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Posted October 10th, 2022
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As you know, the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton is due to be taking place tomorrow.

I was listening to the radio this morning and the presenter had a phone-in that asked "What are you doing on the day of the Royal Wedding?" and some people called up saying they're going to watch it and celebrate, and others want to get as far away from it as possible.

A little while after some calls, there came a caller from Milton Keynes called Melvin. He is absolutely DISGUSTED with the Royal Wedding and even went as far as to blow over live on radio then hang up!

You can listen to this angry phone-call from this morning's radio program here: http://bit.ly/lXPezl

What about you guys? I know that this is an event happening here in Britain, but I'm hearing whispers that the American media has been paying just as MUCH attention to the hype as the British media. So I'm just curious to know...

Are you looking forward to the Royal Wedding? Are you keen to know every little bit about the British aristocracy?

Or do you not give a care? Do you think it's a load of old toosh and you're quite frankly disgusted that this is even being discussed so much on American TV or wherever you are around the world? If so, why?

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Seen November 4th, 2021
Posted November 2nd, 2021
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I know it is bad, but I couldn't care less. I understand that it is a big part of our history, but I just think the money could be spent on so many more important things. I think, and don't quote me on this, but there is oing to be about £60-£70 million of total cost, that is for police protection, accommodation for all the guests, since they are staying in a 5* hotel and so much more.

I have never been a fan of a system where you are better than someone because you have been born into a family. I know that is 'just how it is now', but it still annoys me.

Also, I just listened to the Melvin recording and my God, he was angry. I can understand and respect his opinion, but I dislike it when someone gets so angry and worked up over something like this, that they just come off stupid and unable to listen to anyone else's opinion.

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This is certainly talked about a lot in Australia. And by Australia I mean the Australian media. >_<

Sure, it's good for them that they are getting married and all I'm sure, but I'm not that interested, nor do I care much about the royals to begin with (or well, at all) but the pandering done to them by the media is certainly a bit saddening.

Although I'm not quite as, uh, outraged by it as Melvin is. =p And if anyone knows who The Chaser team is I am somewhat interested to see their presentation of the whole thing. ;p

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This is certainly talked about a lot in Australia. And by Australia I mean the Australian media. >_<
Yup. We're a nation possessed! Though most people I know don't care at all.

I certainly couldn't give a damn. Happy for them, but I'd like to watch real news.

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Honestly, like most other news, I haven't been paying attention to it. Good for them to finally get hitched, but I do have more pressing things to concern myself with.

One thing that struck me is that Kate shares her last name with my 11th grade chemistry teacher 0_O

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I really...don't care. I remember seeing an advertisement here in America for a 20 dollar coin commemorating it. Really?

Edit: As in, the coin cost 20 dollars. I don't think it can be used as currency, it was a collector's thing.


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Na, I just wamt to see what her dress looks like. The Royal Family annoy me. If Diana was still alive, I'd be interested, but NO. I felt like Diana was a wonderful example of what Royalty should be like. I feel like they are just 'priveleged' and no more important than anyone else.


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Wow... that Melvin guy, huh?

I don't care about the wedding and, maybe it's just selection bias, but very few people in my social group care at all. And those that do care are mainly concerned about what sort of dress Kate will be wearing. People are predicting it to be the biggest watched event in the world and... maybe it will be. All I'm saying, though, is that I won't be surprised if it's not.

Now, I'mma go out and get me a crapload of these:

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Well, while I am happy for them, I couldn't care less. I think American media shouldn't be paying attention to that; we have bigger issues to tackle.

I honestly couldn't care less, even if it were the Queen herself getting crowned/married! \

Do I hate all that attention they're getting? No, but I think the media needs to be slapped for hyping things that shouldn't be hyped, and this isn't just the Royal Wedding either...there's a lot of things the media hypes/blows out of proportion.

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I don't even live in the UK, but it's taking over our media, and I'm tired of it. I mean, I do not care. It has no bearing on my country, and little bearing on any other. So I'm pretty much dying for it to be over with so we can free space for good TV and newspaper articles again.

Also, nice save by the radio presenter, trying to make a laugh out of Melvin getting annoyed, so as to avoid the station getting in trouble. Had he not done that, things could have gotten messy.

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I'm so sick of hearing it about it. I hate the media for making a big thing about it when few people really care.

As far as I'm concerned, the sooner the monarchy are gone the better, they serve little or no purpose in today's world. Frankly, I would care the same about the wedding of two random people I've never heard of.

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I'm much fascinated by the royal family and what happens in the UK, but I can't afford to stay up all night just to see the wedding live. (heard most of the networks here are going to start coverage at 2 am, or worse 12 am. O_o). I'll be DVRing the coverage, thank you very much. I can't afford to pull an all nighter on a school night.
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It's all over the media here as well, but no one else seems to care a lot, except waiting-room-magazine-addicted old women maybe. In fact, the only mention of the wedding from outside the media I saw was a reader's letter in the newspaper complaining about the hype and how obsolete monarchy is. I agreed with it.
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The thing is, it probably won't make any difference. I don't care, as the Royal Family has lost the power and importance they used to have here in England. We just now appreciate them (especially Philip, with his "accidental racism" at times), and not many people over here that I know of are fussed at all. Only can think of one person, and that is my grandma. I'm not saying I hope they die out (good for economy - tourists see it as a novelty value sometimes), but they are just... There.

@Cassino - they will eventually be our reigning monarchy, so... You will care then.


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I can't watch the news without them talking about it. Yesterday, they had an entire news segment on a basket that William gave to Kate, and I was just sitting there in confused, trying to figure out why the hell they were telling me about it. You know, they had a segment a few weeks ago explaining that a lot of restaurants around here were going to have special prices and meals available for it all. Like, what the hell? It has nothing to do with us, why are the media so obsessed with it? I really don't get it. It's just a wedding, as far as I'm concerned. :/

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I would have liked to have heard about the tornadoes last night rather than hear about the Royal Wedding. But no, a wedding in Europe was more important than the tornadoes that pretty much obliterated my state last night. Way to go! Either way, the power went out and I didn't get to hear about either of them.

Hooray that they're getting married and all. I don't know how the Royal Family stuff works over there except...you're rich. DON'T KNOW. But...is it really more important than the things I need to know about in my own state, and my own country?
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It's not just any wedding people. It's the Royal Wedding.

Honestly though, I like the fact that Prince William and Kate Middleton are getting married. They look like they truly love one another and have known each other for a long time now, so here's the best of wishes to them. However, I don't live in the UK and the royal family affects me in no special way. So, I really don't care much about the wedding and I'm not going to wake up at four in the morning just to watch the cover on it. For me, it's just another wedding. We have celebrities getting married all the time, we have regular people getting married all the time, other than the fact that William is the Queen's grandson and Kate is his fiance in the UK, they're just regular people getting married.

The only time I ever hear about the Royal Wedding is when it's being covered on The Early Show on ABC in the morning. It has its own segment as one of the broadcasters (Erica Hill) is currently in the UK reporting her stay there on the wedding. The only reason why I don't turn my cheek the other way when this segment comes on is because The Early Show has a way of making their news interesting. Other than that, I go about the day having very little concern over the Prince's and his soon-to-be wife's wedding.

To be honest, there are a lot more pressing issues in the US and around the world internationally that should take priority over the wedding.

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I honestly can't wait for it to end. I mean, it's not that im annoyed with them getting married, im annoyed with all the pointless coverage about it. All the news stations when you turn on the tv are talking about it 24/7, it's really annoying, and there are issues in America that are more important that should be discussed on the news besides this wedding.

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