RMweb Premium polybear Posted November 25, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 25, 2022 10 hours ago, Northmoor said: If you really want to shrink the cost of the Armed Services, reducing senior officer numbers would have a disproportionate effect. Many of the costs of their additional entitlements grow in proportion to the number of individuals (e.g. childrens' private school fees) whereas reducing the number of junior ranks by 10% doesn't enable you to close 10% of a barracks, the gym or the canteen. Now guess what ranks get to decide how Ministers' cost-saving plans will be implemented at the detailed level. The Brigadier in charge of HR...... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted November 25, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 25, 2022 3 hours ago, J. S. Bach said: One day, when I have a layout ..................................... .....you can use it as a Crash Test Dummy......🤣 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5 C Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 23 minutes ago, polybear said: .....you can use it as a Crash Test Dummy......🤣 Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm 1 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted November 25, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 25, 2022 There's green... ...and there's green! 8 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted November 25, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 25, 2022 9 hours ago, AndyID said: It is an unenviable role but would you prefer someone like TFG? I had to Google “TFG”. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted November 25, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 25, 2022 9 hours ago, AndyID said: It is an unenviable role but would you prefer someone like TFG? I dread the thought of Britain as a republic. Just think of any of the many odious, slimeball ex politicians, who would be jockeying for the top spot. 9 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted November 25, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 25, 2022 30 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: Just think of any of the many odious, slimeball ex politicians, who would be jockeying for the top spot. Some countries manage to have an elected head of state that isn’t awful. I am not particularly a fan of hereditary titles or powers but I suspect that if the head of state post were to become electable the monarch of the day would probably get the job. 3 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DenysW Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 4 minutes ago, Tony_S said: Some countries manage to have an elected head of state that isn’t awful. Typically the ones where the role is limited to: - Being nice, including to foreigners - Accepting new ambassadors' credentials - Ceremonial stuff. Sounds like a job specification for Queenie/Kingie to me. 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted November 25, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 25, 2022 (edited) 15 hours ago, Dave Hunt said: I was born 653 years to the day after Edward the second. How spooky is that? I got married on the 753rd anniversary of the battle of Legnica. Since my wife had been teaching English in a teacher training college in Legnica, this formed the starting point of my speech as groom. Edited November 25, 2022 by Compound2632 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 (edited) We got married on the 37th anniversary of the Mariner 9 space probe launch to Mars Mrs SM42 was born 11 years after Yuri Gagarin* completed his first orbit I've felt like I've been living on another planet ever since, cos these ain't Earth rules Andy * also happens to be the nickname in the motherland for the ST44 / SM62 locomotive. Edited November 25, 2022 by SM42 6 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted November 25, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 25, 2022 Oh joy, I born a few years to the day after burger king first opened.... 4 1 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted November 25, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 25, 2022 10 minutes ago, TheQ said: Oh joy, I born a few years to the day after burger king first opened.... "It takes two hands to hold a whopper!" 1 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted November 25, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 25, 2022 I share my Birthday with Tourette's Syndrome Awareness Day. 1 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted November 25, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 25, 2022 6 hours ago, New Haven Neil said: There's green... ...and there's green! For those lucky enough to have a particular colour blindness they are all red 6 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted November 25, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 25, 2022 Is that behind the pink? 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted November 25, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 25, 2022 3 hours ago, Oldddudders said: "It takes two hands to hold a whopper!" We had a contest at the M.E. Group last night to see who had the biggest Centre Drill..... 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: I share my Birthday with Tourette's Syndrome Awareness Day. *!&$? %#%**!!! Edited November 25, 2022 by pH 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted November 25, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 25, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, TheQ said: Is that behind the pink? Only if you're viewing in black and white. Jamie Edited November 25, 2022 by jamie92208 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted November 25, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 25, 2022 I share a birthday with Sir Keir Starmer. He is much younger though. 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted November 25, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 25, 2022 I share a birthday with Ringo Starr and Bill Oddie. They are both older than me. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted November 25, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 25, 2022 I've just looked up online a page of who shares my birthday and since most of them are Youtubers, Rappers or young TV stars, I've heard of about 5% of them. By the way, I'm not giving the date away as your date of birth is a rather important piece of personal data to a fraudster. I recommend RMWebbers (whose names may be known to others) do NOT give away birthdays, even if your age is still not declared. It's all part of the jigsaw the bad guys will play the long game to put together, because the rewards are worth the wait for them. 1 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 On 24/11/2022 at 14:25, Happy Hippo said: VW/Audi/Seat/Skoda are the main component of the VAG group which also includes Cupra, Bentley, Lamborghini and Porsche. All the groups vehicles (by size) ie Skoda Fabia/VW Polo/Audi A1/Seat Ibiza all share a common chassis and engine/gearbox combinations. Prior to WWII, Skoda was considered a high end car brand. Another brand that always got fun poked at it was Lada. However, my brother in law and a few of his friends bought various Lada Niva for off road work in N Wales. They were cheap, cheerful and just kept on going when more sophisticated vehicles declined to operate. I've seen Lada Nivas at work in the FSU. Tough little lightweights with plenty of ground clearance. Real rot-boxes though and lacking in space inside. 4 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 2 hours ago, PhilJ W said: I share a birthday with Ringo Starr and Bill Oddie. They are both older than me. If you put 23 TNM'rs in a room there's a 50% chance that two of them will share the same birthday. If you you could find 75 TNM'rs (😀) it's 99.9% likely that at least two of them will share the same birthday. 1 3 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BR60103 Posted November 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 26, 2022 2 hours ago, AndyID said: If you put 23 TNM'rs in a room there's a 50% chance that two of them will share the same birthday. If you you could find 75 TNM'rs (😀) it's 99.9% likely that at least two of them will share the same birthday. In a university statistics class, the professor started a pool on whether there were two people with the same birthday. Some students offered to bet ridiculous amounts that there weren't. I resisted the impulse to ask, "Are the twins here today?" 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted November 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 26, 2022 (edited) I share a birthday with one of my brothers in law. Nuff said. However the thought of 23 TMM's in a room is more than mortal man can face with equanimity. Jamie Edited November 26, 2022 by jamie92208 3 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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