Our next Monarch on the Enlightenment (he seems to be against it...)

[LeftishBrit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248347/Prince-Charles-unbelievable-abuse-faces-views.html

This was a few months ago, but I only just came across it. Fortunately, our royals have no real power these days. But what an embarrassment to the nation he is/will be.

Incidentally, I managed at first to read 'bullish speech' as 'bullshit speech'. My misreading was doubtless closer to the truth than the real version!

[Odin2005]

1. Charles is an embarassment to thew UK.

[mr blur]

2. The guy is a complete waste of oxygen.

[onager]

3. He mentioned one testable hypothesis in that speech...

He also said, as he has done previously in the past, that he hoped his efforts would be appreciated after he was dead.

No problem, Charlie. Just as we humbly appreciate the approach to world peace pursued by your ancestor, Kaiser Wilhelm II.

[SheilaT]

6. Kaiser Whilhelm II

is not an ancestor to Charles. Just thought you'd like to know.

Wilhelm was a grandson of Queen Victoria. Charles is a great-great-great grandson. They are distant uncle and nephew.

[onager]

7. Thanks! Should have said "distant relative."

I was thinking of that rare flash of humor from Kaiser Wilhelm in 1914. When he said he would be attending a Shakespeare play - "The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha."

[frogmarch]

4. Charles is very supportive of

environmental issues. The quotes given in the article are misleading.

My marine biologist brother-in-law, Gregory Stone, thinks highly of Charles and his support of ecological programs.

Video:

http://suprememastertv.com/sos-global-warming/The-oceans-are-central-to-our-livelihoods-and-our-survival-on-the-planet.html

[LeftishBrit]

5. He is pro-environment, which is a good thing....

however, he is also pro-homeopathy, suspicious of modern science and the modern world generally, and a bit of an all-round idiot.

While the particular article was in a nasty tabloid, it was quoting him approvingly here; and he's said similar things elsewhere.

He is a lot less dangerous than that other upper-class twit in a high place, David Cameron; but he is still an embarrassment in most respects.

[Warpy]

8. He sounds perfect to me

because if there's one thing we in the workaday classes enjoy, it's looking down our more practical noses at the average upper class twit.

I always thought of him as decent, dim and deluded.

He's in no position to do any damage, just a celebrity by birth.

Don't be too embarrassed by him. After all, he's no George W. Stupid.

[onager]

9. That apple didn't fall far from the tree...

Some quotes from his dad, Prince Philip:

"I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing."

"When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife."

During a state visit to China in 1986, he famously told a group of British students: "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed".

To a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?"

"British women can't cook."

"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed." (during the 1981 recession)

"You are a woman, aren't you?" (in 1984, in Kenya, to a native woman who had presented him with a small gift)

"Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease." (in 1992 in Australia, when asked to stroke a Koala bear)

"You managed not to get eaten, then?" (in 1998, to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea)

"Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?" (speaking to Susan Edwards, who is blind, wheelchair bound and has a guide dog)