Il Douchey: Did Philip receive the same socialized healthcare that his fellow countrymen get? TWO surgeries in less than a week?!?! How many thousands of the regular folk did he jump ahead of to get those? Shouldn't a 90 year old geezer just be given pain pills and allowed to bugger off in peace? His productive years (to the extent that he ever had any) are long since past; the allocation of precious healthcare resources are wasted on this old goat. Where the hell is a death panel when you need it?

/Oh, and godspeed guv'ner -pip pip cheerio and all that rot

2/10

He missed a three full days of holiday celebrations, including the Christmas Eve gift-giving and dinner, the church service and family lunch on Christmas Day, and the annual pheasant hunt on Monday.

What some people won't do to avoid the holidays with the family.

He seems to have vaginas for eyes. How peculiar

Well if you ever need someone to play a live action Mr. Burns then there you go.

Il Douchey: Did Philip receive the same socialized healthcare that his fellow countrymen get? TWO surgeries in less than a week?!?! How many thousands of the regular folk did he jump ahead of to get those? Shouldn't a 90 year old geezer just be given pain pills and allowed to bugger off in peace? His productive years (to the extent that he ever had any) are long since past; the allocation of precious healthcare resources are wasted on this old goat. Where the hell is a death panel when you need it?

/Oh, and godspeed guv'ner -pip pip cheerio and all that rot

You know private health care is available in England right? Yeah, I'm sure the royals aren't getting the NHS treatment.

FTA: Over the holiday weekend he was visited by the Queen, as well as by Prince William, Prince Harry and four other grandchildren.

Hmmm...Charles is conspicuously absent from that visitors list. I wonder if the old codger recently made an equine comment about Camilla.

Fish is a royal?

He looks remarkable given his arduous schedule of opening new buildings and insulting the locals, all done while holding his wife's handbag. God bless you Guv'nor!

The cart looks so much more appealing with a metal-flake blue paint job.

// He feels hap-pee!

They're coming to get you Barbara . . .

When did this guy buy the Oakland Raiders?

Abe Vigoda's looking rough.

Did they use chameleon or iguana blood for the transfusion. I'm not sure how the NHS services reptilian shapeshifters.

90 years old and he looks that good? No wonder the Royals are so much better than us!

Good luck to the old curmudgeon.

Where does the article mention two surgeries, subby?

My first split-second thought when I saw that photo was "The surgery can't be that serious, he's in the driver's seat."

Prince Philip is old and he smells.

As an Englishman born of the home counties I think I speak for all my fellow countrymen when I thank the Lord Himself that Auntie and Sky News were able to give us such thorough, blow-by-blow updates on His Royal Highness's noble struggle with Thanatos this Christmas.

The ghoulish prince alights.

If he was a mere mortal on the NHS, he would have been allowed to expire quietly in a corner.

/ Follow up tag on holiday?

Speaker2Animals: Uh, he's 90 years old, subby. Compare him to other 90-year-olds. Wonder what you'll look like at that age, assuming you live that long.

"When 90 years old you become, look this good you will not!"

OtherLittleGuy: MrsOLG predicts that, when Phillip goes, QEII will go within a year, considering how long they have been married. In that case, he needs to stick around until at least 2014 or 2015 (new window).

/when he goes, will fly over to London, drink a gallon of Sunny D, and visit his grave with a full bladder

Because her mother keeled over just after George died.

Using the Queen Mother as a gauge, E2 has another good twenty years in her - maybe more, since Elizabeth the Younger has had better healthcare over a greater portion of her lifespan than Elizabeth the Elder did

He looks like he should be dressed up in 19th-century-preacher's togs..

I give him a month, you'll be able to piss on his grave by spring. Hopefully Lizzy joins him soon after.

Mouser: Speaker2Animals: Uh, he's 90 years old, subby. Compare him to other 90-year-olds. Wonder what you'll look like at that age, assuming you live that long.

"When 90 years old you become, look this good you will not!"

/shakes tiny fist.

Still driving at 90? Not too bad!

You meant Prince Phillip of Sonderburg-Glucksburgh the German/Greek? The one married to Elizabeth of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha? The one with the Nazi uncle (Charles Edward, the one who lived in Germany)? The German Royal family is monument to how stupid people really are.

phalamir: Using the Queen Mother as a gauge, E2 has another good twenty years in her - maybe more, since Elizabeth the Younger has had better healthcare over a greater portion of her lifespan than Elizabeth the Elder did

Plus, she has to outlive her son to make sure he never ever becomes king.

Cormee: He seems to have vaginas for eyes. How peculiar

He's vag-eye-na man.

Is this the one that has no filter between his brain and his mouth/?

zato_ichi: Is this the one that has no filter between his brain and his mouth/?

"Prince Philip, he's a card. Has a habit of saying things like, 'You're all a bunch of bastards.' ... 'Was that all right?'"

Speaker2Animals: Uh, he's 90 years old, subby. Compare him to other 90-year-olds. Wonder what you'll look like at that age, assuming you live that long.

Eh, my 95 year-old grandfather looks a lot better.

Philip's skin is pretty terrible, especially all the liver spots. He's probably never used sun block (and was a heavy smoker for decades). Where as my grandfather, who is Jewish, had a Jewish wife, who no doubt insisted that he use sun block even when he was indoors.

Glad to hear he's still around.. maybe I'll still get the chance to personally meet some royalty some day.

CSB:

My grandfather and Prince Philip attended the same school in Paris when they were very young and lived in the St. Cloud neighborhood (my great-grandmother's place today would be worth millions - sigh for lost inheritance), and were playmates and then friends for many years later since they have the same birthday 1 year apart. My mother even recalls getting phone calls from someone on her father's birthday a lot who would only identify himself as "Philip" and would ask to speak to my grandfather. My grandfather was a pilot in WWII and attended some sort of state dinner in London in the 60s, which they have a framed photo of in their house.

Interestingly enough, as the story goes: in Paris, where my grandfather lived until his high-school years, my great-grandmother once spanked the then young boy Prince Philip for jumping on her master bed when he and my grandfather were playing together. He naturally complained to his father about it, the brother of the one-time King of Greece (and who still carried the title Prince Andrew at the time)... for which his father replied something to the effect of, "Good, you deserved it for doing that in another person's home, and she had every right since she is the queen of her household." Apparently, my great-grandmother was invited to a dinner with them, and that's how the friendship, loose thought it apparently was, got cemented.

/CSB

Phil the Greek?

good health to him

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Still driving at 90? Not too bad!

Well, those farmers markets aren't going to drive over themselves.

I wish my dad had come out of his stent surgery last month as well as Philip. Sigh.

corporate mustache: You meant Prince Phillip of Sonderburg-Glucksburgh the German/Greek? The one married to Elizabeth of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha? The one with the Nazi uncle (Charles Edward, the one who lived in Germany)? The German Royal family is monument to how stupid people really are.

If you're gonna talk smack, at least get your facts straight. Elizabeth's "Nazi Uncle" was reportedly the former Edward VIII (you know, the one who abdicated)... Charles Edward of Saxe-Gotha - who was indeed a Nazi - was a cousin to both Elizabeth and Philip, nothing closer.