Page 11 | Someone has left a Marmalade Sandwich outside Buckingham Palace...

Elderflower14 · 2022-09-10T16:27:47+00:00

With a note attached saying "For later..." 😢 😢 😢 😢 As a MASSIVE Paddington fan this made me cry more than the taxis lined up in The Mall.... ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

thebestwayforwardnow · 10/09/2022 21:05

Rustylee681 · 10/09/2022 21:04

Its so nice when the nation comes together, even if it is under sad circumstances,😪

ThunderstomsAreComing · 10/09/2022 21:06

phishy · 10/09/2022 20:37

I’m not saying she hated Paddington, just that the sketch was probably dreamt by a PR, she likely had little to do with it.

Actually the approach came from the palace - she requested the gig. Same team writing it as the James Bond Olympic skit - one of the writers was talking about it today on Times Radio, then again on the One Show tonight. Evidently her one critique of the Bond skit, when she saw the storyboard, was that the helicopter they had chosen would not be able to go under London Bridge - she told them which one would.

Pinkpeony2 · 10/09/2022 21:06

Pumperthepumper · 10/09/2022 18:31

I am. We know the planet is on its knees, having plastic-wrapped crap lying around for someone else to clean up is abhorrent.

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Thank you for the first chuckle I’ve had today.
On MN everything is ‘on its knees’ In fact, I don’t think there has been a more over used phrase.

MolkosTeenageAngst · 10/09/2022 21:07

ancientgran · 10/09/2022 20:56

Maybe someone couldn't afford flowers but they had plenty of bread?

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Maybe, but as I’ve already expressed I think the leaving of cut flowers is equally odd and wasteful. Maybe I am a miserable old cunt but I don’t really understand why anybody (excluding her actual friends and family) feels compelled to leave anything at all. And I am aware people do it for all sorts of people in the public eye but it just seems bizarre to me, I’ve never even felt compelled to leave cut flowers on anybody's grave, including my parent’s.

It just seems such an odd things to do for somebody who is dead and will never see it and even odder that people feel like they need to leave something for someone they don’t personally know, especially when there is already a massive pile of stuff there, reall. I mean I can see why someone would want to regularly leave flowers on the grave of a friend/ family member to signal they are still loved and cared for to others walking through the cemetery but when there is so much already outside the palace why does anybody feel the need to add more? I just don’t understand it at all, who exactly are they leaving it for or wanting to see?

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 10/09/2022 21:09

@Wombat100 Please do, my pleasure. I'll probably remember where it comes from at 3am when I wake up for the loo break. I get the feeling that for some on here a hair shirt would be a bit of an indulgence.

TooMuchToDoTooLittleInclination · 10/09/2022 21:09

Sparklybutold · 10/09/2022 21:03

@been and done it.

There's this assumption by you and others that those that don't agree with all of this sanctimonious performative shite that we’re somehow emotionless. Ironically this couldn't be further from the truth. We have perspective. The queen enjoyed a life with the best of everything, and yet we mourn the loss of this woman? We have put someone we don't know on a pedestal and weep and cry??? And yet I bet for a lot of these mourners they won't give a second glance to people who actually need support and help. It's nauseating.

You're SO wrong, but you're entitled to you incorrect opinion, but it would be nice if you'd post them elsewhere, instead of ruining threads where people who DO care about the Queen dying are trying to come together without having to endure all the nasty posts.

Pumperthepumper · 10/09/2022 21:09

Wombat100 · 10/09/2022 21:05

That does seem to sum them up perfectly!! 😅 I might steal the phrase if you don’t mind.

Also, it does strike me as slightly hypocritical that the people moaning about the environmental impact of a bit of cling film/a bunch of carnations are using the internet to post here….that’s not very environmentally friendly is it?

And as to the sheer and abject HORROR of wasting a whole two slices of bread and a bit of marmalade, I can only imagine that the posters never leave a mere crumb on their plates; after all, that crumb could be donated to a food bank.

God give me strength.

ps Love the Paddington reference; full marks. Bet that’ll piss the grumps off even more 😁

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So since you are also using a device to access the Internet, I take it you don’t recycle? If the choice is live a 100% eco-friendly life OR do whatever you like to watch the planet burn?

Blossomtoes · 10/09/2022 21:10

We get it @MolkosTeenageAngst. You don’t understand. That doesn’t mean you have to be a miserable killjoy. Millions of people disagree with you.

Wombat100 · 10/09/2022 21:11

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 10/09/2022 21:09

@Wombat100 Please do, my pleasure. I'll probably remember where it comes from at 3am when I wake up for the loo break. I get the feeling that for some on here a hair shirt would be a bit of an indulgence.

🤣🤣

user1471464218 · 10/09/2022 21:12

Novum · 10/09/2022 18:36

I assume you are also against all the plastic-wrapped flowers at this and every other memorial

To be honest, that is something I'm against. I thought that mound of rotting flowers wrapped in plastic when Diana died was hideous. I read that somewhere - Windsor? - they have a table set up where people can take the polythene off their flowers, so that ultimately they can be taken away for compost easily.

In Northern Ireland they take the plastic off the flowers at the security station in the park&ride. Apparently as it's a fire risk, but hopefully helps with composting too.

HowzAboutIt · 10/09/2022 21:13

Please someone put me out of my misery and explain the broccoli?!

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 10/09/2022 21:13

I don’t really understand why anybody (excluding her actual friends and family) feels compelled to leave anything at all

Has it ever occurred to you that people aren't all like you? I don't understand why people get autographs of celebrities. I do understand that they enjoy it and get meaning from it. I don't understand why people throw themselves out of planes with a parachute attached to their backs. I do understand that they enjoy it and get meaning from it. And so on and so on. How about reframing it as 'well OK if it makes them happy' instead of getting all censorious and patronising about it?

Macaroni1924 · 10/09/2022 21:14

Cornettoninja · 10/09/2022 18:24

Would you say that to someone who was worried about how to afford their next meal?

there’s a sandwich and head of broccoli going spare if they want it.

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Lindy2 · 10/09/2022 21:14

Being at Buckingham Palace there's a fairly good chance the sandwich will be subject to a dawn raid by pigeons or a fox. Would that comfort the food waste activists?

I think it's a very sweet gesture. I've been to Windsor today and the floral tributes are impressive. The combined fragrance of all the bouquets was much stronger than I expected.

ajandjjmum · 10/09/2022 21:14

inmyslippers · 10/09/2022 18:33

HM was solely to blame for several hundred years of history.

She was the head of the commonwealth.

How the hell could HM be solely to blame for several hundred years of history - she was 'only' 96 when she died?!!!

inappropriateraspberry · 10/09/2022 21:15

@MolkosTeenageAngst Exactly! I don't even understand the need to put flowers on graves, or even visit them. Surely you are thinking about them a lot anyway, why do you have to stand in front of their dead body and a lump of stone? Is it to for show or to prove something to yourself? It's the last thing I'd want to do. I'd rather do something that makes me think of them, even if it's just having their favourite food or watching a tv program they enjoyed.
It's all for show, for other people. All this stuff being left for the Queen, no one really knew her. They just want something for social media.

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Macaroni1924 · 10/09/2022 21:15

It’s a touching tribute not like there are loaves and loaves of wasted food there. It’s one tiny sandwich which is a clever and lovely thought that stands out from all the millions of wasted flowers (also in plastic, for whoever said about the way the sandwich was wrapped).

Pumperthepumper · 10/09/2022 21:17

Macaroni1924 · 10/09/2022 21:15

It’s a touching tribute not like there are loaves and loaves of wasted food there. It’s one tiny sandwich which is a clever and lovely thought that stands out from all the millions of wasted flowers (also in plastic, for whoever said about the way the sandwich was wrapped).

It’s the same thing though. It’s all unnecessary waste, and the cost of that waste could have done some real good somewhere else.

Soproudoflionesses · 10/09/2022 21:17

Calm down dear, it's just a sandwich.
I love the sentiment behind it and am sure whoever left it wouldn't have minded if a homeless or needy person had eaten it.
The Queen and PB will be my fave memory l think.

Wombat100 · 10/09/2022 21:18

Pumperthepumper · 10/09/2022 21:09

So since you are also using a device to access the Internet, I take it you don’t recycle? If the choice is live a 100% eco-friendly life OR do whatever you like to watch the planet burn?

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I don’t really follow. I’m not the one saying that the flowers and use of a solitary marmalade sandwich are contributing the downfall of the planet. Yes, I recycle - but I recognise that many of the things I do (drive a car; use air travel; buy cut flowers - I’m a horror I know) are not environmentally friendly, and I am not the one criticising others on this thread.

My point is that if you’re going to shoot other people down for said flowers/marmalade sandwiches and their environmental crimes, you must surely be beyond reproach. You know, people in glass houses and all that 😉 I truly hope you don’t drive a car or heat your home as that would be truly shocking.

TooMuchToDoTooLittleInclination · 10/09/2022 21:18

inappropriateraspberry · 10/09/2022 21:15

@MolkosTeenageAngst Exactly! I don't even understand the need to put flowers on graves, or even visit them. Surely you are thinking about them a lot anyway, why do you have to stand in front of their dead body and a lump of stone? Is it to for show or to prove something to yourself? It's the last thing I'd want to do. I'd rather do something that makes me think of them, even if it's just having their favourite food or watching a tv program they enjoyed.
It's all for show, for other people. All this stuff being left for the Queen, no one really knew her. They just want something for social media.

I feel very sorry for you, I don't know how you get through life with such a limited understanding of the world around you!

NanaNelly · 10/09/2022 21:18

HowzAboutIt · 10/09/2022 21:13

Please someone put me out of my misery and explain the broccoli?!

I think it may have something to do with Chubby Broccoli of James Bond fame.

Lindy2 · 10/09/2022 21:19

I don’t really understand why anybody (excluding her actual friends and family) feels compelled to leave anything at all

Because being able to leave flowers as a symbolic gesture of their feelings, gives them comfort.

Decorating graves and leaving symbolic objects for the dead has been going on since the stone age. I'm surprised anyone needs that explaining.

Mummapenguin20 · 10/09/2022 21:20

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