The Royal Wedding

[amy246]

Good on them for finally getting engaged, it'll be nice to have some happiness in the news! On a rather girly note; I wonder what the dress is going to be like, has to be British designer but who, can actually see her going quite simple and chic.

[strudders]

Forget the Swiss

Arctic......

[rachbon]

Forget the Swiss

Arctic......

[RABun]

People actually think that this is news?

What pathetically deferential, sad, servile serfs they are.

Isn't it time we dumped this backward, archaic farce into the dustbin of history where it truly belongs and became a republic like every liberal democracy in the modern world?

[Steve P]

Just be careful with chocolate

[ampersand]

was this you neil?

[TheGayTent]

nah, there's nae smileys!

[Kowalski]

Is your preference for jam or chocolate sir?

[dakyras]

Er no. That's a teatowel holder. Doesn't have the same ring to it.

[Steve P]

Teatowel holder?

LAAAAA-DIIIII-DAAAAAA!

[rexclark]

aah, i thought it was cos it maybe resembled the flag. kinda like starfish.

Edited November 16, 2010 by rexclark

[Kowalski]

Kate Middleton.....the first person to squeeze into Diana's ring since Dodi Al Fayed.....

[TheGayTent]

Prince William and Kate's engagement party is absolutely brilliant...Diana's already smashed.

[BlackHole2006]

Prince William and Kate's engagement party is absolutely brilliant...Diana's already smashed.

[Ed209]

Apparently Kate was delighted with her ruby engagement ring, until William had to admit it was a saphire and he hadn't cleaned it yet

[eFestivals]

I love the way that Kate is being described as being from a typical middle class family ... I dunno about you, but no one I know that thinks themselves middle class has several million or more in the bank.

Still, it fits nicely with old-aristo Dave Moron and even more old-aristo-wife with their inherited £30M+ in the bank regarding themselves as middle-class too. I guess that's why when Dave Moron says "we're all in this together" he thinks everyone else is also hiring vanity staff to take their photos and not having to bother about the effects of recession.

[Gre]

I love the way that Kate is being described as being from a typical middle class family ... I dunno about you, but no one I know that thinks themselves middle class has several million or more in the bank.

[Kowalski]

The one on the right wouldn't be seen dead in a Merc.

[eFestivals]

Self-made millionaires aren't they? You'd hardly call the likes of Jordan or Wayne Rooney upperclass? (would you? )

Supposedly "self made", yep, tho I'm always cynical about that cos it's so often wrongly applied - for example, Branson is mostly described as that, but his success is based on being from a wealthy establishment family, a massive VAT fraud, and family connections to allow him to keep the fraudulently obtained VAT money and keep him out of clink.

But, yep, I agree completely - Kate's family (if really the claimed 'self made'), Jordan and Rooney don't get anywhere near anything above middle class, and nearly all those who like to regard themselves as middle class similarly don't get any nearer to Kate & co than Kate & co do to the likes of old-aristo Dave Moron.

Which gets to pan out as most people not being the middle class that most like to wrongly regard themselves as. Middle class means an awful lot more than simply putting on a shirt when you're going to work, but that's the basis most are working from.

[eFestivals]

they were talking about her yesterday, saying she had a normal boarding school education

normal for some

Yep. But to the likes of Dave Moron with his stated belief in his own middle-classness and his Eton education, that is 'normal'.

I heard an interview yesterday on radio 4 with one of her school friends, who said "she was very popular with the boys" - who then had to backtrack so that she wasn't suggesting that Kate was a slag.

[Gre]

But, yep, I agree completely - Kate's family (if really the claimed 'self made'), Jordan and Rooney don't get anywhere near anything above middle class, and nearly all those who like to regard themselves as middle class similarly don't get any nearer to Kate & co than Kate & co do to the likes of old-aristo Dave Moron.

[Snufflebutt]

Which gets to pan out as most people not being the middle class that most like to wrongly regard themselves as. Middle class means an awful lot more than simply putting on a shirt when you're going to work, but that's the basis most are working from.

[eFestivals]

I'm not sure it really matters whether anyone regards themselves as middle class. Unless by middle class, you are in fact meaning a certain income level?

nope - it's not just about income.

Camberley (famous for the "Camberley man" comment, to mean "loads of money but no class at all, tacky as hell") is full of wealthy people people that don't rate anything above chav class.

I would say that the majority of people who describe themselves as middle class are middle class, since being middle class is linked with aspiration. This aspiration is probably the most important factor explaining much of what has happened to the country, good or bad, in the postwar period - especially as most measurements of middle class have shown that this group is growing.

middle class is NOT aspiration. Do you think the old flat-cap working class types didn't have aspirations?

[5co77ie]

[Guest musiclove123]

William seems a really sweet and down to earth bloke-I watched his interview on tele the other night