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And it looks like another royal rugrat is on the way!

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/08/world/europe/uk-royal-pregnancy/index.html?c=homepage-t

Harry is clearly not the chosen one.

Yay, more stupid people fawning over a princesses babybumb.

And to think we just got over the last one

Is it not 4th in line?

Charles>William>George>NewRoyalSprog

Health to the baby and all that polite jazz.

I think he means Harry is now down from third to fifth in line.

Talking about Harry's slide down the succession scale.

Sounds like Harry needs to read up on his Richard II and handle the situation in propor English fashion.

Congrats to the happy couple.

I don't think HRH Harry Hewitt minds too much.

He can carry on without the weight of expectation - pr so much of it anyway.

I didn't care about the Royal wedding (bar the free day off work). Now that I'm an ocean away I really can't find a reason to care

I don't think Harry was ever really counting on becoming king.

I only care if it means I get an extra day of holiday - lots of people have babies, so I'm no more impressed with them having one than with anyone else having a kid.

Didn't we fight a war specifically so we wouldn't have to care about this?

I didn't realize I had the power to force people to care. I must use it more responsibly.

To be fair I do not think harry will mind.

 d-usa wrote:
I didn't realize I had the power to force people to care. I must use it more responsibly.

Remember, with great power, comes great responsbility.

 Frazzled wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
I didn't realize I had the power to force people to care. I must use it more responsibly.

Remember, with great power, comes great responsbility.

I don't care...

It is good Harry doesn't play Crusader Kings 2.

 d-usa wrote:
Talking about Harry's slide down the succession scale.

Ah ok, I get what you were saying.

Strangely enough this child will be future Harry.

 d-usa wrote:
And it looks like another royal rugrat is on the way!

I say that if it's a boy they should name him Rupert (Lets continue the theme of "Royals named after towns I've lived in").

You fought a war of independence so the plutocrats that instigated it gained control.

Republicanism is there to sweep away old orders in favour of a new elite kept in power by giving people the change to vote every four years and be quiet subjects the rest of the time. Meanwhile the nation is run from Wall St or prior equivalent.

That's a critique but not a condemnation, as systems go it works quite well, but 'we the people' always was, is, and always will be, spin to control the masses.

Robot Lincoln says congrats!

squidhills wrote:
Didn't we fight a war specifically so we wouldn't have to care about this?

This may be difficult to accept but some people might actually care about things you do not and vice versa

I take some interest in the royal families of Europe, mostly because its like a window onto history, keeping them around shows we can move on without forgetting where we came from

(Of course the only reason some monarchs are around and not others is because they happened to be on the winning side of the world wars but whatevs)

EDIT: Some would say you fought a war so that you could have the freedom to care or not about this as it pleased you. (But you actually fought a war so that a bunch of rich men could dodge taxes and keep slaves)

Looks like they're going for the heir and a spare

Good for them I don't care that much though personally. The only thing I'm annoyed about is the fact that all of the papers and the news will be full of this and sod all else...

 EmilCrane wrote:

EDIT: Some would say you fought a war so that you could have the freedom to care or not about this as it pleased you. (But you actually fought a war so that a bunch of rich men could dodge taxes and keep slaves)

As for the interests in the US, 'the King' was only a placeholder for 'tyranny' back in the day, not an actual tyrant. Not since 1648 anyway.
Therefore 'the monarchy is an invented bogeymen to cement republicanism for self interest, and was never an actual threat.

Tibbsy wrote:
Looks like they're going for the heir and a spare

Good for them I don't care that much though personally. The only thing I'm annoyed about is the fact that all of the papers and the news will be full of this and sod all else...

Heir and spare is the traditional minimum in Europe and the optimum in those societies where large families encourage fratricide. But as the Windsors are not 13th century Venetians, there is no need to stop there.

Lotta butthurt in this thread. The war was like 250 years ago. It's time to just accept the L like gentlemen, gentlemen.

I mean, we're certainly not being sore winners. We bailed you guys out of WW1 and WW2 afterall.

 BlaxicanX wrote:
Lotta butthurt in this thread. The war was like 250 years ago. It's time to just accept the L like gentlemen, gentlemen.

It's just people trying to be overly serious about what was obviously a joke. Instead of laughing, they just try to kill it and wax intellectual to try to impress everyone.

I mean, we're certainly not being sore winners. We bailed you guys out of WW1 and WW2 afterall.

I know, right?

I always think people over-react to this on both sides. The media pushes it a bit much but then people fly off the handle telling us how much they don't care.

It's just inoffensive and relatively happy news. I think only the staunchest anti-royal would actually have anything negative to say.

Polite apathy is how I'd describe my feelings.

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
It's just people trying to be overly serious about what was obviously a joke.

Well thank all merciful feth somebody got it. I was beginning to think I'd inadvertantly hit some kind of Bizarro-world British/Commonwealth indignation trigger or something.