So the first chap says, “Knock-knock.” And the other fellow says to his butler, “Go and see who that is.” Stop me if you’ve heard this one …
You know, I liked Prince Charles much more back when he was just an out-of-touch, snobbish organic gardener with too much time on his hands and zero sense of the ordinary.
The Prince of Wales is a TIME “Hero of the Environment” and the recipient of Harvard’s “Global Environmental Citizen Award.” But he’s not even my favorite “green prince.” Not even close.
And according to a press report, Charles will visit the Amazon and the Galapagos Islands next month to promote environmental preservation:
“The visit will focus on the theme of climate change, one of the UK government’s highest foreign policy priorities in 2009,” a statement from the British embassy in Brazil said.
“Environmental sustainability and protection will be the central issues of the visit. This reflects The Prince of Wales’s long-standing interest and expertise in this field,” it said.
And how do you suppose the Prince will be getting from London all the way to Chile, Brazil and Ecuador? Take it away, Daily Mail:
He will use a luxury airliner to transport himself, the Duchess of Cornwall and a 14-strong entourage to Chile, Brazil and Ecuador on a 16,400-mile round trip.
Aides insist it is impossible for the prince to complete the ten-day official visit using scheduled flights as he will undertake almost 40 engagements.
They also stress that he will offset his carbon emissions.
But last night critics seized on his choice of transport. Labour MP Ian Davidson, a member of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, said: ‘It would be hard to make this up.
‘To hear that the Prince of Wales is flying to South America to save the environment and taking 14 staff on his jet at hideous cost just for this trip is the height of the absurd.’ …
The company boasts its private jets have an exclusive ‘VIP lounge’ at the front of the cabin which can be split into a master suite with its own toilet and shower. The aircraft also boasts a satellite phone, printer, fax and laptop sockets and ‘luxury VIP leather seats’ with personal DVD players.
The cost of the trip will not be revealed until the prince releases his annual accounts later this year but it is expected to exceed £300,000.
Charles intends to use the trip to focus on issues of environmental sustainability and climate change as well as the wider ties between Britain and South America.
Image credit: The Daily Mail
Charles got into similar trouble last year. One week he’s telling a crowd in Abu Dhabi that “climate change is now so urgent that we have less than 10 years to slow, stop and reverse greenhouse gas emissions.” And the next he’s taking off with Camilla in a luxury yacht trip around the Caribbean that burns 75,000 liters of diesel fuel — which supposedly has the same planetary impact as several hundred transatlantic airline flights.
And oh, yeah, … that Harvard “Global Environmental Citizen” award? He flew across the pond just to pick it up. Nice green credentials, there, your Royal Highness. Next year, maybe he’ll get a bronzed rice bowl from Oxfam and show up to accept it in a stretch Bentley.
--"Thank you!" --"Oh, no, thank YOU!" --"But I thanked you first..."
Personally, I think it’s swell for a head of state — or, for that matter, a captain of industry — to travel in style. If you’re the Big Kahuna, I’m guessing (a) you’ve done something to earn it, or (b) you at least need to keep up appearances for the good of the family business.
But would you mind dropping the B.S. climate-change sermon? Just because your name is Windsor instead of Applebottom doesn’t make you any less of a jerkwad. Fly from point A to point B like the rest of us. Enjoy the cabin service and the wine. Have a nice flight.
Some years ago I saw a punk t-shirt that said “Fighting for peace is like f*cking for virginity.” Annoying, but clever. Shouldn’t “Burning jet fuel for the environment” fit on that t-shirt somewhere?
Hat tip: Thanks to Deceiver reader Scott for putting us on the scent.
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Headline for the win.
CLUELESS!!
Deceiver of the Planet? Does that mean he won that bracket showdown things y’all mods were talking about earlier?
I wish these rich snobs would get a better hobby… doomsday talk is soooooo totally 90s.
It’s going to be hard to top this one in the Deceiver March Madness.
Big Al’s still my man. But they’re neck and neck. Can there be a tie?
I hope he saved seats for the royal ‘wipers’.
Obama’s sucessor to his Senate seat, Roland Burris, divulges that he was asked for money by IL Governor Blagoevich’s brother, in stark contrast to his earlier sworn testimony:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090214/D96BJ6V01.html
Do as the Prince says, not as he does. How…medieval.
The monarchy has really dropped the ball. Instead of playing to the fatuous canard of environmentalism, it should be waging a crusade against jihad. I think I could be a better king than him.
Ditto, Pasta. But it is nice to see someone other than an American up here. Not that our politicians, celebrities, etc don’t earn it, but the state of this country is starting to seriously depress me. I say, old chap, let’s mock more Brits! And how ’bout Canadians too, eh!
I know, I know, this smacks of sexism and meanness, but I’ve known the Chuckster was a size 12 smeghead since he ditched Diana for Seabiscuit or whatever her name is.
“let’s mock more Brits! And how ’bout Canadians too, eh!”
now u’ve made zeh french feel left out
Any man who writes a poem to his beloved Seabiscuit (great name Beige) and wishes he could be her tampon is not the smartest tool in the shed. I wonder if he thought it would be more enviormentally sound?
Patrick, not to be unflattering, but I’m pretty darn sure a sea animone would be a better king than Chuckie!
Royal family? Ew! Icky. Icky! The only thing more disturbing than their hypocrisy is the hypocrisy of Americans who fall all over them and forget that tiny little war we fought (I think it was in the 1700s sometime????) in order to be able to NOT care about them.
Let’s face it, none of the Windsor men is renowned for excess brain power…no wonder the Queen always looks annoyed.
Fortunate Son,
I also saw that news article about the muslim who decapitated his wife and thought, wow, I thought they were a gentle religion? Very sad news for their kids.
Fortunate, are you spreading more lies about peaceful Muslims?
“I hate the British! You are defeated but you have no shame. You are stubborn but you have no pride. You endure but you have no courage. I hate the British!” – Colonel Saito as played by Sessue Hayakawa in the motion picture The Bridge on the River Kwai
I don’t particularly hate the British–except the ones who have been insufferably rude to me personally–but I do feel badly for the Queen. She’s saddled with a barely-sentient hemorrhoid of a husband, and not one of her kids turned out capable of running so much as a lemonade stand. She’s got to know that the British monarchy is probably going to die with her, unless William turns out to be a lot brighter than Prince Tampax II up there.
Then again who gives a flying f— about these people? people who have nothing better to do. As for hating the British – F— you Rocko, if it wasnt for Yanks being so s— scared of their own shadow and now putting a spook into the white house – or should that now be gray house, people would look to themselves for inspiration instead of being s— scared of what the next person could do to them. I’m British, I am not proud of the s— my forefathers did around the world in history but I’ll be f—ed if I let a Japanese bushido sucking c–k ring say there is no pride in being British, At least we didnt murder our prisoners of war, or let them starve not like you rice noshing murdering f—ers all in the name of the emperor who watched his people fry in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the yanks and still through stubborness continued the war through his brand of fear, not unlike the yanks are doing now with the rest of the world. BOO! the FBI, CIA, and all the other acronyms of America are watching and listening and sniffing your bins….. be afraid of the yanks not the british
Hey, Fly, calm it down a wee bit, would ya? I like the Obama jab (although remember about half the country didn’t put him there when you’re making lump statements like that), but jeeze! Take a couple deep breaths or something.
Rocko was quoting something called a “movie.” You know, film? Americans sometimes drop quotations from them into everyday conversation for comedic effect. And are you insulting Americans or the Japanese? ’cause I think your rant got derailed in there somewhere.
And the censored swear words just look silly.
Don’t worry FLYING OVER THE WORLD. No one’s afraid of the British.
I’ve seen no evidence that Obama ever worked for the CIA.
Yeah, the blanked-out bad words just make it look as though you’re stammering. In print. Which is funny, don’t get me wrong, but that really is one of the more incoherent things ever posted anywhere.
Hey! I’m three-halves Japanese and I feel personally insulted now.
150%!
I think I’m turning Japanese.
You really think so?
Great, now that’ll be stuck in my head all night long.