She's been dead for 10 years. Let it fucking go already.

[Moirai]

@Testy

I wonder when we’ll get a movie.

Ye Gods, there have been a bunch. Mostly “documentaries” but at least a couple of cheesy US cable movies.

[Lust4Life]

Speaking as a Brit I think that she was a saint and if only she’d lived she would have no doubt found a cure for cancer and brought about world peace .
I pray to her every day.

But I am aware that the majority of Brits,apart from those that we choose to call the "Diana Loonies "couldn’t give a flying fuck for anything the self serving ,lying ,posturing ,hypocritical,slapper did in life and certainly couldn’t care less now.

Obviously I dont hold with those views myself.
If any Dopers wish to join the campaign to get Di canonised you’ll find leaflets available at your nearest secure Psychiatric hospital.

[Lust4Life]

@Guinastasia

Because it doesn’t matter if I knew them or not. They died a horrible, senseless, tragic death because of some religious maniacs who are still out there, wanting to try again.

How can you compare the death of ONE PERSON, to that of many. No, they weren’t famous. But they were people just like you, or me.
(And how did Diana’s death affect anyone? Perhaps I knew people who died on 9/11.)

Diana is ONE friggin person. How about Tsar Nicholas and his family? How about Charles’s uncle, Lord Mountbatten? Or Alexander I of Yugoslavia? Archduke Ferdinand. Hell, the last one started a goddamned WORLD WAR. You act like Diana is the first royal to have been killed in a senseless, violent way.

Fuck you.

Speaking as a Brit myself I totally agree with your post and I think that some Brits should be reminded that Brits died in 9/11.

[chowder]

As I’ve said before, I was in London the day of her funeral.

Standing there totally bemused by all the fucking hoo-ha and surrounded by idiot brained tossers crying their eyes out for a woman they never even knew.

Flowers, cuddly toys and all manner of shit festooning the pavements…the shopkeepers must have made a bleeding fortune

[Sitnam]

@Bridget Burke

Or because Reconstruction ended too soon.

Yeah, the South could still use some fixing.

[Omega_Glory]

@eleanorigby

Oh, HER.
I had mercifully expunged her from my memory, but I think she’s mentally ill. The OP is referring to (I think) Dopers and people he runs across in daily life. That’s what I meant.

May I say I found your “allow me to crush…” funny? Thanks for the funny line.

Well, there was that doper who pretended his parents died in the 9/11 attacks. I can’t remember what made him do that though.

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

@Omega Glory

Well, there was that doper who pretended his parents died in the 9/11 attacks. I can’t remember what made him do that though.

He was losing an argument, badly, and threw it out as a “How can you contradict me when I suffered this terrible loss?” It was effective at first, till someone dredged up a post of his that made it plain his parents were very much still alive. Then the blowback began.

[Moirai]

If given a choice between a story about Diana Spencer or Britney Spears, I’ll take old Di any fucking day…

[Guinastasia]

@Wee Bairn

Let’s say you were a teen girl growing up in a working class section of Wrexham in 1981. Your dad’s on the dole and beats your mum while drunk, the country is in a recession, overall not a lot good going on for you. Royalty in your country has always been these stodgy weird looking people. Then comes a young (relatively) pretty woman who is now your princess, and maybe you feel better about yourself and things, and maybe this gives you hope that you can have a future outside your neighborhood. A bit later on, she dies tragically, unncessarily. You feel devastated and your dreams maybe now are shot. So you have nothing else, and you cling to the tragedy surrounding this death.

Logical or sensible to most- no- me either. But its certainly understandable. JFK’s death had a similar effect on many in U S and A, are speculation about him still pops up 40 years later.

Actually, I’d have felt the opposite-another spoiled rich girl marrying into a bunch of rich, inbred snobs. (Oh, and Elizabeth and her parents were HARDLY stodgy-you should have seen the Queen Mum when she was young)
Tell me-when Grace Kelly died, did they have the same fuss?

(Especially as she was a screen legend as well as a princess.)
And hell, the royals I mentioned didn’t die in accidents, either-they were all assasinated. Chew on THAT, Wee Bairn.

[RickJay]

@Zoe

Diana will be remembered in history books 500 years from now

Sure, she’ll be in history books, but will she be remembered? Lots of people who were famous in 1507 are footnotes now. I suspect Diana Spencer is destined for footnote status.

[OtakuLoki]

RickJay to be a bit contrarian - Anne Boleyn is still remembered, mostly for the circumstances of her death and her connection to royalty. It’s not impossible that Diana will make the cut.

[Malacandra]

@OtakuLoki

RickJay to be a bit contrarian - Anne Boleyn is still remembered, mostly for the circumstances of her death and her connection to royalty. It’s not impossible that Diana will make the cut.

Interesting choice of words, considering the comparison subject.

[chowder]

wrong thread :smack: