Could there possibly be too many FUCK THE ROYAL WEDDING threads on DU today?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

[Buzz Clik]

1. Too many weddings, too many polls.

[sufrommich]

2. Never underestimate the need to publicly proclaim

oneself as "too cool for school". There will always be those who think poo-pooing anything popular with the masses makes them special.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

10. Nah, that's not it at all.

It's just that with three wars, a shit economy, headlines on Huffington Post below the huge wedding headline and slideshow like "Deep South Braces For Flooding Not Seen Since 1927," people scared to death and not knowing what to do next in Japan, etc. etc. etc., it's completely off my radar, and I know it's that way for a lot of people.

I'm not sure if you enjoy irony or not...I do. Here's a little for you to enjoy, just in case.

I don't know you...our paths might have crossed in one thread or another, but I know that you and I are two DUers who don't exchange ideas on a regular basis. That means you don't know me, either. I don't know how many of my posts you've read beyond this one, but no matter what you've read, you don't know me.

So you write:

Never underestimate the need to publicly proclaim oneself as "too cool for school".

Now...outdated cliches aside...I've never proclaimed myself to be "too cool for school" on DU or anywhere else. And I don't know if you're directing that to me specifically, or to a larger audience, but I've noticed that more often than not, people who accuse others of seeing themselves as "too cool for school" are in effect declaring their own state of cool..."I'm better than you, I choose to rise above the low-brow nature of what you've posted here."

But I'd be willing to bet the farm that you posted that in the nature of being helpful and supportive, not establishing yourself as superior to anyone here.

You follow up your "school" riff with:

There will always be those who think poo-pooing anything popular with the masses makes them special.

Now, that was really the cherry on the sundae.

I don't post on DU to "feel special." My personal opinion is that anyone who posts in an Internet chat room (sorry, DU, it's a professional and mighty Internet chat room, but that's really the nature of what we do here) might want to take a look at their level of self-esteem, because seeking approval from others (and please understand, sufrommich, I most certainly do not want or need your approval for anything i do in my life) is a little sad and misguided...don't you think? It would almost be like you seeking approval and agreement from DU for what you posted...but I know you're not like that. Even though I don't know you, just like you don;t know me.

And I didn't poo-poo the royal wedding (do adults even say "poo-poo?")...I said "fuck the royal wedding," several times in fact, because it's on the front pages everywhere and it's in the way of far more useful and significant news.

But I do feel special in one way.

I feel special for the honor of having this public "quality time" with you. To some small degree (really, really small) I think I've learned something here, and it's made me a better person. I'm sure you can say the same.

Stay cool and enjoy the royal wedding, sufrommich. You rock.

:yourock:

Or as you might say, "You rawk."

[sabrina 1]

17. Well said. I was amused at all those claiming to be too cool

to have any interest in the Royal Wedding taking the trouble to show their interest by proclaiming how uncool it would be to be interested in it.

I don't know, when I'm not interested in something I don't post OPs about it.

[Atman]

3. If I cared less, I'd be in a coma.

I'd love to know what's going on in the world, but I can't find any info. Apparently, two rich kids getting hitched on the taxpayer's tab is the only thing happening today.

[Rebubula]

6. Well....

...you care enough to post about it and to point out that you are miffed by the coverage...


Just busting your chops - I said the same thing to Mrs. Rebubula last night and she zinged me with something similar to my pedantic rebuttal to you.

[Atman]

8. You're absolutely correct...I cared enough to post.

Now please excuse me while I slip into that aforementioned coma.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[MineralMan]

4. Other: There are too many moronic polls on DU.

Lounge.

[Le Taz Hot]

5. Occasionally, I am really embarrassed by this place.

With all the horrid comments regarding this nice, young, newly-married couple, this has been one of those days. :thumbsdown: to those who feel they must spew their vitriol no matter how hurtful or inappropriate.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

14. I was embarrased in SPADES by this place on Easter

...and that didn't stop it from happening.

Some of the most intolerant, hate filled, vile, wretched shit I've seen in many a moon. Total insensitivity toward DUers who are also people of faith. Did you complain and wring your hands in any of those threads? Were you embarrassed by DU on Easter, or were you too busy on the egg hunt?

"vitriol?"

No, I don't think so, I'm just expressing an opinion and that opinion is "I'll be glad when this is over."

"no matter how hurtful?"

Who's been hurt by what I posted? The "royal couple?" They actually read DU? Were you hurt? Are you speaking for other people that you think might have been hurt?

"I didn't mean to hurt you...I'm sorry that I made you cry, oh my..."

All better now?

"or inappropriate?"

No, this is America, where we can express an opinion. And my opinion is...well, you've already responded to it, so why repeat it.

[Le Taz Hot]

19. Well, to answer your question,

on Easter Sunday I was painting my new studio, getting ready to move in and cleaning the house. I don't think I even got on DU that day so, no, no hand-wringing either way.

No one is saying you're not allowed to express your opinion, but I would like to think that we are adult enough to engage in a little self-restraint when it is called for. "FUCK THE ROYAL WEDDING" threads ARE embarrassing and that's my opinion.

Peace,
LTH

[robcon]

7. There are too many DUers who want to control what other DUers like.

Fuck 'em. I enjoyed the wedding.

[reorg]

11. Perhaps you should start a pro-monarchy movement in the US

if you like royalty so much. I wonder how many democrats would join you in this effort, though.

[robcon]

21. What a 'tard you are, reorg.

What does enjoying a wedding have to do with a pro-monarchy movement in the U.S, reorg?

You must be desperate to show that I SHOULDN'T have enjoyed the wedding to connect enjoyment of the wedding with a pro-monarchy position for the U.S.

It is very important to me that you approve that I enjoyed watching the wedding, since you know so much more about what I SHOULD enjoy than anyone else. :sarcasm:

[RC]

9. Didn't we fight a war with them and we won? Why is this an issue then?

Why is it all over the TV and the Intertubes and such?
Canada I can see, but here?

[PVnRT]

12. There are just as many posts

complaining about people who hate the wedding, or even just hate the fact that it's being treated as THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT EVER. I don't give a damn if you want to watch it, go ahead, I'm just sick of hearing about it.

[pokerfan]

13. isn't a monarchy pretty much the opposite of democracy?

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a proposition as a hereditary doctor or a hereditary mathematician. (Thomas Paine)

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. (Denis Diderot)

[Jackpine Radical]

15. WHAT royal wedding?

[JoePhilly]

16. Hats hats hats ... apparently hats are invading London, its on all the news!!

[L0oniX]

18. Same people watch American Idiot, Fucking with the Stars, Trumpty Dumpty and other

shows for the stupid and shallow.

[AsahinaKimi]

20. surprisingly

I really don't care. I just watched 12 anime episodes of ELFIN LIED,
and still trying to sort it all out in my head. (Some animes just leave you baffled.)