Who is forcing you against your will to mourn?
I’ll be going to work today, taking my son to gymnastics later, doing the parkrun tomorrow then taking my son to his kids football practice. What are you doing - sobbing into a bucket cause you think you’re being forced to mourn against your will?
Get a fucking grip and ignore it. Or “immigrate away” as you suggest. Or sign up for some spelling and grammar lessons if you’re looking for something to do to while away the time if the football gets cancelled.
People lose there parents grandparents all the time but the country and life does not grind to a halt.
I also object to the cost of this be foisted on the nation by a family with a huge amount of wealth. Let them pay for their own private funeral like every other family does and let the rest of us who did not know the woman get on with our lives.
Surprised there is any dubiety to be honest
The Queens eleven will refuse to play anyway and our Strathclyde Football Association will fall over themselves to support them.
Aye, prince Andrew is a regular poster on here and he'll be sweating with rage when he reads that post.
Your argument is equally as ignorant and distasteful as the one it criticises. I'm not coerced into grief for anyone else's elderly relative, yet a heavily funded attempt is being made for me to mourn this particular one. It's sinister, crude and belongs in Iran or North Korea. We wouldn't miss a week's football - and nor should we - if Ferguson or God died, and we're right to focus on the unsuitability of that mourning period. It's disgusting.
Anyone, like me, who was attending the Dons game, is being subjected (because we are subjects) to mourning. It's being decided for us, and we have no say. He's correct to be outraged, it's a fucking disgrace, whether we have other stuff we can do or not. That you use your demonstrated vastly superior intelligence and wit to defend against, rather than augment, the criticism is rather wasteful, and a little pathetic.