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What Is Going On??

Apr 29, 2011 12:14

Not a lot, as it turns out. A whole 2 street parties in the entire town - and this a Tory stronghold since the year dot!

I can't find mention online or in the local rag of parades or other unwarranted, unsolicited public madness. A couple of schools are holding fetes for fund raising purposes, and a couple of pubs are doing special menus so people ( Read more... )

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Hangs head in shame... gwisteria April 29 2011, 16:00:05 UTC

My 15 year old who is going to spain with her school trip on this A.M. and had loads of excitment about that was still out of her gourd and got me up at 5 am to watch the royal wedding...but it was nice to have tea and spend the precious time of the morning where none of my daycare kids were here yet with her before she left me to go aboard for the first time..

Re: Hangs head in shame... showingup April 30 2011, 09:25:32 UTC

Oh, to spend the early quiet hours with her sounds lovely :) I hope she has a great time.

evilbunny April 29 2011, 17:28:43 UTC

I have no interest in the spectacle, myself. My theory is that there are two main types of people "into' the royal wedding: frustrated Anglophiles who secretly wish they lived in England (whether now or 3 or 4 centuries ago) and Disney-philes who wish they actually were one of the royal couple.

But those are just my theories, like I said I'm not into it and will be quite glad when all is said and done, rehashed, reshown, re-analyzed and redone and we can all move on.

showingup April 30 2011, 09:29:26 UTC

I find myself thinking it's a wishful thinking thing, too. "Maybe, if we throw ourselves into it, we can sort of touch that privilege, and take ourselves out of the reality of inequality and unfairness." It's much the same, to me, as the American Dream - there are a rare few people who "make it", just enough to hold up to the rest and proclaim that the system works and it's all down to you whether you become rich and famous or not.

It strikes me that you've really hit the nail on the head with your Disney comment: selling the fantasy of the rich and famous lifestyle as something to aspire to, while at the same time holding you in place.