Ok, I've got a hell of a lot of work to get through before Tuesday (and an exam on Thursday) so should technically be concentrating on that. Instead I'm going to write a post (first one in a very long time) as I'm a bit bored really.
I'm not a royalist, I couldn't give a flying monkey about who weds who, what they wear or indeed, what they ate for breakfast. However, today I inevitably ended up watching the royal wedding (though I'd told myself countlessly I wouldn't). I was surprised how much I actually enjoyed watching it; to me, they're both two ordinary people so why should I care about them any more than Janice and John from down t'road's* soon to be annulled do at the civic centre (bar the fact Janice and John had the courtesy to serve boxes of wine to get us truly hammered). For once, however, there was actually a sense of unison and community amongst the country (soppy old mare I am).
*Unfortunately Janice, John and their lovely Asda Price boxes of wine don't exist.
I've no issues with anyone who didn't watch it, like I said I only watched it by chance - I wasn't intending to at all. However what I do object to is people having a go at people for watching it and, indeed, enjoying the occasion. I'm fed up of so-called 'Socialists' posting rubbish about how the Royal Family encompass this or that. The majority of you are happy to live and work within our system, buy expensive laptops, support expensive commodities. The majority of you come from incredibly well off backgrounds and have never had to deal with the horrid poverty that curses this country.
It's not even the objections I (ahem) object to, it's the attitude of telling everyone else they're wrong. Apparently if you're not sitting on your £600 (at the very cheapest) Macbook on Facebook (one of the most prolific symbols of our supposedly wrong times) moaning about how everything's wrong, you're supporting an elitist system which is both 'racist' and 'unethical'.
I'm not even going to start the argument on the amount the monarchy bring in for tourism, though if you'd check the figures rather than the propaganda fed to you by peers, you'd see why we still have one. I don't know if people'd rather have a republic, but one only need look at the state of France and the US to realise we'd be no better off. Regardless of any 'facts' like that though, fair enough you have your opinions, but don't tell others that their opinion is wrong because you'd rather sit there and kid yourself that you're making a change to the system. Writing swearwords and smashing up Topshop does absolutely nothing for your cause, nothing for you, and nothing for the country.
I'm not "proud to be British" because two people got married. I'm not "proud to be British" at all. I'm proud to be me because the State doesn't reflect my opinions or who I am anymore than it does anyone else. But similarly, you shouldn't be proud to classify yourself as anti-everything when you're feeding off the money poured in my tourism to get your student loan and buy your laptop to moan about them. You're entitled to your own opinion, as am I to mine. But don't tell me I'm wrong because you think you're right, you might gain a bit more respect if you keep that in mind.
Rant over.
Also, here's a picture of Elizabeth getting married when she was younger. Just because I think she was pure loveliness at that age.
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