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14 Sep 2022, 9:17 pm #280

(14 Sep 2022, 5:00 pm)Adrian More shops to close, but pubs to stay open?

The shops that are closing sell essentials. I'd argue for Christmas Day and Easter Sunday, you already know well in advance that they're going to be closed. You've got less than a weeks notice with this, and many families live day-by-day in terms of budgeting and putting food on the table.

I must say I think the comment about shopping day to day and budgeting is a stretching it. Getting to the shops each day (unless you’re walking) is going to cost something, bus fare/petrol. Which isn’t the best way to run a budget, plan meals and do a modest weekly shop, or at least a few days worth. And even if you’re walking, the vast majority don’t close to a ‘big supermarket’ so you’re probably going to the spar or coop who are Convenience Stores and they charge a premium.

Most people usually say the opposite about giving staff a day off - advocating for more places to shut on Boxing Day etc. it’s strange how there’s the completely opposite take on this for this one day. There’s enough of advance notice too for people to shop the day or a couple of days before, if they usually shop on Mondays. Also Asda at least are opening later on that day, from 5pm.

(14 Sep 2022, 5:26 pm)streetdeckfan I go on Twitter and literally everything is about the bloody Queen, it's taking the piss at this point! I don't need live updates about where, for lack of a better phrase, a rotting corpse is! Why people are queuing up for 5 miles is beyond me, you might as well go to a butchers! I'm glad I'm not paying for a TV license because I'd want a refund, all they've been doing is regurgitating the same crap for the last week.

I've got my 93rd COVID booster booked in for Monday and I hope to god they don't have a TV on in the waiting area! Actually, I'm half expecting to get a phone call saying they've cancelled it out of respect!

You don’t need to be a royal watcher or even remotely interested to be respectful either. ‘Rotting corpse’, ‘bloody’ I wouldn’t particularly use that sort of language against any dead person, let alone a public figure. I appreciate nonetheless the ‘official period of mourning’ and such does jar a little with society in 2022. I myself aren’t someone who has been particular effected or seemed out coverage on this, but this is a moment in history.

But you’ve also answered your own question as to why TV coverage is so extensive. Queue sare there because people lots and lots of people do care, not everyone will be able to get to London so hence the tv coverage too. And in 2022 there’s no excuse really to be arguing with the lack of tv options, Channel 4 have been almost normal schedules since the Thursday evening, BBC 2 returned to ‘normal programming’ on Friday albeit with some BBC 1 shows airing their too. And the umpteen digital channels across Freeview and Sky largely haven’t changed their programme either.

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