Prince Philip

How many hours did he have to wait on a trolley in the corridor i wonder

None. King Edward 7th is a private hospital.

He is 99yrs old, 100 in June, he served in the navy during WW2, just so that you peter g could have the freedom to make a snidey comment about an owd mon.

TTS So did my grandad but he got no preferential treatment Stop crawling. Royalty don't think Jack Shit of you.

I will have yoo know, that yon Queen 'looked' at me when she was arriving to open the The Three Sisters in 1969

Well blow me down i have to disagree with you tommy about the LEECH philip to say he served in WW2 is putting it very loosely, I am fed up to the back teeth with these rubbish comments about him (( oh he 's 99 ) you know well one thing i am positive over is that if my father had been waited on hand and foot ,had pyjammas put on for him toothpaste put on his brush i am dead sure my father would have reached 99 yrs old NO instead he died age 64 with 100% pit disease after working down the mines since he left scoool at 13 yrs old so i will not apologise for my views on this corrupt royal filchers the SOONER WE GET RID OF THE LOT OF THEM THE BETTER ALSO I BET YOU WET YOURSELF WHEN THE OWD BIDDY LOOKED AT YOU TOMMY ! NOT BAD HEY 99 YRS OLD AND NOT DONE A DAYS WORK NICE JOB EH UP THE REPUBLIC !!!!!

Regardless of all this, if any one of us had the money or the insurrance we would go private as well, I know I would

Well said GB also Berylh if you had the money you would probably have had to earn it unlike those spoiled brats from Buckingham Palace.

Bunch of parasites

I have had private health insurance since the late 1960s. I Have explained before on these boards that it came about as part of my late husbands pay package, it was a family cover. My son used it once for removal of an ingrowing toe nail. He became exempt at 21. I have used it over a period of a few months for a small back problem in th 1970s. During my husbands terminal illnes it gave superbservice. Hovever now that I have had my 80th birthday I am obliged to contribute monthly, I will do so willingly.
Another thing is health insurance people are accused of jumping the queue, are we not shortening the queue.
Forgot to say some payment was taken from his works pension contributions during his working life.

If you think him serving in WW2 is putting it very loosely, I would suggest you look up his WWII Campaign medals and the reasons for him having them. Then compare them to your own.

Naval ranks and appointments

1940 – 1941: Midshipman, HMS Ramillies, HMS Valiant
1941 – 16 July 1942: Sub-Lieutenant, HMS Wallace
16 July 1942 – October 1942: Lieutenant, HMS Wallace
October 1942 – 15 August 1950: First Lieutenant, HMS Wallace, HMS Whelp, HMS Chequers
15 August 1950 – 2 February 1952: Lieutenant Commander, HMS Chequers, HMS Magpie
2 February 1952 – 15 January 1953: Commander, HMS Magpie
15 January 1953 – : Admiral of the Fleet, RN

I would say that was quite a lot to give to this country wouldn't you?

Philip on active service

Golden Bear

With an attitude like yours, yoo are not going to get a knighthood, like Sir Tom did

Prince Philip a leech?

I see the moaners are out again!

It is tradition the high ranking members of the royal family join the armed forces at some point, even the queen did a bit during WW2 and I think its true to say that Phil has given more for this country in terms of military service than any other royal in modern history.

Obviously not an important consideration for some........ most of whom will have done sweet FA!!!

tsk tsk tsk.

If Monarchy were to be abolished and we were to have something like a president as head of state I don't think it would cost the taxpayer less. A president would be afforded all the same rights and privileges, palaces country homes etc. Then there is the ongoing security for the family. After leaving office security will still be needed for his/her family until death. The next and next president and so on the same. Think young presidents living for decades, could be twenty families requiring security wherever they went. They certainly won't be going back to a semi. This is only one aspect of changing the head of state.

Anne, I totally agree with you, plus I think the Royal Family generate income into the country by tourism and touring the UK and the rest of the world.
Wills and Kate are family people, so a lot of folk can relate to them.

I think the top royal family do a good job but where does the pecking order stop.Plenty lower royals claim they stand on their own feet but have been given a good push up the ladder due t their royal connection,time to trim them back.

John Prescott ran the royal family down for all his political life until he was offered a life peerage.Did he turn it down.Did he hell and he blamed his wife saying she always wanted to be a lady

He also said “ I can continue the fight to have it abolished more efficiently from the inside” I don’t suppose the £300 a day plus expenses influenced his opinion.

Broady I understand your connection with Wigan but you now live in Canada,it has now very little do do with you how we live in this country. Sort your own county out before you criticise other people

The guy is a star - here's some one liners

1. "British women can't cook" (in Britain in 1966).

2. "What do you gargle with, pebbles?" (speaking to singer Tom Jones after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance).

3. "I declare this thing open, whatever it is." (on a visit to Canada in 1969).

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

5. "If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." (at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting).

6. "It looks like a tart's bedroom." (on seeing plans for the Duke and Duchess of York's house at Sunninghill Park in 1988)

7. "Yak, yak, yak; come on get a move on." (shouted from the deck of Britannia in Belize in 1994 to the Queen who was chatting to her hosts on the quayside).

8. "We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'Are you all right? Are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?' You just got on with it." (about the Second World War commenting on modern stress counselling for servicemen in 1995).

9. "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?" (to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, during a 1995 walkabout).

13. "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." (to young deaf people in Cardiff, in 1999, referring to a school's steel band).

14. "They must be out of their minds." (in the Solomon Islands, in 1982, when he was told that the annual population growth was 5%).

15. "You are a woman, aren't you?"(In Kenya, in 1984, after accepting a small gift from a local woman).

16. "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed." (to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit).

17. "Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world." (in Thailand, in 1991, after accepting a conservation award).

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

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

20. "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands in 1994).

21. "You managed not to get eaten, then?" (suggesting to a student in 1998 who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea that tribes there were still cannibals).

22. In Germany, in 1997, he welcomed German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at a trade fair as "Reichskanzler" - the last German leader who used the title was Adolf Hitler.

23. "You're too fat to be an astronaut." (to 13-year-old Andrew Adams who told Philip he wanted to go into space. Salford, 2001).

24. "I wish he'd turn the microphone off." (muttered at the Royal Variety Performance as he watched Sir Elton John perform, 2001).

The list goes on ---

I hope he gets well, we'll miss his gags !!!!

retep,
When Prescott was elevated to the Lords I was a resident of the UK. By the way I will comment as I see fit. Did you see all the critics after Trump on here recently?? I doubt if anyone of those lives in the USA but that didn't stop them commenting. Maybe you did.

Keep your politics in Canada

When I am on a Canadian web site I discuss Canada. On here I discuss what is being said about England. I believe the thread was about Price Philip whose wife has quite a connection with Canada would you believe. I suggest you contact the owner of WW if ex pats shouldn't comment.

If the point made about Prince Philips exemplary naval career during the war and his achievements after is again "putting it very loosely" it is not only an insult to him but every sailor, soldier and airman/woman who wore the uniform during those dark days.

You are in no way obliged to remain in this country if our Royal family abhors that much. I make no apology for my comments either.

Our Royal family is envied by most of the World.

Broady

Like most other WW members I welcome your contribution to the message boards.
To some it’s not really the fact that you live in Canada but that your opinions differ from theirs.

Good luck to him and hope he recovers soon.

Don't worry fossil , their benign all up with him

hahahaha@retep

Thanks for those Gasmon, there are some crackers in there!

Those Dook of Edinburgh comments are brilliant

OH TOMMY I am gutted that i might miss out on a knighthood i just dont know how i will cope without it . I do think PETER G and i may just carry on being people ..

Golden Bear

Well it is up too yoo, but don't come skrikin to me, when yoo find out that they are not going to erect a statue in your honour

So he was born in 1922 Joined the navy age 18, Retired when he got married aged 31 Not done a tap since and he got away with it Not bad is it

He has done a lot more than celebrities who get paid a fortune, eg kicking a ball for 3 million quid a year.

Broady has every right to voice his opinions on WW as does anyone else whether they live in Platt Waz or Timbuctoo. What is not acceptable is small minded people who think they can dictate who can or cannot voice their opinion.

Broady, do carry on as I like many others welcome your opinions and input on here.

Agree Terry I know Bill & he lived in Abram for many years,very nice person who doesn't suffer fools lightly

So Terry everyone can have an opinion except me

But its not what you say, its who says it!!!

Applauded and supported......or castigated and demonised, it all depends on your face and if it fits

That`s how it works in here........right Boardy? Terry?

retep,
I have no problem with you voicing your opinion. It is you saying I should not comment that irked me. I worked forty years in the UK and carry a British Passport. I have lots of family in the UK and visit as often as COVID allows us. I still wear my Wigan Rugby shirt with pride.

I can see the pothole filler has surfaced but, Allah be praised, I cannot see his comments.

Case closed your honour

my dad was on escort duty ,it was very difficult onboard ship under aerial attack,he once said,one well placed bomb and we dont need wings to get into heaven if the magazine went up. leave the old boy alone,he did he's bit.

Posted by: Stardelta (7968)

But its not what you say, its who says it!!!

very true, sd.

retep, you are spot on, there is only "some people" that can have an opinion, others get attacked when they voice their opinion.

"So Terry everyone can have an opinion except me"

Opinions are always welcomed, dictating who can or who can't post on WW because they are not in Wigan is not acceptable or wanted.

Opinions are always welcomed

really, it depends on who's posting their opinion.

Is that your opinion, sniveler?

So what happens if you don't agree?

Put your big boy pants on & grow up you soft melt

NanaJ His mam was still breast feeding him through the school gate age 15.

Is that your opinion, sniveler?

"Order! Order!"

If you say so Terry in your opinion.

"Order! Order!"

I'll have half!

Oh and a milk stout for retep, he seems a bit shaky.

“ soft melt”. A long time since I heard that phrase. Very appropriate comment though.

Posted by: nanajacqui (3544) View nanajacqui's page

Put your big boy pants on & grow up you soft melt

Made me laugh nanaquci. I still use that phrase sometimes.
My mother used it on many occasions, usually to the lads in our family

Doesn't take them long, again I ask,

So what happens if you don't agree?

DO you start getting nasty and personal with folk

Why not try answering the age old question about you being booted off here so often rather than asking questions?

He's just like Jimmy Savile avoiding answers when asked. He had a lot to hide too.

lectriclegs asked you a question you've still not answered

And I've asked you, and your cronies, questions before about providing proof about me bullying women, being nasty, etc, and none of you replied with proof.

basil brush (16055)

nice to leccys got over his roasting


lectriclegs (3907)

What roasting would that be,then, Walshy?

Answer him he needs to know if you've imagined it

read above,

You read above

I can back up my comment

can you back up any of yours

Go on then, Walshy, back it up.

did you enjoy your break?

"And I've asked you, and your cronies, questions before about providing proof about me bullying women, being nasty, etc, and none of you replied with proof."
Name-calling is one of the most damaging and painful types of bullying. It leaves victims with negative messages about who they are burned into their memories.

Boardy
Nasty Nana
Backtrack and the rest.

Proof before your very eyes.

I'm traumatised due to you.

they are not nasty comments, especially compared to yours, cry baby

"Name-calling is one of the most damaging and painful types of bullying. "

That's what you do...you are a bully.

And an illiterate uneducated one at that.

so what do you call someone, whos willing a visit or attacks "some people" every time they come on

^^^^^^^^^^
I rest my case.

nice to see your back.....tagging along again.

You can see my back?

How strange.

We can't all be wrong. Your name calling to me is no threat at all, but females come on, that's the most cowardly and lowlife thing.

boardy = boring

nasty nana = posting personal information about someone

backtrack jathbee = because she got lots of people excited because she implied she was going to leave, then BACKTRACKED.

Nothing nasty, sick or personal about them comments, unlike yours.

It's bullying.

I'll repeat myself again & again.........I said I knew you several times.....you said you don't know me...........I said I did.........you said PROVE IT.........so I did & told you & anyone else that was interested where you lived......I couldn't prove it any other way.So let it drop you soft melt !!

Name-calling is one of the most damaging and painful types of bullying.

Can anyone explain please just how is alright for someone to travel 250 or 500 miles round trip to visit their father in hospital?????
I HAD a friend of mine who's dad was in WIGAN INFIRMARY and was in his later stage of living , but his son was refused a visit , sadly my friends father died ,then he was contacted and told " HE COULD COME AND SEE HIM"" How bloody heartless and cruel was that? And yet the other day a royal pratt was allowed to visit his dad , WHY?WHY? Is not the case of one LAW for one and another LAW for us mere mortals ....I was devasted to hear from my mate about his predicament seeing him lately i believe he has still not got over how he was not allowed to be with his dad just before he closed his eye's for the last time .... Before i published this i did ask him was it ok for me to do so he said yes .I know people will say this and that but i think it was very,very cruel.
STAY SAFE ALL .. G.B.

Soft melt.........you've been made to look a fool because of your obsession that I was someone else, even going on about it when the lad had passed away, disgraceful.

so what do you call being stalked, threatened and nasty comments aimed at you?

brush (16067)

boardy = boring

nasty nana = posting personal information about someone

backtrack jathbee = because she got lots of people excited because she implied she was going to leave, then BACKTRACKED.

Nothing nasty, sick or personal about them comments, unlike yours.

Please tell us who were the lots of people who got excited when jathbee said she was leaving,can you name them ???

GB, same with giving prisoners and illegal immigrants the jab before the vulnerable and care home workers.

You've not passed away,it's you who I know

You made a bigger fool of yourself by posting you glass collected at the Riverside some years ago then denied it when I showed you your own post.

nasty nana your obssed with me, leave me alone, thankfully I don't know you, nor want to.

Terry Tiny Tears, as I said before how do you know that was me????

I don't like liars

me neither, you've told a few in your time.

Tell me which ones please

Posted by: basil brush (16071)

I used to glass collect there late 70s, saw some sight's but happy days

Replied: 12th Jan 2011 at 18:34

LINK

Posted by: Tommy Two Stroke (6512)

I saw a little slap head in Lidle toneet, was that yoo Basil


Replied: 14th Nov 2019 at 22:11

Posted by: basil brush (16071)

Not me Tommy boy, still got my own hair and ducktail

Replied: 15th Nov 2019 at 08:35

LINK

Same name, same Man of the year award avatar...Who else could it be?

Maybe it was someone else posting, you and your cronies are always saying someone else is posting because the grammar is better

Oh in that case could someone be posting for me............you couldn't make this up !!

As far as I am aware there was only one other who got the the wrong end of the stick Baaaazil. And I can't remember who that was, so maybe you can enlighten us.

well, maybe you should think before posting, that way you won't get peoples hopes up.

Maybe you should have taken more notice in your English classes at school, wasn't comprehension part of it.
Or maybe your teacher just gave up on you.

Here comes Cagney & Lacey.

And walshy

if my partners posting...so am I, soft melt.

Please try to get something right.
Both Nanajacqui and myself are English through and through. Not some corny, pretend, American police officers.
You must watch some trashy television programmes
No wonder your comprehension skills are so bad.

well, learn how to post properly without building peoples hope up.

COMPREHENSION, COMPREHENSION, COMPREHENSION.
So, so sorry that your hopes were dashed. Not.

it's not nice having your hopes built up.

A Primary School we learned English Comprehension, and English Composition, Spelling and Grammar, and how to write, printing first, then joined up 'real writing' skills, and that was at a County Primary School in an old pit village.
At 11yrs of age in the last year of Primary School, we took the 11 plus and if you were clever you went to Grammar School, and if you were not so clever you went to a Secondary Modern School

Basil did not learn anything at school, because he was stood in the 'naughty corner' all day, for being nasty to girls, pulling their hair and kicking their shins

TTS I think you may have got the order of things wrong.
It was the girls who were kicking his shins and pulling his hair.

That's why he sits behind his keyboard and name calls the females here.
He's more to be pitied than laughed at. Oh!! I don't know though.

Worst Dunce in Pemberton School,and nearly eighty still can't spell or write properly,doesn't know what punctuation means it's a shame

That's why he sits behind his keyboard and name calls the females here.

I name call ALL people who are nasty.

Really!!!

You have done since you first joined when you were walshy,but you've got a lot worse in your old age,did you try knitting like angelwood suggested ?

yes.

where is your guardian angel, his he busy on tuther site?

Basil if you are serious about knitting, this a good book to start with.

Knitting for beginners

Angela I love your sense of humour

I'm being serious nanaj, it is a good book.

But he'll have to follow instructions ,oh well he could start with a bob cap with a pom pom on top that should be easy haha

I remember knitting one of those at school, it ended up being a tea cozy.

Cagney & lacey could do with that book, that way they'll stop stalking me.

Behave yourself, nobody is stalking anyone.

stop grovelling

I don't grovel to anyone, so stop trying to be smart.

it's embarrassing.

Starting a fight with AngelWood now are we Baaaazil.
And you have the nerve to call others nasty. Hypocrite.

Starting a fight with AngelWood now are we Baaaazil.
And you have the nerve to call others nasty. Hypocrite.

stop grovelling.

You are very limited in your vocabulary besides your comprehension.

You are very limited in your vocabulary besides your comprehension.

He must have been vaccinated with a gramophone needle as a pup from the way he rambles on.

I'm not rising to it Jathbee. You can't help some people.

have you been busy on tuther site, cry, baby?

Other site?

I see in todays rag that our future king William has stated !!! I want to assure the nation that my grandfather is OK "" the doctors he was told are just"" keeping an eye on him thats all ""if that story is true then again i ask
Why the hell did they allow charly boy to travel 200 miles to visit phil if what they say is they are just keeping an eye on the owd mon!!! or is it the case one law for the elite and another law for us the masses . i just wonder .

Ask Captain Tom's family about that. Are they the elite types you type of?

somethings never change sadly,eh walshy,still defending your right to annoy.

Such is life on WW, Baker Boy. He follows me around like a lost pup looking for my attention and the only way he knows how to get it is to annoy folk.

He follows me around like a lost pup looking for my attention and the only way he knows how to get it is to annoy folk.

Waayyyheyyy.......Terry has scored again

So what about you, Terry Tiny Tears, everytime I come on here your there trying to have a go.

I don't need to annoy folk to get your attention.

Hello Gawpers.

You following me around now Softmelta?

Can't help yourselves you two can you.