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Official: Prince Philip is Dead, 9th April 2021

Even Chinese news portals are doing live feeds of the mourning, which seems to mean people laying flowers outside Buck palace Gates not that I had a proper watch.
ETA tho pleased to see this comment: 这谁啊,与你有半毛钱关系吗?还专门搞个悼念链接 "Who? He's got nine tenths of fuck all to do with you and here you are doing a bloody live feed" :D
 
I watched the BBC. In about 2 minutes they had tributes from Arlene Foster, George Bush and Narendra Modi. I suppose at least they’re appropriate.
 
They're planning to run through all his gaffes - that's going to take up a good few days of programming

Lest we forget:


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


"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.


"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.


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


"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."


"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.


"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.


"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.


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


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


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


"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.


"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.


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


"The Philippines must be half-empty — you're all here running the NHS," he told nurses at Luton and Dunstable Hospital in 2013.
 
I work in a job where we have all been told from HQ we are recalled for the day and told to make up our hours over the following two days. Am I bollocks making up 8 hours of work on a Sunday over Wrestlemania weekend! Thankfully my boss is sound and has said we'll all be paid anyway.
 
Some classic Theresa May... she actually said ‘thoughts and prayers’ and also <he was her> ‘strength and stave’.
 
It's a bit confusing that 9 April posts start at post #1009 on page 34, given the thread title.

I was going to ask something about separating it out as a new thread, but, on reflection, I'm not that bothered.

As you were.
 
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