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Duke of Edinburgh appreciation thread
* 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."[5]
* He asked an Indigenous Australian, "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".[6]
* 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?"
* Visiting San Francisco in 1983, after meeting then-mayor Dianne Feinstein and several female members of the city council, he remarked, "Aren't there any male officials?... This is a nanny city."
* 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."[5]
* He asked an Indigenous Australian, "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".[6]
* 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?"
* Visiting San Francisco in 1983, after meeting then-mayor Dianne Feinstein and several female members of the city council, he remarked, "Aren't there any male officials?... This is a nanny city."
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