Are you observing a minute's silence today at 3pm?

[Frownette]

Curious!

YABU - NO
YANBU - YES

(I couldn't see a thread on this so apols if there is one and I missed it)

@HectorHalloumi

I have as much interest in them as I have in the parentage of my neighbour's cat, his prowlings or his progeny.

And yet you have been posting/asking questions all throughout this thread. Wow you must really love that cat.

Idle curiosity as they're in the media at the moment. Ordinarily, they have as much significance to my life as Gregory (neighbour's cat).

It's like the circus when I was a child which came around once a year. You were all excited for the few days the fairground rides were there and maybe went to the circus, mother permitting. Once they moved on, you never thought of them again until the next year as they have zero influence on your life. I'm like that with the Royal Family.

We were out shopping, for the first time in 3 months. First taste of freedom, and it was fabulous. However, there were signs all over the mall inviting shoppers to 'join us in observing a minute's silence at 3 pm for HRH blah ...'.

A silence at 3 pm: good grief. Caustic though it may sound, yesterday was not Good Friday and 'HRH' was not the Messiah. Surely people who wanted to mark this moment of phony reverence could have found an appropriate place and time at which to do it. If life hasn't stopped for all the many other people affected by an ongoing pandemic then it shouldn't stop for the sake of hereditary privilege.

Thankfully our shopping trip concluded before it happened, and we were free to go off and enjoy the lovely sunshine elsewhere.

Ridiculous.

@MarieIVanArkleStinks maybe some of the staff might have wanted to observe it

[quote ineedaholidaynow]@MarieIVanArkleStinks maybe some of the staff might have wanted to observe it[/quote]
Exactly. Anyone would think people were expected to stand on their heads for half an hour. It was standing still and keeping your mouth shut for 60 seconds, it’s not exactly demanding.

@MarieIVanArkleStinks maybe some of the staff might have wanted to observe it

Then I'm sure their employers would have been happy for them to take a whole minute off to do this.

standing still and keeping your mouth shut for 60 seconds, it’s not exactly demanding.

No, and in other circumstances I might have been happy to observe this. I'd do it for Armistice Day, for instance. But pressured conformity with an elitism I don't accept or believe in places no such demands on me; albeit I have no desire to offend establishment lickspittles so did the decent thing and simply absented myself.

Allegedly, from what I've heard from the shoppers left behind in the mall, most of them felt the same way as I did. They simply went about their business without observing any silence.

I say good for them.