Immigrants to be taught the fine British art of how to queue

[BolshieBastard]

Immigrants are to be educated in one of Britain's most important etiquettes - how to queue properly.

Foreigners applying to settle in the UK will have to learn about the revered British practice of forming an orderly line for everything from buses to sandwiches.

Ministers even want the art of queuing to be included in citizenship tests, which immigrants must pass before settling in the country.

They believe that queue-jumping is damaging social cohesion as the majority of Brits find such behaviour unacceptable.

More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...lining-up.html

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Whilst on the subject - queued in still remaining open Post Offices are so bloody long now even on like Mondays that they remind me of Soviet Union

Yeah. Queue up for the plane back to their own ******* country unless they have a very good reason to be here.

[VectraMan]

At least at the Post Office you get the excitement of guessing which number counter you'll be served at. Trying to judge who amongst the people being served is likely to take the longest; looking at all the people in front of you to see what they're carrying and what they're likely to do; figuring out if any of the staff have that "I'm about to take my break look". And then each time somebody is called and you get to inch forward you can calculate it all over again, until finally you get to the front of the queue bursting with excitement.

Hours of fun.

[RichardCranium]

I had to go for a blood test at the hospital the other week. So I got there at opening time - 7 a.m. - thinking there'd be nobody there.

There was about 80 seats and it was standing room only.

But they had a ticket machine like at the deli counter in the supermarket. Everyone was holding their ticket and every time there was a BEEP! as the LED display incremented, everyone looked at their ticket to see if it still said "83" or whether it had magically been "38" all the time and they were next.

Being in possession of a little paper ticket with a number on and a display changes with a BEEP! is sufficient entertainment for most mortals.

I think the Catholics call this 'Purgatory'.

[thunderlizard]

The hospital should have installed something like this:
http://milkfed.nic.in/image002.JPG

[Gibbon]

I had to go for a blood test at the hospital the other week. So I got there at opening time - 7 a.m. - thinking there'd be nobody there.

There was about 80 seats and it was standing room only.

Same happened to me but it was full of old retired people
There was a few other younger workers like myself looking at their watches.

I think they ought to introduce free tea and scones at 10:30 am but only if you arrive after this time.

It would be cheper than the lost working hours.

[lilelvis2000]

Does this mean I can now run over motocycles that jump queues?