# She's been dead for 10 years. Let it fucking go already. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 4, 2007, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486 "2007-10-04T12:04:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/1 "2007-10-04T12:04:30Z")
Princess Di has been dead for 10 years. 10 YEARS. And for some reason those damn Brits can’t get her off their minds. It feels like her death has never left the news and I don’t even go looking for it. IT just POPS up every couple months. Continued speculation over a FUCKING CAR CRASH. It’s not like it was some cryptic death that deserves nonstop ongoing coverage. It’s not even just the media/tabloids who continue the Di hype. The British justice system keeps flogging that dead horse (no pun intended) with the latest of what seems like many “inquests” into her death. > **[Diana driver drinking before crash - CNN.com](http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/04/diana.inquest/index.html)** > > The driver of the limousine in which Princess Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed were killed spent time in a bar shortly before the 1997 Paris crash, a jury at an inquest into her death has heard. Chirst, keep that shit out of our news you goddamn Brits. We may be interested in some lame shit like Britney Spears custody battle or who said what racial slur last night, but at least the shit is current, not a DECADE old. Let her be dead already. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/2 "2007-10-04T12:12:32Z")
If it should teach us anything, it should be that you shouldn’t have exposed columns just off the shoulder. If they had either poured a concrete filler wall between the columns or attach a guardrail to the faces of the columns next to traffic, she would not have died. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/3 "2007-10-04T12:14:05Z")
Don’t blame us goddamn Brits - only that small subset of us who keep going on and on about Di. I for one would have been just as happy if she’d been consigned to history the day after the funeral. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/4 "2007-10-04T12:15:07Z")
[QUOTE=Cubsfan] The British justice system keeps flogging that dead horse (no pun intended) with the latest of what seems like many “inquests” into her death. [/quote] I think you’ll find it’s that the British justice system has been reluctantly persuaded to carry out the _first and only_ inquest by the media and various conspiracy theorists. There was an inquiry and a French inquest, but no British one. > [@](#): > > Chirst, keep that shit out of our news you goddamn Brits. We may be interested in some lame shit like Britney Spears custody battle or who said what racial slur last night, but at least the shit is current, not a DECADE old. > > Let her be dead already. Preach it. Parts of our media are fucking _obsessed_. However, as long as your media choose to suck it up, I guess you’ll have to suffer along with the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/5 "2007-10-04T12:15:31Z")
[QUOTE=BobLibDem] If it should teach us anything, it should be that you shouldn’t have exposed columns just off the shoulder. If they had either poured a concrete filler wall between the columns or attach a guardrail to the faces of the columns next to traffic, she would not have died. [/QUOTE] Other lessons: Even if you’re tired of the flashbulbs, don’t get your drunken driver to hare through city streets at speeds more suited to a light aircraft; but if you do, wear your seatbelt - as the sole survivor of the crash did. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/6 "2007-10-04T12:19:41Z")
I’ve had to hear news about Di pretty much ever since I first heard the news. I was so fucking sick of it that a small part of me was almost relieved when she died. “Well, they’ll have a couple months of death coverage and then I’ll never have to hear about her again,” I thought. Poor, naive, me. Instead, I got a decade of TV specials, TV movies, conspiracy theories, and **endless** fucking tributes. I’m with the OP on this one. Fucking let it go, people! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/7 "2007-10-04T12:20:28Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] Other lessons: Even if you’re tired of the flashbulbs, don’t get your drunken driver to hare through city streets at speeds more suited to a light aircraft; but if you do, wear your seatbelt - as the sole survivor of the crash did. [/QUOTE] :smack: ::takes notes:: ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/8 "2007-10-04T12:28:03Z")
The Civil War ended 150 years ago. 150 YEARS. And for some reason those damn Southerners can’t get her off their minds. It feels like the defeat has never left the news and I don’t even go looking for it. IT just POPS up every couple months. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/9 "2007-10-04T12:35:47Z")
Strawman. Most Southerners will tell you it’s the Reconstruction, not the war, that sticks in their craw. Perhaps that’s because the effects of the Reconstruction still linger and the carpetbagging never ceased. ::d&r:: ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/10 "2007-10-04T12:49:57Z")
[QUOTE=An Arky] Strawman. Most Southerners will tell you it’s the Reconstruction, not the war, that sticks in their craw. Perhaps that’s because the effects of the Reconstruction still linger and the carpetbagging never ceased. ::d&r:: [/QUOTE] Or because Reconstruction ended too soon. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/11 "2007-10-04T12:53:49Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] …only that small subset of us who keep going on and on about Di… [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=jjimm] Parts of our media are fucking _obsessed_.of us. [/QUOTE] You are both in denial. It’s a _very_ large subset. And the media are obsessed with selling their wares. Goddess Di _sells_. I fully expect to have to put up with this shit till I die. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/12 "2007-10-04T12:57:22Z")
[QUOTE=Cubsfan] Chirst, keep that shit out of our news you goddamn Brits. We may be interested in some lame shit like Britney Spears custody battle or who said what racial slur last night, but at least the shit is current, not a DECADE old. [/QUOTE] Up your ass. This has been largely instigated by an Egyptian who won’t shut the fuck up about how Diana was in luuuurve with his son, and how The Man somehow conspired to murder them both. _We_ don’t give a shit. Largely, anyway. Anyway, it’s not Brits’ fault what Americans find inexplicably interesting. What’s the problem, had Jesus not appeared in anyone’s breakfast for a week or so? ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/13 "2007-10-04T12:57:29Z")
Obligatory link to recent Private Eye [cover](http://www.private-eye.co.uk/covers.php?showme=1192&issue=1192). ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/14 "2007-10-04T13:04:06Z")
[QUOTE=Princhester] You are both in denial. It’s a _very_ large subset. And the media are obsessed with selling their wares. Goddess Di _sells_. I fully expect to have to put up with this shit till I die. [/QUOTE] True. I shouldn’t have said “small subset”. Unfortunately newpapers and mags can and do boost sales figures by putting pictures of Saint Diana The Martyr on the front cover, and they couldn’t do that if the readership wasn’t out there. OTOH, if she’s getting coverage Stateside and Down Under, the same comments apply. Deal with your own lamers who put money into the pockets of the media who bang on and on about her, and the problem will solve itself. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/15 "2007-10-04T13:12:20Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] Deal with your own lamers who put money into the pockets of the media who bang on and on about her, and the problem will solve itself. [/QUOTE] If you promise to bail me out, I’ll start shooting tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/16 "2007-10-04T14:19:48Z")
It seems to me she lived her life like a candle in the wind. Maybe that’s just me though. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/17 "2007-10-04T14:26:29Z")
[QUOTE=Princhester] You are both in denial. It’s a _very_ large subset. And the media are obsessed with selling their wares. Goddess Di _sells_. [/QUOTE] The obsession I to which I refer is exhibited in _The Daily Express_ which has had a picture of Di on the cover of the paper pretty much every single fucking day for the last ten years (now alternating with pictures of Madeleine McCann, or sometimes both). It’s a piece of shit rag - but it’s way, way, way more obsessed than, say, _The Guardian_ or _The Telegraph_. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/18 "2007-10-04T14:27:04Z")
Actually IME it’s Americans who are crazy about the royal family, which baffles me to NO end. Why do we even care? Didn’t we throw off the shackles, yadda yadda yadda? Didn’t we free ourselves? Stop talking about stupid people that have nothing to do with us! ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/19 "2007-10-04T14:28:31Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Badger] What’s the problem, had Jesus not appeared in anyone’s breakfast for a week or so? [/QUOTE] Usually it’s a tortilla, and often it’s the Virgin Mary. Though I once saw Karl Marx in my oatmeal. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486/20 "2007-10-04T14:28:32Z")
This from someone with the username “Cubsfan”? _They’ve_ been dead for far longer 🙂 (I know I’m going to regret that statement if the Rockies survive and face the Cubs) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-been-dead-for-10-years-let-it-fucking-go-already/421486.md?page=2)