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Posted by John Hopkins
- March 20, 2013, 08:00:50 AMI'm not getting involved in this I was actually part of the B.A.O.R and before that I failed my first driving test by overtaking the man with the red flag..
John.
Posted by CDNRatMan
- March 20, 2013, 07:44:47 AMNow that from a vet who served under the command of Lieutenant John Chard at the battle of Rorke's Drift......
Sorry Troll I'll get Chief to change the fonts so you can see them better typed BAOR not BOER , and that would be BAOR = British Army on the Rhine, not the BOER War that you fought in as a young 20 something cavalry man......
Posted by Troll
- March 20, 2013, 07:38:23 AMWas that during the BAOR WAR?
Posted by CDNRatMan
- March 19, 2013, 21:11:03 PMhave not heard that term in years.....squaddie
last heard working with the BAOR in Germany
Posted by John Hopkins
- March 19, 2013, 18:29:17 PMI guessing you didn't google the book..
John.
Posted by John Hopkins
- March 19, 2013, 18:27:07 PMQuote from: chief on March 19, 2013, 18:09:25 PMThat's right, well military men anyway..I almost sing in the key of A Flat major...well A fat squaddie...Well John, I just watched Zulu for the 800th time last Sunday... you a tenor or a baritone... all Welshmen can sing right?
John.
Posted by chief
- March 19, 2013, 18:09:25 PMWell John, I just watched Zulu for the 800th time last Sunday... you a tenor or a baritone... all Welshmen can sing right?
Posted by John Hopkins
- March 19, 2013, 15:20:37 PMOops..sorry you don't know about the book...Well Ratman has the only copy in Canada and there is one copy riding around the USA..Google the book of John Hopkins..
John.
Posted by Troll
- March 19, 2013, 14:15:21 PMThat all makes perfect sense....
Posted by John Hopkins
- March 19, 2013, 14:13:55 PMQuote from: chief on March 19, 2013, 10:07:05 AMI did appear in a film in 1957 called return journey where the producer made me run like Flash Gordon in the old black and white series..(Hey John, you aren't an actor are you? John Hopkins is an actor on Midsomer Murders...)
but no I'm Anthony Hopkins twin brother..See..worlds fastest indian..I do all his riding..
he was born in Wales and I was born in Scotland 7 years earlier..we are identical twins but I am the good looking one..
It's all in the book..
John.
Posted by chief
- March 19, 2013, 10:07:05 AMI can remember as a child worrying about the "coming ice age"...
When you figure the weather people, despite all the technology and super computers we have, cannot with certainty tell me its going to rain on a specific day next week; its very difficult for me to take their prediction of global catastrophe in x number of years very seriously.
And, since they tell me the reason they cannot predict the weather with more certainty is the number of factors involved in the equation, some still unknown, some beyond human prediction, I am ever more skeptical they can with certainty tell me it is MAN causing their predicted global climate change disaster.
Nah, this is politics and greed- a political agenda designed by people who want reputation and gold- not science IMHO.
At least they didn't start taxing you to cover the Mayan end of the world prediction. $30 a month to pay for a fantasy would piss me off too. Hell, the whole concept of VAT makes me angry... fortunately, we don't do that here... yet!
(Hey John, you aren't an actor are you? John Hopkins is an actor on Midsomer Murders...)
Posted by greenbarn
- March 18, 2013, 22:03:22 PMThat's political speak, John. It DOES add value to your tax. Your original tax was only £15.71, but now with the Value Added Tax, the VALUE of your tax will be 20% HIGHER, or £18.85. Isn't it wonderful how our politicians can use modern math to further fleece the public!!! 
Posted by John Hopkins
- March 18, 2013, 20:12:24 PMI have hated global warming for a long time, not the idea that the world is heating up and we are all going to die, but the fact that they have known we had dinosaurs living here in tropical times and then an ice age that killed them off and ever since then we have been thawing out..it's just been a big natural cycle which all of a sudden the polititions have decided is our fault..
Anyway the idea of global warming has started to appeal to people like me who suffer these endless cold winters and cold wet summers, and some of us think global warming will be a good thing...
So now the governments have changed the name from global warming to climate change..
Every electricity and gas bill has an extra charge now and it is called a climate change levy (CCL) this month mine is (£15.71) and there is a VAT (Value Added Tax) charge of 20% on top of that..OK so the CCL is a tax because someone is enjoying better and better weather..They have actually found a way to tax the weather..but how does value get added to a tax?
John.