Posted on 07/04/2022 2:04:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Because Independence Day always makes for a slow news weekend, that leaves room for looking at and thinking about other news stories that wouldn't normally make the grade at American Thinker. The one that caught my eye was the Daily Mail's huge photo essay showing the wedding of Charlotte Freud, one of Rupert Murdoch's granddaughters, to Luke Storey, a rapper. It was held in the exquisitely picturesque English Cotswold district, but the photos are a testament to the death of beauty in the modern era.
If you like things that are quintessentially English, the Cotswold district is the place for you:
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There’s also the charming traditional English wedding, held in an old church, with the bride in virginal white, the blushing bridesmaids, the tuxedoed groomsmen, and the charmingly attired guests, including women in big hats. Although it's played for comedy, think of this wedding from 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral:
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The bride is certainly glowing with happiness (and I wish her well), while her and her groom's matching Cruella de Vil black-and-white hair is...um...cute. Still, the tattoos crawling across her exposed skin and the sheer amount of exposed skin above the waist make her look like a stripper in a parody wedding.
The female guests showed up in ugly, mannish pantsuits or dresses that, again, show enough skin to be vulgar, not seductive. None of the women is wearing the hats that are part of an English wedding's charm. Many guests showed up at a daytime wedding in funereal black.
James Murdoch, the leftist Murdoch son who left Fox News behind, was the picture of cultural appropriation, in a calf-length purple Pakistani-style tunic over white trousers, an outfit completed with a black vest. His wife wore black and no smile.
The bride's father, Matthew Freud, wore an...
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Ugly is the new beautiful.
is that a dude in a dress? I can’t tell the pic is so small
Afraid so.
XD XD... I was looking at the photos and saw the first one and thought naw... that’s a monk. Thought you got me.
Then I scrolled down some more... unfortunately.
SMOD, please, SMOD.
Nope, I’ll pass.
Always a bridesmaid and never a groom.
The blonde looks like a girl and the boy is in a dress yanking his yanker!! GOOD FREAKING GRIEF!! NO WONNDER FOX IS GOING DOWNHILL!
the hippie tunic dude is the uncle
yeah I missed that..I think the blonde with the pony tail and suit is a girl and the thing with hairy legs in a dress is definitely a dude
WHO the HELL is getting married??
We're eating our own......
The Cots is lovely
These tons are not
Too much money with no boundaries or ethics or sense of decens leads to senseless, frittered, materialistic lives.
No, the Morlocks are not Western civilization and neither are the rags of propaganda littering thoughts.
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