OMG!! The Royal Wedding!!!! CBS Poll find most Americans...

[Snoutport]

could give a rip about the royal wedding. Only 6% of Americans are following it closely. 68% are not following it closely or not following it at all.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2011/apr/23/royal-wedding-americans-poll-bored

I wonder how DUers line up?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I know I'm the lone voice...

But I find it fascinating.

It's a bit of history for me, this continuity of the family across the pond.

:hi:

[Snoutport]

3. I wasn't a big Lady Di follower...but it does make me sad his mum isn't there.

I'd guess the British, having watched him grow up, kinda feel he is all of theirs. Probably similar to John Kennedy, Jr. here in the US.

Hi Peggy! (I haven't figured out the icons yet or I'd wave back)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Hi, Snoutport!

I'm sad about her not being there too.

Her death was a tragedy to me...

And I agree about John Kennedy, Jr. here as well. He was our native son...

The smilies aren't too hard! When you write your post, look just above where you write it, and you'll see (in BLUE letters) next to Message options, the underlined phrase Smilies lookup table. Click on that and the table appears. Then you just scroll down in that table, and you'll see the waving smiley for hi.

Here, I copied and pasted it for you:

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Add to Journal Check here if you want to add this post to your Journal
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Hope that helps!

:hi:

[monmouth]

22. Thank you Peggy, I didn't know that either...LOL. Happy Easter...n/t

[Snoutport]

33. AHA!

:hi:

I never noticed that before! I kept looking for emoticons but couldn't find them.

:0) Thanks Peggy! (I'm especially glad to now be able to use :sarcasm: )

[rocktivity]

32. In view of how Lady Di and her marriage ended up

I think the ignoring this royal wedding is the best thing we could possibly do.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[asjr]

4. You are not the lone voice. I am a dyed-in-

the-wool Anglophile. Love the Brits!

[Raine]

17. I'm with you Peggy

I LOVE history and tradition, I find it fascinating too. :-)

[Snoutport]

34. I like the tradition too... it's just that they are so danged rich...

[Liberal_in_LA]

39. I hear you Peg but I have a hard time separating the sexism - males first in line

Kate will be hounded to give birth to a male, all that sexist bullshit right in my face. As I recall, princess Di even consented to a medical virginity exam. It's like Catholic traditions..I'm sure all that smoke and hubub is comforting but I never forget that women are 2nd class in that arena.

[Snoutport]

48. BUT...if you add up Victoria's and Elizabeth's reigns...

Both Elizabeths...it's somewhere around 167 of rule under a Female monarch. I bet if you threw in the Annes and Marys it would be close to 200 years. That means half of British rule since the 1550s has been by women. You'd think they would have done something to make the monarchy more female friendly. Hell, it was probably so many years of female ruling that helped Britain to rule the world.

[Liberal_in_LA]

53. true enough, but they would have had the opportunity if they had a brother

[Bucky]

41. I don't know about the family across the pond, but that couple across the bayou from me got hitched

Jorge is an electrician and Maya works for the school district. I see them while I'm out riding my bike sometimes. They seem like nice kids and I wish 'em all the best in the world.

[Snoutport]

50. swamp weddings are MUCH more interesting than royal weddings!

[Bucky]

54. !!!

They live on the other side of the bayou, not in it! :)

[Snoutport]

55. Oh man... that is not what it looked like at all in my imagination.

:dilemma:

not even a single gator.

[wysingm]

52. I'm going to watch the wedding

... a bit of history

[bdamomma]

66. you are not the only lone voice I will watch it also

but the US media tends to go overboard on things like this.

[Angry Dragon]

2. The fate of the universe hangs in the balance

with this wedding

[tularetom]

5. I fart in the general direction of the royal wedding

[franzia99]

56. You're doing the right thing.

[sharp_stick]

6. My wife is

I'm amazed, I really never saw her as someone who could care less about the Royals. Although part of me thinks she's really upset at the whole thing, I suspect she thought Will might just steal her from her bedroom prison and our three kids. ;-)

She actually told me that she's setting the alarm this Friday to watch it.

[Snoutport]

60. Maybe it's a girl thing...they dream of Prince Charming.

Though, come to think of it, so did I.

[SoCalDem]

65. No, that's not it.. It;s the image of that young boy losing his Mother in such a terrible way

We Moms like the whole "seeing our young ones get married"...

and when it's someone we always saw on tv as a baby, then young man, we "knew" him in a way..

Once he's married, until he & Kate have a baby, no one will follow them much..

It could be likened to how men/boys "follow" a young ballplayer in college, and throughout his career...buy his jerseys & bet on his team..

[RufusTFirefly]

7. Stockholm Syndrome?

I have never really understood this country's fascination with royalty. After all, didn't we fight a revolution in order to rid ourselves of that sort of crap?

Perhaps we've developed a twisted affection for our oppressors.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. I don't think that's it.

I don't feel oppressed by them, not at all.

I just find them fascinating.

A bit of history from the distant past, still alive today.

:shrug:

[Snoutport]

61. not to mention pretty dresses....

:o

[underpants]

9. Kentucky-Pulaski County Va - WV - England no difference really

excapt that she is really pretty

[Peter1x9]

11. The royal wedding is just another "news" story to keep us distracted

from what is really going on in the world.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Nope.

I am not distracted from the important news in the world.

I do know how to differentiate between the real news, and the frivolous.

And I feel sorry for those who can't.

[Snoutport]

44. Princess Di and I had the same 32 times removed grandfather....

Maybe I should be more excited!

[SammyWinstonJack]

49. A bit of history or a frivolous event?

:shrug:

[Snoutport]

59. both, for sure!

[izquierdista]

12. Something far more interesting

...from across the pond: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSqkdcT25ss

[Ian David]

13. I will watch the highlights on The Colbert Report. n/t

[Modern_Matthew]

15. I hate gross displays of elitism and wealth. It should churn the stomach of any decent person. nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. You are entitled to whatever opinion you like.

It is rather judgmental of you to state that we all must agree.

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. Hahahahahahahahaha...

Ouch. :rofl:

[rustydog]

18. Who gives a flying F*** what the "royals" are doing?

They are not my royal family. I am not their "subject". I could care less with very littl effort.

[LibertyLover]

19. We watch the BBC evening news during dinner and so get a bit

more information on the royal wedding than I care about. I think it's nice William is marrying someone he lived with for several years and that her recent ancestors were coal miners. As a herald in the SCA I was fascinated by the arms awarded to the Middleton family and the rituals that go along with the wedding, like the Queen formally approving William marrying 'our trusty and well-beloved" Kate - very cool. And given the awful dress that Diana wore some 30 years ago, it will be interesting to see what Kate wears. Otherwise, I'm not paying that much attention.

[bluestate10]

20. Paying attention is a waste of time. More important issues happening in the world. nt

[Blue-Jay]

21. I hope that the prince and whatsherface are happy for the rest of their lives.

I wish the same for every young couple.
L'chaim, young skulls full of mush. L'chaim.

[xchrom]

23. I love it! Nt

[trof]

24. Can't believe the Brits STILL have a monarchy.

jeez
:eyes:

[Terra Alta]

25. I don't give rat's patootie about the royal wedding.

That being said, I do hope they have a long and happy life together.

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. I'm one of those 5 votes (currently) that are closely following it.

I cant help. I was 11 when Lady Diana married Prince Charles and was swept up then. I'm not going out to buy the jelly belly with Kate's face on it, but I love it.

WannaBe and I have been debating which tiara would be the right one. :rofl:

[Snoutport]

36. my friend told me that to little girls Diana's wedding was the fairy tale wedding she dreamed of

I think a lot of young girls were touched by that wedding.

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. What royal wedding?

[mn9driver]

28. Is somebody getting married?

.

[Confusious]

29. woohoo. I'm #100 that don't give a shit

as a matter of fact, I think I'm giving to much of a shit about not giving a shit.

[stevedeshazer]

31. Funny thing. Royalty porn just doesn't get me off.

I'm not offended that some folks like it, it's just not my deal.

[PBS Poll-435]

40. Not interested at all, my folks are (a little), They saw Diana and Charles

It would be great to celebrate pagentry and pomp after the year we have had (and it is only APRIL!).


It is obviously a big deal to some. Not so much for me, but to see an event based on love and not disaster might be refreshing.


And for others, there is going to be musical entertainment. :D

[joshcryer]

35. The MSM is covering it for entertainment purposes only, the MSM doesn't represent America.

[valerief]

37. I don't even know when it is or which royal is getting married. And I don't care. nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

38. news reported that US news org scaled back coverage due to lack of interest

[Edweird]

42. Why would we care? Telling the British royalty to fuck off was how this country got started.

[tnlefty]

43. I heard that this morning. 6friggin' percent and there is

so much coverage.

I'm not following it closely at all, and the coverage devoted to it just blows my mind.

[Nye Bevan]

45. Heh. Methinks DUers doth protest too much.

Thread after thread about how little everyone cares, how indifferent everyone is. If nobody *really* cared nobody would start threads about it.

[varkam]

46. FFS, I'm British and I could care less about the royal wedding.

:rofl:

[proud2BlibKansan]

47. I have a co-worker who talks about it incessantly

So I don't need to follow it at all. I get daily updates.

[craigmatic]

51. We don't care about it yet the media can't shut up about it. We fought the revolution for a reason-

so things like this wouldn't matter to us.

[Snoutport]

62. the news is mostly stuff we don't care about....

[liberalhistorian]

57. I'm an Anglophile, always have been, but I find that

I'm kind of neutral on this one. I'll probably watch some of it, but it won't be that big a deal to me. I do think they have a better shot than Charles and Diana and it's a different era. I believe they're really in love and their relationship is real; they've been together for years and have already been through a lot. Unlike William's parents, who really only married because it was expected of them and there was that whole "must marry a virgin" crap. Charles sure as shit wasn't in love with her, he wanted Camilla and would have married her before she got tired of waiting and married Andrew Parker Bowles if his mother had approved of it, which she didn't (she still doesn't like Camilla, for which I can't blame her at all-the woman's a hateful greedy bitch).

It's hard to believe that it's just shy of thirty years since Charles and Diana's wedding. I remember that summer and that wedding vividly; I was sixteen and staying a couple of nights with a friend whose mother was obsessed with the wedding and woke us up in the middle of the night to watch it live; she practically forced her daughter out of bed and into the living room (she had a British boyfriend at the time). We did spend hours watching it with her mother. It's very bittersweet for me right now because that friend happened to die of a massive heart attack, in front of her three children, this past Christmas Eve Day. Still hard to believe.

[unkachuck]

58. the wealthiest....

....gang of welfare-recipients on the planet....they are anachronisms, squandering resources, refusing to care, for the people they pretend to care for, in these times of extreme austerity....I'm grateful this whole sordid event lands on the British tab....

....would somebody please get these free-loaders a calendar?

[Freddie Stubbs]

63. The Federal Election in Canada will have a much greater impact on the US

[snooper2]

64. I think if you did a sampling it would be white women

over the age of 55..That's probably at least 5 of the 6% :)