1976_Child Posted 26 May, 2011 Share Posted 26 May, 2011 (edited) No dog is better looking, or has a better personality than my Jake. Oh and he's a KC registered pedigree. feking Nazi. Kennel Club = SS. Kennel Clubbers would think nothing of sticking a pencil in a hound's hair and seeing if, upon vigorous shaking, it stays there. Kennel Clubbers are just faking breedist. You're the sort of owner who would happily - joyfully! - herd non-KC hounds into ghettos, load them onto cattle-carts and send them to houndshwitz. Edited 26 May, 2011 by 1976_Child Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintbletch Posted 26 May, 2011 Share Posted 26 May, 2011 Ha Ha, good story. To be fair you shouldn't have been nervous. Prince Phillip is sound as a pound. I know i'd get on really well with him because I say it like it is. I can just picture him with the mouse. That's exactly how most old people would be. I didn't and don't blame him for being the way he is. He lives in an un-real bubble so how could he relate to 'normal' people? But you'll not convince me that he's 'brilliant' or 'sound as a pound' Dune. After meeting Prince Philip I went and had a beer with my boss who had accompanied me to the castle. We had a couple and then noticed that on the TV in the bar was live coverage from the Ascot races. The Queen and Prince Philip were sitting in a horse-drawn carriage in full formal wear being taken to open the Ascot races. I reflected that I'd just spent an hour and a half with that man and now, no more than a couple of hours later, millions of people were watching him on TV. It was quite unreal. It made me reflect that there was no way this man could be normal. His entire life in public 'service' meant he had such a skewed view of what is 'normal' that he couldn't respect the concept that he and I were equals. I also realised that having met him, I was prepared to be subservient and hold him as more than an equal myself. I felt a little hypocritical if I'm honest. His wife's face is on our stamps and coinage FFS. Anyway, one final fact from the visit. As you may know Buckingham Palace is for show and the Queen and Prince Philip 'live' at Windsor castle. His private quarters there (which he doesn't share with the Queen - scandal!) were like something out of the 70s. Very old fashioned. Not in a good, centuries old sort of way. But the furniture looked like it came from the 70s. I remember that he had a really old TV and that standing 3"-4" in front of the screen on a stand was a massive magnifying glass the size of the TV screen itself. I've never seen such a thing before or since. But perhaps the most revealing thing was his study desk. I set the computer up on his desk which was quite large and ornate. All around the edge of it were pictures. It was covered in personal 'family' photographs - perhaps 30 of them. There were pictures of the grand kids at a theme park and diving into a swimming pool. I remember that there was a nice picture of Di on her own which I thought was odd given the alleged bad feeling between the two. She was laughing hysterically and putting a hand towards the person taking the photograph as if to stop them from taking it. All of the other major royals were shown off duty, captured in mainly humorous poses. It was odd to see pictures of this family that I had never seen in the press and without their usual control and public stiff upper lip. It was quite a privilege actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 26 May, 2011 Share Posted 26 May, 2011 I didn't and don't blame him for being the way he is. He lives in an un-real bubble so how could he relate to 'normal' people? But you'll not convince me that he's 'brilliant' or 'sound as a pound' Dune. After meeting Prince Philip I went and had a beer with my boss who had accompanied me to the castle. We had a couple and then noticed that on the TV in the bar was live coverage from the Ascot races. The Queen and Prince Philip were sitting in a horse-drawn carriage in full formal wear being taken to open the Ascot races. I reflected that I'd just spent an hour and a half with that man and now, no more than a couple of hours later, millions of people were watching him on TV. It was quite unreal. It made me reflect that there was no way this man could be normal. His entire life in public 'service' meant he had such a skewed view of what is 'normal' that he couldn't respect the concept that he and I were equals. I also realised that having met him, I was prepared to be subservient and hold him as more than an equal myself. I felt a little hypocritical if I'm honest. His wife's face is on our stamps and coinage FFS. Anyway, one final fact from the visit. As you may know Buckingham Palace is for show and the Queen and Prince Philip 'live' at Windsor castle. His private quarters there (which he doesn't share with the Queen - scandal!) were like something out of the 70s. Very old fashioned. Not in a good, centuries old sort of way. But the furniture looked like it came from the 70s. I remember that he had a really old TV and that standing 3"-4" in front of the screen on a stand was a massive magnifying glass the size of the TV screen itself. I've never seen such a thing before or since. But perhaps the most revealing thing was his study desk. I set the computer up on his desk which was quite large and ornate. All around the edge of it were pictures. It was covered in personal 'family' photographs - perhaps 30 of them. There were pictures of the grand kids at a theme park and diving into a swimming pool. I remember that there was a nice picture of Di on her own which I thought was odd given the alleged bad feeling between the two. She was laughing hysterically and putting a hand towards the person taking the photograph as if to stop them from taking it. All of the other major royals were shown off duty, captured in mainly humorous poses. It was odd to see pictures of this family that I had never seen in the press and without their usual control and public stiff upper lip. It was quite a privilege actually. I take it this all happened in the days before non-disclosure agreements....? ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintbletch Posted 26 May, 2011 Share Posted 26 May, 2011 Well Trousers, I tried to hire Max Clifford to get my 'scoop' into the Sunday papers for a few quid. But it turns out having a room with a TV magnifying glass wasn't titillating enough. ;-) Funnily enough, I have some dim and distant memory of my boss saying that he had to sign the official secrets act. Can that be right? Perhaps I'm remembering that wrongly, but he used to visit a number of the royals at their residences so perhaps he was under closer scrutiny. He always said that Princess Anne was the best of the lot. Very down to earth and would sit down with a mug of tea and chat with him as he was working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy_D Posted 26 May, 2011 Share Posted 26 May, 2011 'Prince Phillip at 90' was how this thread started, remember? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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