That may well be, but I didn’t. I asked a question and have been called selfish and self-centred among other things, simply for doing so.
Unfortunately it’s happening across all threads surrounding the Queen. Yes, there are some posters baiting and mocking, but there’s an awful lot of posters attacking those just for questioning and enquiring as to the motives of those who want to stop their lives for the idea of collective mourning for a woman who while unutterably dutiful, was an unreachable figure. And that is appearing as hysteria from those posters. I’d be curious as to how those posters felt about the actions of Center Parcs and British Cycling. I’d assume they were in support.
The idea of a period of mourning stems from a Victorian age, when everything took so much longer and they had a fascination with death. Now, to me, I prefer the more modern celebration of life. While that is undeniably occurring, the long lying in state period of mass mourning, the cessation of normal lives and a suggestion that on the actual day of the funeral, to do anything remotely enjoyable is ‘disrespectful’, is totally archaic.
So I have simply asked a question.