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The Royal Wedding

Do you care?

  • Yes, I care.

    Votes: 4 7.7%
  • No, I don't care.

    Votes: 46 88.5%
  • Who is getting married?

    Votes: 2 3.8%

  • Total voters
    52
A ton of people in the UK that absolutly dislike the Royal Family. My step grandfather was from Whales and he tells me stories about how people disagree with the Royal Family and really do not care about them. Especially how the people of Britain provide for them, and now this garbo of a weeding.

Most people dont care as long as they keep quiet about politics (or anything really) we say that the monarchy are like a spot on you,re face. You tolerate it untill it starts to oose
 
They have made threats to the royal family? Last time i checked they just wanna "stir up trouble"....

Stirring up trouble is bad enough. Its a wedding. Frankly, only jacka**es tie politics to marriage based on love.

Someone messing with this wedding would be comparable to someone messing with Jenna Bush's wedding (I think that's the right sister). Basic human compassion says gtfo, and stay away.
 
Will only care if there is a "wardrobe malfunction."
 
I don't care, and if I were English I would be pissed that my tax money would go to this unnecessary event.
 
If by penis you mean woman mammary, then yes.
 
I find it bizarre that royalty still has such worship in the current times. There is a whole merchandise industry that has been created for this wedding.
 
I care, I guess, because this is a monarchy that has been passed down through the generations. Prince William seems like a totally nice young man. He lost his mother when he was very young, and for that I'm sympathetic.
I don't know if I'll ever see him be King. I should get to see Charles, possibly. His mother is going to stay Queen till death, which is how it's supposed to go, and she believes in this. Her mother lived to be 100, so I might not make it for Charles, but Charles may not make it, either, nobody knows what's in the cards.
 
Are you going to debate or just accuse me of being jealous? I dislike them for their use of public funds and the fact that they are a drain to the UK taxpayers. It angers me that they suck up the funds of the public to live a lavish life simply for being born.

You act like all they do is sit around and be rich.

Well they dont.

People in England favour the monarchy by 75%.

So why don't you worry about your own country and your tax money before you diss our traditions and our ways.

This wedding is a good thing for the country IMO.
 
You act like all they do is sit around and be rich.

Well they dont.

People in England favour the monarchy by 75%.

So why don't you worry about your own country and your tax money before you diss our traditions and our ways.

This wedding is a good thing for the country IMO.

The royal family is nothing more than a leftover of a horrible system of government. They serve no useful purpose IMO, and using tax payer money on what is basically a private wedding is ridiculous.
 
The royal family is nothing more than a leftover of a horrible system of government. They serve no useful purpose IMO, and using tax payer money on what is basically a private wedding is ridiculous.

75% favorability.

2 - 4 million people will turn out in a celebration of not only the prince and his wife to be, but of the country and what it means to be British.

I have at one point in my life worn the queens emblem on my beret.

I'm a bit of a traditionalist... And I approve of the Queen especially.

I could say the same about the presidency, who has far more power and pomp then was ever intended.
 
the royal family is nothing more than a leftover of a horrible system of government. They serve no useful purpose imo, and using tax payer money on what is basically a private wedding is ridiculous.

amen! Amen!
 
75% favorability.

2 - 4 million people will turn out in a celebration of not only the prince and his wife to be, but of the country and what it means to be British.

I have at one point in my life worn the queens emblem on my beret.

I'm a bit of a traditionalist... And I approve of the Queen especially.

I could say the same about the presidency, who has far more power and pomp then was ever intended.

Just because people approve doesn't mean they serve a useful purpose. The Presidency is an important office, which actually holds power, and not just a glorified cheerleader. An expensive one at that.
 
I hope this happens. I would support their actions 100%, dont really care if they come off as "assholes" they are just gonna do what people wish would happen and prove a very strong point.
What point?
 
Just because people approve doesn't mean they serve a useful purpose. The Presidency is an important office, which actually holds power, and not just a glorified cheerleader. An expensive one at that.

Your opinion on this matter is precisely that.

The royal family over all, I don't really approve of, but the Queen has been a good Queen, and the monarchy has been a source of inspiration and hope in dire moments in our history.

Watch the kings speech.

I don't get it when Americans get so irate about something that doesn't effect them, but we choose to keep for ourselves.
 
Your opinion on this matter is precisely that.

The royal family over all, I don't really approve of, but the Queen has been a good Queen, and the monarchy has been a source of inspiration and hope in dire moments in our history.

Watch the kings speech.

I don't get it when Americans get so irate about something that doesn't effect them, but we choose to keep for ourselves.

Like I said glorified cheerleaders. And I'm not irate about it, I just think it's ripping off the English people. If they want to live off government money, they should be given what people on welfare should receive, and if they want to live any better, they can make their own money.
 
75% favorability.

2 - 4 million people will turn out in a celebration of not only the prince and his wife to be, but of the country and what it means to be British.

I have at one point in my life worn the queens emblem on my beret.

I'm a bit of a traditionalist... And I approve of the Queen especially.

I could say the same about the presidency, who has far more power and pomp then was ever intended.

Jet where did you get 75% from? I would have thought it was more 50 or 60, although like i say from what i observe most are ambivalent.
 
Your opinion on this matter is precisely that.

The royal family over all, I don't really approve of, but the Queen has been a good Queen, and the monarchy has been a source of inspiration and hope in dire moments in our history.

Watch the kings speech.

I don't get it when Americans get so irate about something that doesn't effect them, but we choose to keep for ourselves.

It's not every American, most of us just don't care. I will say that no American has any right to accuse the Royals of being expensive considering the pleasure trips Michelle Obama and her entourage have taken on our dime.
 
The Monarchy cost 62p ($1) per taxpayer last year. It remains a huge tourism draw.
As for the wedding, it looks like being a largely middle-class celebration, with a nationalist twist. Applications to close streets for local street parties total only 5000 so far. Almost none of those are from the poorer or working class locations, and countrywise, only 156 of those are from Wales, with just 30 in Scotland. Apathy is running at fever pitch up there!
 
Just because people approve doesn't mean they serve a useful purpose. The Presidency is an important office, which actually holds power, and not just a glorified cheerleader. An expensive one at that.

It's just part of the culture... they have a legit title, the people choice to continue honoring it

BTW... from what some people in the UK are saying, the family isn't supported by the taxpayers, so I would guess the tax payers aren't funding the wedding either.
 
I don't see how people are saying the family has no power... The family has a huge amount of power and influence in the world. I have never followed the royal family, so I can't say if I approve or disapprove of them. I just don't understand why some Americans are so interested in this wedding.
 
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