Prince Phillip

Nah. He's Agamemnon, I'm Achilles. We don't all get on.

 

Jarvis was lucky to win after splashing the cash on that awful Russian painting.

 

I’ve always thought of you more as Anthony Quinn in Zorba.

 

Ah. So you are Midge Ure then?

 

He sleepwalked into that one.

 

He doesn't seem to be fighting them very much in this photo.

 

https://newsthump.com/2021/04/09/ma...-demands-you-stop-making-prince-philip-jokes/

 

He didn't do any more than millions of our grand parents generations, but he didn't do any less either. Like them all he fought the Nazis, not the pretend ones kids of today like to demonstrate against but the real ones, the ones who killed untold millions and tried to wipe Jews, Russians, Poles etc off the face of the planet. Every one of that generation deserves our respect. Perhaps people should think about that.

 

Not sure why you had to bring the "kids" (anyone under 35?) of today into it.

I imagine in the 1930s you would have called the Nazis who stormed the Reichstag pretend evil Germans, not like the real evil facsists of 1914 the kids of today don't remember.

They were just a side fringe of laughable extremists who hadn't killed anyone yet.

Anyway, shame for the queen and the family. But the man was not afraid of a controversial comment so I don't think there need ato be any outalrage over jokes.

 

The BBC are getting so many complaints about their weird wall-to-wall Philovision coverage that they’ve set up a bespoke form for people to fill out...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/death-duke-of-edinburgh-tv-coverage/#/Notification

 

I'm not sure I can take much more Nicholas Witchell

 

I was living in Vilnius at the time and on Saturday afternoon I had treated myself to an AIWA midi-system (remote control and 6 CD changer!) and I managed to get it set-up for the 16h00 (local time, GMT+2) BBC WS afternoon sport show (rebroadcast on 95.5 FM). When it switched to Sekcja polska BBC at 19h00 I pissed about with the clock and timer settings it to play song 3 of disc one (Diesel Power on Fat of the Land) as my wife always said that was the ultimate wake-up song at 08h00. Unfortunately what I did do was set it to go off at 03h00 just in time for the 1AM news with the immortal headline of (the entire report actually) "We have received unconfirmed reports of a major incident please stay tuned for further details in a special programme in 15 minutes time at 01h15" followed by Mahler's 'dourest' hits. We stayed in bed listening to the entire story unfold till midday...

 

They took off Gardeners’ World!

Utter ****s.

I’ve become a Republican.

 

RIP Prince Phillip. A sad day.

 

It's completely misjudged. I'm sure that there are 80 odd year old policies on the Beeb's policy docket that need to be updated.

I'm not putting up with a week of this when Queenie dies

 

We’re lucky they let the football go ahead this weekend. I reckon when she pops off they’ll cancel everything for a week.

 

A good knock. RIP Phil.

A man who may decide a lot of opinion, but he also did a lot of good too.

 

So. Farewell
Then Philip.
You were a Prince
And Duke
Of Edinburgh.
But Dave’s Mum
Said
You were Greek.

E.J. Thribb (17½)

 

I didn’t know the bloke, but quite a bit of experience has certainly been lost there. I admire his pioneering work on environmentalism, and creating a platform for youngsters to get out into nature and learn new skills and independence.

But if he came into this pub, spouting outdated racial stereotypes and telling dad jokes and anecdotes about when he met Obama, I’d say

‘Oi, Duke, NO!

I admire your support of the queen for 73 years and your part in shaping a new culture in the UK, but you can get your racist, Greek, benefit scrounging arse back down the job centre. Huff.’

...Seriously though the bloke made some gaffs and had some questionable opinions but did a lot of good. RIP

 

What on earth were you doing in Vilnius in the 90s?

 

And I so wanted to be E.J. Thribb!
I admired him for his conservation interests,the concept of the award and for his understanding of duty.
He was of his time.
I'm glad I didn't have to witness the BBC coverage.

 

Short version: met a Lithuanian girl while I was working on a mind-numbing project in Newcastle. Went to stay with her for Xmas in Vilnius in 1994 and stayed 'till 2003 working in TEFL (ESL) and as a researcher at this place.

 

Was this before he signed for Spurs?!

 

I remember my post 'A' level Greek Island hopping holiday with three mates in 1987 (ISTR a month's ferry pass was £50?). We were staying in a very 'cool' hostel/pension in Corfu that had a self-appointed US 'events organiser'. She was very upset when her planned day trip to visit 'Mon Repos' drummed up zero interest amongst the Brit/Colonial visitors - which greatly amused the Greek staff...

 

"Eik tu *ikt."

 

The TV coverage of this is quite baffling, on BBC news they’ve just interviewed a reporter live in Sydney in front of the opera house to get the mood of Australian’s over his death, now they’re doing the same for a reporter in India. I know they’re commonwealth countries, but would anyone expect any of them to give a ****? Now they’re live in Kenya.

 

POPBITCH

I can't find the one where a group of 'ruffians' cut him up while sailing shouting "Out the way Greek boy!" to which he replied "They're my wife's f***ing seas and I'll sail where I f***ing well want".

 

Did anyone notice during the silence yesterday before the game, some players particularly Masina looking round in bewilderment about how long it was going on for?

 

I guess they are used to a minute, but probably not to two.

 

Have they found the tribe that worship him as a God?

 

What, Daily Mail readers?