Cangaroo jumps

Blue bloods. Kings and Queens. Leaders. The concept of royalty is a bit strange. I mean, it's a replica from a time when people who got bored with the King served him poisoned soup and then gathered a bunch of friends and stormed the castle. It would never happen today. Or rather, we just don't care enough. Maybe it has something to do with decreasing the influence the royalties have on our everyday life or maybe it's because they're just not that special anymore. Somehow they've been dragged off their pedestals and thrown inte the real world. A world of starvation, telephone bills and newspapers which write about the latest celebrity dog. We know that the royalties go to the toilet, cook noodles late at night when they're hungry and too lazy to call the kitchen, pick up the poo after their dogs every once in a while. It's nice to have it that way. To not feel that they're "above us" and that their word is law. Of course, they have immunity for their crimes and I think that one guy who threw a cake in the Swedish King's face got arrested, but at least he wouldn't have to be scared of a death penalty.

As a complete sidenote I have to bring up the spin articles can take once they're in print. The Swedish media said that the cake was no big deal and quoted the King with "well, it comes with the job". BBC said that it was treason and that the Queen helped the SÄPO (säkerhetspolisen = secret police) take the guy down and of course CNN also jumped on the treason-wagon. Maybe it's a Swedish thing, you know. This whole "not being that bothered".
Someone trying to be insulting: "Your sister is a whore!"
Swedish person: "Oh, I can see you've met her. Did you get along well?"

Anyway, back to the royalties. The Swedish Crown Princess had her first baby a few days ago. She and her man-from-the-commons-prince-dude got it on quickly and do you know what my first thought was? "Oh good, now the royal line is secured for a few more years." Seriously, that thought went through my head.
It's a bit silly, isn't it? In a world so very "equal" like ours - well depending on where you are of course - we still wait for them to get it on and produce offspring. All the other things they do don't really matter all that much in the long run if they run dry down there. It makes me feel sorry for Kate Middleton who married Prince William of England. Not only does she have Prince Charles for a father-in-law, she also knows that if she produces a child and it's a boy it'll be prone to baldness before the age of 30, big ears, reddish complexion and an uncle who thinks that going to a masquerade party with the theme "command and conquer" in a nazi-outfit is a good idea. You gotta hand it to the girl - that takes stomach. So what if she can't squeeze out a tiny one? Well, she'll be frowned upon of course. People will say that they "knew it all along" and that "she just didn't have it in her - you could see it". They of course she'll be shunned. Said to be the one who brought the house down. The throne? It will pass to Prince Harry and who knows? Maybe England will become a massive empire once again - if nothing else, Harry knows how it's done.