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Post by mjjfan810 on Apr 9, 2021 17:13:56 GMT
RIP Prince Phillip.
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Post by ghost on Apr 9, 2021 17:18:41 GMT
It's always sad when a 99 year old man's life is cut brutally short after an existence of total luxury.
I'm sure heβll be up there with the Queen Mother moaning about the darkies.
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Post by MattyJam on Apr 9, 2021 17:35:49 GMT
1. Commenting on the Duke of York's house in 1986: "It looks like a tart's bedroom"
2. "You managed not to get eaten then?" To a British student who had trekked in Papua New Guinea, during an official visit in 1998.
3. Approaching his 90th birthday, 2011: "Bits are beginning to drop off."
4. At a dinner party in 2004: "Bugger the table plan, give me my dinner!"
5. Shouted to the Queen from the deck of Britannia in Belize in 1994, who was chatting. "Yak, yak, yak; come on get a move on."
6. At the Scottish Women's Institute in 1961: "British women can't cook"
7. "Do people trip over you?" Meeting a wheelchair-bound nursing-home resident in 2002.
8. "You could do with losing a little bit of weight." To hopeful astronaut, 13-year-old Andrew Adams.
9. "There's a lot of your family in tonight." After glancing at business chief Atul Patel's name badge during a 2009 Buckingham Palace reception for 400 influential British Indians to meet the Royal couple.
10. After being told that Madonna was singing the Die Another Day theme in 2002, the Duke of Edinburgh asked: "Are we going to need ear plugs?"
11. "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" In the Cayman Islands, 1994.
12. Talking about his equestrian-inclined daughter, Princess Anne: 'If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she isn't interested.'
13. "If you travel as much as we do you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort β provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly." To the Aircraft Research Association in 2002.
14. "And what exotic part of the world do you come from?" Asked in 1999 of Tory politician Lord Taylor of Warwick, whose parents are Jamaican. He replied: "Birmingham."
15. Addressing Elton John he said, 'Oh it's you that owns that ghastly car is it? We often see it when driving to Windsor Castle.' Later, at the Royal Variety Performance watching Elton perform in 2001, he said, "I wish he'd turn the microphone off."
16. "Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf." Said to a group of deaf children standing near a Caribbean steel drum band in 2000.
17. To a Scottish driving instructor, 1999: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?
18: Meeting an aboriginal tribal leader in Australia - "Do you still chuck spears at each other?"
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Post by Russg on Apr 9, 2021 17:42:48 GMT
Didn't even know who he was until today.
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Post by SmoothGangsta on Apr 11, 2021 12:28:21 GMT
We have billboards in the UK up to remind everyone that he's dead. I feel like I'm living in a weird dystopia.
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Post by electriceyes on Apr 11, 2021 17:52:54 GMT
We have billboards in the UK up to remind everyone that he's dead. I feel like I'm living in a weird dystopia. For real?
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Post by SmoothGangsta on Apr 11, 2021 23:29:05 GMT
We have billboards in the UK up to remind everyone that he's dead. I feel like I'm living in a weird dystopia. For real? I assume they're not up now but yeah they were legit everywhere. We're having a government media blackout as well which is incredibly stupid.
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Post by electriceyes on Apr 12, 2021 1:07:54 GMT
I assume they're not up now but yeah they were legit everywhere. We're having a government media blackout as well which is incredibly stupid. Wow, that's like some North Korea shit right there.
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Post by pg13 on Apr 12, 2021 14:15:57 GMT
I assume they're not up now but yeah they were legit everywhere. We're having a government media blackout as well which is incredibly stupid. Wow, that's like some North Korea shit right there. Nonsense. For one, they're not everywhere - only in places with an electronic billboard and only major cities like London, Edinburgh, Leeds, etc. For another, they're rotated with regular ads. They're strictly temporary. Nothing at all like North Korea where theirs are not temporary and usually pretty ornate.
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Post by pg13 on Apr 12, 2021 14:24:20 GMT
At any rate, Prince Philip really didn't like lots of attention which is why he made it clear he didn't want a state funeral OR lying in state prior.
If he could see the TV coverage on the day he passed or well meaning billboard tributes, he'd be pretty uncomfortable with it.
Also, its not a new thing for any UK Government to not communicate with the press until a senior Royal funeral is over. It's just a temporary formality which every press outlet expects each time.
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