Guardsman in a turban

Charly wrote:Right wing because they like to see tradition upheld? Yes, ok then.

Hinch wrote:And while we're at it, those small brown chaps with the funny hats. You know, them with all the VCs. What's all that about and why are they allowed to carry those 'traditional' curved knives?

Mind you, I believe they're very handy with 'em.

Bloody foreigners!

past it wrote: I think he looks very smart. He is willing to die in the service, uniforms are constantly changing. What's the problem? There are some very right wing members on this forum. As Hinch says" are there some darker forces at work here" I think that's the quote. Apologies Hinch if it is not.

johnb wrote:No, racist because they are unwilling to accept the traditions of ethnicities prepared to die for the crown.

Soldiers from the sub-continent pay the supreme price and have been decorated for acts of the highest valour - fighting for a country not their own, in a fight not their own out of loyalty to a colonising power.

Old Regulator wrote:I don’t often comment on these kind of topics, can’t see not won’t see, but in the years Atlas has given forth I find his pink jibe a little hard to believe for such an erudite chap, even from the other side of Offa’s dyke.

I’m with DL on tradition and would like confirmation the ‘bearskin bonnet, Busby or head dress was worn by Errrrm the French in Napoleon’s elite guards.

Hinch wrote:Do you mean like black men being great drummers, dancers and basketball players and the irish being good at making Guinness?

Atlas wrote:

past it wrote: I think he looks very smart. He is willing to die in the service, uniforms are constantly changing. What's the problem? There are some very right wing members on this forum. As Hinch says" are there some darker forces at work here" I think that's the quote. Apologies Hinch if it is not.

Right wing! Oh dear better go take one of mi' pills. Yes past it, if you say so. (The man's lost it. I wonder if Admin knows?) If so past it, I should hate to think what my other 'right wing' compatriots might think of my being one of them. (Told yer. He's lost it. It happens to the best on here. I've seen it before - :affraid: )

cyfrifia wrote: That sort of thing. When you are relying on someone to do a brilliant job, like relying on soldiers to fight off an enemy, or people to cook a brilliant meal, or someone to devise a reliable computer program, then it's reassuring to have Gurkhas for fighting, Thais doing the cooking, Japanese for computer programs and Jamaicans doing the disco. Because different cultural groups have traditions of excellence, it seems reasonable to have them do the things they are excellent at. But, with politically correct procedures, that would not be possible.

cyfrifia wrote:That sort of thing. When you are relying on someone to do a brilliant job, like relying on soldiers to fight off an enemy, or people to cook a brilliant meal, or someone to devise a reliable computer program, then it's reassuring to have Gurkhas for fighting, Thais doing the cooking, Japanese for computer programs and Jamaicans doing the disco. Because different cultural groups have traditions of excellence, it seems reasonable to have them do the things they are excellent at. But, with politically correct procedures, that would not be possible.

Dalelad wrote: Anyone from anywhere could be good at any of these activities, given the education and training.

cyfrifia wrote:

On the other hand, British Karate fighters can beat the Japanese.