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Effers;England. Started conversation Apr 29, 2011
Hey jwf I know you're into this thing to a degree, but I wanted to tell you from my genuine perception it is very fake. I was shocked when I looked at 'BBC News' earlier and the pictures outside Buckingham Palace showed absolutely nothing real compared to the Diana thing..no sort of genuine passion. The golden jubilee thing was the same.
IMO ever since the cataclysmic Diana thing they've been attempting to *manufacture* the same thing.
Anyway I wanted to drop this message here to you to give my take on it because I know how much you value *reality* Trust me its very very fake and manufactured.
Much money can be made from this couple's image.
I don't like it.
By all means enjoy it a bit yourself..I'm not trying to spoil your enjoyment. I'm just telling you honestly what I think about i.
I hope to sleep through it all now with the aid of pharmaceuticals.
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Apr 29, 2011
Ah yes, sleep, the dreamy deeps, the cure for all that ails.
I appreciate your candor and thank you for the reality check.
Exposed here as I am to all the American networks and the
way they get positively silly about anything British or Royal
I have been spending most of my reality checking energies
on maintaining a proper Commonwealth approach without the
primitive knee jerking emotional responses of the Kingless
Yankees.
That said, one channel, and I can't be sure if it was one of
theirs or ours (Canadian) was showing a split screen of the
TWO balcony kisses when I got up and turned on the telly
this morning. Apparently, there was some 'difference' in the
two kisses or something otherwise noteworthy about the
second 'unofficial and unscripted' kiss that deserved some
further analysis but my coffee hadn't quite kicked in and the
previous evening's pharmasleep was still keeping my eyelids
a bit shuttered.
All over but the shouting now I suspect. I do hope we get a
follow-up on the story about the street party being held along
the block where her grandfather's one-time house still stands.
At the corner of 'Queen' and 'Spencer' in what is now a mainly
Indian neighborhood where they plan an all-day curry fest.
~jwf~
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Effers;England. Posted Apr 29, 2011
Why are you using barfesque?
Yes it's so blandly inoffensive as a skin..but it means that you now producing the crapnell for me stuck in timewarp of Brunel.
The meds help me cope ie I missed it apart from William's Aston Martin moment..and oh I caught *THE KISS* on the news.
Feeling quite depressed.
But yeah I'm giving you my take as a Brit with this artifice shoved down our gullets. And I really really did want to enjoy it.
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Apr 29, 2011
The Aston Martin still puzzles me.
Up the British Auto Industry and all that
but 'driving Dads car'? That really sends
a mixed message about maturity versus a
lingering and binding dependence upon the
Father figure. Mind you, as the owner of
a few little British sports cars but never
able to afford an Aston I'm probably just
being jealous and bitter. I do that.
My apple-all-a-geez for the Barfesque posting.
I was at the library, where without my handy
10 year old bookmark to my space I am obliged
to type in the old URL h2g2.com which gives me
the noobloos and I kept forgetting to omit all
my usual apostrophes and dashes and stuff.
Sorry. I usually avoid posting when I'm at the
library but there you were asking a question I
felt like answering.
~jwf~
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Effers;England. Posted Apr 30, 2011
Yes you're right about the mixed symbolism. That's what I find very difficult in an emotional sense.
I was brought up from a young age to view Royalty in a semi religious sense. Not said like that, but that was the message conveyed. So now we have William driving Dad's car down the Mall like it's something new and old at the same time in terms of meaning.
The new thing is about him being more ordinary..like actually driving a sports car..but on the other hand its the heir to the throne's, who is dad's car.
If I think about all the contradictions to much I get
This whole business is really getting to me..it's so muddly...and does feel quite strongly to me like the Queen sort of died today.
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Effers;England. Posted Apr 30, 2011
>Mind you, as the owner of
a few little British sports cars <
Which?
My favourites are Triumph spitfire and an E-type.
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Apr 30, 2011
A bloke's car.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL0JQJNnLWo
Mine's white.
~jwf~
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted May 16, 2011
Pretty good.
I took delivery a week ago Saturday and drove it home
in the rain. Then on Sunday about a 20 mile loop. But
nothing since because of the rain. They say we have had
only two days since April 15th with no rainfall - and
they were cloudy, grey and damp. It has been raining for
a month and people are getting really depressed. The trees
are still bare but budding - last year at this time all
the leaves were out. It feels like March - cold, dark and
wet, day after day, the trees looking as bleak as winter.
Sorry, I'm being very grumpy and in need of sunshine and
warmth. Hoping to get the car out again soon. SOON!
~jwf~
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