Official: Prince Philip is Dead, 9th April 2021
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Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
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Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Spot on bub
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
How do you measure success? I think I have been more successful in my life than him as I am less of a loathsome, parasitical cunt.
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
The real cancel culture.
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
I do get sad about other people's losses, incl people i've never met, just not able to feel a thing about this, not sad or happy just nothing at all. I think its because he was 99 ffs. If The Nation seriously is in mourning, as in lots of people will be genuinely feeling sad about his death right now, that's alienating as fuck tbh.
I doubt it's genuine grief in most cases. They are just trying to prove how "patriotic" they are. Be even worse when Liz croaks it.
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
If The Nation seriously is in mourning, as in lots of people will be genuinely feeling sad about his death right now, that's alienating as fuck tbh.
You've always got us.
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
Much cleverer people than me can probably cite lots of actual research, but it has always struck me that the greatest ally to the rich and empowered (see also: landowners) is time. The longer they have always had what they have, the longer they have been in charge, owned that thing, the less likely people are to think about why or how.
Land ownership is particularly brilliant. Whoever first came up with the idea of land belonging to them, basically on their say so, was a genius/twisted bastard*. From that flows the idea that you can give part of it to someone, to use at your discretion, or for them to be indebted to you
etc.
Sorry, I digress.
*One of the things that did for native Americans was that the idea of owning land meant nothing to them. They literally couldn't conceive of signing over the "rights" to land, because there are no rights. You have to invent them.
(E2A and yes I realise the directly above is a slightly simplistic viewpoint, but pretty much)
Sorry, obvious stuff I'm sure, but I'm not that clever and there are lots of people less clever than me who never, ever question this sort of thing.
Thank fuck for ecstasy, raves and this place. I'd have been a very different person without them.
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moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
To be fair he has looked dead for years
BristolEcho
Well-Known Member
I just don't get it.
bimble
floofy
he did say this, which kind of helps their cause.
Did Prince Philip Say He Wanted To Be Reincarnated as a Deadly Virus?
This line of thinking first appeared in a foreword authored by the prince to an out-of-print 1986 book titled "People as Animals" by socialite Fleur Cowles.
www.snopes.com
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
You'd think if they were lizards/aliens/illumanati they'd have spruced the corpse up a bit all those yearsTo be fair he has looked dead for years
dessiato
🇪🇸 españa te quiero
Maybe this was the best they could do with it.
Not for his age, for the fact that I would feel the same about any person who died famous, not famous, everyone had family who will miss them and that makes me a tiny bit sad. For the family, not the person
Yossarian
Get thee behind me, Santa
I do get sad about other people's losses, incl people i've never met, just not able to feel a thing about this, not sad or happy just nothing at all. I think its because he was 99 ffs. If The Nation seriously is in mourning, as in lots of people will be genuinely feeling sad about his death right now, that's alienating as fuck tbh.
I think there's some genuine sadness among older people, not so much from any great affection for the man or a wish that he'd spent even more years as a walking corpse, but from nostalgia for the vanished world of the 1950s he seemed to represent.
bimble
floofy
Are you sad constantly then? No offence intended but death is happening to someone's family many times every second.
bimble
floofy
That I do get, one of the last links to the old times gone.
Your right, and yes,I do feel empathy (ie a tiny bit sad) for anyone who loses a family member, famous or not. I don't live life in perpetual sadness but when I hear about someone dying I do generally and genuinely feel sad for a moment when I think about their families, even though I don't know them, mostly because I know first hand how hard it is to lose family members. As for famous people, it's not the fame I feel sad about, just the trial of losing someone close. It's called empathy I think
maomao
普費斯
Has world war three broken out or something? The world death rate is less than two a second.
bimble
floofy
Really? Just two a second! Thats interesting, you can actually count em. Ooh its just 1.8. And 4.2 born, every second!
My mum died twenty two years ago, she would have been 102 now. Her hatred and disdain for Philip was and still is talked about by the family.
Every time he was on the tv or news, she would say, “him, he came he with nothing, penniless and wangled and squirmed his way into a life of luxury. He makes me sick!”
How we used to smile.
Old folks eh.
Every time he was on the tv or news, she would say, “him, he came he with nothing, penniless and wangled and squirmed his way into a life of luxury. He makes me sick!”
How we used to smile.
Old folks eh.
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
Storm Fox
Trying the find the next noun to verb
I think it's a little sad that he's died and must be very upsetting for The Queen and close family. But the wall to wall coverage is just over the top, especially with the 10's of thousands who have lost loved ones over that last year. Many of them will have done more for humanity than Philip and their families have not been able to grieve properly due to the restrictions.
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