What Utter Bullshit

[BoredDragon]

to me it looked like an internal decision by the organizations themselves, so I don't see why you're so pissed about it.

 

[D33dl3]

calling bullshit on this story .... seen no mention of it anywhere else

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

Hey, they're more important than you common folk. Didn't you get the memo? I guess whatever taxes you're paying for the Royal Family aren't enough for their extravagant life styles.

Are you aware that the Royal Wedding fund isnt actually paying for the royal wedding? It is a charity fund. You think the royals need help paying for their weddings?

Yes, but I don't see why the royals can't give money and leave everyone else's cash alone.

It's stupid.

...why? Prices aren't being upped, the Fund is being supported by money they already had from ticket sales and advertising. They got your cash fair and square when you traded it in for a ticket, its up to them what they do with it next. This isn't like the expenses scandal where they're helping themselves to money they have no real right to

The Union Jack thing is kind of over the top though

 

[EllEzDee]

Because the clubs aren't already rich as fuck, with enough money to purchase South America.

And the Royal family (or whatever the fuck they are called) isn't? Only reason I don't see that as being bad is because they are giving it to charity.

The Royal Family's rich? They recieve a few million a year, but that's to pay for civil duties such as appearing in other Commonwealth nations etc.
The Royal Collection, such as the Crown Jewels, don't actually belong to the Royals.

Either way, why even bring it up when you clearly said the money goes to charity.

 

[darksakul]

I want to point out one thing. How many people in this thread is actually live in the UK or even Europe for than matter and how many are you are American idiots who jumping on the "Lets-Piss-and-Moan bandwagon"?

"But public tax money going towards this thing"
Honestly if you do not pay taxes in the UK this argument should not apply to you.
So If your not a UK Citizen, Shut up.

"So your supporting this thing"?
Lets see, a head of state and a Monarch having her grandson and heir to the throne getting married. Yes I know its not an Absolute Monarchy, but not a Law get pass with out the Queens Signature (Like the US President signs bills into law in the US) and any issue Parliament talks about the Queen has the right to but in hear everything and put her 2 cents in. If that do not sound like a Head-of-State I do not know what is. So in that respect alone they have a right to do what they want with this wedding including Blocking Street Traffic, using public resources, which includes police enforcement of the area. Also deciding how they going to muddle with any local sports teams. So in Short, yes I am supporting this, hell if I am the one running this there would be 10 times the complains on this thread today.

Keep in mind I not going to invest the time to check every person who post here's profile to see if they are from the UK or some where else. I also think its sad that Canada of all countries have more respect for the Queen than Most of England does (minus Quebec because they are decidedly more French).

 

[Bags159]

Ok, there's a royal wedding, most people really don't seem to give a crap.

Ok, problem with that is, a vast majority of people do give a crap. The only reason it might appear the opposite on the internet is because people like to appear 'cool' on the internet, and to most people, the easiest way of doing that is to hate the things that other people like, or to hate the things that everyone on the internet hates.

I'd have to agree with you on this one. Its just the like the people who say "I don't vote, whats the point?" and then moan after an election that nothing changes.

How are these anywhere near comparable? Me not giving a crap about this wedding is not the same as me not voting and then moaning afterward. It's not like me watching the wedding changes anything, while voting can change if enough people vote who otherwise wouldn't.

I honestly don't know anyone in real life who was psyched about the wedding. I'm sure a lot of people are, but to say most are is probably incorrect. Hell, my British Earth Science teacher doesn't care.

 

[wooty]

Ok, there's a royal wedding, most people really don't seem to give a crap.

Ok, problem with that is, a vast majority of people do give a crap. The only reason it might appear the opposite on the internet is because people like to appear 'cool' on the internet, and to most people, the easiest way of doing that is to hate the things that other people like, or to hate the things that everyone on the internet hates.

I'd have to agree with you on this one. Its just the like the people who say "I don't vote, whats the point?" and then moan after an election that nothing changes.

How are these anywhere near comparable? Me not giving a crap about this wedding is not the same as me not voting and then moaning afterward. It's not like me watching the wedding changes anything, while voting can change if enough people vote who otherwise wouldn't.

I'm not attacking your view on the event, but I guess the angle,(which it looks like I missed out in the post, my bad) was in agreement with the above poster in that some people just say they dont care about certain major things in order to look "cool". I was only using the vote as an example, as I know a lot of people who do say that "voting is for losers" and then have a huge rant because nothing changes.

I'm afraid it was just a poorly laid out statement

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Ok, there's a royal wedding, most people really don't seem to give a crap.

Ok, problem with that is, a vast majority of people do give a crap. The only reason it might appear the opposite on the internet is because people like to appear 'cool' on the internet, and to most people, the easiest way of doing that is to hate the things that other people like, or to hate the things that everyone on the internet hates.

So what you're suggesting is that everyone on the internet is either lying, or they simply don't have an opinion and are just spouting off the same rhetoric that their peers (who are lying) are espousing?

How... remarkably condescending. Accurate sometimes to be certain, but to assert that all those people who don't give a crap about things that are actually NOT IMPORTANT are, in essence, hipsters, is a rather insulting position to take.

Some of us just don't care about "popular" things because we think those things are stupid (further reinforced by the masses caring about it really, since the aggregate intelligence of a group of humans tends to go down rather sharply when its size approaches "vast teeming masses" levels), or otherwise unimportant and not relevant to our lives, with no ulterior motives behind our apathy.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Because the clubs aren't already rich as fuck, with enough money to purchase South America.

And the Royal family (or whatever the fuck they are called) isn't? Only reason I don't see that as being bad is because they are giving it to charity.

The Royal Family's rich? They recieve a few million a year, but that's to pay for civil duties such as appearing in other Commonwealth nations etc.
The Royal Collection, such as the Crown Jewels, don't actually belong to the Royals.

Either way, why even bring it up when you clearly said the money goes to charity.

Why doesn't the money just go straight to charity instead of to them first? Plus they should donate the money to help the victims of the tornadoes in the Southern US since their stupid wedding is taking over the news and nobody probably knows about the tornadoes and the hundreds dead...

 

[Daffy F]

Oh look, another one of those guys. Personally, I don't give a shit about the wedding, and find it rather annoying because real news isn't being reported on for this stupid wedding. Oh they kissed in public, oh there is a frowning girl in the picture, and the two people that recently got murder in my neighborhood and the numerous break ins? Well, nobody seems to care about those.

Apparently, nobody gives a fuck about where you live...

 

[Daffy F]

Ok, there's a royal wedding, most people really don't seem to give a crap.

Ok, problem with that is, a vast majority of people do give a crap. The only reason it might appear the opposite on the internet is because people like to appear 'cool' on the internet, and to most people, the easiest way of doing that is to hate the things that other people like, or to hate the things that everyone on the internet hates.

So what you're suggesting is that everyone on the internet is either lying, or they simply don't have an opinion and are just spouting off the same rhetoric that their peers (who are lying) are espousing?

How... remarkably condescending. Accurate sometimes to be certain, but to assert that all those people who don't give a crap about things that are actually NOT IMPORTANT are, in essence, hipsters, is a rather insulting position to take.

Some of us just don't care about "popular" things because we think those things are stupid (further reinforced by the masses caring about it really, since the aggregate intelligence of a group of humans tends to go down rather sharply when its size approaches "vast teeming masses" levels), or otherwise unimportant and not relevant to our lives, with no ulterior motives behind our apathy.

If you have no ulterior motives, then why bother posting at all? Surely it would be better to not post and be grouped with the haters? If you post a disliking comment, then people are going to assume that you're being spiteful/lonely/hateful for no reason. If you genuinely don't give a fuck, then don't comment about it on the internet, just like the millions of other people who don't really give a fuck either.

80% of the British people don't give a shit about the wedding

What he said.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Oh look, another one of those guys. Personally, I don't give a shit about the wedding, and find it rather annoying because real news isn't being reported on for this stupid wedding. Oh they kissed in public, oh there is a frowning girl in the picture, and the two people that recently got murder in my neighborhood and the numerous break ins? Well, nobody seems to care about those.

Apparently, nobody gives a fuck about where you live...

Seems that way, but I do, and that is why I have a loaded gun under my bed. I don't give 50 billion security guards like some people. :/

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

If you have no ulterior motives, then why bother posting at all? Surely it would be better to not post and be grouped with the haters? If you post a disliking comment, then people are going to assume that you're being spiteful/lonely/hateful for no reason. If you genuinely don't give a fuck, then don't comment about it on the internet, just like the millions of other people who don't really give a fuck either.

Several reasons really:

• 1. Vague thread titles lure me in out of idle curiosity.
  
  2. I find people complaining about things far more entertaining than whatever it is that they're complaining about.
  
  3. I find cultural obsessions with things that don't strike me as even vaguely interesting to be itself fascinating in the same fashion that a horrible trainwreck attracts gawkers.

Those would be why I even bothered reading through enough of the thread to see your post in the first place. As for this "royal wedding" everyone is on about, I genuinely don't give a flying crap about it - I couldn't even name the participants, and if it weren't for people complaining about it I probably wouldn't have even realized it happened. My interest in those proceedings begins and ends with the associated discussions/rants/complaints/what have you that surround it, not the events themselves.

As for why I responded, that has everything to do with the false dichotomy you and everyone who tiresomely points out that "popular things are popular" present us with: Namely, that dissenting voices can either stay silent or they must be "posers".

See, I have a problem with that: Why the bloody hell should I care whether or not you or anyone else decides to "lump me in with the haters"? I state my reasons for my opinions when I offer them - if total strangers on the internet choose to believe I mean something other than what I say, then they are wrong, end of story. If, for example, I tell the world that I think Justin Bieber produces naught but sonic drivel, I actually mean that - I'm not trying to maintain some imaginary "internet street cred" or blithely following the consensus of my "peers" (a phrase I am very reticent to use to describe internet pundits), I mean that when I was picking up supplies at a local electronics store and they put a Bieber song on the muzak, I literally could not leave the store fast enough. That he is famous is entirely tangential to my extreme dislike of his "music"; I don't hate things because they're popular and "hating popular stuff is the cool thing to do!", for the same reasons I don't blithely love things just because the teeming masses do - my opinion is my own damn opinion.

Willfully interpreting every dissenting voice as a poser does a disservice to those people who actually think what they tell you that they think, i.e., me - hence my earlier response. As for why I'm responding now, let's just say that suggestions that I, in essence, shut up don't generally tend to go over too well - your logic reads like the tired old adage "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all", and I'm bloody well not going to be following that as my life's maxim. If a topic is broached and I have nothing particularly better to do, I'll damn well let it be known to disinterested strangers I am almost certainly never going to meet that I think something is a pointless waste of brain cells, if that is my opinion on the subject.

 

[Daffy F]

TL;DR

In all honesty, I don't really care about what you have to say, it just annoys me when people act stupidly. Especially when they're not a stupid person and have no excuse.