Spank86 t1_j6nxb43 wrote
Reply to comment by BarKnight in The family that bought the King's bed for £100 by BarKnight
I love that this is a "tradition". I figure the first few kings were probably going, early morning tomorrow i should save some time and kip near westminster abbey, and a few monarchs down the line everyone has to do it.
makomirocket t1_j6ofq68 wrote
That's pretty much how traditions work?
You invite the family over for Christmas because it's your turn, you go for a walk to the woods because you know it's nice and want to show the family.
Next year, the people whose turn it is have to drop out for work, mum and dad are having building work done, so you offer to do it at yours again. It snows this year so you guys do the walk again because it'll be special to see the nice walk in the snow.
By year 3, if you do it again then "it wouldn't be Christmas if we didn't do the special Christmas walk at Jane and John's" until you moved
Spank86 t1_j6owybz wrote
Well yeah but thats become a tradition because its a nice thing to do. It wasn't like at christmas you went for a walk in the woods because you needed to go post your credit card bill off and it was the quickest way and eventually everyone was like oh we have to go post johns credit card cheque. its a Christmas tradition, and you're like its 2022! Who pays credit card ls by cheque anymore. But somehow you're still walking.
TurelSun t1_j6paf51 wrote
Yea but there is a little bit of a difference here. One is talking about regular people falling into a tradition with family, the other is someone taking over as an autocratic ruler of a country and scraping the barrel for every shred of legitimacy they can muster to convince everyone they're ordained by god to be their authority. If your predecessor or several of them did a thing, well just in case you might as well too.
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