Well it's a celebration
it just doesn't have to be so gaudy, slutty, pink and in generally poor taste. If I were ever to get married - unlikely as I really don't want to - I would want something nice. Not something that cost a lot of money yet looks so fucking cheap and nasty.
(berk, Wed 26 Jan 2011, 13:53, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

It's quite strange really, I wonder if they know why they're being put on TV
Or that people think that their taste is so bad. The brides all seem to be teenagers I think that has a lot to do with it.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 26 Jan 2011, 13:56, Reply)

I suspect they would be just as cheap and slaggy
if the cameras weren't there. It's all an expectation thing I suppose, they grow up seeing all of their friends and siblings and cousins and whatnot get married in these pink poofy monstrousities and think that it's something to aspire to.
Poor fuckers.
(berk, Wed 26 Jan 2011, 14:02, Reply)

Like Chomp said, it's just a difference in taste.
I prefer plain things too. They like gaudy things.
And to them it DOES have to look like that or it's boring and 'cheap' (in their terms).
Leave them to it. It's an entirely different culture.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 26 Jan 2011, 14:03, Reply)

NO!
Burn them all!
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 26 Jan 2011, 14:09, Reply)

Well, exactly.
I love 'them' and 'us' conversations.
Everyone talks such sense when making generalisations ;)
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 26 Jan 2011, 14:11, Reply)

Burn everyone who I don't like
Or that doesn't directly work to make my life better.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 26 Jan 2011, 14:11, Reply)

it's hard to not to talk in generalisations
particularly if ones experience does nothing to dispell them.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 26 Jan 2011, 14:13, Reply)

My nana got attacked by three dogs from an unauthorised traveller site.
It hasn't made me "universally hate" travellers or gypsies.
People make generalisations like that about women (or men) and get shot down. YOUR experience isn't the whole experience.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 26 Jan 2011, 14:16, Reply)

you cannot deny that if your were to ask many people their opinion on them that the reaction would be "cunts" or similar
I said "fairly universally hated" meaning that most people would say they hate them, not that everyone hates them universally.

I am aware that my experience isn't the whole experience, nor is that of anyone else, but on the whole most people don't put a lot of thought into things and as such are bound to react based on their experience. It's natural.

Frankly, as with most things, I couldn't give a fuck as long as it doesn't affect me or those I hold dear personally.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 26 Jan 2011, 14:22, Reply)