Why is there no thread on the fucking Royal Wedding?

[Suu]

ALEXANDER FUCKING MCQUEEN.

Even in death the house rocks.

That is all.

[BadBeast]

What I love about Brit-land is that they not only get crazy days like MAY DAY off . . . they also have this little pool of days off to pull from called "mental health days". You can call in to work for no other reason than you don't wanna fuckin' GO.

I am envious of this in ways that are probably unhealthy.

We're really ought to get Nov 5th off as a Bank Holiday. We've burnt effigies on fucking enormous fires, all over the country, and blown more shit up than the IRA, every year since 1606 to celebrate it, so c'mon, whoever's responsible for this shit, pull your finger out!

I think it's got a lot to do with being right around Samhain too.

(When we used to stuff fucking great Wickermen, full of Romans, Frenchmen, Gypsys, Pictsys, and anyone else who didn't look right, and burn them alive as a Sacrifice to our Dark, Ancient Gods)
Penny for the Guy?
V for . . . . . . very nearly blew up the fucking King, and Parliament, with Gonne Powder!

By 1620, it was be the biggest State Commemoration in the Land. The Government introduced it as an annual Public Holiday by passing the "Observence of 5th of November Act" in April 1607.
I know it's ostensibly to be in thanksgiving for the Plot's failure, but that's nonsense. It's more than that. It's the only night of the Year we're even allowed to build a fucking fire!

It's now become a reminder to the State, that we're really quite a Seditious and treacherous lot of bloodthirsty bastards on the quiet. The effort put into making the Guys should be enough to remind them, but the looks of concentrated anticipation when the flames reach the Guy, half expecting to hear the blood curdling screams of the sacrificial MP, Victims, and resigned nostalgia when there are none forthcoming can be quite emotional. Rousing, even.

It's at this point that the English are at their most suggestible, and it wouldn't take much to get everyone to march to the Houses of Parliament, drag all the fucking Pirates and the Inbred Aristo Robber Barons out, and throw the lot of them onto a fucking great  big fire, say, the size of, . . Buckingham Palace? That would be memorable evening.     

[Suu]

WTF are the Yorklets wearing? You Brits need to control Fergie's children.

[BadBeast]

WTF are the Yorklets wearing? You Brits need to control Fergie's children.

No idea, I'll hazard a guess at Burberry, or Aquascutum?

[P3nT4gR4m]

WTF are the Yorklets wearing? You Brits need to control Fergie's children.

We allow them to continue living. It's considered punishment enough

[Suu]

WTF are the Yorklets wearing? You Brits need to control Fergie's children.

No idea, I'll hazard a guess at Burberry, or Aquascutum?

Vivienne Westwood and Valentino...I looked it up. I called Westwood, and just won $50 from an office pool in addition to the other $50 I won for saying McQueen would do Middleton's dress.

Me? = Awesome.







Seeing this shit makes me want to get married again...but then divorce immediately after so I don't have to deal with being married.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

WTF are the Yorklets wearing? You Brits need to control Fergie's children.

No idea, I'll hazard a guess at Burberry, or Aquascutum?

Vivienne Westwood and Valentino...I looked it up. I called Westwood, and just won $50 from an office pool in addition to the other $50 I won for saying McQueen would do Middleton's dress.

Me? = Awesome.







Seeing this shit makes me want to get married again...but then divorce immediately after so I don't have to deal with being married.

Just have the ceremony and skip the legal paperwork filing.

[LMNO]

Couldn't you just LARP it?

[Luna]

Couldn't you just LARP it?

Easily.  Reddy'd do it.   

[Suu]

No. I don't want the namby pamby bullshit pagan crap that SCAdians call marriage.

If I end up having a period wedding, it will be, mark my words, something that was performed in the 1500s. My train will be the length of the fucking aisle, and it will be a full Catholic mass done in Ecclesiastical Latin. There will be chanters, there will be heralds, there will be the whole goddamn pomp and circumstance that was involved in a Late Renaissance wedding (That is, if they actually went to church and it wasn't just a contract that was signed.)

Oh right, contract, there will be a huge contract signed by both families stating the amount of my dowry and acquired lands, and the terms as such on the return of my dowry if my spouse should drop dead. That contract is to be blessed by the bishop, yes fucking bishop, that performs the service.



I mean really, if you're gonna do it, FOR FUCK'S SAKE, DO IT RIGHT.

[BadBeast]

No. I don't want the namby pamby bullshit pagan crap that SCAdians call marriage.

If I end up having a period wedding, it will be, mark my words, something that was performed in the 1500s. My train will be the length of the fucking aisle, and it will be a full Catholic mass done in Ecclesiastical Latin. There will be chanters, there will be heralds, there will be the whole goddamn pomp and circumstance that was involved in a Late Renaissance wedding (That is, if they actually went to church and it wasn't just a contract that was signed.)

Oh right, contract, there will be a huge contract signed by both families stating the amount of my dowry and acquired lands, and the terms as such on the return of my dowry if my spouse should drop dead. That contract is to be blessed by the bishop, yes fucking bishop, that performs the service.



I mean really, if you're gonna do it, FOR FUCK'S SAKE, DO IT RIGHT.

You realize you're probably narrowin. . . . . Nah, fuck it Grrl, you go for the big one,
and milk it as hard as you can, until both tits not only squeak, but howl in outrage! At least then you'll know he loves you!

[Suu]

That is...*IF* I bother getting married again anyway, and if it's even going to be a reenactment wedding.

I barely remember the first one, we were drunk. We were all VERY drunk, and Richter almost killed the minister.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

That is...*IF* I bother getting married again anyway, and if it's even going to be a reenactment wedding.

I barely remember the first one, we were drunk. We were all VERY drunk, and Richter almost killed the minister.

How did Richter almost kill the minister?

[Suu]

That is...*IF* I bother getting married again anyway, and if it's even going to be a reenactment wedding.

I barely remember the first one, we were drunk. We were all VERY drunk, and Richter almost killed the minister.

How did Richter almost kill the minister?

I'll let him take this one. I wasn't there yet.

[Richter]

NO shit, there I was, but it was a series of accidents and missunderstandings. 

1st:  The roll out "aisle" carpet was blowing away in the wind.  I dig into the volvo of many thigns and produce 3 large spikes and a hammer to nail the thing down.  Just as I turn to get to work, the minister is standing there,a nd I realize I'm holding a "Make your own crucifixion" kit.  AWKWARD

2nd:  I'm shootign the shit with people, and they're complaining about the wind (It was damn windy).  I reply that it's a beautiful day otherwise, and gesture expansively at the scenic expanse of water and cliff.  Being around italians rubs off on me, and my "talk with hands" factor was WAY up. 

Well, the expansive jesture hit the minister in the face.  She was very cool about it, and turned the other cheek.