ChangingthesubjectWimb. The new fella called in sick yesterday

[Pat Vegas]

then called in this morning to say he's on antibiotics and will be back on monday :rubchin:


He won't be back imo

[Berni]

This despite him being about 45 and glandular fever being statistically highly unlikely at that age.

Anyway, heard this morning he has left the company. Very odd bloke. Kept claiming to have been in the army, but was suspiciously inconsistent about details like regiment, rank, length of service, etc.

[Pat Vegas]

though i doubt they get Glandular fever.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It turned out in the end that he'd been in the University Air Squadron :hehe:

[redgunamo]

everybody thinks you've flipped your lid :shrug:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It all sounded a bit limp, really. There was no beasting, no running until you spew blood, no climbing mountains in blizzards carrying 100 ib Bergens :-(

Navy, I suppose :sniff:

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

[Berni]

[redgunamo]

At the start, they don't even make you wear the boots until your feet threaten to fall off. They give them trainers instead, otherwise hardly any of today's youngsters would get out of the group :-|

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

of the Officer's Mess.

Yes, I did my time in the Belgian Air Force.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Say it ain't so, r.

[Classic Jorge]

Also, there are perfectly good jobs in society for people who like to follow rules and impose their power on others. You could be old bill, you could be a screw, even if you had dicky knees and just like making people miserable you could work down the DSS. I mean, granted you dont get to physically punish people at the job centre but it's close.

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Steve Hedley, assistant general secretary of the RMT union, was scolded on air for the comments but continued to make sweeping allegations about Cabinet ministers.

'I think all the Tories are an absolute disgrace, they should be taken out and shot to be quite frank with you,' he told LBC presenter Shelagh Fogarty on Tuesday.

[Berni]

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

His actual words bear no relation to what he is saying.

Interesting.

[Classic Jorge]

Though I suspect he's doing it more for dramatic effect rather than just flat out mendacity.

[Berni]

Lefties do love a bit of bloodcurdling language, though, don't they? 'First up against the wall come the revolution', 'capitalist running dogs', 'Tory Scum', the lyrics of the red flag, etc, etc?

It's almost as though violence were inherent to socialist struggle or something.

[Classic Jorge]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/01/29/article-2548413-00F540F300000191-799_634x556.jpg

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Florennes was home to the 'NATO Tigers', a joint force comprising German Tornados, Belgian F16s, French Rafales, all sorts of ****. They were imbued with a highly aggressive spirit and seemed to wish to party like it was 1999. They were, in short, a bunch of f**king head cases.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

You lefties love demanding blood, don't you?

[Berni]

through bullying and intimidation. Like when they attacked strikebreaking miners, attacked the police, threw concrete blocks through windows of those travelling to work during the strike, etc, etc, etc. Yes, those poor little miners.

Violence and intimidation are inherent to the left - from the union movement, where they are the means of making sure everyone does what the union wants to socialist states employing state terror to stop people leaving and crushing dissent.

[Berni]

above normal and whose idea of a good time is reading maths text books?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

These Belges and Krauts were f**king monsters, and desperate to have a crack at the Russkies :shrug:

[Classic Jorge]

Of course, it's fine when Nationalists do it because they're good, honest, salt-of-the-earth merciless defenders of the status quo.

[Berni]

My argument is that the use of violence is key to left-wing ideology as it is considered the most effective means of dealing with those who oppose it. And as we know, the left is all about the ends justifying the means.

[Classic Jorge]

Violence is inherent in any political struggle, and is in anything above a political tete-a-tete, right or left.

Stop trying to make out it's an exclusively leftist thing, anybody with half a brain could point to a million times the right have used violence.

[redgunamo]

so safe in bantering the British off is because they well know we are not so bad as the Russians.

[Berni]

inevitable end result of their ideology.

[Classic Jorge]

There's nothing inherently violent about a belief in equality, Utilitarianism, fairness and compassion.

[redgunamo]

[Berni]

you and hand it to someone else. And when your reasoned arguments fail to convince them, what are you going to do then?

[Classic Jorge]

Apart from that child has the army and the police

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

[redgunamo]

Get your own stuff, don't try to pinch someone else's :nono:

[Classic Jorge]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYCu8raWAAAwexr.jpg

[Berni]

finds the state kicking down his door, taking all his sweets and putting him and his entire family in a gulag to die and collectivising his sweet hoard in such a way that everyone starves to death, you mean?

[redgunamo]

[redgunamo]

[redgunamo]