Recollections of Dianas death

[gbb]

I have feet in both camps regarding Diana, yes she was part of a class that in all probability doesnt give a monkeys toss about the likes of me, but that aside, she did an awful lot more good than the rest of them and I kinda liked that restrained, shy thing about her.
I canbe quite stony at times and yet quite emotional at others...I must admit, when the funeral cortege was being filmed and that slow, low toll of the bells started and a woman wimpered...it put a lump in my throat. She was a mother and a human being...and although I detest celebrity culture, she put her status to good use.

 

[Noodley]

[QUOTE 2582099, member: 259"]That's what people always say to each other when Noodley has just ridden by.[/quote]

Nope it's usually "who's that fat nobber?"

 

[Salad Dodger]

The day the news broke, we had intended to go looking for a new caravan.

So we did.

The dealership was pretty quiet, and we had plenty of time and space to look around. And we came away with a shiny new 'van!

 

[Hill Wimp]

Dianas death does seem to have been a bit of a catalyst for the Royal Family. They are very different today and appear far more relaxed.

I have to say i am always amazed at how much coverage this got abroad. Family in the US said it was 24hr. When Kennedy was assasinated ( no i wasn't alive then) i can understand why the world coverage was pretty big ( for then anyway) as he was the President but, and i do support our Royal Family totally, she wasn't a world leader.

 

[glenn forger]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GRnIiXn-B8


Naomi Watts has got that peek-a-boo look.

 

[Noodley]

Dianas death does seem to have been a bit of a catalyst for the Royal Family. They are very different today and appear far more relaxed.

Probably relieved that they got away with it.

 

[Longshot]

Awful woman.

She died on my birthday and I'm pretty sure she did it on purpose just to wind me up.

 

[Poacher]

I was trying to repair the dent in my beloved white fiat uno where some idiot in a merc had clipped it from behind.

 

[tmesis]

Me and the (now ex) wife tried to go to the cinema to get away from the wall-to-wall guff on telly, but on the way there were rear-ended by some boy-racer, and spent the rest of the day in A&E, with unavoidable wall-to-wall guff on the telly in the waiting room. The subsequent week off work did mean I managed to avoid the sight of some my colleagues emoting over the event.

 

[Globalti]

Staying in temporary accommodation with the new Mrs Gti when I got up and saw the newspaper. I wasn't at all surprised, the lifestyle was a recipe for that kind of disaster and the way of her death was not unexpected.

What I didn't expect was the wave of emotional incontinence that overcame the nation.

 

[brodiej]

Me and the (now ex) wife tried to go to the cinema to get away from the wall-to-wall guff on telly, but on the way there were rear-ended by some boy-racer, and spent the rest of the day in A&E, with unavoidable wall-to-wall guff on the telly in the waiting room. The subsequent week off work did mean I managed to avoid the sight of some my colleagues emoting over the event.

You probably wouldn't have got into the cinema anyway.

We thought we were being cunning going to see a film to escape the wall to wall trash on TV only to find the whole south of England was trying to cram into the cinema

The films were all crap as well, but that didn't stop anyone

We went home and rented Secrets and Lies by Mike Leigh - which was great.

 

[Noodley]

I suppose this thread demonstrates that what history will record as a "nation in mourning" was in fact a great many people sniggering at football mascots, some blokes sleeping, a few people going to the cinema, some others going about their daily chores trying to avoid any news, and most people getting right royally fecked off with Candle in the Wind. And User getting a shag. Oh, and pan pipes. (not User getting pan pipes, everyone getting fed up with panpipe music on the radio; but I suppose User may have got some)

 

[Mugshot]

I didn't feel an awful lot apart from a growing sense of frustration at the world seeming to grind to a halt.
A day or so after a work colleague asked me how I felt about such a "tragedy" when I replied with a bit of a shrug of the shoulders she told me that she expected nothing less from somebody like me and I should be ashamed. I, as politely as possible, told her that I thought the death of any body at that age was sad, but that the public outpouring of grief and media response was entirely out of proportion to the death of one extraordinarily priveleged individual, particularly when compared to the reaction to the Dunblane massacre of 16 children just over a year before. I seem to remember her giving me a filthy look before stomping off.

 

[Noodley]

I wasn't getting a shag at the time I heard the news....
...but I did have my mouth full.

Eating bacon butties in bed, how naughty...

 

[Yellow Fang]

I hated the woman. I was mean about her after she died, and I was scornful of the over-the-top outpourings of grief. To me she seemed a self-pitying, manipulative, narcissistic, self-publicising schemer. I was fed up of listening about her every time I switched on the TV or radio or picked up a paper. I hated the circus that followed her around and never let up. I hated the endless popularity campaigning. I wished she'd just marry a rich South American and disappear to Brazil. All the same, I was surprised how much I was affected. I felt like someone in my family had died. I think I may have been too cynical and mean-spirited about her. I had my doubts about her motives when I saw her on the telly stroking some dying African child's head, but I suppose if I was an African child dying of AIDS, I probably wouldn't mind having my head stroked by a beautiful princess. I should have given her credit for wanting to do good and been more forgiving of her faults. I probably would have been if I could have escaped having to listen about her virtually every day for fifteen years.