R.I.P. Prince Philip

[johnofgwent]

See to be honest john , do the vast majority of people actually give a feck about the royals?

Im sorry the old boy died , but he had a good innings as the english say at 99 years old.

I think he picked a pretty piss poor time to pop his clogs.


Three of my mates or their wives have been put in body bags in the last few months courtesy of a cancer left untreated thanks to the Welsh Assembly's mismanagement of the NHS and we could only get to the funeral of one of them.


I don't think it is solely disinterest is driving those Bbc complaints. I think anger that he can have a proper funeral others have been denied is a factor too..

[Thomas]

One more point.


Another news item yesterday covered the Land Rover they're going to use.


And showed Philip walking behind the Queen Mother's coffin on a gun carriage.


Now, I'm getting better at lip reading as my hearing ebbs in my old age ...


But I'm not sure. I am however prepared to swear that footage included something very like an unguarded "F**k me I'm not getting put on one of these" ..... moment.

See to be honest john , do the vast majority of people actually give a feck about the royals?

Im sorry the old boy died , but he had a good innings as the english say at 99 years old.

[johnofgwent]

One more point.


Another news item yesterday covered the Land Rover they're going to use.


And showed Philip walking behind the Queen Mother's coffin on a gun carriage.


Now, I'm getting better at lip reading as my hearing ebbs in my old age ...


But I'm not sure. I am however prepared to swear that footage included something very like an unguarded "F**k me I'm not getting put on one of these" ..... moment.

[johnofgwent]

Something occurred to me in the early hours of this morning as the laws of fluid pressure took their toll.


Last night the BBC said all of Philips kids are walking behind the Land Rover.


And the Gruniad launched into another "kick Harry in the balls" page bewailing how none of the walkers will be in uniform because to do that would reveal Harry's inability to wear one.....


So, pardon me but am I the only person to remember why Edward can't wear one ? Buying oneself out of the Royal Marine Commandos in order to walk down washout alley seems to me unlikely to be a way to wear a uniform at your dad's funeral ......


And by the way, actually, I've said for decades, and said it to two former and one serving officer in that elite force, all who agreed with me, that in reality, Edward not only had to face public humiliation for his very public decision he wasn't cut out to kill people with his bare hands, but also had to go tell Prince Philip not only was he washing out, but that he was going to pursue his life's desire to be a dancer with Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Company ...


And any who think that didn't take balls ......


The other and equally serious issue being, had Edward decided not to be do honest about his inability to finish the course, who reading this can tell me the military would not have found some way to keep him in the uniform for the sake of appearances ....

[Borchester]

I have great respect for HRH Prince Philip, and I understand the desire for those who wish to show their feelings over his passing. But what I don't understand is the constant chatter by "Royal correspondents" about who will stand next to who, and who will follow who, and what they will wear, as they process to the ceremony. Is it really that important in the overall solemnity of the occasion...?

No importance whatever and as an ex sailor Prince Philip would have probably been just as happy to be pushed over the side with a firegrate tied to his feet and have his mates raise a few glasses to his memory. But there is sod all else going on right now news wise so the media is peddling the story for all it is worth

[patman post]

I have great respect for HRH Prince Philip, and I understand the desire for those who wish to show their feelings over his passing. But what I don't understand is the constant chatter by "Royal correspondents" about who will stand next to who, and who will follow who, and what they will wear, as they process to the ceremony. Is it really that important in the overall solemnity of the occasion...?

[HDQQ]

A lot of those quotes wouldn't be out of place coming from some members of this forum, except they are wittier.

[Borchester]

"British women can't cook" (in Britain in 1966).

"What do you gargle with? Pebbles?" (speaking to singer Tom Jones after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance).

"I declare this thing open, whatever it is." (on a visit to Canada in 1969).

"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed" (during the 1981 recession).

"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." (at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting).

"It looks like a tart's bedroom." (on seeing plans for the Duke and Duchess of York's house at Sunninghill Park in 1988).

"Yak, yak, yak; come on get a move on." (shouted from the deck of Britannia in Belize in 1994 to the Queen who was chatting to her hosts on the quayside).

"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." (about the Second World War commenting on modern stress counselling for servicemen in 1995).

"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?" (to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, during a 1995 walkabout).

"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?" (in 1996, amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting).

"Bloody silly fool!" (in 1997, referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who did not recognise him).

"It looks as if it was put in by an Indian." (pointing at an old-fashioned fusebox in a factory near Edinburgh in 1999).

"Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." (to young deaf people in Cardiff, in 1999, referring to a school's steel band).

"They must be out of their minds." (in the Solomon Islands, in 1982, when he was told that the annual population growth was 5 per cent).

"You are a woman, aren't you?"(In Kenya, in 1984, after accepting a small gift from a local woman).

"If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed." (perhaps his most notorious comment - to British students in China, during a 1986 state visit).

"Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world." (in Thailand, in 1991, after accepting a conservation award).

"Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease." (in Australia, in 1992, when asked to stroke a Koala bear).

"You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly." (to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, in 1993).

"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands in 1994).

"You managed not to get eaten, then?" (suggesting to a student in 1998 who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea that tribes there were still cannibals).

In Germany, in 1997, he welcomed German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at a trade fair as "Reichskanzler" - the last German leader who used the title was Adolf Hitler.

"You're too fat to be an astronaut." (to 13-year-old Andrew Adams who told Philip he wanted to go into space. Salford, 2001).

"I wish he'd turn the microphone off." (muttered at the Royal Variety Performance as he watched Sir Elton John perform, 2001).

"Do you still throw spears at each other?" (In Australia in 2002 talking to a successful aborigine entrepreneur).

"You look like a suicide bomber." (to a young female officer wearing a bullet-proof vest on Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, in 2002).

"Do you know they're now producing eating dogs for anorexics?" (to a blind woman outside Exeter Cathedral, 2002).

"Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?" (to designer Stephen Judge about his tiny goatee beard in July 2009).

"There's a lot of your family in tonight." (after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians in October 2009).

"Do you work in a strip club?" (to 24-year-old Barnstaple Sea Cadet Elizabeth Rendle when she told him she also worked in a nightclub in March 2010).

"Do you have a pair of knickers made out of this?" (pointing to some tartan to Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie a papal reception in Edinburgh in September 2010).

"Bits are beginning to drop off." (on approaching his 90th birthday, 2011).

"How many people have you knocked over this morning on that thing?" (meeting disabled David Miller who drives a mobility scooter at the Valentine Mansion in Redbridge in March 2012).

"I would get arrested if I unzipped that dress." (to 25-year-old council worker Hannah Jackson, who was wearing a dress with a zip running the length of its front, on a Jubilee visit to Bromley, Kent, in May 2012).

"The Philippines must be half empty as you're all here running the NHS." (on meeting a Filipino nurse at a Luton hospital in February 2013).

"Most stripping is done by hand." (to 83-year-old Mars factory worker Audrey Cook when discussing how she used to strip or cut Mars Bars by hand in April 2013).

"(Children) go to school because their parents don't want them in the house." (prompting giggles from Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban after campaigning for the right of girls to go to school without fear - October 2013).

"Just take the f***ing picture." (losing patience with an RAF photographer at events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain - July 2015).

"You look starved." (to a pensioner on a visit to the Charterhouse almshouse for elderly men - February 2017)

"I'm just a bloody amoeba." (on the Queen's decision that their children should be called Windsor, not Mountbatten).

"Gentlemen, I think it is time we pulled our fingers out."(to the Industrial Co-Partnership Association on Britain's inefficient industries in 1961).

"Are you asking me if the Queen is going to die?" (on being questioned on when the Prince of Wales would succeed to the throne).

"If the man had succeeded in abducting Anne, she would have given him a hell of a time while in captivity." (On a gunman who tried to kidnap the Princess Royal in 1974).

"I hope he breaks his bloody neck." (when a photographer covering a royal visit to India fell out of a tree).

"If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she's not interested." (on the Princess Royal).

"When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife." (on marriage).

"It's a pleasant change to be in a country that isn't ruled by its people." (to Alfredo Stroessner, the Paraguayan dictator).

"Where did you get that hat?" (supposedly to the Queen at her Coronation).

As said before, a grumpy old bugger, but he will be missed.

[Thomas]

Prince Philip, who died on April 9, aged 99, was renowned for speaking his mind. Here, we celebrate the Duke of Edinburgh's best jokes - and greatest gaffes - from over the years.

"British women can't cook" (in Britain in 1966).

"What do you gargle with? Pebbles?" (speaking to singer Tom Jones after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance).

"I declare this thing open, whatever it is." (on a visit to Canada in 1969).

"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed" (during the 1981 recession).

"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." (at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting).

"It looks like a tart's bedroom." (on seeing plans for the Duke and Duchess of York's house at Sunninghill Park in 1988).

"Yak, yak, yak; come on get a move on." (shouted from the deck of Britannia in Belize in 1994 to the Queen who was chatting to her hosts on the quayside).

"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." (about the Second World War commenting on modern stress counselling for servicemen in 1995).

"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?" (to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, during a 1995 walkabout).

"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?" (in 1996, amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting).

"Bloody silly fool!" (in 1997, referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who did not recognise him).

"It looks as if it was put in by an Indian." (pointing at an old-fashioned fusebox in a factory near Edinburgh in 1999).

"Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." (to young deaf people in Cardiff, in 1999, referring to a school's steel band).

"They must be out of their minds." (in the Solomon Islands, in 1982, when he was told that the annual population growth was 5 per cent).

"You are a woman, aren't you?"(In Kenya, in 1984, after accepting a small gift from a local woman).

"If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed." (perhaps his most notorious comment - to British students in China, during a 1986 state visit).

"Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world." (in Thailand, in 1991, after accepting a conservation award).

"Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease." (in Australia, in 1992, when asked to stroke a Koala bear).

"You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly." (to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, in 1993).

"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands in 1994).

"You managed not to get eaten, then?" (suggesting to a student in 1998 who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea that tribes there were still cannibals).

In Germany, in 1997, he welcomed German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at a trade fair as "Reichskanzler" - the last German leader who used the title was Adolf Hitler.

"You're too fat to be an astronaut." (to 13-year-old Andrew Adams who told Philip he wanted to go into space. Salford, 2001).

"I wish he'd turn the microphone off." (muttered at the Royal Variety Performance as he watched Sir Elton John perform, 2001).

"Do you still throw spears at each other?" (In Australia in 2002 talking to a successful aborigine entrepreneur).

"You look like a suicide bomber." (to a young female officer wearing a bullet-proof vest on Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, in 2002).

"Do you know they're now producing eating dogs for anorexics?" (to a blind woman outside Exeter Cathedral, 2002).

"Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?" (to designer Stephen Judge about his tiny goatee beard in July 2009).

"There's a lot of your family in tonight." (after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians in October 2009).

"Do you work in a strip club?" (to 24-year-old Barnstaple Sea Cadet Elizabeth Rendle when she told him she also worked in a nightclub in March 2010).

"Do you have a pair of knickers made out of this?" (pointing to some tartan to Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie a papal reception in Edinburgh in September 2010).

"Bits are beginning to drop off." (on approaching his 90th birthday, 2011).

"How many people have you knocked over this morning on that thing?" (meeting disabled David Miller who drives a mobility scooter at the Valentine Mansion in Redbridge in March 2012).

"I would get arrested if I unzipped that dress." (to 25-year-old council worker Hannah Jackson, who was wearing a dress with a zip running the length of its front, on a Jubilee visit to Bromley, Kent, in May 2012).

"The Philippines must be half empty as you're all here running the NHS." (on meeting a Filipino nurse at a Luton hospital in February 2013).

"Most stripping is done by hand." (to 83-year-old Mars factory worker Audrey Cook when discussing how she used to strip or cut Mars Bars by hand in April 2013).

"(Children) go to school because their parents don't want them in the house." (prompting giggles from Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban after campaigning for the right of girls to go to school without fear - October 2013).

"Just take the f***ing picture." (losing patience with an RAF photographer at events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain - July 2015).

"You look starved." (to a pensioner on a visit to the Charterhouse almshouse for elderly men - February 2017)

"I'm just a bloody amoeba." (on the Queen's decision that their children should be called Windsor, not Mountbatten).

"Gentlemen, I think it is time we pulled our fingers out."(to the Industrial Co-Partnership Association on Britain's inefficient industries in 1961).

"Are you asking me if the Queen is going to die?" (on being questioned on when the Prince of Wales would succeed to the throne).

"If the man had succeeded in abducting Anne, she would have given him a hell of a time while in captivity." (On a gunman who tried to kidnap the Princess Royal in 1974).

"I hope he breaks his bloody neck." (when a photographer covering a royal visit to India fell out of a tree).

"If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she's not interested." (on the Princess Royal).

"When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife." (on marriage).

"It's a pleasant change to be in a country that isn't ruled by its people." (to Alfredo Stroessner, the Paraguayan dictator).

"Where did you get that hat?" (supposedly to the Queen at her Coronation).

[Thomas]

To be fair, most everyone expected Prince Philip to out last the Independent, so it is possible to understand Tom Pecks shocked delight.

Has someone died?

Borkie , i just had to say to the wife there "for the fifty third fecking time , its no paddy the greek , its phil the greek.Paddy the greek sold stolen goods to del boy in only fools.....this guys cawd phil and he wis born in greece!!!"

Thankfully we have been spared most of the medias over the top fawning coverage as we dont watch much tv  but i did laugh when someone pointed out some of phil the greeks famous quotes.

Quite like this one..

"It's a pleasant change to be in a country that isn't ruled by its people." (to Alfredo Stroessner, the Paraguayan dictator).

[T00ts]

Philip's greatest triumph is to have trumped Meghan's evil interview. With one last breath he has exploded the Royal Family's world wide platform full of memories about what loyalty, duty and service really is. Well done that man RIP. 

[Barry]

The anonymous hatred merchants have been busy on Twitter. Cowards.

[Borchester]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/prince-philip-dinosaur-royal-family-092017548.html
Never takes long does it, the bloke ain't been dead a day and the woke are on the crusade of spite.

To be fair, most everyone expected Prince Philip to out last the Independent, so it is possible to understand Tom Pecks shocked delight.

[Sheepy]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/prince-philip-dinosaur-royal-family-092017548.html
Never takes long does it, the bloke ain't been dead a day and the woke are on the crusade of spite.

[Sheepy]

Don't mention my bladder. It is like having a tap with a worn out washer.

And 99 is for kids.Biz hundert un tsvantsig

You been hanging around Stamford hill again?