200th anniversary of Waterloo
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Tim Brown
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If it's the Mail, I assume that whatever they say, it will be the opposite. Thus I am expecting lots of celebrations. It may be old age getting to me, but today is Trafalgar Day. Did they do anything for the bicentenary in 2005? Can't recall anything.
Ron Tamburrini
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They done a little thing in Edinburgh for Trafalgar Day
Other than the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, Trafalgar Day passes un noticed in general. When I was a young lad in Kent, the village of Wouldham, which is where Walter Burke the Purser of HMS Victory at Trafalgar is buried, then every Oct 21st the local school children laid flowers on his grave. I don't know whether the custom is still continued,but I would like to think that it is. You ex Royal Engineers of old would remember the Bridging Camp at Wouldham,where the Sappers used to build their Pontoon Bridges across the River Medway.Now long gone.
billyturnip
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If we mustn't upset the French, why haven't the government renamed Trafalgar Square and Waterloo station?
Politicians are a bunch of..........
Another thought, if England met France in the World Cup final ( I know, us making a final, that's a laugh) would we let them win, so they wouldn't get upset?
Disgusted from London
Malc, when I hear these stories the first thing I think is are the French really upset or is it just some do-gooder in this country getting upset on their behalf.
Then ask yourself are the Austrians upset about the Rue de Rivoli?
That's just one Paris street that springs to mind but I bet there's loads more.
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More likey the latter Roger. It's a common affliction that blights this country. I've noticed for example that in cases when someone has supposedly said something "racist", it's almost invariably white middle-class metrosexuals who are the ones getting all hot under the collar about it and kicking up a fuss, not the person or group who is the alleged "victim".
The one that really gets me though is all this guff we constantly hear about supposed "sexism". If for example you're a male TV football pundit who makes an off-the-cuff comment along the lines of "women don't understand the offside rule anyway", that's a career-destroying utterance and a sure-fire way to get yourself pilloried in the press, branded a "mysoginist dinosaur" for life and never work again (if you're lucky you'll end up banished to some graveyard slot on Hebrides Independent Radio).
And yet look at "Loose Women" - a more unpleasant gaggle of embittered, man-hating harridans it would be hard to find, yet misandry of this calibre is deemed perfectly acceptable televisular entertainment by those who control the horizontal and the vertical. Same with Oprah - I will never forget the time she had as one of her guests some woman who had cut her husband's todger off because he'd been playing away, and this aggrieved wife was quite cheerfully explaining how she'd done the gory deed, amid much delighted laughing, whooping and applause from the almost exclusively female studio audience. Once again - all perfectly acceptable daytime TV. But imagine the uproar that would have (quite rightly) ensued had some bloke been given air time to gleefully relate how he had sexually mutilated his wife.
Sorry to go off on a rant but "political correctness" and the associated crass double standards is like red rag to a bull with me. Time now to calm down and pick up a brush.
- Steve
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Steve, the best way is to try and pay zero atttention to it. I have to watch my bloood pressure and it's become a fine art to avoid this shower.
billyturnip
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Warning Naval joke coming up....
Q. What's a Wrens favourite wine?
A. I can't lift that it's too heavy.
Q. What's a Wrens favourite wine?
A. I can't lift that it's too heavy.
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Indeed Kevin - the problem I have with all this "gender equality" stuff is that there are so many women who want it both ways.
In fairness not all do, but a lot are like that and I've seen it myself: Demanding "equal treatment" when it suits them, but not averse to playing the "helpless female" card when that suits them, and wanting to be "treated like a lady". Come to think of it, I used to be married to one who could be very much like that!
I've no problem at all with the principle of "equality", but it can't be a la carte and if you insist on "equality" on the basis that you are just as capable as someone else at doing a particular job, then you have to take the rough with the smooth.
Another thing that really grates my gears is all this stuff we constantly get bombarded with in the media about the supposed "gender pay gap" which is - for the most part - a total myth.
- Steve
In fairness not all do, but a lot are like that and I've seen it myself: Demanding "equal treatment" when it suits them, but not averse to playing the "helpless female" card when that suits them, and wanting to be "treated like a lady". Come to think of it, I used to be married to one who could be very much like that!
I've no problem at all with the principle of "equality", but it can't be a la carte and if you insist on "equality" on the basis that you are just as capable as someone else at doing a particular job, then you have to take the rough with the smooth.
Another thing that really grates my gears is all this stuff we constantly get bombarded with in the media about the supposed "gender pay gap" which is - for the most part - a total myth.
- Steve
PC rules the World .I don't think for a minute that the French would be offended, other than to show their short comings when it comes to a war.Rather than burst one of my blood vessels i'm going to have a listen to Waterloo by ABBA and calm myself down.
Brian
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DEL
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Yet another disrespectful remark about that fine broadcaster HIR. No political correctness here then!
