Man of Honour
Yes I did.
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This will go far
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Yes I did.
This will go far
Who cares if UKIP has a few odd balls, their policies are fine and at least our next PM Nigel Farage actually removes the more extreme odd balls from the party. You can harp on all you like, you are still wrong and i cannot wait to see you bend the knee to Nigel when he wins!
Bend the knee and kiss his ring!
Yes I did.
This will go far
To be fair you provided post proving that some UKIP members are racist but were unable to provide any links to racist policies held by the party. So at best you can say some UKIP members are racist and more than average of their voters express some racist views.
UKIP is not however an inherently racist party as they do not have racist policies, unlike the BNP for example.
Tha doesn't however stop them from being xenophobic, homophobic, popularist and somewhat hypocritical at times.
That said by continually dismissing some of the very real problems that exist because of our current and past immigration policies you will naturally increase support for parties that say they will do something about it.
Man of Honour
I think 'a few' is misleading. 'A lot' would be more accurate.
'All of them' perhaps more so.
I disagree, but even if they were fine they have zero method of meeting them.
By oddballs do you mean 'those that will not bend or succumb to the more hateful approaches'?
Wrong about what?
The Minoans are Europeans and are also related to present-day Cretans - on the maternal side”, said Prof. George Stamatoyannopoulos from the University of Washington in Seattle, a co-author of the study. He added: “There has been all this controversy over the years. We have shown how the analysis of DNA can help archaeologists and historians put things straight”.
In other words modern Cretans are the rape-babies of Minoan (and original Cretan) women raped by the Moorish invaders.
This is a bit like the Dennis Hopper/Christopher Walken 'Sicilian scene' in True Romance...
Wrong about everything you just said. Don't do that - GillyI think 'a few' is misleading. 'A lot' would be more accurate.
'All of them' perhaps more so.
I disagree, but even if they were fine they have zero method of meeting them.
By oddballs do you mean 'those that will not bend or succumb to the more hateful approaches'?
Wrong about what?
Caporegime
Id be very careful about how you throw insults around fella, you wont last long with that sort of attitude
.LMAO @ 'bend the knee and kiss the ring'...hilarious absolutely hilarious.
Soldato
I will vote UKIP at the next General election, and I dont give a **** what the looney left liberals say.
Soldato
Please show these fact based evidence. I can do this all days as I have nothing better to do
Man of Honour
Does anybody else feel they keep demeaning Lee Rigby by calling him a 'drummer'?
I've yet to hear a news report on the TV call him a soldier.
I've yet to hear a news report on the TV call him a soldier.
Commissario
Isn't Drummer a military speciality?
IIRC it's like sappers etc, they're fully trained soldiers, but a specialist unit/sub unit with the title of Drummer..
Hence the title of Drummer is more significant and respectful of his specific role, than 'just' Soldier.
IIRC it's like sappers etc, they're fully trained soldiers, but a specialist unit/sub unit with the title of Drummer..
Hence the title of Drummer is more significant and respectful of his specific role, than 'just' Soldier.
The old assumptions were that the male populations were multi-ethnic and the female ones remained native to the region, of course within that paper (and the others referenced) it concludes that current evidence doesn't support that assumption and that Roman occupation bought with it increased heterogeneity across both sexes and within the broader communities.
An important part of the research is that it was not conducted using only Military grave sites, the overall research was made up of papers referencing grave sites covering Military, Civilian, and mixed Urban areas in York, Catterick, Gloucester, Winchester and Dorchester looking at a mixture of material culture, skeletal and isotope research. (I quoted just one of several papers making up Reading Universities research.)
With regard to Severus, he was born of a North African Pheonician Father, to be more precise his father was what is known as a Lybico-Punic or in the modern usage A Berber and an Italian Roman Mother in Libya. He was noted as having dark skin in several accounts of his deeds (although not Black as in a Nubian for example, he was North African rather than Sub-Saharan African). However, his ancestry was not really what I was alluding to, but the nature of the Army he built during his campaigns across North Africa and Nubia, the men, auxiliaries and their families that he bought to Britain with him would have been of multi-ethnic origin, and broadly made up of North and Sub Saharan Africans as well as Europeans and Middle Eastern stock. I would not put too much stock into a bust, as Rome (as Greece before them) did not exhibit colour prejudice and held to a more general xenophobia based on locale, belief and culture rather than a persons Skin Colour.
In any case, I think that Tunney is correct in what he says, and that Roman Britain, like much of the Ancient World was pretty cosmopolitan.
Drummer is just another name for a Private in the particular regiment he was in, Like Privates in the Royal Marines are simply called Marine and Privates in The Royal Engineers are called Sappers. It is his rank and certainly not demeaning.
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Man of Honour
Please show these fact based evidence. I can do this all days as I have nothing better to do
I'm not going back through this very thread to regurgitate everything I and others have posted only for you to be as ignorant about that as you are the dark side of politics
Not particularly. I've seen it mentioned quite regularly he served in Afghan.. and I'm sure he's been called a soldier.
It would be no different if it were a piper et al, and I think it's actually quite nice or fitting as most military musicians are quite proud of whatever instrument they may be playing. Music has a long illustrious history in war.
Not quite... Engineers are soldiers with a specific trade but are not Infanteers... he was an Infantry soldier and he was seemingly serving in his regiment's Corps of Drums... so rather than 'private' or 'fusilier' he was 'drummer' - its not exactly a trade nor does it come with a different capbadge - he was still an Infantry soldier he just happened to have a ceremonial role at the time.
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Yup - though its just a ceremonial role... they still have an operational role too - it was mentioned somewhere that he was a machine gunner so I'd assume perhaps his battalion makes up the Corps of Drums from the machine gun platoon or perhaps from members across the support company.
Man of Honour
I stand corrected, it's just that in the circles I move in a drummer is a bloke who hangs around with musicians