Diana's death
late 90's I was working on Foulness Island, so would stop in great Wakering - a little village with a lot of posh residents - to get a newspaper.
it must have been about 4 days after the death, and as I took my paper to the counter I said to the shopkeep "Bloody Diana on the front page again! when are they going to get over that old tart's death"

shopkeeper look aghast and the other early morning shoppers just stopped what they were doing and looked daggers at me.

Unfortunately she was destined to remain on the front page for weeks afterwards. Even bloody supermarkets had books of condolence!
I never, NEVER, understood the emotion that people invested in that old tart
(essexfriend, Sat 5 Nov 2011, 12:16, 4 replies)

posh
My arse great wakering is full of posh. Crap hole.
(Suck it and Sea, Sun 6 Nov 2011, 16:12, closed)

suppose it depends where you come from.
Great Wakering /Little Wakering is an upscale place AFAIAC
(essexfriend, Sun 6 Nov 2011, 21:18, closed)

Yep
My ex woke me up on the Sunday morning it happened to let me know. My response of i don't give a shit and going back to sleep didnt go down well. She was an unfaithful, over privelidged, brood mare and clothes horse.
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:50, closed)

And nobody voted for her.
Except in "who's the least unattractive Royal?" phone in votes in the Mail and Express.

Whose idea of giving her kids a balanced and normal upbringing was to send them to Eton instead of Gordonstoun.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 7 Nov 2011, 17:44, closed)