A random celebrity in England died today. Best wishes to his family.
Quotes from the celebrity:
“Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” about 1981 recession

“If you stay here much longer you’ll all be slitty-eyed” (to a group of British students during a royal visit to China).
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test” (to a Scottish driving instructor)

“It looks as if it was put in by an Indian” (referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh)

“Still throwing spears?” -said to Aboriginal Australian
"It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her school art lessons," he muttered while being shown Ethiopian art

"We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves," he told journalists in Canada in 1976.
"You are a woman, aren't you?" he said to a Kenyan woman presenting him with a gift

"I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing," to dismiss idea those who slaughter for meat have greater moral authority than those who kill for sport.
"You could do with losing a little bit of weight," he told 13-year-old after hearing he wanted to become an astronaut while visiting a science museum in 2001.

"You look like you're ready for bed!" he told the President of Nigeria in 2003, who was dressed in traditional robes.
"Is it a strip club?" he asked when meeting a female Sea Cadet who told the Prince she worked in a nightclub, in 2009.

"That's a nice tie. Do you have any knickers in that material?" he asked the female Scottish Conservative leader in 2010.
"So who's on drugs here?... He looks as if he's on drugs," he said of a 14-year-old boy while at a Bangladeshi youth club in 2002.
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