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Just to add to the thread, the local newswire in Ceredigion is reporting the council didn't get a single application for a street party.
That could be said about a huge number of things though. Why have any celebration of anything whilst some people visit foodbanks? In fact, why do it whilst some people are on benefits?
The fact is, if you aren't interested, you don't have to get involved. Just carry on with your day. :)
It seems to me that a lot of people on here are very interested - just not in the flag waving, forelock tugging way. Interested in the vast cost, the reinforcement of privilege and deference, the celebration of inherited wealth and power, and the wall to wall deflection from the mess this country is in.
The media will make it very hard to avoid. Not impossible - but ‘just carry on won’t do it.
surprising poll results from Wales
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...-keep-26829414
by the way has anyone here been asked about a poll about anyhthing ? i haven't
Oh yeah, the interest is understandable. And it's good to have good and interesting debates about topics like this. I'm just not sure that a thread moaning about peasants swearing allegiance is that place. It's kinda misleading, and as I said with tongue in cheek...no one is making you do anything.
There's probably a cross over of views between us here, as I'm sympathetic to the thrust of what you say, but I find the people moaning about the royal family are usually pretty privileged themselves and this topic is usually a distraction, often from their own inherited wealth and power.
There is also a pretty big crossover between said people and those who, when push came to shove, actually were pretty keen in cancelling the opinions of 'the people' when they didn't think the same way!
I just think live and let live. And as football fans who pay good money to watch multi millionaires kick a leather ball while we chant their names, we are probably not best places to criticise other people getting some enjoyment, entertainment or community togetherness from a dose of flag-waving pageantry.
A bit of history revisited.
Cranbrook street Cathays, my nan & gramps lived here and we gate crashed the party, Silver Jubilee,
the band were called Denim, went on to become very well known in the local music scene at the time.
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If I understand your argument, people who dislike the Royal Family are usually privileged and have lots of inherited wealth. They are heavy cancel culture. But because the Royals are a bit like well paid footballers who some adore, there is unlikely to be anyone one this Board able to criticise anyone loving the pageantry, right?
No, I'm just saying live and let live, that most people are hypocrites, that endless going on about the Royals is probably a distraction from real issues and that Sludge talks about milfs too much.
Okay the last bit is new, but lots of people get a lot of enjoyment from big occasions like this and so what if they do. We get enjoyment from watching multi millionaires kick footballs around whilst we are fed a lie the players give a shit about us. Are we really in a position to criticise?
So I understand your latest riposte. The people who are usually privileged with inherited wealth are hypocrites and should live and let live. They distract from real issues because Sludge talks about milfs too much?
Also because we create a bond with well paid footballers who play for our team we are unable to differentiate that from people who love the pageantry of of a 21st Century Royal event, right?