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« Reply #850 on: 10 April, 2021, 02:25:55 pm »
Although he was a prince of Greece I don't think he was actually Greek.

You're OK with me calling him a mad racist though?

As far as I am concerned you can call him what you like. I did however think your comment "One less mad racist Greek bastard in the world" was a racist comment in itself.
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« Reply #851 on: 10 April, 2021, 02:32:23 pm »

61. "So you're responsible for the kind of crap Channel Four produces!" Speaking to then chairman of the channel, Michael Bishop, in 1962.


Remarkable that they were producing crap 20 years before they even existed! ;D

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« Reply #852 on: 10 April, 2021, 03:05:32 pm »
Similarly I doubt he spoke to the Chairman of Channel 4 in 1962

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« Reply #853 on: 10 April, 2021, 05:44:28 pm »
Although he was a prince of Greece I don't think he was actually Greek.

You're OK with me calling him a mad racist though?

As far as I am concerned you can call him what you like. I did however think your comment "One less mad racist Greek bastard in the world" was a racist comment in itself.
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« Reply #854 on: 10 April, 2021, 06:38:50 pm »
Similarly I doubt he spoke to the Chairman of Channel 4 in 1962
The quote was wrong - it was 1996 according to a different media source

<When he met Channel 4 chairman Michael Bishop in 1996, he greeted him with the words, “so you're responsible for the kind of crap Channel 4 produces”>

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« Reply #855 on: 10 April, 2021, 06:57:17 pm »
Although he was a prince of Greece I don't think he was actually Greek.

You're OK with me calling him a mad racist though?

As far as I am concerned you can call him what you like. I did however think your comment "One less mad racist Greek bastard in the world" was a racist comment in itself.

Interesting take.

If you’re going to be like that, I might point out that he was actually born in Greece but you’re denying him Greek nationality based on his non-Greek ethnicity.

So who’s the racist?
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« Reply #856 on: 10 April, 2021, 07:22:45 pm »
“Phil The Dane” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
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« Reply #857 on: 10 April, 2021, 08:15:37 pm »
Even The National Rail website has gone into mourning.
The website is in greyscale and not its usual colours  ::-)
Much as I'm not a monarchist/royalist, I'm not without compassion, and would be the first to offer my condolences to Mrs Kwin, but this......? Srsly?
What on earth will it be like when Mrs Kwin checks out?

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« Reply #858 on: 10 April, 2021, 08:17:26 pm »
Unbearable.

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« Reply #859 on: 10 April, 2021, 08:25:48 pm »
Although he was a prince of Greece I don't think he was actually Greek.

You're OK with me calling him a mad racist though?

As far as I am concerned you can call him what you like. I did however think your comment "One less mad racist Greek bastard in the world" was a racist comment in itself.

Interesting take.

If you’re going to be like that, I might point out that he was actually born in Greece but you’re denying him Greek nationality based on his non-Greek ethnicity.

So who’s the racist?

As the song goes, everyone's a little bit racist.

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« Reply #860 on: 10 April, 2021, 08:28:33 pm »
Yes, I've never really liked the Picts.

Shifty looking fuckers. Can't trust them.

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« Reply #861 on: 10 April, 2021, 09:38:13 pm »
Even The National Rail website has gone into mourning.
The website is in greyscale and not its usual colours  ::-)
Much as I'm not a monarchist/royalist, I'm not without compassion, and would be the first to offer my condolences to Mrs Kwin, but this......? Srsly?
What on earth will it be like when Mrs Kwin checks out?
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« Reply #862 on: 10 April, 2021, 09:50:13 pm »
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Those seeking something like normal radio could try R3.

Some hope : ElizabethAlker's estimable Saturday breakfast show on Saturday
gets pulled for solemn music or some other medley 7-12 noon !
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« Reply #863 on: 10 April, 2021, 09:51:11 pm »
Even The National Rail website has gone into mourning.
The website is in greyscale and not its usual colours  ::-)
Much as I'm not a monarchist/royalist, I'm not without compassion, and would be the first to offer my condolences to Mrs Kwin, but this......? Srsly?
What on earth will it be like when Mrs Kwin checks out?
Oh good fucking grief.

I was on there earlier today and thought there was something off with the colouring. I never considered for one moment it had anything to do with his carking it. What have we come to ?  Next thing we know the Tories will be demanding every government building flies the Union Jack...
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« Reply #864 on: 10 April, 2021, 09:52:41 pm »
Even The National Rail website has gone into mourning.
The website is in greyscale and not its usual colours  ::-)
Much as I'm not a monarchist/royalist, I'm not without compassion, and would be the first to offer my condolences to Mrs Kwin, but this......? Srsly?
What on earth will it be like when Mrs Kwin checks out?
It will be the end of YACF. We will all be shot for appearing in public without black armbands. Or for cycling during a period of national mourning.


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« Reply #865 on: 10 April, 2021, 09:58:36 pm »
<snippety-snip>      What date is the funeral & are the campsites open ?
Saturday April 17th.
Campsites re-open on the 12th, I believe.

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« Reply #866 on: 10 April, 2021, 09:59:56 pm »
It happens to be our wedding anniversary. I'll see if I can organise a virtual party...
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« Reply #867 on: 10 April, 2021, 10:00:41 pm »
Hopefully that will be a beautiful sunny day in Furrybootoon and I can feck off on my bike for the day.
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« Reply #868 on: 11 April, 2021, 12:04:57 pm »
Although he was a prince of Greece I don't think he was actually Greek.

You're OK with me calling him a mad racist though?

As far as I am concerned you can call him what you like. I did however think your comment "One less mad racist Greek bastard in the world" was a racist comment in itself.

Interesting take.

If you’re going to be like that, I might point out that he was actually born in Greece but you’re denying him Greek nationality based on his non-Greek ethnicity.

So who’s the racist?

The answer to you last question is: Clearly you.
Let us analyse your statement “One less mad racist Greek bastard in the world”.
Firstly, there is no evidence that he is in any way insane.
Next, there is no evidence that he is a racist. In fact, his association with certain groups would indicate the opposite.
Then you question his parentage, which there has never been a suggestion it was in doubt.
Added to those the connotation that it was because he was Greek.

I on the other hand only pointed out what biographies and history books tell us. Although he was born in Crete and through historical linage, he had the entitlement of Prince of Greece, because of the expulsion for the country of his parents he never regarded himself as Greek. His actual heritage linage was principally Danish.

I met him on two occasions and on one of them spent 12 minutes alone with him. I found him to be a very accommodating and interesting person.


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« Reply #869 on: 11 April, 2021, 12:18:08 pm »
I met him on two occasions and on one of them spent 12 minutes alone with him. I found him to be a very accommodating and interesting person.

Are you non-white?

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« Reply #870 on: 11 April, 2021, 01:30:04 pm »
If you follow the link to my home page you will quite clearly see the answer.
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« Reply #871 on: 11 April, 2021, 01:38:19 pm »
A simple "no" would have sufficed.   In which case why on earth are you positing your very brief  encounter with PP as evidence of his not being racist?

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« Reply #872 on: 11 April, 2021, 01:40:29 pm »
I'm not.
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« Reply #873 on: 11 April, 2021, 02:51:36 pm »
Added to those the connotation that it was because he was Greek.

Since I'm referring to him as Greek based on where he was born rather than his ethnic 'heritage', it's not racist. Mildly xenophobic at worst.

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I on the other hand only pointed out what biographies and history books tell us. Although he was born in Crete...

Well, Corfu, actually.

I wonder if the author of this piece would have come to a different conclusion if he'd been lucky enough to have once spent 12 minutes alone with the Duke:
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/8/13/the-priceless-racism-of-the-duke-of-edinburgh

But fair play to him, he did a lot of good work for charidee.
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« Reply #874 on: 11 April, 2021, 03:09:39 pm »
I mean, come on, what are the chances of an aristocrat born in 1921 being racist???   ::-)

He married into the Royal family in 47, became semi-king in '52 in an era when the UK still had more than another decade of fighting bloody colonialist wars against black people ahead of it. Of course, racism was common place in those times, but as we know the Royal family have always been at the vanguard of progressive values, way ahead of the zeitgeist.  Him, racist? No chance.

His Jim Davidson tribute act is what makes him beloved of the Gammon. It's why they are so desperate to defend his memory.  He said what they wish they could still say. Call asians 'slitty eyed', call Africans 'spear-chuckers', and so on, owning the libs.