[SadisticSid]

I hate the little **** - wasted his education and flaunted his upbringing - so I'm going to exercise petty spite and hope he doesn't get in. God forbid anything should happen to William though, if this's the alternative.

[Cyker]

Well see, the only reason he keeps getting burned is because he is royalty. If anybody else did something like that I don't think anyone would give a ****.

I kinda feel sorry for people in the media spotlight like that - No chance to discover life your own way, but forced to conform to what is Right and Proper.

****, if I was in that position I'd try and fake my own death or something to try and get out from under that big ol' spotlight.

People that want to be famous are fair game, but being forced into that situation? Major suckage.

The temptation to tell everyone to **** off must be overwhelming!

[Lynx]

Who gives a ****? Couldn't care less about.

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by vyper
Lets be honest, surely you've done some immature stuff and perhaps things to question your.... gentlemanliness in your youth? Should you still be an officer?

Like what? Barely drink, smoke a cigar once in a blue moon, never touched drugs. Never attacked someone or publically made racist jokes, neither.

As an officer, Harry would be setting an example to the people under him. He would also be representing his service and his country.

It occurs to me that he really ought to have seen this comming. Got drunk? Front page of the Sun. Smoked pot? Front page of the Sun. Smacked a reporter? Front page of the Sun. Dressed like a Nazi? Now wait a moment, I know this one... front... front page of the... oh the hell with it, pass me that armband... Makes me wonder if he's really smart enough to cut it (although I'm required to have contempt for the Army's standards, of course, joining as I am the Navy)

And call me unforgiving, but I wouldn't particularly want to call someone who thought that was funny a colleague...

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[aldo_14]

He should be denied entry on the grounds that he's thick as two short planks.

[Corsair]

****in' jackass. I seriously doubt his mental capacity now.

The above is an emotional response. Take no notice of me.

[Scuddie]

Good that he wore it, I feel the same way, except for all of humanity, and not a particular selection.  But that's probably my stupid American idea that I, alone am better than everybody else... ever.

*goes back to his corner to cry some more*

[Liberator]

I am an American so I don't really have an opinion on this, but this is fairly convincing evidence that Harry is completely disconnected with reality and should be put into a position where he cannot become King.

[Scuddie]

I want John Goodman to be king

[Flipside]

Well, for one, Harry is quite happy to take the benefits that his 'priviliged' upbringing gives him, and yet quick to knock the lack of privacy that is the cost. For two, the boy, at his age, should have some sense of the responsibilities he carries. And, for three, he's bloody lucky the Queen Mum is dead, she would have gone ballistic!

Whether it was a stupid prank or a statement of 'public rebellion' it was tasteless and disrespectful to the hundreds of thousands who died when his family was one of the 'symbols' of resistance against the nazi regime.

[aldo_14]

I was just thinking.... there's been a few calls that "it's only a costume, he was just a bit daft", etc.... but how many times on Halloween or whatever, have you ever seen anyone dressed up as a Nazi?

I mean, how monumentally idiotic would you have to be to shove on that costume and think "oh, no-one will notice and they won't mind either"?

It's not even a proper costume, either

[Taristin]

*cough*Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles*cough*

[Rson]

Well, I couldn't give a damn about Prince Harry, it was a private party and it's a problem for the 'Royal' family.  Quite frankly I think we should scrap the Royal Family, lots of other countries have been fine without theirs and ours don't do much, the queen passes laws and opens buildings, the princes get on the tabloids.

[Flipside]

Thing is, if I started going clubbing in a KKK outfit, I'd make the papers too....

'Kloo-Klux Clubber clubbed to Death!'

or the like...

[beatspete]

If it had been "dress as a famous historical person" and he dressed as Hitler there wouldn't be as much fuss.

[Flipside]

I think, had he been wearing the silly moustache and playing up the role, there would have been raised eyebrows and a general bout of embarassed coughing, but not nearly the media circus it has become.

[IceFire]

He screwed up...no doubt about that.  You just don't go waving that symbol around anywhere...except in the strictest and most serious of historical reproductions.  This was not.

However, the difference between this screwup and something that any one of us has probably done that we thought ill of later (and everyone has SOMETHING) is that we don't have the bloody paparazzi taking photos of us every other second.  What he needs is a good family talking to and not world press coverage.

[aldo_14]

What he really needs, is a good swift kick up the arse.

Actually, so do all the royal family.......

[Flipside]

Scary bit is, in one of the pictures of him in a baseball cap, he looked exactly like Ron Howard.... it was creepy...

[Fineus]

Originally posted by aldo_14
I was just thinking.... there's been a few calls that "it's only a costume, he was just a bit daft", etc.... but how many times on Halloween or whatever, have you ever seen anyone dressed up as a Nazi?

Most people would probably get the **** kicked out of them these days for dressing like that. Just try it on the streets of any major city and see how far you get.

Flipside, I suppose it's quite hard for him to actually pick one thing or the other though. He'd have to be stupid to not make use of the special privlages that royalty grants him. However he doesn't want (and never asked for) the attention that goes with it.

Now did he earn the privlages? Does he deserve them? Hard to say - but in a world where footballers are paid thousands of pounds per game and homeless people starve on the streets of the same cities that they play in - I don't think this is really as big a deal as everyone is making of it.

Someone mentioned to me yesterday - a talk show discussing this issue. Someone pointed out that half way round the planet there was a massive case of devastation and death in the form of the tsunami. Britain however - is concerning itself with what the youngest of the royal family wore to a party.

People need to get their priorities straight. Feed the starving, house the homeless and help to combat crime then focus on the latest clothing mishap of a teenage boy.