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 Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 1:56 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:30 am
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:44 am
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:55 am
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:27 am
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:47 am
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HRH The Duke of Edinburgh a.k.a. Phil the Greek. Anyone that can go through life upsetting that many people is fine by me. A short list of HRH's gaffes include such timeless classics as;
During a state visit to China in 1986, he told a group of British students,
"If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed".
Speaking to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, he asked,
"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?".
My two favourites,
(in 1996, amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting).
"If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?"
"There's no evidence that people who use weapons for sport are any more dangerous than people who use golf clubs or tennis rackets or cricket bats."
Other classic pronouncements have included;
During a visit to Canada,
"We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves."
Question put to an Australian Aborigine during a visit in March 2002
Still throwing spears?
"British women can't cook." (1966)
During the recession in the early 80's
"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."
With regard to stress counselling for servicemen
"We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'Are you all right? Are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?' You just got on with it."
To the Cambridge University car park attendant who failed to recognise him
"Bloody silly fool!"
Referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh
"It looks as if it was put in by an Indian."
In 1982, in the Solomon Islands, after being told that the annual population growth was 5%
"They must be out of their minds."
In 1984, in Kenya, to a native woman who had presented him with a small gift
"You are a woman, aren't you?"
In 1992 while in Australia, when asked to stroke a Koala bear
"Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease."
& while in Budapest a year later talking to a Briton
"You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly."
Then there was the Cayman Islands
"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?"
Who can forget in 1998 the comment to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea
"You managed not to get eaten, then?"
& finally, while undertaking his duties as President of the World Wildlife Fund
"If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."
Your Royal Highness, we salute you. Keep up the good work.
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:11 am
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Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 1:54 pm
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Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 2:31 pm
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Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 12:19 pm
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Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 2:55 pm
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Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 10:18 am
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 2:10 am
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 1:15 pm
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Even my history teacher says that they'll be gone within twenty years...Hm, The Republic of Great Britain, perhaps?
They really are just pointless. My Grandma and her generation are all deeply patriotic, and that's ok I suppose, it's how they've been brought up, but nowadays, children are being brought up to think otherwise. They're not going to last long, Prince Charles might as well just abdicate and get rid of the throne. It's not as if they have any power anyway, I mean, officailly they can dismiss parliment, but they can't really, think of the up roar! Well, the governemt are fairly crap anyway, but that's beside the point.
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 9:24 am
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Emmanuela Even my history teacher says that they'll be gone within twenty years...Hm, The Republic of Great Britain, perhaps? They really are just pointless. My Grandma and her generation are all deeply patriotic, and that's ok I suppose, it's how they've been brought up, but nowadays, children are being brought up to think otherwise. They're not going to last long, Prince Charles might as well just abdicate and get rid of the throne. It's not as if they have any power anyway, I mean, officailly they can dismiss parliment, but they can't really, think of the up roar! Well, the governemt are fairly crap anyway, but that's beside the point.
They aren't pointless at all, their charity work alone attests to that. This is before you examine their essential role within the constitutional working of the political system here in the UK.
In any case, if it is not enough to keep them because the older generation like them, is it right to get rid of them because some of the younger generation don't?
Especially when generally speaking, the most informed like them, and the least informed dislike them. |
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