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Official: Prince Philip is Dead, 9th April 2021

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By contrast 31.5m watched Diana's funeral, 19m mountbatten's funeral and 15m Churchill's funeral

Need to adjust for population to really highlight how little the nation now cares.

And shouldn't think tellies were that ubiquitous in Churchill's last days.

To the extent that my sister (1965** : eight) was invited round to our neighbours to watch Winston's funeral.
(Very very few televisions then, my parents didn't get one until 1967 or 1968. So no 1966 World Cup for us either .... yes, I know! ;) ).

**Happily, I was two or three, so I can't remember being spared from being invited round! :D :)
 
When you say "as a mark of respect", do you mean to prevent people posting derogatory comments about the cunt?

I doubt there's much risk of that, given I've not heard a bad word said about the bloke since he died, other than on here.

If I'm being generous I suspect our Comms team wanted the weekend off. Next time I'm invited to a meeting I don't want to go to I'll use the same excuse; "delayed onset royal mourning".
 
I doubt there's much risk of that, given I've not heard a bad word said about the bloke since he died, other than on here.

There were glimpses from a different, disgusting angle.

The Sunday Times has apologised after it printed a front-page story that appeared to make light of Prince Philip’s racist comments about Chinese people, amid growing concern about anti-Asian attitudes in society.

The newspaper sent Christina Lamb, its chief foreign correspondent, to file a dispatch from the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral at Windsor on Saturday. In her article she wrote: “Prince Philip was the longest-serving royal consort in British history – an often crotchety figure, offending people with gaffes about slitty eyes, even if secretly we rather enjoyed them.”

 
Stocking filler-style ‘fun’ books of the type you put in the magazine rack by the toilet devoted to Phil and his pearls of wisdom have been widely available for many years. Hell, on the day he died I posted here a screenshot from the Daily Heil’s website that actually celebrated his many ‘gaffes’ and dismissed them as a somewhat politically incorrect but uttered in good spirits and actually as Phil’s way to help commoners relax during Royal engagements.

Sportsmen and celebrities from other countries are lambasted by the British press (and rightly so of course) whenever they make similar ‘faux pas’. For instance when a European national basketball team was about to fly to China for a world championship a few years ago, and during a photo shoot the players thought it harmless fun to stretch their eyes with their fingers to do an ‘Asian eyes’ impersonation a la Father Ted.

Completely unacceptable shit and deserving of the flak they got, including that coming from the press here. But when good old Phil tells British students in China they will ‘’all soon get slitty eyed if they stay much longer’’, it’s all just funny bantz. And don’t anyone dare suggest it’s in any way unacceptable, let alone racist.
 
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The former was a legitimate target despatched during a war and the second died in a car crash.

So, you've outed yourself as a conspiracy theorist. Interesting development. You're in this for the long term, this time round? Wonder what other twists and turns lie ahead....
“Outed myself as a conspiracy theorist”. Projection.
 
Cuntocracy :cool:
Most grown ups don’t need resort to calling people cunts because they have better ways to articulate themselves. You obviously don’t, so I’m going to throw your silly schoolboy insult back at you, you soppy little cunt. Quote: “cunt cunt cunt”
 
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