Posted on 01/13/2005 8:24:36 PM PST by jb6
apologies mean nothing - they are just words to be uttered to appease the unwashed and unthinking masses.
Only actions have true meaning.
Oh, good grief. When I was a teenager, my friends and I used to think swastikas were cool too. We didn't understand what they meant. Harry's a young kid. Give him a break.
He's also a royal of England, a nation that was on the direct front line of the Nazi assault. Furthermore, you want the position of a Royal, well welcome to the world of responsability that comes with it.
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing
swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!
ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up!
DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!
DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that, eh? That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?
By the way, at 20, he is a legal adult.
It's not like he wore it because he sympathizes with the Nazis. It was a costume party. This is much too big a deal over very little.
His problem is that he's Royalty, so he's expected to act in a certain way.
Good grief it's been so long since I've seen that most excellent of comedies. Memmmooorieees.
20 years old is a young kid? At that age, he really ought to know better. I don't buy the excuse that he didn't understand the meaning of a swastika.
Somebody in the Palace screwed up in this gaffe. They're not properly monitoring the young Royal's activities.
"It was a poor choice of costume and I apologise."
IT'S A F***ING COSTUME! STFU!
Oh my gosh, the only other voice of reason I've read here on FR. Why doesn't everyone mind their own business and attend to their own costumes? Good grief, such a hullaballoo!
Btw, it would seem (according to Reuters) that Daddy is in fact going to make Harry visit Auschwitz to make up for this.
Still one of the best ever! This Harry thing shows the genetic problems with in-breeding, though.
There was a poll just a few weeks ago showing that a majority (fairly large I think) of 15-35yr olds in UK had never heard of Auschwitz.
You are correct. The poor people at the "level" of Harry are clueless, we have the same types here in the US ---!
He is in a position of privilege and must have had a proper education.
In light of that he should have had better sense.
Another clothing malfunction????
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