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Andy in Beds

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  • in reply to: General Discussion #279334
    Andy in Beds
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    Kev has a point.
    Again, playing devil’s advocate….
    The UK still fancies itself a world power…
    Your country does not want to become a Denmark or Sweden (nice places but not in the Premier league of nations).
    Yes, it’s your choice.
    Please make it if for no other reason than sparing us your complaints. 🙂
    Either get in the back seat, get rid of your nuclear-armed submarines and keep a token military and be content to let someone else make the rules, or try to stay relevant.
    If you want to be a “player” then quit griping about doing what has to be done to stay there.
    You can’t have it both ways.
    Or maybe you can, let the UK become the source for pop music and let it fade into the backwaters of political and economic influence.

    Well actually John.
    I’d be very happy if we became like Switzerland.
    Neutral, non-EU, non aligned, banking everyone else’s money.
    And minding their own bl**dy business in the World.
    I can’t see that British foreign policy has achieved too much in the last 100 years–other than to keep stonemasons in a job.

    in reply to: BBC and the burning poppy #1877856
    Andy in Beds
    Participant

    Kev has a point.
    Again, playing devil’s advocate….
    The UK still fancies itself a world power…
    Your country does not want to become a Denmark or Sweden (nice places but not in the Premier league of nations).
    Yes, it’s your choice.
    Please make it if for no other reason than sparing us your complaints. 🙂
    Either get in the back seat, get rid of your nuclear-armed submarines and keep a token military and be content to let someone else make the rules, or try to stay relevant.
    If you want to be a “player” then quit griping about doing what has to be done to stay there.
    You can’t have it both ways.
    Or maybe you can, let the UK become the source for pop music and let it fade into the backwaters of political and economic influence.

    Well actually John.
    I’d be very happy if we became like Switzerland.
    Neutral, non-EU, non aligned, banking everyone else’s money.
    And minding their own bl**dy business in the World.
    I can’t see that British foreign policy has achieved too much in the last 100 years–other than to keep stonemasons in a job.

    in reply to: General Discussion #279430
    Andy in Beds
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    No need to worry, Andy. It’s just one of the grown-ups popping in to tell you to play nicely with the other kids.

    Yes, why grow up when you can be a child..??

    in reply to: The Welsh. #1877920
    Andy in Beds
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    No need to worry, Andy. It’s just one of the grown-ups popping in to tell you to play nicely with the other kids.

    Yes, why grow up when you can be a child..??

    in reply to: General Discussion #279451
    Andy in Beds
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    Have a super evening in Bedfordshire.:D:D

    Yeah, you’re probably right.
    Not worth getting upset over.

    Do I know you..?

    in reply to: The Welsh. #1877944
    Andy in Beds
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    Have a super evening in Bedfordshire.:D:D

    Yeah, you’re probably right.
    Not worth getting upset over.

    Do I know you..?

    in reply to: General Discussion #279458
    Andy in Beds
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    Really don’t think that this is the correct forum to post this.

    Why not, it’s general discussion..??
    I can’t think that ‘Modern Military’ or GA would be more appropriate.

    I am an exiled Taff and proud of my country. Cymru am Byth !!:diablo::diablo:

    Well we all have our own crosses to bear I suppose.

    in reply to: The Welsh. #1877982
    Andy in Beds
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    Really don’t think that this is the correct forum to post this.

    Why not, it’s general discussion..??
    I can’t think that ‘Modern Military’ or GA would be more appropriate.

    I am an exiled Taff and proud of my country. Cymru am Byth !!:diablo::diablo:

    Well we all have our own crosses to bear I suppose.

    in reply to: General Discussion #279552
    Andy in Beds
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    Yes John, I take your point but….

    I think you’d have to agree that the fighting of foreign wars is an expensive business.
    I mean The Great War and the second lot cost this country an empire and a pre-eminent position in the World, not to mention the millions upon millions of wasted lives.
    I haven’t even started counting the cost of all those ‘minor’ excursions–and actually wouldn’t know how.

    Sadly for your great country (that’s said without sarcasm), I fear you’re finding the same hard lesson really hurts.

    in reply to: BBC and the burning poppy #1878011
    Andy in Beds
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    Yes John, I take your point but….

    I think you’d have to agree that the fighting of foreign wars is an expensive business.
    I mean The Great War and the second lot cost this country an empire and a pre-eminent position in the World, not to mention the millions upon millions of wasted lives.
    I haven’t even started counting the cost of all those ‘minor’ excursions–and actually wouldn’t know how.

    Sadly for your great country (that’s said without sarcasm), I fear you’re finding the same hard lesson really hurts.

    in reply to: General Discussion #279558
    Andy in Beds
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    Scarily enough, I do tend to take on some of the points Derek makes.
    When I did my apprenticeship at GEC back in the day–there was some really bad bullying.
    I’ve seen a grown man (a real grown man–married with a family) reduced to tears by it.

    I can’t say I suffered from it terribly, but then again not everyone has my ‘direct’ attitude to things.
    One individual did try it on once. He was dealt with and never tried again.
    However, I don’t feel a person should be put in the position of having to deal with it to start with–however they may be able to handle themselves. After all, you only go to work to earn a living–unless that is you restore motorbicycles–then it’s more of a religious crusade….:):):)

    in reply to: My very own 'made me swear' thread #1878019
    Andy in Beds
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    Scarily enough, I do tend to take on some of the points Derek makes.
    When I did my apprenticeship at GEC back in the day–there was some really bad bullying.
    I’ve seen a grown man (a real grown man–married with a family) reduced to tears by it.

    I can’t say I suffered from it terribly, but then again not everyone has my ‘direct’ attitude to things.
    One individual did try it on once. He was dealt with and never tried again.
    However, I don’t feel a person should be put in the position of having to deal with it to start with–however they may be able to handle themselves. After all, you only go to work to earn a living–unless that is you restore motorbicycles–then it’s more of a religious crusade….:):):)

    in reply to: General Discussion #279721
    Andy in Beds
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    No they didn’t (btw that’s a terrible cliche you know). Nobody died so that we could walk around calling people bloody foreigners.. My grandfather didn’t try to kill bloody huns and wops and get harangued by wogs so that he could call them those names. He risked dying to kill them because the governments of the powers that were decreed he do so for their own reasons. He wasn’t trying to defend or save Poland. He wasn’t giving me the right to eat a cheese toastie.

    nb I use the above terms to illustrate the point in the language of the day, not as an insult to those descended from the northern tribes, those ‘WithOut Papers’ or the Western Oriental Gentlemen.

    My old man fought a war because he thought it might be more diverting than working in a shoe factory.
    It was..!

    Oh, and BSG, you might as well tell the silly cow what you actually think–because you’re screwed anyway.
    Tell her to go and look up misogynist–assuming she’s bright enough to use a dictionary.
    I might also add that women are all better off barefoot pregnant and in the kitchen.
    The worst thing they can do is sack you.
    Probably aren’t worth working for anyway.
    Good luck.
    A.

    in reply to: My very own 'made me swear' thread #1878155
    Andy in Beds
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    No they didn’t (btw that’s a terrible cliche you know). Nobody died so that we could walk around calling people bloody foreigners.. My grandfather didn’t try to kill bloody huns and wops and get harangued by wogs so that he could call them those names. He risked dying to kill them because the governments of the powers that were decreed he do so for their own reasons. He wasn’t trying to defend or save Poland. He wasn’t giving me the right to eat a cheese toastie.

    nb I use the above terms to illustrate the point in the language of the day, not as an insult to those descended from the northern tribes, those ‘WithOut Papers’ or the Western Oriental Gentlemen.

    My old man fought a war because he thought it might be more diverting than working in a shoe factory.
    It was..!

    Oh, and BSG, you might as well tell the silly cow what you actually think–because you’re screwed anyway.
    Tell her to go and look up misogynist–assuming she’s bright enough to use a dictionary.
    I might also add that women are all better off barefoot pregnant and in the kitchen.
    The worst thing they can do is sack you.
    Probably aren’t worth working for anyway.
    Good luck.
    A.

    in reply to: Polikarpov Po-2 Soviet biplane flight #977193
    Andy in Beds
    Participant

    Delightful aeroplane. But is there another ‘Warbird’ type machine more in need of a re-painting job, I wonder?

    Answers on a post card….

    Why, what’s wrong with it??
    It looks OK.

    The Shuttleworth exanple has been flying for a couple of seasons now.
    It’s just had a new prop fitted.

    Andy

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