Learn proper like wot I did

I’m not sure my daughter’s school had that in mind when we had 2 weeks of fronted adverbials. I might give my mum a call later though and brush up on the old Deutsch.

I have a groove in my front tooth from stripping that stuff.

The lineys used to drag that shit out by the drum for kilometres…

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Awesome photo

I suppose it depends how ambitious kids are and how many opportunities they can get, Probably less now than ever before as we retreat from the rest of the world.
I have worked abroad and was constantly embarrassed by the language skills of most Europeans I met compared to my crap French. Travel broadens the mind, embracing other cultures first hand is a fantastic education.
Even going to things like the Munich HiFi show the majority of people demonstrating stuff would speak two or three langages.
If you learn a few languages as part of your educaton then maybe being a supervisor at a factory might not be the limit of your ambition.

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Bosnia in 95

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You weren’t there along with 3 Cheshire were you?

fuck no, 3 Div

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Did you have snatch land rovers in Bosnia?

no we were armoured, providing the HQ for IFOR.

I mainly looked after the radio rebros out in the mountains

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I get what you’re saying, I just think the reality for most doesn’t involve working abroad, or even travelling beyond the usual places where everyone speaks better English than they do. Sadly, our post Brexit world makes this even less likely. Maybe I’m just being a grump.:thinking:

Nice, sadly can’t fit one of them in at home, but thinking of buying a snatch Land Rover atm

Holy horse shit my new worst thread has arrived. Whining about adverbials and reminiscing about Cadets.
Fuck, I wish I was dead.

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If it’s any consolation I hated the cadets

They gave me a life long dislike of The Armed Forces. Them, and being regularly reminded,by my family, about my closest cousin being a 2 star with enough medals to supply The Olympics.

There’s a Field Martial Bill Slim who has a statue on Whitehall. It’s a rare enough surname, but I don’t think he’s a relation.

Viscount Slim was born a few doors down from where I lived as a child in Bristol.

I’m partial to a marshal

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parshal

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Yeah that’s the bloke