The Royal Wedding

progkidjoel wrote: Well, supposedly the wedding cost about 40 million GBP to pay for so far, and counting. Was it worth it to see two people walk into a church?

When you want to set up an enterprise and make money, you first have to put in money in manufacturing and other costs. As you rightly said, the manufacturing costs here are 40 GBP. The business also have an income side in the accounts too over the next 20-25 years which is far greater than the manufacturing costs. Great Britain is still getting money from the Diana/Charles product back in 1981. But off course; as you say; don't produce any goods/services whatsover because it cost money. Don't do anything. Starve. Starve to death.    

Edit: Any idea why tourists would visit Great Britain, Progkidjoel ? Is it because of the weather ? The farmfields ? Exotic cows ? Sex ? Hint, hint, hint........ We have just had a big advert on the TV watched by two billion people. The rule of thumb is 10 x income of the advert expenses..... Over 20-25 years, that is a 40 GBP advert budget any marketing director would sign off with big glee and joy. 

Australia is getting live feed, minus 2/100 seconds due to geographic  distances. Well, it beats this 6 weeks long mail sail ship with..... ehh..... 6 weeks.

The rest of the comments just confirms my observations of you Brits all along. You pretend not to care and you pretend that you are all against this monarchy and the wedding. But deep down; you are all pro this. One of the sixty millions around the castle are. The streets are empty, I am told. People even refuses to die now, according to my hospital. 

........ anyway, I have a good time at this garden party. White wine (my first drop of alcohol for many many weeks...), chicken and fish, fruits, desireable women which I would like some wedding nights rehearsals with, a big TV, my laptop and a  fast internet line. You all know this wedding was Great Britain at it's best. It beats the birthers by miles.

...... And William is the real deal and a fantastic asset to any organisation. His daytime job is life saver in a helicopter and that says a lot.  

As I said; give me royalities any day instead of birthers and underage girls humping old men, you grumpy sods. 

aginor wrote: Im an obediant servant of the king of Norway , If I was somehow arrested in US and had to swear aliegence to  the american constitution, I would stubornly protested and said my only aligence lise to the norwegian throne and the norwegian state and the offical norwegian constitutian (of 1814),

I tend to agree with you. The Brits, who are my fellow humans in this society where I live (actually; the Brits are my obedient slaves here where I live), have had a very successful monarchy for 1000 years. They had a republic under Oliver Cromwell for some years and that was a terror regime in the same vein as Hitler's, Pol Pot's and Stalin's regimes. It was an experience not worth repeated which created divisions & bitterness still troubling these British island. 

To those of you complaining about the costs:

Yes, this monarchy cost money. To be precise; 1/10 of what bad body odours in offices costs this nation. The latter one does not create a good flow of tourist and foreign valuta revenue, btw. Maybe it's about time to get the priorities right then. Take a sniff at your own armpits before you complain about this wedding and the monarchy. 

And yes, I am not so elitist and snobbish that I turn my nose up at this wedding and the garden party with young excited females and great food I am writing these lines from. I am a human being and I have gradually accepted my lot. Good luck to those of you still in this process.  

End of rant.