lupestripe | The Royal Wedding

My manager has assented to my request to work on the day of the Royal Wedding and I couldn't be more pleased. There is no TV or radio in my new office so I should be able to avoid proceedings completely. Here's hoping anyway.

Now don't get me wrong, I am not a Republican. I would rather have the Queen as head of state than any of the jokers we have elected in recent times. I also believe they provide me 69p of amusement every year to warrant my taxes being spent on them. It's just that this wedding concerns two people I have never met, nor am I ever likely to meet, so why should I care? It simply doesn't affect me.

Furthermore, this is the worst aspect of celebrity culture as this is privileged celebrity which we must pay for. This is the driving force here - the media and the tide of celebrity - and it doesn't make it any more palatable that it is the Royals and not someone like Katy Bloody Price.

However the main issue I have with the Royal Wedding is street parties. If there is two things I hate it's bunting and cheap plastic union flags. Not only do they hark back to a era of Victorian sensibilities in which working class fun was strictly regimented but they also represent everything that is cheap, tacky and disposable about this country. As you know, I have no truck with patriotism as I believe it is strongly linked to xenophobia and nationalism. It is also the last vestige of those who have little pride in anything else they have done. And to be patriotic over this - a day which concerns no one aside from the two people involved and their families - I find almost perverse.

David Cameron was in Harrogate yesterday talking about the Royal Wedding. He was urging people to celebrate all that is good about our nation. Yet this charade seems to be about one of the worst things about this country - class and privilege - which is something Cameron knows a lot about. I also like the fact Theresa May has vowed to reverse the 24-hour drinking culture laws which were introduced in the last Parliament by Labour yet pubs can stay open longer over this weekend to celebrate the nuptials. Seems like double standards to me but let's not make this political.

I think it's telling that many Brits are leaving the country for this weekend whilst many foreigners will be arriving to participate in proceedings. The rest of us assumedly will be sat amongst the potholes that our local councils refuse to mend with people we dont know eating cucumber sandwiches which have cost us the earth due to inflation being high. But don't worry, we can all wave a crappy little plastic flag and sing the national anthem - that will make our problems go away.

Seriously, good luck to Kate and Wills, I hope they are happy together. I am sure they are nice people, it's just the ephemera I can't be dealing with. And sorry for my cynicism.

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concerns [two] people I have never met, nor am I ever likely to meet, so why should I care? It simply doesn't affect me.

You know, I have exactly that same opinion towards football fanaticism :)

I hope there's no street party here - alas, I fear this could be the sort of street (mostly still council-owned where soap-opera-watching people seem to enjoy socialising in their little front gardens instead of big private rear spaces). Ugh.

Football fanaticism is slightly different as you could meet these people at signing sessions whilst your support or encouragement could help boost the players' performances.

Is there a typical person who would have a street party for The Royal Wedding? I would have thought it would be Mr and Mrs Snooty of Oxfordshire.

It really looks like nobody where I live is having a street party. Oh and I thank god for that as I have bugger all interest in the Wedding, and like you said even I kind of find the interest in the private affairs of two families (no matter how famous) somewhat perverse too.

I am slowly drawing plans for everything over Easter to May day as I will be taking the 21st of this month off (screw the wedding Portal 2 is out, and I looking forward to that more), and taking Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday the following week off since a 3 day working week of the mid week days just feels so not worth it.

I am doing something different - working every Bank Holiday aside from Good Friday and effectively giving myself another week off later in the year (as I will work end of May Bank Holiday and August too). Works for me ^^

Well I get 5 working weeks off a acidemic year, so blowing the time off isn't an issue nor am I looking the gift horse of an extra day off in the mouth. Though the likely hood is that I will be doing something constructive, or just getting drunk slowly while finding someone to play the co-op mode of portal 2 with, anything but taking interest in the events.

I did think of doing a furry "fuck the Royal Wedding party", but I think that's too late to organize now.

Oh and as for some of the more perverse aspects of the wedding, I saw something and made an observation that made my mind snap in three places last night.

Your perversion intrigues me - what was it, may I ask?

Of course, I am delighted about having an extra day off but I am even more so because I can choose when that day is going to be. Thankfully, if I work Bank Holidays throughout the year, I can give myself another week off during which I can travel ^^

Next journal post it's the hight of crap trust me. Oh and the notice that the news media in the US are way more intrested in the "fairytale" wedding than that in the UK.

I too have no interest whatsoever in the Royal Wedding, for more or less the same reasons that you cite. The only good thing about Royal Wedding Day for me is that the roads will be quiet on my drive to work in the evening.

The other good thing is that I will get the day off in lieu, possibly allowing me to go off on another foreign jaunt. I just hope the buses are running otherwise I may have to inconvenience Wolfie.

I have one of those as well. It will come handy for ConFuzzled ;)

Very much so, although I was thinking about something kinky for some reason. In lieu kinda sounds kinky I guess... :P

I've chosen to work this day too for the same reasons. Although there isn't any street parties planned, it would have been fun if there was. I'd be driving along shouting "Get that bloody table out of the road, what do you think this is?" Or driving alongside with my window open and helping myself to sausage rolls as I mow down cheap plastic chairs and bunting.

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