Post by pim on Feb 21, 2013 16:31:13 GMT 10
It gets a bit precious, all this PC "shock horror" throwing up of hands about HRHs so-called "gaffes"
1. Prince Philip told a Filipino nurse on Wednesday that her country "must be half empty – you're all here running the NHS" – in a demonstration that his ability to raise eyebrows remains undiminished at the age of 91. Apparently this was when he went to a London hospital to open a new cardiac centre. The nurse saw the joke and laughed.
2. He famously told British students during a 1986 state visit to China: "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed." Not clever or even particularly funny. Kinda droll in a low rent sorta way. I've heard a Japanese on an Australian TV talk show tell a hostile Qld audience who didn't like Jap buy-ups of Qld real estate and who brought up WW2 for good measure that "OK, we did have a go at you round-eyes and you whipped our arses". Kinda cuts both ways. I didn't find what the Jap guy said to be hideously offensive and somehow I think the Chinese could handle the verbal dribblings of an old man. Besides, aren't they supposed to respect old age? Wish they would here!
3. He also once told a group of deaf youngsters: "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf," referring to a school's steel band And that's supposed to be "offensive" or "insensitive"? Give us a break!
4. This one's my favourite. Can't think why!
: In 1995 he asked a Scottish driving instructor: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?"
5. Stellar would like this one: He also caused controversy in 1999 in Edinburgh when he saw an untidy fuse box during a tour of a factory. "It looks as though it was put in by an Indian," A bit crass and OTT, that one! Maybe he shouldn't have said it. But hey, so far it's only one out of five that's gone too far.
6. Ya gotta love this one, though ... The prince once told Olusegun Obasanjo, president of Nigeria, who was in national dress, "You look like you're ready for bed" ;D I wonder if Ollie laughed!
7. (He) described Ethiopian art as "the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons". I liked the kind of child art my kids brought home from school - so much that I've still got it.
1. Prince Philip told a Filipino nurse on Wednesday that her country "must be half empty – you're all here running the NHS" – in a demonstration that his ability to raise eyebrows remains undiminished at the age of 91. Apparently this was when he went to a London hospital to open a new cardiac centre. The nurse saw the joke and laughed.
2. He famously told British students during a 1986 state visit to China: "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed." Not clever or even particularly funny. Kinda droll in a low rent sorta way. I've heard a Japanese on an Australian TV talk show tell a hostile Qld audience who didn't like Jap buy-ups of Qld real estate and who brought up WW2 for good measure that "OK, we did have a go at you round-eyes and you whipped our arses". Kinda cuts both ways. I didn't find what the Jap guy said to be hideously offensive and somehow I think the Chinese could handle the verbal dribblings of an old man. Besides, aren't they supposed to respect old age? Wish they would here!
3. He also once told a group of deaf youngsters: "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf," referring to a school's steel band And that's supposed to be "offensive" or "insensitive"? Give us a break!
4. This one's my favourite. Can't think why!
: In 1995 he asked a Scottish driving instructor: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?"5. Stellar would like this one: He also caused controversy in 1999 in Edinburgh when he saw an untidy fuse box during a tour of a factory. "It looks as though it was put in by an Indian," A bit crass and OTT, that one! Maybe he shouldn't have said it. But hey, so far it's only one out of five that's gone too far.
6. Ya gotta love this one, though ... The prince once told Olusegun Obasanjo, president of Nigeria, who was in national dress, "You look like you're ready for bed" ;D I wonder if Ollie laughed!
7. (He) described Ethiopian art as "the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons". I liked the kind of child art my kids brought home from school - so much that I've still got it.
