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2015/01/26 19:33:43
Subject: America declares war on British chocolate: we will never surrender!
This is pushing me over the edge. I'm toying with the idea of Britain allying with Iran and Putin - somebody has to stand up to the great Satan, they've gone too far this time
....And their 'wiener dogs', their 'world league' and what they call 'football' and that donkey piddle they dare label as "beer".
Will Wheaton is fairly cool, in a contrary nerdy way. But kids on operational warships
Orlanth, how dare you!
Pre-pubertal midshipmen, powder monkeys and bullet sharks are what made the Royal Navy great!
That was then. However Picard was not the 'twenty lashes to be inflicted during defaulters at eight bells' type.
Also those young sailors you mentioned werent 'kids' for example:
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n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.