Current Affairs Phil the Greek

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dead_soft said:
Nothing about anything they have ever done has suggested that is what they'd want. They want the media there and they want to also pretend they would rather have some dignified privacy. They want money, attention and power and will happily do whatever it takes to get it.
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Well I disagree and since neither of us can prove the other wrong we'll just have to agree to disagree.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
People still visit Versailles, you know?
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You can go much further than that.

Why do tourists go to Egypt? How long since they had Pharaohs?

The royal tourism thing is utter nonsense, it's not like foreigners are coming here to have tea with the Queen. They have a nose at Buckingham Palace (crap) and all the older things (Tower of London etc) which would still be there regardless.
 
toffee82 said:
I don't think it's hate though.

It's more apathy and then a resentment of stuff like this being forced upon us.

I don't wish ill upon them. It's not like if we abolished the monarchy we should take their land and possessions etc. I mean they did that back in the day in this country and abroad but society has changed. I'm sure they could live quite handsomely off the Duchy of Cornwall alone.
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This.
 
That's life. Or maybe that should be that's death.

I'm struggling to be more than meh. He lived an extremely long and privileged life. Not really a surprise is it? Even Kurt predicted it...:oops: There's only so much that can be said. I'm just glad I don't watch a lot of TV nowadays so I can skip all the bunting crew's faux grief.
 
davek said:
How many umbrellas have you bought?
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We’ve got loads, and a Marquee. Although we aren’t opening until Friday, can’t be arsed with all this let’s get straight in the pub and get bladdered crap. Ours will mainly be families. Although it was good to walk through the cellar today and see all the barrels and Kegs lined up for next week.....
 
jinkyali said:
Why do so many scousers hate Prince Phillip? I don't get it.

Is there something I'm missing?
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“Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” (during the 1981 recession).

“You are a woman, aren’t you?” (in Kenya after accepting a small gift from a local woman).

“If you stay here much longer you’ll all be slitty-eyed” (to a group of British students during a royal visit to China).

“You can’t have been here that long, you haven’t got pot belly” (to a Briton he met in Hungary).

“Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands).

“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test” (to a Scottish driving instructor).

“It looks as if it was put in by an Indian” (referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh).

“Still throwing spears?” (question put to an Aboriginal Australian during a visit).

“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).

“The Philippines must be half-empty as you’re all here running the NHS” (on meeting a Filipino nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital).

That's just from a quick cursory search and a copy and paste job. That's why I hate him.

Seems to be one of those people like Johnson who can seemingly get away with blatant racist, sexist and classist remarks because he was a bit "funny"

It's pathetic really.
 
Papa Shango said:
“Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” (during the 1981 recession).

“You are a woman, aren’t you?” (in Kenya after accepting a small gift from a local woman).

“If you stay here much longer you’ll all be slitty-eyed” (to a group of British students during a royal visit to China).

“You can’t have been here that long, you haven’t got pot belly” (to a Briton he met in Hungary).

“Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands).

“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test” (to a Scottish driving instructor).

“It looks as if it was put in by an Indian” (referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh).

“Still throwing spears?” (question put to an Aboriginal Australian during a visit).

“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).

“The Philippines must be half-empty as you’re all here running the NHS” (on meeting a Filipino nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital).

That's just from a quick cursory search and a copy and paste job. That's why I hate him.

Seems to be one of those people like Johnson who can seemingly get away with blatant racist, sexist and classist remarks because he was a bit "funny"

It's pathetic really.
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He is a very different case to Johnson. My grandad would have been 101 on Boxing Day so similar age (he died at 93). He fought in the war in Burma. He was quite racist for a lot of his life, especially against the Japanese, but in his last couple of decades he saw the error of his ways. But he would still say the odd remark because he wasn't thinking about the deeper meaning and it was a different world even 20 odd years ago.

I am not defending these views but I imagine a lot of us on here have grandparents or parents of a similar age who would say similar things. And while they don't hold those actual views anymore, the language and the jokes hold strong.

Now Johnson is in his 50's and has no excuse for his "bumbling faux pas". He knows what he is doing and he knows who he is pandering to
 
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