To be annoyed about the Jubilee

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I know I’m being miserable but I’m bloody pissed off about the sodding Jubilee! I went to sainsburys this morning, paid £1.68 a litre for petrol and then popped in to be confronted by bottles of champagne! The last thing I feel like doing is celebrating! I spent all morning cancelling non-essential DDs as things are really tight with the rise in energy prices and the increased NI contribution.
funny how this ‘magic money tree’ can be harvested to pay for this event when people are genuinely struggling and are told to ‘get a better paid job’! I have a bloody well paid job, thankyou, but am still feeling the pinch. I know people are going to say that the economy will benefit - but how? If people spend more then inflation will rise and the BOE will put up the mortgage rates! I despair!

1.68? That’s 5p a litre cheaper than where I am! 😮

I mean this is true of every bank and public holiday.

I’ve worked as a shop assistant, bar staff and care worker, none of which allowed for bank holidays or Christmas/Easter guaranteed or paid extra for working. It goes with the territory and utterly pointless to look for sympathy about imho. It irritates me when people frame it as some sort of hardship to have a job in an industry that remains open when others are off. There are many occasions when that works in your favour, I quite like the ability to take my public holidays at my own convenience.

There's an event on the green in our village. I just can't get excited. Two years of covid or just getting older have taken their toll. My bit of North Wales only one restaurant is organising a weekend of fun. The weather here is grim we're still around 13c in the daytime with a northerly wind or rain I'm still in winter clothing

On the other hand, my dad who was born ten years before the Queen in a mining community where they couldn’t afford doctors, lived to 99 with access to the same healthcare as all his contemporaries. It’s a lottery.

No it isn't. It is a provable fact that access to healthcare is beneficial over a population. It is always the case that there are exceptions. 99 is a good age. 56 is young but the old king was a chain smoker who didn't live a particularly healthy life (and wasn't he "delicate" the Queen Mum seemed to think that being made king unexpectedly shortened his life because of it).

As for presidents - well, quite, you don't want a Putin or a Trump. But the Irish one is fine, the German one is a bit of a twat because of his previous political career but he's getting it in the neck currently on all possible occasions in public, but there are models of presidencies that work well. It takes a bit of imagination.

Fair enough if you don't want to celebrate it yourself, but wishing an unpleasant experience on everyone else in the country is a bit psychotic and narcissistic to be honest.

Off topic but please don't use the word "psychotic" as an insult. It doesn't mean anythin like what you seem to think it means. It's like saying "I'm a bit ocd" because you like things tidy, offensive to people who actually have to live with mental illness.

I'm not sure why people think the Queen is all about public service; her behaviour around Andrew proves she is all about protecting her family's privilege first and foremost.

Enjoy the holiday by all means but don't pretend that the jubilee of the Queen and all that she stands for is a good reason to celebrate.

YANBU.

It's obscene.

That's because people actually expect politicians to do something whereas the queen just has to occasionally turn up to things, say some meaningless platitudes and fuck off again. The fact that many of the current royals are apparently not even capable of that says more about how useless they are than how wonderful Liz is

YANBU

It all feels to me a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. The country is in a mess, our kids are starving, our elderly are freezing, our sick are dying waiting for ambulances, but fuck it, here's a flag to wave and a spiffing bit of bunting to hang from your streetlights (which have been turned off because the council can;t afford to run them).

It proves nothing of the sort. It shows that she’s as multifaceted as the rest of us. She’s not just the head of state she’s a mother too.

Yanbu.

I've no idea why anyone thinks the Royal or the Queen deseve anything

Theure just (very rich and privileged from stolen wealth) humans the same as any other human.

They dont deserve any celebrations

It's a lottery to an extent, yes.

But many of us can't even access basic dental care. There are no NHS dentists with spaces within 90 minutes of where we live. People can't see their GP's without waiting weeks for appointments. People are having life-saving treatment postponed and cancelled because the NHS can't afford it.

The queen will have never had to worry about that. She has healthcare, doctors and dentists on tap and will never have to worry about getting her medication on time, being able to afford to have a tooth removed or whether her operation will be cancelled.

She is INCREDIBLY privileged. It makes me a bit sick that we're celebrating that when there are families who can't afford to feed their kids, tbh.

I think after the last couple of years we need something to celebrate. And royalist or not. You can't deny that it is an unprecedented achievement.

And an absolutely atrocious one at that.

I'm using it as an excuse to spend 4 days with my girls and husband. I'm on maternity leave but it ends soon and I pretty much work all Bank Holidays and every 2nd weekend usually.
I've started making a cake and moved the bunting from where it usually is at the back of the house, to the front of the house. One day we may go up to the local museum that we support. It's an excuse to me to dress my kids up and eat some cakes

Because she doesn't do anything significant - she just has to turn up at events, smile and shake hands, really. She doesn't have to sit in parliament and debate laws, she doesn't have to figure out what money should be spent on, she doesn't have to appear on TV and be scrutinised in interviews or face questions daily in parliament.

It's easy to be popular when you're never allowed to say anything contentious or provocative!

It's not an achievement, it's just luck.

The whole country looks like a Loyalist estate in East Belfast.

Absolutely loving the armchair psychologists on here looking for deeper meaning behind the "malaise" afflicting people who've done nothing but take their blinkers off and switch on their BS radars.

As if the queen gives a toss what you all do this weekend. She's milked you for decades and is only pushing the jubilee nonsense so the Firm's new CEO continues to get maximum airtime and tax breaks for life.

Can't people find less creepy people to celebrate?

I’ll be too busy giving birth. 😂

But where exactly is the achievement? Is it that she didn't die, or didn't abidcate?

typoooooooo.......

Yes, things are very tough and Britain doesn’t feel ‘great’ at all, we’ve lost more than just a economic well-being, morals, respect and empathy.

I will be putting up some bunting, made for VE Day out of a selection of old red, white and blue clothing, cut and sewn together.

I don't mind celebrating the fact that this absurd institution is falling apart at the seams :) It will be extremely helpful if Andy is wheeled out as much as possible by his mum this weekend and if William has another affair, or carries on with his first one and it's not hushed up this time in the UK press. It's all going pretty well imho. Well worth a special drink!

But where exactly is the achievement? Is it that she didn't die, or didn't abidcate?

And crucially that her father died very young. Is that an achievement?