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Is penuria pingo

Model Katie Price has hit out at the "snobs" who excluded her from a prestigious annual society polo event. Price, also known as Jordan, says she paid £6,000 for a table at the Cartier International at Windsor, but was told she was not the type they wanted there.

I try to have as little to do with the horsey set as possible (that’s Mrs FMs department) but despite my best vainglorious efforts, I get dragged along screaming to a number of dos & end up having to spend much more time then I would like in close proximity to the same. Now the horsey brigade are many many things, but in my not inconsiderable experience of such matters, they tend not to be snobs. Turn up, for example, at one of our three local hunts’ meets & I can all but guarantee you that the smartly dressed young ‘gel’ sitting atop a beautifully groomed pony probably has to work on the tills at Tesco to help her parents pay for the stabling costs. Go to a point-to-point & standing out in the rain, leaning on the rail will probably be some impoverished member of the local gentry happily chatting away with the local building. The only difference between them will be that the builder will inevitably be the more smartly dressed of the two.

As for the event in question(a polo match), I have no doubt, that the reason that the organisers didn’t want Ms. Price or her even more unpleasant spouse to attend is that they are both unbelievably common. If you don’t believe me, take on board a few gentleman’s measures of whiskey & settle down to enjoy Katie & Peter’s TV show. Not only does it make for hysterically riveting viewing, but only then can you fully appreciate how truely ghastly these people really are.

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Its not that their alphabet only contains 25 letters as they both seem to have the same genetic disorder that prevents them from pronouncing their h’s, it’s that these people have absolutely no manners: they just do not understand how to behave with any form of civility. If eschewing their like makes me a snob, then I am happy to be so branded.

Ms. Price indeed knows more about matters equine that your humble correspondent – that’s all well & good – but I will put money on the fact that she would turn up to Windsor Park inappropriately dressed & then proceed to hold her knife like a pen. Again, if those sorts comments make me a snob, I am more than comfortable.

I used to take Mrs FM to Royal Ascot & I don’t hate horse racing, I really really hate it. The only real sport to be had is to try & work out just how much money the bookies are making on each race. As for Ascot, having to put on a morning suit only makes a bad day worse in my estimation, but if you don’t turn up in the proper rig, how the devil are you going to raise your topper to Her Majesty. I think it was about four years ago we stopped going to the Royal Enclosure because when the organisers had to explain to & I hesitate to call them ladies, how to dress for the occasion. It was at that point that we knew our time there was done.

This goes back to the whole cult of celeb-braty & dear dear Katie is an excellent exemplar of the same. She has achieved a certain profile through taking her clothes off for cameramen & to my mind, there is nothing wrong in that as a concept. However, along the way, she was either never been taught or has never bothered to learn any manners. The same can be said for the overwhelming majority of so-called ‘stars’ that fill our newspapers & television screens. & we then wonder why our children turn out so badly?

Comments

Just imagine...you folks are going to be shot of Madonna very quickly and then she will be living here again.
What we have always needed here; a stale pop tart. Oops.
We have Britney Spears.

My bad.

We don't want Madge back. consider her the equivalent of the lend-lease 4 stack destroyers.
/If she tries out her fake British accent in NY, I hope somebody knocks her into the gutter and gives her a curb job.

I have no idea what a "curb job" is, but I feel sure she deserves one.

I have lived here in the south for about six years. I have no intention of adopting a fake southern accent. It is hard, however, not to adopt idioms and local slang.

'Y'all' is about the worst I will do. I have happily spoken a generic accented speech that has people confused as to my antecedents.

I want to keep it that way until I move. I love the south, don't get me wrong, but I will never be a southerner in speech. Just in attitude.
Which means:
"Madonna is nasty ol' piece of white trash.'

Mr FM,,,i believe there is an example of a curb job in the filmAmerican history x...we have many in govt here in need of its application.

Well spoken, Mr. FM. At least with British weather, you will be spared the sight of the fashionistas wearing a suit with short pants (and if that isn't a floggable offence, then tell me what is).

I had to be restrained...

Sorry, that comment was supposed to be on the post below.

"I love the south, don't get me wrong, but I will never be a southerner in speech."

When living there I found it useful to adopt a mild accent for the benefit of the locals being able to understand me. I also thought in an (much heavier) accent so I could understand them!

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