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August 22, 2010 By Fausta

“Snub the tub”, says Charles

No more Tired Old Ass Soak for you, if Charles gets his way!

One must take shorter showers, says Charles: Prince urges British families to ’snub the bathtub’

Prince Charles has told British families to take shorter showers to help protect the environment.

The instruction came at the end of a list of 20 lifestyle changes recommended by the Prince of Wales for his new green campaign, Start.

In separate advice endorsed by the Prince, he was more detailed – urging people to give up baths in favour of ’short, refreshing’ five minute showers.

His campaign website reads: ‘Snub the tub. If everybody in a four-person family replaced one bath a week with a five-minute shower, you could save between £5 and £15 per year off your energy bill.’

Is that your sporran or are you happy to see me?

In true Green spirit, Charles preaches what he doesn’t practice,

As for the Prince of Wales himself, Clarence House last night remained tight-lipped on whether he takes short showers.

Years ago people were speculating on the higiene habits of Il Tampone, but I digress.

A spokesman simply said: ‘The Prince of Wales does the vast majority of the things on the list.

Such as?

‘loving your leftovers’, holidaying closer to home and reusing ‘what can’t be recycled, such as paint tins’.

Charles, who flies private jets to ceremonial shindigs at exotic locales probably “loves his leftovers” enough to feed them to his dogs (do his employees get meals free of charge? just asking!), and I don’t think Charles has seen a ‘paint tin’ since he was in kindergarten and the teacher handed him some tempera for fingerpainting.

The Prince isn’t exactly slumming it in a Prius; but just so you can relate to the guy, the article goes on,

The Prince’s Jaguar, Audi and Range Rover cars run on biodiesel made from used cooking oil, while his 40- year-old Aston Martin uses bioethanol made entirely from wine.

I wonder what Camilla runs on – cooking oil or wine?

H/t American Thinker.

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July 31, 2010 By Fausta

Prince Charles, saviour of the world

Do you want this guy to save you?

My duty is to save the world: Prince Charles believes he was born for a purpose

You mean, for the purpose of inheriting, by mere accident of birth, a ceremonial position in a declining country that is voluntarily descending into dhimmitude?

Not quite. Charles thinks he’s here to save the world:

The Prince of Wales says he believes he has been placed on Earth as future King ‘for a purpose’ – to save the world.

Giving a fascinating insight into his view of his inherited wealth and influence, he said: ‘I can only somehow imagine that I find myself being born into this position for a purpose.

‘I don’t want my grandchildren or yours to come along and say to me, “Why the hell didn’t you come and do something about this? You knew what the problem was”. That is what motivates me.

‘I wanted to express something in the outer world that I feel inside… We seem to have lost that understanding of the whole of nature and the universe as a living entity.’

While the prince flies private jets to ceremonial shindigs at exotic locales, he ought to consider injecting himself with 2 cc. of humility and pondering where he would be if he had actually had to work for what he got by mere accident.


UPDATE

theblogprof lets the snark flow.

and more,
Does Prince Charles Believe He is The Muslim Messiah

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June 10, 2010 By Fausta

The Tampon speaks, environmentally, at Oxford

Prince Charles, who the Italians nicknamed Il Tampone back when he told Camilla he wanted to reincarnate as her tampon, is urging environmentalists to ‘Follow the Islamic way to save the world,’

Prince Charles yesterday urged the world to follow Islamic ’spiritual principles’ in order to protect the environment.

In an hour-long speech, the heir to the throne argued that man’s destruction of the world was contrary to the scriptures of all religions – but particularly those of Islam.

He said the current ‘division’ between man and nature had been caused not just by industrialisation, but also by our attitude to the environment – which goes against the grain of ’sacred traditions’.

Charles, who is a practising Christian and will become the head of the Church of England when he succeeds to the throne, spoke in depth about his own study of the Koran which, he said, tells its followers that there is ‘no separation between man and nature’ and says we must always live within our environment’s limits.

As the future head of the Church of England and someone facing a crisis of faith in the cult of anthropogenic global warming, Charles went one step further in his speech and alluded to Saint Al of Goredom,

He added: ‘The inconvenient truth is that we share this planet with the rest of creation for a very good reason – and that is, we cannot exist on our own without the intricately balanced web of life around us.

‘Islam has always taught this and to ignore that lesson is to default on our contract with creation.’

I’m sure creation’s about to sue, particularly if Richard Dawkins has anything to do with it.

The speech was received with the enthusiasm it deserved:

While I poke fun at Il Tampone, Richard Fernandez brings insight into two nations:

President Obama comes from a mighty nation. From the viewpoint of that people, it is Rabinowitz who is alien. She is looking through the wrong end of the telescope. If she tried seeing herself through their eyes she would see herself as the problem. There is a country in which people like Helen Thomas happily thrive and  it is widespread, influential, powerful.  It may outnumber or eventually come to outnumber the nation which Dorothy Rabinowitz thinks is ‘out there’.

And it lives in the most exalted places. For example, across the Atlantic, Prince Charles exhorted his listeners to follow the precepts of two great religions: Islam and Environmentalism. His Royal Highness “urged the world to follow Islamic ’spiritual principles’ in order to save the environment”.
…

If you want to be admitted into the inner sanctum of the cultural elite, if you wish to be considered ‘cool’; if you aspire to be like a very powerful segment of the movers and shakers, then you had better stop clinging to your Bibles and guns and get with the program.  Far from being “alien”, President actually represents a point of view shared by many millions of Western Europeans and Americans. He is not the cause, but rather the effect of the existence of that nation: if he were not President, that nation would endeavor to elect someone else just like him to the Presidency.  But the two nations are not mirror images of each other. One is self-aware and the other minds its business thinking that everyone else does. They are asymmetrical with respect to their desire for power. And because of this the President’s nation can see the other clearly every day of the week, as a traveler sees an obstacle before it, while people like Rabinowitz never think of themselves as the obsctacle. That’s the problem. As the fight scene from “They Live” shows, the real challenge is to get both sides to perceive each other symmetrically

We live in an age of irony, where the cultural and aristo elites believe in pseudo-science and speak down to us as if the Enlightenment had never taken place.

But then, for them maybe it never did.

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September 22, 2009 By Fausta

Throw Prince Charles in the bus

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Prince Charles urges people to abandon car in favour of walking and public transport
The Prince of Wales is urging people to give up their cars in favour of walking and public transport to try to reduce carbon emissions.

Yet another elitist who knows better than you what’s good for you, while he

has two Jaguars, two Audis, a Range Rover and still drives an Aston Martin given to him by the Queen on his 21st birthday

And that’s not counting the official Bentleys used for state occassions.

Chuck, auction your fleet of cars on eBay and take the bus.

Then come back and preach to the unwashed.

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March 30, 2009 By Fausta

Panties navigation

How to find your way when the compass doesn’t work? Get out your panties!

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Here’s the story at Gizmodo,
Panties Help Guide 700-Mile Arctic Expedition When GPS, Compasses Fail

When compasses and GPS fail the Catlin Arctic Survey expedition, they go with a low tech “gadget” to help them navigate the freezing wastes and find their bearing: A lacy pair of panties.

The panties serve as a wind sock of sorts
, as the team attaches them to a ski pole and uses wind as a guide to the North Pole, where they will measure just how thin the ice shelf is these days. They can’t use a compass because of their proximity to the magnetic North Pole. GPS is apparently useless because the frigid temps freeze the equipment. The team also navigates using the sun, but when it’s cloudy they pull out the lacy panties.

I checked the calendar and it’s not April 1 yet, and the Telegraph is also reporting on the story, including a semi-scientific explanation:

Speaking from the Arctic via satellite phone, he said: “It an entirely genuine situation. If you can get gossamer thin material and attach it your ski pole it is particularly useful for this project because we can cannot use the compass as we are so close to magnetic north and it is too cold to use the GPS.

Prince Charles is supporting the expedition.

Cross-posted at PoliGazette

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