Current Affairs Phil the Greek

[anxiouswarrior]

Well over the top the media coverage , look he had a good innings had a very privileged life probably received the best medical care , eat the best food etc , so yeah RIP but please dont bombard us with story about him being a significant figure in everybody's lives , because that is not the truth

 

[jinkyali]

“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.

I've seen and heard similar at many Everton games.

Not condoning it. I was wondering if its something else as the type of comments above will have been said by millions of our elders.

 

[peteblue]

“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)......

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Well over the top the media coverage , look he had a good innings had a very privileged life probably received the best medical care , eat the best food etc , so yeah RIP but please dont bombard us with story about him being a significant figure in everybody's lives , because that is not the truth

Speak for yourself lad - @Blues Harp has a signed poster of him above his bed

 

[Papa Shango]

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

Your Grandad wasn't married to the head of state though (well I assume not anyway...) nor was he a public figure.

Even with everything you have said there it doesn't excuse the classism.

I dunno, maybe I don't feel the same because my grandparents were mixed (as in one white, one black) so it would have been quite the scandal back then so the lazy/old school racism was never present in my past so it properly irks me when people like Prince Phillip say what they do.

It does worry me that I have seen so many people today saying that he was great because he "spoke his mind". Maybe he shouldn't have so often.

 

[blulouie]

The Crown ?

Contagion is @ davek's favourite.

 

[DanEFC92]

lol

Been completely over-the-top, unhinged coverage. Embarrassing.

 

[Papa Shango]

I've seen and heard similar at many Everton games.

Not condoning it. I was wondering if its something else as the type of comments above will have been said by millions of our elders.

You asked the question, I told you why I didn't like him.

Yeah Everton will have plenty of lazy racists and sexists (not as many classists) because its prevalent in society in general. If people want to turn a blind eye to it or put it down to circumstances then that's fair enough. I choose not to though.

 

[DanEFC92]

Normal island.

 

[DanEFC92]

 

[DanEFC92]

 

[peteblue]

 

[davek]

Renowned nazi-hunter Prince Phillip attends Nazi funeral in 1937.

Remarkable to think that 2 years later he'd be at the centre of a huge fightback against Herr Hitler.

 

[DanEFC92]

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Speaking of unhinged.

 

[davek]

Been completely over-the-top, unhinged coverage. Embarrassing.

There'd have been murder if they'd have cancelled footy matches for this.

Wise decision not to push their luck too far.