Oh-ffical subsim "Royal Wedding" thread

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by Armistead

Never understood why being born entitled you to wealth taxpayer wealth.

Still, it brings in hundreds of millions in tourism, events, etc.. They say what the Royal family brings in way exceeds the taxpayers cost, but why people still want to worship drama is beyond me.

I don't know about the situation in the UK, but in the Netherlands the costs far outweigh the financial benefits.
And that's just the financial side of things As far as I'm concerned, they build a giant prison somewhere far away, preferably Antarctica, and airdrop all the worlds' royal families in it.

[Fish In The Water]

Originally Posted by DarkFish

I don't know about the situation in the UK, but in the Netherlands the costs far outweigh the financial benefits.

As far as I'm concerned, they build a giant prison somewhere far away, preferably Antarctica, and airdrop all the worlds' royal families in it.

Then they could setup a pay per view channel called the real "Royal Rumble." Just imagine the financial benefits!

Note: The preceding comment was entirely tongue in cheek. No Royal, real or imagined was actually harmed in the making of this post.

[Oberon]

Well, it looks like it's been a good day for them. Nice to see William saluting the servicemen and women as he passes them.

His mum would be very proud of him.

Oh, and I must promote this twitter link, it's had me chuckling for a while now:

http://twitter.com/#!/Queen_UK

[Armistead]

All in all she is a very lovely girl, he should be proud to have her. Sad he had to sow his royal oats so many times why she waited for this day. Really appeared to be a case of I'll do as I please until she did as she pleased and he went nuts...Seems with many if you know you have it you don't want it, but if you see it getting along fine without you, you go nuts to get it back....oh love....

[Egan]

I'm spending the day listening to the Sex Pistols instead, but can someone let me know when the bloody thing is done so I can put the TV or the radio back on?

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Egan

I'm spending the day listening to the Sex Pistols instead, but can someone let me know when the bloody thing is done so I can put the TV or the radio back on?

Christ mate, you might as well write the day off. You know how the media loves this kinda thing.

[Egan]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Christ mate, you might as well write the day off. You know how the media loves this kinda thing.

I know I know. I just put the radio on for about 10 seconds: Richard Bacon talking about the Royals: Probably the Worst Thing In The World. Ever.

I did see a little bit on the TV when I got up. They were driving all these minor Royals to the Cathedral in what basically amounted to transit vans...I take it they were the ones who are so inbred they couldn't be trusted to get there on their own?

Sod this for a lark. I'm going to go and watch the Gilmore Girls. Even that couldn't be as saccharine and nauseating - even if the people in the Gilmore Girls are richer than the Royal family.

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Christ mate, you might as well write the day off. You know how the media loves this kinda thing.

Aye, and not only your media either. I just opened the homepage of a local big newspaper and there were at least four different articles about this event. The dumbest one was titled along the lines: "We follow this minute by minute" the format was like they were updating a freaking Facebook. One update, for example, stated: "Now they are waving for the crowd!"

Edit: Okay, I just went and counted all the articles I could find. Found 19 of them. This is ridiculous.

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by Egan

I'm spending the day listening to the Sex Pistols instead, but can someone let me know when the bloody thing is done so I can put the TV or the radio back on?

I'd just keep watching the Sex Pistols if I were you. The media will probably need some time to recover from this terrible disease called monarchy, and even if they didn't, the Sex Pistols are good so you'd probably not miss a thing.