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Queuing at my polling station in Tooting before the doors opened and still queuing at 11am. #UKGE2024 34 16 209
That's mad! Is the Queen's coffin in the polling station? 2 17
She was coffin' but someone got her a fisherman's friend and all is ok now ;) 1 3
Incidentally, a ballot box is called an 'urn' in some other languages.
The dark joke goes that a man took his mother in law to vote so that she'd get accustomed to the urn. 1 1 6
In French, for instance.
Although we typically add "funéraire" for the other meaning. 2 3
In Hungarian we say szavazóurna, "voting urn". 1 1 3
Do you donate money in it 😏 1
No, that is allegedly done through Swiss bank accounts in rubles. 1 2
Swedish, too (urna). We assume it for dead folks unless told otherwise. 2