A royal baby

[Abomination]

I switched on the news this morning to see if any updates had happened regarding [snip] the earthquake in Christchurch NZ[snip].

You probably can't find anything about that because it happened to Wellington (or rather Cook Strait to be more specific).

 

[Abomination]

And yea, the beheading of the French royals/nobility did actually go well for them. It was the great terror, the rise of Napoleon, and the rise of bourgeoisie 'democratic' governments (The French Republics) that contributed to the country's later imperialism, industrialism,conflicts with other European powers and so forth.

Yet by Compraison it was the British Empire that was stable enough and able to become the dominant power by adjusting its government in a more moderate and restrained fashion.

What if France had adopted a Constitutional Monarchy instead of rushing headlong into a republic->dictatorship->monarchy->republic->dictatorship->republic madhouse?

 

[scorptatious]

Well good for the parents. Not really a big deal though to me since I'm in America. The media here really seemed to make a big deal about it though for some reason.

 

[launchpadmcqwak]

i hope he grows up to be a tyrant...just to give the western world a bit of ZAZZ!

 

[Voulan]

Is it the 'cool' thing to hate the royal family now? Some of the posts in this thread are actually a little cruel. Remind me to act all tough and throw out the occasional "I don't give a f***"s when everyone else has children.

I'm actually quite excited, because we're witnessing history in the making. All the best to the new parents. And now, media, I know we've never got along, but please leave them alone.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Whoopty do,

another royal baby was born, I may be canadian but I really don't get why this was all over the news for the past week...

I mean I just don't see what's the big deal aside from more pointless celebrity gossip

Because this one IS the future King... The media has been massivly into trying to instil national pride back in the UK, and this seems to have spread through the Commonwealth! But they have made a big deal, because at some point, possibly in our lifetimes, this new babies face will be on our currency and stamps!

OT: As a member of the UK military, and a massive supporter of the nation, I have to take on the Queens maternal cousin; Margret Rhodes' opinion:

'Well you know, everybody has babies. And it's lovely. But I don't get wildly excited about it.'

Personally I hate kids, and babies especially! They ure ugly little creatures, who take an embarrasingly long time to stop being dependant, compared to the rest of the animal world! :/
I am interested... I'm not excited.

 

[DarthSka]

I view this the same way I did the wedding, without a care really. I don't know these people and they don't know me, and I'm certainly not part of their kingdom so this does not affect me in any way. Still, I wish them well like I would anyone welcoming a child into the world.

Also the complaints about people referring to the baby's gender and whatnot is just idiocy. Many people treat Sex/Gender terms as synonymous and saying "It's A Boy/Girl" is just the norm. Hell, I call my female cat a girl sometimes but I know she has no concept of having a gender identity. Then again, neither do I since I just view myself as, well, myself.

 

[Gameguy20100]

I don't really care to be honest.

I get that it's history and that's cool but give them some privacy ya know?.

 

[Smeatza]

For the rest of my life I will have an irrational hatred for that newly born prince.
Why?
Because I'm going to associate him with the end of the steam summer sale forever.

 

[shootthebandit]

I suppose its a good thing that a new future king has been born but really the press coverage was absurd. I honestly dont care what unemployed bob thinks about the royal baby. Theres no need for thousands of people to go to london and wait outside the hospital. When baby jebus was born only 3 people came to see him and hes suppped to be a messiah and all that

The one good thing that came out of it they described a man as "the royal gynacologist". Here is a man who will win any arguement simply by saying "ive seen the queens coochie"

 

[Dragonbums]

Didn't care today, didn't care yesterday, and still won't care in the future.
I'm not British, so I don't know why American news are making sure we get our face shoved in about it every 2 seconds.

 

[GundamSentinel]

When it comes to Royal Houses, the British royal family is an excessively boring bunch. I'm no royalist at all, but I can live with the Dutch royal family. The British family however... ugh. I would love it if he grew up to be a goth. That would be fun.

 

[Bluestorm83]

While I don't much care for the Royal FAMILY, I do have an enormous amount of respect and admiration for the Queen. I've seen a lot of things on her life and what exactly she has to do, and let me tell you, it's not easy. People here in America joke that she gets an enormous salary to do nothing, but honestly, she never gets to do nothing. She's the Queen. That's not just a title, that's a job. Every second of every day she has to be "On."

Anyone ever work in Retail? Know that fake, smiley, care about the customer act that you have to do to keep your job? That's the queen, 100% of the time. She can never lose her temper, she can never just say "Fuck it, I'm tired and going home," she can never go for a walk in a park on her own. Anyone here ever lose a parent? Any of you who did ever have to address a nation while it happened, holding back all of the emotions that we all would have in that situation? Who here wants to give up the ability to bum around in sweatpants and a T-shirt drinking beer and watching TV to instead have constant fancy dinners and receptions? Wouldn't it be great to be constantly meeting foreign leaders, who get to make actual policy, and have all the pressure of never insulting them accidentally without any of the actual authority to do anything if they were to offend you?

But anyway, I don't care about this baby's PARENTS, but to me, The Queen just got herself a Grandson, and that's awesome. Congratulations, Your Majesty.

I feared i was in a sea of Republicans. thank Jim for you.

Hate to burst your bubble, but I'm- well, okay, I'm not a REGISTERED Republican, because I see political parties as nothing but secular cults and are 80% mob mentality with 20% pep rally mixed in, but I am definitely more Conservative than Liberal.

But what are Conservatives, REAL Conservatives about? We're about work and duty and continuing a legacy of greatness and putting 110% effort into making tomorrow better than today. And that's the kind of stuff that the Queen does. Might not be obvious, she might not be swinging a sledgehammer and literally building the foundations of Britain, but just having the Queen BE the Queen gives the country a lasting stability and an ideal that everyone can aspire to.

I daresay that a problem that America has is that, at the moment at least, we lack a historical icon that we can ALL identify with. Some people love Washington or Lincoln, others idolize FDR or Teddy Roosevelt. A couple like Kennedy, despite him doing very little besides call himself a donut, cheat on his wife, and then disperse across a wide area at high velocity. But every President is their own identity. The Queen is a continuation of The Monarchy, and that's a source of Pride. And that's cool.

 

[roushutsu]

Seeing as how I'm on the other side of the ocean from the UK, it won't make much of a difference to me. But regardless of that, it does mean something to them, so congratulations on your baby prince!

 

[cikame]

Brits don't need more reasons to get drunk.

From a bored and tired 'Brit'.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

While I don't much care for the Royal FAMILY, I do have an enormous amount of respect and admiration for the Queen. I've seen a lot of things on her life and what exactly she has to do, and let me tell you, it's not easy. People here in America joke that she gets an enormous salary to do nothing, but honestly, she never gets to do nothing. She's the Queen. That's not just a title, that's a job. Every second of every day she has to be "On."

Anyone ever work in Retail? Know that fake, smiley, care about the customer act that you have to do to keep your job? That's the queen, 100% of the time. She can never lose her temper, she can never just say "Fuck it, I'm tired and going home," she can never go for a walk in a park on her own. Anyone here ever lose a parent? Any of you who did ever have to address a nation while it happened, holding back all of the emotions that we all would have in that situation? Who here wants to give up the ability to bum around in sweatpants and a T-shirt drinking beer and watching TV to instead have constant fancy dinners and receptions? Wouldn't it be great to be constantly meeting foreign leaders, who get to make actual policy, and have all the pressure of never insulting them accidentally without any of the actual authority to do anything if they were to offend you?

But anyway, I don't care about this baby's PARENTS, but to me, The Queen just got herself a Grandson, and that's awesome. Congratulations, Your Majesty.

Wah wah. The taxpayers are still paying to keep rich ol' Lizzie on top of the throne doing fuck all but occasionally knighting people and driving around in a posh car, while she's probably thinking, "I wish these commoners would leave me alone and get a job, but hey-ho, they're paying for my champagne, so I'll smile and wave!"

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

I think it is ridiculous that we just assume the royal baby is a boy when it hasn't even chosen it's gender identity yet. It's a shame that that patriarchy just jumps on and tells the baby that it has to be male just by a poor accident of birth.

 

[Bluestorm83]

While I don't much care for the Royal FAMILY, I do have an enormous amount of respect and admiration for the Queen. I've seen a lot of things on her life and what exactly she has to do, and let me tell you, it's not easy. People here in America joke that she gets an enormous salary to do nothing, but honestly, she never gets to do nothing. She's the Queen. That's not just a title, that's a job. Every second of every day she has to be "On."

Anyone ever work in Retail? Know that fake, smiley, care about the customer act that you have to do to keep your job? That's the queen, 100% of the time. She can never lose her temper, she can never just say "Fuck it, I'm tired and going home," she can never go for a walk in a park on her own. Anyone here ever lose a parent? Any of you who did ever have to address a nation while it happened, holding back all of the emotions that we all would have in that situation? Who here wants to give up the ability to bum around in sweatpants and a T-shirt drinking beer and watching TV to instead have constant fancy dinners and receptions? Wouldn't it be great to be constantly meeting foreign leaders, who get to make actual policy, and have all the pressure of never insulting them accidentally without any of the actual authority to do anything if they were to offend you?

But anyway, I don't care about this baby's PARENTS, but to me, The Queen just got herself a Grandson, and that's awesome. Congratulations, Your Majesty.

Wah wah. The taxpayers are still paying to keep rich ol' Lizzie on top of the throne doing fuck all but occasionally knighting people and driving around in a posh car, while she's probably thinking, "I wish these commoners would leave me alone and get a job, but hey-ho, they're paying for my champagne, so I'll smile and wave!"

Nice judgment. Let me just ask... what exactly have you done with YOUR life that's any more impressive than what she's done in hers?

 

[Alfador_VII]

If you believe the BBC the "whole world" is celebrating the birth of the Royal Baby, like he's the second coming of the Messiah.

The attitude of most people is actually somewhere between "meh" and "That's nice"

Personally I hope the kid and his mother are ok, beyond that, I don't really care

 

[Megalodon]

While I don't much care for the Royal FAMILY, I do have an enormous amount of respect and admiration for the Queen. I've seen a lot of things on her life and what exactly she has to do, and let me tell you, it's not easy. People here in America joke that she gets an enormous salary to do nothing, but honestly, she never gets to do nothing. She's the Queen. That's not just a title, that's a job. Every second of every day she has to be "On."

Anyone ever work in Retail? Know that fake, smiley, care about the customer act that you have to do to keep your job? That's the queen, 100% of the time. She can never lose her temper, she can never just say "Fuck it, I'm tired and going home," she can never go for a walk in a park on her own. Anyone here ever lose a parent? Any of you who did ever have to address a nation while it happened, holding back all of the emotions that we all would have in that situation? Who here wants to give up the ability to bum around in sweatpants and a T-shirt drinking beer and watching TV to instead have constant fancy dinners and receptions? Wouldn't it be great to be constantly meeting foreign leaders, who get to make actual policy, and have all the pressure of never insulting them accidentally without any of the actual authority to do anything if they were to offend you?

But anyway, I don't care about this baby's PARENTS, but to me, The Queen just got herself a Grandson, and that's awesome. Congratulations, Your Majesty.

I feared i was in a sea of Republicans. thank Jim for you.

Hate to burst your bubble, but I'm- well, okay, I'm not a REGISTERED Republican, because I see political parties as nothing but secular cults and are 80% mob mentality with 20% pep rally mixed in, but I am definitely more Conservative than Liberal.

But what are Conservatives, REAL Conservatives about? We're about work and duty and continuing a legacy of greatness and putting 110% effort into making tomorrow better than today. And that's the kind of stuff that the Queen does. Might not be obvious, she might not be swinging a sledgehammer and literally building the foundations of Britain, but just having the Queen BE the Queen gives the country a lasting stability and an ideal that everyone can aspire to.

I daresay that a problem that America has is that, at the moment at least, we lack a historical icon that we can ALL identify with. Some people love Washington or Lincoln, others idolize FDR or Teddy Roosevelt. A couple like Kennedy, despite him doing very little besides call himself a donut, cheat on his wife, and then disperse across a wide area at high velocity. But every President is their own identity. The Queen is a continuation of The Monarchy, and that's a source of Pride. And that's cool.

Pretty sure he meant republican as in people who would prefer a republic instead on a monarchy, not the American political affiliation. Advocating a republic doesn't necessarily place you anywhere on the right/left spectrum. A socialist and a libertarian can both believe in the removal of monarchy.