"Look, I could be self-actualizing right now but standing outside the home of one of the world's last vestiges of hereditary nobility wearing a wool suit in the summer sun til I get heat stroke somehow involves less reckoning with the fleeting nature of my time on this planet."

This royal guard bullshit is one of the more understated reasons why monarchies are garbage, imagine dying of heat stroke because of TrAdItIoN. I doubt Norwegian royalty is even a tourist attraction like the fur hat guys in

This whole article has a strong undercurrent of 'Back in my day, those soldiers woulda been built different and not needed that water.'

Fucking amazing how the monarchist brain still survives, but then again it was defeated by Capital and is thus not a threat to it, so it's allowed to linger and occasionally kill someone.

Climate change, the unexpected harbinger of Norwegian republicanism! I mean, who would volunteer to put up with this crap, and for what? Seriously! To defend some state-mandated celebrity? I'd feel embarrassed if I were so young and subjecting myself to these sorts of conditions over something so nonsensical.

I swear, some day the soldiers of the Royal Guard are going to begin dropping like flies as not even water will be enough to cool them down. Maybe they'll eventually start entertaining the possibility of changing their uniforms to something more befitting of our changing climate, but even that might not be enough. Maybe they'll have to do shifts of less than even one hour, at the same time as they'll have a hard time finding new soldiers willing to risk their lives standing still doing nothing. Maybe the "all day, every day" thing will start to have holes of increasing size.

Who knows.

If nothing else they should arrest life guard regiments for fashion crimes. A crested bowler hat?