Posted by Sigismund on January 8, 2010, at 22:53:10
In reply to An introduction and hello, posted by Pabo on January 4, 2010, at 21:59:10
I wouldn't wish to appear other than pleasant and correct, though I don't always manage it.
I've had some contact recently with members of the armed forces in my infrequent social outings. The first was with a young man with very short hair (almost none) whom I noticed near me in the pub. Before long we were talking and he greatly flattered me by saying I reminded him of his counter-insurgency lecturers. He had been in Afghanistan. I was fairly drunk. And then there was a Canadian with his friends, also in Afghanistan. I said 'Is it gonna work?' He looked perturbed 'I'm just a common soldier' or something like that. I said 'You're there'. His friend took over 'He's going back in a few days so we're making the most of it' and then he had something sceptical to say about whether it would work. We'd taken our beagle down the beach. We disarmed the Canadians by saying we used him to track down tourists on the beach with cocaine. Of course our beagle has never done anything useful in his life.
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