William & Kate: Royal Wedding

[lamp]

This. I couldn't possibly care less about two astronomically rich inbreds getting hitched. We're long overdue for a republic.

The only way it impacts on me is that it'll all be done at the taxpayer's expense. It's a fucking travesty when the government's just cut billions from the education budget to sponsor two chinless toffs' nuptials.

Im not pro-royal or anything, but i remember reading they actually generate alot more money for the country through tourism and merchandise tax than they actually consume, don't quote me on that though, could be bullshit and i cba to look into it.

[Obev]

Im not pro-royal or anything, but i remember reading they actually generate alot more money for the country through tourism and merchandise tax than they actually consume, don't quote me on that though, could be bullshit and i cba to look into it.

France's royal family generates a lot of money for their tourism industry too.

[ZarakiKujata]

France's royal family generates a lot of money for their tourism industry too.

France still has a royal family? Or do you mean the Monaco royals?

[Atreides]

he meant that the palaces and shit still generate plenty of tourism even though the french royal family has been dead for a few hundred years

[Hyan]

Dear god if the media makes as big of a fuss about this shit as with Victoria and Daniel I'll kill two kittens.

Fucking live broadcast on 3 different channels with commentary. WHY?

[Xno Kappa]

Who gives a fuck.

[Lucavi]

Who gives a fuck.

White people.

[isladar]

I'm not up on modern British peerage, I'm guessing its totally irrelevant that she has absolutely no ties to the aristocracy? Though I guess Parker Bowles didn't either and she's a divorcée (which if marrying one had been all right Elizabeth II wouldn't be Queen, so lol).

[Silenka]

Why do royal families always wear the ugliest shit they can find? Every time I see pictures of them I feel like 'they're rich, why can't they do better in the clothing department?'

[archibaldcrane]

The press was criticizing her for saying "Pardon" instead of "I beg your pardon" to the Queen.

If that doesn't tell you how completely fucking stupid everything involving this situation is, you're hopeless.

[SephYuyX]

The press was criticizing her for saying "Pardon" instead of "I beg your pardon" to the Queen.

If that doesn't tell you how completely fucking stupid everything involving this situation is, you're hopeless.

That shit happens in Japan a lot too. It's more of a cultural thing.

[Ishido]

ITT Poor people are jealous.

[aduidarnenye]

I'm not up on modern British peerage, I'm guessing its totally irrelevant that she has absolutely no ties to the aristocracy? Though I guess Parker Bowles didn't either and she's a divorcée (which if marrying one had been all right Elizabeth II wouldn't be Queen, so lol).

Camilla Parker-Bowles had a grandfather who was a baron and her mother was one of those crazy 'The Honourable' people. The biggest problem with her was that she was divorced, like Wallis Simpson. Really, Charles should have gotten together with her when they first met in the 70s but he was pushed to get together with Diana, a perfectly bred young virgin of aristocratic blood.

Yes, they're all crazy, but it's like a real life soap opera.

[Demosthenes11]

That shit happens in Japan a lot too and I'm a weeaboo, so therefore, its ok.

read you loud and clear

[SephYuyX]

Funny, I dont recall siding with said cultural attribute, simply stating it happens more than just in the UK; namely the asian countries, both yellow and brown. Education sucks, I know.

[Jefe]

Chicks (and possibly gays) are the only ones into this type of royal shit.

[Silenka]

Actually I started typing out a whole thing about how keigo is almost nothing like polite speech in English but decided not to bother.

[Elesirdur]

Um...yay for the future King and Queen Consort of Canada?

[Demosthenes11]

Funny, I dont recall siding with said cultural attribute, simply stating it happens more than just in the UK; namely the asian countries, both yellow and brown. Education sucks, I know.

it's the first thing in this thread you haven't said is stupid, and the first thing that asians also do. Coincidence? probably not

[SephYuyX]

But but but, I hate brown asians.