Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 4:14 pm
by sejintenej
loringa wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2020 3:45 pm
sejintenej wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2020 2:06 pm
If so why all the complaints about "All Lives Matter"? It is that to which I object. BLM specifies black lives; why not ALM?
This gets to the very heart of the matter. Of course all lives matter but white lives already matter; that is the direct consequence of white privilege and I have happily benefited from this all my life. The problem remains that black people have suffered, and continue to suffer, discrimination simply on the grounds of their skin colour whereas white people just do not, at least not in the US, UK and the rest of Europe. Perhaps one might expand the statement Black Lives Matter to 'Black Lives Matter just as much as white lives so please stop discriminating against black people solely on the colour of their skin'.
I am not sure it is actual discrimination but I was thinking of some series where white people are at least disliked by whites:
against the Dutch in general; they buy houses in south west France but when they come they bring everything including big bags of potatoes and do not spend a sou locally
Parisians; when tourists in the south west; I don't know the French for snooty b**g**s (my wife would not allow a pillow dictionary)
Belgians - not the best of drivers as they change lanes without signalling and whilst they are being passed. (Oh, and their French is different)
Allegedly of Snowbirds - Canadians and US from the east coast; they bring a clean shirt and a C bill to Florida for the winter and don't change either
British - on holiday where I lived for a while for blocking the roads, packing the beaches, leaving litter and not speaking understandable English; Mr Jones of Prep A was known to be one of those.
You do not need a different colour to be disliked - just different behaviour or language. When blacks stop disliking or even become "uncle Toms" then they are more likely to be accepted.
Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2020 6:40 am
by sejintenej
EXAMPLES FROM BRITISH MILITARY OFFICERS’ REPORTS (OERs)
1. His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of curiosity.
2. I would not breed from this Officer.
3. This man is depriving a village somewhere of its idiot.
4. This officer can be likened to a small puppy - he runs around excitedly, leaving little messes for other people to clean up.
5. This Officer is really not so much of a has-been, more of a definitely won’t-be.
6. When she opens her mouth, it seems only to change whichever foot was previously in there.
7. Couldn’t organize 50% leave in a 2 man submarine
8. He has carried out each and every one of his duties to his entire satisfaction.
9. He would be out of his depth in a car park puddle.
10. Technically sound, but socially impossible.
11. The occasional flashes of adequacy are marred by an attitude of apathy and indifference.
12. When he joined my ship, this Officer was something of a granny, since then he has aged considerably.
13. This Medical Officer has used my ship to carry his genitals from port to port, and my officers to carry him from bar to bar.
14. This Officer reminds me very much of a gyroscope, always spinning around at a frantic pace, but not really going anywhere.
15. Since my last report he has reached rock bottom, and has started to dig
16. He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.
17. He has the wisdom of youth, and the energy of old age.
18. This Officer should go far, and the sooner he starts, the better.
19. In my opinion this pilot should not be authorized to fly below 250 feet
20. The only ship I would recommend for this man is citizenship.
21. Couldn’t organize a woodpecker’s picnic in Sherwood Forest.
22. Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap.
23. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
24. Gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn’t coming
25. Has two brains; one is lost and the other is out looking for it.
26. If he were any more stupid, he’d have to be watered twice a week.
27. Got into the gene pool while the lifeguard wasn’t watching.
28. If you stand close enough to him, you can hear the ocean.
29. It’s hard to believe that he beat 1,000,000 other sperm.
30. A room temperature IQ.
31. Got a full 6-pack, but lacks the plastic thingy to hold it all together
32. A gross ignoramus, 143 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus.
33. He has a photographic memory but has the lens cover glued on.
34. He has been working with glue too long.
35. When his IQ reaches 50, he should sell.
36. This man hasn’t got enough grey matter to sole the flip-flop of a one legged budgie.
37. If two people are talking, and one looks bored, he’s the other one.
38. One-celled organisms would out score him in an IQ tests.
39. He donated his body to science before he was done using it.
40. Fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.
41. He’s so dense, light bends around him.
42. If brains were taxed, he’d get a rebate.
43. Some drink from the fountain of knowledge; he only gargled.
44. Takes him 1.1/2 hours to watch 60 minutes.
45. Wheel is turning, but the hamster is long dead.
Doesn’t this description remine the world of someone we all know, unfortunately!!!!
Not included in the original:
46. I have seen this officer sober
horrible!
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 4:18 am
by sejintenej
An Afghan, an Albanian, an Algerian, an American, an Andorran, an Angolan, an Antiguans, an Argentine, an Armenian, an Australian, an Austrian, an Azerbaijani, a Bahamian, a Bahraini, a Bangladeshi, a Barbadian, a Barbudans, a Batswanan, a Belarusian, a Belgian, a Belizean, a Beninese, a Bhutanese, a Bolivian, a Bosnian, a Brazilian, a Bruneian, a Bulgarian, a Burkinabe, a Burmese, a Burundian, a Cambodian, a Cameroonian, a Canadian, a Cape Verdean, a Central African, a Chadian, a Chilean, a Chinese, a Colombian, a Comoran, a Congolese, a Costa Rican, a Croatian, a Cuban, a Cypriot, a Czech, a Dane, a Djibouti, a Dominican, a Dutchman, an East Timorese, an Ecuadorean, an Egyptian, an Emirian, an Englishman, an Equatorial Guinean, an Eritrean, an Estonian, an Ethiopian, a Fijian, a Filipino, a Finn, a Frenchman, a Gabonese, a Gambian, a Georgian, a German, a Ghanaian, a Greek, a Grenadian, a Guatemalan, a Guinea-Bissauan, a Guinean, a Guyanese, a Haitian, a Herzegovinian, a Honduran, a Hungarian, an I-Kiribati, an Icelander, an Indian, an Indonesian, an Iranian, an Iraqi, an Irishman, an Israeli, an Italian, an Ivorian, a Jamaican, a Japanese, a Jordanian, a Kazakhstani, a Kenyan, a Kittian and Nevisian, a Kuwaiti, a Kyrgyz, a Laotian, a Latvian, a Lebanese, a Liberian, a Libyan, a Liechtensteiner, a Lithuanian, a Luxembourger, a Macedonian, a Malagasy, a Malawian, a Malaysian, a Maldivan, a Malian, a Maltese, a Marshallese, a Mauritanian, a Mauritian, a Mexican, a Micronesian, a Moldovan, a Monacan, a Mongolian, a Moroccan, a Mosotho, a Motswana, a Mozambican, a Namibian, a Nauruan, a Nepalese, a New Zealander, a Nicaraguan, a Nigerian, a Nigerien, a North Korean, a Northern Irishman, a Norwegian, an Omani, a Pakistani, a Palauan, a Palestinian, a Panamanian, a Papua New Guinean, a Paraguayan, a Peruvian, a Pole, a Portuguese, a Qatari, a Romanian, a Russian, a Rwandan, a Saint Lucian, a Salvadoran, a Samoan, a San Marinese, a Sao Tomean, a Saudi, a Scotsman, a Senegalese, a Serbian, a Seychellois, a Sierra Leonean, a Singaporean, a Slovakian, a Slovenian, a Solomon Islander, a Somali, a South African, a South Korean, a Spaniard, a Sri Lankan, a Sudanese, a Surinamer, a Swazi, a Swede, a Swiss, a Syrian, a Tajik, a Tanzanian, a Togolese, a Tongan, a Trinidadian or Tobagonian, a Tunisian, a Turk, a Tuvaluan, a Ugandan, a Ukrainian, a Uruguayan, a Uzbekistani, a Venezuelan, a Vietnamese, a Welshman, a Yemenite, a Zambian and a Zimbabwean
all walk into a bar.
The doorman stops them and says “sorry I can’t let you in without a Thai...”
Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 3:52 am
by Foureyes
I am sure that sentinenej thinks that he is very amusing, but having been in the Army for 32 years the vast majority of those remarks just do not ring true. For a start the heading is 'military;' which implies Army, so all those referring to ships, submarines, flying, etc can be disregarded. Secondly, in the Army the subject has to sit in front of his Commanding Officer and read the report, and many of those comments are so rude and offensive that I doubt any CO would have the nerve to face his subject. Thirdly, on behalf of all those Army officers who have served their country loyally for many years, a fair number of whom have either given their lives or suffered various physical and mental wounds, I would like to thank Mr Brown for his unstinted support and hope, for his sake, that none of his superior's reports on him are ever made public.
David
Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 4:30 pm
by sejintenej
dsm wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 10:26 am
This is a joke section, David, tongue in cheek and all that. Don't take it to heart.
Thanks. Even I thought that last one was scraping the barrel - I didn't write this or the majority. David has this bee in his bonnet about me which results in laughter and belly aches.
I DO appreciate what the armed forces do for our nation. My father was torpedoed in WWI and was decorated for bravery and service in WWII. My brother, a gunner in 101 squadron, died over Germany in WWII. Two uncles died in Atlantic convoys in WWII.
Instead of 22 years as a ground pounder I was probably closer to the other two services - teaching one and being brought up close to the other. I spent (coincidentally) the same period of time living in places rated by the CIA as being the most dangerous in the world at the time. That was just part of my contribution to Britain's Balance of Payments
Yes, went through several riots - one anti Britain, one anti my employer, one anti-whites, and in Milan they were trying to destroy a bank! (Oh, I physically walked through them with one in Sao Paulo the worst.) Suffered? well, I have tropical diseases for life, and the riot noise affects my hearing. Of course those places breed thugs - had several run-ins and survived, though I wonder about the fatherhood chances of one geezer
Oh, David. My understanding is that the army tries to keep soldiers reasonably safe and periods in conflict are limited. In one job I did for about 15 years we had over 40 killed in six weeks worldwide - and that was peacetime. Training? Well, at a major centre the trainers were prohibited under health and safety from ever doing what we were actually doing and (it didn't happen when I went through the course) some trainees had to be taken to hospital..
As to the latest I was never closer to the army that the CH CCF. As to the CO sitting in front of the victim I will repeat an actual WWII Navy story. Any negative report must be shown to the subject before being sent upstairs. Of course there has to be a resourceful way around that and in this specific case the report read "I have seen this officer sober"