Serious C B Question No.2

[-Talbot-]

Is this really rational behaviour?

Do you like waving at the Queen and would it make your day if she waved in your general direction?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGkbfWqFs3Q

[Sqad]

Talbot....that picture of the Queen looks as though she has noticed you in the cheering and waving crowds and has stuck a finger up at you.

[fiction-factory]

It's about as rational as, for example, shouting at a football player/the referee when there is no chance he will hear us. In fact even supporting a football team is irrational you could argue. But there's no harm in it and if we enjoy it does it matter?

[-Talbot-]

lol, sqad...that play button is in just the right place.

I don't see how you can compare the two FF.

[fiction-factory]

One is as rational as the other. There are lots of things people do that seem irrational to others but if they enjoy doing it and it does no harm then we can wonder why but it doesn't make it wrong

[vulcan42]

It's no less rational than this.
http://standingosports.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/fanss.jpg

[-Talbot-]

How so, FF?

I play football (well used to) I loved the combatant nature of it and will watch and respect those who are better at it than me. You will see an end result . Some people will deride football but most people like one sport or another and will play and watch their preferred sport.

Now if the Queen was going into battle (Richard Lion heart style) after the coach ride I could understand it.

[ummmm]

I love the queen :-) Don't know why....but I do.

[1ozzy]

//Do you like waving at the Queen and would it make your day if she waved in your general direction? //

Nope and nope,,,,couldn't give a stuff.

Everyone to their own.

[fiction-factory]

I love football too and still play and watch. I have never been a royalist and remember 'snubbing' the Charles and Di wedding- we had the beach to ourselves that day- but my children love everything about the monarchy and feel they represent something of importance to do with stability, heritage, patriotism

[1ozzy]

I'm looking forward to serious question number 3.

[retrocop]

You don't only wave and applaud at sports matches. Some admire another for a job well done and show their appreciation for doing it.
She might be from immigrant stock but she has worked tirelessy all her life ,has contributed a lot to this country and not spent her life outside the social.At her age she is still working hard.

[steg]

I wave to my daughter and friends when they pass me, if they wave back I do get a bit of pleasure out of it

[woofgang]

1ozzy, I am still waiting for serious question no.2!

[vulcan42]

Waving at the Queen, fans waving at their team, at the end of the day it's only people waving. The act is either both rational or both irrational.

[fiction-factory]

I do wonder why people on boats/ferries wave at passing ferries and why when we're jogging or walking in the countryside we exchange a brief 'morning/afternoon' with everyone we pass- whereas there is no greeting between motorists or pedestrians in town

[retrocop]

I suppose in the middle of the ocean or jungle it is a sort of,"Blimey. Fancy seeing you here!!" type greeting. :-)

[-Talbot-]

whereas there is no greeting between motorists or pedestrians in town



Unless you're one of those nutters towing a caravan, FF.

[Svejk]

Country people wave at each other in cars. (or they do in NI anyway)

[Svejk]

I don't know why you have this bee in your bonnet, tablet.
This Jamaican chippie I worked with said it was the happiest day of his life, when as a child, after months of preparation and several miles of barefoot hiking the Queen flashed by at 60mph in her car.
Can't see Cherie Bliar inspiring the same devotion, can you?

[-Talbot-]

Svejk
I don't know why you have this bee in your bonnet, tablet.

Just provoking thoughts, svek.

Btw
I do see the point of Queens....if you're a Bee!