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.

Hahaa agent zigzag :o

small therefore life must be pretty thin for the near million who turned out today and the millions around the world who tuned in to watch it.
We're all doomed to misery!

Small White cat my lifes been fabulous! Don't worry about moi

Oh don't talk crap swc. It's hardly been the "most joyful" day of my life, but it's been a nice happy one. So there.

Swc you must be a v unhappy person. It oozes from you

Sooooo patronising.

swc one is that if the royal wedding can give you joy, you're operating a pretty basic level

Bollocks.

Different strokes for different folks.

Most intelligent people demand a bit more before bringing out the emotional big guns

There were many intelligent people tuning in today.

I question your intelligence

Why assume that people who don't celebrate the royal wedding are killjoys?

I could assume that someone who says:

"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",

...........is a fool?

That would be unkind.

No worries, you miserable f*ckwit

Obviously it's not about the happy couple who got married today swc, because we don't know them.

But plenty of people have been married at some point in their lives, and if they chose to do it it can be a very happy day to remember, so seeing W and Ks wedding reminds you of your own (good, bad and embarrassing bits).

I don't think it's for anyone to look down on something lots of people derive pleasure from, if you don't understand it (like the OP) then ask, but to say they're somehow emotionally or intellectually challenged because they like it, is a bit off.

It takes a special kind of ignorance to think you like swc. Maybe one day you'll grow up a bit. No mature reasonable person would be as simplistic as you're being.

'maybe living life for yourself, rather than vicariously through a bunch of people you've never met, might provide longer lasting happiness. you'll never know unless you try'

Oooo meow smallwhitecat, why didn't you scratch serenitys eyes out while you were at it?

Makes me sick TBH. Millions have been spent on this wedding, when people are genuinely struggling. The homeless people of London have been shunted out of the way, so that a ridiculously twee vision of "England" can be beamed to the world. I wish William and Kate a happy marriage, as I would wish any couple. However, I resent that the media suggests that we are all delighted about the actual wedding. And as for their persistent suggestion that the Queen has paid much of the cost - well, where does she get her money from??!! I have to say that, here in Scotland, nobody actually cares, apart from being pleased about a day off work. The bunting-waving just bemuses most folk.

FWIW, I'm not actually anti-monarchy. I respect the hundreds of years of tradition involved. I just think that such an extravagant event at such an austere time is rubbing everyone's nose in it. My DP and I want to get married, but guess what? We have to wait until we can afford it, which won't be any time soon.

Thanks for that, bakelite, I'm not a fool, emotionally challenged, or anything else; just an ordinary mum who's had a nice day off drinking wine in the sunshine and soaking up the generally happy atmosphere around me.

I have no problem with those who aren't particularly interested in the royal wedding, but those who moan on about how rubbish it all is, bah humbug, can just go away.

I'm all cheered, f*ckwit. Not planning to uncheer

I think there are lots of people who haven't enjoyed the wedding or bought into the whole 'Hello Magazine' crap of it all, but they have not been represented in the press at all.

Not a minute spared to present the other view which, considering we fools pay for it all and there has always been a strong Republican streak in Britain, is disgraceful.

The pinnacle of brain-rotting saccharine tripe was a series of slow-motion clips, with a background of Elvis Costello singing 'She'. I think someone at the BBC had the bright idea of turning the wedding into a Richard Curtis film - all terribly British, Hugh Grant, Marquees, faux eccentric smaltz

SWC

Why so bitter, condescending, and vile? Why can't you bear happy people?

You haven't killed any of my joy, so failure there too

I just feel immense pity.

Cointreau, you are not a fool and and I am not a killjoy.

If you want everyone who disagrees with you about the royal wedding to go away, then don't join a thread like this