Duke of Edinburgh gaffes
}D-jTZlC 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.
OuK RaZ dK4w$~j{k 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。
xW7[ VTXc^ q8H nPXV During the 1981 recession he mused: “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."
Ir =G\/A When accepting a figurine from a woman during a visit to Kenya in 1984 he asked: "You are a woman aren't you?"
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X|aD>CT The Duke asked a British student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea in 1998: "You managed not to get eaten then?"
DG}s`' 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."
=2YXh ,i "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?", he asked an islander in the Cayman Islands in 1994.
y8Rq2jI;(e 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?"
fYW9Zbo v- 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?"
Y ` Z,52 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".
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=G !]_d0 To Australian Aborigines during a visit to Australia in 2002 he asked: "Do you still throw spears at each other?"
Cu_-QE 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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