Bill Sykes' Newsletter
from America.
(August 2003)
An ex-Brit gives his views-(without fear
or favor)---of the American Scene
Apparently even Royal Ascot has been tainted
by acts of crude behaviour.
Don’t get me wrong ladies, I understand
that it’s the fashion to be unfashionable and every
young lady wants to be seen and noticed and even more
so at Royal Ascot.
The following article from one of the British newspapers,
dated Saturday 21st of June 2003, had the headline "Whatever
happened to Ladies' Day", and goes on to describe
a somewhat unsavoury display by a couple of twenty-something
blondes who popped up out of the sun roof of a limousine
with glasses of champagne in hand and proceeded to bare
their breasts to a gaggle of men dressed in fashionably
grey suits.
What on earth has Royal Ascot come to when the national
headlines pay more attention to drunken girls stripping
to the waist, drugs in the toilets, and acts that could
only be described as unbridled lechery instead of concentrating
upon the sport of kings.
Perhaps its because that is the kind of news their readers
want and the objective of the national newspapers is to
sell news papers.
The article goes on to suggest that the once elegant event
- one of the highlights of the British social calendar
- has now turned into a display of disgraceful acts of
attention seeking publicity hunters who apparently believe
that the they were not there to watch the races but to
get drunk and make fools of themselves. Is nothing sacred,
or has it always been this way?
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