Something particularly stupid happened in one of the other SCA kingdoms, and we got to see two kinds of apology today: first, when some people told the stupidity-makers that they had done something bad, we saw the Fauxpology, which is always a variant on “someone chose to feel bad so I “apologise” for being in the same room as them”.  That didn’t work, so then the Powers That Be got together and demanded something a little more sincer and contrite, which gave us the Forcepology, which comes about when Mummy or Daddy or the Peerage Council tells you to take another stab at it but you still can’t figure out that it’s not your show any more.

This is a sympathetic song for the poor dears going through the hell – hell, I say! – of trying to figure out how to feel something for someone other than themselves for just long enough to choke out an apology.