Why is it that journos presume that they speak for everyone? Hadley Freeman commits just that error today.
Get out the union flag clothing, sport some odd headwear – heck, do the Lambeth Walk…
Yes, I appreciate that she is being facetious, but I for one am sick to the back teeth with the royal wedding. I have never met these people, don’t know them and care less. That the day has been designated a bank holiday is mere happenstance to me. Again, I couldn’t care less. I don’t want to watch, I don’t want to celebrate and will not be doing so. What is tedious is the outpouring of sycophancy in the media.
There are few things more tedious than people who insist that they are above something when the rest of the country is suffused with festive spirit.
Yes, well, not everyone enjoys themselves in the same way – “we” does not apply to “me” so speak for yourself – or in this case “the rest of the country” when you mean “the media”. Frankly, apart from the hyperbole in the media, I can’t say that I’ve noticed this outpouring of festive spirit – more a collective “meh”, which is precisely how it should be.
It’s all just petty-statism by media and politicians, the assumption that all the proles love to come together in times of National Celebration, that we can’t just get on with enjoying ourselves in our own way as we please.
What they forget is that this ain’t 1977 any more. We simply have far more choices than getting together with our neighbours. In 1977, you might not have owned a car. You probably knew your neighbours. You had 3 channels on TV. The shops were shut. No satellite, no Xbox, no DVDs, no internet. We’ve also realised just how human the royals are. And in terms of glamour and success, people have their own versions of the prince and princess mythology in the form of celebrity now. No young man looks up to Prince Charles like they look to Beckham.
Personally, I’m pissed off because the client I’m doing work for will be closed. That’s my income lost for a day, which means to replace that I’ll have to replace that by working on a day when I’d rather not have done.
Do you mean “I could NOT care less”
Indeed. Corrected.
People are generally happy with the extra day off though!
If this is true it is the saddest thing I have read this year…
“People are generally happy with the extra day off though!”
Where I live, France, we have 12 fete nationals instead of the paltry 6 in the U.K. so us ex-pats dont need to be bribed with an extra day off work to watch the marriage. My wife who is French will be glued to the telly watching the wedding, not me however, I will be round a good mates, modifying the new old stock T140 Bonneville frame to accept my ancient Triumph Trident engine, a day properly spent doing something usefull with plenty of celebration once the job is done!
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The Queen has already broken her coronation oath several times, so I’m damned if I care about the monarchy any more.