Does anyone in the US care about the coronation in the UK?

[Donald]

I have no interest in watching the coronation. If I was a UK citizen I might say what a waste of tax payer money. But I am a US citizen and feel there are many important things going on in the US and the world and the coronation is not one of them.

However if given the choice between being forced to watch the coronation and getting a root canal I would watch the coronation.

 

[Inked]

Given the choice of watching the coronation or watching a canned speech, I’ll take the coronation.

 

[JeffKeryk]

I have a friend, of British descent, who thinks Camila is the devil reincarnated. Me, not so much. All good.
Wait, it that the coronation?

 

[Oillover]

I'm not sure if there's many Canadians who are interested either.

"a new poll from the Angus Reid Institute suggests the majority of Canadians (60 per cent) oppose recognizing Charles as King. In fact, only 28 per cent say they have a favourable view of Charles, while nearly half (48 per cent) do not."

https://www.everythingzoomer.com/ar...etain-a-british-monarch-or-become-a-republic/

 

[WylieCoyote]

Preservation of centuries of tradition seems to still be important over there. Frankly I'd hope they'd have bigger fish to fry, but the pomp & circumstance show must go on.

 

[AandPDan]

I equate it with the inauguration of a president.

I don't care. It's just another day off for government workers and a taxpayer paid party.

 

[Passport1]

England ceased being vitally important to the US in 1781 when Cornwallis surrendered to Washington at Yorktown. They remain an important fascinoma since.

 

[andrewg]

I find the spectacle to be of moderate interest. I rather like formality, pomp, and tradition.

 

[Trav]

I rather not watch it.

 

[Donald]

Maybe I blame King Charles III for being a sleezeball husband and had he not been Princess Diana would part of the coronation.

Camila could very well be the devil.

 

[Aredeeem]

I feel like I should be interested in this, the pomp and ceremony and all that. But the older I get the more jaded I get regarding these things. A bunch of well dressed do nothings parading around soaking in the adoration of the ill informed masses. I’ll respectfully take a pass.

 

[Malo83]

I like the Drums and Pipes during the Parades.

 

[Shel_B]

England ceased being vitally important to the US in 1781 when Cornwallis surrendered to Washington at Yorktown. They remain an important fascinoma since.

Interesting use of the word which is, in itself, interesting.

 

[SC Maintenance]

I had to google what a coronation was. So no - I will take the root canal.

What the use of the British Royalty is in 2023 is beyond me. To each their own I suppose - but I will never understand. I'll quote the declaration of independance:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

 

[Leo99]

I equate it with the inauguration of a president.

I don't care. It's just another day off for government workers and a taxpayer paid party.

Oh, that's what's going on over there. I know my work canceled some meetings on Monday for our UK colleagues due to a "bank holiday" but I didn't know what it was all about. The British colleagues were tight lipped about it.

 

[Pew]

Corona-nation sounds like something cool.

 

[supton]

My family's name left that country some time before this country was founded, so... not particularly interested.

To each their own. If I lived over there, or had, or had friends there, maybe it'd rate as interesting to me.

 

[walterjay]

No. I don't care. In fact I didn't even know there was a coronation coming up.

 

[Passport1]

Corona-nation sounds like something cool.

It certainly is. An annual early spring rites de passage and late adolescent debauchery.


ebay

 

[Soft Cars]

I had to look up the word. Never heard of it before.