Period of mourning has sent some people batshit?

[LimpBiskit]

I've noticed a ramping up of crazy on here over the last few days with some odd threads. Also more fratchy interactions on more balanced ones. AIBU that the queen's death has destabilised things a bit?

Stop talking about these people as if you know them. Your post is bonkers.

NOBODY 'knows' these people!

Anythings up for discussion but you're telling people to shut up and wait until after the funeral to voice their opinion?

You can follow whatever the fuck you like, but your constant policing of threads and comments that are perfectly acceptable by MN standards, because YOU personally find it "disrespectful" is annoying as fuck. You're welcome!

Who are you to ask me to wait to ask the questions that I want to be asking, share thoughts that I want to be discussing? Who made you the thought police?

if all this discussion bothers you so much why are you even engaging on here, with others? You are asking others to refrain from speaking and yet you jump right slap bang into the middle of this discussion. Please police your own opinions before you do so to others.

I am extremely sorry a very elderly lady died. She was very important to her family and to many people in this country, HOWEVER, I do not need to see endless people being interviewed because they queued to walk past her coffin, stood in the rain to watch the cortege go past, or met her once (at sometime)
Its all completely ott and the media are feeding into the madness.

My actual words were -

You're being asked to wait until the funeral is over. Not telling, asked. A perfectly reasonable use of words which you are choosing to twist.

your constant policing of threads

I'm expressing my opinions. Like everyone else. The only thing I've asked to be deleted are some personal attacks. I'm not the one telling people to leave threads if they don't like them.

I'll leave you to get on with your temper tantrum.

yet you jump right slap bang into the middle of this discussion

Sorry, I thought this was a discussion thread anyone could join.

It’s interesting. When Princess Diana died, people were allowed to comment on the craziness of the behaviour - Oliver James even wrote a book about it - Britain on the Couch. This time around you can’t even imagine this. The idea that the nation is caught up in some kind of national gratuitous grief competition is something you are not even allowed to think, let alone articulate out loud. It does feel very post-pandemic - same ‘British spirit’ etc etc

Brexit is proving to be a very damp squib, cost of living pretty shit, government not popular- so let's make the most of mass flagshagging hysteria- worked well in jubilee.

Sorry but patriotism gone nuts suits the media and their sakes (digital and physical) and suits this gvt , so you will have no escape from it

I'm not a mega royalist but thought the Queen was a stoical woman who really did her duty and probably was quite a shrewd cookie - I understand why it matters to a lot of people and particularly those over a certain age, but I do think some people need to realise that there are also many people who are a bit meh about the royal family these days.

Totally agree. It’s sad when anyone dies but I can’t understand getting upset over someone you have never met. Why would any sane adult queue for 30 hours to see a coffin of someone they’d never met? Totally batshit behaviour! I’m fed up of seeing and hearing that ‘the country is mourning’ It seems completely out of touch with what I’m seeing around me. I’m allowed to think the monarchy is irrelevant, we live in a democracy where we are allowed our own opinions. If some people are royalists and are genuinely upset; that’s fine, I’m not about to criticise them. Republicans and those who are just not that interested are allowed to not be bothered by it all without being vilified.

Thank fuck for the Internet, you would not even know its happened on most of it. Think I decoupled from tv/mainstream media at just the right time (only had the brexit/pandemic/Queen shit pushed when I visited friends)

See these people who are queuing for 30+ hours? What happens when they need a wee?

Nothing to do with age, I’m 65 and I think it’s all gone bonkers and over the top. Huw Edwards on tv tonight for instance, sounded like he is running out of things to say.

It’s very rainy here in London, I can’t quite imagine how hard it would be to be queuing overnight

Know your place.

Everyone seems to be gradually losing their minds, it is sad and all that, but people responding really bizarrely. I heard people are already queuing up to see the coffin when it arrives to lay for 4 days in London.

Omg 😂😂

On R4 this morning they interviewed a lady in Scotland who had taken her three year old (“he won’t remember it but I will be able to tell him he was there”) etc. I feel sorry for whoever we’re the poor people stuck in the queue next to this child for however many hours …. Talk about short straw.

You don't know these people, they'd not pee on you if you were on fire, you do get that don't you??

Of course they wouldn't pee on you. It's a disgusting thing to do and very ineffective. They'd smother the flames in their coat and get a fire extinguisher.

Didn't Diana rescue someone drowning? No peeing required.

Totally this.

Some of us have done many of those things and the death of the Queen is a very poignant reminder that the era of people we loved very much is now over.

Nobody is asking you to be interested in the funeral, people are asking the vitriolic anti monarchists to give it a rest for a few days.

And the answer to that is no, and to understand that you overstep by even thinking you're entitled to suggest that's what should happen.

Let me guess: you absolutely love the narcissist, who is eaten up with jealously. The one who must be now going insane because her nemesis is now officially a princess. The woman, who cut off her own father, who didn't even make his bedside, when he was ill. I know which woman I admire and it certainly isn't the latter. I guess those whom you respect, is a reflection of your own personal standards.

OMG this is hilarious 😆 please keep posting @Culldesack

Surely the natural time to discuss perhaps not having a monarchy any more is when the current one dies? As a PP says maybe that’s the real reason behind the “the Queen is dead - long live the King” proclamations.

This would worry me too!