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About time at 96. He was visiting Nunhead as Patron of Youth Clubs several years ago. The people of Nunhead stood motionless, stony faced and silent, no flags waving or anything, just staring. He got out of his car and said "Its like night of the living dead isn't it?" .....
A great man in my opinion. I love the way he has stayed true to the values he grew up with - duty, loyalty, honesty, humour and never whining or complaining - reminds me of Lord whatsit in the Picture of Dorian Grey, who 'never said a right thing and never did a wrong one.' After his 70-ish years of service to this country it would be extraordinarily small-minded to nitpick. Modern men seem rather floppy and narcissistic by comparison.

I think I will depart now.


It is quote shocking how uninspired the responses are these days. Y'all need to get out more, drink too much, stay up all night, get in that car and drive without a satnav and see where you end up. Even the comfy womb of the echo chamber becomes a prison after a time, when all you have to read is a Jack Reacher novel.


Good luck

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> I presume days of active service in the Navy

> during the war don't count s work days....tedious

> trolling



Well said, he seems a lovely genuine person, who has served his country well. I love his sense of humour and I hope we haven't seen the last of his one liners.

Borky Wrote:

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> I think I will depart now.

>

> It is quote shocking how uninspired the responses

> are these days.


"These days"? You've only been on here since last September! Departing for good? Hope so.


Re the actual point, I am the total opposite of a monarchist, nor do I find Prince Philip's supposedly hilarious remarks anything but damned rude. However there is no denying that he served gallantly throughout WWII in some of its most dangerous naval arenas and continued to serve as a naval officer right up until the Queen's accession. Your assertion that he'd never done a day's work was therefore clearly utter tosh, then when someone posted a link proving you wrong you tried to denigrate the source, then whined about "political discussion" (how was this thread even a political discussion?) becoming binary, then started to chuck out random insults and finally flounced off trying to characterise yourself as a big bad webel. You've made rather an arse of yourself, I fear.

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