Comments on: Tommy Rates Better http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/21/tommy-rates-better/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:20:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Quartermaster http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/21/tommy-rates-better/comment-page-1/#comment-302727 Quartermaster Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:10:03 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6781#comment-302727 The Brits gave up on standing tall when they came back west of Suez. They will never stand tall again because they accepted weakness in themselves, and no longer have an sort of civilizational stamina, or sense of being what they were. When they came west of Suez, they came to stay. They have fed like ticks from our strength in hopes of looking like they have some consequence. As I said in another post, they are a people unworthy of the valor of their soldiers. I mt 4 Brits in the US while was working for Ohio DOT. A contractor was having problems getting American Contractors to build his prestressed concrete salt domes correctly, so imported some of his people from Britain to show the rebel colonials how it was done. Their wives hooked with my wife, and they were taught the corrupt spending ways of American Wives, and proved they were flexible readily adaptable (Lex should be glad he has only the Hobbit and Kat to worry about). The boss of the crew told me about $50 work gloves from Wal-Mart. I hesitated at that, but then the light bulb went on and I asked if they were accompanied by their wives. You know the answer. Leastways, the guys and I labored during the days on salt storage and talked politics, American and British. It was bad, very bad, in 1998. I told them it might be better if they emigrated as the man who imported them would gladly, I was sure, sponsor them. Sadly, they couldn't bring themselves to do it. They knew they would be much freer here, but the pull of home was just too strong. Frog, meet pot. They knew the flame as being turned up, though. Just couldn't bring themselves to jump The Brits gave up on standing tall when they came back west of Suez. They will never stand tall again because they accepted weakness in themselves, and no longer have an sort of civilizational stamina, or sense of being what they were. When they came west of Suez, they came to stay. They have fed like ticks from our strength in hopes of looking like they have some consequence.

As I said in another post, they are a people unworthy of the valor of their soldiers.

I mt 4 Brits in the US while was working for Ohio DOT. A contractor was having problems getting American Contractors to build his prestressed concrete salt domes correctly, so imported some of his people from Britain to show the rebel colonials how it was done. Their wives hooked with my wife, and they were taught the corrupt spending ways of American Wives, and proved they were flexible readily adaptable (Lex should be glad he has only the Hobbit and Kat to worry about). The boss of the crew told me about $50 work gloves from Wal-Mart. I hesitated at that, but then the light bulb went on and I asked if they were accompanied by their wives. You know the answer.

Leastways, the guys and I labored during the days on salt storage and talked politics, American and British. It was bad, very bad, in 1998. I told them it might be better if they emigrated as the man who imported them would gladly, I was sure, sponsor them.

Sadly, they couldn’t bring themselves to do it. They knew they would be much freer here, but the pull of home was just too strong.

Frog, meet pot. They knew the flame as being turned up, though. Just couldn’t bring themselves to jump

]]> By: Curtis http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/21/tommy-rates-better/comment-page-1/#comment-302569 Curtis Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:50:10 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6781#comment-302569 Zane, The British are notorious for logistic difficulties so the bayonet charge was probably due to a terrible shortage of the proper ammo. Zane,

The British are notorious for logistic difficulties so the bayonet charge was probably due to a terrible shortage of the proper ammo.

]]> By: virgil xenophon http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/21/tommy-rates-better/comment-page-1/#comment-302508 virgil xenophon Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:49:47 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6781#comment-302508 Zane/ GoV entertains writings quite often by a guy with the handle of Fjordman. He used to have his own site under that name when he lived up in Scandinavia and he was writing about the trends in Malmo as far back as 2004 when I first started visiting his site. The guy is tuned-in to the Nordic scene and the encroaching presence of the Moslem population--and the head-in-sand approach taken by the PC political class-- big time. Zane/

GoV entertains writings quite often by a guy with the handle of Fjordman. He used to have his own site under that name when he lived up in Scandinavia and he was writing about the trends in Malmo as far back as 2004 when I first started visiting his site. The guy is tuned-in to the Nordic scene and the encroaching presence of the Moslem population–and the head-in-sand approach taken by the PC political class– big time.

]]> By: virgil xenophon http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/21/tommy-rates-better/comment-page-1/#comment-302504 virgil xenophon Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:41:45 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6781#comment-302504 I was reading a commentary on another site yesterday by an English ex-pat who returned after a 10 year+ absence who stated that the country had become almost unrecognizable--not only from the influx of Moslem immigrants--as bad as that was--but also at the general levels of violence, public drunkenness and utter lack of civility demonstrated by the nation's "youts" quite unlike anything with which he had previously been familiar. Also commented upon were the previously unknown levels of filth and trash in evidence in the streets and parks, etc., and the degradation of public services in general. Definitely not the England of yore--or the one he (and I) had known. (Seems a great example of the quickening pace of the workings-out of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.) I was reading a commentary on another site yesterday by an English ex-pat who returned after a 10 year+ absence who stated that the country had become almost unrecognizable–not only from the influx of Moslem immigrants–as bad as that was–but also at the general levels of violence, public drunkenness and utter lack of civility demonstrated by the nation’s “youts” quite unlike anything with which he had previously been familiar. Also commented upon were the previously unknown levels of filth and trash in evidence in the streets and parks, etc., and the degradation of public services in general. Definitely not the England of yore–or the one he (and I) had known. (Seems a great example of the quickening pace of the workings-out of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.)

]]> By: G-Man http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/21/tommy-rates-better/comment-page-1/#comment-302455 G-Man Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:01:06 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6781#comment-302455 I'm certainly glad I bumbled-stumbled onto Lex's blog. Thought it nifty to eat my sammich, and read an aviator's view of the current crapola swirling around us, and not be hamstrung by the limits of the uniform. But lo, the vitriolic vituperation of some of these posts is downright depressing. Some need to get a life. But back to the Brits - while enjoying a Bombay and tonic a retired Royal Navy senior told me before the election that the Brits were pulling hard for Obama. Once in office and the Iraqi retreat - ugh withdrawal (no sexual connotation) completed, the world-wide US presence would take a dramatic downturn, and give the Brits a chance to once again stand tall on the world's stage. Rule Britannia! Phase One: complete. I’m certainly glad I bumbled-stumbled onto Lex’s blog. Thought it nifty to eat my sammich, and read an aviator’s view of the current crapola swirling around us, and not be hamstrung by the limits of the uniform. But lo, the vitriolic vituperation of some of these posts is downright depressing. Some need to get a life.

But back to the Brits – while enjoying a Bombay and tonic a retired Royal Navy senior told me before the election that the Brits were pulling hard for Obama. Once in office and the Iraqi retreat – ugh withdrawal (no sexual connotation) completed, the world-wide US presence would take a dramatic downturn, and give the Brits a chance to once again stand tall on the world’s stage. Rule Britannia!

Phase One: complete.

]]> By: Zane http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/12/21/tommy-rates-better/comment-page-1/#comment-302439 Zane Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:34:39 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=6781#comment-302439 VX, re: your comment at #5--I hadn't read anything at GoV on Malmo until today, amazed at how similar our takes were. VX, re: your comment at #5–I hadn’t read anything at GoV on Malmo until today, amazed at how similar our takes were.

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