Is anyone not weeping in to their cuppa today?

[JoshLymanIsHotterThanSam]

Or is it just me? My colleagues are all in mourning and apparently can’t concentrate and do their work properly today and I’m all 😑 at the drama of them.

Don’t get me wrong Her Majesty was a legend and she did a really good job, but at 96 it’s hardly unexpected and I don’t think it warrants quite the level of drama some people seem to be displaying.

So literally most nations on earth, then.

I think anyone who has lost someone special recently will be struggling today .

the music on the radio really doesn’t help

I can understand why people who have recently lost a loved one might be feeling a bit raw around this.

But the sentimental poems, memes, endless broadcasts - I find it all a bit daft. Not to mention the rainbow…

Was everyone always this disrespectful and ugly before social media or has social media now just highlight it now?

If you've had enough check out #IrishTwitter waits to be vilified

I'm the same as you and find some peoples dramatics ridiculous but then I didn't cry when my 96 year old grandma passed in her sleep either. People die and to die at a ripe old age such as that after a fortunate life (which my grandma also had) doesn't make me feel upset. She done a great job right till the end.. why can't we just celebrate her life and her reign instead of all weeping and posting some of the over dramatic shite iv read on here. I read a 17 month old British toddler drowned in Alcudia yesterday or Wednesday, thats tragic.

I've been awake crying all night, but not about this.
People sadly have their own personal things going on.

I feel it's a massive thing, some people wont see the death of a monarch in their lifetimes. She's been queen for the vast majority of people of here's lives. I find it hard to get my head around that my baby daughter will never know 'a queen' but at 96 it was unlikely she my daughter would be very old before she passed.
I've come home from work today as I'm unwell but while I was there it was very quiet (cafe of a big stately home) and we were all just saying how sudden it was etc and that we felt we maybe should've closed today. One of my colleagues was beside herself and although I felt for her, I don't feel the level of grief.
I've just babbled here 😂 basically I feel like it's a huge thing but I'm not sad about it per se.

I also can't believe the man we call our king now once wished he was a tampon 🤦🏼‍♀️

I came home from work to a weeping husband watching the BBC and a very alarmed teenager who was very glad to see me.

I made him turn it off after a couple of hours of it. Enough!

She was 96, had a bloody awesome life. I will not wail and beat my chest over her death, she was ready.

I'm hearing twilight zone music just looking at Facebook, it's weirding me out.

One thing that is making me cross is the e-mails I'm getting from P&O ferries, M&S and the like, with their 'Official Statements' on the passing of the Queen.
They could have put it on their respective websites, no need to e-mail me with it. I have no tolerance for it because it's just about getting more custom.

I find it rather fitting, actually. Very much in keeping with the level of dignity the whole thing should be afforded.

It all feels strange, but I don't feel weepy.

Personally it has not impacted my life but I certainly understand why so many people are upset over the loss of The Queen, a lot of people admired her. I also sympathise with her family as it’s such a heartbreaking time for them, it’s never easy to lose a loved one.

Not us former colonial subjects who still have grandparents living who remember the pain of being colonised, no.

I agree with you , I really can't get upset about someone I didn't know, there's enough grief in your own life when you lose someone you love.

I'm an out and out republican as in an I'd have them up against the wall in a heartbeat type. I can't get myself in a twist about a rich white woman who lived a life of immense privilege and did everything in her power to protect her nonce of a son from prosecution, and who also represented a system that upheld Global systems of oppression, patriarchy and racism.

Those who feel that she in some way actually cared about them other than as subjects need their heads examined quite frankly.

It did make me reflect on my dearly missed Gran who also died at 96 recently. But then I think about and miss her every day, I don't need this lot of mawkish bilge to prompt it

Thank God for Netflix and Spotify. I'm going to get my subscriptions' worth out of them over the next ten days.

The only customer at work who has made mention of it has been a 90 year old who said we should not be sad but celebrating her long life.

But there’s just no need for it, is there. So you’re not upset, just stay quiet. Why the need for a thread about it?

On the other hand there are many people wanting to come together to pay respects and share memories, and I’ve heard many people IRL say they are surprised they feel so affected by it.

I'm not. I feel sad that she has died, as I do when anyone dies, but I certainly won't cry over it and it doesn't affect me how it is a lot of others.

Perhaps the same could be said of the 50 billion threads about the death?

@LyingWitchInTheWardrobe 😂😂 ahh if only MN were so simple. People tend to actively seek out the threads they disagree with, not just comment on the ones they agree with.

My point is, starting a thread about not caring about something is odd. It would be like me starting a thread purely to tell you all that I don't like cycling or raisins or spiders. It's not unreasonably but what's the point?

Totally with you. There are many things in this country to feel very sad about at the moment. The gentle death of a 96 year old woman who neither me or anyone close to me knows personally and who has had no signficant impact on my life one way or another is not one of them!

I respect the Queen for making the best of a bad job. I sympathize with her family and friends. But really, this has been on the cards for years!!!!!

Same here. Got my own set of worries as it is🤷🏻

Really missing my usual radio and hope this relentless theme on all channels doesn't go on until after the funeral. There's just no respite.