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

[Tuilpmouse]

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!)

From a very young child I was taught that if a hearse passes, you stand to attention, head bowed, males remove hat. Unless in uniform and then you also salute (did this as a brownie, guide and air cadet). No matter what though, silence was the order of the day.
I've taught my children the same but they do seem to be in a minority and I rarely see the same behaviour in younger people (god I sound old now)

It's a bit like some of us simply can't be silent any more. We constantly have to be "on"...Silence is a void they has to be filled

• it's sad attention seeking.

However, I expect the element that we're cheering were a subset of mawkish weirdos who are socially dysfunctional and inappropriate in their daily lives.

In Edinburgh on Monday the crowd fell silent. Much more appropriate.

If there’s a similar journey to the the Edinburgh one planned for the funeral, I reckon it’ll be morevsubdued

The one now actually

It’s the same no cheering, some look very sad

I absolutely LOATHE this trend with a passion.

Keep your head bowed and stay quiet you moronic chumps. Honestly it drives me mad. I think it is disrespectful and bizarre.

The whole thing is wierd though, isn't it?

We're watching people parade a dead body. And watching as those who loved her perform their grief for us. With extra zooming in to see if they look sad enough / too emotional.

OP YANBU. It's as though people don't know how to be solemn or dignified. See also the use of mobile phones. What's that all about?

On the Today Programme they sold it as a "celebration of life" rather than mourning a death. And the use of phones as being able to say, "I was there". Well yes, and that's the problem isn't it? It shouldn't be about the mourners.

During Covid restrictions, when neighbours couldn"t go to funerals, round here the hearse often came down the street where the departed lived and the residents lined the pavements and clapped.

And sporting events have a minute's applause to remember someone now, almost as often as a minute's silence.

It's just become a thing.

The whooping is just idiots who can't applaud without doing it.