What has been pissing me off about this one
(Apart from the headline "INBRED HORSE-FACED MAN TO MARRY POSH BINT" displacing any and all interesting or important news)
is the fact they keep referring to Middleton as a "commoner."

I realise that, strictly speaking, she's not a member of the aristocracy and is therefore "common" relative to them (Daddy being "new money" and other such frightful things), but she's hardly fucking "common" by most people's standards. If William Saxe-Coburg-Goethe want to marry a proper commoner we could very easily set him up with some fat slag from a council estate called Sharon.

Sorry, getting ranty. It just irks me that they might as well wave a massive flag in our faces saying "Fear not! Class discrimination is still alive and well!"

Edit: 1. Yeah, probably.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 10:44, 5 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

The middle classes are more common than the poor.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 10:49, Reply)

'Common' in a statistical sense
'Common' in a class/behavioural sense
or
'Common' as in 'Clapham,' where I go to cottage?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 10:52, Reply)

The statistical and the class/behavioural sense used to be linked
but the demographics of the UK have changed. Commoners and the general public are now quite capable of using the right fork and not shitting in their gardens.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 10:56, Reply)

Ah, well this is very true
_{I now covertly shit in other people's gardens...}
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 10:57, Reply)

Additional:
It has occurred to me that, if the class system must be bought up to date, then they could go by the principle that if you're lower/under-class and marry your cousin then the newspapers denounce it as a sordid scandal, whereas if you're upper class/landed gentry and do the same, they tout it as a fucking celebrated national event.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:08, Reply)

They are cousins?

(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:21, Reply)

Not in this case
But there is a history of it in those circles.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:26, Reply)

Oh, yes
Just to keep the blood clean and the power within the family. It's all so lovely.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:31, Reply)

This is only partly true, and does not apply to the north at all.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:11, Reply)

It's alive and well in my fucking house I can assure you.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 10:50, Reply)

I do apologise, my lord.
Shall I have myself flogged for openly holding such inflammatory left-wing views?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 10:51, Reply)

It's 'my liege' to you, boy.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 10:52, Reply)

Cripes, I'm for it now...

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 10:53, Reply)

Your 'jesting' better be good tonight
or you shall be joining my ox on the spit in the Great Hall.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 10:57, Reply)

Oh my. I take it my liege waxes weary of the 'Elephant Dance?'

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:00, Reply)

Somewhat.
I DEMAND TUMBLING DWARVES!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:02, Reply)

*frantically searches Argos catalogue for dwarves*

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:03, Reply)

*laughs*

( girlinthehole, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:08, Reply)

I thought this
they said she came from "Humble stock", and then said which prep school she went to, which public school she attended and the fact that she went on the same gap-year jolly that Prince Dipshit went on.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 10:53, Reply)

Her parents are nouveaux riches.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 10:58, Reply)

They're French?
roflols
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:01, Reply)

No, but I'm tempted to spread a rumour that they are in the vicinity of the Daily Mail
Just to see what happens.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:04, Reply)

Flaming torches...smear campaign..racist editorials
DO IT!
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:06, Reply)

And of course she went to St Andrews
which says it all.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 17 Nov 2010, 10:58, Reply)

They both studied "History of Art"
I shared a house with 2 girls who "studied" History of Art. I'm not sure if they even had lectures.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:02, Reply)

Don't you sound stupid
Kate managed to get a part time job in topshop wif her History of Art degree
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:07, Reply)

And she's been on a bus. A proper bus.
There's a picture in the paper and everything. She's one of us, she really is.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:10, Reply)

Mark my words, she'll be the peoples princess that we've all been waiting for
4eva n r hartz
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:13, Reply)

Who'll tell Cheryl Cole? There'll be trouble, mark my words.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:19, Reply)

The BBC4 news presenter this morning
spent 5 min explaining what a famous astrologer (??) had recommended them to do for their wedding? Really? In the morning news time? That's fine for a long program about gossiping or a comic thing, but in the news?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 10:55, Reply)

*facepalms*
FFS.
*needs a second face to palm*
WHY IS MY LICENCE FEE BEING USED TO GIVE AIRTIME TO THE HORSE-SHIT SPOUTED BY SOME GLORIFIED HORSE-SHIT WITCH-DOCTOR ABOUT THE HORSE-SHIT WEDDING OF SOME POMPOUS WEALTHY HORSE-FACED HORSE-SHITTER FOR WHOM I DO NOT CARE IN THE SLIGHTEST?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:00, Reply)

No, wait
You haven't heard the details about why they should avoid marrying on a full moon, as she's Capricorn, and that could affect the whole of their marriage.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:06, Reply)

Seriously?
Firstly, I reiterate everything I said in the above post. Secondly...what time was this on? (Presumably it was part of the Today programme?) In all seriousness, I am a half-pint of vitriol away from writing a letter of complaint to the BBC about this...
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:10, Reply)

It was on the radio
at 6am, in the news program. The woman that works with him had to stop him and tell him that there were more important things on the new today than that. I felt she said exactly what I wanted.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:12, Reply)

Ah, ok. Good for her.

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:15, Reply)

She stopped me
writting a letter of complaint to the BBC. And made my day when he tried to go on and she just started talking about Ireland.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:20, Reply)

This man speaks for me in this regard.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:08, Reply)

You don't like horses either?

(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:13, Reply)

I'm fairly ambivalent about horses but I have a problem with people who look and sound like them.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:20, Reply)

I love horses
Best of all the animals
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:32, Reply)

If only there was a website for people who loved them.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:39, Reply)

You mean...
This one?

I love horses
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 12:39, Reply)

haha!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 12:54, Reply)

Anyway, I don't understand why it's so special this time
I thought Lady Diana wasn't an aristocrat either.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 10:58, Reply)

She was a Lady
and her brother is an Earl
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 10:59, Reply)

Ah
I thought she got the tittle later. I had understood that she was of a low class, and that's why it was so special.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:06, Reply)

Comparably low class to the Royals
But not to us 'normal' folk.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:08, Reply)

I see
I've been mistaken for years. They sold her in Spain as if she was just a poor almost chav woman, rescued from the streets.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:14, Reply)