Crispy Ambulance
Well-known member
No you're not the only one. This stems from the media influenced frenzy surrounding the grieving over Diana's death where it became the norm to go completely over the top whenever anything happened to someone in the public eye and a combination of people following, sheep-like, cos everyone else is doing it, together with one upmanship as in 'look at me grieving better and different to you'. As mentioned above, the same thing happened with Jade Goody, albeit some good came of that with raised awareness of screening for cancer.
Something changed in the mentality of the general British public with Diana's death. 'We' became more obssessed with celebrities and their lives and, through the likes of the crappy Hello, You and populist media outlets, needed to know every aspect of their lives. Then, when something bad happened to one of them (Goody), felt that 'we' had to collectively mourn because 'we' knew her and she was part of 'us' and 'our' lives. Well, no she wasn't. She was (IMHO) a talentless bint from Essex who got lucky and died young leaving kids behind. Sad but no sadder than a young mum from Portslade going the same way without all the national outpouring of 'grief' cos she wasn't a celeb.
As we've seen this week with the panic buying of petrol (when a strike hasn't been announced and can't happen until the week after next at the earliest), the general British public are fuckwits, easily led and unable to think things through for themselves.
So it's Diana's fault that there's a lack of petrol anywhere in Burgess Hill.
