SURVEY: The Royal Wedding -- did you watch or not?

[owl sees all]

23 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I don't remember who said it, but I heard one of the commentators say that he shouldn't wear a beard with the uniform he was wearing.

Colour clash! Ginger and blue. But for those watching in black and white it didn't matter much.

[sawadee1947]

I don't want to see or know taxpayer's money wasted for any anachronistic royal celebrations 

[transam]

No I didn't watch it...That's just me...BUT, it is a British thing that British folk on the whole enjoy...And for sure the world also enjoys British stuff more than the naysayers...

 

All these comments here about the ladies ethnicity really pisses me off...A Royal has most certainly buried you...

[The Renegade]

1 minute ago, transam said:

No I didn't watch it...That's just me...BUT, it is a British thing that British folk on the whole enjoy...And for sure the world also enjoys British stuff more than the naysayers...

 

All these comments here about the ladies ethnicity really pisses me off...A Royal has most certainly buried you...

2.9 Billion people worldwide are being reported to have watched it on TV.

 

That's a hellava lot of people 

[bristolboy]

11 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I thought she was an American. She doesn't have any outstanding racial characteristics. 

All the hype has been manufactured by the media. I doubt anyone would have cared much, otherwise. 

I don't remember any other royal been given the same treatment since Charles and Diana, and he was heir to the throne.

Really? Have you been living in a cave since then? There were endless media saturation for the marriage of Kate Middleton and what's-his-name.

[Kadilo]

19 minutes ago, transam said:

No I didn't watch it...That's just me...BUT, it is a British thing that British folk on the whole enjoy...And for sure the world also enjoys British stuff more than the naysayers...

 

 

I'm not sure that's true. YouGov poll says 66% of British people were not interested.  

[owl sees all]

38 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I think he was referring to your claim to have served in the ENGLISH army. It's been the BRITISH army for a good while now.

Well TBL, I take your point. But I took the coin and served under the Queen of England. It's her Army; English Army. These other countries just tagged on later.

 

In my platoon we had a Scot, a South African and lads from Matlock and Liverpool. Can't recall the others. After basic training I was sent to the drawing office at Arbourfield.

[spunkie]

I watched the Buffalos coming home from the farm after a hard days grazing , much more interesting 

[Johnniey]

2 hours ago, connda said:

What royal wedding?  Most of us Yanks don't really care.  We tossed that monarchy in 1776. 

I'm confused - do people from the USA call themselves "Yanks"?

 

I thought it was only Brits, like me. 

[kevvy]

I watched it with great enthusiasm , a fairy tale come true . I know the four of them will change the way people look at the monarchy now .

The princess of Denmark is an Aussie , and she will be Queen one day ... It was a good day to watch the TV .. 

[kevvy]

2 minutes ago, Johnniey said:

I'm confused - do people from the USA call themselves "Yanks"?

 

I thought it was only Brits, like me. 

people from australia call them septic tanks....rhythms with yanks....... it is called rhythms slang

 

[Kadilo]

I actually like Harry which made even more disappointing that he never made a real statement of intent.  He showed underneath he's just the same as the rest. 

Edited May 20, 2018 by Kadilo

[Jingthing]

Americans were especially interested this time because we watched Harry grow up, he married a mixed race American, and we need some hard core romantic ESCAPISM now more than ever!

 

[sstuff3]

[transam]

1 minute ago, sstuff3 said:

Blimey, you are an old guy...

[overherebc]

14 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

Well TBL, I take your point. But I took the coin and served under the Queen of England. It's her Army; English Army. These other countries just tagged on later.

 

In my platoon we had a Scot, a South African and lads from Matlock and Liverpool. Can't recall the others. After basic training I was sent to the drawing office at Arbourfield.

Queen of the United Kingdom lad, and a few add on nations.

Drawing office ? So, never got yer knees brown then.

3 times around the square wi' yer rifle over head and call it a gun yi'll get 3 more.

[kickstart]

5 hours ago, Kadilo said:

 Be nice to see all the homeless people in Windsor happy. 30 million would of made them all very happy. 

Not many homeless people in Windsor, a kind of well to do area, now shift 30 miles up the road London, or even 20 miles to Slough, to  a different kind of world, the homeless would like some of the 30 m , still a land of have's and have-nots 

[owl sees all]

10 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Queen of the United Kingdom lad, and a few add on nations.

Drawing office ? So, never got yer knees brown then.

3 times around the square wi' yer rifle over head and call it a gun yi'll get 3 more.

You are splitting hairs OHbc. She is the Queen of England. Everyone who is interested in Royalty knows that.

 

I went to the drawing office because they needed drafters for machines.

[transam]

2 minutes ago, kickstart said:

Not many homeless people in Windsor, a kind of well to do area, now shift 30 miles up the road London, or even 20 miles to Slough, to  a different kind of world, the homeless would like some of the 30 m , still a land of have's and have-nots 

But they can still afford grass to smoke...

[Kadilo]

5 minutes ago, kickstart said:

Not many homeless people in Windsor, a kind of well to do area, now shift 30 miles up the road London, or even 20 miles to Slough, to  a different kind of world, the homeless would like some of the 30 m , still a land of have's and have-nots 

There are loads in Windsor. There was a local drive to have them moved on as to not upset the visitors too much bless. 

Edited May 20, 2018 by Kadilo

[Johnniey]

28 minutes ago, kevvy said:

people from australia call them septic tanks....rhythms with yanks....... it is called rhythms slang

 

I thought that was from Cockneys

[kevvy]

It was but they brought it over to the colony in the ships .

Have you ever heard of "Rhyming Slang"? Well the idea originally came from Cockney England, but considering the Poms sent a lot of their dodgy codgers to Australia in the early colonial days, we soon adopted the idea of rhyming slang

1. Can't watch the footy without a pie with dead horse.
2. My missus did the Harry Holt with the local plumber.
3. I heard there was a prang up the road. Might go have a Captain Cook.
4. Get off the dog 'n' bone and mow the lawn!
5. It's getting late cuz, I better hit the frog 'n' toad.
6. Could I have a dozen roses for my beloved trouble 'n' strife?
7. The billy lids / tin lids always give us grief at bed time!
8. Woh, check out that paint job. Looks like the painter had a Barry Crocker that day!
9. We're heading to steak 'n' kidney at the crack of dawn.
10. Don't bother telling me a porky pie, cos I'll find out!

[transam]

4 minutes ago, Johnniey said:

I thought that was from Cockneys

No...

[natway09]

Great spectacle.

This to me is one of those times that if you cannot say anything good best just to shut up

 

 

[Kadilo]

3 minutes ago, natway09 said:

 

This to me is one of those times that if you cannot say anything good best just to shut up

 

 

Enlighten us all as to why please. 

Edited May 20, 2018 by Kadilo

[watcharacters]

7 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

No.

 

I have a life. 

 

No No No.

 

The Royal wedding is life!!

 

The  serfs can go about their business after the affair is finished.   Thank you very much.

 

 

 

 

 

[silverhawk_usa]

53 minutes ago, Johnniey said:

I'm confused - do people from the USA call themselves "Yanks"?

 

I thought it was only Brits, like me. 

We don't find it the least bit derogatory.  In our civil war, the Northerners were called Yankees.  Of course you have heard of the New York Yankees baseball team.  And surely you remember this one ...........
Over there, over there
Send the word, send the word over there
That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming .....

I did watch and enjoyed the pageantry.  Trying to hang on to a time when there was really a British Empire (and since 1776 you still didn't learn to ditch those "red coats")...... :)  

Seriously, it was interesting to see.  The same as the Royal Pageantry here in Thailand.  Not that I would want it, but anything is better than Trump. 
 

[CGW]

1 hour ago, The Renegade said:

2.9 Billion people worldwide are being reported to have watched it on TV.

 

That's a hellava lot of people 

Lets be honest, it got a hell of a lot of publicity, the Royal PR machine, which obviously includes the British Brainwashing Corporation went all out on this to try guarantee their jobs for a few more years!

[watcharacters]

3 minutes ago, silverhawk_usa said:

We don't find it the least bit derogatory.  In our civil war, the Northerners were called Yankees.  Of course you have heard of the New York Yankees baseball team.  And surely you remember this one ...........
Over there, over there
Send the word, send the word over there
That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming .....

I did watch and enjoyed the pageantry.  Trying to hang on to a time when there was really a British Empire (and since 1776 you still didn't learn to ditch those "red coats")...... :)  

Seriously, it was interesting to see.  The same as the Royal Pageantry here in Thailand.  Not that I would want it, but anything is better than Trump. 
 

 

Seriously please tell a little about what you found interesting regarding the  Royal Pageantry.   

 

That's a sincere question.

 

Please don't devolve this to a Trump/USA Brit kind of thing.

 

I'm asking what you found worth your time watching the royal wedding?

 

 

[transam]

2 minutes ago, silverhawk_usa said:

We don't find it the least bit derogatory.  In our civil war, the Northerners were called Yankees.  Of course you have heard of the New York Yankees baseball team.  And surely you remember this one ...........
Over there, over there
Send the word, send the word over there
That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming .....

I did watch and enjoyed the pageantry.  Trying to hang on to a time when there was really a British Empire (and since 1776 you still didn't learn to ditch those "red coats")...... :)  

Seriously, it was interesting to see.  The same as the Royal Pageantry here in Thailand.  Not that I would want it, but anything is better than Trump. 
 

Trump's Royal 'pageantry" stuff...