Packing thousands of straws together basically creates a low-tech pixel screen.
Each straw acts as an independent light pathway, perfectly mimicking how data channels work.
Palace staff were trained to disappear. The second the Queen appeared in a hallway, they stopped mid-sentence, stepped aside, and kept their eyes down until she had passed.
Buckingham Palace ran on more than 1,000 staff, and most of them lived by one rule: stay unseen and unheard. The footmen and junior staff, the people who served and waited on the family, kept to the edges of the hallways and never walked down the middle of the carpet. That center strip belonged to the Queen. Walking on it also wore out rugs worth a small fortune. Cleaners weren't allowed to run a vacuum before 10 in the morning, in case the noise woke the family. The whole place was built to stay quiet and out of sight.
The same rules shaped everyone who got close to her. The moment she entered a room, you stood. You never turned your back on her, even walking out the door, and you waited for her to speak before you said a word. You did not touch her unless she offered her hand first. The first time you spoke to her, she was "Your Majesty," and "Ma'am" after that, said to rhyme with jam. World leaders who did nothing more than rest a hand on her back to steer her through a crowd ended up splashed across the front pages for it.
The formality reached even her own family. A 2002 book about life inside the palace, by the royal writer Brian Hoey, described how her eldest son would send a written note through one of her staff just to set up time with his own mother, instead of knocking on her door. She sat at the heart of a system with hundreds of years of tradition behind it, and she lived inside it for 70 years. For the people in that building, all of it had become second nature.
So when you watch the staff freeze as the Queen strolls past, what you're seeing is that training doing its job. A room full of people whose whole job was to melt into the background, caught for a few seconds beside the one person they had spent their entire careers trying not to be noticed by. Decades of tiny rules, all going off at once.
As I have always said, If you have a problem with menstrual blood, then just date a man. Women menstruate it is not news. And sometimes, mistakes will happen.
If you think this little blood messes up your car, then wait till she has to push a baby out in the car while you are stuck in jam rushing to the hospital, you will see real blood.
And if she had a heavy meal before labor begins, Number 2 will actually come out before the baby. So this is nothing lads.
As long as you are straight and love women, then terms and conditions apply.😉 abakyala bazira.