lol totally. i hate court intrigue, finery/ostentation, idle faffery and cliquey b.s. in real life, and i'm a minimalist tightwad to a fault but i love that high brow, classist slop. i hate everything Violet Crawley the Dowager Countess of Grantham stands for.... but she was easily my favorite of the bunch for her easy disdain and brutality for all comers.