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To be unreasonably annoyed at Royals at the pantomime

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Gigheimer · 11/12/2020 23:24

I post knowing I’m totally unreasonable (probably) and you’ll all shout but I got both angry and sad and rage at seeing the press stories of Kate and Wills at the pantomime in the West End.

I’m normally a fan, and of course I don’t begrudge those cute kids a pantomime.

But my kids don’t get that this year, no Santa experiences, no pantomime no fucking nothing because we are tier 3 and if our local pub or theatre ever open again I’ll die of shock.

But we are in the North so who gives a fuck right?

I just have the absolute unreasonable fury tonight.

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Useruseruserusee · 12/12/2020 10:58

I teach in East London. It’s been endemic in schools for over a month here, no one cared until the numbers rose so high to threaten London as a whole going into Tier 3. I really don’t think the government cares about children in Barking or Romford and the children I teach are certainly not privileged in any way. London isn’t one entity, no more than ‘the North’ is. The areas with the highest rates are the poorest.

Gwenhwyfar · 12/12/2020 11:00

YANBU. The RF's behaviour is bad. They should be modelling good behaviour. If the royal kids want a panto they can have a small one without making a big deal of it. They can even have one at one of their palaces if they want to.
They've been travelling around unnecessarily even after being told not to by the governments of Scotland and Wales. Arrogant.

SnowmanDrinkingSnowballs · 12/12/2020 11:05

I am “up north” and we are doing plenty of these experiences this year. We have been to see a drive through Santa who kept his distance and told jokes etc, was actually better than usual Santas. Then we are going to local cathedral showing of The Snowman with full orchestra, panto and another drive through Santa puppet show with reindeers. Oh and all the small villages have arranged a Santa to travel around to give out small presents at a distance. I suspect if you look around there are plenty of activities for your children.

mycatlovesmenotyou · 12/12/2020 11:11

YABU. I live in one of the lowest covid areas in the country, yet we are Tier 2 mainly thanks to the universities in the county.

The Government can't carve up every single town, they have to go by area, so even though we are 20-30 miles away from most cases, we have to suck it up.

Our local Panto was postponed to next year months ago. We all have to live with Tier 2 restrictions.

I certainly don't begrudge the Royals going to a Panto as part of their job, same as I didn't resent them for travelling to Scotland on a train to do their work.

A quick google shows that the National Lottery funding is nationwide supporting theatres across the country, not just in London.

This is just 1 year, hopefully! Just 1 year of things being different, things being hard. But at the end of the day, we are not living through a war with blackouts and food rations. Life could be a lot worse.

ineedaholidaynow · 12/12/2020 11:12

@Gwenhwyfar do you think they put the panto on just for the Royal family so their children could see one?

MintyMabel · 12/12/2020 11:13

They also went on tour around the country. We'd be charged if we went home from London to Scotland but it's ok for William and Kate.

Not if it was as part of doing your job, you wouldn’t. My boss went from Scotland to London last week, totally legit, nothing illegal about it. They were working. You might not agree with what they do for work, but stupid to suggest others can’t do what they did.

their kids doing what no other child in Britain can

Other than the kids who were also at the pantomime, you mean?

lemonsquashie · 12/12/2020 11:13

It's PR and marketing for the theatre industry ffs: surely you don't begrudge that?

ReggieCat · 12/12/2020 11:13

Are you furious that me and my husband went to a local panto last night as well? (It was safe, socially distanced and well organised so we went - Tier 2).

Do you get childishly jealous of anyone who can do or afford to do anything you can't? Grow up.

MintyMabel · 12/12/2020 11:15

They've been travelling around unnecessarily even after being told not to by the governments of Scotland and Wales

The governments of Scotland and Wales didn’t tell the Royals not to travel.

Amanduh · 12/12/2020 11:17

Why are people STILL saying no other kids can go to panto? Tier 3 no, or sorry if your local isn’t doijg it, but there are literally 14 pantos (tier 2) on within a 15 mile radius here.

TheFairyCaravan · 12/12/2020 11:20

Stacey did nothing wrong. She provided childcare to her sister and brother in law which is allowed.

Yes she fucking well did. You have to pick one childcare bubble and stick to it, not chop and change. Her sister, and her, have used each other and their dad. Not only that, her dad and stepmother were there, at her house that night, which was evident from the photos he posted on Instagram and then very swiftly deleted once people commented. It, also, definitely wasn’t her speaking to Santa in her stories either.

I might sound overly invested, and I probably am, but I am sick to the back teeth of these absolute wankers breaking all the rules while I can’t see my kids and not only that it will be DS2 and DDIL and their health care colleagues picking up the pieces when it all goes tits up again.

wewillmeetagain · 12/12/2020 11:21

Pantos are still on in lots of places, I'm taking the kids tonight!

Livelovebehappy · 12/12/2020 11:23

I got more angry tbh that the panto was for key workers. Again, a group is being singled out for special treatment, when there have been so many people working, not in the key worker group, who also deserve some enjoyment with their families.

Time2change2 · 12/12/2020 11:23

@ReggieCat

Are you furious that me and my husband went to a local panto last night as well? (It was safe, socially distanced and well organised so we went - Tier 2).

Do you get childishly jealous of anyone who can do or afford to do anything you can't? Grow up.

No because the last time I looked you weren’t on mainstream news rubbing it in peoples faces. It’s not just about watching a panto, it’s about ‘them’ V ‘us’, the extreme privileged V plebs. This country hates that part of this virus situation because so many have lost so much. It’s made even worse when it’s something for the children to enjoy
Time2change2 · 12/12/2020 11:24

@wewillmeetagain

Pantos are still on in lots of places, I'm taking the kids tonight!
Are you in tier 2 then?
DdraigGoch · 12/12/2020 11:24

@Alternista

I’ve been slack jawed at them all week tbh. Get off the fucking royal train, stop going round the country spreading God knows what and just STAY THE FUCK AT HOME like we’re all having to. Go and thank people in six months when there’s less chance of killing them.
"Stay at home" stopped on May 10th. Do keep up.
AuditAngel · 12/12/2020 11:28

My daughters usually perform in a professional panto. But not this year. They panto is going ahead, we have tickets for 21st, but, if as expected London goes into tier 3 then we won’t be able to go (panto is outside London). My borough has the lowest COVID rate in London.

No, it’s not fair.

Yes I’m pissed off.

But no-one said life would be fair

twilightermummy · 12/12/2020 11:30

I haven't read all of the comments but I feel exactly the same. It's really riled me up probably more than anything the royal family have done in the past. I know people will say they work hard but so do I. It's really pissed me off. It's made me rethink my opinions of the necessity of a monarchy at all.

merrygoround51 · 12/12/2020 11:34

Surely they were just supporting the theatre industry

ReggieCat · 12/12/2020 11:37

Time2change2 Sat 12-Dec-20 11:23:37

No because the last time I looked you weren’t on mainstream news rubbing it in peoples faces. It’s not just about watching a panto, it’s about ‘them’ V ‘us’, the extreme privileged V plebs.

Do you imagine that they rang the press and asked them to publicise that they were going? They're the Royal family and like it or not, they are reported on.

HitthatroadJack · 12/12/2020 11:40

@wewillmeetagain

Pantos are still on in lots of places, I'm taking the kids tonight!
lucky you

But do you honestly believe the few pantos that have been maintained need promotion from the royals...

I guarantee you that if a panto was shown locally, the tickets would be sold out within minutes.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 12/12/2020 11:44

Well I hope all of you are not doing anything what someone else can't do. 🤷🏻

DdraigGoch · 12/12/2020 11:45

@Time2change2

I usually love the royals but this is tone deaf. In tier 3 here and it’s absolutely miserable. Everything I tried to book over Xmas has been cancelled. Kids isolating everywhere, in fact with a few kids in my household attending school it will be a miracle if someone isn’t isolating all over the xmas break and not allowed to leave the House let alone go to a bloody panto. My kids would have absolutely loved to do that this year. Feels like everything fun has been stripped away. No nativities for them this year either. Those who are saying YABU are you actually in a tier 3 where everything remotely enjoyable indoor is closed?
I'm in an area which would have qualified as Tier 1 were it in England as cases were so low but instead is being treated as Tier 3 because the Welsh Government has gone for an "if I can't have it, no one can" approach to restrictions.

I can't have a drink with a meal. Actually, I can't even have the meal. They're now banning outdoor attractions, having banned indoor ones some time ago. Not that either of them were responsible for the spread as people in South Wales have been going from house to house since April. Again, my area has few cases but the whole of Wales has effectively been put into Tier 3.

So no, I don't begrudge those who are in Tier 2 making use of more relaxed rules.

Brunt0n · 12/12/2020 11:48

You can rise without pushing others down you know. Because you’re miserable you want everyone else to be miserable? YABU

Aprilx · 12/12/2020 11:48

It’ not just about watching a pantomime, it’s about “then” v “us”, the extremely privileged V plebs.

No it really wasn’t about that. It was about them showing support for both key workers and for the arts. You cannot honestly think they went there to show off, or that the train trip was for their personal benefit.

Most normal people, the ones not twisted with bitterness, would have been pleased and excited by such a visit. I personally enjoyed looking at photos of the family in the newspaper.

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