SYS Posted January 15, 2005 http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/01/12/harry-nazi050112.html LONDON - Prince Harry apologized wednesday night for wearing a Nazi's Soldier's uniform to a costume party Saturday, calling it "A poor choice in costume." I'm sure most people have heard about this. It has to be the funniest thing I've seen all year. So close to the holocaust rememberance day as well. I mean really, what did he expect to happen to him by wearing that outfit? Sure, John Cleese got away with it, but Prince Harry's no John Cleese. 0 Share this post Link to post
Quast Posted January 15, 2005 POTGIESSER said:I mean really, what did he expect Attention. and he got it 0 Share this post Link to post
Shaikoten Posted January 15, 2005 Quast said:Attention. and he got it I don't think the Royal Family has any shortage of attention. 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted January 15, 2005 He's just a clueless kid whose poor judgement is being used by cynical journalists to sell their shitty newspapers. IOW business as usual. 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomedAce Posted January 15, 2005 He seems to like shocking people. And he has certainly proved to be good at just that. 0 Share this post Link to post
Relica Religia Posted January 15, 2005 I know, who gives a damn. He was at a costume party, and Harry's already known to be a bit of a party animal, so this is just another overhyped piece of nothing. I still laugh at all the outrage in the international community this is causing. A few Jewish and German organizations are lapping it up and screaming like babies about it, and since it was a Nazi "uniform," it pretty much managed to make everyone in the world cry, or at least spout conspiracy theories about Nazis and the Royal Family.....I shake my head, but I chuckle at it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Udderdude Posted January 15, 2005 Nothing says 'party' like 61 million stiffs! http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/casualty.html 0 Share this post Link to post
Planky Posted January 15, 2005 You made me choke on my garlic bread :þ 0 Share this post Link to post
Ninja_of_DooM Posted January 15, 2005 Janderson said:Journalists are cockheads. 0 Share this post Link to post
dsm Posted January 15, 2005 I read a short column in my newspaper about it, then moved on. Didn't think it was worth my attention. 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted January 15, 2005 Grazza said:He's just a clueless kid... Indeed he is. And we've all been to a fancy dress party where someone goes as the comedy Nazi. Hell, I've done it myself. Every costume hirer has a few such costumes. Harry was born 40 years after the war ended - it has little impact on his life. But he isn't just any clueless kid. He's a clueless kid who is in line for the throne and represents the monarch of a country that was at war with the Nazis. A great many of whose population were killed, tortured or persecuted by the Nazis. His grandmother is going to be opening an exhibition about the Nazi holocaust very soon. It was poor judgement. He may be a clueless kid but he also has the job and the responsibility of making better decisions than that - whether he likes it or not. All that being said, I find it to be less his fault than those around him. He is just a 20 year-old clueless kid, but those around him are not. Where were his advisors, his aides? What was the store keeper thinking? What about the people accompanying him? Did none of them think to say - "hang on a minute sir"? Are you really telling me Harry and William went off down their local high street, hired a costume, put it on and wandered off to a party on their own without someone else seeing them before a journalist/photographer did? 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted January 15, 2005 His family is German, so perhaps he knew the shock he would cause. 0 Share this post Link to post
Stealthy Ivan Posted January 15, 2005 Grazza said:He's just a clueless kid whose poor judgement is being used by cynical journalists to sell their shitty newspapers. IOW business as usual. Exactly... 0 Share this post Link to post
darknation Posted January 15, 2005 darknation approves of prince harry. 0 Share this post Link to post
Relica Religia Posted January 15, 2005 Speaking of Royalty.....who cares about Royalty anymore? This is the 21st. century, for crying out loud, not Feudal England. :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted January 15, 2005 David Bowie said: There's a brand new dance but I don't know its name That people from bad homes do again and again It's big and it's bland full of tension and fear They do it over there but we don't do it here Fashion! Turn to the left Fashion! Turn to the right Oooh, fashion! We are the goon squad and we're coming to town Beep-beep Beep-beep Listen to me - don't listen to me Talk to me - don't talk to me Dance with me - don't dance with me, no Beep-beep There's a brand new talk, but it's not very clear Oh bop That people from good homes are talking this year Oh bop, fashion It's loud and tasteless and I've heard it before Oh bop You shout it while you're dancing on the ole dance floor Oh bop, fashion Fashion! Turn to the left Fashion! Right Fashion! We are the goon squad and we're coming to town Beep-beep Beep-beep Listen to me - don't listen to me Talk to me - don't talk to me Dance with me - don't dance with me, no Beep-beep Beep-beep There's a joke in there somewhere. A very subtle one. 0 Share this post Link to post
Nightmare Doom Posted January 15, 2005 yeah I would have dress like a santanic priest if I was Prince Harry 0 Share this post Link to post
BlueSonnet Posted January 16, 2005 It's all over the news here. Can't say i care frankly. 0 Share this post Link to post
SYS Posted January 17, 2005 German MP's wish to ban the swastika: http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11958972%255E401,00.html 0 Share this post Link to post
Relica Religia Posted January 17, 2005 The article said:"All of Europe has suffered because of the crimes of the Nazis, so it would be logical for Nazi symbols to be banned all over Europe," Wow, the war only happened 65 years ago - that's a good response time you got going there. So does that mean all historical evidence of the Nazis, or any collector's items from the war be destroyed? 0 Share this post Link to post
Wobbo Posted January 17, 2005 Didnt his brother just get arrested for funding a coup in Africa? 0 Share this post Link to post
TheBondageCupcake Posted January 17, 2005 I don't care if some kid dresses as a Nazi. It's tasteless and it's downright rude to every jew in existence, but heck, I wouldn't put it on the front page. But this isn't some kid. For a start, he's twenty years old. Twenty. That's not a kid. I'm seventeen and I wouldn't be stupid enough to do it. Secondly, he's royalty. The amount of ways this could be seen as endorsing hate crimes is ridiculous. He's a role model. He has the kind of responsibility that means he should *not* be doing anything that might offend his people. He could one day be the king of England and he's flaunting torture, mass killings and other war crimes on the front page of the tabloids, he'd be stupid to think it'd go unnoticed. This act was stupid and it was negligent. It's shameful that a royal could do something like this. 0 Share this post Link to post
BlueSonnet Posted January 17, 2005 Wobbo said:Didnt his brother just get arrested for funding a coup in Africa? You sure this isn't Thatcher's son you're talking about here? 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted January 17, 2005 Yep, Mark Thatcher, no relation to Royalty at all. Just Maggies son. 0 Share this post Link to post
Vegeta Posted January 17, 2005 Yeah, he better get a costume of Bin Laden, isn't it? If you were far closer to the insidents with Nazis (lived with them, not only fought against them) you'd act diferent. 0 Share this post Link to post