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Prince Philip Dies - mod warning in OP. Read it or get yourself threadbanned

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  • #92
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,049 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Gael23 wrote: »
    How does a funeral with full state honours work these days?

    He posthumously joins the IRA.


  • #93
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    partyguinness wrote: »
    Word emerging is that is it was autoerotic asphyxiation and found in a less than dignifying position.

    That's a bit inxssive


  • #94
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,061 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Gael23 wrote: »
    There won’t be any scheduled programming in BBC for the next week

    I'd expect BBC 2 to be back to normal tomorrow. Cash in the attic will return.


  • #95
    Cork Lass
    Registered Users Posts: 6,804 ✭✭✭Cork Lass


    Boris could have made more of an effort with his appearance when making his statement.


  • #96
    POBox19
    Registered Users Posts: 637 ✭✭✭POBox19


    From the Daily Mail:
    Duke of Edinburgh, who has died aged 99, was born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice
    His mother Princess Alice of Battenberg was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, meaning Philip was a distant relation of the British royal family
    Prince Philip was the youngest of five siblings and had four older sisters. Three of the four sisters married German aristocrats who became Nazis.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9270491/The-fascinating-tragic-story-women-shaped-Prince-Philip.html


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  • #97
    Eircom_Sucks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,193 ✭✭✭Eircom_Sucks


    must have left the defrost button on


  • #98
    NickNickleby
    Registered Users Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    So close to getting a letter from his wife

    Hahaha, absolutely brilliant.


  • #99
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    NickNickleby wrote: »
    Hahaha, absolutely brilliant.

    She’s fairly close to getting a letter from herself.


  • #100
    Delta2113
    Registered Users Posts: 2,659 ✭✭✭Delta2113


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Will this end the Loyalist protests?
    Will they begin the mourning process?
    Methinks not.

    - The other side could wind this up today big time with Celebrations etc.

    Dangerous weekend ahead.


  • #101
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Wonder will Boris ease restrictions for a big state funeral


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  • #102
    tdf7187
    Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    Down with all monarchies
    Enough with this useless diversion.
    The only good news is that Covid-19 will prevent a circus like funeral.
    That is all.


  • #103
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    tdf7187 wrote: »
    Down with all monarchies
    Enough with this useless diversion.
    The only good news is that Covid-19 will prevent a circus like funeral.
    That is all.

    Will it?, 32million vaccinated in UK


  • #104
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users Posts: 6,735 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    Delta2113 wrote: »
    - The other side could wind this up today big time with Celebrations etc.

    Dangerous weekend ahead.

    Why would they bother? I know that some of their behaviors can leave a bit to be desired, but they'd want to be complete neanderthals to go celebrating this. The political wings of whoever controls them would be advising the same.


  • #105
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 66,813 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    RIP Philip

    Will be joyous fun listening to our home grown simpering royalists talking about him in glowing terms and avoiding his racist and superiority gaffs.


  • #106
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    A real man and a proper husband. An alpha male to his children, a man that enjoyed the finer things in life and supporter his wife when it mattered. One of the most perfect humans imaginable. A role model to men.


  • #107
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭cml387


    robinph wrote: »
    I'd expect BBC 2 to be back to normal tomorrow. Cash in the attic will return.

    It better be back by Sunday for Line Of Duty


  • #108
    Northernlily
    Registered Users Posts: 2,573 ✭✭✭Northernlily


    I have a feeling Northern Ireland will be anarchy this weekend. So Boris and media outlets, do your job and pay it the attention it deserves.


  • #109
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,061 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    cml387 wrote: »
    It better be back by Sunday for Line Of Duty

    That might be unlikely.

    Expect various antique shows, house renovations and re runs of Only Fools and Horse's. New episodes of series will probably take a week off.


  • #110
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    RIP.


  • #111
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,441 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    It will be wall to wall Prince Phillip this weekend I suspect


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  • #112
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,160 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Northernlily wrote: »
    I have a feeling Northern Ireland will be anarchy this weekend. So Boris and media outlets, do your job and pay it the attention it deserves.
    So, you don't think this news will have any effect?


  • #113
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    A great man. RIP.


  • #114
    ThewhiteJesus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


    it's funny how he was liked in ireland because he came across as a shameless racist


  • #115
    lurleen lumpkin
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭lurleen lumpkin


    Poor Liz. Losing a husband and a cousin on the same day.


  • #116
    NickNickleby
    Registered Users Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    I simultaneously cringed and laughed at many of his gaffs.

    Anyway, whenever I saw his name in a headline, I was straight in to see what he'd done this time - and fair play , he never disappoints!

    I think there should be a sort of 'anti-woke-day' every 9th April. Prince Philip Day.


  • #117
    alan partridge aha
    Registered Users Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    Rest in peace Prince Philip, 99 is a great age.


  • #118
    NickNickleby
    Registered Users Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    ThewhiteJesus wrote: »
    it's funny how he was liked in ireland because he came across as a shameless racist

    Well, I think he was liked because he just refused to conform. Of course, I'll concede that's a privilege of rank.


  • #119
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Awww I always liked Phillip. He never discriminated just abused everyone :D

    RIP


  • #120
    is_that_so
    Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    ThewhiteJesus wrote: »
    it's funny how he was liked in ireland because he came across as a shameless racist
    But was he or was he just extremely prone to some very old-fashioned non-PC ways of saying things?


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  • #121
    Neyite
    Administrators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,947 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Neyite


    I remember reading that he didn't want a big funeral. They aren't typically the norm for royals, but the sovereign gets a state funeral. I don't recall Margaret having one for example. Diana wasn't supposed to get a ceremonial funeral either but the palace buckled under public pressure and gave her the same large send off that the Queen mother planned for her own funeral.


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