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• #2377
I quite like Gmryll4s Br44ndr0ph despite the fact that I intrinsically dislike everything about him.
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• #2378
LOL
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• #2379
This one made me laugh
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• #2380
can anyone confirm what his real name was, i guess his christened name ?
i wonder if they obfuscate them so the daily mail doesn't realise they're foreignand,
uh oh,
donald trump has commented, did wonder what i might read when this popped uphttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56698311
Prince Philip: Every living US president pays respects
they're about as british as melania is american
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• #2381
Horrible cunt, but just like anyone else who lives here, they're as British as they want to be.
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• #2382
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• #2383
his real name was, i guess his christened name ?
Edit, it was not Philip Mountbatten. His grandfather changed the family name from Battenberg.
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• #2384
Philip acquired British citizenship, rejecting the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg surname in favour of Mountbatten
From the guardian obituary
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• #2385
wow he's got ALL the surnames, you know you're the 0.1% when you've got a quadruple barreled surname
i wonder how far down the family tree phil and liz share some relatives ? i'm sure i heard on a news report the spanish ? royals and another european nations royals were related to ours
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• #2386
They’re 3rd cousins. All royal family trees basically lead back to Victoria and Albert
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• #2387
Family reunion pic from 120 years ago has all the big job titles: empress, tsar, kaiser, king...
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• #2388
Wasn't WW1 fought between her grandkids. The czar the kaiser and the king. Something like that.
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• #2389
The czar the kaiser and the king
Sounds like an awful romance novel. Or a Gilbert and Sullivan musical
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• #2390
How is Andrew not on remand? He’s suspected of some pretty serious crimes yet is still mincing about on tv
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• #2391
He's not sweating it.
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• #2392
The BBC are still banging on about Phil the Greek.
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• #2393
greek AND denmark / danish
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• #2394
if the all european royals were a mafiosi type family who would be the godfather ?
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• #2395
They call it 'The Council' it has a life President. This office is given to the technically male child who can prove ancestry back to Charlemagne and that they are their own cousin, father and sister. As is the custom with Royalty they must also marry somebody else from the shallow end of the gene pool.
The post of President is currently up for grabs.
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• #2396
My bet’s on Liz:
survived WW2 and her countries helped save the rest of them;
owns the strongest combined armed forces (Uk, Oz, Canadia, etc) complete with aircraft carriers and nukes;
her favourite homeland is the second largest European economy;
has a permanent voice on the UN Security Council;
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• #2397
No, no, no. These are mere nouveau riche fripperies, this is about lineage. Besides, she's allegedly female (although gender may be different on her native planet). I will have to get my team of genealogists to check her relationship to Ferdinand the Utterly Barking of Schitwiperburg (983 to 1001), without that very basic qualification she is a nobody.
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• #2398
I'm not a royalist and I appreciate he leaves a wife, children and grandchildren behind, let them grieve for their loss, and let those that share that grief grieve too if they wish. But come on, 10's of millions of us here in the UK and billions worldwide couldn't care less, let us carry on with our lives without being waterboarded with this national mourning bullshit.
The BBC say they like to be representative, we've all seen over recent years them provide a platform to all manner of vile shits in the interest of balance. The BBC recently announced it was moving many of its jobs out of London in a bid to be less London centric and more representative of the UK as whole, and here they are a literally a week or so later hamming the fuck out of the performance, with cringeworthy levels of faux Phil grief.
From what I gather BBC and ITV experienced a massive drop in viewers when they cancelled their regular programmes and carpet bombed their channels with Operation 'wasn't he great'. Exact
figures do not yet seem available but I look forward to concrete proof millions more tuned into non-Phil focused Gogglebox (that will feature next week of course) and to Netflix and other
places.The BBC had to set up a dedicated line for complaints after being inundated following the move. The BBC then refuse to give details of the numbers of complaints, and have now taken down the dedicated complaint form, trying to stifle further negative comment and continuing to mislead the UK and the world as to the true extent of the outpouring of grief. A week of national mourning? On the week pub gardens open for the first time in over a year, I think not.
With complaint numbers too numerous or 'shameful' for the BBC to admit to, for people to be compelled to not just turn over, but to write or email, this has obviously boiled a lot of piss.
As Phil himself was known for taking the piss and struggling to hold his own, I'm sure he would see the funny side. There's your proper national representation BBC you twats, hows about you
fucking report it? And they wonder why increasing numbers of people have lost respect for the BBC and its reporting, they're reading the room about as well as the Police responded to BLM
or the recent Clapham Common protests, so it should come as no surprise when millions and millions of us come forth to say, fuck that, fuck you and fuck off.Imagine Barry Took on Points of View in 2021, "while many across the nation mourn the loss of Prince Philip, Mr Eric Smith from Macclesfield and 20 million other people wrote in to say they thought he was a bit of a dick and was no real loss, and definitely not worth re-scheduling Eastenders, Gardeners World and Masterchef for". Quite right Eric.
Lets have it right, I'm in my late 40's and all my adult life Phil has been regarded as a bit of a joke and a national embarrassment. He is the racist elderly relative that stupidly seems to be given a pass for his views because he is of his time. Extra efforts seem to be made in recent decades to keep him away from microphones and opportunities to open his mouth for fear of what unchallenged horsehit is going to fall out of it. Witness the butterfly effect in action, Phil opens his trap, and his wife and the entire nation do synchronized eye rolls in such numbers it has a gravitational effect large enough to cause a metre high wave up every river in Britain. He appears to have managed to stay out of touch with reality and unchallenged in his views for nearly 100 fucking years, I don't see that as something to be applauded or celebrated. Eddie Izzard had it about right from this sketch from about 25 years ago that still rings true. Arise Sir Eddie :)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3wfv4g
Could he be any more of a poster child for white privilege? Lived almost 100 years in unimaginable luxury, and while a patron and he has his name attached to many charities and the like, I don't think has he ever done what your average person would consider a genuine days work in his entire life. He's had access to the best health care and managed to dodge a global pandemic threatening the elderly and lived to 99. Congratulations, by all means give him another epaulette and some extra parps on some pointless ceremonial trumpet this weekend but can we stop pretending like we all give a shit.Your A.N.Other, London.
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• #2399
Yeah but also who bothers taking time to formally complain cos they can't watch their usual tv programmes for a day. That's as weird as having a royal family.
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• #2400
Boris Johnson has always been a fan of Royal Yachts so I expect we'll see this come through in no time https://www.indy100.com/news/royal-yacht-prince-philip-memorial-b1829774
Meme thread >>>>
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