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 :-)

Do all of the others really want this or is it just one 'organiser' trying to push their agenda through? Bet they sell up shortly after it gets laid

* ring ring * hello? Hi can I ask you some security questions to confirm who you are? no I need to confirm your identity before I can talk to you tough * click *

Could also just be spoofing your email address. This where they have no actual access to your mail credential but somehow pick up your email address. Because you are less like to be automatically blocked as a spammer than they are they pretend that their mail comes from you. Very annoying but next to nothing that you can do about it however it doesn't mean that you've been hacked.

Commercial grade concrete floor paint for garage workshops will last forever in there an be impervious to everything you can spill on it. Blood, bodily fluids, everything :yp:

VW dealer or your owner's manual will tell you for sure but it'll be something like every 50,000 miles or 5 years whichever is sooner.

No, it isn't. Our refusal to do such things coupled with our unerring obedience of the law makes us better than them. Oh, wait...is that right?

One of my 4 was the same. Broad spectrum autism with lots of associated behavioural problems including a tendency to sociopathy. 3 hour screaming fits were common place. Nothing, and I do mean nothing would work. She burned through specialist socials workers, support staff and teachers like a knife through butter. Once you've been through that for a few years you begin to understand why some parents snap. I held her mother off her several times. The trick was to spot the build up behaviour and deal with it quick. The mildest of slapped bums would be enough although you could be there all day with naughty steps and a disapproving tone. Incapable of understanding other peoples emotions you understand. Of course you must never get angry, save that for when they set fire to the carpet in a serious attempt to kill their siblings. I laugh when people tell me some of their parenting strategies for dealing with situations when little Gemima just won't do her homework.

The obvious couple are Dresden (1945, 25000 civilians deaths) and Hamburg (1943, 50000 civilian deaths) but pretty much any night time mass carpet bombing raid will do. Not that I'm forgetting Hull or Coventry but I'm not the one arguing that people who deliberately target civilians during war can be shot without trial. The Nuremberg Trials proved something other than that we had won the war.

mine used to flap their arms as well. Looked for all the world like they were trying to fly. Hilarious.

Don't confuse discipline with abuse - the 2 are very different. Children do not have the same rights as adults because they are children. The reason we don't let them drive is not just because they can't reach the pedals. Boys, especially teenage boys, need a little nagging doubt in the back of their minds that if they go too far it will end badly. Certainly that was about the only limiting factor when I was growing up. Naughty step? **** you with your naughty step mister I'm off to buy some fags. My eldest did hit me once. Hurt his hand and me laughing at him and not laid out in cartoon stylie shocked him back to reality