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bullshite is music and the brass band staggers on.
 
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sptrawler said:
Phill the Greek always called a spade a spade, what a legend, last of the politically incorrect. RIP last of a generation.
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Also pushed World Wide Fund for Nature in its early days far ahead of the time. His Duke of Edenborough Scheme for youth became a major force for good. I did a bit of that.

Did his best. I ,liked him. He had a hard early life but toughed it out and didn't let people down.
I think he got bored sometimes and so created a bit of excitement for himself.

The funniest story for me was when he was on the shuttle:

Britain's Prince Phillip has landed himself in hot water by telling a 13-year-old schoolboy that he is "too fat" to become an astronaut.
Andrew, who is 4ft 8in tall and weighs seven stone, met the Prince while he was inspecting the NOVA spacecraft.
According to reports the Prince asked Andrew about the spacecraft before saying: "Well, you'll never fly in it, you're too fat to be an astronaut."

Andrew, who wants to become an actor not an astronaut, said he was surprised by Prince Phillip's comments, adding: "I was bothered about what he had said. I was really cross. What gives him the right to be nasty to people just because he's married to the Queen?

"I don't think I'm fat, it's just that my dad is big and so are some of my family, but I eat well and play a lot of sport."
www.irishexaminer.com

Prince Phillip brands teenager 'too fat' to be astronaut

Britain's Prince Phillip has landed himself in hot water by telling a 13-year-old schoolboy that he is "too fat" to become an astronaut.
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Here are some of Philip’s famous phrases (warning, some are offensive):

- “British women can’t cook” (in Britain in 1966).

- “What do you gargle with, pebbles?” (speaking to singer Tom Jones after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance).

- “I declare this thing open, whatever it is.” (on a visit to Canada in 1969).

- “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” (during the 1981 recession).

- “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).

- “It looks like a tart’s bedroom.” (on seeing plans for the Duke and Duchess of York’s house at Sunninghill Park in 1988)

- “Yak, yak, yak; come on get a move on.” (shouted from the deck of Britannia in Belize in 1994 to the Queen who was chatting to her hosts on the quayside).

- “We didn’t have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking ‘Are you all right? Are you sure you don’t have a ghastly problem?’ You just got on with it.” (about the Second World War commenting on modern stress counselling for servicemen in 1995).

- “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?” (to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, during a 1995 walkabout).


- “Bloody silly fool!” (in 1997, referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who did not recognise him).

- “It looks as if it was put in by an Indian.” (pointing at an old-fashioned fusebox in a factory near Edinburgh in 1999).

- “Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.” (to young deaf people in Cardiff, in 1999, referring to a school’s steel band).

- “They must be out of their minds.” (in the Solomon Islands, in 1982, when he was told that the annual population growth was 5 per cent).

- “You are a woman, aren’t you?”(In Kenya, in 1984, after accepting a small gift from a local woman).

- “If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.” (to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit).

- “Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world.” (in Thailand, in 1991, after accepting a conservation award).

- “Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.” (in Australia, in 1992, when asked to stroke a koala).

- “You can’t have been here that long — you haven’t got a pot belly.” (to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, in 1993).

- “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands in 1994).
 
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The eulogizing about Prince Philip is well and truly on. I think he was an outstanding support for the Queen and the Royal family. Very smart, very skilled, exceptionally detail minded and prepared to speak his mind - with humour.

I thought The Crown did a very good job of constructing his life.

One worthwhile point. The Queen and Prince Philip were at pains to point out tolerance as a critical part of their marriage. It was widely known that Prince Phillip did play around and that the Queen knew but tolerated these adventures. But it seems these issues never undermined their mutual love, respect and support. IMV a pretty health attitude. :2twocents

As far as his "gaffes"? He wasn't PC. He had wicked sense of humour. He spoke his mind and that certainly ruffled feathers and gave people an opportunity to be horrified. He reminded me of an Uncle who was similarly outspoken and outrageous . In fact one of his lines when meeting relatives he hadn't seen for a time was "Oh I thought you had died ages ago". Certainly created some raised eyebrows but he was an amazing character.
 
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Indian athletics star Milkha Singh dies after catching Covid, aged 91

Narendra Modi leads tributes to ‘Flying Sikh’, who won India’s first Commonwealth gold in 1958
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Singh was admitted to the intensive care unit at Fortis Hospital in Mohali on 24 May 2021 with pneumonia caused by COVID-19. His condition was, for a while, described as stable, but he died on 18 June 2021 at 11:30 pm in Chandigarh.[26] His wife, Nirmal Saini, had died a few days earlier on 13 June 2021, also due to COVID-19.[27] Singh was laid on his funeral pyre with a photo of his wife in his hands.[28]
Nirmal Kaur Saini (10 October 1938 – 13 June 2021) was an Indian volleyball player and captain of the India women's national volleyball team.[1] She was the wife of legendary athlete Milkha Singh and the mother of Jeev Milkha Singh.
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Milkha Singh - Wikipedia

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John McAfee. Iconoclast. Lover of women, adventure and mystery. Founder of McAfee Anti-virus.

Found dead in a jail cell in Spain yesterday following approval of his extradition to the US on tax evasion charges.

Never afraid to take the piss out of himself or the famous software that bears his name, he was a true original who lived a life without compromises. RIP.




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greggles said:
John McAfee. Iconoclast. Lover of women, adventure and mystery. Founder of McAfee Anti-virus.

Found dead in a jail cell in Spain yesterday following approval of his extradition to the US on tax evasion charges.

Never afraid to take the piss out of himself or the famous software that bears his name, he was a true original who lived a life without compromises. RIP.




EDIT: Beat me to it! I should check these things before posting.
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What a great obituary.

I'll miss the guy and I didn't even know him !

I sympathise with the users of McAfee though, and the same goes for Norton users. :p
 

Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Secretary During Iraq War, Is Dead at 88​

Mr. Rumsfeld, who served four presidents, oversaw a war that many said should never have been fought. But he said the removal of Saddam Hussein had “created a more stable and secure world.”
 
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Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Secretary During Iraq War, Is Dead at 88​

Mr. Rumsfeld, who served four presidents, oversaw a war that many said should never have been fought. But he said the removal of Saddam Hussein had “created a more stable and secure world.”
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He was a total disaster that led to his sacking by Bush. I have not yet read a good word said for him at his death.

Likely the worst foreign secretary in US history.
 
Inspired me as a very young boy growing up the hills behind Perth to take up surfing, what a life he gave me.

Greg Noll, a fearless surfer Dead at 84

Greg Noll, a fearless surfer and a superstar in his sport who in the 1960s tackled stunningly big waves in Hawaii, died on Monday in Crescent City, Calif., about 20 miles south of Oregon. He was 84.

www.nytimes.com

Greg Noll, Surfing Superstar Who Tackled the Big Waves, Dies at 84

Known as ‘Da Bull,’ he caught waves in Hawaii, California, Australia and Mexico. One expert said he “could be the Babe Ruth of surfing.”
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Who is Sebastian Eubank ( Boxer has died in Dubai at age 29 ) Wiki, Bio, Age, Incident details, Investigations and More Facts

Sebastian Eubank Biography Sebastian Eubank Wiki Chris Eubank says he was "devastated" after his son Sebastian died a few days befo
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What was Sebastian Eubank's cause of death?

SEBASTIAN Eubank, the son of boxing legend Chris, was found dead on a Dubai beach just five days before his 30th birthday. He had followed in his father’s footsteps and forged a career in the…
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