Strewth, how big are your feet that it requires bovine pulling power to remove your shoes? Bet the RSPCA would consider it cruelty
RANT: We have nearly lost Andy to the darkside - the world of land-bound creatures. Follow the light Andy, follow the light back to the wonderful world of the swooping gracefullness of aircraft RAVE: It looks like it's a close call but we maybe able to save him I think all these name changes has the poor lad confused
RAVE: almost finished the latest issue of my e-zine so can have a short break before hitting the next one. RAVE: the LRDG trucks combine two of my greatest interests - old trucks and WWII - I knew these skills would come in handy one day... RANT: how can one follow the light when it's shining from both ends of the tunnel?
One could stay in the middle and absorb the light from either end. Would always mean one would be somewhat in the dark at all times...sounds about right!
RANT: our fridge which is less than three years old looks like it got a little battered on the move over from Perth. A couple of weeks ago it decided to beep at night time - referring to the fact its freezer was too warm - only to be reset and go off again 50 minutes later. After getting it fixed (tubing to compressor cracked, no gas!) and all being happy, it started doing it again at 2300 last night. I am now on hold, having taken a day off work, to get the service people to come and fix it as I refuse to lose another night's sleep to the effing thing. Of course, they're experiencing high call volumes than usual. RAVE: It's a nice day.
This really gets me going! POW/MIA speaker found to be a hoax | Jacksonville.com POW/MIA speaker found to be a hoax Veteran also charged for claiming to have four Purple Hearts. When Charles T. White stood up at Jacksonville Naval Air Station a few months ago to serve as keynote speaker at a POW/MIA Recognition Observation, he went into great detail about his career in the Navy and Marines. He talked about the 7 months he said he spent as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese and the four Purple Hearts he had won. Now it appears the whole thing was a lie. The U.S. Department of Justice filed charges against the 68-year-old St. Augustine resident Tuesday, accusing him of violating the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 by claiming the Purple Hearts. The law makes it a federal misdemeanor to claim military honors that haven't been granted. White faces two years in prison and a $200,000 fine. According to the military's Personnel Records Center, White also lied about being a POW. Although he was in combat from July 9, 1966, to May 1, 1967, there is no record that White was held in three prison camps for a total of seven months, as he has said. White received the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal with a star signifying participation in one campaign and the Vietnam Campaign Medal. There is no record that he received the Prisoner of War Medal or any Purple Hearts. "This is such an insult to the men who earned the decoration he's wearing," said Mary Schantag, a historian with the POW Network, an organization that tracks real and fraudulent prisoners of war. "They want the honor and the integrity and the accolades, but they don't take the nightmares and the pain these men wake up with every morning." White's phone number is unlisted. A woman who answered the door at his home said he was unavailable to comment. Jacksonville NAS refused to discuss the matter, saying it was a civilian issue. "This is a very unfortunate incident," said base spokeswoman Miriam Gallet. "The case is in the hands of the U.S. Attorney's Office and it would be inappropriate for me to comment." So the base couldn't answer how White came to be the speaker at the POW event or how he was vetted. Personnel record problems Many of the details that White told the base newspaper for an article leading up to the event are contradicted by the personnel record, which says the sailor was a seaman apprentice for the two years he was in the Navy, not a combat medical specialist. His record also said he was discharged from the Marines as a lance corporal in 1967, not as a gunnery sergeant in 1970. The record also does not support White's statement to the Jax Air News that he served on the USS Miller, that he was head corpsman on the USS Dealey and that he worked at Cuba Naval Hospital during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1961. The decorations White wore at POW events had other problems, according to POW Network, including the wearing of the Navy Battle Efficiency Ribbon, the Navy Overseas Service Ribbon and Navy Sea Duty Service Ribbon. None of these existed when he was enlisted. Another one was the Army Good Conduct Medal, but he was never in that branch of the service. Disappointed colleagues A variety of organizations began digging into White's records after his appearance at the September POW/MIA Recognition Observation, although some people began doubting his story about a week earlier when White was involved in a ceremony renaming the St. Augustine Veterans of Foreign Wars post in honor of Bryan Tutten, the first St. Johns County resident killed in Iraq. During that ceremony, White told people that he had been a POW and earned the Purple Hearts. That raised suspicions, said Rick Hall, a member of the post's house committee. With those suspicions confirmed, White will probably be barred from the post, where he was a member of the honor guard. "Everyone was very, very disappointed and a little angry. Well, more than a little," Hall said. "To a serviceman, that's probably the most shameful thing you can do. It darkens the efforts and sacrifices of others."
Just why do people do this? What sort of thrill does it give them. And in this day of the internet do they really think their charade will last long? Bastards
That's what happens when you call lovely people Ozzie Gits... What do you take for the migraine? Hope you're feeling better when you read this.
I think he should have repharse he's post,i too thought the same way.:mosking:. It's all in good humour! Yeah,i know what you mean about spending just a little too much dosh. I to are a bit worried with my spending.
Oh I can spend, thats the problem. Andy, i find nothing works for my headaches other than ride it out. if it gets too bad i tend to put Bo Rap on the headphones and crank it up to equalise it out.
