Royal wedding. No thank you

Jefferson


Joined: 17/05/2010
Posts: 360

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 17:38

Is there anywhere I can go which promises not to show the Royal Wedding?

trooper


Joined: 04/07/2009
Posts: 211

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 17:47

I live in hope.

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 17:50

Huh - you think you're hard done by - try being here in the UK, it's wall-to-wall royal wedding. There is no escape

MsGarnet


Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 989

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 17:59

Couldn't agree more - programmes about when they were one, two, three, four........about their postman, cousins, florist, school chums - never ending.......yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn



Who would want to know about two lovely seeming young people (Diana did a good job, sowed good seeds, I think both men are kind hearted, caring, tactile people - albeit Harry has the life of Riley, being the spare) who will now live a cushioned life (funded by us idiots) travelling the world, having every whim attended to, never worrying about bills, or their health, or education.......everything done for them - lucky them - but why would anyone else want to know? It's beyond me....

Lifeboy


Joined: 20/04/2011
Posts: 12

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 18:01

We are very fortunate to be able to witness this historical moment in time. I will watch the actual service but not all the banal bits and pieces before and after!

It seems to be the "cool thing" to not watch the Wedding but how sad!

CarrieRBag



Joined: 23/12/2008
Posts: 1374

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 18:27

Stay home, do not turn on TV and be a boring Bob!

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 18:38

message 6



My sentiments exactly.



Chris

p.s. For anyone still in the UK think of the money it will generate in tourism!!!

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 18:41

Post 1



Easy do not bother getting up this Friday.........moan moan moan !







SpiderX

berilela


Joined: 17/07/2010
Posts: 590

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 19:01

ms garnet are you ever happy

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 19:19

That reminds me of the song from the old film...Happy...Happy,Happy..Happy talk, Talk about things we like to do..







Spider,X

booitsme


Joined: 04/02/2009
Posts: 667

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 19:56

Jefferson - HERE! We don't even have a TV

dandd3


Joined: 10/06/2010
Posts: 326

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 19:58

I personally do not see why everyone is getting overly excited about it its only a wedding ?

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 20:30

I hear there is a special "Royal Wedding" party for the homeless in the main streets of London. True or false?

Clarissa2


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 20:49

Re :Msg 13,



Have you been reading The Sun again?

jay76


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 532

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 20:54

It's the queens birthday in holland on the weekend praps you could watch that instead.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 21:06

@ msg 15, jay76: (...) It's the queens birthday in holland on the weekend praps you could watch that instead. (...)

▶ Thank you for this exciting TV tip. I'm fully aware of the festivities and the celebrations of this institution - only interesting because it's medieval. Like burning witches, hanging criminals etc, which in civilised Western Europe we stopped doing some time ago.

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 21:09

ting and tong haven't stopped talking about it, so i'll be there....

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 21:27

Oops! The Chinese and the Royal Wedding...

▶ [ http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-20044723-10391698.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody ]



Exposing the dreamworld some believe to be true...

▶ [ http://is.gd/3O2PNd/UK_Royal_Wedding_to_Cost_the_Taxpayer_$48_Million ].

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 21:39

Nick Nack paddywhack leave those Royals alone. )

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 21:50

No moderating on Friday, I suppose..?

Hector


Joined: 26/08/2008
Posts: 2352

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 21:54

I'm a royalist and proud of it. I shudder when one looks at other countries (in particular America) and see the shambles that surround Presidential elections and the people that are 'democratically' elected (allegedly in some countries, see Zimbabwe) not to mention the cost. No. I think the UK is damn lucky.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 22:02

Hans, I'll have my iPhone with me inside the Abbey so that I can keep an eye on things. After all the forum comes first! ) )

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 22:05

Dear Bull: thank you for misspelling my first name again...

mahdel


Joined: 28/05/2009
Posts: 255

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 22:27

@MSG 21, while I think the backlash against the wedding is a bit silly and reactionary, and I fully support the royal family as a symbol, your argument would really only make sense if the Royal Family actually had any power. To suggest that the power struggles that define US presidential elections, where the winner is directly elected by the people (at least in the US you can vote for the man who will help you locally (congress) without having to support a man who will control the whole country (President) ) is worse than say, appointing someone to make all decisions for the entire country because their parents happened to be related to other people with 'good breeding' is crazy. I believe it was the British author Terry Pratchett that mocked the monarchist system saying (paraphrased); There are people who think that a man who got his job by understanding all aspects of a country and running it well should be replaced by a man who got his job by being born.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 22:29

Hans. Apologies - I've now amended it.

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 22:38

Message 22 - Bill, if you get there before us, could you save us a couple of seats, please?



Cheers.



J

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 22:47

Of course Jeannie. I'll tell David & Victoria to sit elsewhere. They were a pain at the engagement party, do you remember what she said about Pauls shirt?

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 23:00

Jeannie I will be thinking of you on the day hope no dog sneaks in and cocks his leg on one of the trees beside you..And my sister back home has asked you hot to where that blooming large hat..your in front of her and she is only 4ft 10" tall when standing so she is hoping to stand on the phews if you leave that fancy had on



No1 there will only be one woman thats 4ft 10" tall there I am sure....So please if you see here grabbing David for a photo shot..grab her camera she never has been able to take her own photo's to date anyway..If you do I will owe you one for next time your over..



Hope youss all have a great day



Spider,X..I will be at the Almonds Holiday Village

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
27/04/2011 23:22

Say hello to Ali for me.

steptoenoel


Joined: 27/04/2011
Posts: 116

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 00:35

really feel sorry for the girl and omg having to wear his mums ring........not on

philbailey


Joined: 17/01/2011
Posts: 3534

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 00:40

No jokes about Diana's ring please

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 02:49

Bill - message 27.



Thanks for that. Yes, I remember only too well what Victoria (or Vicky, as I call her) said about Paul's shirt. Cheeky mare. Do you remember her face when I said it was by George (not "By George" you understand) She didn't have a clue who I was referring to. And she calls herself a designer?



See you on Friday.



J

x

braveheart


Joined: 11/03/2011
Posts: 19

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 06:02

Efes Pilsen Blues Festival has it been cancelled in TRNC?

Chris and Sue


Joined: 07/08/2008
Posts: 272

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 07:13

The Hut Lapta......Royal Wedding free zone!

R.C.T.Man.



Joined: 27/03/2009
Posts: 746

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 07:41

"God Save The Queen "

swyflot


Joined: 07/11/2008
Posts: 916

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 07:46

And you call yourself British,the monarchy is part of what being British is all about.

gazmufc78


Joined: 03/09/2009
Posts: 366

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 07:58

Off with their heads, the only thing that I admire about the French and Russians.

R.C.T.Man.



Joined: 27/03/2009
Posts: 746

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 08:03

I hope swyflot Msg 36 wasn't refering to me, i am a staunch Royalist.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 08:39

Proud to be a royalist? Supporting a system ONLY based on when and where someone was born..?! Capacities of the monarch unimportant? Behaviour of the monarch 'by the grace of a non-existing god" almost unpunishable? No, thank you - mainly because a monarchy has nothing at all to do with a democracy.

I'm a republican because in a democracy there should be no other choice than a chosen head of state.

AeriaBar


Joined: 22/12/2009
Posts: 566

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 08:41

The Aeria Bar, Lapta, also a wedding free zone.

jimmyriddle


Joined: 26/04/2011
Posts: 34

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 09:44

The uk is facing cuts in all sections of society, so lets spend a few million quid on a wedding bash for the son of DIANA who will if he takes after the rest of his family divorce in a few yearas , play away fairly soon if he is not already doing so like father like son ?



Now if they had a small family wedding in a private church then had announced it and said they realised how the country was being asked to make sacrifices so they had done so as well, there could have been respect due as it is another couple of pigs with thre snouts in the trough !

R.C.T.Man.



Joined: 27/03/2009
Posts: 746

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 09:47

Msg 41 Are you sure you are British you sure don't sound like one !!!!!!

jimmyriddle


Joined: 26/04/2011
Posts: 34

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 09:55

Message 42



no I am English !

Carndi


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 613

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 10:23

You would think that those who are fed up with all the talk and goings on about the Royal wedding would think before starting a thread about it on here.

hattikins


Joined: 17/02/2008
Posts: 2793

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 13:07

I really can't understand the attitude of some people on here, if you are not interested in the Royal wedding that's fine, your choice, just as others choose to celebrate it. Apart from the fact that the groom is a member of the Royal family and the wedding itself will be bigger and grander than your average wedding they are just a young couple who appear to be very much in love and happy with each other. Why can people not just wish them well, good luck and happiness, as any other young couple would be wished, Prince William has had enough sadness in his life, surely he deserves a bit of happiness, why should people begrudge him that.

I am not royalist but I do wish these young people all the very best for their future life together and find it sad that people are so bitter towards them for no reason.

Glasbury


Joined: 13/08/2010
Posts: 268

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 13:14

hattikins - I agree with your sentiments. If you are not interested don't watch it and enjoy it if you do.

Hoylemiller



Joined: 03/09/2010
Posts: 240

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 14:01

No telly on the golf course. Then the 19th hole...perfect

R.C.T.Man.



Joined: 27/03/2009
Posts: 746

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 14:21

Msg 45 Hattikins.



Well said .

Ossie


Joined: 19/01/2008
Posts: 311

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 14:24

Go to Alagadi beach and put your head in the sand!

R.C.T.Man.



Joined: 27/03/2009
Posts: 746

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 14:29

You are very close to there Ossie is that where you will be ?

Ossie


Joined: 19/01/2008
Posts: 311

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 14:41

Message 50,nope, I'll be watching the box like the marjority of British subjects. Well said Hattikins.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 15:07

How remarkable that a thread like this one, obviously not started for royalists (in whichever country!), attracts varied comments like 1 : "Don't watch it if you don't like it" and 2 : "We wish the young couple all the best etc".

@ 1 : That's how the thread started. So what's the point stating "Don't watch it if you don't like it"..?!

@ 2 : I've not read one comment against the future happiness of the young couple. But, yes, some people have something against the medieval institution the young couple represents. That's all.

Don't think - enjoy the fairy tale in one of the other threads, I'd say.

Interesting reading here: ▶ [ http://is.gd/fjDmvk/Abolish_the_monarchy ].

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 15:47

I wish the young couple well ...But as fare as the Medieval Royal Institution is concerned I lean more to the "Cromwellian" side of things ...........A bit like the Dutch .

bigOz


Joined: 29/09/2010
Posts: 1244

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 16:08

Thank you all - the experience has been very satirical! I have been laughing non-stop for the past 15 minutes, reading through all the posts in this threat (and I mean that in a good way...) The Royal Wedding must be good if it puts a smile on people's faces, but I can understand the reaction to "over exposure" given by the sad media in UK! Minus that, and I am sure it will be a grand event!

bigOz


Joined: 29/09/2010
Posts: 1244

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 16:09

Did I write "threat"??? It definitely should be "thread" - sorry

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 16:20

Message 54 - exactly. My comments have been tongue-in-cheek



I do take your point and agree that those of us here in the UK are at saturation point with the media coverage.



I'm sure it will be a lovely day for all concerned.



One thing I would say is that I am surprised at the lack of street parties being held in our area. I would have thought there would have been many more. Maybe it's just miserable old BSE

Jefferson


Joined: 17/05/2010
Posts: 360

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 16:23

I,m glad the post has brought out a good mix of opinions as well as the obligatory odd rude comment. I wish them both well for tomorrow. (in my absence!)

AndyR



Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 317

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 16:40

What an interesting thread!

I'll not be watching. I have nothing against them and wish them well (as i would any young couple I din't know and hadn't met). They both seem to have their feet on the ground and he has what anyone would agree was a 'responsible' and 'real' job. However, I'm not a monarchist and the amount of money being spent on this doesn't sit well with me.

On a related note to msg 51, I'm not British, I'm Scottish.

Khanage77


Joined: 18/04/2011
Posts: 69

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 17:13

BREAKING NEWS:



North & South Korea admit fabricating stories of missile strikes as they are sick of hearing about the ROYAL WEDDING!!!!



Posting edited due to inappropriate language.

AJ

hattikins


Joined: 17/02/2008
Posts: 2793

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 17:16

Totally uncalled for remarks, idiot.

Khanage77


Joined: 18/04/2011
Posts: 69

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 17:19

They were just a couple of jokes I read today. Nothing personal. Just something to make light of all this Royal Wedding rubbish going about.

Khanage77


Joined: 18/04/2011
Posts: 69

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 17:21

I actually found them quite funny so thought I'd share them! After the day I've had, I needed to!

R.C.T.Man.



Joined: 27/03/2009
Posts: 746

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 17:30

Ref Msg 58

When did Scotland stop becoming part of great Britain, like it or not you are British Lol.

offtheradar


Joined: 08/07/2010
Posts: 20

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 17:50

Jefferson,perhaps you should invite Bliar and Brown to your non wedding party,seems they've got a free day

AndyR



Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 317

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 18:01

Msg 64:

No, I'm not British, there's no such place. There is a political union of seperate countries called the United Kingdom, but I was born in Scotland and am proud to be Scottish, as I hope everyone else is of their country of birth.

MsGarnet


Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 989

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 18:19

Hattikins - as Jeannie says - those of us here in England cannot avoid it - anyone would think the media had nothing else to comment on - every magazine, radio programme, television programme - is larded with information on tomorrow's events. As I said, I think they come over as a 'pleasant' couple - but they are not there because of meritocracy - but William, because of who his parents were. As to enough sadness - I lost my beloved dad when I was nineteen, the only comfort I have is I was the last person to speak to him, and cuddle him..........we could never have thought that night, we would lose him. Billions of people suffer the loss William did, but didn't have the extended family, support, finance and contacts to help us through such grief. I'm here in Windsor, and am also surprised that there aren't more street parties organised, considering we are in the shadow of the Castle, I wouldn't go anyway, but think it reflects general apathy.

Twinkletoes


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 183

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 18:28

Good God - it's a one off!



Why don't you all stop moaning, switch off your tv and get a life!



No-one is forcing you to watch it - go out instead!



Sometimes it is nice to watch this kind of fairytale and escape for a couple of hours.



I shall watch it and am proud of watching it. All you moaners - shut up and just don't watch!



Twinks

begonia


Joined: 19/05/2009
Posts: 229

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 18:43

Dutch Crusader........MYOB ! It's the British Royal family involved here not the Dutch (whoever they may be)

If some of you don't want to watch it...and I realise there are those who think this is very cool...then don't. But don't hurl insults at the rest of us. Would you really rather have President Blair and his first lady , the classy Cherie ? I don't think so.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 18:58

@ msg 69, begonia: (...) Dutch Crusader........MYOB ! It's the British Royal family involved here not the Dutch (whoever they may be) (...)

▶ Ah! There we go again. It's only "us Brits" who are entitled to discuss "our British business", eh? Put your blinkers off. Your whole post mirrors blind, old-fashioned nationalism.

AndyR



Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 317

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 19:10

DC, there's nothing wrong with old-fashioned nationalism if it takes the form of pride in your country and a desire to improve the lives of your countrymen.

Unfortunately, too many conflicts are branded as 'nationalist' when in fact the true causes are religious/economic/territorial etc etc etc. Dare I look at Cyprus for an example of this?

But this thread is about the royal wedding, not nationalism, and I agree with you that everyone, UK citizen or otherwise, is entitled to have an opinion. After all, monarchists will tell you that it's their appeal to non UK people that makes the monarchy so 'valuable'. Personally, I think that's rubbish!

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 19:54

@ msg 70, AndyR: The voice of reason, although I completely disagree with your first words. Old Europe, on the brink of collapse, has no time left for any form of nationalism. Nationalism (and religion for that matter), in any form, has been the curse of Europe for far too long - history teaches the lessons to those who want to read and understand. The final collapse of Europe can only be postponed (countries with twice as many citizens as Ol' Europe are not waiting to take their place in history) if nationalism is banned and if countries finally learn to give up their selfishness and work together instead of celebrating their Britishness, Dutchness, or whatever ....ness. "....nesses" and "....isms" will bring Europe down. Hmmm, but you are right, this thread was about the Royal Wedding. So again: nothing against two young people, but the institution they represent should be abolished (in all European monarchies).

P.S. It's still "treason" when you say or write that in the UK!

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 20:10

msg68 begonia...Last time I looked it was David Cameron....? where does Tony Blair come into it ??

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 20:15

AndyR ....The people of my Home Island are very Royalist although the official title of the Queen is "The Duke of Normandy "..She is NOT Queen of Guernsey ..but respected as Queen of the UK etc...Guernsey not being part of the UK....

Riddles


Joined: 26/04/2011
Posts: 429

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 21:59

I'm a citizen not a subject ....

kennyb1


Joined: 06/06/2009
Posts: 88

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 22:15

Good luck to the young couple.

I think the country took the young boys to their hearts when their mother died so tragically so its great to see him happy and lets hope our press don't harass them to the extent that the pressure placed on them becomes too much.

Just for the record I will be painting the garden fence all day

Keep posting

Keep smiling

Kennyb

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 23:08

I shall be watching the wedding tomorrow although I have not watched any news, read anything in the newspaper and I don't buy magazines, so I don't know to what extent the wedding has been covered by the media, it's a wait and see for me.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
28/04/2011 23:36

Police have been drafted in from Scotland for the royal wedding.



They need security to be extra tight.    

Jefferson


Joined: 17/05/2010
Posts: 360

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 08:42

Dear Moderators can you now close this thread please.



Reason: I will not be able to answer any more posts as Mrs Jefferson has told me to go and get ready for the wedding.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 08:44

@ msg 78:

Khanage77


Joined: 18/04/2011
Posts: 69

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 09:28

Brilliant

Link removed and although it was posted in good faith, it appears to contain a virus attachment.

AJ

dynamicduo


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 66

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 12:20

You can come and help me worm the dog and change the air in my tyres if your at a loose end and help clean out the septic tank.

gooligan


Joined: 30/01/2007
Posts: 1591

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 12:49

I've told the missus as soon as the horse racing starts the telly is going over.

Royal wedding my arse.

© Jim Royle.

Zoots


Joined: 05/02/2011
Posts: 669

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 17:01

Royal families have always relied on the little people to tug the forelock to them in order to survive. After all, it was the little people's lands they seized in the first place.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 18:32

@ msg 83, Zoots: Your great message - what more can one say to people who are not able to read, listen or understand..?! The pigs are flying today, The UK Sun and the Cyprus Star are making a fortune on worthless pictures - and inside the palace they laugh all the way to the next crowning, wedding or funeral.

Sad cheering people outside the palace, who don't understand they're cheering their own ignorance.

Tootie


Joined: 28/08/2008
Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 18:52

Hans, Re Msg 84.... This will explain all. maybe???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EWGUMhN6d0

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 19:01

@ msg 85, Tootie: Hahaha!

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 19:01

msg77, no1 you crack me up , keep an eye on them , they will be stealing all the hot water in there flasks .

Zoots


Joined: 05/02/2011
Posts: 669

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 19:01

Msg 84,

The trouble is too many people just can't think for themselves and so get caught up in the hype and propaganda. I suppose such easily manipulated people are more controllable by the authorities.

Although I have to confess to tippling some orange liqueur at the UN's Wolseley Barracks in Nicosia after a battle march with the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps UN on the occasion of their queen's birthday. To have refused would have seemed churlish.

But yes, let the Royal families come to a natural end, allow them to live their own lives and keep their honorific titles until death. Let's all live in grown-up democracies.

Hector


Joined: 26/08/2008
Posts: 2352

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 19:07

Congratulations to William & Catherine. A really great wedding and a pleasure to watch. Only the British can lay on that sort of pageantry. No wonder millions around the world were watching and also enjoying the day. I thought the trees in the Abbey were wonderful.

Tootie


Joined: 28/08/2008
Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 19:08

Royal Weddng....

My Arse!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTeq7t1yzBE

BigMart


Joined: 26/02/2009
Posts: 423

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 19:18

Any of you Brits who slag off the Royal wedding ought to F**k off to Pakistan / Iraq /Lybia and see how you qare treated there. Be proud to be British, if you are not keep quiet and allow us patriots to enjoy our day.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 19:28

@ msg 89, Hector: Panem et circenses. The Roman rulers already knew how to keep the lower classes happy. In some countries not much have changed. Pomp and fairy tales. A royalist is someone who declares himself inferior to someone who was born in a royal room. People with a free spirit and a healthy understanding of a democracy don't accept it. Titles and standing have to be earned by study and qualities - no by birth. All monarchies are out of date (medieval relics) and should be abolished. Long live the republics of this world - with all their errors they are nearest to real democracy.

Hector


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Message Posted:
29/04/2011 19:39

DC

Spouting your usual vitriol. I don't bother to read your posted topics any more. I await your spiteful act of revenge as per the last time I dared criticise you for which you never apologised.

rowlo



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Message Posted:
29/04/2011 19:50

its on there also bigmart , no escape .

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
29/04/2011 19:59

@ msg 93, Hector: What a sad and cheap retreat, Hector! I don't want to drink your sweet royal lemonade and then you call my post vitriol. I suggest you Google vitriol and a debatable point of view.

Hoylemiller



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Message Posted:
29/04/2011 20:09

MAKES YOU PROUD TO BE BRITISH!!!

keithr


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Posts: 720

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 20:15

She has got her ticket to a freebie life now....



She was sitting on a goldmine.



Thank you poor old UK taxpayer.

Hoylemiller



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Message Posted:
29/04/2011 20:16

Shot a 78 gross over the Majilis course Dubai off the blue tees...

horselover


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Message Posted:
29/04/2011 20:17

hitler and eva got maried 66 years to the day. bloody reptiles

Linnyloos


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Posts: 483

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 20:21

I didn't realise until today just how proud I am to be British. Good luck to them both.

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
29/04/2011 20:21

@ msg 98, Hoylemiller: (...) Shot a 78 gross over the Majilis course Dubai off the blue tees... (...)

▶ I'm afraid you should wonder if all Brits are proud of you to be British.

Hoylemiller



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Message Posted:
29/04/2011 20:43

Hey Hans i am proud to be British, and today was good for Britain but i don't particularly like watching weddings 24/7 i can see the best bits on sky news.

Zoots


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Posts: 669

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 20:50

horselover wrote: "hitler and eva got maried 66 years to the day. bloody reptiles"

Ironically our own Royal family was so German it had to change its name in 1917 after we went to war against their compatriots.

>>The King and his family were finally convinced to abandon all titles held under the German Crown, and to change German titles and house names to anglicized versions.<<

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Windsor

Gawd bless you, Ma'am. Makes you proud to be Germ... er...British.

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
29/04/2011 20:52

@ msg 103, Zoots: Don't spoil the day with bl**dy facts, figures and true history, Zoots...

Hoylemiller



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Message Posted:
29/04/2011 21:01

Hans. Ja, en ik hou van holland ook.

Zoots


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Message Posted:
29/04/2011 21:07

Hector Msg 89,

Some people swore oaths to serve the Queen while others made oaths to serve the people. Such are the constitutional distinctions in the countries comprising the present UK.

It's not impossible that future civil unrest could lead to British police being placed under elected government orders to assist in the orderly removal of the Royal family and the disarming of loyalist members of the armed forces.

I can't for the life of me think why anyone would put a monarch before their own community.

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
29/04/2011 21:22

@ msg 106, Zoots: Excellent post - and deafening silence. First time also in the history of C44 a POST closes the thread. Well said and done, Zoots!

Zoots


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Message Posted:
29/04/2011 21:35

I'm just wondering why most ordinary average people don't think this way, DC. I have nothing against the Royals. They are not wicked but mere flawed organisms like the rest of us, except they were elevated in a different era and are now past their time.

Let this young prince and princess, who seem more connected to the people than the rest, take a back seat and let things come to a natural end. One day we'll wonder what all the fuss was about and how silly it all was.

Turtle


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Message Posted:
29/04/2011 21:47

Zoots and you an ex serviceman ?



We always new you are the biggest hypercrite about

Hoylemiller



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Message Posted:
29/04/2011 21:49

MSG's 106 107.

Not quite... To serve your country you have to take an oath to defend Queen and country!!!



And if you think the Royal Family will be forcibly removed by future elected governments is ludricrus.



How much revenue do you think todays wedding made for the UK?

denizen



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Posts: 388

Message Posted:
29/04/2011 23:18

msg 4: Couldn't agree more - programmes about when they were one, two, three, four........about their postman, cousins, florist, school chums - never ending.......yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn







ya watched it all then, pity your life is so empty .

Would have posted earlier but been tied up watching the wedding.

How many times do we get the chance to see such as this. This is what we are all about, Feel sorry for those that are so self absorbed that they feel proud to run down what true Brits see as out heritage, Makes them feel big, mebbe. Mebbe the only thing that does, acting differently, get a life.

silcuty21


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Message Posted:
29/04/2011 23:38

i am so proud to be english today and so proud of our country and our incredible queen and her family



here here

Clarissa2


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Message Posted:
30/04/2011 11:17

Re : Msg 106,



"Some people swore oaths to serve the Queen while others made oaths to serve the people. Such are the constitutional distinctions in the countries comprising the present UK"





Today you have to swear the oath of allegiance to the Queen AND to take the pledge to the United Kingdom.

So if you are a republican and refuse the oath to the Queen, you can not become a British citizen.

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
30/04/2011 11:26

@ msg 113, Clarissa2: (...) So if you are a republican and refuse the oath to the Queen, you can not become a British citizen. (...)

▶ What bad news and bad luck for me then, this Saturday.

P.S. Some people may call it Royal blackmail?