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To think that cheering and clapping the Queen's coffin as it passes by is inappropriate and downright weird....

84 replies

Tuilpmouse · 14/09/2022 06:48

It seems such a strange reaction. It's as though many people have no sense of reverence or respect, and treat everything, even the Queen's coffin passing by, as a spectacle to be gawped at as they video the thing on their mobiles (that they'll never actually watch!)

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Mooserp · 14/09/2022 09:16

I just saw a snippet on the coverage with whooping going on at Buckingham Palace, I wasn't sure if it was from pro or anti royal family people.
Weird.

Also agree that it is weird to have so much parading of the coffin. Seems like it would have been nice for it all to have ended after the service in Edinburgh.

NippyWoowoo · 14/09/2022 09:17

I think being there in the first place is weird. But 'it takes all kinds to make the world' and all that.

ginslinger · 14/09/2022 09:17

picklemewalnuts · 14/09/2022 07:57

It's a new world.

It's a world where we 'show our support'.
Where we interact with everything.
No one seems capable of saying nothing anymore!

Now, silence is the ultimate sign of disapproval.

Yes, absolutely this. Thank you for saying it

toomuchlaundry · 14/09/2022 09:19

If she had died in London there wouldn’t have been so much parading of the coffin. For the RF I would assume the service in Edinburgh was very personal and it would have been nice to end it there and not now have to go through the state funeral. I hope the service in Windsor can be more personal

NippyWoowoo · 14/09/2022 09:20

It's a new world.

It's a world where we 'show our support.
Where we interact with everything. No one seems capable of saying nothing anymore!

Now, silence is the ultimate sign of disapproval

I think the people who voiced their opinions on the monarchy would beg to differ.

Unforgettablefire · 14/09/2022 09:25

Figgygal · 14/09/2022 08:49

Same its not the jubilee ffs
And people put down your bloody phones otherwise you're not there to show respect at all

This! All you can see is peoples phones in their faces it's shocking!

Namedifferentorquestion · 14/09/2022 09:28

I imagine @Tuilpmouse they are showing appreciation of a life given to service - pretty much all of it. They clapped Di as well. People do what they want really and it's not disrespectful so let them. Not me, personally but not doing any harm.

Moonmelodies · 14/09/2022 09:31

Would the Queen have ever whooped and clapped at someone's coffin?

Frezia · 14/09/2022 09:34

If you put up a circus and the clowns will come 🤷‍♀️

CulturePigeon · 14/09/2022 09:36

I agree - my preference would be for a dignified silence as the coffin passed, but any show of goodwill and respect is fine, in the bigger picture.

As to the other matter of protests and the heckling of the awful Andrew, again, I think the main thing to focus on is respect to the coffin. I'm a mild monarchist but if people want to make a dignified protest against the monarchy - just make it dignified - that's all. If the coffin is passing, then just hold up your placards and keep quiet, in the same way you'd show respect for any funeral cortege. And while I think Prince A is horrible, that is a separate issue from the Queen's funeral and no-one should be shouting abuse at him in connection with that. Save it until a separate occasion.

It's galling having to see him so much, but I guess they would let a paedophile prisoner out to pay respects to a dead parent. I very much hope that, after all this, we will not have to look at that idiot again in photos or TV coverage. I'm pretty confident Charles will ditch him - they famously loathe each other.

Zebedee55 · 14/09/2022 09:46

I grew up at a time when any hearse passing usually meant that people stood still, head slightly bowed, and men often removed their headwear.

Nowadays, it seems that a noise has to be made, cameras have to be there, and few can just silently reflect on anything or not take pictures for social media.

Shame really.

Ifailed · 14/09/2022 09:50

Once you've made the decision to stand by and watch a box containing a dead body being driven past, you've already entered the world of weird.

Justcallmebebes · 14/09/2022 09:51

I find it strange that we are in enforced mourning for a 96 year old lady that most of us have never met but there you go

We're not in North Korea! Mourning is not enforced at all. Don't feel it? Don't mourn. Simple.

The clapping was a bit odd but the whooping and cheering was downright disrespectful, whatever your views of the Monarchy and/or Queen

fUNNYfACE36 · 14/09/2022 09:57

It's just a show of support

Apollonia1 · 14/09/2022 10:05

I actually liked the clapping and cheering. I saw it as they they were cheering her life and achievements.

LadyKenya · 14/09/2022 10:14

I think it shows a lack of decorum, all the whooping, and clapping. Do not even get me started on what I think about all the phones being held in the air.

KilmordenCastle · 14/09/2022 10:16

It's awful!

I don't mind clapping at the coffin going past, that is an appropriate display of gratitude imo. But the cheering, "whoop whooping" and whistling was so disrespectful.

KeepYaHeadUp · 14/09/2022 10:18

It's grim. It's just like Big Brother or Keep Up With The Kardashian, Strictly, X Factor. Many people have no idea how to behave at an occasion like this, or how to do anything other than whoop and cheer like idiots

MrsFezziwig · 14/09/2022 10:25

Saying that, for any of us that are anti monarchy it's very painful having to sit through what seems like an endless irrational circus.

You don’t have to sit through anything. I’m not that bothered either way, have had a bit of chat about it with a few friends and watched a bit of it on TV but had I wanted to it would have been easy not to engage at all. It’s like these people who complain about endless TV coverage - do they not realise there is an off button?

crumpet · 14/09/2022 10:32

It’s awful. Idiots.

picklemewalnuts · 14/09/2022 11:11

For a lot of people now, being ignored feels like social death.

Silence must been no one cares.

It's just a cultural shift.

NippyWoowoo · 14/09/2022 11:24

MrsFezziwig · 14/09/2022 10:25

Saying that, for any of us that are anti monarchy it's very painful having to sit through what seems like an endless irrational circus.

You don’t have to sit through anything. I’m not that bothered either way, have had a bit of chat about it with a few friends and watched a bit of it on TV but had I wanted to it would have been easy not to engage at all. It’s like these people who complain about endless TV coverage - do they not realise there is an off button?

TFL Go app disagrees with you there. I have to stare at this for a good 3 seconds before I can find out when my bloody bus is coming. I'm avoiding it as much as I can!

To think that cheering and clapping the Queen's coffin as it passes by is inappropriate and downright weird....
ILikeHotWaterBottles · 14/09/2022 11:41

Clapping I think is fine and a nice way of showing appreciation.

Cheering is people showing how lacking in manners they are. It's a week long funeral for God sake, would you cheer at your own relatives funeral? Very unlikely, unless specified by the person who died.

Phones being out is again lacking in manners but people have to 'prove' they were there. They'll likely never even watch the video again.

Shivermetimbers0112 · 14/09/2022 11:50

I was sitting happily watching NYPD Blue on Disney+ last night, and this morning I’ve been for a run, gone to the shops and now I’m listening to a Sparks album. I must have somehow escaped the “enforced” mourning shackles, Houdini-like. I’ll not be queuing in London, nor will I be whooping at a coffin passing by, but I’ve got sufficient free will not to let others’ choices bother me.

herecomesthsun · 14/09/2022 11:58

I have witnessed a funeral where the coffin ,in procession, was applauded at the end of the service. The person's partner later said they were very moved by this (the person had been an enthusiastic performer and much-loved teacher, in the arts, to many young people, and the congregation was full of their students and professional colleagues).

Cheering might feel a bit wrong.