Prince Philip

wyatt1 wrote:"Still throwing spears?" (Question put to an Australian Aborigine during a visit in March 2002)
# "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" (in 1996, amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting)
# "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?" (Speaking to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland)
# "It looks as if it was put in by an Indian." (in 1999, referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh)
# "You are a woman, aren't you?" (in 1984, in Kenya, to a native woman who had presented him with a small gift)
# "You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly." (in 1993, to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary)
# "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" (in 1994, to an islander in the Cayman Islands)
# "You managed not to get eaten, then?" (in 1998, to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea)
# "If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." (at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting)
# "Brazilians live there” (On key problems facing Brazil)
# "Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?" (Sharing a joke with a blind, wheelchair-bound girl with a guide-dog)
# "In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation."
# 'Ever been on a plane before? It was just like that.' (To the leader of Paraguay when asked how his flight was)
# 'Deaf? I'm not surprised with that bloody racket!' (To a class of deaf children sat next to a brass band)
# 'Do you have a licence for that?' (To a man in a motorized wheelchair)
# 'If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.' (To British students in China during Royal visit there in 1986.)

Flap Gallagher wrote:A national treasure in my view and probably the last of his kind

Summers wrote:Not trying to be rude but does your Monarchy actually do anything?

Flix wrote:I know people go on about the expense of the monarchy  but what about the expense of a president, once out of office they still have security so I would suppose the balance is about the same for a Royal Family and a few ex presidents.

Flix wrote:I know people go on about the expense of the monarchy  but what about the expense of a president, once out of office they still have security so I would suppose the balance is about the same for a Royal Family and a few ex presidents.

Summers wrote:

Flix wrote:I know people go on about the expense of the monarchy  but what about the expense of a president, once out of office they still have security so I would suppose the balance is about the same for a Royal Family and a few ex presidents.

Why not make the PM the head of state?

Summers wrote:Or just have your President as a silly PR think like ours.

Hugh Jardon wrote:


Remind me summers...what is your president called again?

The first name will do.

Durham wrote:

With respect Mason, morning btw, who gives a toss?

Hugh Jardon wrote:

That's just my point....morning Steven.

Today will be another day of  most excellent joinery work...the circular saw is set up and ready. The drills are fully charged and I've got a tub of SPAX (!) 60mm deck screws to get used...  
A further 20 lengths of 32mm chunky deck will be laid and I believe that the baby Jesus' (aah) daddy would be very pleased that whilst he mourns the death of his son, the art of carpentry is being practised....

Durham wrote:

That is a most fitting tribute to this religous period, Mason. Please do not cut or injure yourself....we wouldnt the passing of any blood borne infections, would we.

Hugh Jardon wrote:
That is very kind, Steven.
To my utter shame, I failed to to clean out the saw the last time I had finished using it.
Whilst cleaning it yesterday morning, I managed to cut my finger....before I'd even switched the bleeding saw on!
Anyway..one quick trip to the medical cupboard had me all fixed again...
I'm all tetanussed up...and in otherwise decent nick....or soon will be.

In honour of the baby Jesus (ahhh) I'm just having a slice of toast and a cup of tea, that's what he would have had...after noncing about on his cross for a while.

Durham wrote:

No jam?...........or mince?

Hugh Jardon wrote:


Remind me summers...what is your president called again?

The first name will do.

Summers wrote:

The Leprechaun.
Otherwise known as Michael.

Our President really does absolutely nothing.