chrisk
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Bugger .......
Phil, dead, dead.
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Laverda SF
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You mean an "Old Bugger" at 99.
The context of the word "Bugger" deemed respect once - Not like it does today.
Strange as it may seem; My Dad and Mother where the same age as Philip and Elizabeth and I the same age as Charles and we where both married at the age of 39.
I saw her Coronation on Black/White TV - Believe it was 1953, I would be 5 - I've good memory of my childhood.
My Dad passed in 96 and my Mother in 2004. Both in their early 80's at the same age. An 8 year cycle seems formidable in my family.
My Wife died last year in 2020, so I may have a chance to live to 2028 at the age of 80 !
Imagine having me around in this Forum for that long more or more or less saying Queen Elizabeth II could be around until 2028 ?
Don't follow my thinking just accept it - ROFL ;o)
The context of the word "Bugger" deemed respect once - Not like it does today.
Strange as it may seem; My Dad and Mother where the same age as Philip and Elizabeth and I the same age as Charles and we where both married at the age of 39.
I saw her Coronation on Black/White TV - Believe it was 1953, I would be 5 - I've good memory of my childhood.
My Dad passed in 96 and my Mother in 2004. Both in their early 80's at the same age. An 8 year cycle seems formidable in my family.
My Wife died last year in 2020, so I may have a chance to live to 2028 at the age of 80 !
Imagine having me around in this Forum for that long more or more or less saying Queen Elizabeth II could be around until 2028 ?
Don't follow my thinking just accept it - ROFL ;o)
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The Sock
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There has been virtually nothing else on the box all day!
What the blue blazes is it going to be like when she drops off her perch?
What the blue blazes is it going to be like when she drops off her perch?
chrisk
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No, I mean bugger .... as in ‘bad luck’ bugger.
Cause Dianna is gunna slap him into next week when they meet in Heaven.
Laverda SF
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Just a question: Who was Philip - Lord Mount Battens Nephew ?
Prince Philip was “misunderstood” almost everywhere he went. Some of Philip’s famous comments:
“British women can’t cook” – in Britain in 1966.
“What do you gargle with – pebbles?” – speaking to singer Tom Jones after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance.
“I declare this thing open, whatever it is” – on a visit to Canada in 1969.
“Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” – during the 1981 recession.
“If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it” – at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting.
“It looks like a tart’s bedroom” – on seeing plans for Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s house at Sunninghill Park in 1988.
“Yak, yak, yak; come on, get a move on” – shouted from the deck of the Royal Yacht Britannia in Belize in 1994 to the Queen, who was chatting to her hosts on the quayside.
“We didn’t have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking ‘Are you all right? Are you sure you don’t have a ghastly problem?’ You just got on with it” – about the Second World War, commenting on modern stress counselling for servicemen in 1995.
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?” – to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, during a 1995 walkabout.
“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 1996, amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting.
“Bloody silly fool!” – in 1997, referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who did not recognise him.
“It looks as if it was put in by an Indian” – pointing at an old-fashioned fusebox in a factory near Edinburgh in 1999.
“Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf” – to young deaf people in Cardiff in 1999, referring to a school’s steel band.
“They must be out of their minds” – in the Solomon Islands in 1982, when he was told that the annual population growth was 5%.
“You are a woman, aren’t you?” – in Kenya in 1984, after accepting a small gift from a local woman.
“If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed” – to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit.
“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world” – in Thailand in 1991, after accepting a conservation award.
“Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease” – in Australia in 1992, when asked to stroke a koala.
“You can’t have been here that long – you haven’t got a pot belly” – to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, in 1993.
“Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” – to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands in 1994.
“You managed not to get eaten, then?” – suggesting in 1998 to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea that tribes there were still cannibals.
“You’re too fat to be an astronaut” – to 13-year-old Andrew Adams who told Philip in Salford in 2001 that he wanted to go into space.
“I wish he’d turn the microphone off” – muttered at the Royal Variety Performance in 2001 as he watched Elton John perform.
“Do you still throw spears at each other?” – in Australia in 2002, talking to a successful Aboriginal entrepreneur.
“You look like a suicide bomber” – to a young female officer wearing a bullet-proof vest on Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, in 2002.
“Do you know they’re now producing eating dogs for anorexics?” – to a blind woman outside Exeter Cathedral in 2002.
“Well, you didn’t design your beard too well, did you?” – to designer Stephen Judge about his tiny goatee beard in July 2009.
“There’s a lot of your family in tonight” – after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Buckingham Palace reception for British Indians in October 2009.
“Do you work it a strip club?” – to 24-year-old Barnstaple Sea Cadet Elizabeth Rendle in March 2010, after she told him she also worked in a nightclub.
“Do you have a pair of knickers made out of this?” – pointing to some tartan – to Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie at a papal reception in Edinburgh in September 2010.
“Bits are beginning to drop off” – on approaching his 90th birthday in 2011.
“How many people have you knocked over this morning on that thing?” – meeting disabled David Miller, who drives a mobility scooter, at the Valentine Mansion in Redbridge in March 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, south-east London, in May 2012.
“The Philippines must be half empty as you’re all here running the NHS” – on meeting a Filipina nurse at a Luton hospital in February 2013.
“Most stripping is done by hand” – to 83-year-old Mars factory worker Audrey Cook when discussing how she used to strip or cut Mars Bars by hand in April 2013.
“Do you get bonus points if you knock her off?” – after spotting a toddler sat on an inflatable ball during at activity class at a care home in 2013.
“(Children) go to school because their parents don’t want them in the house” – prompting giggles from Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban after campaigning for the right of girls to go to school without fear, in October 2013.
“Just take the f****** picture” – losing patience with an RAF photographer at events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain in July 2015.
“You look starved” – to a pensioner on a visit to the Charterhouse almshouse for elderly men in February 2017.
“Well, I can’t stand up much longer” – to mathematician Michael Atiyah, who told him was sorry to hear he was standing down from public duties, in May 2017.
“You all should be locked up” – to Royal Marines who had completed a 1,664-mile trek – on August 2 2017 on his final official royal engagement as he began his retirement.
“Is that a terrorist?” – pointing at a bearded man in the crowd at Sandringham on New Year’s Eve 2017.
“If the man had succeeded in abducting Anne, she would have given him a hell of a time while in captivity” – on a gunman who tried to kidnap the Princess Royal in 1974.
“I hope he breaks his bloody neck” – when a photographer covering a royal visit to India fell out of a tree.
“If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she’s not interested” – on the Princess Royal.
“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife” – on marriage.
“It’s a pleasant change to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people” – to Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner.
“Where did you get that hat?” – supposedly to the Queen at her Coronation.
“British women can’t cook” – in Britain in 1966.
“What do you gargle with – pebbles?” – speaking to singer Tom Jones after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance.
“I declare this thing open, whatever it is” – on a visit to Canada in 1969.
“Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” – during the 1981 recession.
“If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it” – at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting.
“It looks like a tart’s bedroom” – on seeing plans for Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s house at Sunninghill Park in 1988.
“Yak, yak, yak; come on, get a move on” – shouted from the deck of the Royal Yacht Britannia in Belize in 1994 to the Queen, who was chatting to her hosts on the quayside.
“We didn’t have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking ‘Are you all right? Are you sure you don’t have a ghastly problem?’ You just got on with it” – about the Second World War, commenting on modern stress counselling for servicemen in 1995.
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?” – to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, during a 1995 walkabout.
“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 1996, amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting.
“Bloody silly fool!” – in 1997, referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who did not recognise him.
“It looks as if it was put in by an Indian” – pointing at an old-fashioned fusebox in a factory near Edinburgh in 1999.
“Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf” – to young deaf people in Cardiff in 1999, referring to a school’s steel band.
“They must be out of their minds” – in the Solomon Islands in 1982, when he was told that the annual population growth was 5%.
“You are a woman, aren’t you?” – in Kenya in 1984, after accepting a small gift from a local woman.
“If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed” – to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit.
“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world” – in Thailand in 1991, after accepting a conservation award.
“Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease” – in Australia in 1992, when asked to stroke a koala.
“You can’t have been here that long – you haven’t got a pot belly” – to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, in 1993.
“Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” – to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands in 1994.
“You managed not to get eaten, then?” – suggesting in 1998 to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea that tribes there were still cannibals.
“You’re too fat to be an astronaut” – to 13-year-old Andrew Adams who told Philip in Salford in 2001 that he wanted to go into space.
“I wish he’d turn the microphone off” – muttered at the Royal Variety Performance in 2001 as he watched Elton John perform.
“Do you still throw spears at each other?” – in Australia in 2002, talking to a successful Aboriginal entrepreneur.
“You look like a suicide bomber” – to a young female officer wearing a bullet-proof vest on Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, in 2002.
“Do you know they’re now producing eating dogs for anorexics?” – to a blind woman outside Exeter Cathedral in 2002.
“Well, you didn’t design your beard too well, did you?” – to designer Stephen Judge about his tiny goatee beard in July 2009.
“There’s a lot of your family in tonight” – after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Buckingham Palace reception for British Indians in October 2009.
“Do you work it a strip club?” – to 24-year-old Barnstaple Sea Cadet Elizabeth Rendle in March 2010, after she told him she also worked in a nightclub.
“Do you have a pair of knickers made out of this?” – pointing to some tartan – to Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie at a papal reception in Edinburgh in September 2010.
“Bits are beginning to drop off” – on approaching his 90th birthday in 2011.
“How many people have you knocked over this morning on that thing?” – meeting disabled David Miller, who drives a mobility scooter, at the Valentine Mansion in Redbridge in March 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, south-east London, in May 2012.
“The Philippines must be half empty as you’re all here running the NHS” – on meeting a Filipina nurse at a Luton hospital in February 2013.
“Most stripping is done by hand” – to 83-year-old Mars factory worker Audrey Cook when discussing how she used to strip or cut Mars Bars by hand in April 2013.
“Do you get bonus points if you knock her off?” – after spotting a toddler sat on an inflatable ball during at activity class at a care home in 2013.
“(Children) go to school because their parents don’t want them in the house” – prompting giggles from Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban after campaigning for the right of girls to go to school without fear, in October 2013.
“Just take the f****** picture” – losing patience with an RAF photographer at events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain in July 2015.
“You look starved” – to a pensioner on a visit to the Charterhouse almshouse for elderly men in February 2017.
“Well, I can’t stand up much longer” – to mathematician Michael Atiyah, who told him was sorry to hear he was standing down from public duties, in May 2017.
“You all should be locked up” – to Royal Marines who had completed a 1,664-mile trek – on August 2 2017 on his final official royal engagement as he began his retirement.
“Is that a terrorist?” – pointing at a bearded man in the crowd at Sandringham on New Year’s Eve 2017.
“If the man had succeeded in abducting Anne, she would have given him a hell of a time while in captivity” – on a gunman who tried to kidnap the Princess Royal in 1974.
“I hope he breaks his bloody neck” – when a photographer covering a royal visit to India fell out of a tree.
“If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she’s not interested” – on the Princess Royal.
“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife” – on marriage.
“It’s a pleasant change to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people” – to Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner.
“Where did you get that hat?” – supposedly to the Queen at her Coronation.
OneThinBloke
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I caught the BBC News reports within an hour or so of the press release. I switched the tv off, and finished fitting a new battery into my Caponord. All good. Stiff northerly breeze, 10°C, sunny. Full leathers and winter gloves, we ride into the 'hills' 
Oh, and I am actually related to the old duffer. My great aunt was known within our family as Mysh, her formal title was Princess Xenia Andreevna Romanoff. Princess_Xenia_Andreevna_of_Russia
I had a really enjoyable ride in some lovely local roads. Even the minor mishap of trying to execute a very tight, full lock, turn from standstill on an adverse shope with such a heavy, top-heavy bike was not going to end well... It did actually!
The inevitable tip over happened, I avoided being underneath and can still bounce. I gave thought to trying to lift back up, and thought more about the potential damage to my back! Fortunately I was partially blocking the carriageway on a fairly open street of lovely straight road. Within moments an "Agric" pick-up truck pulled up. The farmer was no messing and knew her way around motorcycles. Overalls, high-vis jacket and wellies mildly disguised a fabulous figure. Serendipity?
New front brake lever is in the post, £15. A happy day.
Oh, and I am actually related to the old duffer. My great aunt was known within our family as Mysh, her formal title was Princess Xenia Andreevna Romanoff. Princess_Xenia_Andreevna_of_Russia
I had a really enjoyable ride in some lovely local roads. Even the minor mishap of trying to execute a very tight, full lock, turn from standstill on an adverse shope with such a heavy, top-heavy bike was not going to end well... It did actually!
The inevitable tip over happened, I avoided being underneath and can still bounce. I gave thought to trying to lift back up, and thought more about the potential damage to my back! Fortunately I was partially blocking the carriageway on a fairly open street of lovely straight road. Within moments an "Agric" pick-up truck pulled up. The farmer was no messing and knew her way around motorcycles. Overalls, high-vis jacket and wellies mildly disguised a fabulous figure. Serendipity?New front brake lever is in the post, £15. A happy day.
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Dellortoman
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He was a funny old bloke. Some of those quotes above made me laugh.
Exmoor beast
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Formed the World Wildlife fund for nature..four months after shooting a tiger using a buffalo as bait! Two crocodiles, wild boar and too many stags, pheasant, fox and Grouse to mention. No doubt David Attenborough will give an ass licking eulogy like the rest of them. No state funeral - which is a pity. Apparently “sick note” Edward is next up for DoE.
I feel sorry for the Kastom tribe, they must be gutted.
I feel sorry for the Kastom tribe, they must be gutted.
Yes
Cosi
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I didn’t realise pedos got to go to heaven...
Impressive ancestry James, My old boss at Windsor,few of his less well known sproggs bred there i was told.Almost fell over him once when he suddenly stopped and kneeled down to talk to a kid from the Park school.Phil the Greek was what everyone called him.Love the way the press censor/pass over his affairs and call it a loving happy marriage for 73 years.
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Sir Sidney Ruffdiamond
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After watching for 30 mins yesterday we turned the telly off - and turned the radio on Planet Rock played a superb mix of rock ballads and dramatic rock tracks - brilliant
on ITV today for the 41 gun salute as we live in the middle of nowhere - the BBC has a woke attitude to everything
on ITV today for the 41 gun salute as we live in the middle of nowhere - the BBC has a woke attitude to everything
CLEMTOG
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a man after my own heart in so many ways, not the least being that he used a 1942 Parker Hale 303 rifle until about 20 years ago, that means that I can use mine for another two years to match him.
CLEM
ps the rifle is on show at Sandringham, along with many large game trophies, that the royal familly refuse to hide, (which they could) since when they where hunted it was OK to do that, unlike now.
CLEM
CLEM
ps the rifle is on show at Sandringham, along with many large game trophies, that the royal familly refuse to hide, (which they could) since when they where hunted it was OK to do that, unlike now.
CLEM
Legs
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A long life well lived.
helicopterjim
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How it should be ...... imagine all the fuss that would cause if they did ...... however it is much more pleasant if you keep all that hush hush.
Jim
It was NEVER OK to hunt big game... only legal.
Killing for the pleasure of doing so, fuck, could I spew over that. And then the bragging put to show in the form of trophies on the wall.
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