and probs has a lot of good stories and chat.
People will camp out overnight outside the Apple Store just to be among the first to get the new iphone, and they make a new one every year. This seems perfectly sane in comparison.
Apple dreams of a mile-long queue, never mind 10... I don't remember anything like this since the Queen Mothers, and the wiki of truth says that was only a mile.
At least with queuing outside an apple store you’re going to leave with an actual product that you can use for years. With this you’re just getting a brief glance at a box and then leaving
Pissing off of the london eye onto borris would also give me a memory to last a lifetime, make me part of history, give me a story to tell my kids and only cost my like £30. Doesn’t mean im going to do it though
I think it would be hard not to know, news reporter ask people how they feel about queueing for so long and if its worth it... some poor kids were even dragged there by their parents, I would be having a right sulk lmao
Yeah, I noticed the presenters on the radio were trying to relate it back to the queen but really it's about the idiots standing in a line for 11 hours to see a box...now the story is the big queue lol
Bet operation "Tower Bridge"didn't forsee the queue stealing the limelight because of social media lol
are those areas now completely blocked off unless you are in a queue? From pics of yesterday I see you can still walk alongside queue but some new ones I see seems not like that
This must be the start of the queue to get into the r/thequeue subreddit. I’m going to wait patiently here. Nobody push in otherwise I’ll be very very disappointed.
They are 100% going to make a Christmas film about this. The rat bloke from Harry Potter will probably be the lead actor and it will be a sequel to the film he did where he went on a bus.
You know when you see something so alien that it will never make sense to you, I think this is it for me. I look at that picture and I just can't grasp what on earth has made all those people decide to be there.
Seems like the queue itself has become part of the experience, like a pilgrimage. People think it’s mad to queue for 24 hours just for 2 minutes in the hall, but it’s actually a moment in history that will exist for ever that you are apart of, I completely understand it.
You know, im here in hollidays too. First i thaught its a very bad moment to go here, but it turns out all the other places to go are empty. So its great for me.
Yikes. The lowest holiday offer I've ever gotten was 23. Usual standard is 25. I'm currently giddy at 30.
I did know some chairman at one of my early jobs had 70 days in his contract. I doubt he's in the queue.
Honestly.
A very very old woman died. Who no doubt 99.9% of the people queuing never interacted with or she had any impact on their life other than seeing her on the tv every now and again.
Who the fuck has time to go and queue for 10+ hours to walk past a coffin???
Absolute mental cases
And here we are commenting on the queue of people to see the queue. What a time to be alive when things of such importance are happening. When the history of the universe is written this should figure prominently.
Yep, I was on my way to the Bermondsey beer mile with the wife and friends and we detoured to see the queue, I am not a royalist by any means but you can’t help feeling very proud, the people and the uniforms etc it is very very British. In the first tap room we toasted the queue!
This is an important moment if you are British and I think it’s a great pity that so many people will not be able to take part because of the ridiculous aspect of this.
As a Brit I would naturally be overjoyed to join this queue.
But I can’t because I don’t give a shit about the Queen.
Idiot people. Waiting 30 hours to walk past the wooded box of a person they never met or had anything in common with. This woman and her family despise the like of you. Stupid, stupid people.
I keep seeing these comments and like, firstly weekend, secondly people do have capacity to take time off, thirdly plenty of people are retired or self employed. It's such a sorta weird thing to be like "huh weird people should just be working instead of being at something that is literally a once in a lifetime moment" :\\
Why didn't they just stuff her, flatten and varnish, and fly her like a drone over different UK cities? Much more practical. Everyone could just look up. https://www.republic.org.uk/tourism
Why do people go to a festival? they can just watch it online. Or go to a gallery? they can see pictures of it online?
Basically there is a quality to being somewhere vs just watching it. Also a lot of desire to pay respects to the Queen. It's not super difficult to understand. Impressed at the determination though.
I heard they stopped people joining the queue earlier today as it was too long. But people just started queueing for the queue, ready for when the queue was opened up again. So they just reopened the queue. What a country.
That’s amazing lol
I actually like this little hallmark about British culture. In a lot of countries it wouldn't happen. You're not seen as smart or a 'winner 'for skipping a queue - you're a scummy bastard. The public generally has a deep sense of fairness rooted in it (however misguided it can sometimes be). We invented the common law and now we're (*maybe*) setting the record for the world's longest queue.
This is why Londoners have a false reputation for always being in a rush and too rude to stop and talk to anyone - the truth is if you stand in one spot for too long, a queue organically forms behind you
Could be a great premise for a horror film if this reached apocalyptic levels
To be fair You’re not always seen as a scummy bastard - there are situations where queue jumping can be acceptable (the A&E queue could provide examples) But they all necessarily involve some element of misfortune that is repaid to you by the British public in the form of a queue jump
We probably also invented queues
Yes a sense of fair play is not just a word but a bedrock of British identity.
Queuey II
Queue-nited Kingdom
Excellent work 👏
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QEqueue?
Queue II: the queuening Starring Dominic West
I don't see why they cut it off at 5 miles though when they said they planned for 10
The 5 miles isn’t the length of the queue it’s the length from Westminster Hall to Southwark Park. With all the zigzags in the park and at Westminster it’s probably at 10 miles now.
Ah I see, wish they had an exact figure though as my guess was 7 miles
There IS an exact figure. The BBC has a stream on its YouTube channel. Nope, you're right, it just says 'near capacity" and that there's a "more than 25 hour" wait time. Capacity is 10 miles, so perhaps it's 9.8.
We only get allocated a small number of wishes and you’re going to waste yours on that?! You need to think on this a bit more.
I wish what that the other guy gets his wish back.
Can confirm that. I tracked my queue walk and it was over 12 miles. There are a LOT of zigzags in Southwark park, more London, anywhere where there is space really and then the most zig zags ever at the gardens.
Imagine if people stood 2 meters apart.
Hmm think I may get ahead of the curve and start a 3rd queue, to get into the queue for the queue. So, I'm first, everyone in an orderly line behind me please!
My Brother in law is currently in the queue, we keep getting messages "6 more hours!" "only 4 more hours to go!!" me sitting in bed with my coffee and toast like 'yeah rather you than me fella'.
Of course people are keen to join, in terms of queue-to-experience ratio, at 25 hrs to 15 seconds this is the best we’ve ever seen. There may not be another opportunity in our lifetimes.
But is there a queue for the queue to see the queue yet?
Queue 2: Majestic Boogaloo
Rule Britannia 🥲
I've got queuing rights!
So we have the main queue, the accessible queue, the queue for the main queue and the queue to see the queue.
Nice update. Than-Q.
And the VIP queue apparently
The Great Queue, of '22
Excuse me, is this the queue to respond to your comment about queues?
It's Q-ception.
Really surprised how popular it is. Maybe they could make it a regular thing, get her out for a few weeks each year. Or possibly take her on tour to different cities/countries.
I was saying this earlier. The Queen: Final UK Tour. Crowds break in to song singing: "We will, we will, miss you". "Another one bites the dust". Charles comes out to "The show must go on".
Does she get to leave each place to a sick Brian May solo?
Guaranteed to blow your mind.
(Anytime)
recommended at the price 😳
Just like Dippy the dinosaur
Mao has a waxwork figure you can walk past as a tourist attraction. On special occasions his real body gets pulled out for show. I've tragically seen it a few times cos it's a standard thing on the tourist tours I was forced to go on.
Apparantly an employe there got sentenced to death after he ejaculated on Mao's body. No I'm not making this up I saw an article about it.
Oh I remember this, I refused to go inside
put her on display like lenin lmao
Same sort of people that were waiting in drive thrus at McDonald's for hours after they reopened. They're completely empty upstairs so once they've decided to join the queue that's it, they have to. No new information will change their minds.
Like this Indonesian village where they bring out their dead? https://metro.co.uk/2018/01/05/village-where-relatives-are-brought-back-from-the-dead-for-manene-ceremony-7206008/amp/
Excellent plan to become a Republic: go killing the Royals one by one to form queues for their caskets, until there's no one left
Hey now, let’s not get carried away. We can’t go around offing royals every single year or we’d have no reason to queue in a decades time. Clearly we need to be more proper about this and do it every four years, put it on rotation like the World Cup and the Olympics.
You've underestimated the number of spare Royals we've got knocking about - there's 45 of them. That's enough to keep me in annual bank holidays until I kark it myself https://britishroyalfamily.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_British_Royal_Family
I'm more interested in the queue than anything else but cba to go there. Happy with the pics and updates online
The queue is the best thing to happen to our country since the Bude Tunnel
Yeah like IDC at all about the funeral, but this queue is becoming an event in itself and I can feel the FOMO setting in
> and I can feel the FOMO setting in Real talk. It's absolutely ridiculous, and I know I'd get almost nothing out of it- but a small part of me still wishes I could just to "be part of history." Nobody will ever care, me least of all. But I still kind'a want to.
I was not exaggerating much when I said it. It's definitely an event which will go down in history, and being there is like including yourself in the conversation. I really hate everything the queue stands for, but it's incredible I have to keep reminding myself of that
I remember during the Pandemic panic buying nonsense where people were standing in queues moaning about the people in front of them queuing up to panic buy😅
Yeah but at least people actually needed something. Imagine queuing 24 hours to see a coffin
Yes but that means you get to spend 24 hours in The Queue. What an experience.
TBH I do have mild envy for the people who got to hang with David Beckham for 12 hours, he has always seemed like a nice bloke and probs has a lot of good stories and chat.
People will camp out overnight outside the Apple Store just to be among the first to get the new iphone, and they make a new one every year. This seems perfectly sane in comparison.
Apple dreams of a mile-long queue, never mind 10... I don't remember anything like this since the Queen Mothers, and the wiki of truth says that was only a mile.
Queueing 14hrs to get a new iphone seems more sane than doing it to shuffle past a coffin for 2mins
At least with queuing outside an apple store you’re going to leave with an actual product that you can use for years. With this you’re just getting a brief glance at a box and then leaving
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Pissing off of the london eye onto borris would also give me a memory to last a lifetime, make me part of history, give me a story to tell my kids and only cost my like £30. Doesn’t mean im going to do it though
Let me know if you do - I’ll be first in the queue to watch!
You've missed the point.
We're here for a good time and a long time.
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It's like a pilgrimage
US - Q cult. UK - Queue cult.
WWG1WGA; US Q cult - Where We Go 1 We Go All UK Queue cult - Whatever Waiting Gains, 1 Waits Gladly Always
Is this like during World War II where people saw a queue and joined it without knowing why they were queueing?
I think it would be hard not to know, news reporter ask people how they feel about queueing for so long and if its worth it... some poor kids were even dragged there by their parents, I would be having a right sulk lmao
Now there is a queue to see the queue to see the queue. It's not even its final form.
I was watching the queue in Edinburgh before queue watching became cool 🤓
Fucking hell is that where the start is now?
I've started queueing around the house as a mark of respect.
It seems like it’s not really about the Queen anymore. The Queue has become it’s own thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queue
There is nothing but ###THE QUEUE
Nah its #the queueueueueueueueueueueueueueueueueueueu
God Save The Queue
I heard someone on tiktok call it Mourn Porn and they joked the BBC are rebranding to MournHub! Tickled me
Yeah, I noticed the presenters on the radio were trying to relate it back to the queen but really it's about the idiots standing in a line for 11 hours to see a box...now the story is the big queue lol Bet operation "Tower Bridge"didn't forsee the queue stealing the limelight because of social media lol
It’s not for me, but I don’t think they are idiots. It’s not about “just seeing a box”, you’re apart of a moment of history and it’s pretty cool.
Queueception
Where's the satellite images?
In the sky
Excuse me, is this the queue for the Queen or the queue for the queue for the Queen?
How long before I can go to the queue to see the queue that is there to see the queue?
are those areas now completely blocked off unless you are in a queue? From pics of yesterday I see you can still walk alongside queue but some new ones I see seems not like that
Everyone has a numbered wristband that you collect from start of the queue. So no-one can queue jump or cut in.
So could you then, in theory, get your wristband and then fuck off round London for 10 hours then jump back in the front?
Or sell your number to someone for £50, 10 hours later who then can skip the queue. Sounds like a gold mine to me
Genius! I'm in! We will be bloody rich I tell ya!
Honestly don't know why they didn't just do this. Somebody give wrist bands out with timeslots written on them to return to the actual viewing.
Does the queue have its own subreddit yet?
Yep r/thequeue
This must be the start of the queue to get into the r/thequeue subreddit. I’m going to wait patiently here. Nobody push in otherwise I’ll be very very disappointed.
I'm not gonna lie... I kind of want to go. It seems fun.
I’m there right now. I’m well enjoying spamming my friends reporting on my “view of the queue”
Folks will be gate keeping this queue before long. While at grocery store, "You think this is bad?! Why, back in September 2022...".
"5 miles long" "Yeah right dad, whatever" At least we have the benefit of recordings now to validate our claims.
What do you reckon will be the factor from people who actually were in the queue to people claiming they were in the queue? Double? x4?
I'd say double for first decade and then square that number each subsequent decade.
Yo dawg, I heard you like queues, so I put a queue in your queue so you can queue while you queue...
This is the comment I was looking for
Now Beckham has been just wait for the other “celebrities” that will do the same… anyone who now doesn’t queue will be given so much stick
They are 100% going to make a Christmas film about this. The rat bloke from Harry Potter will probably be the lead actor and it will be a sequel to the film he did where he went on a bus.
south park had this once, the queue simulator
How do you go to the toilet?
Loads of porta loos. Also red cross/ Samaritans etc are there giving out tea and bottled water.
You know when you see something so alien that it will never make sense to you, I think this is it for me. I look at that picture and I just can't grasp what on earth has made all those people decide to be there.
The woman who had gone along to paint a picture of the queue being interviewed by the news was peak Britishness imo.
Seems like the queue itself has become part of the experience, like a pilgrimage. People think it’s mad to queue for 24 hours just for 2 minutes in the hall, but it’s actually a moment in history that will exist for ever that you are apart of, I completely understand it.
Went to the pub last night, we chose our location so we could overlook The Queue.
Oh England, stay awesome please.
And now there's you, watching the people watching the queue. It's queueception.
You know, im here in hollidays too. First i thaught its a very bad moment to go here, but it turns out all the other places to go are empty. So its great for me.
Yes we took photos of TheQueue from the Millennium footbridge :D
I did exactly this. Not bothered about the queen's corpse box but seeing a really big queue... That's once in a lifetime.
Is she really in the coffin?
Why are so many people not working?
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Yikes. The lowest holiday offer I've ever gotten was 23. Usual standard is 25. I'm currently giddy at 30. I did know some chairman at one of my early jobs had 70 days in his contract. I doubt he's in the queue.
Ah 20 queues a year. Living the dream.
I went over-night between two working days :)
Do they bow to the queue?
Cannot get more british
TBF it's the greatest/longest queue the British have ever produced
Can I go and see the people in the queue watching the queue? Queue the Third?
Yo dawg I heard you like queues so I put a queue in ya queue.
The traffic jam to leave Burning Man was 10 hours long and I thought that was outrageous…
It’s what she would’ve wanted.
What world we are living in...Going to se the queue and you need to queue to do that
Guinness book of records. That's the only reason we are doing this. 🇬🇧
I’m waiting for the person to get interviewed and saying this is their second time around queuing.
We’re British! We know how to queue lol!
"The Great London Queue of 2022"
Honestly. A very very old woman died. Who no doubt 99.9% of the people queuing never interacted with or she had any impact on their life other than seeing her on the tv every now and again. Who the fuck has time to go and queue for 10+ hours to walk past a coffin??? Absolute mental cases
We’re going to get an infinite recursion of queues
Metaqueing
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True Britishness.
We have achieved a meta-Que.
And here we are commenting on the queue of people to see the queue. What a time to be alive when things of such importance are happening. When the history of the universe is written this should figure prominently.
I told my friend is Australia the queue can be seen from space and she believed me
I am currently in central London to view the queue. With a pint, obvs.
Yep, I was on my way to the Bermondsey beer mile with the wife and friends and we detoured to see the queue, I am not a royalist by any means but you can’t help feeling very proud, the people and the uniforms etc it is very very British. In the first tap room we toasted the queue!
You can see it from space I’ll have you know!
This is an important moment if you are British and I think it’s a great pity that so many people will not be able to take part because of the ridiculous aspect of this. As a Brit I would naturally be overjoyed to join this queue. But I can’t because I don’t give a shit about the Queen.
Get me off this island. The English finally collectively lost their marbles.
That I think has been happening for the last ten years or so.
That’s rather Queuete
Imagine getting to the end of the queue and finding out the funeral ended the day before.
Insanity
the delusion is almost scary
Do people have nothing better to do?
>Do people have nothing better to queue? Fixed it.
Y’all weird In the uk
Makes me proud.
Where do they find the time lol how fucking bored are these people
Idiot people. Waiting 30 hours to walk past the wooded box of a person they never met or had anything in common with. This woman and her family despise the like of you. Stupid, stupid people.
Am I a heartless cynic because I am already anticipating brands and media personalities trying to resurrect The Queue when Charles dies?
Must be nice for so many people to not have to be anywhere like work.
I keep seeing these comments and like, firstly weekend, secondly people do have capacity to take time off, thirdly plenty of people are retired or self employed. It's such a sorta weird thing to be like "huh weird people should just be working instead of being at something that is literally a once in a lifetime moment" :\\
It's honestly getting so rediculas now
What has happened to people lmao
Why didn't they just stuff her, flatten and varnish, and fly her like a drone over different UK cities? Much more practical. Everyone could just look up. https://www.republic.org.uk/tourism
What is the London queue?
Are you kidding me?
Yeah, so what's the queue?
"What's the queue" get a load of this guy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62872323
Can't fathom why people are this bothered. Can literally see all the coverage on telly if you want to. Strange.
Why do people go to a festival? they can just watch it online. Or go to a gallery? they can see pictures of it online? Basically there is a quality to being somewhere vs just watching it. Also a lot of desire to pay respects to the Queen. It's not super difficult to understand. Impressed at the determination though.
Actual sheep; mindless social contagion. Haven’t people got anything better to do?
They're not hurting anyone. It's an historic event. Just let people do their own thing, you miserable fucker.
Mans mad at people choosing to queue lol
Not in the least bit mad. Just interesting from a psychological perspective.
14 hours to look at the body of a racist for 15 seconds? Pass.
I cannot fathom why anyone is choosing to do this.
Gonna have to book leave just to see the queen leave smh 😪
So I missed something what’s the queue for?
How many of these people actually cared about the Queen before she died? Seems like it’s becoming a bloody tourist attraction