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Post by rgs2001uk on Feb 18, 2016 21:25:12 GMT 7
I have to agree with your daughter, and rumour has it they have small dangly bits too. Tokyo is something else, worth a visit as is Kyoto and Osaka. Tokyo is like something out of Blade Runner, however I digress. Every man owes it to himself to visit this amazing country at least one, it will blow your mind, makes Thailand look like a Sunday school picnic. Thailand is for Cheap Charlies that cant afford Japan, nothing but a pale imitation of the real thing.
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Post by siampolee on Feb 18, 2016 21:42:43 GMT 7
cmk.
Yes they did my mother and ny father were masters of sarcasm, yes I did and yes I still do do insult others I take a lead from you here in that area,
I too traveled the world as a short term commission (9 years) Royal Navy Officer Lt.Commander, who was then linked into the equerries staff of Our Sovereign Lady The Queen, Then at the end of my commission term into a fast track promotion scheme and into a specialized policing division in the U.K. due to past experience and qualifications and also family connections which had eased my way into the Royal Navy and Darmouth as well as onto the equerries staff. A scion of an old and respected well connected English family.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2016 21:56:11 GMT 7
I have to agree with your daughter, and rumour has it they have small dangly bits too. Tokyo is something else, worth a visit as is Kyoto and Osaka. Tokyo is like something out of Blade Runner, however I digress. Every man owes it to himself to visit this amazing country at least one, it will blow your mind, makes Thailand look like a Sunday school picnic. Thailand is for Cheap Charlies that cant afford Japan, nothing but a pale imitation of the real thing. Strange thing about 'sliding doors' in life, almost took a job in Tokyo before that English Schools Inspector in BKK 'headhunted' me ( he wanted an IB co-ordinator and we got on like a house on fire, offered me the job on the spot) for Shanghai, if I went to Tokyo and all was signed too, but something, gut feeling said, no, go to Shanghai. It was a real turning point and decision in my life I guess. Took the ferry from Shanghai to Osaka a couple of trips, have a friend there as you said, a mind blowing place on many levels. Tokyo is Blade Runner sets all the way through.
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Post by me on Feb 18, 2016 21:57:19 GMT 7
cmk. Yes they did my mother and ny father were masters of sarcasm, yes I did and yes I still do do insult others I take a lead from you here in that area, I too traveled the world as a short term commission (9 years) Royal Navy Officer Lt.Commander, who was then linked into the equerries staff of Our Sovereign Lady The Queen, Then at the end of my commission term into a fast track promotion scheme and into a specialized policing division in the U.K. due to past experience and qualifications and also family connections which had eased my way into the Royal Navy and Darmouth as well as onto the equerries staff. A scion of an old and respected well connected English family. I understand Darmouth has great sarcasm teachers who end all puts down with a "Sir" delivered with just the right amount of superiority. I see you have learnt well Master Siampolee
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2016 22:03:51 GMT 7
cmk. Yes they did my mother and ny father were masters of sarcasm, yes I did and yes I still do do insult others I take a lead from you here in that area, I too traveled the world as a short term commission (9 years) Royal Navy Officer Lt.Commander, who was then linked into the equerries staff of Our Sovereign Lady The Queen, Then at the end of my commission term into a fast track promotion scheme and into a specialized policing division in the U.K. due to past experience and qualifications and also family connections which had eased my way into the Royal Navy and Darmouth as well as onto the equerries staff. A scion of an old and respected well connected English family. I understand Darmouth has great sarcasm teachers who end all puts down with a "Sir" delivered with just the right amount of superiority. I see you have learnt well Master SiampoleeIt's Sirpolee you young lout. Show some respect.
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Post by me on Feb 18, 2016 22:16:07 GMT 7
ooops new glasses needed
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Post by siampolee on Feb 19, 2016 6:23:36 GMT 7
Those fine gentleman instructors at these three fine U.K. military officers training establishments, Dartmouth, Sandhurst and Cranwell certainly used and still do even now in the current P.C. climate use the expression '' sir'' phonetically However when they had cause to write it down it was spelt ''CUR." By god, those old N.C.O's made us spit blood and dismantled we raw civilians and then moulded us into first class military personnel. Words alone cannot express my utter respect for those long since gone instructors. Many of them, or so we cadets thought at that time had probably been court martialed and thrown out of the Gestapo for excess cruelty and brutality.
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Post by cmk on Feb 19, 2016 6:29:34 GMT 7
cmk. Yes they did my mother and ny father were masters of sarcasm, yes I did and yes I still do do insult others I take a lead from you here in that area, I too traveled the world as a short term commission (9 years) Royal Navy Officer Lt.Commander, who was then linked into the equerries staff of Our Sovereign Lady The Queen, Then at the end of my commission term into a fast track promotion scheme and into a specialized policing division in the U.K. due to past experience and qualifications and also family connections which had eased my way into the Royal Navy and Darmouth as well as onto the equerries staff. A scion of an old and respected well connected English family. Ah yes don't they have a race for you fellows every year?
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Post by siampolee on Feb 19, 2016 7:06:04 GMT 7
Nice try cmk, however you forgot one very important point.
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes
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Post by cmk on Feb 19, 2016 8:36:09 GMT 7
Nice try cmk, however you forgot one very important point. Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes Wasn't he a gay guy from Africa? For months, many of my colleagues and I have campaigned for our university, Oxford, to remove its statue glorifying the racist mass murderer of Africans Cecil Rhodes. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/19/rhodes-fall-oxford-university-inclusivity-black-studentsIf that's who you want to emulate - go for it. Frankly I think it should read. "We as Englishmen are very sorry for the harm we have caused humanity and are deeply sorry." Depends on your point of view. The colonial apologists or the colonies that were pillaged. The folks that starved in India and Ireland or the well fed lads in the castles in Britain. I'm related to the Queen of England but I don't normally mention it it's on my mothers side of the family - granny thought it was a big deal but she was the only one. I never thought much of people who rode the coattails of their family and I respect those men who have the balls to make it on their own without relying on family connections and a wink and a nod type of promotions. That's why I find nationality completely irrelevant in my personal life and in my choice of friends. People who take pride in a nationality or demean a nationality I think are a ways down on the evolutionary scale. When the world became one place as opposed to a bunch of nations I suppose is open for debate but most of the problems today can be laid at the door step to nationalism and religion.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2016 9:13:54 GMT 7
Nice try cmk, however you forgot one very important point. Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes Wasn't he a gay guy from Africa? For months, many of my colleagues and I have campaigned for our university, Oxford, to remove its statue glorifying the racist mass murderer of Africans Cecil Rhodes. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/19/rhodes-fall-oxford-university-inclusivity-black-studentsIf that's who you want to emulate - go for it. Frankly I think it should read. "We as Englishmen are very sorry for the harm we have caused humanity and are deeply sorry." Depends on your point of view. The colonial apologists or the colonies that were pillaged. The folks that starved in India and Ireland or the well fed lads in the castles in Britain. I'm related to the Queen of England but I don't normally mention it it's on my mothers side of the family - granny thought it was a big deal but she was the only one. I never thought much of people who rode the coattails of their family and I respect those men who have the balls to make it on their own without relying on family connections and a wink and a nod type of promotions. That's why I find nationality completely irrelevant in my personal life and in my choice of friends. People who take pride in a nationality or demean a nationality I think are a ways down on the evolutionary scale. When the world became one place as opposed to a bunch of nations I suppose is open for debate but most of the problems today can be laid at the door step to nationalism and religion. Why would you need to mention that he was gay? Is that a slur on his character. Are you Homophobic CMK?
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Post by AyG on Feb 19, 2016 9:50:24 GMT 7
Wasn't he a gay guy from Africa? For months, many of my colleagues and I have campaigned for our university, Oxford, to remove its statue glorifying the racist mass murderer of Africans Cecil Rhodes. (1) There is no significant evidence that he was gay, apart from the fact that he never married and he went to Oxford. (2) He wasn't from Africa, he was English. (3) So, a few negroes died whilst violently opposing the development of the country under the benevolent rule of the British Empire. So what? Would it have been better if southern Africa had been left a lawless, barbaric country populated by savages? But then, they're heading back that way again after then end of white rule.
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Post by Soutpeel on Feb 19, 2016 11:08:14 GMT 7
Nice try cmk, however you forgot one very important point. Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes Wasn't he a gay guy from Africa? For months, many of my colleagues and I have campaigned for our university, Oxford, to remove its statue glorifying the racist mass murderer of Africans Cecil Rhodes. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/19/rhodes-fall-oxford-university-inclusivity-black-studentsIf that's who you want to emulate - go for it. Frankly I think it should read. "We as Englishmen are very sorry for the harm we have caused humanity and are deeply sorry." Depends on your point of view. The colonial apologists or the colonies that were pillaged. The folks that starved in India and Ireland or the well fed lads in the castles in Britain. I'm related to the Queen of England but I don't normally mention it it's on my mothers side of the family - granny thought it was a big deal but she was the only one. I never thought much of people who rode the coattails of their family and I respect those men who have the balls to make it on their own without relying on family connections and a wink and a nod type of promotions. That's why I find nationality completely irrelevant in my personal life and in my choice of friends. People who take pride in a nationality or demean a nationality I think are a ways down on the evolutionary scale. When the world became one place as opposed to a bunch of nations I suppose is open for debate but most of the problems today can be laid at the door step to nationalism and religion. All they are doing RE the Rhodes statue thing at Oxford is copying what students did at UCT (Uni of Cape Town) ironically a university John Rhodes put a lot of money into as well as donating large tracts of land from his own Cape Town estate, some of the idiots who demanded the removal of his statue at UCT also happened to be receiving grants and scholarships from the Rhodes foundation, so you can guess what happened next ? In a similar vein in recent weeks also burnt a large number of university painting in an attempt to "erase whiteness" and during their efforts also destroyed many works of a preeminent black artist who had put under the patronship of UCT and bought his works, housed and fed him
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2016 11:09:13 GMT 7
What's this thread about again originally?
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Post by Soutpeel on Feb 19, 2016 11:16:26 GMT 7
Wasn't he a gay guy from Africa? For months, many of my colleagues and I have campaigned for our university, Oxford, to remove its statue glorifying the racist mass murderer of Africans Cecil Rhodes. (1) There is no significant evidence that he was gay, apart from the fact that he never married and he went to Oxford. (2) He wasn't from Africa, he was English. (3) So, a few negroes died whilst violently opposing the development of the country under the benevolent rule of the British Empire. So what? Would it have been better if southern Africa had been left a lawless, barbaric country populated by savages? But then, they're heading back that way again after then end of white rule. It has long been said SA will end up like Zimbabwe, I disagree, Rhodesia/Zim never had a large population of Afrikaaners in the mix which SA obviously does and if one day "die Volk" kick off then the powers that be in SA will really have their hands full and there will be a civil war
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