The Royal Wedding
POSTED BY: peacekeeper
UPDATED: Monday, August 18, 2025 20:13
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Pfft. Anyone with the most basic knowledge of genetics should know that stirring up that royal gene pool a little bit is a fantastic idea. Seems like it's been a longstanding obsession, but 'common' blood has made it into the royal family periodically for hundreds of years. Good thing, too, or they might have problems beyond male-pattern-baldness to be dealing with by now. The genetic outcome has never been bad, and for crying out loud it's the 21st century. Anyone who actually has a problem with it should be ashamed of themselves. I say good for William for refusing to bow to such ridiculous and archaic standards of who he should marry.
What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.
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Leave it to Rappy to refer to mere non-royal citizens as "muggles".
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No worries Peacekeeper, my only complaint is I find weddings boring as hell. I'm aware I'm in the minority, so enjoy.
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I didn’t watch, but have seen clips. It would have been far too long for me to watch---I did tune in a couple of times, but aside from some glorious music by some absolutely GORGEOUS little boys and men, it didn’t interest me.
I’ve heard that 80% of Brits weren’t interested---which seems belied by the crowds!--and that many are angry that $2 million was spent on it--which is kind of a fair complaint. All in all I just accept that’s the way it is and to be expected, and it’s kind of nice to have some royalty still around. I’m happy for Britain, and agree a whole nation brought together to celebrate two people tying the knot is a really, really neat thing. Your country deserves having a day when all of you can be happy and celebrate together...every country does, and few get it. Our Presidential swearing in is the closest we get, and there’s NO comparison!
I think her dress was lovely...I liked Di’s whipped-crème-puff dress, it fit her, but this was much more “real” if you will, and Kate looked gorgeous. They both did, and I’m happy for them. I sincerely hope their marriage is as happy as Will’s dad’s was sad. From all I’ve heard/seen, both of them are much more mature and sensible people, so they’ve got a better shot.
I’m sorry PN got under your skin, PK. Nobody takes him seriously (at least I sincerely HOPE not); just muse for a minute on how miserable a person he must be and how awful it would be to be him, and it’ll all go away. Regarding DT’s theory, IS there a “panic” over the commoner thing? I hadn’t heard anything like that--admittedly I haven’t been following it all, but it seems to me Rose is right that in this day and age, it doesn’t mean much. And I don’t mind the term “muggles”, they were pretty cool people in Potter’s world, weren’t they? And aren’t all us Yanks “muggles” anyway? By the way; Rose, they DO have problems beyond male pattern baldness because of the inbreeding. I, too, think it’s great he married a muggle. His dad married a “royal”, and look where it got HIM!
Oh, PK, I believe it’s “Catherine”, hee, hee, hee...how strange that a damned yank would notice that and you didn’t, eh? I don’t get quite how Catherine translates to Kate, but apparently it does. All in all, I’m tickled for you guys and I hope it leaves a warm afterglow for some time to come. Don’t be in any hurry to return to the idiocy of reality. You BE proud, mister; we have a lot to thank you guys for, and pomp and circumstance is FUN!
Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off 
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I have a theory? It's not like anyone here in in the ruling class to... Oh, nevermind.
That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.
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Originally posted by Niki2:
Oh, PK, I believe it’s “Catherine”, hee, hee, hee...how strange that a damned yank would notice that and you didn’t, eh? I don’t get quite how Catherine translates to Kate, but apparently it does.
Yep, Kate is a diminutive of Catherine...is that not common in the US? More common these days is Cath or Cathy, and usually Kate is reserved for Kathryn spellings. Occasionally I have had Kate although I am usually Cath.
Not all diminutives resemble the original name closely
Meg - Margaret
Jack - John
Harry - Henry
Nancy - Ann
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
why?
It's the graphic in the end of the quote. If there's a picture or a link, you often have to go into the quote and put a space or a blank line or two between the end of the link and your close-quote brackets.
Is that what you were asking? Why your reply with quote looked like that?
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No, why do I have so many double posts. Drive me nuts.
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
No, why do I have so many double posts. Drive me nuts.
Ah. No help there. I have that problem far more often with Windows computers than I do with Macs, but some of it might be forum-related, too. Sometimes I get weird "error" messages when I hit "Save Response", but the post still goes through.
And oddly enough, on the Beta site, your earlier response looks just fine. But on the original site, it's all greyed out, as if you didn't close the quote properly in your response. But it looks good here.
More forum weirdies, is all. Gremlins, no doubt. ;)
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