A Flag From the Hand of the King
My old school is half a century old this year. My son goes there as well. I just got an e-mail from the headmistress with info about the semicentenary celebrations. How do you like this?
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On this great occasion the school's festival committee has applied for, and been granted, the honour of receiving a flag from the hand of His Majesty the King during the celebrations of the National Day at Skansen [a museum park displaying early rural architecture]. Our two pupil's council chairpeople N.N. and N.N., together with second-year teacher N.N., will represent Igelboda school at the ceremony on 6 June. We all look forward to this with great joy and pride.The honour of receiving a flag from the king!? Great joy and pride? I hardly know where to start. As Kevin Barnes put it,
On our trip to England I noticed something obsceneSweden hasn't really had a national day before now, and somebody's trying really hard to drum up popular enthusiasm for it. I wish my kid went to a school that taught him that kings and nations are undemocratic holdovers from an evil past. It's a disgrace that Sweden is still nominally a monarchy. Republic now!
People still actually give a shit about the Queen
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posted by Martin at 10:54
9 Comments:
Oh you darn republicans ;)
Vitnir
Up the monarchy! (in a painfully violent sense)
I wish my kid went to a school that taught him that kings and nations are undemocratic holdovers from an evil past.
Word.
//JJ
Personally, I find it hard to get agitated about a completely harmless remnant like monarchy, when democracy is under assault from our duly elected representatives, such as Bodström and his ilk.
/Akhôrahil
Kick back and enjoy the royal splendour bestowed upon your offspring. While no huge fan of monarchy, I do kinda like the King.
Besides, more alarming than Sweden's nominal monarchy are nations such as the U.S. nominally being democratic.
I believe that Charles XVI Gustavus and Björn Borg are actually twins, separated at birth, the latter put in a freezer for a decade before being thawed out and taught to play tennis.
Get real, get a life and worry over something important!
Aha, you're suggesting I quit doing archaeology. Yeah, that bears thinking about.
"Sweden hasn't really had a national day before now"
Det är, som herr bloggare självklart vet, helt fel, nationaldagen har vi haft, men det har inte varit en röd dag det vill säga helgdag.
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