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Royal Wedding - who pays?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!, Apr 25, 2011.

  1. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    I'm DVRing four channels (haven't figured out which four yet) and waking up at 4 a.m. on a race day to watch the live coverage.

    I can't get enough of this shit. Pomp and circumstance. Bring it on!
     
  2. sgreenwell

    sgreenwell Well-Known Member

    Plus, six percent times however many countries it is being simulcast in...
     
  3. Wenders

    Wenders Well-Known Member

    For free of charge, you can stand in the park and watch the newlyweds' parade recessional afterward. And as someone who has seen the royal family in person during one of their parades, it is quite the spectacle.
     
  4. britwrit

    britwrit Well-Known Member

    If this marriage works out, it'll preserve the Royal family for another couple of decades. But if it goes down the tubes (in the same nasty, imploding-in-public-way that happened with Charles and Diana), all bets are over.

    The Windsors would have been better off with a quiet civil ceremony at the registry office (the rough, rough British version of the marriage bureau at the town hall.)
     
  5. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    Apples and oranges. We have a new president every eight years or fewer.

    The Brits get a Royal wedding, what, every 30 years? Aren't William and Kate heirs to the British Monarchy, which dates back, what, 1,700 years? That's a pretty big deal for the country, even if they're only figureheads.
     


  6. Enough of a spectacle to spend a few grand for a plane ticket and a days stay in England?
     
  7. Big enough to spend millions in taxpayer funds?
     
  8. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    For some people it is... For me? Fuck no... :D
     
  9. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    I'm not a British taxpayer so I couldn't be troubled to give a toss.
     
  10. Mark McGwire

    Mark McGwire Member

    Yes. The Brits eat this shit up. So do a ton of Americans. I don't, but what the fuck. Your level of interest seems out of proportion to your professed level of interest.

    Chicken dinner.
     
  11. Why? Because I started a thread asking a question?

    I don't care about the wedding. Do. Not. Care.
    But I am interested in English tax money being spent.
    I was reading or hearing something about the wedding and they said many Brits don't care. I suspect the average American - including this one - feels the same.
     
  12. Point of Order

    Point of Order Active Member

    Am I the only one who sees irony in a bunch of sports journalists questioning the importance -- whether anyone "gives a shit" -- about the Royal wedding?
     
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