Oh-ffical subsim "Royal Wedding" thread

[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.

[joegrundman]

Just had the flyby of Lancaster and two Spitfires.

What a sound!

Followed by a flyby by some modern zoomie nonsense.

[Egan]

If she's a 'Commoner' I wonder what that makes us?

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Egan

If she's a 'Commoner' I wonder what that makes us?

I believe the term rhymes with pheasants.

[Alex]

The classiest wedding ceremony I've got to watch until now (can't compare with Prince Charles and Princess Diana's wedding though, since I wasn't born then ), as expected , perfection from start to finish.

Long live Prince William and Princess Catherine !

[Egan]

Originally Posted by Alex

The classiest wedding ceremony I've got to watch until now (can't compare with Prince Charles and Princess Diana's wedding though, since I wasn't born then ), as expected , perfection from start to finish.

Long live Prince William and Princess Catherine !

I was 6 when Charles and Di got married. My Dad decided to take me and my brother to the swimming pool for the morning. When we got there it was, of course, shut. Standing there on the steps with my swimming gear and towel under my arm I became a fervent republican. True story.

I was in the states when Diana died. I was actually out in the Yosemite back country when it happened and didn't know anything about it until we got back down to the village. When people realised we were Brits they kept giving us this look and saying 'I'm so sorry.' It was beginning to freak me out because no one said why they were sorry. I was beginning to wonder whether the UK had blown up or something. Once I found out I just sort of explained that whilst it was very nice of them to be so sympathetic I didn't actually know Dianna so I was more or less alright and did they have anything for a blister?

I was on the plane home during the funeral - first time I've ever been happy to be on a trans Atlantic flight. Missed the whole thing. I had really bad jet lag when I got back but my friends were even worse having had an entire week of media insanity.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by joegrundman

Just had the flyby of Lancaster and two Spitfires.

What a sound!

Followed by a flyby by some modern zoomie nonsense.

Sorry Joe but that other Spitfire was actually a Hurricane.

I must agree on the Tiffies and the Tonkas though....nowhere near as enthralling.

[STEED]

Missed it all...

What a bloody relief, I have no time for the royals.

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by STEED

Missed it all...

What a bloody relief, I have no time for the royals.

HunterICX

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by STEED

Missed it all...

What a bloody relief, I have no time for the royals.

That's a pity because you've missed what was one of the greatest British success stories/feats in recent years.

[Skybird]

All the rational critical argument I linked in that essay yesterday, is true, is logical, is undeniable. But - British royalty is nothing that qualifies for being rational, or logical. Quite the opposite - it is totally irrational in modern times. And that's why it fits perfectly and touches something inside people even if they are nbot even British but foreigners, because man is a highly irrational being, and in principle we all want to gather around the camp fire, listen to the stories being told of how the shining knight slays the dragon and protects the ordinary people, and the chieftain of the tribe we expect to lead us into the future, and guarantee safety. Seen that way, by our evolutionary heritage, we all are royalists. This function forms and creates a strong feeling of identity - something that maybe many foreigners envy the British for, because many other modern nations - Germany being oin my mind before any other - have lost this, and when you start reasoning about national culture and identity, you immediately have the political correctness brigade and the thought police in your neck and spend the rest of the week with avoiding to be burned at the stake.

Of course it is irrational, and costs much moeny, and in my opinion it is completely insane. And right for these reasons I grant it to you Brits, all the fairy tale flair of the day and the pomp and flying colours.

Just saw a summary of events on TV, 20 minutes. Wowh, nobody does royalty like the Brits celebrate it. Leaves Hollywood looking like an amateur! For a show like this I just love to be completely irrational!

Would wish we had something like that in Germany. But here we only have political correctness, Schützenfeste and multicultural happenings with Döner and Bratwurst stands in the pedestrian zone. Pitiful.