# 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:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/81 "2011-04-04T02:26:30Z")
> [@Equipoise](#):
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> So, the two threads on the front page of Cafe Society about this marriage were both started by people don’t care. That’s just weird. I wish them well but I don’t care either and it’s easy enough to avoid hearing/thinking about it, except when people who don’t give a shit are starting threads and bitching about it.
In my case it was more about the ring thing as a whole. William just was the symbol that brought the question to mind.
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/82 "2011-04-04T02:31:42Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> I don’t give a shit about them either, but it is amusing to see the royal fanboys come fopping out of the woodwork in response to a thread like this. It’s remarkable that the “ur just JELOUS!!!@” trump card has yet to be played.
Look at this lack of regard! 😕
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### Author:  [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/83 "2011-04-04T02:41:54Z")
> [@Superdude](#):
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> I couldn’t care less about these two people, or their wedding. I’d rather pound my nuts flat with a wooden hammer than watch the wedding, or hear anything about these two. I’d rather go to a [Rebecca Black](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0) concert.
You know, for me, when given the choice between “go to something I don’t care about” and “pound my nuts flat,” I choose the thing I don’t care about. Unless I’m pounding walnuts to make my Grandma’s Walnut Pie Crust.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/84 "2011-04-04T02:51:16Z")
> [@Equipoise](#):
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> So, the two threads on the front page of Cafe Society about this marriage were both started by people don’t care. That’s just weird. I wish them well but I don’t care either and it’s easy enough to avoid hearing/thinking about it, except when people who don’t give a shit are starting threads and bitching about it.
It actually isn’t at all easy to avoid hearing about this garbage. I wish it was.
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### Author:  [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/85 "2011-04-04T05:23:59Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> Certainly compared to the craziness that was Charles and Diana.
Or Frederick and Our Mary. 😉
I’m interested. I like the pagentry. It’s fun to watch. So sue me.
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/86 "2011-04-04T05:35:44Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#):
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> You know, for me, when given the choice between “go to something I don’t care about” and “pound my nuts flat,” I choose the thing I don’t care about. Unless I’m pounding walnuts to make my Grandma’s Walnut Pie Crust.
Generally, I’m the same way. However, this requires more drastic steps.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/87 "2011-04-04T05:44:08Z")
Honestly, I haven’t noticed that much in the news about it. Maybe it’s because I’m not paying attention but I certainly don’t feel beseiged by William and Kate news any more than any other news I don’t particularly care about.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/88 "2011-04-04T05:50:29Z")
I just did a Google image search for Kate Middleton. Wowza. Nice pull for Willie. Its good to be the future king. The Royal bloodline is going to get even better looking. I guess we have Diana to thank for that.
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/89 "2011-04-04T05:54:36Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> I just did a Google image search for Kate Middleton. Wowza. Nice **pull** for **Willie**. Its good to be the future king. The Royal bloodline is going to get even better looking. I guess we have Diana to thank for that.
I see what you did there.
Bolding, of course, was mine.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/90 "2011-04-04T10:01:00Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> I just did a Google image search for Kate Middleton. Wowza. Nice pull for Willie. Its good to be the future king. The Royal bloodline is going to get even better looking. I guess we have Diana to thank for that.
I’m not sure how much the bloodline will be improved. They’re already cousins – distant cousins, but still…
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### Author:  [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/91 "2011-04-04T10:05:22Z")
> [@Equipoise](#):
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> So, the two threads on the front page of Cafe Society about this marriage were both started by people don’t care. That’s just weird. I wish them well but I don’t care either and it’s easy enough to avoid hearing/thinking about it, except when people who don’t give a shit are starting threads and bitching about it.
I like to call this “The Bieber Effect”. Easily 99.9% of anything I’ve ever heard or seen about Justin Bieber was because people can’t not complain about him to anyone nearby. Same thing is entirely the reason for Rebecca Black’s popularity. Granted, not exactly the same thing with the Royal family, but you get the idea.
And yeah, to be honest? There’s a lot of things I’d rather do than pounding my nuts flat with anything. I mean, I’d rather watch Death Note, or go to a Skillet Concert, I might even sit down and watch a Star Trek Voyager marathon (I said might!)
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### Author:  [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/92 "2011-04-04T10:07:08Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> I’m not sure how much the bloodline will be improved. They’re already cousins – distant cousins, but still…
How distant are we talking here? Cause cousins can be pretty danged distant. Distant to the point of there being practically no blood relation at all.
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### Author:  [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/93 "2011-04-04T10:09:40Z")
I care, not a lot but I care a smidgin.
The Queen is our head of state and that is the way like it. I don’t want New Zealand to become a Republic, paying out a huge salary for some useless old politician to be president, not when the Queen is wayyyyyy over there not interfering in anything (nor does the GG!),
So because I am happy that the Queen is our head of state, I’m a little interested in this wedding. Plus all the pomp and ceremony is pretty cool. I’m quite fond of history and all its rigmarole.
I’m looking forward to watching it on telly, that doesn’t mean it’s a big deal to me but I will watch.
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### Author:  [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/94 "2011-04-04T10:12:59Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> I’m not sure how much the bloodline will be improved. They’re already cousins – distant cousins, but still…
15th cousins, isn’t it? _I’m_ probably related if we’re going that far afield.
William and Kate produce the same emotion as pretty much everybody else who appears in magazines - mildly benign disinterest.
I have the apparently rare talent to not be affected by papers I don’t read, links I don’t click or conversations I don’t take part in, though 😃
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/95 "2011-04-04T10:17:16Z")
> [@Teacake](#):
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> Brit - don’t care - wish I wasn’t paying for it - wish I could get out of town for the occasion, because yet again despite paying through the nose to live in this bloody city, it’s not actually going to be possible for me to move out of my front door for all the gawking halfwits and unnecessary police (this happens _all the time_ - they just block off the whole centre of town for the One Legged Scottish Cyclists Against Badgers rally and expect me to stay at home until it’s time for me to go back to work).
Pretty much the same for me. He seems nice. She seems nice. I hope it all works out for them. Not planning on watching or going anywhere near the place. (Actually, that’ll probably be the best time to pop out to Ikea in Croydon - everyone else will be at home watching the wedding.)
I considered buying a Will and Kate biscuit tin but decided that paying too much for crap biscuits was against my principles.
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> When you ask me about the Olympics, I’ll repeat the first paragraph. Especially the bit about paying for it.
Oh man. The wedding I’m fairly blase about. The Olympics I am thoroughly pissed off about. When they sell off the facilities, I want my damn tax money back.
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### Author:  [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/96 "2011-04-04T10:29:37Z")
> [@Gyrate](#):
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> The wedding I’m fairly blase about. The Olympics I am thoroughly pissed off about. When they sell off the facilities, I want my damn tax money back.
I feel EXACTLY the same about about the stupid World Cup Rugby! Because of the Christchurch earthquake Auckland is picking up three extra games…to the tune of THREE MILLION DOLLARS!
THREE MILLION DOLLARS FOR THREE GAMES OF RUGBY, are they playing with solid gold fucking balls? The second this stupid event is over the better! (GO the AB’s…I don’t want to be chucked out of the country:D).
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### Author:  [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/97 "2011-04-04T10:33:18Z")
By my usual standards of ‘giving a damn’, I don’t give a full damn.
I think I can muster up a d.
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/98 "2011-04-04T10:46:44Z")
Don’t give a shit about the wedding.
But given that I felt that Diana wasn’t anywhere near as beautiful as she was cracked up to be and didn’t improve the Royal Genetics one bit, I think Kate may help in that department.
Of course, it would be far more amusing if he was marrying Jessica Simpson or Christina Aguilara. 😛
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### Author:  [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/99 "2011-04-04T10:57:51Z")
> [@Chimera](#):
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> Don’t give a shit about the wedding.
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> But given that I felt that Diana wasn’t anywhere near as beautiful as she was cracked up to be and didn’t improve the Royal Genetics one bit, I think Kate may help in that department.
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> Of course, it would be far more amusing if he was marrying Jessica Simpson or Christina Aguilara. 😛
Plus she had SERIOUS issues! Diana is the 2nd most over rated person ever…just after that Beiber freak!
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### Author:  [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-william-and-kate/577016/100 "2011-04-04T11:07:56Z")
> [@calm\_kiwi](#):
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> Plus she had SERIOUS issues! Diana is the 2nd most over rated person ever…just after that Beiber freak!
Which brings us back to Post #91. 😃
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