Prince Philip Dead At 99.

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Queen Lizzie gave Philip a McDonald’s sprite so he couldn’t get in the way of her Hot Girl Summer! Lmaoo View attachment 32845471

they come out eventually, showing there true colours/colors USA huh
wonder if its from there upbringing or just a non compassionate idea for non maturation
 
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The Duke seemed quite a character,I like characters!
He was by all accounts tough,funny,surprisingly kind hearted and didn't suffer fools gladly.
I did the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme when I was young and loved every minute of it.
99 is a great age,one can't be sad..a life well lived is the saying!..The Queen will miss him terribly.
 

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Hey, folks.

How about bringing this back around to the topic at hand?

To the folks hurt by Prince Philip's passing condolences and healing to you.

Folks maybe taking a dark chuckle, there are other threads for that type of posting.
 

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Don’t they? Bc all they need to do is take back that stupid talking stick. They have they power to do that. I though we knew what the word “monarchy” meant.
Are you as ignorant as you are pretending to be?
Basically, the only power Elizabeth has (and Philip had none, not even a prince consort) is to ask the leader of the winning party to form a government in her name.
 

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Oh you mean the family that went around stealing from black and brown people? You white people look the other way, and hold up their crimes because it’s tradition to let royalty get away with murder. Queen Elizabeth is the end. Colonial powers is antiquated to the point that it’s backwards at this point.

Your profile indicated Texas, I think the entire territory; and the adjoining states was stolen from Mexico
 

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I have noticed the sheer level of vitriol that is being sprewed on Twitter and other social media platforms relating to Philip's death and I am astounded by how much hate he and the Queen seem to attract.

This idea that he was a "terrible person" needs more evidence than superficial information we get from the media. Unless you know him personally it is difficult to make that interpretation. I think we get so caught up in what we want to believe about a person and their family that we often mistake it for facts.

He was certainly a colourful (pun not intended) character and his attempts at humour were often taken badly by certain communities. He would say things as he saw them (not as they were, we are all deluded in that sense) and I believe his stint in the armed forced bought about a certain abrasiveness/directness that the average person may be offended by. Of course he said some outrageously offensive things in the past ("slitty eyes" in relation to Chinese people being one of many) and whilst I would never condone such attitudes I can also see that in the mid1900s this was a fairly common-place thing to say. I know many people of that era who got so used to saying egregious things that they simply do it on default. That said I do believe he couldn't have cared any less what other people thought about him or his views and as royals he had the ability to say things without repercussions.

That said some of what he said had at least an element of truth to them and this is something which is widely criticised in a sanitised 21st century. Making comments about a child being "too fat" to be an astronaut and making mention of some cultures eating dogs/cats etc have an element of honesty, even though the message behind it is too unpalatable for many. When I say truth I mean that there are weight limits on astronauts and some cultures do eat some pretty unusual things that in the west would be deemed disgusting. The problem in those instances wasn't the content but the fact he said those things with such bluntness bordering on arrogance as his ability to get away with it.

I do believe much of his outrageous natures was almost a character he portrayed; helped by the media grabbing onto anything he said that was offensive and running with it. We don't get characters anymore; everyone is so beige and sanitised that I suspect he will be the last of a generation where speaking your mind was acceptable (and I am not for a moment making a moral judgment on whether that is good or bad).

Personally I have no real feeling either way. Any person who dies is deeply sad for their families (well generally speaking) and as a result I have compassion. The Queen has had him quietly supporting her for multiple decades; to have that taken away is going to be horrifically painful for her and the family. We can have caring/compassion toward people in privileged positions AND still hold compassion for those who are poor/suffering - it is not an either/or scenario.
 

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Good, can’t wait for the Queen to die and hopefully the crown can fade away. If the royals want to continue living at Buckingham palace they can get a job in the gift shop.

Are you a Brit ex-pat? I'm just puzzled by your response.
 

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... And just how much sympathy do you express for:

1.) The vast number of refugees, who are fleeing tyranny and civil war in the middle east - civil war that was fomented by anglophone countries, including the UK?

2.) The Rohingya, fleeing in Burma from a corrupt regime that was led by Aung Sung Suuchi?

3.) Those affected by the border war in the Donbass and Crimean regions? Can't even find that on a map?

4.) The Uighurs in western China?

I am going to guess that these people aren't even on your radar.

A country needs a monarch, like a fish needs a bicycle.

As has been pointed out, the British monarch is essentially just a figurehead, and so they are not the ones truly responsible for foreign policy decisions. Part of their role is to assume responsibility for the moral failings of their nation, but this is only symbolically, as a ceremonial representative of the nation. It is not the case that they were the effective, willing cause of British involvement in contemporary Middle Eastern destabilization. If anything that is on Parliament, not the monarchy.

I can find plenty of things on a map, and I know quite well where Donbass and Crimea are.

I haven't expressed any sympathy for PP. I just said sympathy is deserved, or that it is an appropriate response if one is in some way involving oneself in processing his passing.

Further, the underlying point I was making in my original reply to you is that the well off are not immune to the harrowing character of the experience of death, which is just commonly human. Yes, the poor tend to be more impacted by a death, and so the royal family is fortunate with respect to not having to deal with a new financial burden. But the the basic nature of the experience of losing a loved one is the same, and so on that basic level it does not make sense to speak of their being fortunate in PP dying.
 

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I couldn’t possibly have said this better myself!!!

Your profile indicates you live in New Jersey ( my condolences ) ; I believe all the land comprising the Garden State, were stolen from Native American Indians
 

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I'm sure he's up there now...

princephilipheaven.jpg
 

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Being British all I can say is good riddance. If you want to tell me I should be more respectful towards a 99 year old bigot who never did a good thing in his life and married his cousin, then perhaps consider that this is a porn forum so who cares, and that we have to endure people trying to make us royalists from birth in the same way that Americans get bombarded with unquestioning nationalism from the second they're old enough to salute a flag at school. Anyway, these are just some of the things he said and believed and never faced consequences for, just so you know who you're defending;

1. "British women can't cook," he told the Scottish Womens' Institute in 1961.

2. "It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her school art lessons," he muttered while being shown Ethiopian art in 1965.

3. "I would like to go to Russia very much, although the bastards murdered half my family," at a very heated period of history in 1967.

4. "What do you gargle with? Pebbles?" he told singer Tom Jones at the 1969 Royal Variety Performance. Later he added: "It's difficult to see how it’s possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs."

5. "We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves," he told journalists in Canada in 1976.

6. "You are a woman, aren't you?" he said to a Kenyan woman, who was presenting him with a small gift in 1984.

7. "If you stay here much longer you will all be slitty-eyed," the Prince told British exchange students who lived in Xian in 1986. When asked on his opinion of Beijing, he replied: "Ghastly."

8. "If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." Again with the Chinese insults, when he addressed a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

9. "I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing," when dismissing claims those who slaughter for meat have greater moral authority than those who partake in blood sports in 1988.

10. "Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease," when asked if he wanted to pet a koala in Australia back in 1992.

11. "You can't have been here that long — you haven't got a pot belly," he told a British tourist during a visit to Budapest in 1993.

12. "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?," he inquired to an islander while in the Cayman Islands in 1994.

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

14. "It was part of the fortunes of war. We didn't have counselors 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!" when asked about stress counselling for soldiers in 1995.

15. "You managed not to get eaten then?" the Prince asked a British student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea, in 1998.

16. "Where's the Southern Comfort?" he said on receipt of a basket of Southern goods from the U.S. ambassador in London, in 1999.

17. "Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf," he told a group of deaf school children, who were nearby a Caribbean steel drum band in 2000.

18. "You could do with losing a little bit of weight," he told 13-year-old Andrew Adams, after hearing he wanted to become an astronaut while visiting a science museum in 2001.

19. "Do you still throw spears at each other?" he asked a group of Indigenous Australians in 2002, while on a visit to Australia with the Queen.

20. "So who's on drugs here?... He looks as if he's on drugs," he said of a 14-year-old boy while at a Bangladeshi youth club in 2002.

21. "You look like you're ready for bed!" he told the President of Nigeria in 2003, who was dressed in traditional robes.

22. "Is it a strip club?" he asked when meeting a female Sea Cadet who told the Prince she worked in a nightclub, in 2009.

23. "That's a nice tie ... Do you have any knickers in that material?" he asked Annabel Goldie, the Scottish Conservative leader, when welcoming Benedict XVI to Edinburgh in 2010.

24. "The Philippines must be half-empty — you're all here running the NHS," he told nurses at Luton and Dunstable Hospital in 2013.

25. "Just take the f**king picture!" he told a photographer, during a Battle of Britain event in 2015.
Its funny but just when you think the biggest pricks have all spoken up com es another fucking idiot quoting from cut and post bits gathered by other people. If you have one, just one original thought in you stupid little head, an original thought instead of all theses imagined slights going bac k years.
Philip might have made gaffs but it showed he was human, he might even have said out loud what we were thinking, his good works will far outlive your little life and long after he's buried today he'll be remembered by millions - whereas you will sink into becoming just a death statistic.
So, never did a good thing in his life? The Duke of Edinburgh Awards.
 

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Good, can’t wait for the Queen to die and hopefully the crown can fade away. If the royals want to continue living at Buckingham palace they can get a job in the gift shop.

Totally uncool, dude. Really.
 

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Fine, I’ll stay on topic. Remember when Phillip asked an Aboriginal Australian if they “still throw spears at each other?”
Or when he told a group of British students in China that if they stayed there much longer they’ll “end up slitty-eyed”?
What an amazing legacy he left behind. I am so saddened by his loss! RIP 1921-2021
Just saying what a lot of us had thought in our heads - if you do in whats left of your live one iota of the good he generated then you'll die a happy man. Hopefully without your memory being insulted by morons.
 
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Well the US isn’t a third world country. Its not the best place to live but Its by FAR not the worst. I’d rather live here than any of those places you mentioned lol. And I see I pissed off a couple of Brits lmaoooo
...yes,I think everyone else is glad you live there too.It seems a combination made in heaven,stupid,infantile and and shamefully insular.As for 'pissing off' anyone,don't flatter yourself..someone who writes 'street's is to be pitied 'innit?'
 

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Yea, well at least I’m not an actual despicable human being like Philip and his family. :joy:
So we hear.
From you.
But why would you consider Philip despicable? I mean, the human being? He was born into two royal houses. He opened his eyes and there he was.
Given that starting point, how has he done?
He was certainly a PR officer's nightmare (but that's a big part of what I liked about him, though I was not a great fan).
But he did what was on his plate — and he did it until he was in his mid-90s, only cutting back a few years ago.
He was pretty exemplary about his duties.

If you hate the notion of monarchy, be my guest. But why dump on people who are quite adventitiously placed in a role you happen to despise?

An earlier poster pointed out that many of the countries that are clearly among the 'advanced' do maintain monarchies at no cost to their status as democracies.

The idea of separating the head of state from the head of government has advantages that any wakeful American should see in the wake of the Trump administration.

(Of course, this can be done constitutionally, while leaving both posts answerable to the people — a kind of presidential/prime ministerial combination that we see in a lot of countries.)

But the fact is that many of the countries that retain a monarchy don't seem to be the horror shows you envision.

And a man happens to have recently died who, through simple fate, performed, pretty faithfully, over nearly seven decades, the duties that a royal role demanded.

No matter how you feel about the Royalty, Philip's death is hardly the moment to have your little shit, with all due regard for bowel regularity.
 

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Wake up... Stop pitying the fortunate.

It really doesn't make much sense to speak of anyone as fortunate when a loved one passes away. Sure, some are more materially impacted by a death than others, but it's still the case that anyone deserves sympathy with respect to loss of life and the grief that accompanies it.