to wonder if, actually, anyone is THAT bothered about the jubilee?

[BrittaPerry]

Aside from advertisers desperately looking for a new angle on "buy our stuff please", and local newspapers looking for a new angle on "cute pictures of old people with young children waving flags" Is anyone ACTUALLY bothered about the queen bit?

Days off ar nice, nostalgia never really hurt anyone, street parties are lovely, obviously, but if it was a big party for something else national, would it make any difference?

I'm just a bit skeptical that anyone really cares how long the queen has been queening for. Maybe old people, and the odd royalty obsessive, but not normal people, surely?

Oh, and forgot to say, I used to work with the Royals.

I'm a bit peeved that I have to wait an extra week for half term

Other than that I couldn't care less about the jubilee, but have no objection to other people spending their money on tat

Any excuse for a party in my book

YANBU fed up with it already and we've still got the olympics to get through yet

it's not the jubilee itself but the commercial bandwagon I think and WTF with make your own bunting

YANBU I find the prospect of the jubilee just dull and irrelevant. I'll be going abroad for the week and shall be spared miss the whole thing anyway.

I've just posted on this thread, for those who are looking forward to it. It's in The Royal Family, so the bah humbugs won't have to behold it at all.

I am feeling quite ill about the whole thing. I hate the royals with a passion.

I know so little about it I'm not even sure which day it's on

There seems to be a ridiculous amount of Keep Calm and Carry On stuff and union jacks about

The only good thing about it for me is a day off work paid other than that I couldn't care less

I like the day off but would rather have one celebrating the abolishment of the ridiculous, offensive monarchy!

I am having a birthday party on one of the bank holidays (as it is, in fact, my birthday). Anyone mentioning the Other Celebration will be booted out

What day is the actual jubilee? What will the Queen do on that day?

I'm enjoying the sense of Community it creates. It's also a good bit of history. Who knows, maybe it will inspire some British person to win Wimbledon as happened in Silver Jubilee year

I'm not doing anything but I predict it will be an enormous success.

There is a lot of ageism on here- why are old people a special case? They are exactly the same as everyone else - a complete cross section of the public.

I love it. I still remember playing music on a float at the silver jubilee and I'm really looking forward to it.

No plans here either...

I'm quite torn really. I'm not a bit monarchist (I'm Irish...what do you expect?), but some of my fellow anti-monarchists do seem to be a bit po-faced over the whole thing. Just see it as an opportunity to have a party and get pissed

I think it is more becuase there used to be a lot more of a deal made of the royals, so anyone who was around and grew up in that sort of time might still have vestiges of it.

Everyone who I have met who gives a shit has been over the age of 70...

Obviously not everyone of that age cares (eg I have met a few old union men that certainly don't) but ime, from working with the elderly quite a lot, and knowing quite a few older people (my nana lives with my mum and has friends round all the time, and I used to spend a couple of hours with her and my grandad every day growing up, as they watched us while our parents worked) they do tend to care more.

The people I know having a jubilee party or celebrating in some way are all in lovely little villages, where they are having school fêtes and things and it'll probably be a lovely day, though most won't care what its all about, its just a nice excuse to do something together in the community and have a party.

Whereas around here no one is doing anything really. I don't know of any street parties or school fêtes or anything and its all a bit of a non-event.

I won't be bothering to travel to any of the aforementioned lovely villaes to see relatives because personally I don't care in the slightest about the jubilee, except that I am now thoroughly fed up of the assumption that if I want a new I want it to have the Union Jack on it.

I am deffo not doing anything to "celebrate" (dont know anyone who is??)
in fact i'm working all weekend and expect i'll be dealing with all kind of pissed/abusive patients.

Not bothered or unbothered tbh. I pleased it's happening but not going out of my way to celebrate.

Am not happy they have moved half term - firstly because then I'll be off anyway work in school! and secondly because the weather is great next week so I will be peed off it it rains half term now!

Sorry cant do a long post as i'm busy putting the bunting up.

I don't know when it is and I'm sick of seeing keep calm and carry on and new 'witty' variations of the same theme everywhere. And land of hope and glory playing far too much.

I don't want to celebrate privelege by birth still going strong.

(And with reference to a poster above,I don't get excited about celeb's lives either)

I don't mind if others want to use it as a way to get the community together though.

I'm bothered, but not in a good way. All the roads in Westminster have been thoroughly messed up because of it for weeks and will be till 13th June, by which time the Olympic preparations will have started. The people organising all this crap seem to have completely forgotten that normal people still have to live and work around it and it is no fun whatsoever.