Discussion about Prince Philip (from Random Raves)

Ajidica

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I didn't realize Prince Phillip was this funny:

BBC said:
1994: "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" To a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands.

1995: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test." To a Scottish driving instructor.

2001: "You're too fat to be an astronaut." To 13-year-old Andrew Adams who told Prince Philip he wanted to go into space.

2002: "Still throwing spears?" Question put to an Australian Aborigine during a visit.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39806145
 
Valka D'Ur said:
He's not funny. He's disgusting, and has always been disgusting.
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Sometimes it's difficult to tell when he's making a joke or is simply out of touch and there are other times when he's clearly being a reactionary. Saying that he "has always been disgusting" is not giving him enough credit for what he has done.
 
I was gonna say, he's not funny, he's an *******.
 
Everyone has a granddad or great-uncle or someone who keeps making all sorts of inappropriate comments, even if they're intended in jest. Prince Philip just happens to be the world's most famous grandfather.
 
Arakhor said:
Sometimes it's difficult to tell when he's making a joke or is simply out of touch and there are other times when he's clearly being a reactionary. Saying that he "has always been disgusting" is not giving him enough credit for what he has done.
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What has he done that should impress me?
 
He did active naval service in WW2 and received a medal for valour (a career which he had to give up as consort to the Sovereign), developed the sport of carriage driving, founded the Duke of Edinburgh awards (which have gone on to help countless numbers of British teenagers) and has spent literal decades at the Queen's side, involved in thousands of public and charitable engagements.

Whether or not any of that impresses you is a different issue.
 
By most accounts, the Queen is an excellent conversationalist, so presumably she's the funniest in the Royal Family.

Prince Charles is usually seen as being stuffy, interfering or somewhat boring, charges that are not usually levied at Prince Philip.
 
Prince Philip, of House Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, not sure which one of his name, lord of the britlands and the northmen, and protector of the realm.
 
I dunno... If you're going to degenerate to still having royals, isn't it better that they're people that you can't really take seriously?
 
Even if you assume stagnation (not getting rid of them) is the same as degeneration, what do you call treating someone else's royal family as Hollywood celebrities?
 
Now I come to think about it, the Windsors are setting all sorts of records these days: longest reign, longest-serving consort, longest-serving Prince of Wales, eldest monarch on accession (assuming that Charles eventually takes the throne) and so on.

There were four generations of monarchs alive simultaneously between 1894/5 and 1900 (Victoria, Edward VII, George V and both Edward VIII & George VI), so the current run of the Queen, Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince George is not a record (and has yet to have even two monarchs so far).
 
Arakhor said:
Even if you assume stagnation (not getting rid of them) is the same as degeneration, what do you call treating someone else's royal family as Hollywood celebrities?
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Trust me, I find the Americans who love the British Royals to be far worse than the British Royals themselves.
 
From a purely pragmatic point of view, I find not having an elected head of state provides excellent continuity and saves us from even more elections. My opinion might change if we had a laughable monarch, but I don't think that even Charles would be laughable.
 
It's my belief that the queen will stubbornly stay alive until Charles passes so he never takes the throne.
 
She's certainly not going to abdicate, so I suppose that's possible, but given the current ages of the Queen and Prince Philip (and that of the Queen Mother before she died), I think it is unlikely that Charles is going to die any time soon.
 
His expressing his wish to reincarnate as Camille's tampon has always creep-ed me out.
 
Too be honest I had forgotten he was still alive until I saw his announced retirement on the news. How old is he now?
 
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