Posts by elderlybloke 546 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Aug 2008
Believe it or not, there are people like me why survive and indeed prosper without having the shiny gadgets you all seem to find essential.
I do have a cell plone - which is used for Phone Calls in my Car.
On those rare occasions that it is needed for an Emergency or Breakdown.
I do not stare at the screen while walking , so I am not likely to injure myself by hitting obstructions,falling into holes ,or getting hit by Vehicles not noticed .
Life did proceed quite well and successfully before Cell Phones .
Most of the time these objects are just great TIME WASTERS.
PS My local Telcom recently gave me a Samsung S4 Smartphone, for my good behaviour (I think), and I donated it to my Grandson for his 17 birthday.
He loves those sort of things. I hope he walks carefully and safely.
Blair hasn't been charged with War Crimes,for the same reason that Bush hasn't.
Bush/USA can tell the World to get fucked because USA have things called Thermonuclear Weapons.
Blair is their friend-Like Cameron.
Just like when the British Empire was the big Bully- Might is Right.
This last bit wont win me many friends!
My History book says in 1066 , England became part of France,(well Normandy) when Willy came over and caught Harold when he was having a hard time.
He had just defeated some invaders up North , and after marching up there ,having a Battle and marching back down again , his Army wasn't at its best.
A bit of different timing and History would have been very different.
My new Wireless Logitech Keyboard is loverly-loverly(as in a Musical)
Happy with price, happy with performance
Some people would moan if their Bum was on fire and moan if you put the fire out.
I have had some less than ideal keyboards but I haven't got excited and screaming over them
More imporant things in life .
At those formal greeting occasions where an unfortunate visitor meets a Maori (usually jumping up and down and sticking his tongue out) he will be expected to rub noses with him or some other Maori.
I can't think of anything worse than this sort of greeting/behaviour , but in another century or two the Maoris may have became civilised.
Dear boltar,
Any Limey or other foreign devil who tries to bring their own food in with them when they visit New Zealand will have it confiscated and fined if they don't declare it.
Only get it confiscated if they declare it.
Why? Well we don't have many nasty things here like Foot and Mouth and nasty Bugs that could destroy our Agricultural industry>
That's old news.
There were many teenagers during a thing called WW2 ,loading Bombs ,dropping Bombs , shooting Machine Guns ,Rifles,Bazookas etc.
I have a Brother who had Two Machine Guns (Point 5 calibre) that he used to shoot at Japanese up in the Bouganville area. He was 19 at the time.
People liked teenagers shooting guns and dropping Bombs then.
SkppyBing,
The reason that the Russians did not veto the vote on UN gettting inolved was that they had walked out and they were not repressented at the time the vote was taken
They learned their lesson and never again let having a hissyfit get in the way of being able to throw a spanner in the works.
Graeme,
The Yanks did let off a test Bomb in the Desert to check if a Plutonium Bomb would work.
They were sure that the Uranium Bomb would work
The test Bomb was a bit of a surprise, as I think the yield was about 4 times that calculated.
Don't know if the sums were entirely British.
Peace be with us all.
Greetings ,
Early in WW2 the RAF was very civilised and did not bomb Civilians as it was consided by the Planners to be important to behave as Gentlemen.
Lots of bits of Paper were thrown out over Germany telling them to be sensible and surrender.
Things changed quite a bit after the Hun did the Blitz on Britain. He had done similar things to Civilians in Spain,Holland , Yugoslavia and Poland before that.
The Americans don't bomb Civilians ,they just do Colateral Damage instead.
Bugger me arn't the current generation super sensitive lot of farts.
When I was a young lad all this bullshit about correctness was not in fashion.
For instance, a girl in the mob I was in was called Hideous, a bloke who had been left with a withered leg by Polio was Kickidy, and a Maori bloke who had a very dark skin was Blondie.
No one got into a big hissyfit over it. Probably had things of more consequence to concern us , like WW2.
Any important stuff happening at this moment in time?
Some nerp or nerps fudged the books over the height of the wall required in ALL regions.
If you have been awake at all for the past 2 years you would know that people were unconcerned about the Tsumani coming because they knew that the height of the barrier was high enought for any wave thought possible.
Force 9 quake was the first for about a thousand years.
PS . All of Japan is subject to quakes .
The story I remember is that the computer on the Sheffield did a reboot as the attack was getting under way, and then another ship came along and got in the way of Sheffield doing anything at a vital moment.
Computers probably continue with that annoying habit today.
Depending on missiles for defence was the in thing at the time , but the crews very soon set up machine guns anchored to the railings to give adequate close in fire power.
PS . The Americans had the same philosophy in Vietnam , while the MIGs had cannon.
The American pilots were at a disadvantage from my memory of events at that time.
I will make a prediction-(a safe one) That the next shootout will not go as any of the planners have planned it .
Like all wars, it won't get faught the way the planners/stratigists etc stated it would.
Icon - for the tears that will flow.
and later exploited small/young/immature people in diabolical and dangerous Factories and Mines.
The Royal Navy in Nelson's time used 8 and 9 year old sailors as "Powder Monkeys".
It is only very recently that Britain has been able to become all sanctimonious.
It seems that you are not fond of Doctors, and the best thing for you to do is to avoid all contact with the greedy rotters.
My Doc. seems to be an exeption, he actually seems to be a carining sort of youth.
He will grow out of it , as he is only up to age 47.
The carpet bombing of German cities was only done after the RAF had tried daylight bombing of military targets and suffered heavy casualties .
They switched to night bombing to reduce their losses ,but night bombing without any radar or any other aid early in war was a
very hit and miss appair. Mainly miss , with only about 5% of bombs getting within 5 miles of the target.
Carpet bombing did not start until 1942 when Bomber Command had built up sufficient numbers to acheive some success.
The bombing of civilian targets by the Germans was mainly in 1940 and 1941.
They did try to create a Fire Storm in London on one raid but failed as the second wave was cancelled due to bad weather.
Bombing was the only way of taking the war to the Germans, until the Invasion in June 1944.
It is just as well for the post war generations that the Germans did not win , as they would have treated you like the other enslaved people of Europe.
PS. madra, perhaps you should read up on WW2, you are a bit uninformed at the moment.
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