Reply #31: Fair enough, but consider something else.

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How much does a professional sports game cost, when you consider the salaries of all the players, officials, and managers involved? And they do thousands of those a year, as opposed to one royal wedding every 10 years or so. It seems to me that people waste a lot more money on unnecessary things like professional sports than they waste on royal weddings. But I don't see threads chastening people for watching the Superbowl every year because it's disgusting to spend that much when people are financially hurting. One or two people might make a comment to that effect, but it's uncommon--nothing like what we've all seen in reaction to the wedding today.

Hell, considering how much money America throws away just in wasted food every year, it seems pretty damned hypocritical to get up on our high horses and lecture Britain about "unnecessary excess" in a time of financial hardship. Or at least it seems that way to me.