Who or what do you blame for the nations general apathy towards the Royal wedding?

[Acker79]

I'm not even interested enough to read all the posts in this thread, so my apologies if I repeat stuff.

1) "Not my business". Some people just don't take interest in "celebrity" relations. Some people will be of the attitude "I don't know them, why should I be bothered?"
2) Media overkill. Some people will have been so fed up with the hype they have just been royal wedding-ed out.
3) Some people just don't like the royal family.
4) Rise of celebrity culture. Celebrities are the subject of idolatry, and of you're not a celebrity, some people just don't care about you. Some people will not view the royals as "proper celebrities", and will not care in the same way they did for Jordan's wedding.
5) Rise of anti-celebrity culture. Some people will see the royals as celebrity and have little interest in another celebrity do.
6) Some people just don't like weddings.

As I'm sure other people have mentioned in some way or another, linking interest in the royal wedding to "broken britain" is just so ridiculous it almost seems like you were fishing, or attempting to be so outlandish in a poor attempt at humour.

Actually if you pay tax you're helping subsidise it, whether you want to or not.

My taxes pay for that I have little interest in.

 

[seagull_special]

To be fair, its one thing that the UK excel at and to have so much international attention can only be good for the UK, I don't have any interest but pretty well every woman I know out here in Abu Dhabi( from Iraqi to English) has an interest whatever their nationality. If you are into it have a fantastic time, if you don't, do something else!

 

[bhaexpress]

To be fair, its one thing that the UK excel at and to have so much international attention can only be good for the UK, I don't have any interest but pretty well every woman I know out here in Abu Dhabi( from Iraqi to English) has an interest whatever their nationality. If you are into it have a fantastic time, if you don't, do something else!

I think that's what most people think actually, whilst we're not interested across the World millions are. A lot of my Canadian relatives were up at 2AM their time so that they didn't miss anything.

 

[franks brother]

If I see some fool bow or curtsey to Royalty I lose instant respect for them. When I saw Stephen Fry bowing and scraping to Charles and Camilla after he blasted the Monarchy in the early eighties and championed himself as a 'right on' socialist with pals such as Ben Elton it made me fairly vomit.

 

[Seagull1967]

I have nothing against the Royal family, but my family and I are not interested in today’s events. It will not change my life and I have better things to do than waste a day in front of the TV. Me watching it will not change the event, the marriage will take place.

Good luck to them and the media should leave them alone to get on with their lives.

 

[BensGrandad]

Such pagentry makes me proud to be British and in displaying it we are the envy of the world.

 

[Driver8]

Has it finished yet?

 

[Acker79]

My taxes pay for that I have little interest in.

Should read "My taxes pay for a lot that I have little interest in"

 

[Seagull1967]

This positive event has put the UK back on the world stage from a media point of view and will generate revenue for this country for the next 12 months which will exceed any tax money spent on the wedding.

 

[BensGrandad]

The amount of tax we each contribute towards the Royal family is so small that it isnt worth quibling about. According to Radio Sussex it works out at about 62p per head per year. Which I am quite prepared to pay for what they give us back in tourist revenue etc.

 

[Working class pride]

I think most would vote for a monarchy but it would be nice id at the general electiont we got the chance to vote on it. The big issue that is ducked is what land do the windsors own, how they claim ownership as against what land belongs to the country. Todays not the day for that. Two kids are getting married and tho i would vote against a monarchy as a believer in the free market and meritocracy, it is a day for the two kids to enjoy. The x factor sreaming type fans and bonkers royalists that they trot out do them no favours tho

 

[bhaexpress]

Should read "My taxes pay for a lot that I have little interest in"

Did wonder ! I agree but all the same. Mind you I wonder how much ITV are getting for supplying feeds across the WOrld.

 

[bhaexpress]

The amount of tax we each contribute towards the Royal family is so small that it isnt worth quibling about. According to Radio Sussex it works out at about 62p per head per year. Which I am quite prepared to pay for what they give us back in tourist revenue etc.

It's the fact that the World's richest (allegedly) Woman gets £1000000 annually that I question not to mention others who benefit from the Civil List.

 

[hitony]

Such pagentry makes me proud to be British and in displaying it we are the envy of the world.

Exactly this...........

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

It's a marriage made in bigotry no doubt.

 

[bhaexpress]

It's a marriage made in bigotry no doubt.

Why do you say that ? It's just two people getting married one of them just happens to be a trainee king, hardly makes either of them bigots does it ?

 

[Meade's Ball]

The world would be a better place, one with greater mystery, if stories in and around the royals were unpublished. They'd remain unseen and untouchable, godly, if you will, as they probably believe themselves to madly be. We could then just think of them on occasion as those so surely above us, a thousand miles high, us merely pawns in their petty game of impassed chess. We'd dream of them and get away from the concept of them as spoilt and sparklingly ugly to look at. The impersonators one sees lined up as friends or loose relatives or afficionados then would have to imagine how they looked and hope to mirror them best by accident. We'd have less of these toothy, smugly grinning stereotypes looking to gain favour and instead have the mentalists in disguise that such people are.

I won't watch this sort of drivel as it currently is. Pomp and ceremony without invention and a carbon copy of a thousand years of stony identicality leaves me unimpressed. I much prefer to imagine a time when nationally-filmed weddings are randomly drawn out of a hat each year, perhaps 4 of them, one for each season or television channel. We could have the chance to see Kimberley and Brian tying the knot in Devizes, a close-up of a cousin of hers with a childish obsession and inspection of laws on incest biting his lip to keep quiet his desires; Brian's uncle, Timothy, still single and seemingly virginal, eyeing the entire room for possible first conquests, his comb-over flicked wild with excitement; the moment when a gaggle of unknowns walk in to find they've gone to the wrong establishment and don't know who to ask for guidance toward where they're supposed to be; a fight breaking out at around 2am, Brian's friend, most drunk, rattling on about how you used to be able to go to weddings andnot take any money with you as everything was brilliantly free, and his words finally rewarding him with a blow to the face from Kimberley's dad who has spent a fortune making this the third perfect day he's had to put together for his daughters in the past 5 years.
I'd prefer that to be on and a series of presenters hating the fact they're reporting on no-one of interest or worthy of press, than these strange ornamental people who i'd never want to be creaking down polished carpets to an undreamy and sexless world i doubt they hunger for.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Why do you say that ? It's just two people getting married one of them just happens to be a trainee king, hardly makes either of them bigots does it ?

It's written in the law of the land only certain types can be considered as elligible to marry the Prince.

The Act of Settlement 1701 and the Royal Marriages Act of 1772 paints them as bigots.

In this day and age it's a bit embarrasing to be still upholding such archaic and bigoted laws of the land.

 

[BensGrandad]

Can somebody please explain why as a serving officer in the RAF William is not wearing an RAF uniform rather than just the sash over his Red Guards uniform or is that a cermonial dress RAF uniform.

 

[JBizzle]

Such pagentry makes me proud to be British and in displaying it we are the envy of the world.

I agree 100%