bnky
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In the UK it's the queen's jubilee.
Everyone seems to be going red white and blue mad and talking about celebration.
Are any UK aspies on here caught up in the celebration fever? - if so how do they become jubilant?
It was described to me as being like Christmas... But if I got all hyped up to celebrate Christmas i'd be disappointed if I didn't feel that father Christmas had been to my neighbourhood.
Politics,aside, how do other UK aspies celebrating this... Or are you just as stumped?  |
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bnky
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I guess the real crux of my question is:
How do other aspire get into spirit of public celebrations when told to do so by media? |
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TallyMan
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| bnky wrote: | I guess the real crux of my question is:
How do other aspire get into spirit of public celebrations when told to do so by media? |
I don't. I'm English and I'd forgotten about the jubilee - except for when it appears on the TV news and I've forgotten again a minute later.
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SilkySifaka
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| bnky wrote: | I guess the real crux of my question is:
How do other aspire get into spirit of public celebrations when told to do so by media? |
I don't really get excited about this sort of thing. I get quite into things during a general election because I feel that is important from a practical point of view. I'm not very excited about the Jubilee at all. I don't dislike the Queen or the Royal Family but I'm not very enthusiastic either. I'm not sure if that is to do with being Scottish, or just a general apathy on my part.
Over the weekend my boyfriend's Mum is having a BBQ and we are going to that. I'm not sure if she's going to put up bunting or not.. |
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chiastic_slide
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60 years of slavery is nothing to celebrate
Its all hype and brainwashing and is doing my head in already
People waving the union jack like it still means something
Sorry to get into politics. I feel the need to go somewhere quiet away from it all
Neighbours blasting out music already  |
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roccoslife
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Couldnt give half a toss about the jubilee, perhaps because I dont, or cant, get into this whole patriotic thing, mostly because I feel like I dont belong in this country, or planet for that matter. hence why I hang out here 
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Mummy_of_Peanut
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No celebration in my house either. There aren't any here, that I've noticed. There will be some flags up, in certain parts (and I can guess exactly where I'll see them), but you really wouldn't know we were supposed to be celebrating anything. The extra public holiday is nice.
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SilkySifaka
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| Mummy_of_Peanut wrote: | | No celebration in my house either. There aren't any here, that I've noticed. There will be some flags up, in certain parts (and I can guess exactly where I'll see them), but you really wouldn't know we were supposed to be celebrating anything. The extra public holiday is nice. |
I know what you mean. I'm not used to seeing Union Jacks flying, except in certain areas, or outside certain pubs. Since I moved to England I've been trying to get used to it. Years ago I found myself in one of the Scottish Union-jack flying pubs (in West Lothian, I think) and I spent a lot of time worrying that someone would ask where I went to school because that would rather have given the game away that I was the wrong 'side'. I don't go in for 'sides', but I realise that other people do however foolish such a positions is. |
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ZaphodsExtraHead
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I'm not going in for the jubilee at all. I'm a would-be royalist: If tomorrow the Royal Family were assume actual rule again, parliment were disbanded and all of our delightful politicians retired (or, say, found face down in a river) I would be delighted. But until that day comes they're nothing more than a celebrity family who live in a big house, have big weddings, do occasionally zany things, have the occasional scandal and act as an envoy/tourist pull for the country. All of these things are also done by, say, David Beckham. And I don't feel inclined to drag out the bunting everytime he has a birthday.
Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with other people celebrating it, I just wish it wasn't getting rammed down the throats of those who don't.
On the other hand I could just be bitter that I'm working the entire bank holiday  |
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roccoslife
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All though as I started above I couldnt give a f**k about the jubilee or the monarchy, watching the pageant on the thames on television today has made me wish I bothered going down there, it was such a spectacle, like a once in a lifetime sight, kinda annoyed at myself for not getting the 20 minute train journey to tower bridge.
Oh well, at least it rained pretty bad, so that consoles me a tad.
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Mummy_of_Peanut
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| SilkySifaka wrote: | | Mummy_of_Peanut wrote: | | No celebration in my house either. There aren't any here, that I've noticed. There will be some flags up, in certain parts (and I can guess exactly where I'll see them), but you really wouldn't know we were supposed to be celebrating anything. The extra public holiday is nice. |
I know what you mean. I'm not used to seeing Union Jacks flying, except in certain areas, or outside certain pubs. Since I moved to England I've been trying to get used to it. Years ago I found myself in one of the Scottish Union-jack flying pubs (in West Lothian, I think) and I spent a lot of time worrying that someone would ask where I went to school because that would rather have given the game away that I was the wrong 'side'. I don't go in for 'sides', but I realise that other people do however foolish such a positions is. |
Yes, asking me which school I went to says to others that I'm on the wrong side too. Bunting is flying outside the pubs I had thought of.
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