So their expiration is long overdue.
I know it's part of their history, but when do they realize it's completely unnecessary? The people of the UK are literally funding these people into existence. If not for their money, they would slowly disappear from the media, live out the next few generations as people of wealth and then long be forgotten.
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There's no explanation which can make sense of working class people's devotion to these snooty layabouts. When I was in the UK I worked on the construction of the Kilburn Theater. Owing to a general ineptitude on the part of everyone involved other than myself, the place wasn't going to be completed on schedule. This had been obvious for awhile and no one seemed to care. But one day the Big News was handed down that Princess Anne was scheduled to preside over the Grand Opening.
And suddenly everybody cared. A lot. I repeatedly sought explanations why inconveniencing a Princess by delaying her attendance by a week or two was such a big deal, and all I ever got was a quizzical look and "It's Princess Anne!" Right, but she's strolling in a rose garden and nibbling petit four and not giving the slightest fuck about any of us while we're busting our asses so she doesn't have to do next Tuesday what she had planned to do this Tuesday. Again, "But it's Princess Anne!"
These sausage sandwich eating, hard drinking, football hooligans simply could not process "Fuck Princess Anne." Thet couldn't tell you why that thought was impossible because they couldn't conceive of it in order to explain its impossibility. It was odd, as if they'd all been brainwashed, and I knew for certain that I was not and never would be from the UK.
Anyway, I went to work from 10pm until 6 the next morning to patch all the Jamaican electrician team's miscut holes in the ceiling. As far as I know Princess Anne turned up a few hours later, got her important ass kissed by everyone, and found the results of our labor to be satisfactory. But I sometimes fantasize that she noticed a few ugly spots and carries the emotional pain of it with her to this day.