When I was five I had an intense recurrent nightmare throughout the Charles and Di wedding period about a bomb going off on our council estate. Living in central London means anything like this means extra terrorist alerts. Bah.
At least people here are getting cross that taxpayers' money is expected to pay for the wedding. The recession has made people a bit more republican.
I don't hate them as much as you do - I like traditions and all, and find them amusingly ugly and stupid, but at the same time I can see it is pretty dangerous having such a huge hierarchical bollock as the many, many less intelligent of the population cling to the belief that rich people are their "betters" somehow, rather than just equally stupid but more fortunate financially. I didn't realize how serious it was until a conversation with my boyfriend last year in which he got very upset at my lack of respect for the royal family, saying we are supposed to respect them because they are our rulers!!! I exploded. Of course, he has a mental illness that makes it hard for him to think properly, and left school at 16 and comes from a village where people didn't read books apart from Jeffrey Archer, but still!!!!!!!
(Now he is on new medication he says he realizes the royal family are silly, and is cross that they don't pay for their own weddings, so I think it was just the madness talking.)
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Bloody royal wedding.
When I was five I had an intense recurrent nightmare throughout the Charles and Di wedding period about a bomb going off on our council estate. Living in central London means anything like this means extra terrorist alerts. Bah.
At least people here are getting cross that taxpayers' money is expected to pay for the wedding. The recession has made people a bit more republican.
I don't hate them as much as you do - I like traditions and all, and find them amusingly ugly and stupid, but at the same time I can see it is pretty dangerous having such a huge hierarchical bollock as the many, many less intelligent of the population cling to the belief that rich people are their "betters" somehow, rather than just equally stupid but more fortunate financially. I didn't realize how serious it was until a conversation with my boyfriend last year in which he got very upset at my lack of respect for the royal family, saying we are supposed to respect them because they are our rulers!!! I exploded. Of course, he has a mental illness that makes it hard for him to think properly, and left school at 16 and comes from a village where people didn't read books apart from Jeffrey Archer, but still!!!!!!!
(Now he is on new medication he says he realizes the royal family are silly, and is cross that they don't pay for their own weddings, so I think it was just the madness talking.)