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I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

Says the great male whore who married a Queen.

The Duke of Edinburgh was mentioned in despatches for his service during the Second World War.

He was a midshipman aboard HMS Valiant off the southern coast of Greece when he earned his honourable citation.

A young naval officer, he was praised for his actions in the decisive Battle of Cape Matapan against the Italian fleet in March 1941.

The duke later spoke of how he coped when his shipmates died or were wounded.

“It was part of the fortunes of war,” he said. “We didn’t have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, you know asking ‘Are you all right – are you sure you don’t have a ghastly problem?’ You just got on with it.”

OK, the guy was an asshole, but those quotes are golden.

"The Queen's cunt looks like a mess of scurvy bacon with matted hair. Of course I mess around! Besides, look at Andrew. That witless turd never sprung from MY loins. Her fucking horse guy had a climb-on."

To female sea cadet: “Do you work in a strip club?”

To expats in Abu Dhabi in 2011: “Are you running away from something?”

After accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991: “Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.”

At a project to protect turtle doves in Anguilla in 1965, he said: “Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don’t you have a slogan: ‘Kill a cat and save a bird?’”

To a woman solicitor, 1987: “I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.”

On the new £18million British Embassy in Berlin in 2000: “It’s a vast waste of space.”

To then Paraguay dictator General Stroessner: “It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.”

A VIP at a local airport asked HRH: “What was your flight, like, Your Royal Highness? Philip: “Have you ever flown in a plane?” VIP: “Oh yes, sir, many times.” “Well,” said Philip, “it was just like that.”

On Ethiopian art, 1965: “It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons.”

To a fashion writer in 1993: “You’re not wearing mink knickers, are you?”

To black politician Lord Taylor of Warwick, 1999: “And what exotic part of the world do you come from?”

After hearing President Obama had had breakfast with leaders of the UK, China and Russia, 2010: “Can you tell the difference between them?”

On students from Brunei, 1998: “I don’t know how they’re going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield.”

On Princess Anne, 1970: “If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she isn’t interested.”

To nursing-home resident in a wheelchair, 2002: “Do people trip over you?”

To the General Dental Council in 1960: “Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I’ve practised for many years.”

To schoolchildren in blood-red uniforms, 1998: “It makes you all look like Dracula’s daughters!”

To a Filipino nurse as he unveiled a new cardiac centre at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital in February: "The Philippines must be half empty, you're all here running the NHS."

To a group of women at a community centre in Chadwell Heath, east London "who do you sponge off?"

When he was greeting crowds at Sandringham last December, the Duke of Edinburgh jokingly asked a bodyguard: “Is that a terrorist?” when he saw a man with a long ginger beard.

OK, I'm starting to like the guy in spite of Irish history.

Unfiltered Philip: I wonder what he said in private if those are the things he said in public. He really just didn't give a fuck.

When Prince Phillip said: "You look like you are ready for bed" the Nigerian should have replied "Are you propositioning me? You do have that reputation."

Rb6d says

To then Paraguay dictator General Stroessner: “It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.”

The reply should have been: "Bravely spoken. Do you find it a pleasure an being a second tier figurehead leeching off the British people?"

HeadSet says

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

Says the great male whore who married a Queen.

It takes one...

Ceffer says

Unfiltered Philip: I wonder what he said in private if those are the things he said in public. He really just didn't give a fuck.

Meh, if you can't be punched in the nose for saying things, it doesn't really take much guts to say them, does it?

FuckCCP89 says

Ceffer says

Unfiltered Philip: I wonder what he said in private if those are the things he said in public. He really just didn't give a fuck.

Meh, if you can't be punched in the nose for saying things, it doesn't really take much guts to say them, does it?

True but I picture him as sort of a roughneck from history.

Too bad he isn't around to see the Fifth Reich prevail! He would be goose stepping around Buckingham Palace.

Patrick says

OK, I'm starting to like the guy in spite of Irish history.

There is an Irish Times article from last week which says that Philip never had any "gaffes" or said anything improper related to the Irish. He kept his temper in check when in Ireland...

Rb6d says

He kept his temper in check when in Ireland...

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He didn't want to get beaned with empty whiskey bottles (the Irish would never throw a bottle that still had whiskey).

Ceffer says

He didn't want to get beaned with empty whiskey bottles (the Irish would never throw a bottle that still had whiskey).

or did not want to be blown up...

Such comments about Irish bombs invariably ignore the British military's decades of kidnapping and extra-judicial murder of anyone suspected of advocating a unified and independent Ireland.

Patrick says

Such comments about Irish bombs invariably ignore the British military's decades of kidnapping and extra-judicial murder of anyone suspected of advocating a unified and independent Ireland.

I think the twatter commenter in picture above is just trolling and not being particularly serious.
BTW I am all for reunification of Ireland, independence for Basque country, Corsica, Scotland, etc. The smaller the countries, the less likely they will grow into oppressive regimes + there would be some historical justice served.

I agree. Smaller countries are likely to be less oppressive, and also usually much friendlier places because the people have somewhere they really belong to. They know who they are.

Patrick says

I agree. Smaller countries are likely to be less oppressive, and also usually much friendlier places because the people have somewhere they really belong to. They know who they are.

Yep, which is why California should split into 2 states.

HeadSet says

Yep, which is why California should split into 2 states.

The San Andreas fault just isn't fast enough.