Operation London Bridge

[Electric_Andy]

Those who truly want to mourn and/or celebrate her life can do so. Even in good taste and with good intentions, these things are often blown out of proportion by people or companies who want the "I'm more mourning and respectfuller than you" effect. Coverage on one channel would be enough

 

[Arrowfoot]

Coverage on one channel would be enough

Personally around the clock coverage is cheap, tacky with the same stuff repeated ad nauseam by different presenters who think they educating some remote tribe in the Amazon. Why do anyone want know when the Household Guards were raised?

Just do a live coverage of her final journey and do the documentary of her time on the throne the next day.

 

[Drago]

When the Duke died the Beeb horrifically cocked up the coverage.

When something was happening, or there was something to report, all well and good.

Alas, when nothing was happening for many hours at a time the Beeb felt the need to fill the air with C list talking heads who spouted mainly utter bollards, and usually the same bollards as the previous talking head but in slightly different terms. It was unnecessary filler of no interest or substance whatsoever.

If theres nothing to report, keep schtum and go report on something that is newsworthy for a bit.

 

[cookiemonster]

Hope BJ combs his hair and wears a suit that fits him this time.

 

[rikki]

Hope BJ combs his hair and wears a suit that fits him this time.

Hopefully HM outlasts BJ (at least as PM).

 

[Fab Foodie]

Hopefully HM outlasts BJ (at least as PM).

Amen to that…but with each Tory leader managing to be even worst than the useless previous one, be careful what you wish for….

 

[rikki]

Amen to that…but with each Tory leader managing to be even worst than the useless previous one, be careful what you wish for….

We have the same problem. The alternatives are *really* scary.

 

[postman]

I mean seriously just who ,who wants to know how long Liz has been on the throne,some things are just too delicate,I mean she has my sympathy, what wiv me and my prostate.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Apparently there have been strenuous efforts to work out what a sovereign's funeral should look like, there being nobody alive with first hand organisational knowledge.

Are you saying those with that task can't search YouTube for all they need? Just input "How to bury our dear Queen" and there will be loads of helpful videos.

 

[MichaelW2]

Are you saying those with that task can't search YouTube for all they need? Just input "How to bury our dear Queen" and there will be loads of helpful videos.

Google to the rescue:

Ant queens may bury other queens – a task normally performed by workers – to avoid infection when co-founding a new colony, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.

Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria found that in cases where two ant-queens founded a colony together and one of the queens died before the first workers arrived, the surviving queen performed “undertaking behaviors” – behaviors directed at dead individuals, such as biting and burying the corpse – possibly to prevent pathogen transmission. The authors found that biting and burial was associated with a seven-fold reduction in the odds of a queen dying.

Christopher Pull, corresponding author of the study said: “Ant queens usually focus on reproduction and do not engage in any risky or dangerous tasks. That’s why we were surprised to find that while ant queens do not avoid founding new colonies with other, sick queens – due mainly to competition for suitable nest sites – they perform undertaking behaviors that may have an impact on their survival. We found that queens that perform these behaviors are actually less likely to contract infections from dead co-founders and are less likely to die compared to those that do not perform undertaking.”

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Google to the rescue:

Ant queens may bury other queens – a task normally performed by workers – to avoid infection when co-founding a new colony, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.

Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria found that in cases where two ant-queens founded a colony together and one of the queens died before the first workers arrived, the surviving queen performed “undertaking behaviors” – behaviors directed at dead individuals, such as biting and burying the corpse – possibly to prevent pathogen transmission. The authors found that biting and burial was associated with a seven-fold reduction in the odds of a queen dying.

Christopher Pull, corresponding author of the study said: “Ant queens usually focus on reproduction and do not engage in any risky or dangerous tasks. That’s why we were surprised to find that while ant queens do not avoid founding new colonies with other, sick queens – due mainly to competition for suitable nest sites – they perform undertaking behaviors that may have an impact on their survival. We found that queens that perform these behaviors are actually less likely to contract infections from dead co-founders and are less likely to die compared to those that do not perform undertaking.”

So the UK needs to recruit a living Queen from another king(queen)dom? The only one I can find is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margrethe_II_of_Denmark unless a King is permitted.

 

[Baldy]

Just think of the dividend Charlie would get if he used the Co op to arrange it.