To not really understand why some people think the Royal Wedding makes our lives better

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'in these difficult times'

I will admit that I watched the wedding, seeing as it does not happen very often and found it vaguely interesting.

But why is it that I hear people saying this wedding is a great comfort in these difficult times and some acting completely hysterical in the face of it???

I really do not get how when nobody has any money (relatively) they all feel better by putting a bunch of people on pedestals who they don't know.

Ok, they're getting married. I hope they'll be happy.....but that's it. I don't know them and I don't get that their wedding will make me happier.

Royalists, I'm genuinely interested to hear what point I've missed.

It's been good for the economy.

Apparently 'the Kate effect' has boosted it by 2bn, not bad

Also a day off work and an excuse for a party cheers most people up

Like IaInfanta said, it has boosted the economy. And where some business may have lost out re the extra day off, more have benefited.

Watching it has been pure escapism, takes your mind off the day to day dowdy stuff.

Good points, there are no street parties around here so I've not seen them. Everyone loves an excuse to get drunk I guess.

Can only royalists answer?

I wouldn't class myself as a royalist, they're OK for what they are and I don't want to get rid, but some of them are right royal tossers.

I suppose it brought lots of cash into the capital which'll filter down at some point to everyone else, gave people something to whine/gossip about that wasn't the weather/the price of eggs.

But most important of all, is that it's filled up AIBU with royal threads instead of the bog standard MIL/bf vs ff/my H arse fucked an alien should I leave him? type of threads.

No, sorry I didn't mean to make it sound that way. I just don't understand the royalists position about how great the Queen is etc.

I squirmed today while my idiot of a father was spouting about how great the Queen is, how hard she works, how good she is for her years. He has never met her - these people live on a different planet. And there are plenty of people in the world who work harder than she does and have sh*t lives. Just really annoyed me that someone could idolize someone else for reasons that have no sound basis at all.

Well, I've enjoyed it.

I'm a single parent (unexpectedly), I'm 6 weeks away from having to submit my degree dissertation, I have so much other uni work to do that I don't know which way is up, but today, for one day, it was just nice to see that life can be nice for people.

I didn't get my happily ever after, but I sure as hell can wish that others might.

Well, I enjoyed it too. And I do wish anyone well who is getting married. Just don't get the hysteria / deification of the royal family.

YANBU. I have read that the argument that the Royal Wedding and the monarchy as a whole, brings in loads of money for the nation, is absolute twaddle. Elizabeth is the fifth richest monarch in the world. Why on earth does she need that sort of money?

Also, what happens to the press on days like this? Are they all injected with some sort of drug that makes them smile like idiots all day and say things like, 'The whole nation rejoices'.

I don't rejoice and I know plenty of people who don't either, and who are not interested in the Royal Wedding, yet they are completely unrepresented in the hours and hours of tedious coverage on TV and radio.

By all means, have your street parties and enjoy the excuse to get rat-arsed (as if most Brits need one), but I do feel the press coverage should be much more balanced.

I'm really into my history, plantagenets/tudors/stuarts, so from that point of view I like them because they're a definate connection to the past.

I'm more interested in the social role they play out because I know they're just people who, like the rest of us, have no choice into the place and family they're born into.

I would hate to have that obligation to fulfill a public role based on being nice and keeping quiet.

I don't think I'd be very good at it

Come to think of it, they're not shit hot at it a lot of the time either.

I've had a smile on my face all day, and so has much of the country, I think. It's good for morale, it makes me feel proud to be British. I've had a day off work, painted my toe-nails red-white-and-blue and spent all day at a street party. I'm not "worshipping" the royals, just enjoying the sense of occasion.

Let's face it, it's no worse than the hysteria/deification of "celebs" which is endemic in this country.

YANBU

Oh I just have to agree with Agentzigzag again. Will you please get the fuck out of my head...it's not like there's anything to see in there

But she's a woman bakelite

And also, it's not only that she's got shit loads of cash stashed, she's probably on the rich list because of the amount of wealth she has.

Totally different to easy to access money, and the things she 'owns' to make up that total wealth don't really belong to her per se, they go with the job and are held on 'our' behalf.

So not hers to do with what she wants or anything.

because it's cheered everyone up (apart from some eeyore moaning whingebag killjoys)

It will also increase tourism to the UK (well already has with all those that holidayed here for the wedding)

oh god 'proud to be British'. What does that even mean? Maybe this is the root of my misunderstanding of the whole thing. Who was it who said nationalism is an infantile disease of mankind?

Hang on worra...there's something else coming through...you're going to do what with that banana??

But that complaining about the wedding makes those people happy lubey

Happies - 1

Killjoys - 0

Think pure thoughts...think pure thoughts....

Oh fuck it! I'm going to make it into a sugary dessert and feed it to my children for dinner!!

I know I should really have sex with it, but that would shock no-one unless I was eating a Gregg's steak bake at the time

You obviously just don't get it. What can one do it make you get it? Nothing. So don't worry about it. It can be one of lifes little mysteries for you.