Kate and Bill

[Methanolandbrats]

Do the British Taxpayers have to foot the bill for the big day?

[chop456]

You suck. I thought this was going to be news about Clinton and that hosebag with 20 kids.

[Gnam]

:laugh: I feel her pain. [/bubba]

How much could a royal wedding cost? They already own the church and castle. Throw a couple shrimp on the bar-be and call it a day. :p

[Don Quixote]

How much could a royal wedding cost? It adds up. For example, renting unicorns to pull the carriage is a big cost item.

[TrueBrit]

I heard an estimate of $75 million quid. ($120 in US Monopoly money)...At the moment it will come out of the public coffers..but I'm sure Liz will kick in a few quid to soften the blow...maybe buy the first round down the boozer?

[opinionated ow]

According to our news last night, Aunty Lizzy was going to pay for it to the tune of something like 60 million pounds.

[datachicane]

It adds up. For example, renting unicorns to pull the carriage is a big cost item.

They can recoup some of that by BBQing the unicorns for the reception dinner.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/other/canned_unicorn_meat_zoom.jpg

[emjaya]

The real money is in the TV right's and the merchandising. :gomer:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/50005000/jpg/_50005009_williamkatemug.jpg

[FTG]

How else are you going to get tourists to go to a godforsaken piece of rock where it rains 385 days a year?

[opinionated ow]

How else are you going to get tourists to go to a godforsaken piece of rock where it rains 385 days a year?

I know the poms are backward but I had no idea that it was as much as 20 days a year!

[Gnam]

Date set for Friday, April 29. (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3241841/Kate-and-Williams-wedding-date-revealed-as-Friday-April-29-2011.html#ixzz167uMP0sY)

Downing Street announced today workers WILL get an extra day off for the nuptials, which will follow the Easter Monday Bank Holiday on April 25.

Let the countdown begin...

[TrueBrit]

How else are you going to get tourists to go to a godforsaken piece of rock where it rains 385 days a year?

I'm sorry, but I take affront to that comment. It completely neglects the fact that the rain is nice and warm during the summer months...

[Don Quixote]

I'm sorry, but I take affront to that comment. It completely neglects the fact that the rain is nice and warm during the summer months... And it saves on laundry and bathing costs.

[opinionated ow]

I wonder if we can have it too. He's our future head of state also. That'd give us the 22nd (Good Friday), 23rd (Easter Saturday), 25th (ANZAC Day), 26th (Easter Tuesday) and then the 29th (royal Wedding0. :D

[Gnam]

T-minus 11 days

:goose bumps: :p

[stroker]

Unless somebody's got naked pictures of her put me in the WGAF column.

[TKGAngel]

T-Mobile's satire ad focusing on the big day. :D

Kav0FEhtLug

[chop456]

Bank holidays on 4/25, 4/29 and 5/2. Who do they think they are, Spain or Italy?

Slackers.

If/when they get divorced, the whole country should have to work 2 7-day weeks. :D

[IlliniRacer]

I'm assuming this will be the standard mostacholi and roast beef in the chaffing dishes Wedding Reception while the DJ blast "Proud Mary" and "Old Time Rock n Roll" as drunk overweight white people act like they can dance.

[devilmaster]

You suck. I thought this was going to be news about Clinton and that hosebag with 20 kids.

Ummmmm..... Why would you:

Think that.
Be interested in hearing about that.
Give me a damn visual that I can't get out of my freakin head!

[Methanolandbrats]

The new first bitch is cute in a girl nice next door bend over kind of way. THe prince is an epic douche just like daddy. the queen.......does that old nazi bitch ever smile? Why do the English people/guvmint suppost this **** during austere times?

[opinionated ow]

The new first bitch is cute in a girl nice next door bend over kind of way. THe prince is an epic douche just like daddy. the queen.......does that old nazi bitch ever smile? Why do the English people/guvmint suppost this **** during austere times?

Spoken like a true American...

[Methanolandbrats]

Spoken like a true American...

We kicked those inbred parasites out of here a couple of centuries ago :rofl:

[TravelGal]

So the urgent question of the day is, which channel has the least irritating hosts? That is, which one should I tape to see all the festivities and avoid the worst of the ingratiating voiceovers?

[Gnam]

Is Speed covering the ceremony?

[Ankf00]

Bank holidays on 4/25, 4/29 and 5/2. Who do they think they are, Spain or Italy?


:rofl:

[dando]

So the urgent question of the day is, which channel has the least irritating hosts? That is, which one should I tape to see all the festivities and avoid the worst of the ingratiating voiceovers?

D none of the above. :saywhat: When I watch the AM 'news' shows, I tend to watch the Today Show. Although the past two weeks have been unbearable due to the build to the wedding. :irked:

-Kevin

[cameraman]

Rumor has it that this thing may destroy youtube:rolleyes:


It is estimated that over 2 billion people will watch the royal wedding on television, a further 400 million viewers are expected to watch the event live on YouTube, and yet more will watch live internet streams provided by broadcasters like the BBC and CNN.

William and Kate's Royal Wedding Will Require 800,000,000Mbps of Bandwidth and Break the Internet (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2384565,00.asp)

[TravelGal]

D none of the above. :saywhat: When I watch the AM 'news' shows, I tend to watch the Today Show. Although the past two weeks have been unbearable due to the build to the wedding. :irked:

-Kevin

"Unbearable" was my thought. I think I'm going with BBC America with a back up of our local KCET, which will be BBC World News. This is why G-d created the mute button.

Failing that, I plan to join in breaking the internet. :D

[G.]

Is Speed covering the ceremony?

Since it's not about actual racing, I'd guess "yes".

[dando]

It's almost over...this is absolutely insane. :saywhat: Of course I'm surrounded by females, so I'm stuck watching this shizzle. :irked: :shakehead I need to get another male dog to balance things out. :gomer:

EDIT: they actually have a Countdown to the Kiss on the Today Show. :saywhat:

-Kevin

[TKGAngel]

I thought her dress was beautiful and thought that they looked very much in love. I really do wish them the best.

However, it is kind of sad that all of our news networks were focused on a wedding taking place in a country that we fought a war to get away from. Way to completely downplay everything that happened in Alabama and what's going on with the shuttle today. :rolleyes:

[opinionated ow]

That was absolutely amazing. The uniforms, the cars, the church, the music, the carriages, the soldiers, the aeroplanes, the kiss, the palace, the crowds. It was other worldly but oh so amazing...

[Ankf00]

However, it is kind of sad that all of our news networks were focused on a wedding taking place in a country that we fought a war to get away from. Way to completely downplay everything that happened in Alabama and what's going on with the shuttle today. :rolleyes:

panem et circenses

we get the govt we deserve.

[dando]

That was absolutely amazing. The uniforms, the cars, the church, the music, the carriages, the soldiers, the aeroplanes, the kiss, the palace, the crowds. It was other worldly but oh so amazing...

I agree that it was an elegant affair and a throwback to days of old with pomp and circumstance. The hype here leading up to it just buggered me to no end....and I've spoken with folks across the pond that our coverage was way over the top compared to the coverage over there. :confused: Oh, and the Spitfire/Lancaster flyover was just awesome to see.

-Kevin

[G.]

C'mon! No spoilers! Wife DVRd it.

:gomer:

[opinionated ow]

just as an aside...was that the first time both Queens of England were under the same roof?

[Indy]

C'mon! No spoilers! Wife DVRd it.

:gomer:

Dude, they have a spat and break it off. She runs from the altar, trips on the rug, and as she falls all her clothes are ripped off leaving her naked and angry.

So don't bother, you didn't miss anything.

[dando]

C'mon! No spoilers! Wife DVRd it.

:gomer:

I hope she got the whole shindig on DVR. The NBC coverage was split from 4-7AM and then from 7-10AM ET. I had to scramble to DVR the second part once I realized the first part was done. :saywhat: The flyovers happened ~8:20AM ET. Would have been nice if they could have launched the shuttle @ the same time. :gomer: There's gonna be a bunch of drunk peeps in the UK this weekend. :D

-Kevin

[cameraman]

#QILF is trending on twitter:rofl:

[dando]

#QILF is trending on twitter:rofl:

I'd hit that.

</FARK>

:D

-Kevin

[TKGAngel]

just as an aside...was that the first time both Queens of England were under the same roof?

Giggle.

Watching Kate wave from the carriage, I kept thinking that she has obviously not seen The Princess Diaries. She was not following the "elbow, elbow, wrist, wrist, wipe a tear, blow a kiss" style of waving.


we get the govt we deserve.

What does government have to do with anything? It's the MSM that made the call to focus on the royal shenanigans.

[nrc]

Dude, they have a spat and break it off. She runs from the altar, trips on the rug, and as she falls all her clothes are ripped off leaving her naked and angry.

Oh, she tries to cover up, but it's too late - I've seen everything.

Fg_cwI1Xj4M

[dando]

Watching Kate wave from the carriage, I kept thinking that she has obviously not seen The Princess Diaries. She was not following the "elbow, elbow, wrist, wrist, wipe a tear, blow a kiss" style of waving.


What is it with you chicks and this waving shizzle? My wife mentioned her poor waving earlier, too. :confused: :p

-Kevin

[Gnam]

I think I know how Kate & Bill will be spending their wedding night...























http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/1902/36422188.png Watching the Rock chase Vin Diesel. :gomer:


http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/795/fastfivemovieposter2011.jpg

http://www.fastfivemovie.com/

:D

[opinionated ow]

Giggle.

Ahhhhhh a perfect opportunity for a James May reference:
DI6FMvRpNnA

[racer2c]

I'm just surprised they scheduled their wedding day on crazy hat day. :confused:

[devilmaster]

I'm just surprised they scheduled their wedding day on crazy hat day. :confused:

Yer just talkin crazy talk....
http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/gty_royal_wedding_hats_ss12_110429_ssh.jpg

[datachicane]

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_2Yptu8g36aI/TbtkR0i2ZPI/AAAAAAAADqE/7dYhglsuNA8/s800/brazil09.jpg

[racer2c]

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_2Yptu8g36aI/TbtkR0i2ZPI/AAAAAAAADqE/7dYhglsuNA8/s800/brazil09.jpg

I never noticed that was a shoe!!! Lol

[Anteater]

Call me an incurable romantic, but I got up at 1:00 am PT and watched the whole event. :D Everything was beautiful!

Yes, there are a lot of terrible things going on in the world right now--but it was lovely to have a tiny respite from them for a few hours.

[TrueBrit]

I thought it was a lovely day all round, bride and groom quite obviously fancy each other, the crowds were immense, the pomp and ceremony was top notch, very proud Brit here....i wish the newly weds all the luck in the world....

[gjc2]

Isn’t population of England going to be over 50% Muslim twenty years from now? What happens to the monarchy then?

[datachicane]

Isn’t population of England going to be over 50% Muslim twenty years from now? What happens to the monarchy then?

What the heck does that have to do with the Monarchy? :saywhat:
http://www.careerrocketeer.com/wp-content/uploads/red-herring-resumes.png

[gjc2]

What the heck does that have to do with the Monarchy? :saywhat:
http://www.careerrocketeer.com/wp-content/uploads/red-herring-resumes.png

Is an Islamic population going to embrace (support) a royal family who practice the Anglican religion?

[opinionated ow]

Is an Islamic population going to embrace (support) a royal family who practice the Anglican religion?

There is no way it'd be allowed to get that high...just ask David Cameron...

[datachicane]

Is an Islamic population going to embrace (support) a royal family who practice the Anglican religion?

Good grief. Why not ask the same question of the Catholics or Presbyterians?
There's around 2.4M Muslims in the UK right now- why would you assume that, as a nice, tidy, monolithic bloc, they are uniformly opposed to the Monarchy now?

A 2009 survey of the attitudes of British Muslims found them to identify more strongly with the UK than the rest of the population, with a much higher regard for the country's institutions (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/patriotic-respectful-and-homophobic-a-portrait-of-british-muslims-state-of-mind-1681062.html)

:rolleyes:

[gjc2]

Good grief. Why not ask the same question of the Catholics or Presbyterians?
There's around 2.4M Muslims in the UK right now- why would you assume that, as a nice, tidy, monolithic bloc, they are uniformly opposed to the Monarchy now?

A 2009 survey of the attitudes of British Muslims found them to identify more strongly with the UK than the rest of the population, with a much higher regard for the country's institutions (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/patriotic-respectful-and-homophobic-a-portrait-of-british-muslims-state-of-mind-1681062.html)

:rolleyes:


Instead of Anglican, I should have said "a religion other than Islam"

I hope the results of that survey are correct.

[gjc2]

I hope this guy is wrong.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7232661.stm

[SteveH]

I hope this guy is wrong.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7232661.stm


Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4's World at One that the UK has to "face up to the fact" that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.



:rolleyes:

So each demographic gets to determine it's own legal system?

Yeah, that should work well.

[datachicane]

Father Coughlin was 'worried', too.

[opinionated ow]

:rolleyes:

So each demographic gets to determine it's own legal system?

Yeah, that should work well.

Rowan Williams is an idiot...

[cameraman]

Poached from wikipedia. That whole Sharia law deal is three years old and was blown out of proportion and taken out of context.


Williams was the subject of a media and press furore in February 2008, following a lecture he gave to the Temple foundation at the Royal Courts of Justice on the subject of 'Islam and English Law'. He raised the question of conflicting loyalties which communities might have, cultural, religious and civic and argued that theology has a place in debates about the very nature of law 'however hard our culture may try to keep it out' and noted that there is in a 'dominant human rights philosophy' a reluctance to acknowledge the liberty of conscientious objection. He spoke of 'supplementary jurisdictions' to that of the civil law. Noting the anxieties which the word Sharia provoked in the West he drew attention to the fact that there was a debate within Islam between what he called "primitivists" for whom, for instance, apostasy should still be punishable and those Muslims who argued that Sharia was a developing system of Islamic jurisprudence that such a view was no longer acceptable. He made comparisons with "Orthodox Jewish practice" (Beth Din) and with the recognition of the exercise of conscience of Christians.
His words were critically interpreted as proposing a parallel jurisdiction to the civil law for Muslims (Sharia), and was the subject of demands from elements of the press and media for his resignation. He also attracted criticism from elements of the Anglican Communion.
In response, Williams stated in a BBC interview "... certain provision[s] of Sharia are already recognised in our society and under our law; ... we already have in this country a number of situations in which the internal law of religious communities is recognised by the law of the land as justified conscientious objections in certain circumstances in providing certain kinds of social relations" and that "we have Orthodox Jewish courts operating in this country legally and in a regulated way because there are modes of dispute resolution and customary provisions which apply there in the light of Talmud." Williams also denied accusations of proposing a parallel Islamic legal system within Britain. Williams also said that Sharia, "In some of the ways it has been codified and practised across the world, it has been appalling and applied to women in places like Saudi Arabia, it is grim."
On 4 July 2008 Sharia again became a topic of media interest, following comments by Lord Phillips, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. He supported the idea that Sharia could be reasonably employed as a basis for "mediation or other forms of alternative dispute resolution". He went further to defend Williams's position from earlier in the year, explaining "It was not very radical to advocate embracing sharia law in the context of family disputes, for example, and our system already goes a long way towards accommodating the archbishop's suggestion." and "It is possible in this country for those who are entering into a contractual agreement to agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law."

[High Sided]

no talk of the aston martin that runs on royal wine?
http://www.autoblog.com/2011/04/29/prince-william-borrows-fathers-vintage-aston-martin-for-royal-w/

Mvausr3Bl1M

[datachicane]

L- plate.
:rofl:

[gjc2]

no talk of the aston martin that runs on royal wine?
http://www.autoblog.com/2011/04/29/prince-william-borrows-fathers-vintage-aston-martin-for-royal-w/

Mvausr3Bl1M



That is really cool.

[Indy]

Hey, just a thought, but maybe if we didn't fear each other so much, we might just be able to get along. It always seems like the fear causes the conflicts, and the fear is usually being stoked by someone who benefits from conflict.

Not trying to get political, but just sayin'...

[nrc]

Hey, just a thought, but maybe if we didn't fear each other so much, we might just be able to get along. It always seems like the fear causes the conflicts, and the fear is usually being stoked by someone who benefits from conflict.

I'm sorry, but there are people who should be feared. Anyone who seeks to eliminate basic freedoms and subvert human rights to theology should be feared.

That doesn't mean that we should lump entire religions, countries, or races into one big group and hate them. It simply means that we need to recognize and understand the dangers that threaten our freedoms.

[datachicane]

Anyone who seeks to eliminate basic freedoms and subvert human rights to theology should be feared.

That doesn't mean that we should lump entire religions, countries, or races into one big group and hate them. It simply means that we need to recognize and understand the dangers that threaten our freedoms.

Like David Barton? It's not the outrage that bothers me, rather the selective outrage.

[Indy]

I'm sorry, but there are people who should be feared. Anyone who seeks to eliminate basic freedoms and subvert human rights to theology should be feared.

That doesn't mean that we should lump entire religions, countries, or races into one big group and hate them. It simply means that we need to recognize and understand the dangers that threaten our freedoms.

I totally agree with that. We just need to be more educated and discriminating, and we need to recognise the manipulators of our fear for what they are, while upholding the principles of an open, tolerant society.

[Gnam]

L- plate.
:rofl:


An L-plate is a square plate bearing a letter L, for learner, which must be affixed to the front and back of a vehicle in many countries if its driver is a learner under instruction.

jolly good. :D

[TrueBrit]

Instead of Anglican, I should have said "a religion other than Islam"

I hope the results of that survey are correct.

Reminds me of a survey done recently in the UK which asked: 'Do you think there are too many foreigners in Britain'

18% answered yes
82% answered کریستین امان*پور

[SurfaceUnits]

why should anyone care what the freeloading decendents of genocidal tyrants do?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Acadia.svg/450px-Flag_of_Acadia.svg.png

[cameraman]

why should anyone care what the freeloading decendents of genocidal tyrants do?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Acadia.svg/450px-Flag_of_Acadia.svg.png

So I take it that you're Cajun?

[SurfaceUnits]

no. That would be this flag

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_Acadiana.svg/415px-Flag_of_Acadiana.svg.png

[Ankf00]

why should anyone care what the freeloading decendents of genocidal tyrants do?

without them, I wouldn't be awash in a sea of crawfish boils these past two months.

huzzah, genocidal tryants, I say. huzzah. (but be a good chap and give back the Kooh-i-Noor while yuo're at it please)



(and wtf happened on Page 3?)

[SurfaceUnits]

and repatriate those foreigners in northerm ireland while you are at it

[TrueBrit]

Reminds me of a survey done recently in the UK which asked: 'Do you think there are too many foreigners in Britain'

18% answered yes
82% answered کریستین امان*پور

Seriously...no-one got this? I think it's bloody funny you humourless bastards...:D

[Ankf00]

Seriously...no-one got this? I think it's bloody funny you humourless bastards...:D

I laughed but was distracted by the rest of the cluster**** of that page

[Don Quixote]

Seriously...no-one got this? I think it's bloody funny you humourless bastards...:DI laughed too, but didn't want you to know. :D

[gjc2]

Seriously...no-one got this? I think it's bloody funny you humourless bastards...:D

I thought it was hilarious