Duke of Edinburgh gaffes
nX@lR~g%F The Duke of Edinburgh has become notorious for making public gaffes and has over the years offered his own unique advice to people all over the world.
x6, #Jp 'u \ my The Duke of Edinburgh 英女皇的老公，快90岁了，有时他的谈话让人哭笑不得，就看听得人了，或许会觉得他很幽默，或许会认为他不关场合乱讲。对不起看不懂英文的筒子们，偶没有水平翻译出来。
|C \%H R zyznFiE During the 1981 recession he mused: “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."
z L1 *w@6 When accepting a figurine from a woman during a visit to Kenya in 1984 he asked: "You are a woman aren't you?"
y+ZRh?2 Also in 1986 he told a World Wildlife Fund meeting that "if it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."
dSD7(s! The Duke asked a British student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea in 1998: "You managed not to get eaten then?"
:YZqrcr} To a British tourist in Hungary in 1993 he quipped: "You can't have been here that long — you haven't got a pot belly."
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,qx;kJJ In 1995 he asked a Scottish driving instructor in Oban: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?"
B,@<60u Following the 1996 Dunblane massacre, he questioned the need for a firearms ban: "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?"
m+f?+ c6 In 1999 in Cardiff he told children from the British Deaf Association, who were standing by a Caribbean steel band: "If you're near that music it's no wonder you're deaf".
M![aty@ While touring a factory near Edinburgh in 2002 he said a fuse box was so crude it "looked as though it had been put in by an Indian".
FC' v= * To Australian Aborigines during a visit to Australia in 2002 he asked: "Do you still throw spears at each other?"
g UfLw In 2010 on asking a female Sea Cadet what she did for a living, and being told that she worked in a nightclub (as a barmaid), the Duke asked “Is it a strip club?” Observing her surprise he dismissed the suggestion saying that it was “probably too cold for that anyway”.
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