History buffs scrambled for tickets to the British Museum’s ‘very exciting’ exhibition of the Bayeux Tapestry today with nearly 60,000 people in the online queue.
Visitors desperate to view the tapestry later this year complained of hours-long waits as they flooded the London museum’s website with exceptional demand.
One tweeted that ‘by the time I get to front the f***ing thing will be back in France‘ while another claimed the webpage crashed when it was finally their turn.
A third joked that they ‘better be allowed to take home a slice of the tapestry in a party bag after all this’ while a
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