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• 1. RisingSunofNihon replies at 6th September 2006, 11:34 pm :

  Meh. I’m with you. I couldn’t possibly care less if there’s a male heir to the throne. I hope this doesn’t dominate the news cycle for the next few months. We have enough Suri Cruise-type babies in the world as it is!

• 2. crushmonkey replies at 8th September 2006, 11:34 pm :

  Here’s my favorite quote from way back, thankyou former trade minister Takeo Hiranuma

  Takeo Hiranuma:

  if Aiko becomes the reigning empress, and gets involved with a blue-eyed foreigner while studying abroad and marries him, their child may be emperor,” according to the Associated Press. “We should never let that happen.”

  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aAgZgmKWmaJo&refer=japan

  Yeah, fuck them blue-eyed foreigners. Luckily I’ve got green eyes.

• 3. JB replies at 9th September 2006, 12:09 am :

  Just out of a sense of balance, I think I should offer some Prince Philip quotes (another backwards stuck up, born into power genius) -

  “Brazilians live there”

  * Prince Philip on the “key problem” facing Brazil

  Do you still throw spears at each other?
  – (on meeting Aborigines in Australia)

  If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
  – (as spoken at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting)

  How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them to pass the test?
  – (Asking a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland)

  You can’t have been here that long, you haven’t got a pot belly.
  – (as told to a Briton in Hungary)

  Xenophobia and idiocy are universal. Mind you, I love the idea of a blue eyed foreigner being emperor of Japan. That would be hysterical. Like that John Candy film where he becomes King of England. King Ralph is it?

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