• Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    46 minutes ago

    Never heard a European or Brit describe any royalty as classy, other than in sarcastic jabs at their mates (e.g “Who do you think you are, the Queen?” when somebody goes for the second-cheapest instant noodle option, instead of the cheapest).

    Largely, at least in Britain, they’re pretty widely considered inbred freeloaders, in my experience. Might be very biased, as I’m of a younger generation, but a lot of the older folk I’ve spoken to feel similarly (if, mostly, less hostile).

    Most people are completely apathetic at best, I think.

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
    104·
    6 hours ago

    Did that guy just tattoo his birthday on his chest?

    Yup just checked, he was of course born in 1997.

    Wow what a way to declare to the world what kind of a narcissistic asshole you are.

    Charged with any crime? All the prosecution has to do is make him show that tattoo. No other evidence required.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
    312·
    1 day ago

    I don’t think most Europeans would think their royals are classy at all. Even if we stripped them of their power now they’d just be rich people living in large houses their family could already afford anyway. They’re basically government pawns we keep around for tradition and to make deals with vain foreign leaders. China does something similar, but they used pandas. If you’re a good little friend of the totalitarians, you get to have a panda in your zoo.

    You think the leaders of shit holes are going to be interested in presidents? Nah, they meet presidents every day. If you want to placate them, you take our the big guns. You go “Who’s a big boy president? That’s right, it’s you! You can have a sleepover in a real palace just like in the Disney movies! Everyone thinks you’re such an important big boy!” These leaders aren’t rational-thinking, they’re coming from (sub)cultures where displays of wealth and status mean something, and I bet nothing makes a vain guy happier than to say they made a king entertain them. They feel like they’re such big shits pushing around our stage puppets.

    You’d think those foreign leaders would feel belittled but sending royalty to shitholes works great, politically. The national news broadcaster has this trick where they’re officially “royal Dutch news” (because of weird laws, you don’t need to be related to royalty in any way to be granted that title as a company) and yelling “royal Dutch news” instead of “Dutch news” when trying to ask questions actually works. Even in countries with presidents. It’s extremely stupid but it’s been proven to work.

    I don’t think the royals are anything special but I also don’t think the political circus around electing a president and the endless drama that follows will be any cheaper (or better, for that matter). With the way things are going in this country, I’ll take King Wimlex over President Wilders, thank you very much.

    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 day ago

      Also Trump was super delighted that he could sleep in a Dutch palace. The charm offensive by the Dutch royalties worked on him since he wasn’t as belligerent at the NATO summit as he normally is, so the adults in the room could do the talking.

    • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
      511·
      16 hours ago

      Argument from Ignorance (Ad Ignorantiam): This fallacy occurs when someone asserts that a proposition is false because they personally haven’t heard of it, or it’s not commonly known to them.

      “Well, I've never heard of that” ⟶ Implies: “Therefore, it's probably wrong or not credible.”

      It’s an epistemic fallacy, where the absence of knowledge is treated as evidence of absence or insignificance.

      Essentially, your ignorance of the subject matter doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, it just means you’re ignorant of the subject matter. 🤷 🤣

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        8·
        12 hours ago

        I missed the part where they said anything other than never having heard it themself. They never claimed that nobody says it. Maybe think about that next time you’re going to be condescending for no reason.

        • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
          111·
          6 hours ago

          Did teachers often hand you your tests face down?

          Europeans: “Our royals are sophisticated and classy” shows trashy person Brave Hitachi: “I’ve literally never heard any human being praise or admire royalty”

          If you can’t gather from context what’s being said by these two lines then you should go back to your soaps 💀

            • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
              16·
              3 hours ago

              You’re the one using the term “condescending” to describe an opinion you don’t like 🤣💀

                • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
                  12·
                  1 hour ago

                  This is sadly incorrect.

                  Further, I was correct. We notice you didn’t address my previous comment :)

                  Get well soon :)

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        13 hours ago

        You will not find that I have declared any fact beyond my ignorance, and it is rather the imputation of an assertion beyond that ignorance that constitutes the genuine fallacy here.

        • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
          16·
          7 hours ago

          You’re backpedaling now because you’ve been caught. I’d be humiliated too :)

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
    55·
    2 days ago

    Americans: Our system is the best because we don’t have royalty, we have a President instead!

    American President: Plating his palace with gold and being completely above the law.

    • ziggurat@lemmy.world
      3·
      23 hours ago

      Yeah sadly she counts as a royal, but the civilian in the picture is her sister in laws son pre marriage into the royal family. So technically not a royal, but might as well be.

      Most people in Norway like the king and the queen, and the crown Prince and the crown princess, and their children (together), they used to like this guy too before he got caught doing all this illegal shit

    • Almonds@mander.xyz
      51·
      2 days ago

      Well, his Wikipedia article is horrifying

      He asserts that casual sex attracts subterranean spirits that make an impression on the inside of women’s vaginas and offers exercises to “clean out” said vaginas; he writes that children get cancer because they want it;

      I hope her first husband kept their daughters away from him

  • Nalivai@lemmy.world
    30·
    2 days ago

    Nobody’s saying that our royals are classy, except themselves, their paid weirdos, and, weirdly enough, americans.

  • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    Thought the gun was a squirt gun connected to the (wine? champagne? w/e) bottle, now that would’ve been classy