Wednesday 16th September 2009<\/p>\n
Ironing and bed linen has done it this time \u2013 the Poor Little Rich Gays have been wheeling out the missile launchers after a couple of chance remarks in my Sunday posting. Mrs Solomon Bung of California cannot imagine anyone self-ironing (I know that doesn\u2019t mean what I want it to, but I\u2019m not going to let that stand in my way), Laura Malcolm, our only, treasured, straight commentator, condemns the \u2018bourgeois\u2019 preoccupation with high-end bed linen manifested by some PLRGs.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Mrs S Bung, who appears to be at least an honorary PLRG, once made a distinction between 4 and 5 star hotels, you know. She said, 4 Star \u2013 Death , 5 star \u2013 Life. Simple as that. \u00a0Don\u2019t tell me there isn\u2019t cruelty in Poor Little Rich Gay life \u2013 of a bracing and necessary kind, of course.<\/p>\n
\u00a0As you know, I have never been quite rich enough. So I have to think what I can get away with when no-one is looking<\/em>. Ironing, certainly; and eating. A few potatoes will go a long way. But, to tell you the truth, I wouldn\u2019t let staff near my frockage in any case unless they had had 40 years\u2019 experience running the Queen Mother\u2019s duster coats. You chose your pieces, often in agony; at last you find something that\u2019s right. To then have it boiled alive and scorched by the cleaner \u2013\u00a0 it\u2019s unthinkable. Top Gay life abounds with stories of laundry disasters occasioned by staff. Rufus Pitman discovered that his femme de m\u00e9nage had been moistening the ironing with Windolene. The Limpney\/Smallmeals often appear with their Gucci lifeless and bleached at the edges by their supremely gloomy lady from Hackney. In Prague, Anthony Mottram takes an ironed shirt out of the cupboard…puts it on \u00a0\u2013 no buttons. Sheared off by aggressive, meat-eating Old (I\u2019ll have to explain another time. \u2018Old\u2019 is Mottram-speak for cleaner) as part of the ironing process. The cleaner of a frosty Poor Little Rich Gay called Sebastian Scott ( in fact not a PLRG because grim and no fun), something huge in TV, spent an entire morning bashing the \u00a31000 creases out of his Issey Miyake \u2013 not a house I have ever worn.<\/p>\n \u00a0Bed linen is another matter. The glory of this business about thread-counts is \u2013 it\u2019s new<\/em>. For at least the first 49 years of my life it was never mentioned. We like new.<\/em> Otherwise there\u2019s just death.<\/p>\n \u00a0So there is disagreement and diversity. Each grand gay will insist that there is only one true path \u2013 and that\u2019s their way of doing things. All our born days we might wonder what it is to be a Poor Little Rich Gay. Last week I suggested that goodness was not part of it. But Mottram has declined involvement in the Ceausescus\u2019 rat-poison venture on moral grounds. I was wrong. Taking a moral stand is somehow possible in a life of sublime frivolity \u2013 especially when there is a chance to be a nuisance.<\/p>\n \u00a0These days there is an idea that we are all the same: men and women, gays and straights. It is wrong to talk about difference. It is stereo-typing, it is discriminatory. But I prefer difference. Difference is the point, it seems to me.<\/p>\n \u00a0Even though we cannot be sure what the difference is.<\/p>\n \u00a0What is certain, though, is that to be a Poor Little Rich Gay is a demanding calling; Poor Little Rich Gays must have plenty of rest in the afternoons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wednesday 16th September 2009 Ironing and bed linen has done it this time \u2013 the Poor Little Rich Gays have been wheeling out the missile launchers after a couple of chance remarks in my Sunday posting. Mrs Solomon Bung of California cannot imagine anyone self-ironing (I know that doesn\u2019t mean what I want it to, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrain-edge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}