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Discussion in 'Free Fire Zone' started by Richard, Jul 20, 2006.

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GRW Pillboxologist WW2|ORG Editor

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Sounds like some of my locals!

Here's a great example of modern British stupidity-
BBC NEWS | UK | DVLA letter bomb woman 'shunned'

This woman was a letter bomb victim, but not only did her "colleagues" shun her, some arse-wipe manager wanted her to apologise!!! I'm just off to take a double dose of my medication........

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PC Madness hits New Zealand.

Busty British tourist barred from casino because of her 'offensive' breasts

Richard, Sep 25, 2007

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Come to Texas ! I know this nice little bar where they pat you down at the door for guns and knives and if you don't have any they loan you one for the night.
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Hey! I know a couple of places like that! One comes complete with bullet holes in the ceiling. And, of course, there are always the rowdier biker bars where if someone shows up (stupidly) on a rice rocket it ends up a bar ornament and the owner is thumped thoroughly.

T. A. Gardner, Sep 25, 2007

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If I ever get the chance I will.
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Come on, with a name like Richard, draw your sword and take it back

Have to keep the other side happy

Coir a glaive

Nemo me impune lacessit

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Firemen demoted and fined for shining torch on gay sex foursome in the bushes | the Daily Mail

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British high streets facing 'Christmas blackout' because of health and safety laws

Well back to the dark ages we go, time to get the candles out. I forgot there dangerous.

Richard, Oct 12, 2007

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The Empire (Council) strikes back, this is nothing as many folks will be armed to the teeth with fireworks and what are they? Explosives.

Killjoy council scraps bonfire night party - because of its 'clean air' campaign | the Daily Mail

Richard, Oct 18, 2007

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Just saw on my local news a school in Kent has banned football boots on the grounds of health and safety.

Richard, Oct 29, 2007

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Think-tank says 'downgrade Christmas' - Yahoo! News UK

Think-tank says 'downgrade Christmas'

Christmas should be downgraded unless other religious festivals are marked on an even footing, a Government think-tank has said.

The Institute of Public Policy Research has suggested various ideas to make the UK more multicultural.

It also wants "national culture" barriers to be torn down to help immigrants settle into the UK.

In a report due to be published in coming weeks, the organisation said: "If we are going to continue to mark Christmas - and it would be very hard to expunge it from our national life even if we wanted to - then public organisations should mark other major religious festivals too.

"Even-handedness dictates that we provide public recognition to minority cultures and traditions."

It emerged in 2006 that three out of four employers were not putting up Christmas decorations in the workplace for fear of offending staff of other cultures.
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Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra...

Za Rodinu, Nov 1, 2007

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Now they've just gone too far!
Right now a Military Dictatorship doesn't seem such a bad idea to me...

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I don't understand this. If I moved to another country, I would not expect them to adopt my ways and customs, why should I have to adopt their's?

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Slipdigit, Nov 1, 2007

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Think-tank
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The worst remark that came from them was this, "WW2 is now slipping from our minds." This would suggest, if they could get away with it, they would bring about the end of the poppy appeal and remembrance day. This Labour think tank is scum in my book for even saying such a thing.

Richard, Nov 1, 2007

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Joe said:

Now they've just gone too far!
Right now a Military Dictatorship doesn't seem such a bad idea to me...
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Joe, there are times when I think the only thing will wake this country up is a Military Dictatorship and Tanks rubbling down the high street at 4AM in the morning. Just watch all those people who took democracy for granted shout the odds. But on saying that something is going to give in this country which I hope is for the better than the latter.

Richard, Nov 1, 2007

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A country that stands for anything stands for nothing and doesn't stand for long.

T. A. Gardner, Nov 1, 2007

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Ben Stein says it all for me....

Ben's House - Stuff Ben Wrote

PzJgr, Nov 1, 2007

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I don't understand this. If I moved to another country, I would not expect them to adopt my ways and customs, why should I have to adopt their's?
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As the Fonz would say: "Exactamundo."

Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.
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C.Evans, Nov 1, 2007

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Not quite PC Madness but...

Priests fear driving bans over altar wine - Yahoo! News UK

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Celebrating more than one mass a day may push Roman Catholic priests over the alcohol limit if tougher drink driving rules come into effect in Ireland, a leading clergyman said on Friday.

Altar wine is an essential part of the Eucharist, the ritual in which Catholics believe the priest turns bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ. A priest drinks a small amount of the wine during the mass.
Under proposed Irish legislation, the limit of 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood is expected to be tightened but no new level has yet been specified.

Because the ranks of the Catholic clergy are thinning out, priests -- especially in rural areas -- often drive to several churches on Sunday to say mass for congregations who have no resident clergy.

"You could be over the limit trying to travel between maybe two or three churches on a Sunday morning and coming back again," Father Brian D'Arcy told Reuters.

D'Arcy is a broadcaster and rector of the Passionist Monastery in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, where similar changes have also been proposed.
He said wine prepared for use in services had to be consumed and throwing it away was blasphemous.

Irish media quoted another priest from western Ireland as saying he often took three services in a day.

"If I only took a mouthful of wine from the chalice at all three masses, I feel that this could put me over the legal limit for driving," the unnamed priest was quoted as saying.

"But if a call comes in that somebody is nearing death, I have no choice but drive to where that person is and give him or her the last rites."

Father Iggy O'Donovan from Drogheda, north of Dublin, said members of the congregation could always help finish the wine if too much was left over.

"The day that the celebration of the Eucharist becomes a defence for drunk-driving -- I am afraid it beggars belief," he told RTE radio.
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I can't imagine what it would be like if Irish priests celebrated mass with a pint of Guinness

Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra...

Za Rodinu, Nov 5, 2007

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Not quite PC Madness but...

Priests fear driving bans over altar wine - Yahoo! News UK

I can't imagine what it would be like if Irish priests celebrated mass with a pint of Guinness
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Why not ban the Alter Wine? I heard that they banned the daily Rum Ration in the Royal Navy. I guess they don't wanna promote drinking?

Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.
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C.Evans, Nov 5, 2007

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Score one for sanity

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Religious theme for Christmas stamps

LONDON (Reuters) - The Royal Mail has unveiled this year's Christmas stamps, which take a religious theme.

The eight special stamps depict angels and the Madonna and child, and go on sale on Tuesday.

The Royal Mail alternates annually between secular and religious images on its Christmas stamps, but came in for criticism last year for a lack of Christian illustrations.

Religious groups said the 2006 stamps -- depicting Santa, a snowman, a Christmas tree and reindeer -- took the "Christ out of Christmas".

Head of special stamps Julietta Edgar said of the 2007 versions: "This year's special stamps are particularly beautiful and will adorn millions of the items we handle."

Royal Mail will handle an estimated two billion letters and cards during the festive period. It expects Monday December 17 to be its busiest day of the year.

Some 123 million items are expected to enter the system that day, compared to an average daily figure of 83 million.

The last recommended posting dates for British mail to reach recipients in time for Christmas are Thursday December 20 for first class postage and Tuesday December 18 for second.

Airmail items to western Europe should be posted by December 13, those to eastern Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan by December 10 and to the rest of the world by December 7.
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Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra...

Za Rodinu, Nov 6, 2007

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It won't be long now till that will be banned.

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