How many of you outside of the UK actually want to see the royal wedding?

[Doowoo]

Im Danish, and i dont give a shit!

 

[ShadowsofHope]

I'm Canadian, but I honestly couldn't care less about the Royal Family at this point. I understand what they mean in regards to political topics between Canada and the U.K., but I personally feel no connection to them whatsoever, or a desire to pretend to do so. The ideal of a monarchy died for me several centuries ago, so.. *Shrug*

In which case, I'll just be ignoring T.V. until Thursday-Friday like usual.

 

[yndsu]

I am not British but i live in England. And i could not be cared less.
However i might look at some of the highlights later on on the net.

Also, all the people at work, and most of my friends could not
care less about it.

The fact that I get a day off for it is pretty cool, though.

This right here is the best thing about the wedding.
So yeah. I am hopefully too busy sitting in my garden having a little
bbq and sunbathing on Friday rather than sitting in the house watchin
the wedding on TV.

 

[Sparrow]

Yes, as I am playing the Royal Wedding Drinking Game with my friends. I just hope Prince Phil keeps the racism down a little otherwise I'll be majorly hung over on Tuesday.

Could not give less of a fuck. I find the fact that we still pay for a bunch of German inbreds to rule over us to be slightly embarassing. I'm actually heading to France on the day, so it will be nice to be in a republic.

They cost us about 34p each a year, if I remember right. And they don't "rule" anything anymore, any and all power they have doesn't influence anything important in the UK anymore. Please tone down the dickery, I kind of like my country.

And also, as I've been reminded, they supposedly make back everything and them some due to tourism.

If they don't rule anything, why bother having them? We get to elect less than half of our government in this country, are you OK with that? Would you not rather have a head of state that we could hold to account? Sure the Queen keeps out of politics, but Prince Charles is constantly using his status trying to meddle in public affairs.

They cost this country £183m a year. To put that in perspective:

10,726 new nurses; or
9,241 new police officers; or
9,089 new teachers; or
3,660 new GPs; or
563 new hospital beds; or
18 new schools

Compare that to other elected heads of state, Ireland pay 1.8m for theirs. In fact, our entire parliment costs just £155m.

The tourism line is bollocks as well, less than 1 % of our tourism revenue comes from royal residences. And out of the top 20 tourist attractions in the UK only one, Windsor Castle at 17, is a royal residence. In fact, tourism revenue would increase massively if we turfed out the royals and opened up their palaces to the public.

No need to call someone a dick just because you disagree. It's possible to like this country without liking the monarchy.

I'm calling bullshit of atleast half of this, where have you even gotten these figures from? Especially the tourism bit. I worked it London tourism when I was a little younger and it was all, ALL Americans wanting to explore the English Royalty. Well, that and the Big Ben. Americans freaking LOVE Big Ben.

 

[Zeraki]

Screw the royal wedding, I'm gonna be watching Doctor Who.

 

[Alden Hou]

Well, Canada is part of the British commonwealth, but i couldn't give less of a crap for a powerless ceremonial family, whose only real purpose these days is to look good on TV.

 

[jpoon]

Not me fuck those idiots, I hope it turns out to be a royal disaster!

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

I'm in the UK, and couldn't give a shit.

I won't, unless the following happens:

- Kate Middleton suddenly realises, at the climax of her own wedding, that she's about to marry into a family of pampered inbreds. The subsequent panic attack causes her to scream like a banshee.

- She strips off her wedding dress, and hurls it over her beau, partially suffocating him, and also revealing that she isn't wearing any underwear. Naked as the day she's born, she proceeds to run out of the side door.

- She grabs the nearest mounted Yeoman Warder by the Busby (look it up), drags him from his horse, elbow-drops him until he stops moving, and jumps on the horse herself.

- Finally, she rides off into the sunset, naked and free; viciously assaulting anybody who tries to get in her way with a perfectly-arranged pleat of English peonies that were hand-picked from the Buckingham gardens at dawn.

If this happens, it may just pique my curiosity enough to tempt me into watching this wedding.

 

[captainwolfos]

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Eh, I'm Welsh. I live in Wales, and therefore the UK, but I'm going to comment anyway.

PRETTY MUCH THAT ^

Noone in my family cares. Noone I know cares. Noone I know is especially into the royals in any way, either. And the fact we have a day off especially for it is undermined somewhat by the fact I'm off for two weeks from college for Easter, anyway.

So yeah. AND the general public is paying for the damned thing. According to some sources (Google it), it will cost no less than £5billion.

Taxpayers' money at work, eh?

 

[captainwolfos]

I'm in the UK, and couldn't give a shit.

I won't, unless the following happens:

- Kate Middleton suddenly realises, at the climax of her own wedding, that she's about to marry into a family of pampered inbreds. The subsequent panic attack causes her to scream like a banshee.

- She strips off her wedding dress, and hurls it over her beau, partially suffocating him, and also revealing that she isn't wearing any underwear. Naked as the day she's born, she proceeds to run out of the side door.

- She grabs the nearest mounted Yeoman Warder by the Busby (look it up), drags him from his horse, elbow-drops him until he stops moving, and jumps on the horse herself.

- Finally, she rides off into the sunset, naked and free; viciously assaulting anybody who tries to get in her way with a perfectly-arranged pleat of English peonies that were hand-picked from the Buckingham gardens at dawn.

If this happens, it may just pique my curiosity enough to tempt me into watching this wedding.

That's, uh... Rather specific. Been planning that long?

 

[MasterOfHisOwnDomain]

They cost this country £183m a year. To put that in perspective:

I'm not some kind of monarchist, but it's unfair to translate their upkeep into incredibly worthy things like hospitals and schools - it doesn't really work like that; if you abolished the monarchy you wouldn't just let Windsor Castle fall into the ground and not pay for it. To put amount that into perspective anyway, military expenditure in 2010 for the UK was: £61,285,000,000. So we could have them or a couple of Chinook helicopters to send into a pointless war. I know which I prefer...

 

[PiCroft]

Something I'm quite proud of is that out of 4000 UK-wide street party applications, only around 20 are in Scotland and fifteen of them are in Edinburgh.

 

[D_987]

You're asking the wrong demographic; this forum is comprised primarily of pseudo-intellectual teenagers - not exactly the kind of demographic to care about an event of this nature...

 

[DaWaffledude]

Royal Whatnow?

 

[Dragonclaw]

Not a chance, wont even be turning on the TV that day except maybe to play some X-Box....unless a video of the bride and her bridesmaids going at it in a lingere clad sex romp comes out...THAT I'll totally watch

 

[The SettingSun]

I'm in the UK, and couldn't give a shit.

I'll second that notion.

 

[Kron_the_mad wants to be deleted]

I'm in the UK and I hate the fuss thats being made.
Whats to celebrate about adding to the list of entitled scroungers taking money and focus from more pressing issues.