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    100 years ago today our great grandfathers were commencing the final advance at

    Flanders, heralding the beginning of the end of one of the stupidest wars in modern history.

    Glorious dead my arse

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
    Flanders, heralding the beginning of the end of one of the stupidest wars in modern history.

    Glorious dead my arse
    Surely there is glory in doing one's duty? When King and country call, decent chaps rally to the Colours. This is what we like to call 'honour'.

    Of course, lefties will never understand because you're all lazy cowards and instinctively hate your own country.

    No offence, like.

    To be fair, berni once admitted to me that he would not die for the Colours, so it seems the Irish are just as bad as lefties.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    Surely there is glory in doing one's duty? When King and country call, decent chaps rally to the Colours. This is what we like to call 'honour'.

    Of course, lefties will never understand because you're all lazy cowards and instinctively hate your own country.

    No offence, like.

    To be fair, berni once admitted to me that he would not die for the Colours, so it seems the Irish are just as bad as lefties.
    No, I dont think there is a great deal of glory in being blown to bits in a field. A notion such as honour serves its purpose in persuading young working class men to submit to slaughter as an alternative to being shot for running away.

    I dont belittle the sacrifice, or the bravery of individuals. I do shrink from describing it as glorious.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
    No, I dont think there is a great deal of glory in being blown to bits in a field. A notion such as honour serves its purpose in persuading young working class men to submit to slaughter as an alternative to being shot for running away.

    I dont belittle the sacrifice, or the bravery of individuals. I do shrink from describing it as glorious.
    Soldiers don't not run away because of honour, p. They don't run away because of their sense of duty to their comrades.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    Soldiers don't not run away because of honour, p. They don't run away because of their sense of duty to their comrades.
    That may well be true of actual soldiers. I suspect it is far less true of conscripts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
    That may well be true of actual soldiers. I suspect it is far less true of conscripts.
    Depends how well the conscripts are trained. The German army in both world wars were largely made up of conscripts. They didn't run much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
    No, I dont think there is a great deal of glory in being blown to bits in a field. A notion such as honour serves its purpose in persuading young working class men to submit to slaughter as an alternative to being shot for running away.

    I dont belittle the sacrifice, or the bravery of individuals. I do shrink from describing it as glorious.
    You realise that whilst 'young working class men' made up the majority of front line troops, it was public school chaps who suffered far the greatest number of casualties, do you?

    The reason we are in the absolute state we are in is that the Great War claimed the lives of the bulk of decent young men and left us with an overwhelming preponderance of the weak, the sickly, the mentally feeble - to whom I believe you refer as 'the working classes'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    You realise that whilst 'young working class men' made up the majority of front line troops, it was public school chaps who suffered far the greatest number of casualties, do you?

    The reason we are in the absolute state we are in is that the Great War claimed the lives of the bulk of decent young men and left us with an overwhelming preponderance of the weak, the sickly, the mentally feeble - to whom I believe you refer as 'the working classes'.
    Any capitalist system requires for its own survival a large underclass. They have to be kept poor and hungry to keep them desperate for work so the likes of you can live it up and look down your nose at them.

    I do apologise if not enough of them died and I formally apologise for my own family surviving and going on to breed a new generation of lefties. The lefties that are going to murder you in your bed as soon as Comrade Corbyn seizes power.

    You should be scared.

    In the meantime, I have a powerful scotch bonnet sauce that I highly recommend. It really clears out the sinuses

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
    Any capitalist system requires for its own survival a large underclass. They have to be kept poor and hungry to keep them desperate for work so the likes of you can live it up and look down your nose at them.

    I do apologise if not enough of them died and I formally apologise for my own family surviving and going on to breed a new generation of lefties. The lefties that are going to murder you in your bed as soon as Comrade Corbyn seizes power.

    You should be scared.

    In the meantime, I have a powerful scotch bonnet sauce that I highly recommend. It really clears out the sinuses
    The lazy fúckers will demand someone else kills me in my bed. Far too much effort for a leftie.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
    Flanders, heralding the beginning of the end of one of the stupidest wars in modern history.

    Glorious dead my arse
    It wasn't a stupid war at all. The alternative was allowing an autocratic and highly militaristic German regime to have hegemony over continental Europe.

    They weren't a nice bunch, p. They had to be stopped.

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