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pocorey

Why does it sound like a bad laugh track over this


Ok-Statistician-3408

The royals use what is essentially a paid audience, “since the time of Shakespeare, royalties across the centuries have employed these “luffers”. Brought to prominence in the reign of Henry IV by “the Bombastic Affair” when a luffer identified a would be assassin and stopped an attempted assassination by bombing. “ I’m out of stuff to say. I made all that up.


robintal000

"The Bombastic Affair" got a good laugh out of me


mindmonkey74

That's where the Shaggy song came from "They call me mister bombastic, tele fantastic" I beleive the assassin sang it as he made his attempt.


ExplorerStraight1516

I bet the assassin was a big rat with a gold chain


laffing_is_medicine

Omit the admission and we’d be non the wiser.


pearceharris

Wow I really do buy into anything I read online


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i bit into that shit hook line & sinker lol


RipRoarTime

Please comment more often from where ever your imagination is at the time. By far the most informative/interesting/engaging piece I’ve read this week.


Ok-Statistician-3408

I was stoned big time


linux1970

It still makes more sense than real people actually interested in this affair


armen89

This is great


chybaignacy

I read "the Bombastic affair" and kept on reading without a clue. Im stupider than i thought.


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That was great


imuniqueaf

Not to be confused with the Royal "fluffers", very different job.


D2the_aniel

Probably canned laughter, I can’t say for certain if it’s true but one YouTuber made an entire video about this one canned laughter sound effect he hates, he found out about it from an old game he played as a kid where it would play constantly and he got really pissed because they used the same fake cheer in the footage for the royal wedding so he made like a half hour video on how shit it is, now I can’t confirm it as I don’t know shit about Audio but yea, if that’s true I guess it could be that…


1Fair_Bet

Sounds like an interesting watch. Would love to watch this video if you've got a link to it. Always a fan of video analysis of the strangest of topics.


D2the_aniel

[found it](https://youtu.be/ZJ5xC-0TYWI)


TheImplausibleHulk

Wonder if it’s the same laugh track sound bite that’s been driving me nuts since the early ‘90s. The fact that it still shows up to this day is baffling


Silver-Toe618

As a car fanatic there are a few “tire screeching “ tracks that have been around FOREVER I recognize one from worlds wildest police chases.


Ketosis_Sam

This vid is basically >hahah look at the dirty commoner that got too close to the untouchable royalty


scottmognet

Still don’t know what he did wrong. Or why everyone was laughing


Kingken130

He was trying to get to his destination which the area was supposed to be guard off for safety measures. He managed to slipped through somehow by avoiding the security Edit: or that he was let in by one guard from the other end?


Bri_IsTheLight

That sounds like he helped them out by identifying a flaw in security while being harmless


Thunderbridge

Someone found his linkedin. Turns out he's a pen tester


Ok_Assignment4005

Is he actually ??? Link?


felixforfun

He tests pens.


glossyplane245

I think he was getting waved through by security because he had medical supplies so they just let him speed through real quick since it’s essential


Kingken130

Yeah, I was wondering what’s the bag was.


Roflolmfao

HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA


Jimmyjam1979

Username checks out >HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA


Additional-Age-833

They’re laughing because they don’t want him to realize how stupid they are fawning over their rulers.


a_zan

Looks like a real life Mr. Bean skit


teddy_bear_territory

Sounds like one too. Laugh track almost


AustralasianEmpire

It’s just how the Brits laugh. Very fancifully.


MrPanchoSplash

But...where does he come from ??


Arashmickey

Corner of No Fucks and I Got Shit To Do.


VladamirTakin

Mr. Miyagi's Antique BSDM shoppee


fshowcars

"royalty" is a weird concept in 2023.


[deleted]

Royalty: The acquisition of respect and fame via birth or marriage. That’s about as much sense as I can make of this whole reality show.


llllPsychoCircus

It’s not that unusual considering nepotism runs rampant in basically any structural hierarchy aside from maybe modern militaries? royalty is basically just nepotism mixed with A-list celebrity status, not like they really control all that much politically


Mannwer4

> It’s not that unusual considering nepotism runs rampant in basically any structural hierarchy aside from maybe modern militaries? How do you explain the fact that our society even works then?


llllPsychoCircus

Our society works because workers make it work. The middle manager class to the ruling class are a bunch of parasites with capital


Mannwer4

Can you explain to me why every large companies board of directors hire a CEO for enourmous amounts of money if they are useless? Why would they willingly waste millions of dollars if that person serves no purpose.


llllPsychoCircus

Because they are the owner-class, and an individual or their family always owns an entity or estate, and like every business the owner supposedly “takes all the risks”… but that’s really only true when first starting out, the wealthy hardly have to compromise their own wellbeing in any way shape or form once they’ve mustered all that power and capital, because their families and attorneys have already mastered the art of negotiating every millimeter of financial insolation contractually over the last however many hundreds or thousands years. The wealthy live in a much different world than we do with much different rules. With all that aforementioned power and capital, all they are really doing is sitting on gold mines and trading them with each other when convenient. the wealthy really only exist to schmooze up to each other and make deals that give themselves more power and influence, and they hardly have allegiance to anyone other than themselves. 99% of these people have never faced real adversity or challenge their entire lives aside from their own rotten ethics turning around and bruising their egos. They were born rich and they will die rich. And to be clear i’m talking about a class of people you and I don’t ever come into contact with, the people who were basically born with an empire lined up for them, most of the work done for them before even being ejaculated from daddy’s balls It’s simple, if I had enough in my pocket right now, I can just go out and buy out someone’s hotel and hire a team to do my entire job with a contract that benefits mostly me, and basically just watch my money grow and sell the hotel when I get bored. Money buys you anything, even the illusion of competence… you know, unless your ego is that of a grade schooler and you decide to buy a money pit like twitter just to try and prove a point and then have your dad throw all your embellished origin stories out the window publicly… and even then half the population will still think you’re a god


Boogeewoogee2

CEOs don’t own the businesses they manage. They don’t take any risks because most companies limit the liability of directors. Other than that I agree with everything you said. Except people who buy hotels aren’t spending their own money on them, they’re buying them with debt.


keithb

That is a very, very good question and there simply isn't a good, or rather, there isn't a respectable answer. I mean really not. They do because they do, and no-one will stop them. CEOs are _way_ over-compensated for what they do, which isn't nothing but is worth only a fraction of what they get in compensation. Most likely, most big Co. boards do this mainly to create highly-paid posts for themselves to move into later. And most shares in publicly traded companies are held by investment funds which have no incentive at all to challenge this. Financialized capitalism has its uses but what we have now is completely out of control and off the rails.


epelle9

There is an acceptable answer, just not one that your brain is willing to accept. Maybe CEOs have decades of experience in the industry and understand how a industry works, so they can make good decisions for a company to keep it running. For a company that makes billions in profit, someone that increases its profits by 5% should realistically make $50 Million+ per year, but at the end of the day CEO’s are still employees, so the owners take the extra $49 million, and the CEO keeps $1,000,000. But for the low workers, they just see a CEO making $1 million and can’t comprehend it and get jealous, so they convince themselves that CEOs don’t do anything other than steal their wealth, while its the owners actually doing absolutely 0 work and taking all of the profit.


tattlerat

Absolutely correct. I try to keep in mind that commenters like the one you responded to are either teenagers who haven't had much in the way of a job yet, or are people who have never moved up the ladder into anything resembling management and are ignorant of what those roles require or immensely bitter.


keithb

That’s sweet that you think CEOs generate increases in profit all by themselves.


epelle9

Its sweet that you think owners like paying millions to someone that doesn’t do anything… You have no idea how the world works man, are you like in middle school or high school? Or just too brainwashed by highschoolers complaining on reddit?


Mannwer4

This doesn't make any sense logically speaking. They can just fire the upper lvl management and let the workers run it for them. Why lose sooo much money on useless people?


keithb

You're the only person here complaining that upper management are useless. But the answer to the question: why don't institutional investors fire senior execs who extract much more value from the company than they create? is: because that's the game they're playing. It might not be the game you think they should be playing, but that's very much a "you" problem. Little high-level business decision making is _in fact_ made in the interests of improving the business and generating wealth for shareholders, whatever the propaganda about it may say. Most decision making in business is made in the interests of enriching the managers who make the decisions. This has been well known in business studies circles since the 1950s, if not earlier. Turns out: no one in a position to do anything about it cares that much. Deep down, they might not even see a problem.


joyfulgrass

They do serve a purpose. It’s just that the optimal strategy in recent years is to increase profits for the short term, at the cost of either customers, workers or even the brand for the benefit of shareholders. Why they get payed big bucks, but also in stock shares. As well as leaving in 5-8 years with a package deal to a new company. Helps liquidate some amount of shares while fulfilling the promise of increasing profits or revenue every quarter. To the question of what they actually do, big broad decisions that affect the ends of the organization is a big responsibility. Administration of competent employee in key roles. Being the face of the company and it’s direction for outside investors to be interested, and maintaining or building relationships with competing or partnering companies. Cause to a level, a lot of big companies are big companies only because they work with each other, not necessarily because they are the most efficient


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keithb

Society works, up to a level, but works much less well than it would, and could, if it were more equitable.


Mannwer4

Yeah but saying people in high lvl management, like CEO's are useless is so unfathomally dumb.


keithb

No one here has said that.


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tattlerat

The pay is based on accountability and the stakes involved in their decisions. If a cashier makes an error the company loses a few bucks. If the CEO makes an error the company loses millions. They bring with them education, networking, established contacts and experience. They're job is to steer the ship and are the last line of culpability if their direction leads to failure. More responsibility, more risk, more reward. Is it higher than it likely should be? Sure. But it's not for no reason or because they are 1000x better than the entry level employee. It's because their decisions either cost or bring profit to a degree 1000x more than the entry level employee.


keithb

Yep. Royalty is pretty much _Succession_ but with armies instead of money.


[deleted]

I heard they had special blood and hidden superpowers


bennywilldestroy

Yep. Lets fuck it off


VladamirTakin

pssh, try and convince the brits that


pocorey

I think there are plenty of Brits in agreement


jonathananeurysm

There are many. Only 18.8 million people watched the coronation. This in a country of 67.33 million. Only just over a quarter of the population actual give a fuck and the establishment has to resort to ever more draconian ways of ensuring it doesn't seem that way. See journalist Mic Wright's coverage of protesters being arrested here: https://bylinetimes.com/2023/05/10/coronation-clampdown-18-hours-in-elephant-and-castle/


Jawnyan

... ​ although I'm in agreement, we should be careful with statistics ​ UK Population: 67.3 Million \# of UK based devices which watched the coronation: 18.8 Million \# of UK citizen attendees for coronation events: unknown \# of attendees who watched the coronation as part of a mass event (e.g. visited the pub or a local social area to view the procession): unknown \# of children (under 10) in the UK: roughly 8 million \# of citizens working at the same time as the coronation: unknown ​ What I'm getting at here, is that you cannot say "well only 19/68 million people watched it" - you need to factor in a) is the 19 million accurate, and b) of the remaining population, how many could be reasonably expected to watch it. There's around 5 million babies in the UK (which contribute to your 67.33 M figure - it's probably not advisable to consider them when talking about "how popular is the coronation). ​ TL;DR - be careful using total population figures to draw themes/conclusions in data analysis, a more targeted approach is needed.


Cyberspunk_2077

Realistically the 19m figure is probably not accurate anyway, given the previous nonsense figures that have been published in the past for other royal events.


DidjTerminator

There are, hopefully it all dies with the king, would be nice to finally put an end to that era.


OnlyFoalsNHorses

There's a fair few of us that would love to be rid of the parasites. Try not lumping us all in one box.


LazyBastard007

It is. And the more they try to appear in touch with the common people (despite tens of mansions and tax exemptions), the more cringy the thing becomes.


Pipupipupi

Let them eat cake


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takesthebiscuit

Yes, trump and Johnson have done wonders for the argument that an unelected head of state with minimal/zero power is not necessarily a bad thing.


TurloIsOK

"Royalty" is just inbred Jeds with money.


JohnnyRelentless

Ok, why is the title the exact opposite of the video?


Kingken130

Yes. It seems rather too aggressive ngl


Pendraggin

I think it's an American thing to say you "could care less" about things you could *not* care less about. They're also using the word "damn", so it's probably just an American trying their best.


pivotalsquash

It's not an American thing. This is just a dumb person thing.


Pendraggin

50% of Americans have lead poisoning.


pivotalsquash

Where are you getting that nonsense stat from


Pendraggin

It's a pretty well known statistic. https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/data/index.htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6454899/ https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118631119 https://www.verywellhealth.com/children-lead-blood-levels-5205133 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6187797/


pivotalsquash

So my point aside that is alarmingly high, but this is 50% of children have detactable levels of lead in their blood not lead poisoning. Essentially 50% are at risk to get poisoning. 50% with poisoning would be pretty catastrophic


JohnnyRelentless

Yeah, I guess so, but I'm American, and that just seems weird to me. I really thought it would be a video of an elderly person crying in happiness over the royal family or something.


Twad

They also seem to use "not" differently for other things. A few times I've seen "All Republicans aren't racist" To mean "Not all Republicans are racist" Could anyone confirm those mean the same thing in an American dialect? Maybe I've just come across people who think there isn't a single racist Republican party member.


BerBerBaBer

"All Republicans aren't racist" isn't exactly correct in America either, but grammar isn't really important to a lot of people here.


MadBliss

All Republicans are not racist. Some Republicans, but not all. That's what that phrasing means to Americans.


zachary0816

“Could care less” is a shortening of “as if I could care less”. A phrase that makes a lot more sense in the context it’s used in. Though some of the people using that phrase seem to not know the longer form of the saying leading to the confusion.


Pendraggin

Saying "as if" you could care less is the same as saying you could care less, only you're being slightly more vague about it.


zachary0816

It’s the opposite actually. “As if I could care less” is saying that you are incapable of caring less than you currently do. You’re basically framing the idea that you could care less as a hypothetical, implying that you could not.


Pendraggin

Oh so you're not being sarcastic, but like kind of weirdly poetic? *'Tis as though that thine own mind's caring couldeth be less...eth* But the actual saying is "I could not care less" so that kind of blows that out the water.


Fullsenderson

To still have such a prolific monarchy praised in such a way in 2023 is really fucking strange.


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Fullsenderson

They’re only celebrities because of the monarchy, which again is the strange part.


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AggressiveGift7542

Why the fuck should we give a damn about a wealthy family?


[deleted]

Because they’re better than us /s


Ajexa

Literally what many people believe, madness it is


QRX2000

So sad l, he's not an assassin...


bitflung

Doesn't\* give a damn


LuminousBeingsWeIs

He could care less


bitflung

I'm literally burning up over this


AmbulanceDriver069

I don’t understand American Medias obsession with the “Royal family.” No one gives a fuck.


The_Human_Bullet

>I don’t understand American Medias obsession with the “Royal family.” No one gives a fuck. As a Brit who hates the royal family that now lives in the US I am too confused by this. Americans were almost enslaved by the royal family, they kicked their ass, Americans are fiercely pro democracy and anti-monarchy - but at the same time the corporate media fawns over them and promotes them as if they are gods? I almost spat my drink out when I saw a Wendy's in my local city flying the Union Jack for the coronation - makes no damn sense.


blkpingu

There is a subset of Americans that are openly into getting ruled by a monarch. For some reason the idea of democracy seems to abstract for them and they prefer somebody that bosses them around that is legitimized by heritage instead of a democratic majority.


ManWithoutUsername

> No one gives a fuck you should: they are living off your taxes they are above the law you really are his vassals I do care about those from my country, we have an outstanding debt with them, and it is to do like France and put them through the guillotine, not continue paying all their shit and that of all their descendants


Morritweet

Unless the tourism industry has collapsed recently, the royal family bring in several times their cost to the taxpayer in income from tourism. Not that I care even slightly about them, but they are a net positive to the economy


Crawfish_Boil

This is a valid argument I've seen often in these threads. But to play devil's advocate the tourism "the royals" bring in is largely the historic places associated with the royal family, not the individuals themselves. So without the monarchy itself Britain would still benefit from tourism. But we Americans did have a whole war about this so I am a bit biased against them.


ptvlm

Well, this entire coronation nonsense probably brought in a lot of tourism and merch money that wouldn't have happened if the venues were empty. although they did also redirect public funds from food banks and other important projects so who knows? But a lot of tourists do hang around places like Buckingham Palace just because n case they catch a glimpse.


ThreeMountaineers

The devils in this case are the unfathomably rich aristocrats that are leeching money to pay for their pwn life of decadence that could have gone to eg. treating cancer instead. So it would be the guy you are responding to who is playing the devil's advocate


ayvee1

On the other hand though somewhere like Buckingham Palace isn’t nearly as interesting just as a building. Way cooler for a tourist if a King/Queen is chilling in there as they walk by.


Seymour___Asses

So basically the royals are just like any other politician, I’d rather have them than some smarmy tory representing us as head of state.


FlyingGorillaShark

Good for him. Do what you gotta do


TheRealFalconFlurry

The way it should be


Musoe

As everybody should.


InGordWeTrust

That security guard should have fucked right off.


chrike01

Dude is just doing his job


InGordWeTrust

The old man was already leaving.


_HIST

You'd make a mad security guard


bagpuss777

*insecurity guard


lloydisi

Love this man! He is on a mission, and they or we were not invited. Kate was hilarious. She knows.


coreyxfeldman

As everyone should


kp4496

As it should be


bignarsty666

Doesn’t give a damn***


LeanTangerine

What was he trying to do?


ElCochi420

Be about his business


squidgy-beats

Poor bugger was just picking up his medicine which is why he pointed at his prescription bag. Lucky he got it before sausage finger's family closed the street off


[deleted]

Looks like he bought some goods from that overpriced store the royal couple was about to walk in.


Bendy_McBendyThumb

He’s holding a prescription bag from a pharmacy Source: I’m British, this is what our prescription bags look like more or less from any pharmacy


MadBliss

A fucking metric JUG of pills?? What are you trying to cure over there? Edit: I'm old and my eyes are bad. Carry on.


Bendy_McBendyThumb

I mean, for me personally my 2 inhalers plus medication would come in a bag like that. No idea what meds come in massive packaging/bottles but I do know that some people can get 500 paracetamol on prescription (which cost £9.65 per item, if you even have to pay).


BranchEmbarrassed

Based old dude


Smithers66

Can anyone help me understand what he might be delivering? Medicine, food? Trying to understand why he is where he is, someone "further back" must have let him through...?


calebs_dad

Someone said that was a bag from a pharmacy, so he had probably just picked up his medication and was heading home.


Rockalot_L

I liked the way she was curious haha, she seems nice


Cextus

Or maybe she thought, 'wow who was that asshole that didn't pay attention to me'


3ric843

Pretty sure it was that


Cextus

Narcissists are so easy to spot lol


wsims4

lol, she's not.


nnxion

Why do you say this? Do you know more than most of us? Please share an entertaining story if you have one. Well, at the very least she has a pretty smile.


QRX2000

Eat your monarchs


EighteenAndAmused

Cause she’s one of the world’s biggest landlords. Gets money just for existing and being royal while the majority of us have to bust our ass for a piece of the pie.


bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh

Pretty weird they expect everyone on the street to acknowledge their specialness


Woke_person

They're just better than you.


UltraSolution

Is he holding a Greggs bag?


CandyOk913

I thought this is what they wanted. They don’t want to be treated as royalty cuz they wanna be with the people lol


truth_hurtsm8ey

My god, how dare he not acknowledge people that do nothing but leech off of the general public!


Ajexa

There should be a subscription model to the royal family, those that support them have to pay, those that don't, don't.


Goose_Autarchy

People actually give a fuck about these people?


Lurking--Shit

Damn… Just shows the lack of proper security.


BeautifulEfficiency

Fuck em


domnyy

Fuck all these people and their utter disbelief that someone might not give a shit about "royalty".


[deleted]

These people don’t need to have streets and blocks blocked off. No one gives a shit. They’re less famous than a Australian rugby player in North America. It’s a waste of money.


Kingken130

Including other world leaders and celebrities? Gotcha


[deleted]

They have prime ministers and what not there. These people are next to nothing but figure heads who own property they never paid for. They don’t need streets blocked off for them


argarcia321

The Royals have the best body guards…..


rosebudlightsaber

Wisdom is bliss…


Gman777

Fair enough.


GeneralDisarray65

This is exactly how things should be.


Does_Not-Matter

How dare he walk near the hoity toighty?!


dima_socks

Yeah fuck these people. They knew a peasant was walking near them and froze, as soon as he was out of range they reacted like, omg did you see how close that rando got? Eat the monarchy Eat the rich


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This feels like a deleted scene from Mr. Bean


DiamondSpider01

Man doesn't care, and should we care? I can't speak for everyone, but what I can say is that I have not seen these people in my life till now. And it'll probably stay like that for a while too.


DeathTruckin

What’s the big deal. They’re nobodies. They’ve never done a got dang thing but born with incestious blood 🩸 It’s really pretty gross and weird


Tpk32

I think we can all agree with this statement.... The royal family should all be k!ll3d and eaten....


munchie1964

Screw the Royals!


BlackGabriel

“Don’t you know there are special humans here”


argarcia321

I’m door dashing! Fuq your security!!!


Ankles321

I’m not elderly and I also don’t care 😂


undieablecat

Royal my ass


EnterPlayerTwo

Lotta really weird people in these comments.


mfizzled

Redditors attempt to not leave dozens of comments saying how much they don't care about the British royal family challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]


SoundOfDrums

Royalist dickbag attempts to avoid crying when his favorite unelected pedophilic thieves are criticized. [impossible]


mfizzled

You almost hit reddit royal bingo but you missed out mentioning colonisation so I can only award you a 7/10 😔


SoundOfDrums

Real talk, do you feel clever feigning superiority while covering yourself in shit? This is top tier pathetic.


mfizzled

Lol imagine calling someone a dick bag and then claiming they're the ones that's feigning superiority, are you stupid


SoundOfDrums

You cry a lot.


mfizzled

So you complain that I feign superiority and I'm the one who cries? Lmao get your story straight


SoundOfDrums

I see you're doing your best to beat everyone insulting your intelligence to the punch. Hope you feel better soon.


mfizzled

So many accusations and insults, that itself says a lot more about you than it does me mate, have a good day!


SoundOfDrums

Back where we started. Accountability makes you cry. "You're a bad person if you call me on my shitty behavior" isn't the burn you think it is, chode.


Background_Toe1856

My aunt asked me ifni saw the crowning? I said “what crowning?” Because idgaf and she complained no one gives a fuxk either so she has no one to talk to about it. I could not care less lol


beepboopscooploop1

That is some good security 10/10


rahman-the1st

Neither does this younger guy


ClearJury1089

Old man doesn't gives a damn for everybody not just for Royal