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May 20th, 2018, 03:27 PM | #4521 | |
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Tarragon Eggplant appears to be in the full dress uniform off a General, Harry, who is not a Hollywood super star is a mere captain in the Blues and Royals and wore the frock coat of the Regiment. |
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May 20th, 2018, 04:16 PM | #4522 | |
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I never got into the Army ( I tried to get in as an Officer at a Jedburgh Recruiting Office (now closed ) and got taken apart by a bastard Officer in a terrible interview ( he had a Labrador under the Desk ) as my grades were supposedly not good enough , and above all - and this is totally true - what he said to me .. I was not suitable as I had led a sheltered life and never did drink or drugs !! I left in a daze , to this day , but I am glad in a lot of ways I was not accepted - but not nice at the time - to be rejected outright |
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May 20th, 2018, 04:37 PM | #4523 | |
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BERK! I fucking hate so called officers like him! I used to tell my young officers, 'shut up listen and learn from your senior NCO,s they have more years service than you have years on the planet!' I have never heard such a load of rubbish! Yes we all have a drink on occasion, but we also have these little men with glass bottles who turn up at the worst times and insist on us peeing in these jars, they then go and do some alchemy and find out if you have had any drugs in the last two million years! I exaggerate, but random drugs testing is in use through out the armed forces the man is a moron! |
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May 20th, 2018, 06:23 PM | #4525 | |
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Well I know two on here that did! Well err one is a colonial!
Commissions from the ranks are quite common, especially from Warrant Rank, they normally get commissioned as Captains. I quote the answer in Hansard to a questuion from several Mpa on the subject: Quote:
They are also helped to do an Open University course, or can, in some cases, gain a full university course, there are restrictions here, like staying in the Army for a period afterwards! The biggest single problem they are faced with is the age ceiling, most officers ongoing training and course, including staff college, are completed in the years they will be either serving as other ranks, or junior officers, so unless they both joined, and gained a commission at a young age they will be hampered by this. General Peter de la Billiere joined as an ordinary private, but for a very short time for example. The three other services also offer the same scheme, a female friend of mine has been commissioned from the ranks in the Royal Navy and she is now a Lt Commander, and I am bloody proud of her too! She deserves it!I would say that currently about fifteen per cent of the armies officers are ex rankers. Last edited by rupertramjet; May 20th, 2018 at 06:30 PM.. |
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May 20th, 2018, 06:48 PM | #4526 |
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Are all the British aristocrats still very rich and do they still get a lot of privileges?
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May 20th, 2018, 07:01 PM | #4527 |
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No many are quite the opposite, because of death duties, and many other factors, a very few have wealth still, but usually those who have huge property holdings or are connected to large corporations and financial institutions.
The Blair administration took away the hereditary right to sit in the House of Lords, so they now have no power either! He replaced them with a lot of his cronies, ironically one of them 'Lord' Adonnis, (a man who has a name guaranteed to disappoint, according to one of his ex civil servants I knew well!) Went to Oxford as a result of exactly the same scheme for kids in care that I was on, he as Secretary of Education, did away with the scheme that gave him everything! A lot of Blairs ministers were members of his appointed Lords! |
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May 20th, 2018, 07:25 PM | #4528 |
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They have huge amount of wealth due to ownership of property and land.
They can avoid most taxes by using holding companies and off-shore tax havens. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/soc...lways-win.html Even those that do absolutely fuck all with their land get a massive income thanks to EU farm subsidies - the more you own the more you get. One Toff I used to play cricket against used to own half of Romney Marsh just declared it as a 'bird sanctuary' in order to rake in a fortune in 'farm' payments. |
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Yes. As with so much, we have our own Mothering Sunday and it is older than the USA is. Originally it was a religous festival and had nothing to do with mothers at all (you returned to your mother church). Then it faded into something where mothers were given gifts. The US version was adopted in 1914, but the woman who had campaigned for it later tried to get it withdrawn altogether because of the comercialisation of it.
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