# 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")
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### Author:  [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)
#### 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/577016/41 "2011-04-03T15:16:51Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#):
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> 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.
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> But yeah, I don’t get it, _especially_ by Americans. It hasn’t been so bad once I got rid of my cable.
Are you sure the govt persecution wasn’t part of the April Fool?
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/42 "2011-04-03T15:24:26Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#):
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> Are you sure the govt persecution wasn’t part of the April Fool?
:smack:
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### Author:  [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/43 "2011-04-03T15:30:02Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#):
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> :smack:
That’d explain why it rubbed you up the wrong way - you knew it couldn’t be right! 😃
On April 1st Groupon, that group-deals special offers site, put up a deal offering a ticket for £8 to the royal wedding, including a guided tour led by Prince Philip. I don’t think they ever had it open to real sales, but, going on the comments, a lot of people fell for it.
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### Author:  [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/44 "2011-04-03T15:30:14Z")
It was the Guardian’s [royal wedding liveblog](http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/by-royal-appointment/2011/apr/01/royal-wedding-live-updates). (The Guardian having noted republican tendencies, they also had an April Fool’s editorial entitled [“The magic of the monarchy: The royal moment has come”](http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/01/magic-monarchy-royal-moment).) The reference to the Treason Felony Act 1848 was clearly part of the joke.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/45 "2011-04-03T15:32:16Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> **Am I the only one who doesn’t give a damn about William and Kate?**
Nope; in fact I only learned that he’s marrying a woman by the name of Kate because of your thread title just now. You’ve contaminated me!
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/46 "2011-04-03T15:39:52Z")
> [@shijinn](#):
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> how do you know this? you must have been interested enough to find out this much.
It’s impossible to avoid knowing this much, and in point of fact, this is about the sum total of what I know other than the fact that I know that Willie isn’t going to wear a ring only because somebody started a thread on the Dope with that title.
I don’t _want_ to know this stuff, but I don’t see how it’s possible to avoud knwing the bare minimum that Prince William is getting married unless you avoid all popular media altogether.
Her I know nothing about at all except her first name. I don’t even know what she looks like. I called her a gold digger, but I don’t know that. I assume she ain’t looking for no broke gentleman.
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### Author:  [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/47 "2011-04-03T15:43:58Z")
> [@ctnguy](#):
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> It was the Guardian’s [royal wedding liveblog](http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/by-royal-appointment/2011/apr/01/royal-wedding-live-updates). (The Guardian having noted republican tendencies, they also had an April Fool’s editorial entitled [“The magic of the monarchy: The royal moment has come”](http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/01/magic-monarchy-royal-moment).) The reference to the Treason Felony Act 1848 was clearly part of the joke.
That is very funny. I particularly like:
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> 9.43am: There’s been lots of media speculation around the wedding gifts that the happy couple will receive, especially from the Royal family. Now, insiders at Clarence House have told the Guardian that Prince Charles is planning something a bit more spectacular than some matching royal bedlinen.
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> “He’s going to give them Scotland,” reveals a senior courtier. “As the High Steward of Scotland, the Lord of the Isles and the Duke of Rothesay, it’s perfectly within his gift to pass it on.” The source added: “Let’s face it, Charles was never going to hand over Cornwall. That place is an absolute money factory.”
😃
I could actually see the Queen giving them Tupperware, though - she really does use it a lot.
It’s the ridicule and the tackiness that’s starting to make me interested in the royal wedding. There’s a shop down Petticoat Lane that’s selling the ugliest, gaudiest, hugest souvenirs with no sense of irony at all. I’m tempted by the six-foot wide flag of which about three feet is William’s teeth.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/48 "2011-04-03T15:47:14Z")
> [@the lone cashew](#):
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> Seriously, same here.
When I first starting seeing the names “William and Kate,” phrased like that, I didn’t know who they were either. I figured out that I did know who William was, though, I just didn’t recognize him without his HRH sticking out in front of him.
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/49 "2011-04-03T15:51:35Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> I called her a gold digger, but I don’t know that. I assume she ain’t looking for no broke gentleman.
Her parents were born middle class but started a business together and became millionaires many times over when Kate was very young. Obviously she is marrying into more wealth but she never wanted for money and never would have.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/50 "2011-04-03T15:51:41Z")
> [@Raguleader](#):
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> 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.
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> 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?”
I don’t have an bile for them personally. I don’t know anythng about them. My annoyance is that I can’t watch ten minutes of cable news without having to hear some breathless report about what color their tablecloths are going to be.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/51 "2011-04-03T15:54:54Z")
> [@Malacandra](#):
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> 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
I lived in England for three years, and have been back there twice since then.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/52 "2011-04-03T16:07:50Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> Nope; in fact I only learned that he’s marrying a woman by the name of Kate because of your thread title just now. You’ve contaminated me!
Image search, dude, she’s hot.
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### Author:  [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/53 "2011-04-03T16:11:53Z")
I have zero interest in their marriage. Good thing I have a remote control for my TV.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/54 "2011-04-03T16:35:06Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> …I don’t _want_ to know this stuff, …
But you NEED to know, to fuel future rants against monarchy. the British Royal family, celebrity, fashion, the media, marriage, wealth, and the stupidity of wealthy youth. It’s like learning about eight morons for the price of two.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/55 "2011-04-03T17:02:16Z")
Sorry OP, I am too busy not giving a damn about Lady Gaga, the Kardashians and Oprah to have time for William and Kate. They barely make the top ten of my Do Not Give A Rat’s Ass list.
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/56 "2011-04-03T17:18:14Z")
I began this thread in ignorance as to who they are.
Now I know. I certainly don’t care, but now I know.
Dammit.
I blame Diogenes. But once again I am thankful that I do not have cable television.
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/57 "2011-04-03T17:18:20Z")
> [@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.
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> Am I alone?
It is quite remarkable how little you care.
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/58 "2011-04-03T18:38:19Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> I lived in England for three years, and have been back there twice since then.
Live and learn. Anywhere I know of? (“None of your business” is acceptable. 🆒 )
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/59 "2011-04-03T18:57:42Z")
> [@BDoors](#):
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> Hear, hear. I’m an ardent royalist as long as we get a day off every time one of them gets married. Have the powers-that-be considered royal christenings/funerals/barmitzvahs? Surely they would be worth a public holiday too?
Hey, they’re our titular heads, too! I demand days off! (Since I’m about to be unemployed, the self-righteousness of my demand is slightly weakened.)
Did you know that Princes William and Harry use the last name “Wales?” I didn’t know that until last week.
And, I care so little about the wedding that I didn’t start a thread about it. 😃 (I am planning to catch the highlights of the wedding, however - I also watch reality tv shows about wedding dresses. We all have our little vices.)
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/60 "2011-04-03T18:58:08Z")
RAF Lakenheath (my dad was stationed at the USAF base in Mildenhall).
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