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Title: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: crashlander on April 09, 2021, 09:31:43 pm
Didn't quite make it to 100, but he got damned close!
RIP.
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: capcom on April 09, 2021, 09:40:18 pm
Top bloke by all accounts.  Great sense of humour apparently .... 
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: PaulP on April 09, 2021, 10:03:14 pm
Didn't quite make it to 100, but he got damned close!
RIP.

I guess he won't be getting a letter from the queen.

RIP.
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: dodge on April 09, 2021, 11:41:27 pm
I do some contracting for The Duke of Edinburgh's Award (and worked there for 11 years).  Great legacy program for youth development,  which he put his name and a lot of time and effort into.
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: Gointocarlton on April 10, 2021, 07:04:34 am
He was a ripper, so politically incorrect, loved him.
RIP Ol Boy, that was a fair knock.
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: ElwoodBlues1 on April 10, 2021, 08:33:54 am
RIP to Prince Philip but I'm no fan of Royal families in general and see them as over privledged side shows that are supported by
the taxes of the commoner.... and what a terrible description of working folk that word is.
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: cookie2 on April 10, 2021, 08:48:28 am
RIP, but not really a fan.
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: capcom on April 10, 2021, 10:29:06 am
Just for once, I'll separate his service and standards to the office with the disgusting and lecturing behaviour of two of his idiot sons ....

Rest in peace mate and know you gave your best.

 
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: DJC on April 10, 2021, 02:41:53 pm
Condolences to his family but I have no time for the concept that one’s birth somehow makes you superior.

I was extremely p1ssed off that the ABC interrupted my Friday night TV with endless footage of 50 year old parades and meaningless platitudes from irrelevant monarchists.
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: spf on April 10, 2021, 10:26:51 pm
RIP to Prince Philip but I'm no fan of Royal families in general and see them as over privledged side shows that are supported by
the taxes of the commoner.... and what a terrible description of working folk that word is.

Are you complaining because you're a commoner? If you were offered a title would you turn it down?
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: dodge on April 10, 2021, 10:47:55 pm
Yes, they are privileged,  but I would hate their lifestyle.   They work hard.   When they tour,  they have multiple engagements each day,  with different audiences, make a speech at each one,  understand who the audience is,  why the audience is there and a lot of meet & greets.

At a table of twenty, they receive resumes of everyone,  have to speak to them all and will remember a talking point about everyone,  as they are the conversation starters.   In a VIP room,  a royal was told they were late,  but he recognised that he hadn't yet spoken to everyone and didn't leave until he had.

Weirdly, they are born into it and their life isn't really their choice.

I was like a few responses above, and still am in many regards,  but I certainly respect what they have to do.
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: DJC on April 10, 2021, 11:40:49 pm
If I was getting paid as much as they do, I would work hard too.  I don't mind the old Queen, she worked like a "commoner" in WW2.  Apart from her, the only one I have any time for is young Harry.  He put his life on the line in Afghanistan and his work with disabled veterans has been outstanding.  The rest of them are not much more than leeches on society.

The concept of royalty is anachronistic and the sooner it's consigned to the rubbish bin of history the better!
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: Thryleon on April 11, 2021, 07:28:30 am
I think they all do bits of that.

They've all served in the armed forces.  They're all career royals.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no royal family fan, but when you see kids getting paid loads of money to party and chase a pig skin filled with air, or wasting time on tik tok videos whilst these guys go visit people in poverty and generally don't live the life of an average young person you quickly see that society has gone to the dogs there isn't much hard work being done by anyone anymore, and most people are leeches on society through social media you start to think its just a sign of the times.
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: ElwoodBlues1 on April 11, 2021, 08:47:24 am
Are you complaining because you're a commoner? If you were offered a title would you turn it down?
I could be the Duke of Ikon Park but that wouldn't make me happy, I'd still sit with my commoner mates, over pay for my pie and coffee at the footy and then squeeze into the train on the Belgrave line and be a lot happier than some titled ponce who thinks that hunting foxes, waving to the those on Struggle Street makes me a better human than them.
The Royal family are nothing more than an over paid tourist attraction that detract and suck resources from other more important issues...
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: Lods on April 11, 2021, 08:55:27 am
I think that's the point though....
I'm around Charles' vintage.
I'd take my life over his in a heartbeat.
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: cookie2 on April 11, 2021, 09:01:30 am
I have been a lifelong ardent republican but in recent years I've had second thoughts based on the poor quality of self-serving publicly elected officials we have been seeing. The People's Republic of China also does little to inspire, for example.  Power corrupts, total power corrupts totally. Not sure where all that leaves me?
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: ElwoodBlues1 on April 11, 2021, 09:09:44 am
I think that's the point though....
I'm around Charles' vintage.
I'd take my life over his in a heartbeat.

Agree.. I didn't watch the game last night, it was my sons wedding and reception, we had a great time, no royals, no fox hunts, just 100 commoners hanging out together. Think the bride and groom were of equal or better quality than some of their Royal counterparts too.. But hey I'm biased..
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: cookie2 on April 11, 2021, 09:12:35 am
Great to hear EB, sounded like a wonderful family occasion. 👍
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: ElwoodBlues1 on April 11, 2021, 09:17:28 am
I have been a lifelong ardent republican but in recent years I've had second thoughts based on the poor quality of self-serving publicly elected officials we have been seeing. The People's Republic of China also does little to inspire, for example.  Power corrupts, total power corrupts totally. Not sure where all that leaves me?
Spent a couple of months working in the former Soviet Union including the breakaway States. The breakaway countries are all a mess, nothing works, the people are hungry and the Governments more corrupt than the old Soviet regime. The old locals want the Soviet lifestyle back where at least they were looked after better. George Orwell when he wrote Animal Farm knew his stuff..
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: cookie2 on April 11, 2021, 09:21:16 am
Spent a couple of months working in the former Soviet Union including the breakaway States. The breakaway countries are all a mess, nothing works, the people are hungry and the Governments more corrupt than the old Soviet regime. The old locals want the Soviet lifestyle back where at least they were looked after better. George Orwell when he wrote Animal Farm knew his stuff..

Too right! Animal Farm and 1984 very uncomfortably prophetic.
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: ElwoodBlues1 on April 11, 2021, 09:29:14 am
Great to hear EB, sounded like a wonderful family occasion. 👍
Thanks Cookie it was, was held in Mt Evelyn, wasn't Buckingham Palace but we all staggered out happy. The brides family are keen Hawks supporters so it could be commoner vs commoner..
My Daughter is getting married later in the year.. Inlaws to be are feral Saints supporters so Im unsure we can continue the Navy Blue bloodline in our family, that's the only Royal blood lm interested in..  ;)
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: capcom on April 11, 2021, 09:43:51 am
I am always 'twixt and 'tween over the republican debate.  I despise discarding our history although I agreed though with changing the Anthem from GSTQ, just not the replacement.

But if Turnbull likes the idea, it guarantees I'll hate it.

Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: PaulP on April 11, 2021, 10:22:28 am
Since Thatcher worked diligently to transform England into a very tatty, 3rd world country, I suggest we give them as wide a berth as possible. Brexit was the final nail in the coffin.
Title: Re: Prince Phillip Dies
Post by: Lods on May 10, 2021, 08:32:29 pm
Won't start a new thread...but we'll end this one with a funny. ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2CLXCdiJNI