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To feel extremely bloody proud to be British today?

510 replies

hehitmeanditfeltlikeakiss · 19/05/2018 14:29

I take our country for granted because I live in a town that is the polar opposite of what Windsor looks like. But wow - watching the Royal family today I got shivers down my spine and felt so overwhelmed with emotion.

In the past I've looked at ways of emigrating because I've been fed up of living here, but I've just realised that it's a free country and to feel better about life I can actually make the move and go and live somewhere nicer (ok, maybe not Windsor but still).

We're so lucky aren't we?

OP posts:
expatinscotland · 19/05/2018 15:57

Europe has stately homes, castles, churches, too, but many of the countries saw sense and got rid of monarchies.

siwel123 · 19/05/2018 15:58

France makes more money from letting people into the royal palaces without royals then we do with them Grin

AuntyElle · 19/05/2018 15:59

Should they have just got married at the local register office and had the reception in a working men's club with an open invite to all the homeless people in the area to come and feast on an all you can eat buffet of cold sausage rolls and doritos emptied into a bowl?

Actually that would have been very cool.

expatinscotland · 19/05/2018 16:03

'France makes more money from letting people into the royal palaces without royals then we do with them grin'

Fuck yeah! I paid top whack to visit Versailles. Ouch!

LionAllMessy · 19/05/2018 16:03

Should they have just got married at the local register office and had the reception in a working men's club

Ask yourself why they didn't? The OP of this thread is the answer.

SayImADreamer · 19/05/2018 16:04

"Should they have just got married at the local register office and had the reception in a working men's club"

Considering all the bullshit about H and MM being "young" and in touch, fresh, contemporary, revolutionary, yeah they coulda done

yawning801 · 19/05/2018 16:05

If you don't like it, don't watch it or associate with it. I don't like the trans threads, so I don't associate with them. It's not that hard!

I have to agree with you OP, it looked lovely.

MarshaBradyo · 19/05/2018 16:12

I enjoyed it but couldn’t be an out and out flag waver
There probably is quite a few in the middle ground - enjoy the spectacle but still not quite at op level

TheDairyQueen · 19/05/2018 16:38

Europe has stately homes, castles, churches, too, but many of the countries saw sense and got rid of monarchies.

^ This a million times. As long as you get loons who gush and take their sycophancy to, let's be quite brutally frank here, disturbing and almost stalker levels, we'll never be free of that shower of free-loaders. We can only hope for the day.

siwel123 · 19/05/2018 16:46

@TheDairyQueen.

Here, here.
There was a website that i can't rememebr that said that the UK could make a lot more money without the royals actually being here. And we wouldn't have to pay tax for them!

baxterboi · 19/05/2018 16:48

When did we all become so incapable of just enjoying a happy occasion.

Yes life is shit for a lot of people. Whether this wedding happened or not that would still be the case.

It was nice to see so many people in Windsor, I enjoyed watching I love seeing the old cars, the outfits, the formality of it all.

We’re a country with a proud and monumental history and the royal family have been a big part of that.

HellenaHandbasket · 19/05/2018 16:50

I'm not entirely sure what it was we should be proud of tbh? I mean, some pretty and rich people got married. I'm happy for them and wish them every happiness...but what are we proud of?

Dapplegrey · 19/05/2018 16:50

I also think anyone who truly believes MM would be interested in H if he worked at Tesco is deeply naive.

Of course they wouldn't as no one would have heard of him. You could say the same about any celebrity - no one would be interested in the wedding ceremony of David Beckham if he worked in a supermarket.

Honeyroar · 19/05/2018 16:53

Hmc you're complaining about the OP being rude?? You need to take a look at yourself. You were being bitchy (because there seems to be a bitchy bandwagon on this thread) and you didn't like it when the op threw it back. You come across a bit silly.

OP I'm in California this weekend, I'm watching the american's view of the wedding and I know exactly what you mean. I love watching the events in the uk through another country's eyes. I was lucky enough to watch the Olympic and Manchester commonwealth games from abroad too. Yes there's a lot wrong in this country, but I think today the weather and the historic buildings made it look particularly beautiful. We are very, very good at pomp and ceremony. I think it brings a heck of a lot of tourism in and probably more than pays for itself. I wasn't particularly pro this wedding, but I think they did it well.

EthelHornsby · 19/05/2018 16:59

No - at the moment I am ashamed to be British. Not because of the Wedding or the royal family - today was lovely - but because of the incompetence, intolerance and general nastiness in this country. What is there to be proud of?

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 19/05/2018 17:00

Well said Honeyroar.

This is the wedding thread for miseries.

ThinkingQueSeraSera · 19/05/2018 17:02

YANBU. Ignore the whiny socialists. It was beautiful.

kalapattar · 19/05/2018 17:08

This is the wedding thread for miseries

Gosh, Someone has an issue with the idea of a Monarchy and all the money wasted on it and they get labelled as miseries and whining socialists.

Still, it keeps the masses distracted from the real news out there that actually affects people.

SusannahL · 19/05/2018 17:08

Well said OP. I agree 100%. Every time we go abroad on holiday, much as I enjoy it, I always feel very lucky to be living in one of the most beautiful, tolerant countries in the world.

I do actually live near Windsor, and it brought a lump to my throat to see how magnificent it looked today with all the flags and sunshine.

Ignore all the awful nasty comments on here. I can't understand the attitude expressed by some.

FleurDelacoeur · 19/05/2018 17:13

This morning was a perfect example of Brand Britain - it's what the tourists come here for. The pomp, pageantry, carriages, horses, flags, castles. If I were working for the Windsor tourist board I'd be rubbing my hands in glee as they will be inundated from people around the world wanting to see where the wedding was.

We do this sort of formal occasion better than anyone else and yes it's something to be proud of.

Ignore the moaners.

traciebanbanjo · 19/05/2018 17:16

We paid 30 million? For that?!

Fucking outrageous with everything that's happening. I'd feel proud if we were all marching to go the French way

Alconleigh · 19/05/2018 17:18

Clearing the homeless off the streets so the gammon people could camp out over night draped in union jacks.....no, proud isn't the word which springs to mind. And I'm not a republican particularly, it's just all fairly obscene. A performance of a national identity which doesn't actually exist, when the current reality of this country is Grenfell, Windrush, swingeing austerity, the persecution of the disabled and the almighty shit show that is Brexit......

BusterGonad · 19/05/2018 17:23

I love how it's now so trendy to hate being British! 🤣 and everyone that is proud of being British is a racist thug!

pilates · 19/05/2018 17:29

Op, I agree it was beautiful and I felt proud.

Alconleigh · 19/05/2018 17:37

I don't hate being British in the slightest. I hate the current government and the moronic UKIP version of Britishness peddled by people who ought to know better. Because actually I think we are far better than that.

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