Aug 31
Diana-tastic
As you might have known from reading this blog; I am not a big fan of Diana at all. In fact I was sick to death of the bloody whinging Princess before she died. Unlike many other people my reaction to her death was: “oh f*** no, the tabloids and celeb culture have their first martyr.”
I have spent a decent amount of time in the last years attempting to help other come to terms with daft idiotic ideas of a conspiracy. I asked the simple question: “if the Palace was responsible what possibly could there to gain for the Queen?” Generally that shuts em’ up. If asked I profer ideas that if there were a conspiracy to get her and Dodi it would be far more likely to come from the Middle East. Think about it.
It was not the fault of anyone else that Diana was in the car; it was her own. She made a lot of rubbish decisions in her life that caused her own problems. Like rock or movie stars who make a mess of their life they should be derided or maybe even pittied but to idolise them is just idiotic.
Anyway I was not going to write anything about this anniversary, simply ignoring it and allowing the Princes the dignity of remembering their mother in peace. However its wall to wall bloody coveraged even on Fox and my good wife has even succumbed so I felt the need to make the case for those of who are sick of the whole sordid mess.
Say no to the Cult of Diana. Or to paraphrase a famous Monty Python line: “She was not a Saint; she was a bloody stupid young woman.”
Update: I sent a complaint to Fox about their ott coverage of this event. Talk about an irrelevance, especially to Americans.
Update II: Simon Heffer seems to agree with me…should I be worried?
As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around… per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting one of my own posts for consideration in the upcoming nominations process.
Here is the most recent winning council post, here is the most recent winning non-council post, here is the list of results for the latest vote, and here is the initial posting of all the nominees that were voted on.
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Everyone knows that MADD (Mother’s Against Drunk Drivers) called in the hit on the drunk driving driver working for Fahid.
They’ve been working for years to kill drunk drivers on the roads all around America and that was their first high profile hit in Europe, the fact that there was collateral damage just strengthened their position adding more publicity to the perils of ‘drunk driving.’
Since Diana died (and she supported MADD) it did cause a bit of a schism in the organization. Some people believed that MADD should pursue other high profile targets and others thought they should stop immediately.
There are rumors that both Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and other half baked celebrities might be on MADD’s new hit list.
Apparently, their super secret 13th level grand master slogan is “Don’t just get MADD, get EVEN.”
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