RIP Phil the Greek
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Tall order to take over from the actual literal Nazi Edward VIII. That complete piece of shit would have gladly killed any Englishman to make more room for hunting or something.
Also, Lord Mountbatten was a notorious pedophile.
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Very sadly, but perhaps inevitably after recent months: Prince Philip has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace announces
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@donsteppa said in RIP 2021:
Very sadly, but perhaps inevitably after recent months: Prince Philip has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace announces
RIP Phil the Greek
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Bet he only died to spite Meghan.
Racist old fuck.
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@donsteppa said in RIP 2021:
Very sadly, but perhaps inevitably after recent months: Prince Philip has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace announces
Handled a pretty-much impossible job really well I thought. Apart from his politically-incorrect comments, always seemed dignified and full of humour.
And one of the great love stories.
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The full BBC Obituary: Obituary: HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Including in part:
Seafaring tradition
Hahn moved to Scotland where he founded Gordonstoun school, to which the prince transferred after only two terms in Germany.
Gordonstoun's Spartan regime, with its emphasis on self-reliance, was the ideal environment for a teenage boy who, separated from his parents, felt very much on his own.
With war looming, Prince Philip decided on a military career. He wanted to join the Royal Air Force but his mother's family had a seafaring tradition and he became a cadet at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.While there he was delegated to escort the two young princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, while King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured the college.
According to witnesses, Prince Philip showed off a great deal. But the meeting made a deep impression on the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth.
Philip quickly proved himself an outstanding prospect, passing out at the top of his class in January 1940 and seeing military action for the first time in the Indian Ocean.
He transferred to the battleship HMS Valiant in the Mediterranean Fleet, where he was mentioned in dispatches for his part in the Battle of Cape Matapan in 1941.
As the officer in charge of the ship's searchlights, he played a crucial role in this decisive night action.
"I found another ship and it lit up the middle part of it, whereupon it practically disappeared instantly under a salvo of 15in shells at point-blank range," he told BBC Radio 4 in 2014.
By October 1942, he was one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy, serving on board the destroyer HMS Wallace.
Engagement
Throughout this period, he and the young Princess Elizabeth had been exchanging letters, and he was invited to stay with the Royal Family on a number of occasions.
It was after one of these visits, over Christmas 1943, that Elizabeth placed a photograph of Philip, in naval uniform, on her dressing table.
Their relationship developed in peacetime, although there was opposition to it from some courtiers - one of whom described Prince Philip as "rough and ill-mannered".
But the young princess was very much in love and, in the summer of 1946, her suitor asked the King for his daughter's hand in marriage.
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@tim said in RIP Phil the Greek:
Tall order to take over from the actual literal Nazi Edward VIII. That complete piece of shit would have gladly killed any Englishman to make more room for hunting or something.
Also, Lord Mountbatten was a notorious pedophile.
I'm having lunch watching an episode of One Foot in the Grave - the one where Victor gets high on cocaine and drives a lawnmower thru a shag-pile carpet while singing "Hey, Mr Tambourine Man"
Can't quite figure out which is more surreal - the TV or your post... sense Phil would have enjoyed it though
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Could have been a regular on Oppie and Anthony, would've been and all time best guest on Cum Town, imagine him riffing with Shane Gillis about Itallians. The only one of those worthless parasites who had anything good going.
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Can you imagine how many variations on the word "wog" have been lost tonight? Tragedy for scholars. It starts at Calais ...
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This has really hit the Cum Town forum hard.
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From the NY Times:
He was said to have so little patience with horse racing that he had his top hat fitted with a radio so that he could listen to cricket matches when he escorted the queen to her favorite spectator sport.Top bloke.
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RIP to an absolutely real one. His entire family were actual Nazis and pedos, but he had a preternatural ability to crack great offensive jokes.
Just imagine Prince Phillip on Opie and Anthony, or riffing hard with Shane Gillis and Nick Mullen on Cum Town. Cracking hard on Italians ...
chef's kiss
We have lost so many ways to use the word "wog" tonight.
Rest In Peace, sweet prince.
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This is the only public figure death that has actually made me sad.
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Megan killed him because his jokes were just too good.
Sad stuff.
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QAnon Prince Phillip crew assemble.
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Just imagine the esoteric terms he had for French people.
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@tim said in RIP Phil the Greek:
Just imagine the esoteric terms he had for French people.
You can’t.
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@pakman said in RIP Phil the Greek:
@tim said in RIP Phil the Greek:
Just imagine the esoteric terms he had for French people.
You can’t.
Sadly.
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Same best innings as great Aussie spinner Shane Warne and crap NZ spinner Dipak Patel
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@mn5 As a keen Cricketer getting caught out for 99 would have pissed him off immensely.
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Like that.
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One more year and he would have got a message from his wife.
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He’s got his own death thread on the fern. That takes some doing. Last one to have that was Sean Connery.
SC being a pro independence Scotsman woulda thought Philip was a fluffybunny though.
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@mn5 said in RIP Phil the Greek:
He’s got his own death thread on the fern.
You sense he would have appreciated the honour....
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Of course the Herald gets straight to the most important thing. What do Harry and Meghan think?
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Of course the Herald gets straight to the most important thing. What do Harry and Meghan think?
Watching a program on Phil and hearing the story about his mother and how she sheltered Jews from the Nazis at some risk to her life. Not something they shouted about.
Kinda puts Megan's current travails in perspective.
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@victor-meldrew said in RIP 2021:
Of course the Herald gets straight to the most important thing. What do Harry and Meghan think?
Watching a program on Phil and hearing the story about his mother and how she sheltered Jews from the Nazis at some risk to her life. Not something they shouted about.
Kinda puts Megan's current travails in perspective.
Imagine your mother in law referring to you as The Hun. Makes you want to run away to California....
Sounds like a funny guy, kept it real on more than one occasion much to some people's horror
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@snowy said in RIP Phil the Greek:
One more year and he would have got a message from his wife.
Wonder what that would have been?Actually feel quite sorry for the old girl. She really did love him.
A couple of years ago the son and his partner were doing the Windsor Castle walkthrough while we were in the pub. ('Two Brewers' if you are looking for a good one there) and while others in their group went rushing from item to item they stopped to just look out a window onto a courtyard. A door opened and out came Lizzie with a couple of dogs, a car pulls up and out hops Phil. She has a big smile and goes and gives him a hug. They luckily witnessed a totally real and candid moment between the two.
My own little experience was more formal but we got an invite to one of the garden parties at the big London house and then got selected to meet the old girl as she wandered through the garden. Anyway it is all quite formal and you get introduced etc. The wife and I use different surnames and because of a quirk in the way it was set up ended up standing on either side of a couple of friends. Anyway she has her little chat along the line to the others. Work talk. Then gets to me. 'and what brings you here Crucial?'. I pointed to the wife and said 'I'm just here as support and logistics for her'. She actually laughed and said 'Oh, I have one of those as well'.
After she moved on to the next group and we were released we had so many people come up and asked how we made her smile and laugh. The 'joke' was weak so I can only assume it was thinking about the silly old bugger. -
@crucial said in RIP Phil the Greek:
Actually feel quite sorry for the old girl.
Yeah, me to. I wasn't having a crack. In fact he really should have had a formal message from her previously. How long do you have to be married to hear from Liz?
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Fascinating article. You wonder if his comments on how many pakeha viewed maori pretty much chimed with what quite a few maori thought at the time. A few of my maori friends saw Pakeha as generally being anti-discrimination but not quite understanding issues from a maori perspective.
Been interesting here in the UK to hear many black and Asian leaders praise him - even for his humour and gaffes. They seemed to see him as someone who just took the the piss out of anyone.
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@snowy Two months more and he would have turned 100 on June 10th.
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@victor-meldrew said in RIP 2021:
They seemed to see him as someone who just took the the piss out of anyone.
Yep. He didn't seem to be discriminatory, he could be rude or insulting to everyone universally (if they chose to take the humour that way). I liked that.
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@victor-meldrew said in RIP 2021:
They seemed to see him as someone who just took the the piss out of anyone.
Yep. He didn't seem to be discriminatory, he could be rude or insulting to everyone universally (if they chose to take the humour that way). I liked that.
People these days can't seem to differentiate between saying racist things just coz, and actually discriminating based on race
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@crucial so she reads TSF too?
@snowy I'd argue many of that generation are more blunt/rude, alot without really meaning to be.
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@crucial said in RIP Phil the Greek:
@snowy said in RIP Phil the Greek:
One more year and he would have got a message from his wife.
Wonder what that would have been?Actually feel quite sorry for the old girl. She really did love him.
A couple of years ago the son and his partner were doing the Windsor Castle walkthrough while we were in the pub. ('Two Brewers' if you are looking for a good one there) and while others in their group went rushing from item to item they stopped to just look out a window onto a courtyard. A door opened and out came Lizzie with a couple of dogs, a car pulls up and out hops Phil. She has a big smile and goes and gives him a hug. They luckily witnessed a totally real and candid moment between the two.
My own little experience was more formal but we got an invite to one of the garden parties at the big London house and then got selected to meet the old girl as she wandered through the garden. Anyway it is all quite formal and you get introduced etc. The wife and I use different surnames and because of a quirk in the way it was set up ended up standing on either side of a couple of friends. Anyway she has her little chat along the line to the others. Work talk. Then gets to me. 'and what brings you here Crucial?'. I pointed to the wife and said 'I'm just here as support and logistics for her'. She actually laughed and said 'Oh, I have one of those as well'.
After she moved on to the next group and we were released we had so many people come up and asked how we made her smile and laugh. The 'joke' was weak so I can only assume it was thinking about the silly old bugger.Pah. No breakfast?
Nah, cool story bro. Really cool actually.
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@siam said in RIP Phil the Greek:
@crucial said in RIP Phil the Greek:
@snowy said in RIP Phil the Greek:
One more year and he would have got a message from his wife.
Wonder what that would have been?Actually feel quite sorry for the old girl. She really did love him.
A couple of years ago the son and his partner were doing the Windsor Castle walkthrough while we were in the pub. ('Two Brewers' if you are looking for a good one there) and while others in their group went rushing from item to item they stopped to just look out a window onto a courtyard. A door opened and out came Lizzie with a couple of dogs, a car pulls up and out hops Phil. She has a big smile and goes and gives him a hug. They luckily witnessed a totally real and candid moment between the two.
My own little experience was more formal but we got an invite to one of the garden parties at the big London house and then got selected to meet the old girl as she wandered through the garden. Anyway it is all quite formal and you get introduced etc. The wife and I use different surnames and because of a quirk in the way it was set up ended up standing on either side of a couple of friends. Anyway she has her little chat along the line to the others. Work talk. Then gets to me. 'and what brings you here Crucial?'. I pointed to the wife and said 'I'm just here as support and logistics for her'. She actually laughed and said 'Oh, I have one of those as well'.
After she moved on to the next group and we were released we had so many people come up and asked how we made her smile and laugh. The 'joke' was weak so I can only assume it was thinking about the silly old bugger.Pah. No breakfast?
Nah, cool story bro. Really cool actually.
Just tea and cake. Quite nice cake actually.
