# Am I the only one who doesn't give a damn about William and Kate?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 3, 2011, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016 "2011-04-03T05:48:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/21 "2011-04-03T10:08:19Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> I do not care an ounce about William and Kate. I don’t want to watch their wedding. I don’t to read about it or see updates on the news. I think Charlie Sheen updates are more newsworthy and more fascinating than these two. I don’t see why anyone is supposed to care that some useless, walking anachronism is going to marry some golddigger, then spend 50 or 60 years doing nothing. I don’t get the fascination with these people. I mean, I never care about _any_ celebrity weddings/romances/gossip, whatever, but at least most other celebrities have actually done something to make themselves famous other than just be born.
You do, however, want to start threads about them on SDMB, though?
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/22 "2011-04-03T10:18:16Z")
No, you are not. I completely forgot about it until the wedding ring thing came up.
The only reason I might slightly care is that it’s nice to see a pretty female in the royal family again. The joke about being horribly ugly if you are royal is getting old.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/23 "2011-04-03T10:20:48Z")
The Royals are much better than the alternative. Look at Putin. Consider an unfettered Blair. Or Thatcher.
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### Author:  [@BDoors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BDoors)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/24 "2011-04-03T10:47:08Z")
The actual alternative is more like the presidents of Ireland or Germany, who seem quite benign and have clearly circumscribed powers (Russia is a bit different, because Putin appears to have driven a coach and horse through the constitution). Nobody is proposing that we get rid of the monarchy and give the Prime Minister absolute power.
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### Author:  [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/25 "2011-04-03T10:57:40Z")
> [@Quartz](#):
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> The Royals are much better than the alternative. Look at Putin. Consider an unfettered Blair. Or Thatcher.
There is no guarantee of this. What would happen, for instance, if a future monarch quiety endorsed the BNP? At least an elected official is easier to get rid of.
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### Author:  [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/26 "2011-04-03T11:04:19Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> I do not care an ounce about William and Kate.
> …snip…
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> Am I alone?
We don’t agree on much. But we do agree on this.
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### Author:  [@Zany\_Zeolite\_Zipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zany_Zeolite_Zipper)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/27 "2011-04-03T12:02:08Z")
> [@Quartz](#):
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> The Royals are much better than the alternative. Look at Putin. Consider an unfettered Blair. Or Thatcher.
What’s wrong with Putin? Putting aside all of the stuff he does in an official capacity, you have to admit that he is Prime Minister James Bond. Only cooler.
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### Author:  [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/28 "2011-04-03T12:03:23Z")
> [@flatlined](#):
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> Who are William and Kate?
Seriously, same here.
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### Author:  [@dawson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dawson)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/29 "2011-04-03T12:46:22Z")
Until I receive my royal invitation I will continue to not give a royal poop about the goings on a Windsor Palace!
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### Author:  [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/30 "2011-04-03T13:01:49Z")
> [@Quartz](#):
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> The Royals are much better than the alternative. Look at Putin. Consider an unfettered Blair. Or Thatcher.
Or on the celebrity gossip scene, I’d rather be confronted with Kate Middleton and the scandal when she doesn’t wear a hat than Snooki and the perfectly ordinary reporting on her lack of underwear when standing in the grocery store line.
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### Author:  [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/31 "2011-04-03T13:19:21Z")
I guess you could say I don’t give a damn. They seem like nice enough folks, from what little I’ve seen, and I gotta respect William for serving in the military.
But yeah, I’m not sure I can say _you_ don’t give a damn. You obviously give a damn, or else you wouldn’t be able to produce such depths of bile for someone you’ve never met. Me, I’m just sorta “Huh, Prince William’s getting married. That’s nice, she looks cute. I wonder if the Rangers beat the Red Sox the other night?”
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/32 "2011-04-03T13:25:14Z")
> [@jjimm](#):
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> I’m a Brit and I couldn’t give a fuck..
+1
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### Author:  [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/33 "2011-04-03T14:01:13Z")
William and who ?
Nah, don’t care either.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/34 "2011-04-03T14:08:29Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#):
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> There is no guarantee of this. What would happen, for instance, if a future monarch quiety endorsed the BNP? At least an elected official is easier to get rid of.
We’ve got rid of unpopular monarchs before.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/35 "2011-04-03T14:23:10Z")
I would be willing to give a fuck to her if asked.
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### Author:  [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/36 "2011-04-03T14:27:45Z")
> [@the lone cashew](#):
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> Seriously, same here.
If you’ve not been able to deduce the identity of the titular “William and Kate” form the contents of the thread preceding your post, you either haven’t read the thread or possess an astonishing degree of ignorance of the world beyond your borders.
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### Author:  [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/37 "2011-04-03T14:29:50Z")
> [@beartato](#):
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> I can’t imagine what sort of company you keep that you’re really wondering if you’re the only one not interested in this wedding. Other than the occasional news story, the only things I hear about it are wannabe iconoclasts desperate to bring up the royal wedding only to tell me how much they don’t care about the wedding.
Yeah. Dio, do you live in a little monarchist enclave of the USA?
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/38 "2011-04-03T15:01:58Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#):
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> Yeah. Dio, do you live in a little monarchist enclave of the USA?
No, but all his IRL social circle is completely fished out when it comes to snarking about a society wedding in a foreign country that AFAIK he’s never been to nor has any intention of going to, so in order to feel all speshul about his disinterest, uninterest and complete lack of any interest whatever, he has to take it online. It’s worth about as much as coming to the Dope to proclaim your atheism for the sake of the attention. 😃
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/39 "2011-04-03T15:08:58Z")
Apparently some blog in England put up, for April Fools, a notice saying that the royal wedding was off. The man got a nice letter from the government saying that those actions could be construed as treasonous by a law from the 1840s or something. Something about that rubbed me the wrong way.
But yeah, I don’t get it, _especially_ by Americans. It hasn’t been so bad once I got rid of my cable.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/40 "2011-04-03T15:16:33Z")
It all gets a hearty ‘meh’ from me. And I have been known to ponder the benefits of monarchism at times.
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