The problem with the passing of someone like Jade Goody – and that Diana woman – is that anyone who ‘relates’ to the deceased thinks they should mourn the loss like a family member.
Whether it’s because they’re also a racist, obese, barely literate, a bully, or they come from a council house, or their mother’s a ‘clipper’ and a smackhead, or their father’s a crook, or their husband ****ts kids with golf clubs and strangles taxi drivers, or even those that just handed her some cash in her trumped up nail salon, they all join in the big grief jamboree.
And the worst of it is, the lower down the social spectrum a person is, the bigger the song and dance they make. Ergo, your racists, illiterates, crooks, druggies, hookers and those who frequent nail bars, are, by default, society’s most unbearable grievers.
I dread to think how distastefully vast the floral tribute is going to be.
*shudders*