Where were you when you heard princess Diana had died?

Where was I ?

There has to be an easier way to find out who did it

LordSutch wrote: »

I'll never forget the queues outside the British embassy in Dublin, full of people grieving and waiting for hours to sign the books of condolence, and that was just Dublin!
I remember my parents went armed with fold up camping chairs, prepared for the long haul, such was the length of the queue at the Embassy.

So your parents had sad vacuous lives with nothing better to do. Good for them.

As I said previously...sad middle-aged housewives with sad empty lives that were bothered the most..:rolleyes:

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If you are on Boards.ie posting comments it's fair to say you have nothing better to do...;)

By and large it was middle aged housewives that were mostly bothered and I am hitting the nail on the head and perhaps this is a little uncomfortable for some people when they think back and remember their own mothers.

Yes, I did find it downright pathetic people getting upset and crying over someone they did not know or could even possibly relate to. Some over- privileged adultress born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Now it wasn't her fault that press constantly followed her around but at the same time the public lapped it up and I resent how the media rather than reporting the news and real issues actually now dictate the news. It is lazy and crass.

In hindsight, I would say it started a serious dumbing down of popular culture. The tabloid press kicked on and are worse than ever, glossy magazines, soap operas, so called celebrity culture, music, WAGS, reality TV shows, wanting to be famous just for the sake of it. When you look back, the end of the 90s was the start of a real slippy slope and now look at the world.

So her death and the OTT reaction was very much a emblematic of how much UK society has gone to **** (I live in the UK). I resent and despair that Ireland will follow suit so that is why the reaction in Ireland vexed me so much. UK soaps, UK football etc which is bad enough and now crying over a dead member of the British Royal family...Jesus wept.

I saw it as an insidious assault on our identity- not that I would expect the 'mourners' to think about it this much which is kinda my point.

Of course it was terrible for her sons who lost their mother in a very public way.

I was collecting my post at University, really didn't bother me hearing the news. Obviously a passing sadness when anyone I've never met dies, but only that, the outpouring from people afterwards was nauseating and embarrassing.