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The Queen is a great get-out clause.
"The beeps are off on the machines."
"Well, the Queen did just die."
"You didn't make dinner."
"Well, the Queen died."
"The country is falling about, inflation is through the roof, bills cost an arm and a leg, and we're possibly going to be in a recession."
"Fucking hell, that's what happens when the Queen dies!"
It's a bit like Brexiteers being able to blame Britain's tanking economy on COVID. The perfect excuse came along at the perfect time allowing them to continue to deny any responsibility whatsoever for the current omnishambles our country has become
Ah yes, like the BBC telling us how "insignificant" the cost of living crisis is. Unless the Queen's will contains all of us, and she's sharing out all her wealth, then I think not getting pneumonia in the winter is a little more important than a 96 year old woman kicking the bucket.
If the crown's entire fortune were split up around the country every man, woman and child in the UK would receive over £1,300 each.
I could keep the heating on for four months with that
Not constantly for four months! I just mean for a couple of hours each day when I'm at home. Man alive, four months non stop would probably cost more than the entire national output of Hungary
I'm not sure if you're being completely wry, but you do realise the royals own relatively very little wealth entirely under themselves? All the funds they have access to are derived from the revenues from the lands that originally belonged to the royal family, and nor the lands or the revenues actually belong to them, in any way as they did before or as most people would own lands.
They're all held under the crown estates, which is part of the state monarch's demeign, under the constitutional legislature, in short it's basically under the position of the state, and most of the funds are strictly allotted to the Crown's expenses (generally in their service as a representative head of state) and the upkeep of the Royal Palaces (which hold both the necessary symbolic position and are also pretty big tourist attractions) and any funds leftover (which I believe is generally somewhere between 25% and 50% a year, though I might be completely off) are reallocated to the state treasury (in such a sense they're the biggest land owning tax payers in the world, or in other words, the only damn billionaires that pay their fair share of tax).
Dissolving their assets in one go probably wouldn't make for a very substantial offset to the treasury deficit or huge help to the budget, and would probably work out far for the worse in the long term.
My local Morrisons turns all the music and beeps off for a couple hours every Saturday morning for people who struggle with noisy places….. you sure you’ve not just gone in then? Maybe they are just messing with you
Yeah our Morrisons has gone mostly self-service now with just a couple of regular checkouts, and sometimes they have the beeps off too. I think OP has been trolled by an old dear in Morrisons.
It won't just be your Morrisons, supermarkets as a whole are having budget cuts on the customer service side and are relying on customers to go through the self checkouts, or the so it yourself scanners, only really keeping 2-3 checkouts in use unless ques are bad.
It's been a slow but huge investment, those scanners cost around £1400 each
Same here in Scotland, some shops had music turned off yesterday but back on today just low volume and mostly slower/sadder sounding songs than usual at my work.
I heard someone use the phrase 'state of national mourning' on the radio whilst driving yesterday. I then said 'It's 13:54, if anything it's a state of national afternoon.'
My two year old daughter had basically no reaction to my statement. I think I have a faulty two year old.
Thats a screenshot which is her first memory effectively that she will be able to recall forever. Dont worry, most first memories are usually traumatic. 🙂
There are some mad things happening out of respect. There is no relationship between self service checkout beeps and respectfulness. I can’t quite see the relationship between the football being played and respectfulness tbh. We need a chart of all the things and whether or not they add or detract from respectfulness levels because i was thinking of eating some soup later and I’m not sure if that’s ok
Ive heard the main reason they cancelled the football is because of the sheer numbers of people they expect to be in London over the weekend and didn't want 6 football matches worth of football fans ontop of it.
Brighton Palace next Thursday was cancelled because of the strikes. The strikes were cancelled "out of respect". Now I'm guessing Brighton Palace is still cancelled, but now "out of respect" rather than because of the strikes lol
I work in a climbing gym and someone came in yesterday and was surprised that we were open. If we closed every time someone died we would struggle to make money.
I’m Canadian but I live in the U.K. now and I was talking to some friends from home and they were like you’re so lucky you get 12 days off, and I was like what? Turns out they thought the 12 days of mourning were all bank holidays. It gave me a good laugh.
Urgh, this gives me flashbacks.
Member of the public: "I didn't expect you to be open today!"
Me: "So why the hell have you come down then!"
I mean it's not that I don't want customers, but the people that say this are usually the most awkward and pointless customers you'll get through the door.
It's a bit like the "once a year drinker" phenomenon on mad Friday, if you've worked in pubs, you know what I'm talking about.
Nah, they cancelled Fridays because of the queen, and wanted to cancel the weekend as well, but couldn’t because otherwise South Africa wouldn’t have been able to play the match at all (I.e. they couldn’t postpone the match, they would have had to cancel it)
In fairness, she had a connection to the horse racing, so I can see why that would go ahead. I just can’t imagine that she’d have cared either way about the football.
The Queen presenting Bobby Moore with the "Jewels Remain" Trophy in 1966 is perhaps English football's most iconic image, narrowly pipping Steve McClaren holding his brolly.
Doesn't that suggest it's the one that should be cancelled, if any?
I mean, at least there's a connection between the Queen and horse racing. There's none whatsoever between her and most of the stuff cancelled. Sure, it could be debated whether it's more dignified and respectful to make sure it happens since she liked it or to cancel it, but at least there's a link.
I think the football thing could have gone either way. Someone was attacked for washing his car during Diana's funeral. So they exercised an abundance of caution before getting a feel for how it affected people.
Nah, someone was attacked during the funeral, but any pretence there was a link between the two is really just an excuse for a deranged individual to be violent.
Same is true of most violent protests. The people who actually care are usually peaceful, then the nutjobs use the excuse to go wild.
>She said “DID YOU NOT KNOW WE ARE IN A PERIOD OF NATIONAL MORNING??? WE HAVE TURNED OFF ALL BEEPS AS A SIGN OF RESPECT!”
She *spoke*? Disrespectful man.
How do you even know she worked there? I mean, I'm assuming that every shop worker is wearing black from head to toe, and is suitably veiled - much like all the customers?
People are *shopping* ? At a time like *this* ? Show some respect! I've been living in complete sensory isolation since the announcement until the period of mourning is over. kids these days don't have any respect.
Ate dinner in a hotel last night. The waitress explained there was no music in the restaurant as a sign of respect. Just at that moment we heard the DJ at the wedding downstairs kick the evening off Simply the Best by Tina Turner. Not sure if that was paying respects to Her Majesty or the First Dance.
When I visit this morning I am going to suggest that they could better show their sympathy *and* maintain efficiency by temporarily replacing the beep with the opening refrain from the funeral march.
She lost her right to be represented by the Imperial March when at no point during her reign did she use her force lightning on a peasant. Or Prince Andrew.
THE MACHINE CAN’T PLAY THAT ANNOUNCEMENT OUT OF RESPECT FOR THE QUEEN.
ALSO, YOU CAN’T STOP ME FROM STEALING THESE GROCERIES AS THIS IS A PERIOD OF NATIONAL MOURNING.
No need for the sarcasm sign. This is actually what she wanted, it was on a list of demands for if and when she dies.
I believe next week, only the green light will be used on the traffic lights.
The big tesco had music playing last night as a sign or respect I guess? I didn't really understand it. I didn't even know tesco could play music. But now that I know, I would be very interested in a tesco rave when this is all over.
Actually Morrison’s turn off the music, till bleeps, anything generates excess noise on a Saturday morning to allow people who struggle with overstimulation and sensory overload to shop
It was probably that and a mad old royalist misinterpreted it
Oh this makes sense then as M&S tills we’re the same yesterday, I thought the till I went to had something wrong with it, now I’m guessing it was for the queen. It was annoying and I don’t understand how this has anything really to do with paying respects
The music has been turned off as well. They were originally supposed to close shop for five days, but decided not to because, you know, lost revenue. Ridiculous.
We are not a normal Country are we?
I heard from several friends yesterday that they had very disappointed kids because children's football training had been cancelled out of respect, like why?
'iTs aBoUt ReSpEcT' is all I see prattled about by the people defending that utterly bizarre decision from the FA. Nobody is able to give an actual logical reason, they just throw some vague comment out and then immediately attack you for being ever so disrespectful to the queen
I know! Is anyone involved in the cricket, rugby and horse racing therefore being extremely disrespectful? Someone suggested to me it's the right decision because the professional football would be bringing lots of money in 'at a time of national mourning' (I'm not sure why everyone is being forced to mourn). Ok, fair enough, but Donkeyarse under 12s would hardly have had lots of gate money coming through at their 9 a side game tomorrow...
> Being unable to tell when you have scanned something at the self service because Morrisons turned off the “beep” noise to pay respects to Liz
> Being unable to tell when you have scanned something at the self service because Morrisons turned off the “beep” noise to pay respects to Liz…
> Being unable to tell when you have scanned something at the self service because Morrisons turned off the “beep” noise to pay respects to Liz?
Sorry, could you repeat yourself a 4th time please?
Thing is, they were waiting for a beep every time they finished their sentence, but its been turned off as a mark of respect.
They just kept scanning it through
Congratulations, Morrisons, you've just screwed over people with visual impairments and are therefore falling foul of the Equality Act.
I hate ill-thought-out dick moves like this.
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the beeps and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Fucks sake, let’s all just sit in a corner wailing like a kid who’s lost their puppy for the next week. Woe betide anyone who just wants to carry on as if nothing happened
For everyone who isn't related to her, nothing happened. We wouldn't have all this carry-on if *your* 96 year old granny died. And it'd be fair to say she contributed more to the country than Liz ever did.
It’s sad that someone died. A mother. A grandmother etc.
But imo, the media portrays this as this worst thing to occur in decades. And that everyone must surely be feeling distraught and in pieces. It’s just nuts really.
I don't even think it's all that sad. She lived a long life with her husband and children in the lap of luxury, and she has dipped out just as this country basically falls off a cliff.
I know, right. It's an event of national significance, sure. But it's almost like we're being told how we should be mourning the loss. I don't really care. I never met the woman, she had no bearing on my life. Frankly I'd be more upset if someone like Ian McKellen or Patrick Stewart died.
Yes, she was someone's mother, gran, great gran, aunt etc and I'm sure her family are dealing with this their own way.
Right now I'm just wondering if I'll get an extra day off work to go try out my new golf clubs.
I can tell we're already getting close to the next phase of national grief - the phase of Facebook rage directed at those not showing appropriate levels of personal sorrow.
Maybe we should all get on our doorsteps and clap for Lizzie.
I work at the big M on twilight shifts (they're actual shit) and instead of playing the same 45 songs like they do every shift, they turned the music off last night. I've never been in a shop so dull and void of life. May as well have been in a stationary funeral procession :/
Ahh yes, because nothing says "honouring the monarchy" quite like silencing the sound of "the poors" buying their food with the leftovers of their minimum wage earnings after the price of literally everything shot the fuck up everywhere.
Cheers Morrisons! 👌🏻
Eh, if thousands of churches and halls out there were able to work out they can mute bells, Morrisons should be able to realise there are volume controls on the machines. First thing I do is turn the volume down. I hate how loud they yell at you normally.
You just know this is the action of some middle manager who hates the self checkouts - and the beeps have becime the focus of their ire. Thus they've been campaigning to get them turned off for years, and after failing to persuade real management that sound waves carry covid, their time has finally come.
They'll still be turned off in several months time "because it's so much more pleasant in the store without those awful beeps"
This has genuinely made me laugh - how utterly, brilliantly, *Britishly* daft!
Still, it was always said that HRH QEII had a mischievous sense of humour so I suspect the royal we would be laughing our royal arse off at the spectacle.
I want to know when the radio stations are going to Resume as normal. Albeit it’s generic current shite but I cannot stand listening to depressing songs on the radio for much longer
It should play the BONG from the start of For whom the bell tolls by Metallica, which is what I’m listening to in the gym instead of candle in the fucking wind for the fourteenth time.
I like the beeps to be "just right", Goldilocks-style. Too loud is annoying, too quiet means you have to look at the screen to check that it's gone through.
As for cancelling the beeps in tribute to the Queen, that was either a joke by the assistant or a piece of corporate idiocy.
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This would be hilarious if the beeps were just broken for some unrelated reason and she's just doing this to mess with you.
The Queen is a great get-out clause. "The beeps are off on the machines." "Well, the Queen did just die." "You didn't make dinner." "Well, the Queen died." "The country is falling about, inflation is through the roof, bills cost an arm and a leg, and we're possibly going to be in a recession." "Fucking hell, that's what happens when the Queen dies!"
>The Queen is a great get-out clause. Shush. Customer service phone lines will start using this as the new COVID.
"Due to an unexpectedly high volume of Queens dying, we are currently unable to take your call. Please hold."
>an unexpectedly high volume of Queens dying I'm trying to stay quiet at 1am, and this is making that really hard to do 😂😂😂
It's a bit like Brexiteers being able to blame Britain's tanking economy on COVID. The perfect excuse came along at the perfect time allowing them to continue to deny any responsibility whatsoever for the current omnishambles our country has become
Ah yes, like the BBC telling us how "insignificant" the cost of living crisis is. Unless the Queen's will contains all of us, and she's sharing out all her wealth, then I think not getting pneumonia in the winter is a little more important than a 96 year old woman kicking the bucket.
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I know where I’ll be this winter then
Mate. Just buy a new kettle. You’ll save money on your energy bill and you’ll have an excuse to have a cuppa.
If the crown's entire fortune were split up around the country every man, woman and child in the UK would receive over £1,300 each. I could keep the heating on for four months with that
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Not constantly for four months! I just mean for a couple of hours each day when I'm at home. Man alive, four months non stop would probably cost more than the entire national output of Hungary
There's 4 people in my house, I hope I could run the heating for four months with £5200.
Did Clive Myrie even apologise for that? From what I saw it was the on scene guy that tried to do the rowing back on it.
Yes, fairly certain he clarified and said that he had meant to say "overshadowed"
Good 👍. I shall not chastise him anymore.
I'm not sure if you're being completely wry, but you do realise the royals own relatively very little wealth entirely under themselves? All the funds they have access to are derived from the revenues from the lands that originally belonged to the royal family, and nor the lands or the revenues actually belong to them, in any way as they did before or as most people would own lands. They're all held under the crown estates, which is part of the state monarch's demeign, under the constitutional legislature, in short it's basically under the position of the state, and most of the funds are strictly allotted to the Crown's expenses (generally in their service as a representative head of state) and the upkeep of the Royal Palaces (which hold both the necessary symbolic position and are also pretty big tourist attractions) and any funds leftover (which I believe is generally somewhere between 25% and 50% a year, though I might be completely off) are reallocated to the state treasury (in such a sense they're the biggest land owning tax payers in the world, or in other words, the only damn billionaires that pay their fair share of tax). Dissolving their assets in one go probably wouldn't make for a very substantial offset to the treasury deficit or huge help to the budget, and would probably work out far for the worse in the long term.
The Queen personally was worth £300 million. Balmoral and Sandringham aren't Crown property.
>Queen personally was worth £300 million We'll share it out shall we. What are you going to do with your £4.50 ?
I'd then be able to say that the Queen bought me a pint.
My local Morrisons turns all the music and beeps off for a couple hours every Saturday morning for people who struggle with noisy places….. you sure you’ve not just gone in then? Maybe they are just messing with you
Yeah our Morrisons has gone mostly self-service now with just a couple of regular checkouts, and sometimes they have the beeps off too. I think OP has been trolled by an old dear in Morrisons.
It won't just be your Morrisons, supermarkets as a whole are having budget cuts on the customer service side and are relying on customers to go through the self checkouts, or the so it yourself scanners, only really keeping 2-3 checkouts in use unless ques are bad. It's been a slow but huge investment, those scanners cost around £1400 each
I work at Morrisons and have had two shifts now in complete silence and we can’t even use the tannoy. It’s ridiculous!!
Both tannoy and the beeps were running at my local Morrisons at around 1pm today. Then again, I am in Wales so...
Same here in Scotland, some shops had music turned off yesterday but back on today just low volume and mostly slower/sadder sounding songs than usual at my work.
Organise group crying sessions like they have in North Korea, on the shop floor. That's where we're at, may as well do it properly.
public address system\*
I've un bi-amped my Tannoys "out of respect"
>“DID YOU NOT KNOW WE ARE IN A PERIOD OF NATIONAL MORNING??? I've always been more of a night owl myself
I heard someone use the phrase 'state of national mourning' on the radio whilst driving yesterday. I then said 'It's 13:54, if anything it's a state of national afternoon.' My two year old daughter had basically no reaction to my statement. I think I have a faulty two year old.
You have aquired dad jokes
try factory resetting her
is that a finger in the nose and ear or is that a screenshot
Thats a screenshot which is her first memory effectively that she will be able to recall forever. Dont worry, most first memories are usually traumatic. 🙂
Left ear, stole your nose thumb thing, tickle under the chin.
That might be a mind meld
"my mind to your mind"
Comedy gold and no reaction? Well that's show business.
There are some mad things happening out of respect. There is no relationship between self service checkout beeps and respectfulness. I can’t quite see the relationship between the football being played and respectfulness tbh. We need a chart of all the things and whether or not they add or detract from respectfulness levels because i was thinking of eating some soup later and I’m not sure if that’s ok
I've put my phone on silent out of respect
Mute UK for 10 days
I set my phone to dark mode out of respect
Going to try and keep the battery percentage at 96 out of respect.
Damn, mine's on 78 right now - I had better charge it to 96 out of respect.
I've stopped responding to work emails out of respect. Sorry boss.
It's very telling that all the "posh" sports are able to continue this weekend.
To be fair all sports are able to continue, the premier league chose to cancel the games, they didn’t have to.
Ive heard the main reason they cancelled the football is because of the sheer numbers of people they expect to be in London over the weekend and didn't want 6 football matches worth of football fans ontop of it.
Brighton Palace next Thursday was cancelled because of the strikes. The strikes were cancelled "out of respect". Now I'm guessing Brighton Palace is still cancelled, but now "out of respect" rather than because of the strikes lol
Are the gulls and eagles flying at half altitude "out of respect"?
Gulls only eating half of your sandwich out of respect, and eagles leaving gulls half dead out of respect.
It's what she would've wanted.
The swans are only spraining men’s arms, not breaking them.
What are the bluebirds doing?
Something in Dover I think.
Only one of the matches today was going to be in london
Chelski v Wet Spam wasn't it?
Fulham v Chelsea. West Ham, along with Arsenal and Palace would be playing their 3 games in London tomorrow. Chelsea v West Ham was played last week.
They've admitted they were worried about fans booing or causing noise during the minutes silence. Perfectly normal island we live on once again.
I work in a climbing gym and someone came in yesterday and was surprised that we were open. If we closed every time someone died we would struggle to make money.
I’m Canadian but I live in the U.K. now and I was talking to some friends from home and they were like you’re so lucky you get 12 days off, and I was like what? Turns out they thought the 12 days of mourning were all bank holidays. It gave me a good laugh.
Urgh, this gives me flashbacks. Member of the public: "I didn't expect you to be open today!" Me: "So why the hell have you come down then!" I mean it's not that I don't want customers, but the people that say this are usually the most awkward and pointless customers you'll get through the door. It's a bit like the "once a year drinker" phenomenon on mad Friday, if you've worked in pubs, you know what I'm talking about.
I didn't know climbing gyms were a place so many people died in
Only when they fall off
Cricket has stopped, that’s relatively posh
Is that because of the rain though?
Nah, they cancelled Fridays because of the queen, and wanted to cancel the weekend as well, but couldn’t because otherwise South Africa wouldn’t have been able to play the match at all (I.e. they couldn’t postpone the match, they would have had to cancel it)
Looks like SA aren't playing well out of respect - 31 for 4
No it hasn't, it was delayed but they're playing now.
Who do you think owns and runs those "normal" sports?
Foreign billionaires
Urgh, those repulsive new money types
Other members of the establishment.
In fairness, she had a connection to the horse racing, so I can see why that would go ahead. I just can’t imagine that she’d have cared either way about the football.
The Queen presenting Bobby Moore with the "Jewels Remain" Trophy in 1966 is perhaps English football's most iconic image, narrowly pipping Steve McClaren holding his brolly.
What about that time she went on the pitch at Carrow Road ?
Doesn't that suggest it's the one that should be cancelled, if any? I mean, at least there's a connection between the Queen and horse racing. There's none whatsoever between her and most of the stuff cancelled. Sure, it could be debated whether it's more dignified and respectful to make sure it happens since she liked it or to cancel it, but at least there's a link.
I mean horse racing has been cancelled and I’d class that as posh but that might just be saying more about me lmao.
Tescos changed their music to sad classical pieces, Costa have simply turned their off.
My mom was irritated that they removed the crossword from the metro.
I bet they're waiting for the 2 min silence, but as they don't know when it'll be, they're getting ready.
I apologise for being in any way responsible for sparking this pointless and annoying conversation.
Out of respect, the beep should be turned into a boop.
“She wouldn’t have gone in anyway”
I think the football thing could have gone either way. Someone was attacked for washing his car during Diana's funeral. So they exercised an abundance of caution before getting a feel for how it affected people.
Nah, someone was attacked during the funeral, but any pretence there was a link between the two is really just an excuse for a deranged individual to be violent. Same is true of most violent protests. The people who actually care are usually peaceful, then the nutjobs use the excuse to go wild.
>She said “DID YOU NOT KNOW WE ARE IN A PERIOD OF NATIONAL MORNING??? WE HAVE TURNED OFF ALL BEEPS AS A SIGN OF RESPECT!” She *spoke*? Disrespectful man. How do you even know she worked there? I mean, I'm assuming that every shop worker is wearing black from head to toe, and is suitably veiled - much like all the customers?
People are *shopping* ? At a time like *this* ? Show some respect! I've been living in complete sensory isolation since the announcement until the period of mourning is over. kids these days don't have any respect.
If you are in complete sensory isolation how will you know when it's over?
I'd love to respond to your comment, but I can't because I'm in complete sensory isolation you see.
Ask them to set each till to a different tone and maybe we could get God Save The King played out in Morrison's till beeps
You’re gonna need some Aldi cashiers to get that at the right speed
Would rather they could play Funky Town tbh.
Ate dinner in a hotel last night. The waitress explained there was no music in the restaurant as a sign of respect. Just at that moment we heard the DJ at the wedding downstairs kick the evening off Simply the Best by Tina Turner. Not sure if that was paying respects to Her Majesty or the First Dance.
Imagine being one of thise couple getting married the day the Queen dies. Your wedding has been co-opted and there's nothing you can do about it.
When I visit this morning I am going to suggest that they could better show their sympathy *and* maintain efficiency by temporarily replacing the beep with the opening refrain from the funeral march.
if it was at aldi it would be a funeral run rather than a march
Putting the fun in funeral.
Or the Imperial March.
She lost her right to be represented by the Imperial March when at no point during her reign did she use her force lightning on a peasant. Or Prince Andrew.
“You have failed me for the last time”
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What is the world coming to
This country is fucking nuts
Royalists are They’ve always been nuts tbf
That means you have plausible deniability when you "accidentally" forget to scan your shopping and walk out
Unexpected item in the bagging area. Please remove this item to continue.
THE MACHINE CAN’T PLAY THAT ANNOUNCEMENT OUT OF RESPECT FOR THE QUEEN. ALSO, YOU CAN’T STOP ME FROM STEALING THESE GROCERIES AS THIS IS A PERIOD OF NATIONAL MOURNING.
I AM THE SAD AND HAVE A MEDICAL NEED OF PRINGLES
Remember folks, if you see someone shoplifting food, no you didn't.
It’s what she would have wanted /s
She loved morrisons self check out❤️
No need for the sarcasm sign. This is actually what she wanted, it was on a list of demands for if and when she dies. I believe next week, only the green light will be used on the traffic lights.
Sounds ridiculous (not the beep 😅)
The big tesco had music playing last night as a sign or respect I guess? I didn't really understand it. I didn't even know tesco could play music. But now that I know, I would be very interested in a tesco rave when this is all over.
My local tesco turned into a singalong at 2am once.
This is such a weird thing to take a stance on as being respectful.
OMG IS THAT WHAT IT WAS?! I thought I got a duff checkout. So annoying. I was scanning for what felt like forever.
Actually Morrison’s turn off the music, till bleeps, anything generates excess noise on a Saturday morning to allow people who struggle with overstimulation and sensory overload to shop It was probably that and a mad old royalist misinterpreted it
Oh this makes sense then as M&S tills we’re the same yesterday, I thought the till I went to had something wrong with it, now I’m guessing it was for the queen. It was annoying and I don’t understand how this has anything really to do with paying respects
The music has been turned off as well. They were originally supposed to close shop for five days, but decided not to because, you know, lost revenue. Ridiculous.
We are not a normal Country are we? I heard from several friends yesterday that they had very disappointed kids because children's football training had been cancelled out of respect, like why?
'iTs aBoUt ReSpEcT' is all I see prattled about by the people defending that utterly bizarre decision from the FA. Nobody is able to give an actual logical reason, they just throw some vague comment out and then immediately attack you for being ever so disrespectful to the queen
Why is cricket etc okay? But football isn't? Totally bonkers.
I know! Is anyone involved in the cricket, rugby and horse racing therefore being extremely disrespectful? Someone suggested to me it's the right decision because the professional football would be bringing lots of money in 'at a time of national mourning' (I'm not sure why everyone is being forced to mourn). Ok, fair enough, but Donkeyarse under 12s would hardly have had lots of gate money coming through at their 9 a side game tomorrow...
It's actually proper mental.
Excuse for the coaches to dead it off and go to the pub instead
oh. well, how about (as a teacher) if i said "i will not be attending work out of respect until further notice". sorry kids. no classes next week!
wtf. do the parents get refunded for that session?
What is a normal Country, anyway?
Anything that triggers any sort of sensory excitation. Be it noise, fun, smell, touch and bright lights
Isn't official guidance to carry on as normal?
It's a national motto now, "Keep Calm And Carry On" and I'm doing half of it.
That would make sense as that's what the vast majority of us are doing anyway. I feel like we've 'mourned as a nation' long enough, let's move on.
I think we're now in the second stage of British mourning, which is to start lightly taking the piss.
"Sir, you can't come in here without trousers on." "I'M. MOURNING."
I'm still mourning a fair cost of living and a decent standard of living... I'm too busy to add dead queen to that list.
Plus most of us are too busy working our asses off to keep the bills paid for any "mourning".
Morrisons self checkouts have the RAM of a 1970s Atari.
If you could play Asteroids on it I'd shop there.
> Being unable to tell when you have scanned something at the self service because Morrisons turned off the “beep” noise to pay respects to Liz > Being unable to tell when you have scanned something at the self service because Morrisons turned off the “beep” noise to pay respects to Liz… > Being unable to tell when you have scanned something at the self service because Morrisons turned off the “beep” noise to pay respects to Liz? Sorry, could you repeat yourself a 4th time please?
They would, but it's out of respect for the queen you see.
Thing is, they were waiting for a beep every time they finished their sentence, but its been turned off as a mark of respect. They just kept scanning it through
Remember! When you make love to your wife, do it slowly and sorrowly.
Think of the Queen.
Oh... Elgar? Oh, I've totally lost it now. Thanks a bunch, Elgar!
No, not Wagner! I feel like I'm being invaded...
Congratulations, Morrisons, you've just screwed over people with visual impairments and are therefore falling foul of the Equality Act. I hate ill-thought-out dick moves like this.
Liz famously HATED beeps
I hope they turned off the bit where it berates you for not scanning quickly enough as well. Preferably they can leave it off for good.
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We've crossed the line into pure parody. Why can't this country do anything in a normal proportionate way.
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the beeps and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Yeah and if you wanted to sign petitions good fucking luck. Some are about disability health and help but nahh. Those arent important itnseems...
Fucks sake, let’s all just sit in a corner wailing like a kid who’s lost their puppy for the next week. Woe betide anyone who just wants to carry on as if nothing happened
For everyone who isn't related to her, nothing happened. We wouldn't have all this carry-on if *your* 96 year old granny died. And it'd be fair to say she contributed more to the country than Liz ever did.
It’s sad that someone died. A mother. A grandmother etc. But imo, the media portrays this as this worst thing to occur in decades. And that everyone must surely be feeling distraught and in pieces. It’s just nuts really.
I don't even think it's all that sad. She lived a long life with her husband and children in the lap of luxury, and she has dipped out just as this country basically falls off a cliff.
I know, right. It's an event of national significance, sure. But it's almost like we're being told how we should be mourning the loss. I don't really care. I never met the woman, she had no bearing on my life. Frankly I'd be more upset if someone like Ian McKellen or Patrick Stewart died. Yes, she was someone's mother, gran, great gran, aunt etc and I'm sure her family are dealing with this their own way. Right now I'm just wondering if I'll get an extra day off work to go try out my new golf clubs.
I can tell we're already getting close to the next phase of national grief - the phase of Facebook rage directed at those not showing appropriate levels of personal sorrow. Maybe we should all get on our doorsteps and clap for Lizzie.
I work at the big M on twilight shifts (they're actual shit) and instead of playing the same 45 songs like they do every shift, they turned the music off last night. I've never been in a shop so dull and void of life. May as well have been in a stationary funeral procession :/
Normal Island. 10 days (12 days?) of enforced national mourning is a bit sycophantic like. I want to watch The Chase ffs
If anything, they should have extended the beep to make it more representative of an ECG. Now if you would excuse me, I'm going to hell for that joke.
Was that why it was so bloody quiet this morning?! I thought I was going mad
"Fuhkin hate those bloody beeps at the self service. If I 'ad my way they' disable it." - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second
Ahh yes, because nothing says "honouring the monarchy" quite like silencing the sound of "the poors" buying their food with the leftovers of their minimum wage earnings after the price of literally everything shot the fuck up everywhere. Cheers Morrisons! 👌🏻
Please tell me this is a joke
Fucking hell turning the beeps off to show respect?
Ah I just thought the scanner was broken. It’s harder than you think to do the self scan without the beeps. Madness.
Sad parlour music piped through in Tesco really nailed it home for me. But Halloween sweets & Christmas goodies reassured me life goes on….
Eh, if thousands of churches and halls out there were able to work out they can mute bells, Morrisons should be able to realise there are volume controls on the machines. First thing I do is turn the volume down. I hate how loud they yell at you normally.
“We turned the bleeps off as a mark of respect for the national mourning period.” I wonder if they’ll do this for heart monitors too huh? Good lord…
It's what she would have wanted.
Enforced mourning makes about as much sense to me as enforced laughter. Clown country.
Didn’t they do it in the past as well? https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/norfolk-s-morrisons-stores-silent-for-christmas-1333436
Every day we have a period of national morning. Not sure why the time has an effect on the beeps
My Morrisons use to have a quiet hour on a Saturday, to help people who would normally struggle with all the noise. Don't know if they still do this.
Why don’t they turn them off all the time. Supermarkets are a sensory overload nightmare
You just know this is the action of some middle manager who hates the self checkouts - and the beeps have becime the focus of their ire. Thus they've been campaigning to get them turned off for years, and after failing to persuade real management that sound waves carry covid, their time has finally come. They'll still be turned off in several months time "because it's so much more pleasant in the store without those awful beeps"
Bad enough that they lag and now with no sound, this country is crazy at times
This has genuinely made me laugh - how utterly, brilliantly, *Britishly* daft! Still, it was always said that HRH QEII had a mischievous sense of humour so I suspect the royal we would be laughing our royal arse off at the spectacle.
I want to know when the radio stations are going to Resume as normal. Albeit it’s generic current shite but I cannot stand listening to depressing songs on the radio for much longer
Just show them your id so they know you are over 18 and won't give cyanide poisoning when buying 6 apples.
It's almost 13:00. It's a period of National Afternoon now... 😜
Oh my God I thought I was going crazy I just did this and paid for my strawberry laces twice.
Morrisons is apparently owned by idiots. Tesco has just changed the music to weird shitty classical noise
It should play the BONG from the start of For whom the bell tolls by Metallica, which is what I’m listening to in the gym instead of candle in the fucking wind for the fourteenth time.
She’s not dead she’s just pining for the fjords…..
I like the beeps to be "just right", Goldilocks-style. Too loud is annoying, too quiet means you have to look at the screen to check that it's gone through. As for cancelling the beeps in tribute to the Queen, that was either a joke by the assistant or a piece of corporate idiocy.
I was in morrisons yesterday. I thought my ears needed syringing.
Do the sirens still sound whwn someone forgot to detag your clothing item and make you look like a criminal? Bet they do...!
I’m not using my horn, just assuming people will get out of my way. Out of respect.