Miklos: 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.

Queuing at my polling station in Tooting before the doors opened and still queuing at 11am. #UKGE2024

That's mad! Is the Queen's coffin in the polling station?

She was coffin' but someone got her a fisherman's friend and all is ok now ;)

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.

In French, for instance. Although we typically add "funéraire" for the other meaning.

In Hungarian we say szavazóurna, "voting urn".

Do you donate money in it 😏

No, that is allegedly done through Swiss bank accounts in rubles.

Swedish, too (urna). We assume it for dead folks unless told otherwise.

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