Congratulations to the Royal Couple

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Congratulations to the William and Kate on the birth of our future King.

I'm sure the forum will be happy for them
 
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Any news of a first born is always to be celebrated.

It's just a shame we're getting pathetic, sycophantic 24/7 news coverage of it.

Give them a bit of peace, ffs.
 
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Not much going on news wise at the moment makes it worse too.

Daily Mail online headline a couple of days ago was a dog rescued from a car in the heat wave.

Hardly 9/11?
 
Desert Orchid said:
Any news of a first born is always to be celebrated.

It's just a shame we're getting pathetic, sycophantic 24/7 news coverage of it.

Give them a bit of peace, ffs.
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Agree but it's weird how obsessed the people in the UK are with the Royal family, let alone that they even support it continuing. It's very strange if you step back and think about it, it is like most countries were 200 or 300 years ago - Long live the King!
 
We are better off with the Royal Family than without - the fact that without them President Tony Blair would have been our Head of State is justification enough.

However couldn't agree more with the comments about pointless media coverage. Couldn't care less about the Royal baby, or its name.

Unless they give us a Bank Holiday.
 
I'm not that patriotic so am not that bothered but what rips my pisser is the sort of berks that are filling my facebook feed up with complaints about the excessive coverage. The same muppets who sport crappy England tops on a regular basis and are always posting Help for Heroes bullshit. If you are a Patriot this is the sort of event you should be celebrating as the birth of a future Monarch is a two or three times in a typical life experience.
 
This week i will be meeting a good number of people through business and also a few socially. Will also be chatting to anything up to ten contacts a day on this and that

I would bet anything that not one will mention the Royal baby. Not one

They will all mention the weather

But the idea that everyone in the Uk is "obsessed" with the royal family is laughable.
 
Speculation about the newborn baby's possible name put me to musing about the mother's moniker ............... and how it would translate into the Irish.
So, I did what anyone at a loose end would do -- and proceeded to my English/Irish translator manual.
I came up with:
Cait Ui Mainistir na Corann. :ninja:
Would this be correct?

(This forum doesn't allo me to type the requisite fada's and seimhiu's). :o
 
Bar the Bull said:
There is blanket media coverage. The media is certainly obsessed with this baby.
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The media don't speak for the nation though, Bar - not nearly as much as they think they do, at any rate. The public gets what the public wants....or what they choose to force-feed us with.

The international coverage of this event is what is so surprising. To counter-point Hamm's contribution, there is genuine fascination of, and admiration for, the British Royal family amongst almost all nations (for reasons best known to themselves).

The suggestion that we're "300 years behind" other nations, simply by dint of the fact that we do not live in a Republic, is a nonsense; unless your measure of a nations net-worth, is based on an ultra-narrow interpretation.

All that said, I'd nationalise the lot of them, and turn Buckingham Palace into an alternative theme park. They're half-way there with the Tower of London anyway.
 
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The modern Royal Family should do the same pose.
 
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Grasshopper said:
The international coverage of this event is what is so surprising. To counter-point Hamm's contribution, there is genuine fascination of, and admiration for, the British Royal family amongst almost all nations (for reasons best known to themselves).
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I disagree with this.
In truth, there is overwhelming indifference to the birth amongst non-British people. A couple of dozen foreign press-photographers hanging around outside the Lindo wing doesn't underwrite anything, nor does a few hundred tourists at a loose end in London. SKY TV read it otherwise, of course, inferring that it is an event of huge global interest. Hype, in its purest form.
 
Good post Grass (never thought id say that...must be the heat)

Im a republican but cant help marvelling at the brilliant marketing of the royals. Its pretty well pitch perfect and the queen is quite something

Other nations such as Sweden, Spain, Belgium, netherlands and Denmark must be 300 years behind the times too

Buckingham Palace is a horrendous building. Big central Premier Inn at best
 
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