Enough with the jubilee already.

Hubby & I are escaping to an Airbnb overlooking Cardigan Bay...Am pleased she has reached her Platinum anniversary but do we all have to join in?

Me too .. when there are people who can't afford to heat and eat , I bet they will be sat outside with flags , Save their heating especially if it's raining ! may be pick up some scraps from a street party ! I think not !!! With all the money this Government has wasted on non performing PPE and given to their friends contracts over the top on cost ,, They could have given a street party for the whole country ! seeing as Boris does seem to be the expert on parties !

What a miserable lot !!! I can’t wait for the celebrations . Our dear Queen deserves it and I am very pleased to be living in such an important point in history !

I'm not interested either. Neither is anyone I know and im not miserable either. I've far better things to be doing like looking after my grandchildren, going to our eldest son birthday do on Sunday etc.

Respect to the Queen however I'm not into all the socialising around it. For me when the Queen passes the monarchy should be abolished or at least a "referendum" on it. Though I'm sure that would be a stitch up too, given the last one.

As for the money they bring in: turn all the amenities and displays over to the National Trust. The people will still come.

It's not like they will be paupers as they have millions in the bank

Saturday 4th is my grandsons birthday. A far more important celebration for me. I’m not a royalist and when I see how much money is being spent on the jubilee when there are so many people going cold and hungry, it makes my blood boil.

What a load of grumpy old some of you are!
I can remember the Silver Jubilee went on for what seemed like months!
The UK is in a unique position to celebrate somebody's long service to their job . When has this happened before and when will it happen again ?
So there was a sticker on a loaf of bread - if it bothers you that much, why not just buy another brand ?
Seriously, this forum is turning into one long moan!

We are going to Malta on Friday Heathrow willing so the jubilee is passing us by.

Oh get over yourself
I’m loving all the celebrating
Arranging a street party for neighbours on Sunday ?
Loved the bbc programme last night too ❤️

Bank holiday? What bank holiday? Have I missed something?

It's a 'No' from me. Fed up with all the shenanigans already. Especially on tv. To echo the OP, enough already!

maddyone I remember ordering a platter of Devon cheeses once in a pub and have never seen so much cheese on one platter!!

vegansrock

I’m not miserable I just have no interest in all day drinking, trifles, or the RF. I’m from a military family so smears about those who serve our country are offensive.

I shall go with my bottle of elderflower pressé and I doubt there will be all-day drinking here although some may have a ?or ? and perhaps a drop of fizz.

I don't think there's going to be a trifle ?

We've had a very constrained couple of years, we haven't been anywhere much or even seen all the family so getting together with friendly neighbours will, I hope, be enjoyable.

smears about those who serve our country are offensive
I agree

Thank you Joseann for your kind comments. We are here in Devon in this gorgeous house celebrating my husband’s 70th birthday and being together again as a whole and complete family for a couple of weeks (only one week in Devon.)

They’re all outside playing rounders so the weather hasn’t spoilt it too much. I hope it doesn’t spoil the planned for street parties later this week either.

The cheeses were delicious too ? (I think that’s cheese )

MawtheMerrier

^Best check the numbers. My post, 20:07. There's more of us than there are of you^

Why does everything have to be reduced to competitive confrontation - you versus us, us against you?
I think this is the main reason I and others who have voted with their feet find GN less and less attractive than when we joined years ago.
Does it bring sone people satisfaction?
They’re welcome to it.

Works both ways, I see.

So what's your advice Kandinsky? "Sit down and shut up, you're making yourself look ridiculous?"

Nobody is going for hours in real,life about not being keen, any more than those who are keen going on about being keen !! ……well I’m not.
I’m not sure I’ve had a conversation about the jubilee with more than one couple and that was very briefly in passing…

There’s nothing wrong in ignoring it all ( my dh will be ) but he just doesn’t talk about it or even think much about it.
It’s the people who go on for hours about how much they hate anything jubilee ( or royalty ) it’s try too hard somehow.
I just have visions of grans wearing a sex pistols tee.shirt acting like teenage anarchists, desperately wanting to be ‘too cool for school.

I don’t think it’s competitive but I do agree with Volver feeling the need to respond to comments like this

I am amazed with the amount of people on here who are moaning about the Jubilee, i guess you also moan about anyone who has served their country !!!, what will you all moan about next, what alot of miserable people here

Plus as I said before we don’t all have the possibility to have loads o family barbecues and street parties and not being specially enthusiastic about the jubilee does not make us miserable it makes those saying it very insensitive and judgmental.

The comment amount these whole serve the country is offensive too.

Et c'est "service" comment, ça?.

Talking of serving one's country, my English friend who lives in Normandy told me this morning they are having a street party in the town with all the works. A case of vive la libération, vive la reine. Anything goes.

maddyone

If there’s a bunting shortage it’s not down to me. I haven’t bought anything to do with the jubilee and don’t intend to, but I wish everyone a happy time if they choose to celebrate.

... as a Republican (of sorts), I echo that sentiment. I have a soft spot for Elizabeth (though I don't "lurve 'er") and have wondered on occasions what she would have been like if she'd been allowed to be a 'free spirit'. She's a product of her era and will stoically do what she considers her duty until the day she sheds her mortal coil.

It's a page in our history, and in a couple of weeks it will all be forgotten and the reality of the drudge of everyday life for so many will return to normal. I doesn't have to be like this. Even with a monarchy, we could still thrive as a nation. Norway and Sweden manage it...

I’m not miserable I just have no interest in all day drinking, trifles, or the RF. I’m from a military family so smears about those who serve our country are offensive.

MawtheMerrier

^Best check the numbers. My post, 20:07. There's more of us than there are of you^

Why does everything have to be reduced to competitive confrontation - you versus us, us against you?
I think this is the main reason I and others who have voted with their feet find GN less and less attractive than when we joined years ago.
Does it bring sone people satisfaction?
They’re welcome to it.

I am amazed with the amount of people on here who are moaning about the Jubilee, i guess you also moan about anyone who has served their country !!!, what will you all moan about next, what alot of miserable people here,

These are are the words which prompted my post about numbers. The words moaning about how many people don't want to celebrate the jubilee. The words calling us miserable.

But mostly, the words asking if we moan about people who serve this country. Maybe it's just me who finds such a comment completely unacceptable. What a disgusting thing to say about those of us who find the whole thing mawkish. It's scary in a way; "come and celebrate this rich woman and the flag of our nation, or people will think you don't support our country." Well we know how that ends.

There's threads about trifles and home movie documentaries where posters can share their undying support for the Queen and her offspring. But come on a thread that someone has started to say how fed up they are of the whole thing, and you might find you have to stand up for what you think. I'd welcome that. I certainly don't welcome posters implying I must be a traitor or that we're all nasty women just out for an argument with the poor shrinking violets.

maddyone

If there’s a bunting shortage it’s not down to me. I haven’t bought anything to do with the jubilee and don’t intend to, but I wish everyone a happy time if they choose to celebrate.

Thank you for your generosity of spirit, as usual maddyone. Life is what you make it, either way. Sorry the Devon weather has turned a bit iffy for you, but there's still lots to do here. I hope the Devon cheeses were good.

I agree with MawtheMerrier about the competitive confrontation which is tiresome. I try to say my bit, (admittedly a few times), but don't understand all the picking apart of comments which do little more than reflect posters' personalities anyway. Live and let live!

MawtheMerrier

^Best check the numbers. My post, 20:07. There's more of us than there are of you^

Why does everything have to be reduced to competitive confrontation - you versus us, us against you?
I think this is the main reason I and others who have voted with their feet find GN less and less attractive than when we joined years ago.
Does it bring sone people satisfaction?
They’re welcome to it.

Hear, hear!