Am I alone here?
No, you are not.
I have no interest whtsoever!
Am I alone here?
No, you are not.
I have no interest whtsoever!
Me and the kids are looking forward to it.
After reading all these replies though I'm a bit to say I'm gonna be buying bunting, napkins and plates to have our indoor picnic on
Those kids can't do right for doing wrong. They've bent over backwards not to have any media attention, they fell in love and want to get married, they have tried to take every sensitive issue into account. FGS, let them get on with their lives. I won't be glued to watch it, but they are entitled to love each other and get married, just as we all are. The reason it's a State Occasion is because we still have a Monarchy, like it or lump it.
Cologne, no-one (I think) is blaming William and Kate. It's the media circus really. And the way it is being rammed down our throats and how we are basically being told that our lives will be blighted for evermore if we don't watch/participate in street parties and purchase lots of cheap rubbishy memorabilia.
Me and the kids are looking forward to it.
After reading all these replies though I'm a bit to say I'm gonna be buying bunting, napkins and plates to have our indoor picnic on
Aww Cags, you go ahead and enjoy it in whatever way you wish. As long as you are not forcing anyone to join you against their will, no-one will mind and you shouldn't feel embarrassed about it.
I must be looking in all the wrong places cos I've not seen anything being 'rammed down our throats'.
I did see the tacky stuff and tins of William Aand Kate biscuits in the Co-op and Sainsbury's though but they're easy enough to not buy.
Jeff Stelling never mentioned it once on Soccer Saturday!
I'm disappointed no one has made an ill-judged, bellicose remark that, like that bloke who said he was gonna blow up Stanstead or wherever, results in some exciting, hot, MI5 swoop action.
boiling piss made me cross my leggs
boiling piss made me cross my leggs
Hellooo darling
I'm disappointed no one has made an ill-judged, bellicose remark that, like that bloke who said he was gonna blow up Stanstead or wherever, results in some exciting, hot, MI5 swoop action.
Plenty of time for that yet, Antiope.
I'm disappointed no one has made an ill-judged, bellicose remark that, like that bloke who said he was gonna blow up Stanstead or wherever, results in some exciting, hot, MI5 swoop action.
Plenty of time for that yet, Antiope.
We have a hot line to MI5 at our street party.....we are alert....our kingdom needs lerts!
Me and the kids are looking forward to it.
After reading all these replies though I'm a bit to say I'm gonna be buying bunting, napkins and plates to have our indoor picnic on
I'll be watching! I'm not a Royal lover ..... but I do like a good wedding! I'll be ooohing and ahhhing at my TV like a good 'un.
I won't be doing the bunting thing.....but we'll be having a few nibbles and making it special. Mind you...we used to do that with the BB opening night too.......any excuse will do
Me and the kids are looking forward to it.
After reading all these replies though I'm a bit to say I'm gonna be buying bunting, napkins and plates to have our indoor picnic on
I'll be watching! I'm not a Royal lover ..... but I do like a good wedding! I'll be ooohing and ahhhing at my TV like a good 'un.
I won't be doing the bunting thing.....but we'll be having a few nibbles and making it special. Mind you...we used to do that with the BB opening night too.......any excuse will do
We're watching it too The boy is going to a flight simulator thingy that day. As my son has inherited both mine and his father's genes when it comes to tolerance, I'm not sure venturing anywhere near Kensington when there will be 100,000 odd tourists milling about is the best idea in the world, but I ain't going so I will be sympathising from the comfort of my sofa whilst flicking V's at the Queen
What a miserable grumpy bunch of old gits some of you lot are. !!! We've had nothing like this for 3 decades, and it's something to life the spirits of the nation, and all people do is whinge whinge whinge... go to bed and do your knitting for the day if you don't want to see it and let people enjoy it who like a bit of fun. I'm sure Harry Enfield and Catherine Tate did characters that were quite representative of some of the people on here...
I think nan had some good points and is much maligned
No being miserable but I just don't want to watch it.
Wills and Cat have no connection with me apart from Will's head will be on the ÂĢ100 note & ÂĢ5 coin in about 30 years time and I will be using them to pay for my meals on wheels and iPhone 32.
Good luck to them though.
Me and the kids are looking forward to it.
After reading all these replies though I'm a bit to say I'm gonna be buying bunting, napkins and plates to have our indoor picnic on
I love picnics - can I come?
I have to say I'm a bit disappointed now....all us foreigners not only tune in to see the dress and the carriage and the horses and stuff, but we usually tune in to see the crowds lining the street and the street parties going on. Are we really not going to see you all out waving your Union Jacks at your future king?
BTW OP, aren't napkins made of lace (or similar) and serviettes made of paper? Isn't it just over-correcting when people insist on calling serviettes napkins?
I could be talking bollocks of, course.
I just have an aversion to the word **shudders** serviette - like gusset or toilet. I know paper napkins is a bad alternative but it's the best I can do.
Those kids can't do right for doing wrong. They've bent over backwards not to have any media attention, they fell in love and want to get married, they have tried to take every sensitive issue into account. FGS, let them get on with their lives. I won't be glued to watch it, but they are entitled to love each other and get married, just as we all are. The reason it's a State Occasion is because we still have a Monarchy, like it or lump it.
I don't have a problem with them getting married at all and at least these two look like they're in love "whatever love means" to coin a well known phrase. I don't even have an issue with it being a "state occasion" - it's handy for the tourist trade and all that.
What is really annoying me is the media feeding frenzy and the whole hoo-haa that's going on around it - did we really need an hour of Middletons on the telly last night? Do we need news reports on how the US is preparing for the big day? Do I need to fight my way through a swathe of red, white and blue or listen to radio programmes discussing the history of royal wedding memorabilia?
I like big events like this (and the Olympics, World Cups etc.). I'm in two minds about taking my family to try and see some of the procession on the route (we're about a 10 min walk from Westminster) or watch it on the telly. I might buy a commemorative mug to go with my Charles and Diana and Charles and Camilla ones but wont be doing the bunting gubbins. My 2 year old twin girls are a little exited at the whole princess thing (they don't really get the rest of the fuss or significance). I remember my grandmother telling me how exiting the Queen's wedding was in 1947 and how it brightened up the country for a brief moment during post-war austerity. If there has to be a monarchy then it's nice to see things done with a little pomp.
I am looking forward to it, a nice feelgood day. No Union Jack napkins tho...... It will be nice to see who has been invited and who hasnt
LOL Karma...well get learning and fast
Me and the kids are looking forward to it.
After reading all these replies though I'm a bit to say I'm gonna be buying bunting, napkins and plates to have our indoor picnic on
I love picnics - can I come?
You should know by now my house has an "everyone welcome" policy
I see ftom the Radio Times that BBC1 and ITV each have around 8 hours of coverage of the wedding.
BBC 2 has scheduled the western "Duel in the Son" at the time of the wedding service. This is the one where at the end of the film the two lovers shoot each other to bits, way beyond a shotgun marriage.
I love picnics - can I come?
You should know by now my house has an "everyone welcome" policy
Whoop! I'm still drooling at the huge list of nibbley things you got for that night in with telly. My kinda catering! *goes off to buy Union Jack flag* I shall bring Pimms... it seems fitting (and a 40 oz'er of Vodka of course)
I like big events like this (and the Olympics, World Cups etc.). I'm in two minds about taking my family to try and see some of the procession on the route (we're about a 10 min walk from Westminster) or watch it on the telly. I might buy a commemorative mug to go with my Charles and Diana and Charles and Camilla ones but wont be doing the bunting gubbins. My 2 year old twin girls are a little exited at the whole princess thing (they don't really get the rest of the fuss or significance). I remember my grandmother telling me how exiting the Queen's wedding was in 1947 and how it brightened up the country for a brief moment during post-war austerity. If there has to be a monarchy then it's nice to see things done with a little pomp.
I went to the wedding of Charles and Diana. I stood in the crowd outside Buckingham Palace and cheered. We all slept the night in Hyde Park - there were loads of people there. It was a great experience and I am so glad that I did it.
I was too young to go by myself Issy (my parents couldn't be arsed and my nana was too infirm), but I did send them a letter wishing them a long and happy marriage My reply from the palace is in my parents' downstairs loo.
Thank feck for SKY+.I have all my crime shows saved up so I can avoid this drivel.Two folk getting married..big deal.The Royals don't have a good track record on marriages,I expect this one will go tits up too.
I see ftom the Radio Times that BBC1 and ITV each have around 8 hours of coverage of the wedding.
BBC 2 has scheduled the western "Duel in the Son" at the time of the wedding service. This is the one where at the end of the film the two lovers shoot each other to bits, way beyond a shotgun marriage.
nice choice of film
I watched it in middle school and was sent out cos I kept talking about the state of Diana's dress Well it was a crumpled heap ffs. I got back in for the main nuptials, though. I read her book written by that Andrew Morton bloke and she said it was the most unhappiest day of her life cos Charles and Camilla were carrying on, apparently Camilla had sent him personalised C&C cufflinks a couple of days before. Would have pissed me off an all to be fair.
I watched it in middle school and was sent out cos I kept talking about the state of Diana's dress Well it was a crumpled heap ffs. I got back in for the main nuptials, though. I read her book written by that Andrew Morton bloke and she said it was the most unhappiest day of her life cos Charles and Camilla were carrying on, apparently Camilla had sent him personalised C&C cufflinks a couple of days before. Would have pissed me off an all to be fair.
Tragic what Diana went thru
I watched it in middle school and was sent out cos I kept talking about the state of Diana's dress Well it was a crumpled heap ffs. I got back in for the main nuptials, though. I read her book written by that Andrew Morton bloke and she said it was the most unhappiest day of her life cos Charles and Camilla were carrying on, apparently Camilla had sent him personalised C&C cufflinks a couple of days before. Would have pissed me off an all to be fair.
hello chick yep, the poor girl was a lamb to the slaughter, but she got savvy enough later though. And that dress was a disaster, I can my mum saying it needed a good ironing.
Hiya SuzyB xxxx et al x
Initially I totally bought into Diana's version of events, I don't think they were falsehoods, but seeing how she managed to manipulate the press in later years I do wonder how much of that was exaggerated or not quite telling the whole story. I can believe her being totally miserable on her wedding day as she had only been with him for a few months and was then fast tracked to a wedding which was more for the public then it was for the 2 getting hitched. She was young and naive but what she did do was shake the foundations of a Monarchy that had always seemed so untouchable to the rest of us. The tit for tat interviews with her and Charles were something I never thought I would see. I'm not a royalist by any stretch of the imagination but I do hope what happened with Diana has left a legacy of harsh lessons within Buckingham Palace and that Kate is continued to be allowed to be herself.
I watched it in middle school and was sent out cos I kept talking about the state of Diana's dress Well it was a crumpled heap ffs. I got back in for the main nuptials, though. I read her book written by that Andrew Morton bloke and she said it was the most unhappiest day of her life cos Charles and Camilla were carrying on, apparently Camilla had sent him personalised C&C cufflinks a couple of days before. Would have pissed me off an all to be fair.
Why were you at school...everyone else got a day off?
I was a middle school kid at the time, year 2 I think (we didn't start high school till we were 12 in Ealing and went straight in to year 2 eh Karms?) We got the day off and had a street party.
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