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If our armed forces were crap, they'd all be dead in Iraq by now and our country would be up the creek as the whole world would know they could invade our country without worry of competent resistance.
As class 313 has said, this country's army is one of the world's best. They may not be fighting a war which makes sense (a whole different topic!), but they are certainly not 'crap'. As I read on a different forum recently, if you're going to post something you wouldn't say to that person's face, don't post/say it at all. I doubt highly, fusionrail, that you'd have the guts to walk up to a British army (or for that matter any army) soldier and tell them they're crap. If you do, and you live to tell the tale, then please let us know.
I would reckon the same would apply to the country's secret service, but for obvious reasons we don't hear of their achievements.
As for rationing, I don't know how we'd all manage, but a lot of us (I include myself in this) would need to change our daily diet. I know I eat a lot, I won't deny that, so I'd struggle for some time with the rationing. I don't doubt it wouldn't be easy but if it came to it we'd have to put up with it.
Growing your own vegetables has a lot of advantages you know. No unnecessary sprays (which I still reckon could account for a lot of the problems the NHS has to deal with these days - the previous few generations didn't have illnesses to the extent we do these days, why do we? Again, it's a totally different topic so I won't rant on about this here), you control exactly when you reap the fruit or vegetables off your plants, you don't have to fork out the huge ching the supermarkets charge us for mass-produced food or the even bigger ching the farmers charge for the same thing (another topic...) and, quite frankly, it tends to taste nicer too. We grow our own vegetables here (not everything mind, not possible to) and they are usually very good. Granted, this year the weather has not produced for growing stuff, which is why we are still waiting for the runner beans to produce (well, we planted late too after the original lot were wrecked by freak weather).
Anyway, that's my two-pence (or should that be five-pence? 8)) for the time being!
As class 313 has said, this country's army is one of the world's best. They may not be fighting a war which makes sense (a whole different topic!), but they are certainly not 'crap'. As I read on a different forum recently, if you're going to post something you wouldn't say to that person's face, don't post/say it at all. I doubt highly, fusionrail, that you'd have the guts to walk up to a British army (or for that matter any army) soldier and tell them they're crap. If you do, and you live to tell the tale, then please let us know.
I would reckon the same would apply to the country's secret service, but for obvious reasons we don't hear of their achievements.
As for rationing, I don't know how we'd all manage, but a lot of us (I include myself in this) would need to change our daily diet. I know I eat a lot, I won't deny that, so I'd struggle for some time with the rationing. I don't doubt it wouldn't be easy but if it came to it we'd have to put up with it.
Growing your own vegetables has a lot of advantages you know. No unnecessary sprays (which I still reckon could account for a lot of the problems the NHS has to deal with these days - the previous few generations didn't have illnesses to the extent we do these days, why do we? Again, it's a totally different topic so I won't rant on about this here), you control exactly when you reap the fruit or vegetables off your plants, you don't have to fork out the huge ching the supermarkets charge us for mass-produced food or the even bigger ching the farmers charge for the same thing (another topic...) and, quite frankly, it tends to taste nicer too. We grow our own vegetables here (not everything mind, not possible to) and they are usually very good. Granted, this year the weather has not produced for growing stuff, which is why we are still waiting for the runner beans to produce (well, we planted late too after the original lot were wrecked by freak weather).
Anyway, that's my two-pence (or should that be five-pence? 8)) for the time being!
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