Anyone been assaulted at work?

[Puffingbilly413]

10 minutes ago, Doug Tait said:

 

When I think about seeing him play it makes sense. Always made the goalmouth look small and unwelcoming with his presence.

You see Doug - 80s keepers and bush wars are a great antidote to dickheads and traffic management...

[AHPP]

4 minutes ago, Puffingbilly413 said:

No never lived out there.  Ex-British Army so met loads of Commonwealth guys serving.  Did a couple of degrees on African politics and focused on Rhodesia.  Rhodesia during the period of their bush wars was considered to have the best fighting force in Africa.  Zim is huge - but they fought a counter-insurgency (communist supported) against overwhelmingly superior numbers of insurgents, all the time facing global sanctions, with a regular armed forces of about 12,000 people.  Tactics we think of as niche today were most likely tried and tested in Rhodesia, S Africa etc.

Going back to Blood Diamond, your man's character was actually Rhodesian - he made a point of it because they detested being thought of as S African.

So when someone says they've never met a nice South African, they mean they've never met a nice (Royal) South African? DiCaprio's character turned out to be OK so that fits with your hint that Rhodesians are a bit easier to love. And the long haired mercenary, Kruger in Elysium is the typification of  a true Saffer? 

[Puffingbilly413]

1 minute ago, AHPP said:

Kruger in Elysium

Haven't seen that one - any good?

 

[AHPP]

3 minutes ago, Puffingbilly413 said:

Haven't seen that one - any good?

 

Middling. It might be OK to you. I had it confused with District 9 for ages, which is dreadful, so it's somehow tainted.

edit: Same director as District 9 too.

Edited December 15, 2022 by AHPP

[Puffingbilly413]

4 minutes ago, AHPP said:

So when someone says they've never met a nice South African, they mean they've never met a nice (Royal) South African? DiCaprio's character turned out to be OK so that fits with your hint that Rhodesians are a bit easier to love. And the long haired mercenary, Kruger in Elysium is the typification of  a true Saffer? 

You'd need to make up your own mind re where Rhodesia sits morally I suppose.  Like everything, it's never black and white (pun most definitely intended).

If you look at the armed forces of WW2 Germany, it was full of Poles, Russians, Danes, Dutch etc etc, yet we think of those as allied states or occupied countries.  Conflict is never, ever remotely straightforward.

[AHPP]

On a cheerful note, I've shot with a pair of South Africans a few times and they were quite convivial (if still fairly stoic). The bald blokes at Bisley. I bet someone on here knows who I'm talking about.

Edited December 15, 2022 by AHPP

[Puffingbilly413]

4 minutes ago, AHPP said:

On a cheerful note, I've shot with a pair of South Africans a few times and they were quite convivial. The bald blokes at Bisley. I bet someone knows who I'm talking about.

Just realised it wasn't the Pythons but Spitting Image I was on about earlier about nice S Africans:

 

 

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Just now, Puffingbilly413 said:

Just realised it wasn't the Pythons but Spitting Image I was on about earlier about nice S Africans:

 

 

I didn't want to tell you your own business.

[Puffingbilly413]

1 minute ago, AHPP said:

I didn't want to tell you your own business.

Sieve-like brain.

[Con]

Doug, see if Bruce will do a shift on traffic management with you