MaybeNextTime

The film Starship Troopers (I can't speak for the book as I haven't read it) was made to parody the idea of a society in which only those willing to be indoctrinated in to a military get to voice an opinion. The point being that you end up with a self serving culture that only ever goes one way and has to look to continual war to justify itself. To my mind giving special rights to special people based on their jobs is a dangerous step in the wrong direction. Soldiers should expect exactly what is in their contracts, just the same as every other employee. Still, perhaps I should have expected the response, after all some people thought that by questioning the the whole Royal WB thing somehow I was disrespecting the memories of dead soldiers. Madness. Some folk just look for ways to be offended.

I know Headley Court quite well thanks. I think you may have made one too many assumptions My point was that casting the Covenant (which has only been kicking around since 2000) in to law won't actually change anything. I do not trust politicians at the best of times and certainly not in an era of cuts. This will be a paper exercise that will result in next to nothing for soldiers and their families.

The bit that got me was that he wanted the truck moved and then arrested the driver so it couldn't be moved at all. Possibly a man with only a hammer in his tool box.

LOL. Sounds like the kind of respect I can do with out. Keep the random insults coming as they just reinforce my general opinion of the people of jingoland.

Ever seen Starship Troopers? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13397909 Sounds to me like the start of the process of wooing the votes of all the military and their families.

Don't bother ******* about with touch up sticks on a key scratch as it'll always look rubbish. Get it down to a body shop and they'll respray it ASAP. Is your insurance fully comp? Mine would cover this on a no fault-no blame basis Forget all about CCTV as it'll never be zoomed in enough on your car to see a key scratch being done.

Obviously your 2 independent valuations were wrong. Try knocking £50,000 off your price and see if it sells then? Or maybe you could put it to auction? Those sales are final.

D'oh! Your lack of quotes confused me :yp:

Wow! Way to go about losing your house to settle a libel claim!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKzojYvXn20 Obviously he IS the law.

Hmmm, tough call. If you don't buy her a pressie and the rapture comes then you'll have all eternity to be reminded of it. If you do buy her a pressie and the rapture comes then you aren't going up as, by buying a pressie for an event after the rapture, you showed a lack of faith. Probably best to just go worship some idols

Quiet, reserved, dignified. Maybe I'm old fashioned but insincerity really ****** me off and when I see some of the RBL all bereted and medalled I can't but worry for their sanity. What has a quiet moment of reflection for a passing hearse got to do with something you were forced to do 50 years ago? It's not about you, it's about the relatives. The whole point was that it wasn't an expected, scheduled, militarised spectacle. The 'Royal' thing makes it tacky. If the royals actually wanted to help they could have dug in to their immensely deep pockets and paid for some vehicle upgrades maybe.

So can we table an amendment to the kill-anyone-we-dont-like-Bill (the binLadenBill) that also allows us to kill the mentally confused? I'm thinking maybe the Police should only be allowed to return fire, not initiate it.

I think grief tourism is unbecoming and it would annoy the hell out of me at my relative's funerals. So far as I'm concerned the grief is for the friends and families of the deceased - everyone else is just jumping on the bandwagon. I still don't understand why some old blokes who spent maybe 2 years in National Service 50 years ago insist on wearing medals, polishing shoes, standing stiffly by the side of the road and pointing their hands at their own heads because someone they never met died in a foreign war. Respect? Sounds more like their own lives are empty. A softly spoken lady echoed that opinion. “I thought it was a three-ring circus,” she said. “It started as a spontaneous thing, but it’s grown like Topsy, and we’ve lost something . . . it’s become an event, trailed in the news ... almost as if it was advertised. Personally I think some people came just to see it, like grief tourists.”

Sounds like ******** to me. I bet you any sum of money you like (up to 10p even) that if I format his drive and reinstall his OS and mail app with new, secure passwords then this would indeed stop. If they originating from your box then you just need to find the virus that is mailing them and kill it. Prolly best to change the mail server's name to something else until you are sure it's gone otherwise it'll just keep sending them. That way you can carry on using Yahoo via a browser rather than outlook/thunderbird. I realise that differentiating an app from a virus can be a challenge in MicroSoftLand but that's the quality of the software that you've bought, sir :-)