Prince Philip is funny and not very PC
Richard Fangnail
The Duke is well-known in Britain for cracking jokes during public
visits that can come across as blunt, insensitive, and racist.
* Speaking to a driving instructor in Scotland, he asked: "How do
you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the
test?"[6]
* When visiting China in 1986, he told a group of British
students, "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed".
[6]
* After accepting a gift from a Kenyan citizen he replied, "You
are a woman, aren't you?"[6]
* "If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an
aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat
it." (1986)[6]
* To a British student in Papua New Guinea: "You managed not to
get eaten then?"
* Angering local residents in Lockerbie when on a visit to the
town in 1993, the Prince said to a man who lived in a road where
eleven people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jumbo jet:
"People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the
worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle."
* He asked an Indigenous Australian, "Still throwing
spears?" (2002)
* When listening to a speech given by Cherie Blair, wife of Tony
Blair, in 1999, he was reported by several MPs as having said, very
loudly, "you could post a letter through that mouth".
* To Lord Taylor of Warwick, who is black: "And what exotic part
of the world do you come from?" Lord Taylor: "I'm from
Birmingham." (same story also told with Bernie Grant as the subject)
[citation needed]
* Seeing a shoddily installed fuse box in a high-tech Edinburgh
factory, HRH remarked that it looked "like it was put in by an
Indian".
* During a Royal visit to China in 1986 he described Peking as
"ghastly".
* At the height of the recession in 1981 he said: "Everybody was
saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are
unemployed."[6]
* Upon presenting a Duke of Edinburgh Award to a studenthen
informed that the young man was going to help out in Romania for six
months, he asked if the student was going to help the Romanian
orphans; upon being informed he was not, he said words to the effect
of "Good, they [the Romanians] breed orphans over there."[citation
needed]
* At Salford University, he told a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut:
"You could do with losing a bit of weight."[12]
* During a Royal visit to a Tamil Hindu temple in London , he
asked a Hindu priest if he was related to the terrorist Tamil Tigers.
George Orwell
By golly, he sounds like my kind of man.
Trey Harlow
Elton John playing at the funeral and there being a lot of homosexuals.
Wish they would have included some of these.
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David Dueck
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let not forget what he said about the Fayad guy that was dating princess di.
I think it was "oily bed hopper"
asdf
wrote:
Its funny what his comments are - yes so not PC - but - funny - I like
the one about Cherie blair's mouth! - Too True!