Seriously? It was just a "thing" that I watched on television today with my daughter...

[ScreamingMeemie]

It doesn't mean that I don't care about the troops. Troops that my son and I have often sent care packages to.
It doesn't mean that my heart is breaking for the parents of a friend who lost most of their home in Alabama.
What it meant was a good time with my kid, who is about to leave me again. :(
It also meant, in watching what a decent human being William has grown into (or appears to have) that there is hope for my son. Hope that he too can emerge out of losing a parent and experience his own moments of closure and joy.
It's also about the really awesome peppermint tea we had to stay awake, and an excellent conversation I had with my daughter about cats, and spending family time together.

Seriously though...it's silly to get your knickers in a twist about it. A bunch of DUers taking the morning off of "serious issues" to indulge really isn't going to affect the state of the Union at this point.

May William and Catherine have a long and happy life. That's hard to do these days, no matter who you are.



Cheers! and... I plan on watching the space shuttle launch as well. Is that on the list of approved television programs? I cannot remember.

[Spinny Liberal]

1. Good for you mama!

[Ptah]

2. Well said, ScreamingMeemie

I'll be watching the launch too.

:hug:

[JackRiddler]

3. No problem. It shouldn't be a news story, because that distorts what people consider news.

But if it was covered on CUP-HOMB (Channel for Useless Parasites and Holdovers of Medieval Barbarism), I'd have less of a problem with it. Did they at least finance it out of their own "pockets" (full of taxpayers' money), or was it a direct public expense?

[Raine]

4. EXACTLY!!! No need for some to attach some sinister

meaning to it and make a big deal out of something that was a pleasant way to spend a few hours.

[demwing]

5. Nice!

Did you ever notice that the fist bump

:fistbump:

is like a sober toast?

:toast:

[StarburstClock]

6. Do you sell Knicker Untwisters?

The royal wedding is a fluff story for failed journalists who's whorish propaganda lives are spent following the orders of their corporate masters to the detriment of all mankind. If you want to support that go ahead but don't expect any support from people who are aware. Remember the pet food poisoning recently? Did you share that this morning, that sometimes people put profits ahead of life itself and kill cats? Probably not.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. Not asking for support. Stating an opinion. I am able to keep track

of more than one thing? You?

I'm guessing that watching the space shuttle launch is out then.

Our cat discussion was really a lot of fun. Wish you could have been involved.

I do sell knicker untwisters. They're typically called a decent attitude. :hi:

[tavalon]

12. Crap, did more pet food poisonings happen?

[Violet_Crumble]

13. Wow. I lost count of the buzzwords in that post, but clearly watching the wedding was an act of evil

I guess getting involved in a drinking game while watching it amkes me totally and utterly insensitive to the plight of mankind and poisoned furbabies everywhere. And if I thought it'd make a few more angry American heads explode in self-righteous indignation, I'd totally party my way through another rerun of the royal wedding, and make it even more evil by not thinking once that I was supporting the whorish propaganda lives of failed journalists following the orders of their corporate masters (try to include 'fascist' and 'Privilege' in it next time for a more fully rounded sentence with no substance but lots of empty buzzwords). Now I know that's what I was actually doing, I'll revel in it when I watch the rerun ;)

On a serious note, I don't really understand the seething rage I've seen from some Americans aimed at the royal family and sometimes extended into taking nasty digs at the British. Not being British or American, I like to think myself an impartial type in this and if yr American and didn't want to watch the royal wedding, then don't watch it. No-one's holding you down and forcing you to. William's not going to be yr King once the Queen finally falls off her perch and Charles gets bypassed, so I don't see the need for all the rage and whining about the wedding. I've got no interest in watching any US President do that inauguration stuff, so rather than whine about how much I'm not interested, I just don't watch it when it happens...

[WilliamPitt]

14. Nader!

They missed one.

;)

[Violet_Crumble]

15. LOL

:)

[GomezLives]

8. Everybody loves a wedding. Way better than funerals.

[tavalon]

9. I didn't mind the wedding

It was the stupid ass American commentators that got me. I was at work overnight and the TV was on all night. When I went in to the break room to eat and had the joy of hearing ____________ talking head say, "they're obviously in love.", I shot back, "you're obviously an unnecessary part of their wedding" and I turned the sound off.

[eagles55]

10. Here, Here!

I went straight to BBC America for the coverage of the wedding. No, I didn;t stay up until 4 a.m. to watch. I saw the re-broadcast at 11a.m. I didn't mind the British reporters. I enjoyed the story of a man in the crowd with his daughters. He was talking about how he met his wife on the very same corner at Prince charles and Lady Diahna's wedding. I didn't like the saturation coverage of the American media. I remeber telling my husband, "Don't worry. This will be all over Friday." His comment was "thank God."

This wedding had a very different feel for me. Part of it may have been watching William grow up from infancy to the young man he is today. Some part of it was being there for the mother who douldn't be there. Another part was when I turned 30, my aunt told me about my maternal grandmother. She emigrated from England shortly after WW1. Shortly after she arrived, She and my grandfather were married in Philadelphia. He was a doughboy. I didn't have this info when I watched the weddings of both Prince Charles and Prince Andrew.

[tavalon]

11. Truthfully, I didn't really care about it,

But these days, American "journalists" make my ears bleed. The amount of stupid that comes dribbling out of their mouths is commensurate with the frequency that they open said mouth. Rare exceptions exist. None come to mind right now.

[Cid_B]

16. Wow...

no bitterness there...

[pipi_k]

17. Don't worry...it's all OK....

As long as you're wearing a flea-infested hair shirt and you flog yourself every five minutes...

;)