Silly news from the UK

[papa_smurf]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

You silly Brits.

Some days if feel like emigrating from this country.

(Be warned though, as we have an ace in our hole:

[Jimbuna]

Ah, HRH Prince Philip......the master of the gaffe:

In May this year he angered deaf people during a visit to the new Welsh Assembly. While he was with a group from the British Deaf Association who were standing near a band, he pointed to the musicians and said: "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf."

In 1996 he caused an outcry among gun law reformers when he said: "There's no evidence that people who use weapons for sport are any more dangerous than people who use golf clubs or tennis rackets or cricket bats."

He told a Briton he met in Hungary in 1993: "You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly".

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

The Prince angered local residents in Lockerbie when on a visit to the town in 1993, he said to a man who lived in a road where 11 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."

During a Royal visit to China in 1986 he described Peking as "ghastly" and told British students: "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed."

He said of Canada: "We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves."

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."

In 1966 he provoked outrage by saying: "British women can't cook."

Commenting on stress counselling for servicemen in a TV documentary on the 50th Anniversary of D-Day, he said: "It was part of the fortunes of war. 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."

Personal remarks have annoyed singing stars. In 1969 The Duke said to Tom Jones after the Royal Variety Performance: "What do you gargle with, pebbles?".

At a private lunch given 30 years ago he said he thought Adam Faith's singing was like bath water going down a plug hole.

More a comedian than a Royal to look up to IMHO.

[Lord_magerius]

Ah Prince Philip, you've got to love his gaffs, a few more...

To an Aborigine when visiting Australia.
"Do you still throw spears at each other?"

To Commonwealth secretary-General Chief Anyaoku who was dressed in traditional robes
"You look like you're ready for bed"

To a blind woman with a guide dog.
"Do you know, they now have eating dogs for the anorexic?"

[FIREWALL]

Originally Posted by papa_smurf

Some days if feel like emigrating from this country.

(Be warned though, as we have an ace in our hole:

So you guys have your Gerald Ford too huh ?

[Torplexed]

So you guys have your Gerald Ford too huh ?

I don't see a band-aid on his forehead, so that must be Prince Philip....no wait.

[Jimbuna]

LOL

[STEED]

Don't forget Charles, he's coming along nicely now, what a chip off the old block he is.

[Jimbuna]

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Going by the colors in that poster, the Prince of Orange apparently.

[papa_smurf]

Why just send Prince Charles, when we can send the him and and Camilla: