Controversial remarks by Prince Philip - Wow!

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When visiting China in 1986, he told a group of British students, "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed".

After accepting a gift from a Kenyan native he replied, "You are a woman, aren't you?"

"If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." (1986)

"British women can't cook." (1966)

To a British student in Papua New Guinea: "You managed not to get eaten then?"

Asked a Scottish driving instructor, "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough for them to pass the driving test?"

On a visit to the new Welsh Assembly in Cardiff, he told a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band, "Deaf? No wonder you are deaf standing so close to that racket."[3]

He asked an Australian aborigine, "Still throwing spears?" (2002)

Said to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, "You can't have been here that long – you haven't got a pot belly." (1993)

To the President of Nigeria, who was dressed in traditional Muslim robes, "You look like you're ready for bed!"

Seeing a shoddily installed fuse box in a high-tech Edinburgh factory, HRH remarked that it looked "like it was put in by an Indian".[4]

When a twelve-year-old boy told the Prince that he aspired to be an astronaut, His Highness responded, "You're too fat."

On the Royal Navy ship HMS Boxer, when given a tour of the ship, which was quite extended, was quoted to have said, "Not another ****ing chamber"

On a visit to Exeter Cathedral, he asked a blind woman with a guide dog, "Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?"

In 1983, after meeting then-San Francisco mayor Dianne Feinstein and several female supervisors, he remarked, "Aren't there any male officials?... This is a nanny city."

 

He is in the spotlight but has no power, so he probably takes it out by enjoying the impunity.

 

Funny.

 

That is just hilarious

Can you say "pwned"?

 

Prince Phillip is hilarious

edit: creepy. I just noticed I have 911 posts

 

I hate to have to say it, but the man has a sense of humor quite similar to mine -- I'd never actually SAY those things to people, of course, but I would not be honest if I didn't admit I think them on a regular basis.

 

You got to give to the man, it requires some balls to go out as an celebrity and say such things.

On a more serious note, some of those are very offencive and shows some seirous real lack of manners. A man in his position should know that it's not okay to say everything that he's thinking.

 

He reminds me of my old English teacher. The one that put me off English for good.

Nevertheless, what a great man.

 

some of the cracks were funny, but i found the others a bit too racial for my taste. who's prince philip anyhoo?

 

The Queens hubbie

 

Prince Phillip is a legend.

 

"If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." (1986)

Actually the cantonese say the exact same quote(but in cantonese of course) about themselves so it is not really an insult.

 

But where's the controversy of this? Mind you, British men can't cook, either - it's why I married an American God bless her.

And I still think Marg Delahunty (aka Mary Walsh) got him good by standing up as part of the press during a p.c. in Canada, asking a few questions, joking a little and then asking for a kiss... B)

 

I'm not saying that there isn't a lot of racism still rampant in our world but I think that it was a little more acceptable in the older generations. Populations were a lot more segregated 40 or 50 years ago. I imagine Prince Philip also has had a fairly pampered life is which he had to answer to very few people. He probably never really learned that racism is wrong.

I do however agree with apathetic empaths statement about british cooking..hehe.

 

British men *can* cook. I make the most amazing pasta sauce. I tend to mess up on the actual pasta, though.

 

I reckon apathetic empath, don't you watch 'olivers twist', 'the naked chef' or 'olivers cooking adventures'? Theres three perfectly good cooking shows based around brittish men... or man (singular)... well Alavin makes it men (plural) then.

 

@Stu - But did these English men go outside of England to learn to cook, or is there an English equvalent of the Sorbonne somewhere in Dorset?

I think a few of the comments are cold, but I'm not a prince of anywhere. Phillip comes across as a chilly b*stard most of the time.

 

Jamie is supposedly self taught from working in his fathers pub, in Essex.

I don't think Gordon Ramsey went abroad to learn either, ditto with Delia Smith.

 

Hey - London was voted food capital of the world recently (I can't remember by who, though, but it wasn't anyone British based). Suffice to say the French weren't happy. And then we won the Olympics...

[Prince Philip] Take that, you beret-wearing, nymphomaniac garlic munchers! [/Prince Philip]

 

Its strange that he never said anything about the Irish, considering that Lord Mount Batten was killed by locals... But even if he did say something derogatory, I don't think anyone would take offense, as stated above "The guy is a legand"!