If you’re going to Buckingham Palace to lay flowers

[eldorado02]

The queue typically starts at Hyde Park Corner, so head there to save time.

it’s a wonderful, reverent atmosphere ❤️

Oh goodness me- The soggy teddy bears made of synthetic materials-
Flowers need to absolutely stripped of plastic wrapping.
Donations to a charity where 95 percent goes to good causes ( Unlike 5%!) would be much better.
A sea of decaying cut flowers is depressing.

Exactly, far less waste than one of the dozens of extinction rebellion protests.

Well of course people want to and feel they need to, or they wouldn't do it would they?

But that's not the same as them ACTUALLY needing to do it. Certainly not in the same way a baby needs to wear a nappy, which is what my post was in response to

OK, so how do you distinguish between needing and ACTUALLY needing?

The Queen and the new King have someone to squeeze toothpaste onto their toothbrushes. Don't waste your hard earned money on flowers the Queen would have looked down her nose at. Donate to a charity instead....or buy the flowers for an elderly neighbour who might be worried sick about freezing to death this winter.

Exactly. Just because one person wouldn't do it, doesn't mean no one else can. It's their money and they're free to spend it how they wish.

or buy the flowers for an elderly neighbour who might be worried sick about freezing to death this winter.

Yeah because the flowers will help to keep them warm 🙄

I get tired of people dictating how others spend their money.

Nobody on here is dictating. As if people on a MN thread can make anyone do anything! The people that want to lay flowers are going to do it whatever-they don't care.

Yes, because your preferences are much more important than the wishes of the close grieving relatives sending out those requests.

The Queen and the new King have someone to squeeze toothpaste onto their toothbrushes

Can we put this one to sleep, please? Charles had broken his arm playing polo and wasn't able to do small tasks like that. Similar to the way I did a deal with the local hairdresser to give me a wash and blow dry every couple of days when I had wrist surgery.

Actually babies don’t wear disposable nappies in many places, including some homes in the UK

its a parental preference not a need. But choosing to use disposable nappies doesn’t mean you can’t also be concerned about the monumental wastefulness of cut flowers

@MrsDanversGlidesAgain Ah yes ‘breaking his arm playing polo’. A common injury suffered by so many people as we all spend our leisure time playing polo. So relatable.

@EugeneLevysEyebrow

Feel better now?

Ridiculous statement.There will be tens of thousands of visitors descending on London in the next few days, specifically to come and lay flowers, on top of the numbers who were already planning on visiting anyway. If you can't work out how much extra rubbish is going to be generated, and how removing the plastic wrap before leaving the flowers will help to reduce that, then there is no hope.

Let people do what they want.

The “plastic” wrap isn’t plastic. It’s cellophane made from cellulose which is what flowers are made of. They can all biodegrade together.

That depends on where you get your flowers from...

Precisely, you can use disposable nappies and also be concerned about the wastefulness of cut flowers, that was my point.

Disposable may be a preference but a baby has to wear some kind of nappy. Nobody has to lay flowers, it was a stupid comparison that poster made.

No, between FEELING you need to something vs ACTUALLY needing to do it.

I might feel like I need to eat a giant bar of chocolate every night. Doesn't mean I actually need to. Nobody needs to lay flowers.

Absolutely!

Nobody needs to lay flowers

Nobody needs to keep making rules for total strangers' behaviour, either, and yet here you are doing just that. What a barren emotional outlook you have.

Unless there is some kind of law I'm not aware of that states people have to lay flowers then I fail to see how I'm making rules by saying they don't need to. I'm not saying they can't, I'm saying they don't need to.

It’s a literal statement of fact.
Literally no one needs to lay flowers. Some people will still choose to.
probably the same unpleasant people who attack and insult others if your post is anything to go by.

As some folk seem to be struggling:

Need: require (something) because it is essential or very important rather than just desirable.

That's a nonsense. I work for a council waste department and big events always cause us problems, as with most council functions resources are stretched just for business as usual. Unplanned events are even more difficult to managed and mixed waste (flowers, card, teddies, plastic etc) will just end up in landfill.

Go, if you must, but why not donate to one of the Queen's favourite charities instead?