Prince Philip’s mustard prank

[Dogmatix34]

I don’t have any very strong feelings about the Royal family except to find it all a bit outdated but I found this story a real sign of how out of touch they are. The thought of my grandfather encouraging me to squirt mustard on to his ceiling! Since he a) wouldn’t have an army of cleaners to clear it up b) only had a small number of rooms to go in to and would not have wanted disgusting mustard all over the place c) didn’t have incredibly high ceilings where perhaps you wouldn’t have noticed.
I could understand if it was squirting mustard outside or maybe on clothes that could be washed but I found that story really jarring. They don’t need to be house proud, they haven’t worked for what they have and have so much.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58628865

@Billlius

What is the tube made out of?

It's not a plastic bottle, that's for sure.

Mustard also comes in an aluminium tube - I use it a lot as there is least waste from it (I buy in bulk for things I use a lot, but smaller sized containers for rarely used things to avoid waste and throwing out unused items that have gone off).

From the article, it's clear that's what was used.

And that it was a grandfather having fun with his grandkids. (And who got in trouble with his wife for it - like fun grandfathers often do!).

How do you know?

He makes the gardeners saw off any plastic handles on garden tools and refit them with wooden handles This makes no sense in any way whatsoever.

It says ceiling and that the marks are still there. So not outside or in a tent.

Also @Billlius you seem to be comparing the environmental issues and attitudes now to something that happened 25 - 30 years ago which doesn't really make any sense.

@MarmaladeMakers

Sounds like he just wanted to be a fun grandad. Let's not dissect everything they do

Agreed. Some very sensitive replies on here!

Oh come off it. It's usually the poorest who have least respect for their surroundings. Not in every case, but that is the trend. That's why council flats have vandalised lifts and private flats don't. Council house gardens full of old junk and never cut the grass. It's rare to see that in a privately owned house. And the royal family pay their cleaners themselves. Cleaning a ceiling is no worse than a toilet or a floor or a load of greasy baking trays.

I wonder if Charles would be so anti plastic handles if he was doing the sawing and re fitting. Oh give over. There is no way this happened

Prince William is nearly 40. This probably took place when he was a child so possibly over 30 years ago. Most people were using plastic bottles not realising the impact on the environment.

I can't stand this tendency to pick holes in absolutely everything.

I thought the same op.

I don’t get the plastic handles business, surely you’re throwing away a perfectly useable part and creating waste just to replace it for no reason, if the issue is plastic just get ones without plastic handles to start with.

I agree. I watched a few clips of the mustard prank being told by members of the Royal Family on breakfast TV this morning. My thoughts on the matter were that Prince Philip was clearly a very spoilt and childish person.

What grandfather, in their right mind, would do something like that? It's the sort of prank that a 7-year-old might dream up and think was funny. The majority of adults would not appreciate the 'joke', seeing as they would probably have to clean and then repaint the ceiling.

If my kids had done that, I would have made sure that they cleaned it all up themselves. If my father or father-in-law had done it, I would have been horrified and wondered whether they were losing their marbles!

@ladybrunton

Prince William is nearly 40. This probably took place when he was a child so possibly over 30 years ago. Most people were using plastic bottles not realising the impact on the environment.

I can't stand this tendency to pick holes in absolutely everything.

Quite. That and the fact they stated very clearly it was a tube, not a plastic bottle;

@Wafflehouse

I thought the same op.

I don’t get the plastic handles business, surely you’re throwing away a perfectly useable part and creating waste just to replace it for no reason, if the issue is plastic just get ones without plastic handles to start with.

The plastic handles thing is crazy. If you buy them with plastic it doesn't matter whether you use it or bin it, you have contributed. Just buy without?

I can't wait to do this with my grandkids when I have them 🤣

@maddy68

Really? My dad used to get up to all sorts of pranks with his grandchildren much to my mum's disgust causing chaos.

It's nice seeing an insight into a "normal" family life

Awww, such a nice normal family... granddad playing pranks, grandma getting annoyed with him..so normal, so like us.

Fuck me, some people are surrounded by a lot of joyless people... A silly game by a granddad for the grandkids much to the disgust of their grandmother and possibly their parents is hardly unusual or a sign of entitlement or dementia.

Lots of fun police out in force today.

If the story had been flicking peas then I would have found it quite endearing but to those that have food fights, do you allow your children to make permanent stains on furnishings/ decor? I think also it’s the fact that they have decided to release this story out of presumably loads they could have chosen as he was supposedly such a fun grandad. Where are their PR people?!

Is mustard in a tube something that only really posh people have?

Cross.

Yup. Sure ye are.

Waiting for all the goshes and wows, just wows.

At least you have an excuse to lie down in a darkened room this morning. Don’t forget your pearls.

It’s a happy memory of their grandad being daft, probably happened only a handful of times 30 odd years ago.
Given they’re talking about BBQs I’d say it’s more likely to have been the roof of a gazebo than the throne room at Buckingham palace, but of course none of us actually knows.
There are plenty of reasons to dislike the royals but this seems quite a stretch.

(Not that it matters but I’m picturing a reusable squirty mustard tubes like you get at burger vans!)

What I found more amusing is the fact that his will can't be made public for the next 90 years, "out of respect for the Queen".
More like trying to make sure those who will read about his illegitimate children he left money too won't care anymore.

Of course he was out of touch with normal people, they are not normal people, they're the royal family. He probably never gave a thought to cleaning the ceiling. From the remarks about the stain still being there, the ceiling might not have been cleaned.
I get fed up with all the self righteousness. And of course plastic was widely used, it still is.