Prince Charles, politically incorrect, gotta love him

[bob10]

He's done it again, bless him, Bob


BBC News - Prince Charles 'compared Russian actions to Nazis' (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27497899)

[amazing]

it's not like everyone isn't thinking the same....

shows HRH is up to date on public opinion

[AnD3rew]

He has nothing on his father in the politically incorrect stakes.

[DeanoH]

Well done Prince Charles. :clap2:

Political correctness is one of the greatest scourges of the current era. I find it amazing how people forget history. :(
Remember the Sudetenland, The Saar and Austria ? Hitler 'liberated' and 'annexed' these regions into Germany in the 1930's.
What I find most interesting is that Vladimir Putin, keen to show Russian strength after years of failed communism and ridicule (think post WW1 loss of face and prestige in Germany) and acts the same way.
Russia who has held itself up in the past as totally anti-fascist after terrible losses during WW2 now has a fascist dictator. :twisted:

Where to from here? :eek:

"All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing" , ...................... Edward Burke.

Again, well done Prince Charles. :clap2:

Deano :)

[AnD3rew]

Here is a list of some if his Dad.'s best politically incorrect comments


The Duke of Edinburgh Photo: PA
By Andrew Hough3:25PM GMT 20 Feb 2013
Here is a selection of his most notable quotes as he offers his own unique advice to people all over the world.

1963
Speaking about the rate of British tax, he said: "All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury."

1965
On seeing an exhibition of "primitive" Ethiopian art, he muttered: "It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her school art lessons."
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1966
The Duke famously proclaimed: "British women can't cook".

1967
When asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union: "I would like to go to Russia very much, although the bastards murdered half my family."

1969
The Duke said to Tom Jones after his Royal Variety Performance: "What do you gargle with, pebbles?".
He later added: "It is very difficult at all to see how it is possible to become immensely valuable by singing what I think are the most hideous songs."
On the Royal Family's finances: "We go into the red next year. I shall probably have to give up polo."

1976
On a tour of Canada: "We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves."

1981
During the recession he mused: “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."

1984
When accepting a figurine from a woman during a visit to Kenya he asked: "You are a woman aren't you?"

1986
He told a World Wildlife Fund meeting that "if it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."

Prince Philip's opinion of Beijing, during a tour of China in 1986, was simply: "Ghastly."

1993
To a British tourist in Hungary in he quipped: "You can't have been here that long — you haven't got a pot belly."

To survivors of the Lockerbie bombing he told them: "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still drying out Windsor Castle."

1994
"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?", he asked an islander in the Cayman Islands.

To a Caribbean rabbit breeder in Anguilla, he said: "Don't feed your rabbits pawpaw fruit — it acts as a contraceptive. Then again, it might not work on rabbits."

1995
He asked a Scottish driving instructor in Oban: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?"

1996
Following the Dunblane massacre, he questioned the need for a firearms ban: "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?"

1998
The Duke asked a British student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea: "You managed not to get eaten then?"

1999
In Cardiff he told children from the British Deaf Association, who were standing by a Caribbean steel band: "If you're near that music it's no wonder you're deaf".

2000
To guests at the opening reception of a new £18million British Embassy in Berlin: "It's a vast waste of space."

At a Buckingham Palace drinks party, he told group of female Labour MPs: "Ah, so this is feminist corner then."

On being offered fine Italian wines by Giuliano Amato, the former Prime Minister, at a dinner in Rome, he is said to have uttered: "Get me a beer. I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer!"

"People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans."

2001
To Elton John: "Oh it's you that owns that ghastly car is it? We often see it when driving to Windsor Castle."

2002
While touring a factory near Edinburgh he said a fuse box was so crude it "looked as though it had been put in by an Indian".

2002
To Australian Aborigines during a visit to Australia with the Queen he asked: "Do you still throw spears at each other?"

To the Aircraft Research Association, he said: "If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort, provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly."

2009 Said to black dance troupe Diversity at the Royal Variety Performance: "Are you all one family?"

To a young fashion designer at Buckingham Palace he told him: "You didn't design your beard too well, did you? You really must try better with your beard."

2010
On asking a female Sea Cadet what she did for a living, and being told that she worked in a nightclub (as a barmaid), the Duke asked “Is it a strip club?” Observing her surprise he dismissed the suggestion saying that it was “probably too cold for that anyway”.

2010
At a prize-giving ceremony for the Duke of Edinburgh Awards a girl told him that she'd been to Romania to help in an orphanage. He replied: "Oh yes, there's a lot of orphanges in Romania - they must breed them".

2011
On approaching his 90th birthday: "Bits are beginning to drop off".

To the managing director of a wind farm company, the prince said wind turbines were "absolutely useless" and "an absolute disgrace".

2012
When meeting a 60-year-old disabled man: "How many people have you knocked over this morning on that thing?" David Miller, a trustee of the Valentine Mansion in Redbridge, said he took no offence.

Others that are undated:

"YOU have mosquitos. I have the Press."
- To the matron of a hospital in the Caribbean.

"If it doesn't fart or eat hay then she isn't interested"
- speaking about his daughter, Princess Anne.

"Can you tell the difference between them?"
- The Duke's question after President Barack Obama said he met with the leaders of the UK, China and Russia.

"The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion."
- on London traffic.

"Well, you'll never fly in it, you're too fat to be an astronaut."
- to a 13-year-old whilst visiting a space shuttle.

“You look like you’re ready for bed!”
- To the President of Nigeria, dressed in traditional robes.

[Ausfree]

Hey some of those quotes are great,^^^^^ can I use them????:Rolling::Rolling::Rolling:

[discovery39]

AnD3rew, I'll give you the thumbs up just for taking the time to type all that! Cheers.

[AnD3rew]

AnD3rew, I'll give you the thumbs up just for taking the time to type all that! Cheers.

I can't take credit where it isn't due,No way I would have typed it. Cut and pasted.

[Davo]

German Nazis then, Russians crossing into sovereign countries these days, what's the difference? I feel for the Royals sometimes, as they can't so much as sneeze in public without something being said afterwards.

[ATH]

Good on the old Duke and Charlie. Someone has to say what our weak as water pollies won't although most of what they say is meant in a humorous way, not vindictive.
AlanH.