Where Is the Prince Harry Wearing a Nazi Uniform Thread?

I am in New MEXICO right now. It is beautiful. There are a lot of geese. I spent most of the day unpacking my parents' crap but wednesday I may go skiing. Word.

San Antonio looked really nice from the freeway. The diner I ate at in Roswell was pretty good plus the two waitresses were pretty cute. I am thirsty.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7822574.stm

Prince Harry has apologised for using offensive language to describe a member of his army platoon.

The News of the World said it had a video of the army lieutenant calling a colleague a "Paki" while pretending to make a phonecall to the Queen.

A statement from St James's Palace said he did so three years ago as a nickname about a friend and without any malice.

The prince had to apologise in 2005 for wearing a swastika armband to a party, which offended many Jewish people.

The video reportedly shows Harry while still an officer cadet at Sandhurst military academy.

It was filmed in front of other cadets at an airport departure lounge as they waited for a flight to Cyprus to go on manoeuvres.

The newspaper said the prince had called the soldier "our little Paki friend".

'Extremely sorry'

In a separate incident, Prince Harry is heard calling another officer cadet a "raghead", the News of the World said.

During the faked call to the Queen, as the Commander in Chief of the British Army, the Prince says, "Granny I've got to go, send my love to the Corgis and Grandpa."

He finishes saying: "I've got to go, got to go, bye. God Save You ... yeah, that's great."

Bullying and racism are not endemic in the Armed Forces
MOD spokeswoman

A statement from St James's Palace said: "Prince Harry fully understands how offensive this term can be, and is extremely sorry for any offence his words might cause.

"However, on this occasion three years ago, Prince Harry used the term without any malice and as a nickname about a highly popular member of his platoon.

"There is no question that Prince Harry was in any way seeking to insult his friend."

The statement continued: "Prince Harry used the term 'raghead' to mean Taleban or Iraqi insurgent."

'Disturbing allegations'

A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defence said: "Neither the Army nor the Armed Forces tolerates inappropriate behaviour in any shape or form.

"The Army takes all allegations of inappropriate behaviour very seriously and all substantive allegations are investigated.

"We are not aware of any complaint having been made by the individual. Bullying and racism are not endemic in the Armed Forces."

A spokeswoman for the Equality and Human Rights Commission said: "These appear to be disturbing allegations and we will be asking the MoD to see the evidence, share that evidence with us and their plans for dealing with it.

"We will then consider what further action might be necessary."

During the faked call to the Queen, as the Commander in Chief of the British Army, the Prince says, "Granny I've got to go, send my love to the Corgis and Grandpa."

He finishes saying: "I've got to go, got to go, bye. God Save You ... yeah, that's great."

Kind of puts Russell Brand's phone call to Andrew Sachs into perspective

What is with that faked phone call? Was Prince Harry high?
haha, "God save you ... "

For goodness sake, this was a comment amongst friends in 2005!
It is reported that the gentleman from Pakistan was not offended by the nickname. If the nickname is accepted by the Pakistan community, perhaps Prince Harry is more accepted than he is given credit for!
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- m b, dorset, 10/1/2009 23:35

Brit is short for British, Scot for Scottish.
Political correctness gone mad as usual. Last one leaving Britain, please turn the light out! Glad I left years ago.
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- Sid, turks & Caicos Islands, 10/1/2009 22:33

i wish he had said blow the light out

One more...

im sick of reading all this non-sense PC twoddle, we have bigger things to worry about - like how to get rid of this sitting duck government.
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- adam, leeds, 10/1/2009 23:15

Sitting duck?

It's just what all these pricks have been waiting for, an excuse to equate stupid racism to PC-ness. If calling someone a 'Paki' is not offensive, everything else is acceptable. Looking forward to re-runs of It Ain't Half Hot, Mum and the return of the Black and White Minstrels.

The Sun's report also contains this fine quote:

One member said: “Charles, his boys and other members, have called this chap Sooty because it is his nickname and he’s perfectly compatible with it.

“They’re no more racists than I am. I use the word to address this chap when I see him too.”

"perfectly compatible"

If the racist epithet fits.

lol Jane Moore

5 quid says Charlie's polo club nickname is "Tampax".

Do you agree with Jane? Have your say below.

YES I THINK HARRY SHOULD TAKE A BULLET

They were merely a misguided attempt to appear one of the lads in the hothouse confines of the Armed Forces — in the same, off-the-cuff way a black soldier might teasingly refer to “my honky friend”.

Out of interest, has anyone on this thread ever been called a honky? I never have, and I work in a hothouse atmosphere for sure.

We lived next door to Rudolph Walker in the 1970s so I got called honky a lot then.

They were merely a misguided attempt to appear one of the lads in the hothouse confines of Armed Forces — in the same, off-the-cuff way Andy Williams might teasingly refer to “my huckleberry friend”.

Charles, his boys and other members, have called this chap Sooty because it is his nickname

God, I wish I'd thought of that logic when I was at school. "No, miss, we were calling you Fatty Bollocks because it's your nickname, see?"

miss, we were calling you Fatty Bollocks

Shurely shome mishtake?

No, we really did have a female teacher whose nickname was Fatty Bollocks. God, it sounds so quaint now. LOL minor-private-school poshos.

it was a simpler time

a time when you could call your servant sooty without it being all over the yellow press

Other great teacher nicknames: Thropper, Mr Smell, Pitt, Cheesecake, Peanut. God. (That last one was an exasperated interjection, not a nickname.)

could have been worse.

could have called him Sweep!

Thinking about this, I'm beginning to wonder now if I ever went to school at all; if my entire education wasn't actually a sub-par invention of Anthony Buckeridge.

These are the Real Issues that Marcello was banging on about!

Sort of predictable and boring but this was in the Independent:

Lady Sara Apsley waded into the latest row today and urged against "royal- bashing".

Lady Apsley, who hosts Cirencester Polo Club on 3,000 acres at Cirencester Park, told the Gloucestershire Echo she too had called Mr Dhillon "Sooty" for years.

She said: "Sooty is a fantastic friend of ours and he couldn't care less about his nickname.

"We all have enormous respect and liking for him. He's comfortable in his own skin and certainly doesn't have a chip on his shoulder.

"I imagine there are millions of people across the world called names with racial intonations but they're not meant maliciously.

"I'm sick and tired of all this. Being PC has got so ridiculous - you can't say anything now. Where is our freedom of speech?"

Lady Apsley, the daughter of Lord Bathurst, who runs a farming business on the 15,000-acre Cirencester Park estate, also leapt to the Prince's defence.

She said: "We should really focus on who released that private home video which started all of this - it's an invasion of privacy.

"Harry is one of the kindest, loveliest, most fun and relaxed young gentlemen I've had the pleasure to know."

Tagged: relaxed, fun, gentleman, pleasure

home video

a time when you could call your servant sooty without it being all over the yellow press

a time when you could kick a half-caste in the street

Where is our freedom of speech?

Good point. You overprivileged, intellectual-lightweight fucking cunt.

its about time we got rid of these parasitic shits isn't it.

The way that story's worded (ie going in on the name) ... am I meant to know who this fucking woman even is?

nevermind who she is, check out how much land she owns! and how much daddy owns!

I'm surprised there isn't a serf count too.

Charlie don't serf

thread needs a bobby gillespie impersonation, urgently

Welcome to the late entry of "politics of envy" on this thread.

I'm just off to my lawyers to sue everyone who called me a greasy wop at school. I could probably buy Zavvi with the proceeds!

You were racially abused therefore racial abuse is ok? Don't follow the logic.

Being PC has got so ridiculous - you can't say anything now

The first part of this sentence I have heard this for the last 15 years at least. The second part for about twice as long, and I suspect if I could be bothered I could find someone in Ancient Greece complaining saying it. What a boon it was for racists and homophobes to be able to add the first part to the second part and thus excuse whatever shit they have just spewed forth.

What people say in private is their own business and nobody else's.

I just don't agree. What is private? Certainly Charles doesn't only call his friend "Sooty" in private. If I'm at a party and someone says something racist, I'm going to tackle them about it, sorry, I don't care if it's "private". Harry clearly said this within earshot of non-"Pakis" and got a good giggle out of it no doubt.

I think MC's saying it's ok to be racist if you didn't intend anyone to find out.

(apart from other racists, obv. since they're the ones you're trying to amuse)

How much of a racist does it make you if you say something racist in a scrap? I mean, I don't know how much people tend to chat while they're punching and being punched, but if they do they'd be likely to use any characteristic of the other person as bizarre grounds for abuse I reckon. I could imagine saying "Take that, ya ginger bum", or "You're going down, fatso", or "Leave me alone, ya cock-eyed whore", and I don't have anything against these things.
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It would be nice if the tabloids would be as assiduous in tracking down casual racism in places like Barking, Blackburn and Bolton, just to stick to the "B"s. Or indeed the far more perfidious endemic racism which still exists in most workplaces.

But then that wouldn't be as good a story as having an easy go at high profile figures.

Welcome to the late entry of "politics of envy" on this thread

Envy? Not at all. Class-informed fucking loathing, absolutely.

grimly OTM!

marcello, why are you so royalist? are you Harry in disguise?

It would be nice if the tabloids would be as assiduous in tracking down casual racism in places like Barking, Blackburn and Bolton, just to stick to the "B"s. Or indeed the far more perfidious endemic racism which still exists in most workplaces

This is absolutely fucking OTM, though, yes -- as I said above, it'd be nice if the Harry furore was followed up simply with an investigation of wider racism within the army. Maybe that'll still happen, but I very much doubt it.

I certainly don't recall the tabloids making anything like this fuss over the Ali Dizaei and Tarique Ghaffur cases, both of which have far deeper implications.

Well, of course not. And you know exactly why that is!

On which note:

Yeah, actually listening to what he has to say is probably not to be recommended, but there's a fair chance that he could bump the issues up a notch or two in the media, y'know? Once he's head of state, like

Yes, you're right. Assuming mummy abdicates/dies before he loses his slight grip on reality completely, of course.

he has a grip on reality? Who knew...

http://gothamist.com/2009/01/14/baby_hitler_taken_from_parents.php

Where was the baby hitler birthday cake thred?

Fuck you, Carlin. Racism is not an either/or. People can care bout every single fucking issue you ant to name, and still think that people who call people 'pakis' are scum.

still lolling at "politics of envy"

you ant to name

Well there's Adam but then it gets a bit tricky.

Yeah, sorry about that Marcello, it was wrong to tell you to fuck off. I was mostly annoyed after having spent the evening in a bar with lots of people loudly using racist language, and nearly getting beaten up when I asked them to tone it down (NB: don't do this to drunk rugby players, they really don't like it). Also, I never usually refer to any people as 'scum' - rather it is a scummy thing to do. So yeah, sorry again.

^ political correctness gone mad

^^ political correctness gone feral

this thread is def showing green shoots of recovery

Only green shoots I'm seeing, is the government shooting it's green policies in the foot, he quipped