The Royal Jerk

You should all go see Clint Eastwoods 'Gran Torino'. Brilliant movie, and the exchange between Eastwoods Character (a Pole) and his Barber (an Italian) will have you falling out of your chair!

 

The things with the gutter press is : "who can we harrass today to sell more junk?" On the other hand if nobody bought it , it wouldn't exist so there seems to be a popular demand for that kind of public lynching.

 

Looks like its "Attack the Royals" week. Now Charlie boy is in for some stick, tomorrow the Queen?

Pal Defends Charles In Race Row - Yahoo! News UK

 

AMEN Mate, and my sentiments exactly. All the press is doing, is making a Mountain out of a Molehill.

 

News on Prince Charles has been more low key than Harry.

 

It is also particularly rediculous when you look at it, Prince Charles is a member of a club at which a chap is referred to by a nickname which the chap in particular likes and feels no objection to. How on earth is this news? What next?

 

Sadly it seems that this particular type of journalism is on the rise. And the young people who get their skills in reading the news from Hello magazine isn't likely to rock the boat...

 

It's nothing else but voyeurism, there is amarket for it and some people will be ready to spend their money to buy these stories, so what's a private life compared to that?

 

Labour MP Keith Vaz is not a happy man and wants action, give us a break.

 

Why, did she do same? Bloody Romans, coming over here, killing our druids....could march hundreds of miles in a day...tremendous feet.

 

They cant, its inbread. Duke of Edninborough has done his service in this area....

The intial derogratory term is known in this country as a racist term, its not acceptable in the armed forces just as its not outside. As Stefan says its used though none the less by some in and out, in my view, its a racist term. To say otherwise is to close your eyes knowingly.

I'm more concerned with his standard of education if he thinks this has ever been acceptable. the majority in this island know what it is and what it refers to and therefor dont use it. Any defence of someone else using it just highlights it even further that the person using it either means what it means or he or she is so stupid that they have been hiding under a bushell for the last 30 or 40 years.

My best mate in RAF before I remustered was a cpl and an Asian...If anyone called him that word when I was with him he wouldnt have needed to smile politely, I'd have and others round us would most probably have just decked the guy who had said it in front of him.

 

Should this thread be re-titled: "The National Inquirer Strikes Again"?

 

Very well said Urqh, frankly though I think this says more about the nature of people in the forces in general than the royals. Frankly forcing personnel (officers included) to watch a half hour video on 'race and equality' every year isn't going to change their way of thinking, it's going to take a hell of a lot more to wipe out terms like this and so on.

 

And what about the a$$holes, sorry, "celebrities", who pay large sums in order to be featured in the magazine?