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[kevinjohnsonmbe]

20 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Think Kev is mistaking the UK for one of those countries that have had democracy for all of five minutes.

Mate I'm just saying - 400 years is as 5 minutes, but a blink of the eye of a universe, where human existence is like nothing in comparison to the whole.  Against that perspective 400 years since the English civil war is so small a period of time as to not even be measurable. 

 

I'm only putting it out there, I'm not advocating or even seriously suggesting it might happen - I'm just saying, when measured against the current usage of the word "unprecedented" that a military coup or perhaps a mutiny are not without precedent.  

 

Ergo - already unable to qualify as "unprecedented" in a world where "unprecedented" has become almost "anticipated."  We are, after all, only 2 ¼ centuries since the Spithead mutinies and only 79 years - a singe lifetime - since the Tyne Tees (50th) and Highland (51st) Divisions downed rifles at the battle for Salerno.

 

And the WI - a formidable force!  Just ask Tony 🤣

[GarethM]

I'd rather have the WI than his Mrs to go home to! 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

53 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Great, now I've got the mental image of the WI forming table and chair bake sale road blocks, smearing pastel coloured camo cream on their faces to blend into the concrete jungle!. Older ladies rocking in the corner screaming you've not seen what I've seen in a 1960s Vietnam vet style.

Step away from the Victoria sponge cake Mrs Jones!

[GarethM]

Was the dribbling due to the moist Victoria sponge or the taser sarg?.

 

It'll never be as funny as "It's only Bolognese Andy"

Edited October 20, 2022 by GarethM

[eggsarascal]

1 hour ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

I hear ya….

 

But your examples are of those days not these days. 
 

What I mean is, over relatively short periods of time, human behaviour has the potential to change immeasurably - exponentially. 
 

Example: just a 100 years ago, 880,000 (6% of the UK adult male population) willingly walked into the kill zones of German machine gunners on a sense of ‘duty.’
 

Technology, awareness, access to info (whether genuine or otherwise) all of these things have changed beyond recognition in a 100 years. The rate of technological change is accelerating beyond the ability of humans to quietly adapt. When it reaches a critical mass there will be a Big Bang -  ✈️ ↘️🏙

 

You say Strangeways, I say poll tax protests. 
 

You say Brixton, I say anti war marches. 
 

We’re on a curve mate, where it peaks or peters out who really knows but suddenly, apparently out of no where, (unlike the French) the Brits will take more than can be realistically imagined, then, all of a sudden, boom, the WI are slapping on camo cream. 

Before the military were called in people would have to take to the streets and cause mayhem, I can’t see it happening.

 

Nothing’s changed, people will sit back and take it… dry.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

2 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Before the military were called in people would have to take to the streets and cause mayhem, I can’t see it happening.

 

Nothing’s changed, people will sit back and take it… dry.

Don't judge others by your own standards you slack ass 🤣

[eggsarascal]

1 minute ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Don't judge others by your own standards you slack ass 🤣

Should we count the amount of protest we’ve been on? I’m guessing I know who would come out on top.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

17 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Should we count the amount of protest we’ve been on? I’m guessing I know who would come out on top.

Alright sweetheart, I was only pulling your leg....

 

You'd win because while you were pissing up your weekends in a hippy protest bus I was in far off lands spreading the Empire and taming the natives...  

[GarethM]

I really wanted to be sarcastic and say 18-30 holidays in Cyprus don't count.

 

But respect those that have served.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

31 minutes ago, GarethM said:

I really wanted to be sarcastic and say 18-30 holidays in Cyprus don't count.

 

But respect those that have served.

Yome bang on the money treacle!

 

One of my fave memories is the Cyprus decompress stop on the way out of a SoH patrol.  I took a gang from the ship up to Akrotiri for a quick 2 day acquaint and static line jump, followed by glider flight around the island then into Ayia Napa for a bungee jump and a Chinese meal.  Ship sailed home, I stayed on in Cyprus and spent a week at the drop zone doing climb outs and crazy shit with the chief instructor in the mornings,  diving the Zenobia in the afternoon, then out on the piss at night.....