This is too much

It's Princess Di all over again: what is up with the British character all of a sudden? One minute, we're all, "You won't change our way of life, we will endure," and the next people are blubbing and applauding yet another fucking two minute silence.

As one correspondent to Five Live put it last night, if we'd had a silent vigil every time a bomb dropped during the Blitz, we'd have lost the war, wouldn't we?

To put this in perspective, another story on the Guardian today reminds us that people in Iraq are being killed by suicide bombers at the rate of 800 a month. That's one an hour. Do you think they should have two minutes of silence every day at noon? What good would that do?

I am fucking sick of the grief fascists with their flowers at the side of the road and their silent vigils. Take a bloody pill and get over yourselves.