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Prince Philip.... embarrassing or amusing?
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Honest?
Misunderstood?
Unfortunate?
Out of touch?
Embarrassingly amusing?Posted 12 months ago # -
"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?"
Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995
Pure class.
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As an outsider - amusing.
As a relative - I should imagine pretty embarrassing (but deep down still amusing)!
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. "Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?" To a wheelchair-bound Susan Edwards, and her guide dog Natalie in 2002.
Classic
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Both!
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"I wish he'd turn the microphone off!" The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John's performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show.
"Oh! You are the people ruining the rivers and the environment." To three young employees of a Scottish fish farm at Holyrood Palace in 1999.
"So you're responsible for the kind of crap Channel Four produces!" Speaking to then chairman of the channel, Michael Bishop, in 1962Slightly too honest, but amusing with it.
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was channel 4 even about in '62? i thought it was late 80's ?
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yes, it was the 80s.
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We should have a lot more like him, genius
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I like him, gaffes are just bollocks interpretation by the press, the rest of us see it has honest statements/jokes/rudeness/plainspeaking. The man is entitled to free speech.
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Yep I like him, half of the rubbish on that page is just that, rubbish the other half is just the plain honesty with a touch of humor (pushing it occasionally).
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I think if I were Prince Philip, I'd be a poster boy for Not Giving A Shit as well.
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Bang on the money about Stoke though.
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I think if I were Prince Philip, I'd be a poster boy for Not Giving A Shit as well.
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I think he has a bit of a wicked sense of humour. He probably chuckles to himself each time he makes these statements.
Nothing wrong with that.
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The man is entitled to free speech.
Not whilst we are paying his wages and he is represnting this country he aint. when he pays his own way and for his own castle and servants then he can have free speech until then he is at work apparently.Hugely out of touch with reality for obvious reasons and makes some crass comments amongst some witty ish ones that are an attempt at humour
"People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still drying out Windsor Castle." To survivors of the Lockerbie bombings in 1993.
"A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now that everybody's got more leisure time they are complaining they are unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want." A man of the people shares insight into the recession that gripped Britain in 1981
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He is both. And a god too.
Which is even better than being king.
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He's an arse.
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Brilliant +1.
I'm quite happy for my tax to be going towards that man.Posted 12 months ago # -
31. "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" In the Cayman Islands, 1994.
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Not whilst we are paying his wages and he is representing this country he aint. when he pays his own way and for his own castle and servants then he can have free speech until then he is at work apparently.
I think this is tongue in cheek on your part JY?
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He's a genius, an old-fashioned genius of a comedian flows through his veins. I would love to hear him comment on London2012 Olympic Games.
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He's a ****. Expropriation now.
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82. "I thought it was against the law these days for a woman to solicit." Said to a woman solicitor.
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My Mum went for dinner at Sandhurst with liz and Phil once, bit of a do.. Anyway, parked out front are all the Bentleys, Mercs, Rollers a few Astons and my Mums MX5. A group of people are checking out the cars, get to my Mums and laugh, to which big Phil comments "they might laugh at your car, but I bet they don't think you're a prick for driving it" (or words to that effect as the story changes every time my mum tells it).
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I wont be asking you for the lottery numbers this week
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Embarrassing animated cadaver reaching the end of a pointless life spent generating the next set of parasites and trailing after his wife on holidays at the taxpayer's expense.
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PS: Oh yes, and getting whipped by prostitutes when he wasn't shagging Joanna Lumley.
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LOL, some of those are hilarious!!
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when he wasn't shagging Joanna Lumley
He's gone up even further in my estimation now...
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He's gone up even further in my estimation now...
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Still, we've got Harry to look forward to. Hopefully he'll be keeping us amused for the next 50 odd years.
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PMSL @ :
"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."
He should have his own half hour weekly show on the telly imo.
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He is a legend!
Now if he went on Britain's Got Talent as a standup I think he would win!
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I think he would be a brilliant dinner guest.
As much as I am not a monarchist, I think he's the best of the lot.
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