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The British royal family is front and center this weekend. How unusual is that? The empire may be gone, but it’s time to recall its ghost, dust it off and invoke the ancient spell of monarchy. A coronation, the original dog & pony show - God’s kingly sinecure. I can’t remember the last one. You have to know who your great, great, great, grandfather was to be nobility-class smug or to don those getups, with medals that would have made Caesar blush and Attila laugh. The cast is familiar, if somewhat balding, the too-old king, his - whatever - wife. I can’t help mourning Diana. Accident, treachery or karma, grown men cried at her passing, Shakespeare’s darkened heavens blazed in sorrow and, eventually, even the gray queen bowed her head. There’s no more honor, in 2023, and if there’s any glory, its light has grown as dim as the glitter of gold. The fact that the royals are better than us, is axiomatic. Not morally superior, of course. That’s the Pope’s job. The royals are like Britain’s Mickey Mouse, and any civilized man, who’d strike at that, would have to be a fool.
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May 5, 2023
May 5, 2023 at 12:33 AM UTC
anaisvionet
royals
The British royal family is front and center this weekend. How unusual is that? The empire may be gone, but it’s time to recall its ghost, dust it off and invoke the ancient spell of monarchy. A coronation, the original dog & pony show - God’s kingly sinecure. I can’t remember the last one. You have to know who your great, great, great, grandfather was to be nobility-class smug or to don those getups, with medals that would have made Caesar blush and Attila laugh. The cast is familiar, if somewhat balding, the too-old king, his - whatever - wife. I can’t help mourning Diana. Accident, treachery or karma, grown men cried at her passing, Shakespeare’s darkened heavens blazed in sorrow and, eventually, even the gray queen bowed her head. There’s no more honor, in 2023, and if there’s any glory, its light has grown as dim as the glitter of gold. The fact that the royals are better than us, is axiomatic. Not morally superior, of course. That’s the Pope’s job. The royals are like Britain’s Mickey Mouse, and any civilized man, who’d strike at that, would have to be a fool.
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I sat in a room full of people today I didn't or barely knew at all I sat there the whole time thinking, wondering, Staring blankly at the wall I jotted down a few notes here and there, Mostly nonsense with no real purpose, Now here is the interesting part my dear, Someone else sat there, you've got three guesses It wasn't Ronald of the McDonald Or Mickey Mouse of the club house One more guess, Oh! You've got it, It was a couple, the very one I wrote about My god, were they ever happy I ******* envied them, hated their smiles It made me sick to my stomach to watch them laugh And I had to watch them for a long while You may wonder what made me so angry? Well I suppose I forgot to mention, My boyfriend was also present in the room But instead of happy all we felt was tension An old routine I'm quite sick of But the only reason for it is me Knowing this while watching them Well, it was plain misery Oh lets play one more guessing game! Come on, can you guess what I'll do next? Well I'm going over to my boyfriends house And I'm going to talk, talk, talk off his head Wish me luck, I hope this goes well...
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Apr 1, 2014
Apr 1, 2014 at 8:16 PM UTC
myfuckingdomain
My Day In a Nutshell
I sat in a room full of people today I didn't or barely knew at all I sat there the whole time thinking, wondering, Staring blankly at the wall I jotted down a few notes here and there, Mostly nonsense with no real purpose, Now here is the interesting part my dear, Someone else sat there, you've got three guesses It wasn't Ronald of the McDonald Or Mickey Mouse of the club house One more guess, Oh! You've got it, It was a couple, the very one I wrote about My god, were they ever happy I ******* envied them, hated their smiles It made me sick to my stomach to watch them laugh And I had to watch them for a long while You may wonder what made me so angry? Well I suppose I forgot to mention, My boyfriend was also present in the room But instead of happy all we felt was tension An old routine I'm quite sick of But the only reason for it is me Knowing this while watching them Well, it was plain misery Oh lets play one more guessing game! Come on, can you guess what I'll do next? Well I'm going over to my boyfriends house And I'm going to talk, talk, talk off his head Wish me luck, I hope this goes well...
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