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    The Duke is Dead

    Philip has popped his clogs.

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    Just seen the top trolling by ITV.

    The message reads...Her Majesty, The Queen...*long pause* announces her Husband

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    This will somehow, presumably, be Meghan and Harry's fault.

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    Why was this not prefaced by hours of twitter rumours?

    Some of the oldest obits on file coming out here. Some of them probably being dusted off from the 50s.

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    So this date is a bank holiday now?

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    He’s been a walking corpse for about five years.

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    Saying that fusebox looked like it had been 'put in by an Indian' was the last great event of the twentieth century.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Saying that fusebox looked like it had been 'put in by an Indian' was the last great event of the twentieth century.
    Hopefully someone does a best of list.

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    How long do you think BBC will interrupt broadcasts for news nobody cares about? I can understand Radio 5 doing so, and maybe 2-4, but nobody on Radio 1 knows who he is and nobody on Radio 6 cares. I've just checked and they've done it for 1xtra as well. Fair enough, that's made up for the rest. Gonna check Twitter cause there will be some pissed off youts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Queenslander View Post
    Hopefully someone does a best of list.
    They'll all bottle it. The BBC are currently dancing around the issue by saying he had a "sharp mind and sometimes sharp tongue"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Offshore Toon View Post
    How long do you think BBC will interrupt broadcasts for news nobody cares about? I can understand Radio 5 doing so, and maybe 2-4, but nobody on Radio 1 knows who he is and nobody on Radio 6 cares. I've just checked and they've done it for 1xtra as well. Fair enough, that's made up for the rest. Gonna check Twitter cause there will be some pissed off youts.
    It's a shame he couldn't hang on until the Grand National was on. Or better yet, the headline set at Glastonbury.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    They'll all bottle it. The BBC are currently dancing around the issue by saying he had a "sharp mind and sometimes sharp tongue"


    That is perfect!

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    Someone's clearly got Boris out of bed for this. The state of him

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    It is only a matter of weeks since the prince provoked similar offence when he asked a group of profoundly deaf children if they had lost their hearing listening to a Caribbean band that was obviously not to his taste.

    In Scotland, he recently commiserated with students for being unfortunate enough to be studying in Glasgow. Four years ago, he asked a Scottish driving instructor: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?"

    He is also unafraid to take his insensitivities abroad. In 1986 he described Beijing as ghastly, before telling British students there: "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty eyed."

    In Germany, he offended chancellor Helmut Kohl by addressing him by Hitler's Nazi title, reichskanzler.

    The prince has described Hungarians as pot-bellied and feigned amazement that a student trekking in Papua New Guinea had managed to do so without being eaten by cannibals. Brazil, also, would apparently be a paradise were it not for the Brazilians
    There's probably much better out there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Arne View Post
    There's probably much better out there.

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    Telling that kid he was too fat to be an astronaut might have been the opening of the new century as well.

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    Bad time to lose your wicket.

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    Thank goodness there are seven links to this on the BBC front page otherwise you might not notice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Offshore Toon View Post
    How long do you think BBC will interrupt broadcasts for news nobody cares about? I can understand Radio 5 doing so, and maybe 2-4, but nobody on Radio 1 knows who he is and nobody on Radio 6 cares. I've just checked and they've done it for 1xtra as well. Fair enough, that's made up for the rest. Gonna check Twitter cause there will be some pissed off youts.
    This baffled me too.

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    Omg they even did it to CBBC.

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    Suppose it's good to know if your potential abuser is dead.


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    Those quotes.

    Whoever that due was, he sounds like a bit of a don.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    Those quotes.

    Whoever that due was, he sounds like a bit of a don.
    The Queen's husband.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    The Queen's husband.
    And Sir Prince Phillip of Australia.

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    Gives me a chance to break this out:


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    Day off for a state funeral please.

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    He was only 2 months away from getting a letter from the Queen.

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    "If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." Again with the Chinese insults, when he addressed a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.


    An early warning against COVID, you could say.

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    From Reddit:

    1966: "British women can't cook".

    1969: "What do you gargle with, pebbles?" To Sir Tom Jones after a Royal Variety Performance.

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

    1984: "You are a woman, aren't you?" In Kenya after accepting a small gift from a local woman.

    1986: "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed." To a group of British students during a royal visit to China.

    1988: "It looks like a tart's bedroom." On seeing plans for the Duke and Duchess of York's house at Sunninghill Park.

    1992: "Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease." In Australia when asked to stroke a koala.

    1993: "You can't have been here that long, you haven't got a pot belly". To a Briton he met in Hungary.

    1994: "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" To a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands.

    1995: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test." To a Scottish driving instructor.

    1996: "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?" In response to calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting.

    1997: "Bloody silly fool!" Referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who did not recognise him.

    1999: "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." Speaking to a group of young deaf people in Cardiff who were standing near a steel band.

    1999: "It looks as if it was put in by an Indian." Referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh.

    2001: "You're too fat to be an astronaut." To 13-year-old Andrew Adams who told Prince Philip he wanted to go into space.

    2002: "Still throwing spears?" Question put to an Australian Aborigine during a visit.

    2002: "You look like a suicide bomber." To a young policewoman wearing a bullet-proof vest on Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.

    2009: "There's a lot of your family in tonight." After looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians.

    2009: "Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?" To designer Stephen Judge about his tiny goatee beard.

    2010: "Do you have a pair of knickers made out of this?" To Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie Pointing while pointing to some tartan in Edinburgh.

    2010: "Do you work in a strip club?" To 24-year-old Barnstaple Sea Cadet Elizabeth Rendle when she told him she also worked in a nightclub.

    2012: "I would get arrested if I unzipped that dress." To 25-year-old council worker Hannah Jackson, who was wearing a dress with a zip running the length of its front, on a Jubilee visit to Bromley, Kent.

    2013: "The Philippines must be half empty as you're all here running the NHS." On meeting a Filipino nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital.

    2013: "[Children] go to school because their parents don't want them in the house." To Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban and now campaigns for the right of girls to go to school without fear.

    2017: "You look starved." To a pensioner on a visit to the Charterhouse almshouse for elderly men.

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    This is the top story on the BBC Sport page, right next to a second story about him. Did they think people wouldn't have noticed?

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    Masterchef final not getting broadcast. Now I've got a reason to care.

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    Both BBC channels wiped of programmes? Jesus, talk about an overreaction.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    Masterchef final not getting broadcast. Now I've got a reason to care.
    Isn't that on at 9 o'clock or something? Are they going to be repeating the same old shit all weekend?

    Just put it on the News Channel you slags.

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    The performative 'I don't care' people are far worse than the people who do care. I saw someone on cricket twitter (a surprisingly left wing milieu, though I guess that's twitter for you) absolutely lose their shit with rage because they had a minute's silence at Essex v Worcestershire.

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    They're laughable, but then you seem to fill your Twitter feed with people you like to sneer at and pretend their equally cretinous counterparts on The Right don't exist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don View Post
    Both BBC channels wiped of programmes? Jesus, talk about an overreaction.
    Don't fucking panic mate, they haven't (sorry I meant didn't) cancelled Countdown.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magic View Post
    Just seen the top trolling by ITV.

    The message reads...Her Majesty, The Queen...*long pause* announces her Husband
    Just seen that. Looks very intentional


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    ITV has had enough for today and have cancelled their schedule.

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    I understand why they cancelled everything for things like this back in the days before freeview, but there really is no need these days. People can put on the news channels whenever they want. What's the point?

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    Similarly, I try to stick it right up the Labour party by constantly being as lazy as possible.

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    Do people actually watch what's on TV? (other than football)

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    The Masterchef final clearly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    Do people actually watch what's on TV? (other than football)
    Yeah, in massive numbers. The idea that they don't is one of the fallacies of our times.

    Think we social ABs probably don't (or much less) so it feels like people don't, but they do.

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    I watched half of today's Neighbours on the Channel 5 player, turned it off at about three to ring somebody, and now it has been removed. But it had already been shown. What?

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    I'm sure people do, I was just wondering what our viewing habits were as a forum.

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