The codename for his death is : "Operation Forth Bridge"
Prince Philip has died
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#42I really wish we could just do away with all this royal family nonsense. You guys are somehow special because what? Useless social fiction from antiquity.
It's obviously not a social fiction, regardless of what you may think about monarchy in general.
They have power because they inherited it from someone that conquered it. Just like people may inherit companies and fortunes.
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#43How long before the media blames Meghan? Rest in Peace
Yet, you're the first to mention it here.
Please do not comment with the sole intent of causing a flamewar.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm playing the Devil's advocate here, but these seem like instances of dark British humour being delivered in the traditional deadpan fashion - the humour being in the absurdity of someone keeping a straight face while saying something obviously inane or offensive. It doesn't translate at all across cultures.
I can see that argument for some of them, but if anyone said the slitty eyed or spear throwing comments to me and then tried to pass it off as "it's just british humour mate" I'd laugh in their face.
Oh some of it is definitely colonialism inspired racism. I just find it weird how OP grouped what are certainly jokes in with the rest.
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#48Let us remember some of his grace: “If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.” (to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit) “I declare this thing open, whatever it is.” (on a visit to Canada in 1969) “I hope he breaks his bloody neck.” (when a photographer covering a royal visit to India fell out of a tree) “Do you still throw spears at each other?” (in Australia in 2002, talking to a su…
“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) I really should be offended by this, but... XD
So supposedly they're eating tables, angels and boats? :)
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#49Let us remember some of his grace: “If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.” (to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit) “I declare this thing open, whatever it is.” (on a visit to Canada in 1969) “I hope he breaks his bloody neck.” (when a photographer covering a royal visit to India fell out of a tree) “Do you still throw spears at each other?” (in Australia in 2002, talking to a su…
“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) I really should be offended by this, but... XD
Well its not far off the mark today, let alone 3 decades ago.
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#50I imagine the next few years will be quite interesting for the British monarchy.
It will only really get interesting after the Queen kicks the bucket. For most non monarchists she isn't a bad sort to be in charge. The rest of them are a shower of shites.