It’s worrying that a mature, trained-in-fighting techniques military guy several decades younger than myself can be injured in a surprise attack, I’m going to have to start only going out when I’m full of Brown ale and ready for a bit of aggro 
Not everyone can be an exponent and practitioner of the ancient concept of Unagi as ably demonstrated by
Ross here 
Class is that…‘‘When I studied KaraTAY’’…
When that episode was first shown the Mrs was sick of me jumping out at her doing my best Ross, shouting… ‘‘Danger Danger’’.
(Actually to the point of it wearing a bit thin tbh.
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apparently he was a doctor or engineer 
(0:57) when are the woke do gooders going to learn that these people dont have the same standards as us. They carry on like this then claim mental anguish etc and because its not accepted as reasonable behavior by our standards its swallowed hook line and sinker
i think the difference is “supprise attack” i might be able to walk upto someone and suddenly stick a knife in them for no reason (not that i would of course) but if i stood in the street shouting come on then if you think your hard enough i would probably have a very quick trip to the bone yard.
I had thought the military were generally advised not to wear their uniform in the streets, I guess there will be fewer people doing that from now.
it would make sense i know prison officers are told to change at work. However what if an officer in the army is going to a dinner that requires full dress uniform? are they allowed to change when they arrive?
in the case that is being discussed im sure that the guy knew he was in the forces i seriously doubt he walked around looking for the first person he saw in uniform if he was why wait on a housing estate why not wait outside a pub in town thats a known pub thats used by the barracks
actually im one of the most empathetic people you can meet providing they deserve it fleeing a country that is at war with its self over whos god is right or which interpretation of their book of fables is right doesnt strike me as deserving. they should grow the hell up and move on. they only reason they are being persecuted is because they make it known and attack each other.
and why is it a tribal toilet? because they have created that situation no sympathy.
as far as im aware there are 2 real wars in this world yes we should help out yes we should help rebuild with materials and funding (not building companys like bush). if people are displaced and they are truly innocent victims (talking ukraine here) then we should take our share but once it is stabilized send them back as they arent in danger anymore (think ww2 evacuations).
as far as palastine/israil goes. its nothing to do with us. They are a completely different culture there are numerous countries they could be evacuated to with the same culture and beliefs.
If i needed to be evacuated i wouldnt want to go to an islamic country i would remove myself to europe and you would better believe i would be grateful for any assistance i was given. i wouldnt be holding protests because i didnt get the food i liked or silk bloody sheets or having to go outside to smoke or all the other cobblers that they are moaning about.
No, really, you are not “one of the most empathetic people you can meet”.
The middle-east is a massively complex problem, it has been for centuries, and people who want to escape from that toilet, certainly where they want to protect their children from the crazy monsters trying to dominate the region, don’t really need to seem “deserving” to some guy living a comfortable existence in an affluent part of a civilised Western country.
And, maybe if Tony Blair hadn’t decided to hang onto the coat-tails of George Bush and invade Iraq (just to finish what his Daddy couldn’t), that part of the world would be a lot more stable: Saddam Hussein was fairly monsterous, but he wouldn’t have allowed IS to get off the ground.
next time you see me tap me on the shoulder and ill buy you a coffee.
hence we have unicef etc etc oh wait it doesnt work because all they do is line thier pockets. we interfere and get rid of the current despot and what happens another one takes over this is the way they carry on/ there is no helping them.
if you have a student in your adr course that has tried his best to answer the homework will you help him and spend time after class with him. if he hasnt bothered to do the homework and slacked of during the day playing on his phone or sleeping how much time will you spend helping him? exact same thing.
i thought the yank army could do no wrong in your eyes and didnt need help from anyone.
Thank you for the kind offer, but as sociable as that might be, that is not empathy. Can you really NOT see why a father might want to get his family, including young female children, away from a country where an insane sect of [insert expletive of choice] might want to make your daughter a s-ex slave, because their twisted interpretation of an old book tells them it’s ok?
Is that his and their fault for thoughtlessly “choosing” to be born in that country?
Ah, sorry I forgot, “Someone else will do it”…
Please show me where I said anything remotely like that?
Being in favour of our “special relationship” is not equivalent to condoning everything the US do
of course it isnt empathy i was pointing out that you dont know me from adam and therefore have no idea if i am empathetic or not.
if i lived in such a place i would move before having children. why inflict such a chance on an innocent child. In fact thats not strictly true if i chose to live in such a country or my book of fairy tales said it was ok then obviously i wouldnt really give a hoot. Yet the do gooders swallow that nonsense. they chose to belive in it they chose to have a child in that environment why should someone else pay and pay and pay to get them out of it especially when all said and done they want to carry on living like that over here.
who are we (westerners) to tell them what they should or shouldnt do we have a different culture belief and morale system.
so when is your flight booked to baghdad?
we should have no special relationship with war mongering zealots especially when they insist on biting off more than they can chew and we have to go and bail them out. (waits for the if it wasnt for the yanks you would be speaking german horse manure)
Your sentiments displayed here, and the support you’ve shown for others with similar views (Farage and his scoop them up in the channel comments) make your lack of empathy abundantly clear.
As any parent will tell you, kids come along in their own time, only childless people believe things chould be/can be planned out
I’s just more proof of lack of empathy. A family with young daughters want to get out out a war situation, the eldest daughter speaks fluent English, better than many of our natives, I’m reasonably confident she, if not the others too, could make a contribution to our UK society.
As I suggested, I said no such thing about the US, and you confirm this by being unable to support your assertion with a quote from me.
As for the boldened text… Clearly you have no interest in 20th century history if you’re trying to ignore the self-evident truth that, without assistance from the US, we would have become a vassal state of N-azi Germany and the world would probably look very different indeed.
as said i have empathy for those that deserve it.
unless we are talking about a woman called mary i tend to find contraception etc works.
and where did she learn fluent english she might have a skill that she can provide that the uk needs but ill bet my last pound that there is an english person that could do it better that has contributed to england for generations and doesnt have x number of relatives that we are expected to support.
show me the history book that says germany set foot in england or that by the end of 1941 turing hadnt had his break through that we hadnt started to develop the bouncing bomb. we hadnt started developing our special forces.
“England”… It was the UK fighting, not just “England”
The N-azi’s took the Channel Islands, they are UK territory
The cracking of the Enigma & Shark codes helped us, but on their own wouldn’t have achieved overall victory
The “bouncing bombs” and other “earthquake bombs” were just part of an overall strategy of war and by themselves had only small impact, Bomber Harris himself thought the operation was a waste of time and resources.
“Special Forces” again are just a part of an overall strategy, not some decisive weapon to end the war.
Anyone with a keen interest in our military history can see that without assistance from the US we would have been overcome, having first been virtually starved to death by the U-boats preventing food reaching us
blow me i didnt know u boats could go on land well thats me shot down in flames did you actually read that bit before you posted it
so what they were undefended and of no stratigic importance hence the capture of them was known as hitlers island madness all strategic targets were heavily defended for example biggin hill which is where a lot of the spitfires and hurricanes took off from nearest bomb the germans dropped landed at knockholt and dont tell me it didnt i used to play cowboys and indians in the crater in primary school.
the only base that was directly attacked was scapa flow we lost the royal oak they lost over 50 u boats
agrees however they could take out the gustav with 1 paratrooper quite an achievement.
Make no mistake if Hitler had continued his Operation Sea Lion (invasion of Britain) after the first wave, (what we know as the Battle of Britain) we would have been totally rubber ducked, big style.
Our forces and equipment were in short supply,.and in turmoil after the Dunkerque evacuation,.so all that was left to defend a full on Blitzkreig (a proven succesful technique) with crack troops, including ruthless Waffen SS ground troops, and Falschemjaeger paratroops, were a shot up depleted demoralized ill equipped army, and platoons of even more ill equipped Home Guard part time troops over the age of 65…so not good.
Luckily either in his madness, or some say a desire to make peace with Britain (of which he had an admiration for) he turned to Russia,.which was a big mistake for him,.and a lucky break for us.
As Zac points out, then later on if the US had not stepped in with their vast military might and resources, in comparison to everybody else, we would have been eventually invaded…fact.
Any mistake I might have made was to assume you might have a modicum of understanding about how the world worked during WWII when the U-Boat Wolfpacks were tasked to sink the convoys bringing supplies, including food, to the UK, in an effort to starve Britain into surrender
Ah… So the UK inhabitants of the UK Territories known as the Channel Islands weren’t “deserving of your empathy” I see?
Which other UK island territories are similarly undeserving? Isle of Man? Isle of Wight? What about the Outer Hebrides or even Inner Hebrides?
Oh wait, as parts of Scotland I imagine it’ll be a big F-U to those last two, what with not being “English”
The Royal Oak was built in 1916, by 1939 she wasn’t fit for front line warfare
One U-boat got in and sank an obsolete vessel, there was a significant loss of life but the incident did nothing to affect our maritime capabilities. The boat in question, U-47 was not sunk, nor were 49 other U-boats sunk at that time.
Eh? “The Gustav”? Do you mean the massive railway gun that survived until 1945 and was only destroyed by the Germans their selves so the Red Army didn’t get their hands on it?