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2019-08-03 -Short Attention Span Theater-

The priceless racism of the Duke of Edinburgh as told by Columbia Univ. head of Iranian Studies

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-03 05:50|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Well, he's dead on about British cuisine (lack thereof) and the Scots...

Posted by Raj 2019-08-03 07:02|| 2019-08-03 07:02|| Front Page Top

#2 And the fuse box in Edinburgh. I can picture it.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-08-03 11:53|| 2019-08-03 11:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Some of these remarks are funny. Others are true.

But his 1981 remark about unemployed fellow Britons during the worst postwar recession to that time was more than clueless.

Coming from a lifelong freeloader bankrolled by the people of Britain, his let 'em eat cake remark did a lot to turn his nation from respecting the monarchy to questioning whether it ought to be allowed to exist any longer.

He should have been bitch-slapped for that remark. By a couple of Welsh coal miners.

Posted by Lex 2019-08-03 12:14|| 2019-08-03 12:14|| Front Page Top

#4 I wouldn't call him a freeloader. From what I understand he served in the Royal Navy during WWII and was reluctant to leave it when he married Elizabeth.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-08-03 15:47|| 2019-08-03 15:47|| Front Page Top

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