CAN WE STOP

[CaptainCabinets]

Obsessing over the fucking Royal Wedding?!

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I’m dreading tomorrow. I drive in residential areas to get to my old dears, no doubt I’ll be held up by bastarding street parties and other nonsense.

It’s a bastarding street party when I’m hot, bothered and running late.

A regular street party at any other time.

On the Today program Radio 4 - talking about wedding hats. The guest said that we should be going to get the advice of a milliner before important events. Right and back in the real world nobody cares about hats or if they do then they just go to John Lewis.

I quite like the idea of a safe thread. I'll be hiding in my new garage watching hideously violent films and knitting, I'll have to keep my radio off until the hooha is over. If there are dozens of pro-hooha threads I don't see why us misers can't have one anti-hooha thread... Take your own advice people and just don't open this thread! How is everyone spending their Saturday?

Wow OP sounds like a barrel of laughs, get over it, it's one day why do you have to be so negative about other people enjoying themselves???
You go live you life and just let people enjoy themselves they aren't hurting anyone so just chill out already!!!

I give it 6 months

It’s even funnier now that @LilMadAgain has hit the nail on the head!

Nothing is stopping the pro-weddingers from ignoring this thread if they don’t like it.

I haven't engaged in any of the discussions or festivities (this thread is the first time I've mentioned it). I don't give a fuck about the royal wedding, but it doesn't bother me that everyone's talking about it because my lack of interest means I don't really notice. I have seen that there's millions of them on here but I just scroll on by. I could get really passionste about how much I just don't care about this wedding but I just cba and I'm much more chilled out as a result.

I'm in Ireland and it's all over the radio and RTE are showing it and we hate the Brits(supposedly). Only wedding I really enjoyed was my own and even that was a major hassle except for DH. I'm just turning over the telly, turning off the radio and not reading the newspapers. And praying for Sunday.

If you knew anything about sheep you would know that they're all quite independent minded. In fact they're quite rebellious.

I'm not very interested in the Royal Family but I do like a wedding, so I'll be watching. I don't know enough about Meghan to have any real opinion of her, but she is completely gorgeous, and I'm quite excited to see what she wears. I'm looking forward to see what everybody's wearing, actually.

As soon as tomorrow's over I'll go back to avoiding all Royal talk and 'news'. Whilst there are lots of people talking about the wedding, it's really not impossible to avoid if you really want to, on here on Mumsnet or out in the real word. My fiancé's taking our dog out for the day in the Lakes in his bid to not have to see any of it.

Err, No. Don't like it, don't watch it. Not that hard to avoid.

Or does the world have to focus on only like things YOU like?

I have harboured dark suspicions about sheep derxa, it wouldn't surprise me.

I think the obvious lighthearted tone of this thread is whizzing over a lot of heads.

you post in AIBU, you take the treatment that gets meted out to you Captain. Surely you knew that? Sense of humour gets handed in at the door, right?

Although it’s quite sad that many commenters have resorted to character attacks just because I’m not absolutely delighted about the wedding.

Agree. I don't care about the wedding either.

thisis oh yes!!! Absobloodylutely!! That's exactly what I do at 'parties'!!

Royal weddings are literally the only function the royal family has, if you believe the "they're good for British PR and tourism" line. Aren't they supposed to gladden the hearts of the great unwashed or something? (Except Princess Anne, who does a staggering amount for almost zero recognition, apparently).

(I personally don't think the RF has any credible function whatsoever. Except maybe Anne. So you're quite right, OP, although I'll totally watch it.)

Ahhh true @ReluctantCamper

On the flip side, I wonder what colour Her Maj will wear? She always looks lovely, I’ll give her that.

I have harboured dark suspicions about sheep derxa

putting lighthearted in your posts doesn't stop others to have an opinion and told you are being ridiculous. Enjoy your wedding thread if you are that obsessed with it, nothing wrong with that.

I'm in Ireland and it's all over the radio and RTE are showing it and we hate the Brits(supposedly).

Charles and Diana were married in 1981, and Sarah Ferguson and Andrew in '86, when things were kicking off on a daily basis in NI, and everyone was still GLUED to the tv for those weddings. I was only 3 and I remember Charles & Di, also very clearly remember my Mum watching Sarah and Andrew - my best friend was called Andrew which I thought was very interesting. "Mummy his name is Andrew like Andrew!!!!" "Yes, dear" etc. etc.

Not one post about the wedding on my FB feed this morning.

No one I've spoken to in person has mentioned it.

The only TV I watch is a few things on iPlayer or Netflix.

TBH the only place I'm getting bombarded with Royal Wedding stuff is Mumsnet.

It won't stop. Some people are just obsessed and that's the way they are. I don't have a problem with them, just the ones that froth away being as nasty as they can about somebody they don't know, will never meet... pathetic!

Interestingly, there was a 'happy thread' about this wedding posted yesterday, full of posters who were doing street parties, making an occasion of it... only there aren't many posters on it, not nearly as many as on the spleen-venting ones. Odd that.

I'm not interested in the Royals, I wish the wedding pair well as I would with anybody else. I'd been on tranquilisers if I had the spotlight on me as they do. Couldn't hack it for a day.

I have pretty well avoided all the hideous run up and will be avoiding it all completely tomorrow too.