The best way to celebrate the royal wedding!
 

At a gay bar at 6am, drinking and talking to local queens in tiaras! :-)

My wife and daughter are going over to a friend's house at like 6am for tea and scones to watch the wedding. It's apparently going to be a big party. No men allowed. After the wedding, there will be carpools to drop the kids off at school. Crazy. I'll celebrate by getting ready for work.

Sheldon: Will you be there? :D

When is it, by the way?

It's this friday morning. I wish I could go but I have to work. :-(

Here's the best way for me to celebrate the royal wedding:

:zzz:

I'd say this :shotgun: but some goons would probably come and nail my knees to the floor.

IM and I will be having the same celebration! ;)ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

I have to admit, I got up in the middle of the night to watch Charles and Diana get married.

This time, I couldn't care less. :neutral:

At the Trades Club in Hebden they're having a Not the Royal Wedding party. I might go along. It's a good chance for a bunch of us to get together and have a street party in order to not celebrate the royal wedding.

I'll get pics of the posters and t-shirts J has designed for it. They're rather cool.

Our local PBS station is going to carry the BBC's coverage starting at 2am.

It's fascinating and interesting, but I won't be watching. I have a friend in STL that is all about it though...she's been waiting for months.

Ever been to Stubbing Wharf?

I'll probably watch it, because we get the day off work, and it'll be all the TV and radio are about anyway. I certainly wouldn't be getting up at 06.00 if I was in another time zone.

Might get some cheap plonk to toast them, because it's an excuse :)

I'd FAR rather be at BS West though.

Oh aye, many times. The Stubbing Wharf does the best pub food evah. If you get chips with your meal they're proper old fashioned, home-made, giant chips.

They have a fantastic annual cider festival there. I'm not a big cider drinker, but some of the specialty ciders I've had at Stubbing Wharf's festival were lovely.

What's nice about the Stuubing Wharf is that if the weather is nice you can go out back and sit alongside the canal. I don't mean in a garden overlooking the canal, I mean the side of the canal. S'great.

Last time I was there a bloke was wandering about doing magic tricks.

Why would anyone want to watch the wedding?? Do we really want to celebrate the descendants of brutal tyrants who enslaved us?? We had to fight them in 2 wars and they even burned out nation's capitol.

Let's face it, the Brits are a horrible warmongering race that attempted to enslave the world. Thank God we were able to break the shackles of their oppression and eventually elect a Kenyan Muslim as president.

I actually couldn't care less about the wedding. I just like having a reason to go out drinking at 6am surrounded by gay men who will be drunk by 10am and easily had. ;-)

I wouldn't get up at 6 a.m. for my own wedding! ;)

I wake up every morning between 2-3am, even on my days off.
Just out of habit.

Hahahahaha...

I'm a grand sleeper. I once said "If I don't get up before 1 or 2 in the afternoon I feel like I've wasted HALF the day!" :lol:

Of course, this is on the weekend. I get up about 6:30 for work.

And I don't sleep that late every day of every weekend. Maybe a day every other or third weekend. 9 a.m. is more typical.

I know so many people who don't sleep well. I guess I'm lucky.

I did get up at 6am for my own wedding.

I wish I hadn't bothered.

As for this one, well, I bear the pair of them no ill will but they've been co-habiting for years anyway so why the need for such a big show? The days when this (or any other) country needed a 'Royal Family' are long gone - maybe if we all just ignore the performance on Friday they'll take the hint and just quietly disappear.

I think I was probably up a similar time, thinking about it.
I was excited and full of hope.
Sigh. It was a lovely day, but I wish it hadn't happened.

Oh I say good luck to them.
I'd rather see money spent on all this hoo-ha than on missiles which make fuck-all difference to conflicts in other countries. I'm all for a good old knees-up.

Note to self, see if any local pubs are offering coverage.
I do have a hat I could wear...

So do I:

I want to see a pic of you wearing that, shel. I really do.

Send me the $99.95 plus shipping and I'll buy it and take a picture.

:D

So you were being a little pp with the truth there...... ;)

You should have photoshopped that bling onto your head, and we would never have been the wiser. ;)

Here are some of the poster/t-shirt designs for the Trades' 'Not the Royal Wedding' street party.

These are taken from the mock ups that J was working on, so some of them have placeholder text rather than the finished promo text. I'm not sure what colour 'SickBag' they went with, but there were several. I've posted the blue because I preferred that one.

The t-shirts look great. I definately want one of the Sex Pistols album style pic. Also the bird flip design.

I'm happy about the royal wedding. I like having a Royal Family. I'm expatriated, but still British/English. I doubt I'll get up early for it, though.

I see the US is launching the shuttle as part of the flypast :D

I hope all of you Brits know I was poking fun with my post earlier in this thread. I (hanging my head in shame) plan to watch it.

Fuck me, I'm not. I wish them the best for their married life, as I would any other couple I don't actually know. I'm pleased the lad's found someone he loves. His life has rolled out on our television screens from the first showing of a bump in his mother's belly, so I am not entirely apathetic. But watch it? Nah.

Now THAT was just cruel! I'M NEVER SIGNING IN TO THIS PLACE AGAIN!!! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hehehe

hon, we really don't care. Love them or hate them, we're not precious about them. Take the piss all you want -we do. Same with politicians.

I saw a television interview of people on the street here who were asked if they were going to celebrate the wedding and one person simply replied "We won the war, we don't have to do that."

I'm a bit of an anglophile. It's not that I'm ,like, mad about the royal wedding or anything...I just don't give a crud about big weddings and all the hoopla. I don't particularly believe in fairies or their tales.

Kate is beautiful. Prince looks like a perfect cross between his mom and dad...retaining some of his dad's features but those are calmed by the features of his so pretty mom.

I guess they never had a chance to just elope! Canteloupe tonight, dad's got the carriage!

Well no wonder, they shoulda tried pumpkin.

Ba DUM dum! :)

Margaritas!

and vodka!

and single malt

and a bucket!

A bucket of what?

Well I went out today and spent more than I should on our "wedding breakfast".
Mum's friend is coming over and one of the neighbours is dropping in. I just went a bit overboard.

Anyway, I saw some things on Mum's shopping list and said she didn't have to buy them as I'd bought plenty.

She asked to see what I'd bought, which I hadn't shown her when I came home in case she told me off (I only seem to realise afterwards!) But no criticism from her. In fact she said "Oh I'll still get another bag of salad. And some ham for your Dad. And do you want me to get some more bread?"

I guess I know where I got the overfeeding people gene from.

I'm really looking forward to it now!
Although I admit it mostly for the drinks and the yummy-yums :yum:

My son found out at dinner last night that his mom and sister are going to a party starting at 5:30am tomorrow for the royal wedding, and he and I are not invited. He's actually upset about it. When I explained that they were just going to be sitting around and drinking tea and eating scones and watching the wedding on tv, he got even more upset. I was kind of surprised about that, but then I remembered that he went to tea around Christmas time with his grandmother and cousins, and really enjoyed himself. Sleeping until a normal hour and hanging out with me at home until his bus comes sounds like a rip off to him. So my wife is going to wake him up when she leaves tomorrow, and he's going to watch the wedding on TV by himself until I get up. I bet I wind up watching the damn thing too.

There were graphics of the church in this morning's paper. With a little infographic thing next to it of the timeline. It's going to take something like 4 minutes to walk down the aisle. Wtf? Why do I need to know this?

"It's pronounced "BOUQUET".

to fill time, glatt.

You don't. But you might be interested. How long is the average walk down the aisle? much shorter, I'll wager. We managed 5 seconds, I think.

And it is a very long aisle. And a very nice piece of music :)

....and you could have used it as a math lesson/estimation/learning experience. You coulda had your son predict if it really would take that time and why he thought it would take so long and then give him a stopwatch to time it.....

I wanna know who dressed the Queen in the Easter "peep" outfit... Classy.