Duke of Edinburgh in hospital (From Daily Echo)

Not long to go; another bank holiday coming up!

Crawl back into your holes, the pair of you. Whether you are Royalist or anti-Royalist, this is a human being that you are talking about.

I am not a fan of the Royals and to be fair he is one of my least favorite but would not wish anyone to suffer ill health.

Was them medals real gold then!

We have a monarchy, there is no current debate about it, so using the article as an excuse for offensive, anti-royalist comments is rather distasteful.

However, it will be interesting to see what people choose to say here.

He is the most best Royal IMO because he reminds me of my Grandad (who is the same age), and Mr Burns from the Simpsons.

Fatty x Ford Worker wrote:
Was them medals real gold then!

6 grams of Gold in each one

Get well soon Sir.

He's a good bloke with a proud war record. He earned the stripes on jis uniform. He was on ships through WW2 and didn;t get any favours either and he's retained an earthy sense of humour from his time in the navy. It makes me laugh that all these salt of the earth hard left socialists who hate him so much have such sensitive little offensometers which twitch with outrage every time he makes a joke. He works as hard as a president and if he's more politically incorrect well....... good on him.

The Wickham Man wrote:
He's a good bloke with a proud war record. He earned the stripes on jis uniform. He was on ships through WW2 and didn;t get any favours either and he's retained an earthy sense of humour from his time in the navy. It makes me laugh that all these salt of the earth hard left socialists who hate him so much have such sensitive little offensometers which twitch with outrage every time he makes a joke. He works as hard as a president and if he's more politically incorrect well....... good on him.

Well said, that man ! What, umm, what er...what colour are you, old chap ?

The Wickham Man wrote:
He's a good bloke with a proud war record. He earned the stripes on jis uniform. He was on ships through WW2 and didn;t get any favours either and he's retained an earthy sense of humour from his time in the navy. It makes me laugh that all these salt of the earth hard left socialists who hate him so much have such sensitive little offensometers which twitch with outrage every time he makes a joke. He works as hard as a president and if he's more politically incorrect well....... good on him.

My cat is the traditional black and white type.
When he was a kitten, he was cute like the one in the felix advert.
Now he is older, he looks like a badger.
He rarely stays in the house all night, particularly in the warmer weather.

The Wickham Man wrote:
He's a good bloke with a proud war record. He earned the stripes on jis uniform. He was on ships through WW2 and didn;t get any favours either and he's retained an earthy sense of humour from his time in the navy. It makes me laugh that all these salt of the earth hard left socialists who hate him so much have such sensitive little offensometers which twitch with outrage every time he makes a joke. He works as hard as a president and if he's more politically incorrect well....... good on him.

You speak as if you know him ?

J.P.M wrote:

The Wickham Man wrote:
He's a good bloke with a proud war record. He earned the stripes on jis uniform. He was on ships through WW2 and didn;t get any favours either and he's retained an earthy sense of humour from his time in the navy. It makes me laugh that all these salt of the earth hard left socialists who hate him so much have such sensitive little offensometers which twitch with outrage every time he makes a joke. He works as hard as a president and if he's more politically incorrect well....... good on him.

My cat is the traditional black and white type.
When he was a kitten, he was cute like the one in the felix advert.
Now he is older, he looks like a badger.
He rarely stays in the house all night, particularly in the warmer weather.

Funny you should say that because my cat doesn't look like a cat at all ! She's huge, and sandy-coloured. I know this is going to sound odd, but does your cat bark ?

BillyTheKid wrote:

J.P.M wrote:

The Wickham Man wrote:
He's a good bloke with a proud war record. He earned the stripes on jis uniform. He was on ships through WW2 and didn;t get any favours either and he's retained an earthy sense of humour from his time in the navy. It makes me laugh that all these salt of the earth hard left socialists who hate him so much have such sensitive little offensometers which twitch with outrage every time he makes a joke. He works as hard as a president and if he's more politically incorrect well....... good on him.

My cat is the traditional black and white type.
When he was a kitten, he was cute like the one in the felix advert.
Now he is older, he looks like a badger.
He rarely stays in the house all night, particularly in the warmer weather.

Funny you should say that because my cat doesn't look like a cat at all ! She's huge, and sandy-coloured. I know this is going to sound odd, but does your cat bark ?

It is a HE. What gives you the right to assume gender - unless you are trying to force your gender preconceptions on my innocent (albeil ugly) cat?

BillyTheKid wrote:

The Wickham Man wrote:
He's a good bloke with a proud war record. He earned the stripes on jis uniform. He was on ships through WW2 and didn;t get any favours either and he's retained an earthy sense of humour from his time in the navy. It makes me laugh that all these salt of the earth hard left socialists who hate him so much have such sensitive little offensometers which twitch with outrage every time he makes a joke. He works as hard as a president and if he's more politically incorrect well....... good on him.

Well said, that man ! What, umm, what er...what colour are you, old chap ?

Red, White and Blue, all the way through.

A bit sad that you posters have nothing sensible to say, you could show a bit of respect.

arthur dalyrimple wrote:

The Wickham Man wrote:
He's a good bloke with a proud war record. He earned the stripes on jis uniform. He was on ships through WW2 and didn;t get any favours either and he's retained an earthy sense of humour from his time in the navy. It makes me laugh that all these salt of the earth hard left socialists who hate him so much have such sensitive little offensometers which twitch with outrage every time he makes a joke. He works as hard as a president and if he's more politically incorrect well....... good on him.

You speak as if you know him ?

Well naturally he won't know me from Adam but I have met him at a dinner some years ago, and it would be wrong to say where or when (it was to do with lighthouses) and he has exactly the kind of humour you'd expect a senior officer to have in the mess. He loves hearing a ribald story (not from me I should add!) and he still seems to have a few rough edges that 60 years in public life have thankfully not completely removed. There are not many people left in public life who are not constantly worried about their public image. He will be missed when his time comes.

OSPREYSAINT wrote:
A bit sad that you posters have nothing sensible to say, you could show a bit of respect.

Perhaps you would like to say what could be done to show respect.....

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

BillyTheKid wrote:

The Wickham Man wrote:
He's a good bloke with a proud war record. He earned the stripes on jis uniform. He was on ships through WW2 and didn;t get any favours either and he's retained an earthy sense of humour from his time in the navy. It makes me laugh that all these salt of the earth hard left socialists who hate him so much have such sensitive little offensometers which twitch with outrage every time he makes a joke. He works as hard as a president and if he's more politically incorrect well....... good on him.

Well said, that man ! What, umm, what er...what colour are you, old chap ?

Red, White and Blue, all the way through.

Ah ! Do you mean "white", as in "ain't no black in the Union Jack" ?

All right, I'll be less oblique. I am interested in the opinions of posters on Prince Philip's alleged "racist" attitude.

My own view is that a "racial" joke is not necessarily a "racIST" joke, and my point of reference is Philip's "slitty eyes" joke when touring a Chinese factory.

BillyTheKid wrote:
All right, I'll be less oblique. I am interested in the opinions of posters on Prince Philip's alleged "racist" attitude. My own view is that a "racial" joke is not necessarily a "racIST" joke, and my point of reference is Philip's "slitty eyes" joke when touring a Chinese factory.

He has spent more of his life visiting and talking to more cultures than any of the people who criticise him. When you look as the criticisms made against him it is clear they come from people who have already made up their minds anyway and are determined to infer racial hatred regardless of whether that even makes sense. The notion that he would visit a country and deliberately make a grossly offensive remark to his hosts is ludicrous. What he does do is make (sometimes bad) jokes based on what he sees. When he saw a solitary western face in a factory of entirely oriental people he alluded to it in a crass but light hearted manner. It's not the way most people would phrase it but while we would grope around from some roundabout way of saying it he just says it directly. It's partly his background, partly his manner. (Don';t waste time with mealy phrases - get to the point, be direct etc etc. Using racism as a card to smear people they hate is just a dumb tactic of the anti monarchist left.

The Wickham Man, using racism as "a card", when the person involved has made comments that are racist (you do not have to be hateful to be racist), is not a dumb tactic, but rather a legitimate criticism.

BillyTheKid wrote:
All right, I'll be less oblique. I am interested in the opinions of posters on Prince Philip's alleged "racist" attitude.

My own view is that a "racial" joke is not necessarily a "racIST" joke, and my point of reference is Philip's "slitty eyes" joke when touring a Chinese factory.

I don’t think the Chinese would have been offended at all by the Duke's comment about eyes. If anything, they would have been flattered by the attention. They don’t have the vanity of Europeans and its perfectly polite and a sign of friendship to make personal remarks. I took no offence in China when bar girls giggled about my nose size. They were just being friendly. All Europeans have horse noses one explained on the first occasion, and we all laughed non-stop for 10 minutes.

mtdiablo wrote:
The Wickham Man, using racism as "a card", when the person involved has made comments that are racist (you do not have to be hateful to be racist), is not a dumb tactic, but rather a legitimate criticism.

I don't get this. So you get to define what "racism" actually is? So what do you mean by racism - do you mean a comment designed deliberately to hurt or offend? Do you mean that you personally are offended? Or do you mean a comment that you think might offend someone else? What you are suggesting is that somebody can say something that describes a racial characteristic and that automatically make them racist. So if I describe a girl as blonde and suntanned am I being racist because I am rulling out the possiblity of her being black or asian? What about if I say a guy has an afro? Am I racist to even say it or should I pretend I didn't notice his hairstyle at all? What if I point out that most runners in the 100m sprint final were black and all the swimmers in the mens 100m final were white? Am I racist for saying it? Or thinking it? Am I still racist if no black person is offfended but only white people like you are? .
You say Philip is racist which is a serious accusation so your evidence should be pretty interesting.

I'd like to give my full support to the views of Wickham man and Good Gosh, as they represent common sense and integrity at the highest level.

Don't you find it annoying to feel compelled to spell out the obvious to those posters who are inclined to write first and think afterwards ? I know I do !

Unfortunately many people like being political correctness detectives, and so often try to build cases on little or no real evidence.