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Thread #156062   Message #3682392
Posted By: Teribus
04-Dec-14 - 07:20 AM
Thread Name: Oh! What a Lovely War! - BBC Radio 2
Subject: RE: Oh! What a Lovely War! - BBC Radio 2
Is this flurry of contributions from anonymous GUEST mean that the multiple Muskets have gone?

But I really did get a tremendous chuckle out of this one though:

"04 Dec 14 - 04:31 AM

I visited the war graves at Spion Kop the other year, and like the medical orderly who helped clear up the mess, I too felt a sense of betrayal of "other ranks.". In fact, when the medical orderly went on to say that western civilisation would be a good thing, you tended to know where old Mahatma was coming from...


Awww WOW what perception, what empathy, what bullshit. The smarmy attempt to infer gravitas and meaning due to being well travelled, coupled with detailed knowledge and the ability "put one's self in place" is amazingly immature, especially when the author of the above makes it patently clear that he doesn't even know the name of the medical orderly he so knowingly refers to. :

It is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - there was no "old" Mahatma - YOU PRAT - Mahatma is a TITLE it means "Great Soul".