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Mar 5th 2018, 2:12 am

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Re: Florida shooting

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I think you missed the point. Military personnel still have pride in their uniforms and the vast majority of Brits have pride in their servicemen/women. The reason personnel were stopped from wearing uniform in public whilst off duty was to make it harder for the IRA to target them.
mrken30 didn't cover the full list of restrictions, such as no pleasure travel to Ireland whilst serving and recommendation not to visit when no longer enlisted.

Yes, zzrmark covered other aspects, I had to turn down a job in Belfast because of my military past. I was talking more about what it was like being targeted as an 18 year old in the UK. I don't think it was much different to going to school thinking you may get shot. Being blown up or being shot has much the same outcome.

We couldn't wear uniform while travelling from home to the barracks. We had to get changed on base.

Mar 5th 2018, 4:46 am

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Re: Florida shooting

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I was National Service so The Troubles were a few years into the future,

My mother whose sister was dying from cancer in Belfast made the trip from England to see her at the height of the troubles. With her it was a case of "to hell with the IRA"

Mar 5th 2018, 4:54 am

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Re: Florida shooting

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The only restrictions on uniform I recall was while in Singapore. Going into town off duty civvies were required. I never found out the reason why.

Mar 6th 2018, 1:48 am

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Re: Florida shooting

Florida is about to vote on arming the only people less likely to want to carry a gun in school besides teachers... the librarians.

Mar 6th 2018, 4:44 am

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Florida is about to vote on arming the only people less likely to want to carry a gun in school besides teachers... the librarians.

Well nations are a bit like families. Every family has an idiot somewhere amongst them

Mar 6th 2018, 12:29 pm

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Re: Florida shooting

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Florida is about to vote on arming the only people less likely to want to carry a gun in school besides teachers... the librarians.

Putting on my United States Government Documents Librarian hat - I love the NRA!

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Mar 6th 2018, 1:17 pm

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Re: Florida shooting

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Florida is about to vote on arming the only people less likely to want to carry a gun in school besides teachers... the librarians.

Dinner ladies will be next, I guess.

Mar 6th 2018, 1:54 pm

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Re: Florida shooting

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Florida is about to vote on arming the only people less likely to want to carry a gun in school besides teachers... the librarians.

Each one must be fitted with a silencer.

Mar 6th 2018, 1:56 pm

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Re: Florida shooting

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Each one must be fitted with a silencer.

I'm actually impressed that they still have librarians to be able to arm in the first place. Most schools aren't well funded enough to have a full time librarian.

Mar 6th 2018, 2:11 pm

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Mar 6th 2018, 2:51 pm

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Re: Florida shooting

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Dinner ladies will be next, I guess.

In my experience dinner ladies are already quite frightening enough.

As is the food they serve.

Mar 6th 2018, 2:56 pm

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Re: Florida shooting

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In my experience dinner ladies are already quite frightening enough.

As is the food they serve.

I mostly brought a packed lunch to school, so I was rarely at their mercy. The few times I did eat a school dinner, it was usually fish cakes and the dessert had custard thick enough you could have used it to lay bricks with

Mar 6th 2018, 3:24 pm

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Re: Florida shooting

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Cabbage boiled for three hours.

Why did they always do that?

Anyway, this young man is coming - he'll probably take everyone's guns...

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Mar 6th 2018, 3:33 pm

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Re: Florida shooting

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Cabbage boiled for three hours.

Why did they always do that?

Anyway, this young man is coming - he'll probably take everyone's guns...

Yusuf, 14, aims to be first US Muslim president - BBC News

Can't watch the video in work, but I wish him well. I can't imagine the disgusting smear campaign he'd have to endure if he ever did run