Prince Charles had a good idea

Charles can reach the right conclusions (organic farming) but for the wrong reasons (the "authenticity" thing)

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tmz.com/media/2007/07/0711_prince_charles_wenn.jpg

Charles can reach the right conclusions (organic farming) but for the wrong reasons (the "authenticity" thing)

-- robin carmody (robin carmody), Monday, December 16, 2002 5:39 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

qft

he likes architecture

more speeches about buildings and food

Happy Birthday Charlieboy!

Fawning over the old fart from the BBC particularly off-putting this morning.

The documentary was quite amusing...

What age is he? 60?

Yes, one year younger than the late Mitch Mitchell. Can't quite get my head around that.

more speeches about buildings and food

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 13 July 2007 14:24 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Heh.

What, no Three Degrees reference yet? Ah well...

um, the Threede Greees, umumum...
(still his official answer to any music-related queries)

60 years old and still gets treated like a little boy prince who'll probably get passed over when the time comes for your punk kid = SUX TO BE U

I actually find Charles to be the most tolerable member of the organisation, which is somewhat unsettling.

hey now phil hes your prince too

Definitely the most bearable and yet still one Duchy Original sandwich short of a picnic. I like his beer especially. Also Poundbury is not terrible.

Duchy Original bacon is good.

um, the Threede Greees, umumum...
(still his official answer to any music-related queries)

Actually, the elast music related utterance I ever came across from him had it that Tom Waits is a genius.

I wonder what in particular? I can't quite imagine him kicking back to The Black Rider.

little boy prince who'll probably get passed over when the time comes

I can't imagine that this would actually happen. He seems like he would cling on to the bitter end even if he's 80 (which is possible if his mum lives as long as his gran).

Too many "imagines".

Is this hell?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1425000/images/_1429357_party_atomic300.jpg

funny they keep saying on the news how ahead of his time he was w/ ecological green campaign charity whatever and how he was seen as bit nutty but not any more because he was right about to worry about environmental stuff blah blah meanwhile he still believes in homeopathy and has v weird and rubbish ideas about architect and probably 10000 other things. maybe when he turns 80 the news will be saying how right he was about alternative medicine since it has cured AIDS and noddy towns have made the police force obselete since crime no longer exists

eeww why do the Atomic girls all seem to think (fake) blonde + (fake) sunbrowned is h0t.. :(

Liz won Masterchef though, I'll give her props for that.

I like his beer especially.

Wait, what?

His Royal Heineken

He has an organic beer, right?

Yes. It's not bad.

i like this speech

http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/speechesandarticles/a_speech_by_hrh_the_prince_of_wales_at_the_foreign_press_ass_1982236630.html

has charles been reading heidegger

Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen.

brilliant!

He seems to get a bit confused by what he exactly means by Modernism.

If I read it right he seems to be rejecting some form of Modernism (and he cherry picks what he means by this) for trying to impose "order" while asking us to embrace the order imposed by something he calls the Nature because...ahem..."Biology now shows us that in all living things there is a natural tendency towards Harmony."...hmm.

i think hes trying to establish a difference btw the 'organic' order of nature and the artificially-imposed order of 'modernism'--fwiw i disagree w/ him

But what is this order of Nature of what he talks. Foxes killing chickens? Men killing foxes? The way rhododendrons kill everything around them so that they thrive?

I know I'm being flippant, but I can't help being suspicious of anyone who talks about capital N Nature.

He may be talking about foxes kicking a chicken in the street. If only there were no man made streets they might run free, fiery coated tails burning like Blakean tygers in the noonday sun three degrees umnum.

Also, what's up with modern architecture? In my day a classical column was either Doric or Ionic, not made of chrome!

Doric has had its day.

Little Doric.

If I read it right he seems to be rejecting some form of Modernism (and he cherry picks what he means by this) for trying to impose "order" while asking us to embrace the order imposed by something he calls the Nature because...ahem..."Biology now shows us that in all living things there is a natural tendency towards Harmony."...hmm.

I think he's talking about Gaia theory here - i.e. Earth systems being in some sort of self-regulating balance - but maybe being who he is, he's a little self-conscious about using that sort of terminology.

What is it about Dickens that inspires all this terrible panto acting whenever he's done on TV?

Difficulty of translating "picaresque" characters to film/ TV, unless you're David Lean, arguably.

he was initiated into the hermetic secrets by laurens van der post. many glimpses of that battiness show up in that speech.

If that's true, that's really amazing!

Little Doric

Prince William is fucking gorgeous!

Pity about the male pattern baldness though

http://virtualstoa.net/2015/03/27/buckingham-from-the-palace-to-the-parliamentary-constituency/

King Charles

Hmm.. gonna take a while to get used to

I always want to add "Spaniel" to the end.

haha

yeah, it kinda sounds like a shaggy pony breed from an island off of Newfoundland

He apparently could have called himself King Arthur, now that would have been cool.

hoping the lad lives up to the memory of Charles I

Imagine having to go around being the King, how embarrassing.

King Mordred

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVb4o29uypM

... if nothing else, a classic One Man Begins Clapping scene.

https://www.durvet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Spectra-KC3_004-15130.jpg

https://media.tatler.com/photos/6141eed94dfb3132b0d113fc/master/w_1600,c_limit/dpjh9e.jpg

what might have been... Queen Babs

Not a good idea, but within this interesting obit of an architect Charles funded (who died last month) there is the right wing version of a walkable city.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/25/leon-krier-obituary

fucking hell the Poundbury architect is dead, what a sad loser! I once worked on the rewire of the quite stunning Creswell Model Village that was built in 1895 for coal miners. One off paternal largesse projects like these just give you a cruel glimpse of what could have been achieved by liquidating these scumbags and going full communist.

Taking her to Poundbury just doesn’t have the same ring to it.