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so so cringeable (and wrong) but pretty funny all the same....
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh haming it up:
In 1995 he asked a Scottish driving instructor: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test."
The Prince angered local residents in Lockerbie when on a visit to the town in 1993, he said to a man who lived in a road where 11 people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jumbo jet: "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle."
During a Royal visit to China in 1986 he described Peking as "ghastly" and told British students: "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed."
He said of Canada: "We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves."
At the height of the recession in 1981 he said: "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."
In 1966 he provoked outrage by saying: "British women can't cook."
Another jab to the Chinese came at a World Wildlife Fund dinner: “If it swims and it’s not a submarine, the Chinese will eat it.”
To an Australian Aborigine he met in 2002, Philip asked: “Still throwing spears?”
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