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Don’t get me wrong but we‘ve got a professional army. Nobody these days is forced to join up. At the end of the day it’s their choice. Most of those who I’ve known didn’t just join up for the money which is not as bad as you’re making out. The services look after you with a lot of add-ons not available in civvy street. Not having the equipment for protection is where your anger should be directed - not the remuneration.
"Don’t get me wrong but we‘ve got a professional army. Nobody these days is forced to join up. At the end of the day it’s their choice."
It's funny because your logic could be applied to the NHS, yet everybody claps them and has respect for what they do. Leftys can't bring themselves to respect those that serve in the army though can they.
Why do you abuse 'uneducated' people? I agree with , much you say, yet you always resort to calling people who don't agree with you uneducated'?
Your professed specialism in finance is well known, yet someone I know laughs at your inaccuracies. Doesn't make you unintelligent, just confirms you are not as intelligent as you think you are .
Ever since my son was... never conceived, because I've never had consensual sex without money involved... I've always kind of looked at you as... a thing, that I could live next to... in accordance with state laws.
I didn’t call him uneducated. I said ‘educate yourself’, as in ‘learn something’ which was a specific response to his post stating that the knee had come from Game of Thrones rather than the civil rights movement.
And perhaps you should consider whether it’s them that are inaccurate? Maybe it makes them less intelligent than you think they are? You know. Just for balance.
Its the phrase, not the action of kneeling. People have knelt for prayer for centuries, its the phrase.
I maybe wrong though, just because I had never heard it said that way before GOT doesn't mean it wasn't, I've not read every book, it could have been used by someone else before.
Is there a news story from that period with MLK that actually says. Martin Luther King takes the knee with his supporters?
I may even be wrong on the actual phrase on GOT, I'm thinking that GOT could have said bend the knee, regardless take the knee I had never heard of and it the first thing I thought of when I heard it was GOT.
All I know is that every 'cause', you jump readily at it.
You admit that you love living in London because you feel it makes you more enlightened than 'back home' in Swansea.
I'm only calling you out on your failures, not your beliefs.
Ever since my son was... never conceived, because I've never had consensual sex without money involved... I've always kind of looked at you as... a thing, that I could live next to... in accordance with state laws.
The action comes from a tradition of the civil rights movement (where Dr King and others used to pray as part of their protests).
The phrase is an American football thing isn’t it - the Quarterback ‘takes a knee‘ to stop the game. Because the current practice started in American Football they used the same phrase.
“You admit that you love living in London because you feel it makes you more enlightened than 'back home' in Swansea. “
What an absolute load of bollox.
I live in London because I came here for work aged 21 and my family, friends and life are here now,
I’ve never remotely said I feel more enlightened than in Swansea. Ive always said I’d love to live outside London in many ways. But I’ve lived here for 32 years. I only lived in Swansea for 18 years. I love Swansea. Many of my family still live in Swansea and I think they’re lucky to do so.
You’ve no idea what my failures are or aren’t. You’ve just made up a friend that theoretically reviews my posts ( as though anyone shows anyone a post from here).
I apologise, I feel I've definitely seen posts from you saying exactly that, if not, i'm wrong.
You definitely feel you're more enlightened, intelligent, grounded etc from living up there and you project it on us mere mortals who decide to stay at home.
Let's look at posters like waynkerr, warwick, yourself,and others...
All of you think you're the intellectual arbiters of this site.
Which is fine, however you're not always right.
Arrggh, just tipped crispy beef all over myself.
Ever since my son was... never conceived, because I've never had consensual sex without money involved... I've always kind of looked at you as... a thing, that I could live next to... in accordance with state laws.
The men who protect you, for you to have the life you live are criminals. And you talk about youngsters being disrespectful. You really do live in a utopia up in London, I've never seen someone with such a concoction of self entitlement.
I’d love to be able to live elsewhere - in fact, this lockdown has meant we possibly will try to do so.
I don’t feel I’m remotely more enlightened or intelligent. What I do think is the case is that living in a huge, very global city for so long, you tend (It’s a generalisation of course) to get to know a much wider variety of people from different ethnicities, religions etc and that tends to change your world view quite a lot. But that’s not why I think like I do. I think like I do because I have always taken people as they are rather than because of their background (including race, religion, sexuality, ethnicity) and I come from a family that always did the same.
You seem to accuse me of thinking like I do because I’m virtue signalling. I’m not. It’s just what I think.
When your friends on the left call a person with a different skin colour who disagrees with them an 'Uncle Tom' or an 'Aunt Jemima' , are they judging them based on their background (including race, religion, sexuality, ethnicity)?
Have you ever called somebody an 'Uncle Tom' on here?
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