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.
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?
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.
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!
Btw, it would seem (according to Reuters) that Daddy is in fact going to make Harry visit Auschwitz to make up for this.
Horrors of homophones ping.
If I remember correctly, Rommel hated Hitler.
It was a costume for cripes sake. Only Jews can dare make a joke using the swastika? Mel Brooks made millions doing it. Hogans Heroes was on TV for years making a lot of people very rich joking it up with Nazis. Hollywood movie makers have made millions and millions of dollars exploiting the holocaust and no one gives a damn. Spielberg gave a small percentage of his profits to the holocaust museum etc. but still makes millions from royalties from DVD sales. Harry wears a stupid arm band as a prop and everyone gets their over sensitive panties in a wad. It absolutely offends me that anyone is offended.
IIRC, the uniforms for all branches of the German military (wehrmacht, luftwaffe, and kriegsmarine) did *not* have the swastika armband (which I think was reserved for civilian party rallies and SA thugs).
If this is the case, then Harry was needlessly embellishing his already stupid choice of a costume.
He already apologized. He is probably embaressed. We need to move on.
Most of the Royals are useless twits anyway. The Monarchy will be gone within a generation and England will become just like any other Eurofascist country.
Pop quiz, where did the swastika come from? And before Germany what country used it on it's medals?
If it is true that his father likes to dress up in full mufti and hop around the castle like Larry of Arabia....
You can see where Harry gets it from...
Good thing he didn't do that or put on a grass skirt...paint himself black and put a bone in his nose...and tried to fry up anyone dressed as a missionary...
imo
It's a costume party.
I'd give him license to dress up how he likes.
A muslim terrorist, a KKK in a white sheet, or even a lawyer.
People dress up in humorous, absurd, or controversial ways at a costume party. It doesn't entail advocating anything in particular.
How anyone can pretend it does is beyond me.
It's a costume party!
Dear humorless people of England, get a bloody life.
First of all, when someone puts if in an apology it's not an apology. Secondly, maybe der fuhrer (that was a good catch by another poster on the homophone) over this will cause discussion about the period especially with the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz coming up--sounds like some of the Brits (and I'm sure Americans too) need a little education in this department.