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As an Englishman, let me tell you from my point of view - this is utter bollocks. The TV schedule will be completely fucked, sombre music will be played instea

As an Englishman, let me tell you from my point of view - this is utter bollocks. The TV schedule will be completely fucked, sombre music will be played instead and the newspapers will be a nightmare. Most people however will not give a toss and will go about their day. It's like when Diana died and a large amount of the mourners were crazy old ladies or american tourists. It does annoy me when the rest of the world thinks we're all worried about the queen dying.

idibidiart 11y ago
That's exactly what i was going to say and I'm not an Englishman. I did attend highschool in London in the mid 80s. It was like you put it, even back then.
DanBC 11y ago
> It's like when Diana died and a large amount of the mourners were crazy old ladies or american tourists. there was mass hysteria. don't deny it.
- sofaofthedamned 11y ago
  Mass hysteria in the media, nowhere else. I'd been to a nightclub that night and unfortunately didn't pull a girl - so I came back home and listened to the radio. It alternated between Diana is dead, no she's alive, lizards did it, no she's dead again, etc etc. The next morning all the TV stations were playing the sombre music and I was bored so I went to the local park in Cheltenham (Sandford Park). I was walking along and I saw a girl who looked a bit pissed off. I had nothing to lose, so I asked if she was missing the TV or missed Diana? She said it was the former, so we decided to go the pub. We had a pretty good night. There was no mass hysteria unless you lived in an old peoples home or were in media and had to rewrite your playlists.
  - DanBC 11y ago
    Several million people visited London to leave flowers and stuffed toys. There were an estimated 60 million flowers - 10 to 15 tons, and they took 6 weeks to clear withthe help of volunteers. http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9709/11/diana.flowers/ http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9709/11/diana.flowers/ Here's a video of the flowers: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1H1ToOAAsNg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1H1ToOAAsNg Just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't exist. Edit: and you're not going to see it in Sandford Park. The pump room gardens was a lot more sombre. ;-)
ende 11y ago
Curious for an anecdotal opinion, but what would say is the general opinion on demoting the royals to the commons (along with the rest of the aristocracy theatre), and setting up as a proper republic?
- elthran 11y ago
  From where I see it, there's a whole range of the spectrum in the population - from the die hard monarchists and republicans, with the the majority of people being fairly apathetic either way. I feel that, given not much power lies with the monarchy, and we'd likely just replace it with an elected head of state, which would be just as costly - why bother?

idibidiart 11y ago

That's exactly what i was going to say and I'm not an Englishman. I did attend highschool in London in the mid 80s. It was like you put it, even back then.

DanBC 11y ago

> It's like when Diana died and a large amount of the mourners were crazy old ladies or american tourists. there was mass hysteria. don't deny it.

sofaofthedamned 11y ago
Mass hysteria in the media, nowhere else. I'd been to a nightclub that night and unfortunately didn't pull a girl - so I came back home and listened to the radio. It alternated between Diana is dead, no she's alive, lizards did it, no she's dead again, etc etc. The next morning all the TV stations were playing the sombre music and I was bored so I went to the local park in Cheltenham (Sandford Park). I was walking along and I saw a girl who looked a bit pissed off. I had nothing to lose, so I asked if she was missing the TV or missed Diana? She said it was the former, so we decided to go the pub. We had a pretty good night. There was no mass hysteria unless you lived in an old peoples home or were in media and had to rewrite your playlists.
- DanBC 11y ago
  Several million people visited London to leave flowers and stuffed toys. There were an estimated 60 million flowers - 10 to 15 tons, and they took 6 weeks to clear withthe help of volunteers. http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9709/11/diana.flowers/ http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9709/11/diana.flowers/ Here's a video of the flowers: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1H1ToOAAsNg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1H1ToOAAsNg Just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't exist. Edit: and you're not going to see it in Sandford Park. The pump room gardens was a lot more sombre. ;-)

ende 11y ago

Curious for an anecdotal opinion, but what would say is the general opinion on demoting the royals to the commons (along with the rest of the aristocracy theatre), and setting up as a proper republic?

elthran 11y ago
From where I see it, there's a whole range of the spectrum in the population - from the die hard monarchists and republicans, with the the majority of people being fairly apathetic either way. I feel that, given not much power lies with the monarchy, and we'd likely just replace it with an elected head of state, which would be just as costly - why bother?