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If they are happy, well, isn't that just jolly?

I don't give a damn, but that's probably because I don't watch TV. Even here in Denmark, one of our main TV stations is throwing some 10 hours of wedding-related stuff on the screen for everyone's enjoyment tomorrow. I fail to see how other people's lives can be that interesting, honestly. I don't know anything about it, either, I just know that there is a marriage of some sort going on. When I first heard about it a few days ago, I actually thought it was some Danish royal people getting married, because the fuzz was unbelievable. But living under my own little rock, I didn't really notice anything until earlier today, hahah.
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I'm going to watch Fast Five during the actual wedding. Film starts at 10:45 so I will be missing the whole thing. I think it has been blow way out of proportion and people should just let them enjoy the day by themselves.

I am looking forward to the after party im going to tho ;)
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This wedding is too hyped in america, 230 some years ago we revolted against the same family of monarchs why are we so obsessed with their wedding? also doesn't the British taxpayer have to foot the bill for this?
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And if anyone knows who The Chaser team is I am somewhat interested to see their presentation of the whole thing. ;p
And so much for that - apparently the Royals are too precious and hence stopped this show from happening. Yep - a parody show in Australia. And apparently them doing so at this stage means taxpayers in Australia get to foot the bill for the forced reshuffling of shows. Fun times!

So yeah, my opinion on the wedding kinda diminished further because apparently we're not allowed to poke a bit of fun and at our expense too. =/ Yay the republican movement? =p

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The Chaser's made me look forward to something about that wedding but since it was canceled, it just feels like a ridiculous and unnecessary amount of coverage for some noble strangers' wedding. It's on the news all the time when I am more interested in say... how Japan might be going considering they asked for help again (though I'm sure there are some people who started getting sick of Japan on the news). Exaggerating that; "But who cares, YAY THERE'S A ROYAL WEDDING SO THEY CAN JUST SIT IN THE CREVASSES OF SOIL SCULPTED BY MOTHER NATURE WHILE WE WASTE OUR MONEY AWAY".

In saying so, I suppose Japan is getting as much help as it can get and there's no use being sad and there is nothing that we can do... But the royal wedding just trivialises the other issues (tornado in America, anyone?) in the world that is more deserving of being updated on the news.

Or to be really honest, it's just boring. And I'm sick of hearing about it now. I'm not enraged, just tired of it.
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Tornadoes in the southeastern United States, increasing unrest in Syria, the ongoing rebellion in Libya, ongoing recovery efforts in Japan, and this is what the media chooses to cover instead. Disgusting.

I suffer from chronic insomnia anyway, so I'll be watching NBC's live coverage of the wedding simply out of morbid curiosity.

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Haha, I slept through the actual wedding while my mum and brother watched it...my dad's disappeared for a day :P

I'm not all into the whole celebrate it thing, but I do kinda care, and I would have been extremely pissed if some extremist weirdos decided to blow themselves up / protest at it. And I do hope this time the royals actually stay married...
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I'm as happy for the couple as I am for any other who are getting married. No more, no less. Well, maybe a bit less since the extra bank holiday is going to put a fairly solid dent in the economy... and the endless coverage... and the irritating party further up the road... now that I think about it, SCREW THE WEDDING!


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Here in Germany, six TV stations broadcasted that wedding live apparently, four of them being major ones. And in the newspaper, the front pages of both the politics and the entertainment sections were entirely used up by irrelevant trivia about the wedding; it seriously would have belonged onto the gossip page. I mean, come on, If that isn't ridiculous, what is is then?
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I looked forward to it. Come on, they're royals. Who's seen a live royal wedding in their lifetime before, well I have now :D

Anyway, the whole monarchy thing seems outdated to me. Do we still need kings and queens in the day and age?

I wish the couple a long, happy, king, generous, godly and peaceful life.
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This is the 21st century we are living in now. I would have thought people would have let go of the idea that being born into a certain family makes someone more respectable than others.

The royals are no different to celebrities now. Except they haven't actually shown any talent or done anything to deserve their fame and fortune unlike (most) celebrities. I quite like Queen Elizabeth and Prince Andrew's family; but as for Charles and company, I could not care less.

Still waiting for the day when a royal decides to have a cheap, normal wedding and donate the millions to charity instead; maybe then I'd show them some respect.
But on top of that, everyone gets the day off, so there's an economical loss as well. Apparently about £5 billion lost. What a joke.
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I forgot to add that I was expecting more from this wedding. I've heard some of you guys say it was expensive, it didn't look so expensive to me. There wasn't any amazing display, it was sort of drab.
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Waiting for it to be over. It's over now, right?

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.
Yeah...I'm happy for them and all, but it is just a wedding! No wedding warrants this much seemingly incessant coverage, especially, as others have said, when there are much more newsworthy events occurring today. I kind of feel bad, though, as all the dislike seems a tad bit insensitive...imagine surfing the Internet on your wedding day, only to find out millions of people are saying "WE DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR WEDDING; SHUT UP ABOUT IT ALREADY". :( I guess the fault is more of the networks - they're the ones responsible for the annoying mass amount of coverage of the event.

Being a Brit, I can honestly say:
People ONLY give damn because we get a day off...
You get a national holiday for a wedding? 0_0 News to me. Also, a holiday for a simple grandiose wedding kind of glorifies this thing to a disgusting degree. :x

I can not explain my anger toward our THREE major networks dedicating prime-time to that stupid wedding.
I'm as happy for the couple as I am for any other who are getting married. No more, no less. Well, maybe a bit less since the extra bank holiday is going to put a fairly solid dent in the economy... and the endless coverage... and the irritating party further up the road... now that I think about it, SCREW THE WEDDING!
I don't even know how many U.S. networks were covering the event live... :\ It's annoying that taxpayers will have to assist in paying for the thing, though - if you want a wedding, the expenses should be paid for from your own pocket, not the pockets of people in your comminuity. Isn't the British Royal Family rich enough to pay for the darn thing themselves? >:[

Here in Germany, six TV stations broadcasted that wedding live apparently, four of them being major ones. And in the newspaper, the front pages of both the politics and the entertainment sections were entirely used up by irrelevant trivia about the wedding; it seriously would have belonged onto the gossip page. I mean, come on, If that isn't ridiculous, what is is then?
Ridiculous, indeed. That reminds me of how I saw three out of the four frontpage Yahoo! main results dedicated to the darn wedding. And the wedding has its own website. -_- There was also some minor link that seemed so trivial, and it annoyed me...can't recall it at the moment. It's even more aggravating when it's obvious what the networks should be covering/doing, yet they insist and persist on covering this supposed "extravagant" event as our words fall on deaf ears.

I looked forward to it. Come on, they're royals. Who's seen a live royal wedding in their lifetime before, well I have now :D

Anyway, the whole monarchy thing seems outdated to me. Do we still need kings and queens in the day and age?

I wish the couple a long, happy, king, generous, godly and peaceful life.
Eh...come to think of it...I haven't actually seen a live "royal" wedding before. Darn it. I could've been a part of history! Crap, who knows how long I'll have to wait for a similar event? T_T

This is the 21st century we are living in now. I would have thought people would have let go of the idea that being born into a certain family makes someone more respectable than others.

The royals are no different to celebrities now. Except they haven't actually shown any talent or done anything to deserve their fame and fortune unlike (most) celebrities. I quite like Queen Elizabeth and Prince Andrew's family; but as for Charles and company, I could not care less.

Still waiting for the day when a royal decides to have a cheap, normal wedding and donate the millions to charity instead; maybe then I'd show them some respect.
But on top of that, everyone gets the day off, so there's an economical loss as well. Apparently about £5 billion lost. What a joke.
This, this, a thousand times this! - mostly your first paragraph, though. But I share very similar sentiments pertaining to your other paragraphs. :cer_nod:



Also, I'm a bit pissed at Google. We can't have a international Google Doodle to celebrate the widely-known and celebrated St. Patrick's Day because they have to be "politically correct", yet they can erect an international Doodle for an event that only pertains to one freaking country, and an event that's not very notable for the most part at that - it's a freaking wedding.
Not to mention that Google was a company founded in America, and they didn't even have the decency to post a Doodle for our most recent U.S. Presidential Inauguration, a relevant event that could said to have been of equivalent importance as the 2011 April Royal Wedding. Some priorities they have there... :\ If they're going to restrict St. Patrick's Day to Ireland, today's global Doodle should have been restricted to Britain. Ridiculous. :cer_pissed:

I have to admit, Kate Middleton looks stunning in her wedding dress. Very beautiful, indeed. ^^



Anyway, best wishes to the newlyweds of Britain! ^_^

(and if anything, Pokemon deserves as much coverage as this wedding has. At least it teaches children - and adults - life lessons, whereas this wedding has taught that weddings do not need this much coverage by the media, nor the cost associated with this event..)


Well...at least I earned a free souvenir mug on RuneScape to commemorate the event, with some confetti and a bubble maker, to boot. :D
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I forgot to add that I was expecting more from this wedding. I've heard some of you guys say it was expensive, it didn't look so expensive to me. There wasn't any amazing display, it was sort of drab.
More like hearing the priest repeat "in the name of whatever" over 9000 times.

As for prince William.. you've disappointed me, son. With all the money you probably have you could have got someone more pretty.

At least Kate's dress was pretty. I only viewed it because one of my friends said you could see one of her boobs through the dress.

Also, I don't know what people are complaining for. The media was always superhyped about crap like Big Brother or any other "I thought about it while doing my needs" program there is.
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At least we have a few reasons to ignore it (provided we lacked some before)... >_>

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Sure, you probably don't need my help, but here's why I'm boycotting the royal wedding - well, at least after I get through this opportunistic blog post.



Now's not the time to celebrate a monarchy. To cover this day-long farce, many news organizations will divert their attention and resources away from reporting the world's real news: that is, the struggle against entrenched authoritarian regimes (including a handful of real monarchies) in the Arab world where virtually every Friday has seen a "Day of Rage" and civilian casualties. Yet the networks in the West that have championed - even, at times, with a degree of condescension - those youth fighting for democracy in the Middle East, will now turn and fawn over a barnacled, anachronistic institution that for centuries professed it had a God-given right to rule over its subjects. Worse, the British royals extended much coveted invitations to a number of controversial potentates and fellow monarchs, including the Crown Prince of Bahrain, whose government has brutally cracked down on protests calling for political reform in the past two months. The Crown Prince declined the invitation, much to everyone's relief, but don't hold your breath waiting for an Arab democracy activist to be given his spot.



And when is it ever the time to celebrate monarchs, anyway? Human civilization has advanced fitfully over the centuries, through revolutions on the streets and in the mind, to move beyond a world of nations whose sovereignty actually depends on a real sovereign. The majority of people on this planet will get to vote, and those who don't all probably want to. Sure, the British monarchy is a neutered, ceremonial, constitutional thing, but it's still wrapped up in legacies of imperial arrogance and rigid social hierarchy (even as it sponges off ordinary British taxpayers to get by). Monarchies are things you - hello, Americans - tend to overthrow, not venerate. Where real monarchies with real political power still do exist - say, in Morocco, or Thailand, or Tonga, or Swaziland - we tend to cast a jaundiced eye. And what's so special about the House of Windsor anyway? From mad King George III to the stout, unsmiling Victoria to our present purse-clutching Queen, these descendants of an itinerant German line seem singularly memorable for their lack of cheer. That, and their history of suspected Nazi sympathizing.



The royal couple is a royal bore. But that's not the point, you cry: the royal wedding is all about romance and fairy tale make-believe and the thrill of seeing a real princess walk the aisle to her prince charming. Wrong. Despite the desperate attempts of hordes of media to dredge out of the mire some interesting tidbits about William and Kate, it's impossible to escape the fact that this is perhaps the most anodyne, tedious relationship out there of all the anodyne, tedious relationships we're forced to care about. Apparently, the vogue thing now is to emphasize how "normal" the two are with their college degrees and year spent studying abroad and penchant to pick up groceries at a supermarket. But, to be frank, what is the point of a "normal" royal couple? If we don't get jousts, dragon-slaying and the machinations of an evil wizard, this fairy-tale romance could at least generate characters more appealing than a boring prince with a receding hairline and storylines more beguiling than our speculations over Kate Middleton's inevitable royal family-induced eating disorder. And the "ordinary commoner" narrative really has to stop. Getting plucked out of upper-middle class suburban obscurity does not make you Cinderella.



There's no longer an excuse for this sort of Anglophilia. As my colleague Eben Harrell alludes to in a terrific piece on how many in the U.K. don't care about the wedding, the event is likely generating more hysteria outside old Blighty than within. But, at this point, we should know better. Of course, with their comedians and their globally-adored soccer league and cheddar, the Brits have plenty of great cultural exports. But the fascination with the royal family stems from an earlier, fanciful idea of precious, "twee" England - what Joe Queenan writing in our latest issue calls "a demented form of cultural fetishism." It's particularly demented now in an era of British austerity, when the country's inequities and plans for spending cuts have prompted months of demonstrations and protests. Yet here we are, indulging in this ludicrous spectacle of unearned prestige and privilege, one that's insensible to the realm where most people live, make sacrifices and work hard. Yes, class and social status are distinctly British concerns, but so is merit and there won't be very much of that on display in Westminster Abbey.



There'll be no way to escape it. Really, there isn't. We in the media are of course to blame. The intensity of global coverage of the wedding may even crash the whole Internet, which, while hilarious, will only prolong the torture of having to put up with this.
But before the Internet dies, watch this scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail - it's all you need to know about the British monarchy, really.
But if you want to ignore my outrage and see more about the wedding, here are some great photo galleries put together by my colleagues. Even I clicked on them.
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I actually watched and recorded the whole event. I was only a month old when Charles and Diana had their wedding in 1981. So, I didn't want to miss the pageantry of this wedding.
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