Someone has left a Marmalade Sandwich outside Buckingham Palace...

[Elderflower14]

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.... ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Me too 😁

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!

Yup, like I said, they know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Why though? The planet won’t be saved by 10% of people living a 100% eco-friendly lifestyle, it’ll be saved by everyone doing their best not to fuck it over. So I recycle, shop as ethically as possible, don’t fly unless completely necessary - but still have a phone and iPad I use for work, and a cat who refuses to eat anything that doesn’t come in a pouch. I can still point out that leaving a mass of plastic-wrapped waste for someone else to clean up is poor behaviour, and damaging for the planet AND completely avoidable.

^This. And it's happening on other threads too. Some nasty stuff on the thread 'The Queen has passed" too.
I find it absolutely grotesque.
They all need to fuck off and start their own nasty, bitter, virtual signalling crap that those of us that want to come together and feel sad/celebrate the life of our Queen wouldn't touch with a barge pole.

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@been and done it. 🤣🤣🤣 so true.

@TooMuchToDoTooLittleInclination I great through life quite well thank you. I just think all this sentimental guff is weird, for show and I'd rather do more personal to remember someone, the whole world doesn't need to know about it!

Have u considered an alternative thought. That just because u don't think this as something people should do, that others might find comfort in it and not just do 'it for show'?

Perfectly put.

Oh bless. That’s sad 😢

I think it’s more miserable to virtue-signal about how much the Queen meant to you by dumping some shit outside her house, rather than thinking for one second about how that money could be used to help a charity she spent her life supporting.

Well said. What is it with people who want to police how other people spend their time & money? In my experience people who volunteer and donate usually don't go around criticising others' choices, for one thing they're too busy. For all we know every single one of the people leaving flowers or sandwiches also donate to food banks. It's not a zero sum game.

If anything all the talk of the Queen and her sense of duty and responsibility is likely to inspire people to give more to all those in need.

And I expect most people giving flowers will simply be doing it for themselves and don't care who sees or doesn't see.

But it’s also completely avoidable for you to be wasting energy resources and emitting CO2 by posting on mumsnet 😂 Are you aware that using the internet uses energy? Perhaps you should swap your iPad for parchment and a quill? You’re being hypocritical I’m afraid - basically saying “it’s ok for me to use the internet and waste a metal pouch or two a day because my cat likes felix sardine flavour only but you are single handedly melting the ice caps by dropping off some plastic wrapped flowers at Buckingham palace”. One rule for you and one for everyone else it seems.

Really hope it doesn’t hurt too much when you fall from that high horse of yours 😏

But if I’m being hypocritical then so are you - why recycle and post on mumsnet, if that’s your mark of hypocrisy?

You’re making a lot of assumptions here, about people’s motivations for this and also what else they do with their money.

What’s driving that?

At least I’ve got the intelligence to know that state coach couldn’t possibly be made of solid gold. 😂

I would prefer a republic, I detest the growing inequality in this country but my goodness some of the bah humbug comments on here are utterly miserable. I respect the Queen for her 70 years of public service even if I would prefer a republic and I think the sandwich is a sweet sentiment.

Finaly re - I need to top it now is to find out that when four guards stand round the coffin one of them turns out to be Daniel Craig. - didn’t the Queen Mother get James Blunt as it was when he was in the army before his musical career?

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Because I’m not complaining about anyone leaving plastic wrapped flowers and a marmalade sandwich at the palace. YOU are. This really isn’t a difficult concept to understand.

It weighs four tonnes! And it is actually made of gold leaf, I didn’t say it was made of solid gold.

That broccoli head just cracks me up again and again. 😂

Of course. And it’s not like I’m outside Buckingham Palace with a picket trying to stop anybody from doing what they want, but this is an opinion and discussion site. I expect if somebody started a thread about getting a celebrity’s autograph or about doing a charity skydive then others would be chipping in posting their opinions about that too. I’m not trying to be patronising and sorry if it comes across like that, I’m just sharing my personal opinion that it all seems a very odd thing to be leaving things on the street to ‘commemorate’ the queens death considering how things are both nationally and globally at the moment.

I also think ‘well if it makes them happy’ isn’t always a good opinion to have when people are doing things that collectively does have a negative impact. I wonder how many tons of flowers and other stuff will have been cleared from the streets by the time of her funeral? Isn’t it reasonable to say just because it makes people happy doesn’t necessarilly mean it should be encouraged? If it made me happy to litter or not to bother recycling etc I am sure there would be plenty suggesting maybe I should try and change my mindset. Just because leaving flowers to commemorate dead royals is a common tradition doesn’t mean it’s not time to try and suggest something a little more in keeping with modern times as a way to commemorate her instead.