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Maplewoody
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Username: Maplewoody
Post Number: 887
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 8:52 pm: | 
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Did anyone see this story?
Prince Harry dressed in a German
military shirt and Nazi arm band at
a friends 22nd birthday party?
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Debby
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Username: Debby
Post Number: 1528
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 9:23 pm: |
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Incredible embarassment. If the Nazis had their way there wouldn't be an England or a Prince Harry.
Here's the link:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050113/wl_uk_afp/britainroyalshar ry_050113001749 |
Montagnard
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Username: Montagnard
Post Number: 1383
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 10:34 pm: |
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The British defeated the Nazis, with help from the Russians (after June of 1941 when their German ally turned against them) and the Americans (after December of 1941 when Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor finally silenced the isolationists).
Although there were enormous losses from German bombing, there was not the wholesale murder of civilians in Britain as there was in Russia or in occupied Europe where the Jews were specific targets of the Reich. The war is therefore perceived somewhat differently in Britain than it is here. Still, it was not the best judgement on the Prince's part to get dressed up as one of the country's former enemies, especially this one. |
themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 1371
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 11:31 pm: |
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Filthy, the lot of them. The Queen Mother supported apartheid with great fervor.
http://foi.missouri.edu/classdeclass/hitlersawduke.html |
Montagnard
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Username: Montagnard
Post Number: 1384
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 11:47 pm: |
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The wealthy in Britain were often pro-Hitler, just as they were in America (like Henry Ford or the Bush family, for example). |
Soda
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Username: Soda
Post Number: 2338
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 12:50 am: |
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LilLB
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Username: Lillb
Post Number: 312
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 8:40 am: |
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What a half-wit. I mean....how thick skulled do you have to be to think that this "costume" is in any way a good idea? He's twenty for cripes sake - he should have some sense by now. |
Southerner
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Username: Southerner
Post Number: 55
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 12:33 pm: |
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Was it in terrible taste. Absolutely. But give the guy a break, look at his life. His mom died as he entered his teenage years and I doubt his father invested the required time to raise a teenager. He made a mistake and will surely learn from it. |
Mark Fuhrman
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Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 1126
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 1:34 pm: |
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He's channeling his great great uncle. Next you know he will be trying to marry a divorced woman--oops, his dad already picked up on that part of the family legacy |
jjkatz
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Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 540
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 1:38 pm: |
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Harry's problem is that he's unbelievably wealthy, knows he'll never have to work a day in his life or lift a finger to do anything for himself, has been treated like he's somehow better than everyone else because he's royalty, has a father who mourned his mother's death for around 5 minutes before deciding it was OK to start making public appearances with his mistress, and has probably rarely (if ever) encountered anyone willing to take a hard stand with him and talk to him like he's a teenager as opposed to a prince. |
Bobkat
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 7222
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 1:56 pm: |
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I agree, horrible taste and a PR nightmere for the Royals. However, this is a 20 year old kid going to a costume party, not the revival of the National Socialist Party. |
Mark Fuhrman
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Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 1127
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 2:01 pm: |
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Good Ol' 'Arry. 'E's a right fun-lovin' chap:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3762200.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4170623.stm
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Soda
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Username: Soda
Post Number: 2345
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 3:16 pm: |
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cmontyburns
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Username: Cmontyburns
Post Number: 619
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 10:31 pm: |
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Still trying to find out where I can go on holiday for less than 10 pounds. |
John Davenport
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Username: Jjd
Post Number: 462
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 17, 2005 - 2:36 am: |
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Yes, terrible sense of humor and bad judgment. But I've known other Englishmen who despise all Germans to come to parties in such costumes (seen it with me own eyes, I 'ave). I cannot explain the British sense of humor, but it is prepared for harsher jokes than ours, is less politically correct, and likes to shock. Not that that excuses him. I also wonder how many Jewish people Prince Harry has ever known. Not many in his circles, probably. |
Debby
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Username: Debby
Post Number: 1550
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 17, 2005 - 7:23 am: |
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Great point John D. - you're right; there is definitely a harsher, more ironic side to their humor. |
Soda
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Username: Soda
Post Number: 2357
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 17, 2005 - 9:07 am: |
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Maybe Harry shoulda stuck with the Benny Hill material... |
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