— Musings —04.09.2021 10:01 AM
RIP, you old codger
That’s him on the right. Only stamp issued featuring the two of them, says my friend David Akin.
— Musings —04.09.2021 10:01 AM
That’s him on the right. Only stamp issued featuring the two of them, says my friend David Akin.
There is also this one, which is quite striking.
https://images.postagestampguide.com/images/15688/queen-elizabeth-ii-prince-philip-canada-stamp.jpg
Dude had a good run.
He had the best quotes.
I will pay H.R.H. Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh the highest compliment I can think of: he did his Duty.
I met him in 2000 while doing public duties in London, a very nice person.
RIP to the Colonel-in-Chief of The RCR, Pro Patria!
As one might expect these days, there are already Tic-Tok videos being made of certain things Phillip said during his life that were politically incorrect. My daughters told me about the videos.
I asked them what else they knew about Phillip. Not much, other than he was the Queen’s husband. So that’s what society has become now – ignore someone’s entire 99 year life of service, so you can get 15 seconds of fame with a Tic-Tok video that shows how woke you are. Never mind whose name you ruin.
When woke-ness matters most, and society rewards it, that’s all you’ll get from people.
Steve,
Not really. What’s really at play is the constant dumbing down of society that has been on an increasing trajectory ever since the 1960s. With each passing generation, descendants become more fundamentally ignorant and intellectually provincial. That’s the s0-called modern mindset at work and I don’t see it reversing anytime soon.
From my memory, it goes something like this-“if you see a man open a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.”
Pipes,
I did that all the time in my grandmother’s day but after that, no woman would have anything to do with it.