Royal Wedding...

[sgreger1]

Agreed. Consider however, the tourism and merch. dollars generated within the area from the millions of folks that seem to be interested in this shite. Hotels, bars, restaurants etc. in the area are full of people spending.....all thanks to these two dorks getting married.

Yah I definately thought of that angle too, but I am not sure it necessarily results in a net gain. Someone would have to do the math to figure it out and I am sure someone already has (probabaly even in your video!).

I guess it's just me being American, we scream if our president plays too many rounds of golf or if our congressman fly on private jets. So from my point of view a "royal wedding" to reinforce that the people are subjects who should look up to these "royal" families, who survive off taxpayer money, is inappropriate in every regard. You want to make the subjects happy? Drop a few million pounds from a helicopter over the crowd and see what the subjects say.


I mean, why am I not royal? Why do I not get a cut of all the commerce going on. I could throw huge multi-million dollar royal weddings too and totally help our economy. Quick, let's get a bill through the legislature to vot me as America's official new royal family. I will sit back and chill on your taxpayer money, then I will tell everyone how special I am since I have so much money and so many nice things . Then i can start addressing everyone as my "subjects" and you all will eat it up and ask for more.

I'm ready to do this thing baby, bring me my crown!



How do Europeans feel about this? I feel like Europeans don't always grasp the whole american political system so I am probably missing something here in regards to how the whole "royal family" setup works. Is there any relevant job that the royal family/queen does or is it just all for show at this point. To me i see a family of commoners who for some reason gets paid by the people to chill out, causing them to labelthemselves as "royalty". What makes the queen so special for her position?




/off with their heads.

[sgreger1]

I've looked into the Royal family economics and the do bring in a huge amount of money to the UK - much more than we give them. That's a fact.

P.S - I'm not a royalist - I couldn't really care.

Having had a chance to look at the clips, it looked pretty good actually - but that's as far as it goes with me.

If it results in a net benefit to the economy than I agree it probably isn't doing much harm. As an american I just can't wrap my brain around the concept of a queen or a royal family I guess. Their existence alone irks me.

[pris]

Maybe I looked at this the wrong way then. If it returns a net profit to the economy then maybe it's a good thing.

[Ansel]

Caught bits of it on tele and thought they both looked good together and got slightly swept up in it all despite being miserable about it before.

[LaZeR]

Here's what I think...

[teeotee]

I'm an expat from England and all week i thought that i didn't care about the whole thing and the US news coverage was getting real annoying. But then this morning when i got up i watched some of it for a while on CBS, then put on BBC Amercia and watched that for a while. It was after the ceremony had just got over so some of the boring stuff was done. I thought the fly by with the spitfire, hurricane and lancaster was cool. Overall i liked what i saw, and god knows everyone nowadays could do with something to cheer about, even if it is only for a short while. I did get sucked into it too, and i did find myself becoming a little homesick for the british way of things.

Keep calm and carry on !!!

[khalid]

Just wrong, so wrong. Makes my skin crawl.

[Ansel]

teeotee, what took you out to the US? work? sounds good.

[teeotee]

teeotee, what took you out to the US? work? sounds good.

A woman Met her online about 11 years ago, moved out here, we got married, been out here since July 2001

[nicodude]

i'd hit it. :0)

I was thinking the same thing!

Whos up for a special edition kate fleshlight

[Ansel]

A woman Met her online about 11 years ago, moved out here, we got married, been out here since July 2001

Ah cool! Well done.

[RobsanX]

We tell our girls stories about becoming a princess since they are little, so it's no surprise that they get excited to actually see it happen to someone.

[pinklungs]

We tell our girls stories about becoming a princess since they are little, so it's no surprise that they get excited to actually see it happen to someone.

That's awesome. As a fellow father of a little girl(s), I think it's cool that they're enjoying it. Just think...... some wee little females out there are actually fantasizing about being like Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus, and other little tarts. Bottom line...Kate M or polluted pop star as a role model..........I'll go with the princess every time.