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Where, when... Said to... Alleged to have said... May have offended...[1] According to...
Oban, Scotland Driving instructor "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?" Scots BBC News, March 2002[2]
China British students "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed." The Chinese BBC News, March 2002[3]
Kenya Kenyan tribeswoman "You are a woman, aren't you?" Kenyans; Africans BBC News, March 2002[4]
World Wildlife Fund meeting WWF delegates; the world "If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." The Cantonese; other Chinese people BBC News, March 2002[5]
1966 The world "British women can't cook."[6] Women BBC News, March 2002[7]
Papua New Guinea British student "You managed not to get eaten then?" Papua New Guineans BBC News, March 2002[8]
Lockerbie, Scotland Survivor of the Lockerbie Bombing living on a road where 11 residents had died "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle." Victims' families; survivors BBC News, August 1999[9]
Cardiff, Wales Teenagers from the British Deaf Association near a Jamaican steel drum band Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." Deaf people; Jamaicans; steel drummers BBC News, August 1999[10]
Australia Australian Aboriginals "Still throwing spears?" Aboriginal people[11] BBC News, March 2002[12]
Budapest, Hungary British citizen "You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly." Hungarians BBC News, March 2002[13]
Edinburgh, Scotland Electronics company workers [Seeing a fuse box] "It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." Indians[14] BBC News, August 1999[15]
China The world [On Beijing] "Ghastly." The people of Beijing; The Chinese (again) BBC News, August 1999[16]
Cayman Islands Cayman Islander "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" Cayman Islanders BBC News, March 2002[17]
UK, at the height of the 1981 recession The world "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed." The unemployed; anyone made redundant BBC News, March 2002[18]
Duke of Edinburgh Award ceremony, 2006 British student about to do voluntary work in Romania [On finding that the student wouldn't be working in an orphanage] "There's so many over there you feel they breed them just to put in orphanages."[19] Romanians; orphans The Scotsman, July 2006[20]
University of Salford, UK 13-year-old boy [Informing boy on requirements to fly a [[spaceship] "You could do with losing a bit of weight." Boy; his parents; fat people Manchester Evening News, July 2001[21]
Jallianwala Bagh (Amritsar) Massacre monument, India, 1997 The world [disputing final casualty total of 2,000] "That's not right. The number is less." Indians BBC News, August 1999[22]
Foreword to If I Were an Animal, 1986 (with Cowles Fleur)[23] The world I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the [[[human]] species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist... I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus. Peoples of densely-populated countries prisonplanet.com[24]
Shooting and Conservation magazine, 1998 Farmers; rural folk "The recent Countryside March was a dramatic expression of the anxiety of country people about the growing influence of the perceptions and attitudes of townspeople on popular opinion. In many cases there are deeply held beliefs, but I suspect that in most cases it is due to ignorance." Anyone who lives in a town or city BBC News, August 1998[25]
BBC Radio, 1996, following the Dunblane massacre of 16 children and their teacher by a gunman in Scotland The world [On banning firearms] "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?" Victims' families; survivors; victims of gun crime BBC News, March 2002[26]
  1. ↑ Principle group(s); others may also find the comment offensive.
  2. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  3. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  4. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  5. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  6. ↑ British television chef Gordon Ramsay said a similar thing in 2005; though he only remarked that young British women couldn't cook. See Daily Telegraph: 'Can't cook, won't cook', 22nd October 2005.
  7. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  8. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  9. ↑ BBC News: Prince Philip's gaffes'. 10th August 1999.
  10. ↑ BBC News: Deaf insulted by duke's remark'. 10th August 1999.
  11. ↑ The BBC reports that the addressee took no offence.
  12. ↑ BBC News: Prince Philip's spear 'gaffe''. 1st March 2002.
  13. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  14. ↑ The BBC reported that the Duke was defended by Dr Shanfi Kauser, Secretary of the Islamic Centre in Glasgow: "He is a nice man and I don't think he has done anything out of malice. I believe he has not done anything wrong. On other occasions he has been very complimentary to us. We should not bring him into a dispute. I think he should be excused."
  15. ↑ BBC News: Royal apology for race remark'. 10th August 1999.
  16. ↑ BBC News: Prince Philip's gaffes'. 10th August 1999.
  17. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  18. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  19. ↑ Uncorroborated/
  20. ↑ The Scotsman: Duke under fire for Romanian orphans 'joke''. 8th July 2006.
  21. ↑ The Scotsman: Prince tells boy: You're too fat for spaceship'. 26th July 2001.
  22. ↑ BBC News: Deaf insulted by duke's remark'. 10th August 1999.
  23. ↑ Morrow. ISBN 0688061508.
  24. ↑ prisonplanet.com: Prince Philip, In His Own Words: We Need To 'Cull' The Surplus Population'. 10th June 2004.
  25. ↑ BBC News: Prince Philip attacks 'townies' '. 6th August 1998.
  26. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
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