How many shits do you give about the royal baby?

[PAPER/ARTILLERY]

I think they should name him Tyler!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edZjdgU0asM

that woman is just the absolute worst.

[BIL]

I thought it was a man in drag. But ah, Ms. Willoughbooby ¦3

[neorichieb1971]

The only thing I don't like about the Royals is the stupid comments in the papers like "some music started and Prince Charles did a twirl". Like thats news. The newspapers are ridiculous.

[trap15]

Big (amazing) image incoming.

[system11]

Media are always the problem. Imagine living your whole life under a microscope with that level of pressure to succeed in all endeavours. One of the princes has been on active duty flying Apache gunships, just by deciding to train he left himself no option except success or humiliation. Silver spoon seems more like a poisoned chalice.

[BIL]

Congratulations on your new baby boy, William and Kate!

image of despair

Uh... I mean, ban these sick barbarians from torturing this defenseless baby any further!

[burgerkingdiamond]

1) Please say that those tweets (god dammit I hate Twitter and generally dislike anyone who uses it) are sarcastic or ironic or something. That's reaching a level of stupidity that I didn't think possible.

2) I give -13 shits about the royal baby.

[trap15]

1) Please say that those tweets (god dammit I hate Twitter and generally dislike anyone who uses it) are sarcastic or ironic or something. That's reaching a level of stupidity that I didn't think possible.

Obviously you've never looked at tumblr

[BryanM]

Seriously, I feel bad for the mother. How did she agree to be his wife, again?

I heard that the kiss at the wedding resembled the scene in Brave Heart where the gay prince can't even hide the disgust he feels by waifu kissu.

I'm unconvinced about the child's paternity, is what I'm getting at here.

Imagine living your whole life under a microscope with that level of pressure to succeed in all endeavours.... Silver spoon seems more like a poisoned chalice.

Somehow I don't have it in me to feel anything more than minimal baseline human empathy for them.

Even if they hate the cage of celebrity and feel like writing whinny Pink Floyd-esque songs about the matter, they're free to move to the colonies where no one has a clue who they are, become employed as a full-time alcoholic layabout, and worry about nothing. That is a luxury few of us have.

[louisg]

OMFG. I started the video, said "9 minutes?? I'm expected to watch all of this?"... but it was so fascinatingly classist and stupid that I was glued to it.

That's about my reaction too. That was amazing.

Yeah I think as Americans it's especially interesting because I don't think anyone would be quite as blatant here about that kind of thing.. not that there aren't all kinds of other weird ideas we have.

[Skykid]

1) Please say that those tweets (god dammit I hate Twitter and generally dislike anyone who uses it) are sarcastic or ironic or something. That's reaching a level of stupidity that I didn't think possible.

Welcome to 2013.

[BIL]

OMFG TEH BABBY IS CALLED "GEORGE" :3 I JUST WON EIGHT MILLION POUNDFORDSHIRES ON PADDYPOWER.ORG

[spoot]

Couldn't give two shits about the whole thing. I also provided zero fucks to be given.

[Ed Oscuro]

OMFG TEH BABBY IS CALLED "GEORGE" :3 I JUST WON EIGHT MILLION POUNDFORDSHIRES ON PADDYPOWER.ORG

Good call. Maybe he can potter around the farm with his wife like George III? Or put a fork in the eye of tyrrany like George VI? And he'll be George the Seventh. If I was superstitious I'd still not be able to find anything untoward about this one.

[BulletMagnet]

In the interest of being a big fat jerk I'll leave this here.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

Its disgusting to see people gush over the wretched offspring of what are, essentially, blood sucking parasites attached to the British.

Couldn't have stated it better. It's simply fucking repulsive.

[system11]

In the interest of being a big fat jerk I'll leave this here.

Just another reason to avoid Gawker, people should have some vague idea of what the fuck they're talking about, before they post on their hipster media site. I see most of the negative comments are from people who don't even live here and have a fairly poor grasp of how it all works and what the royals actually /do/.

The only ugly bit here is people gushing over a baby appearing. Any baby where those people are not the direct family or friends.

[spoot]

The only ugly bit here is people gushing over a baby appearing. Any baby where those people are not the direct family or friends.

What's REALLY ugly is the people in the US that gush over the spawn that Snooki created. That makes baby jesus cry.

[BulletMagnet]

What's REALLY ugly is the people in the US that gush over the spawn that Snooki created. That makes baby jesus cry.

Well, to be fair Jesus was the original celebrity baby.

[Ed Oscuro]

I went all this time without having any knowledge of the clusterfuck up above. Well, I can say that certainly some of those tweets are sarcastic, some are only obviously saying "why are we talking about ANY of this" and the rest...well, there's a few nuts out there who somehow manage to respect societal gender conformity enough that they get paid enough to afford getting on Twitter.

[DEL]

Zero

[AntiFritz]

I can see this thread is going places.

[dave4shmups]

It's not the most important news in the world, but at least it's something positive, and not another shooting. I'm not saying "Don't cover negative news stories", just that we need something positive once and a while, and I think this is. I'm very happy for William and Kate.

[trap15]

I think whenever we want to know the average person's response to and viewpoint on any matter, we should look to dave4shmups.

[GaijinPunch]

I think we should thank dave4shmups for reminding us about the existence of said baby, just moments before we had totally forgotten.

[dcharlie]

I'm British and i don't particularly care one way or the other about the Royal Family.

I don't particularly have an opinion on the Royal couple beyond "they are inoffensive and have no bearing on my life" - the fact they've had a baby is great for them, but to me it doesn't mean anything. I don't particularly see the need to dispense the hate as i've not watched any of the coverage as i don't watch pre-programmed tv and i don't live in England anymore.

I would say that pre-Diana crash we seemed to be moving closer to becoming a Republic, but yeah - right now Royal fever is the highest it's been for quite some time.

[PAPER/ARTILLERY]