Originally Posted by Alsacien

I'm a classic concreter

1 pond/water feature - fish have not complained
2 sets of steps - no problems, they work
1 small foundation - seems to be supporting a dozen courses of blockwork so far.
1 Bike washing area in front of the garage - its flat enough and the fall works fine.

Think yourself lucky - I have to visit a froggy builders merchants and ask for all this stuff in French :D

Is this sand & cement stuff I started still going on?

Alsacien, please forgive me for not getting my sand and cement mix exactly to spec but I know that is what I was taught on my first day as a labourer. It was 20 years ago, just let it go

We have a shortage of Poles up here in Scotland, but plenty of Irish. How is their mix?

Fat fighter!
Why are you still here? I thought we agreed that you would wend your way over to the Walt and Wannabe thread, and leave the grown ups to talk?

BTW...I along with every soldier paid Tax and National Insurance contributions just like everyone..Except you of course, because you were parasiting your way through University at my expense! Your Degree is worthless because you are obviously worthless! That's why you choose to come on here and try goading those who actually did what you were never capable of...For Shame Still i bet your mam loves ya? At you, not with you tax dodger

Originally Posted by FatFifer

But you're right. I really am upset that I never joined the army. I really curse myself doing that degree and working in an air-con'd office with fit secretaries.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or at sea.

Originally Posted by Voltiguer

Originally Posted by FatFifer

But you're right. I really am upset that I never joined the army. I really curse myself doing that degree and working in an air-con'd office with fit secretaries.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or at sea.

You must be doubly self-satisfied then!

Cheers mate, I seem to remember another quote 'Being a sailor is worse than a prisoner, for to be a sailor is to be a prisoner with the added chance of drowning!', so maybe its not all good then :D

Anyway, hows tricks Rump?

Originally Posted by TalaveraTom

Fat fighter!
Why are you still here? I thought we agreed that you would wend your way over to the Walt and Wannabe thread, and leave the grown ups to talk?

BTW...I along with every soldier paid Tax and National Insurance contributions just like everyone..Except you of course, because you were parasiting your way through University at my expense! Your Degree is worthless because you are obviously worthless! That's why you choose to come on here and try goading those who actually did what you were never capable of...For Shame Still i bet your mam loves ya? At you, not with you tax dodger

I'm 37 in 2 months Tom, am I not "grown up" enough for you? Sorry, but I must have missed something here. Edit: I came back because someone was dissing my sand and cement mix. I watch this thread you know. I have the technology

Yes, you've paid tax and NI, but probably not as much as I have, to put food in mouths and rounds in your rifle.

Given that I've financed you for 20 years, don't you feel you owe me something, Tom? I think you should be GLAD of people like me who have never been on the dole and kept working so you could see the world like that geezer "Frank" in those adverts of yore. See, if it wasn't for us civvies who would give you jobs guarding our stores and minding our pubs when you leave the army??

BTW I took a student loan out at uni, paid it all back - I owe you nothing. Seems you owe ME plenty though! Give me 20 pressups and we'll call it quits. Don't tell anyone I know you though

My mum loves me, but not in the way yours does

Thing is without a measure of security all your economic activity which raises taxes to pay for MoD et al would be for nothing. You cant have prosperity without security, nor does it make sense for man to produce wealth without him being assured of not losing it or it being taken from him in conflict or injustice, so we could equally make the counterpoint that without us, you would have produced the square root of fcuk all.

I find it laughable though that you come on here and complain about 'your taxes paying us', when there are parts of government that soak up so much more funding and produce so much less. Looked at the social security budget lately have you? The Armed Forces work comparative miracles on a shoe string compared to other parts of Govt.

BTW, one of my soldiers told me the other day he got the big 'I pay your wages' from a civvy in a pub - his solution was 'cheers for the pint then fcukface!' - works for me!

Voltiguer, have you heard of "wind up" ? I am joking.

I'm not that much of an arrse to say such things to squaddies edit: do you really think I'd have the brass neck to come on here and say that? I might be big but I'm not fcukin stupid enough to believe it.

I am on this thread because some "clever" fellow thought all civvies were inferior to him, as soon as he says sorry for being a smartarrse I will fcuk off :D

Maybe.

But Tom still owes me.

Ah, a massive Wah, I shouldve known it as soon as I started typing a semi-serious reply on Arrse!

So Fat Fukcer, following your rather warped thinking process, can I conclude that:
The next time you are a crime victim you will remind the plod how much they owe you.
If your house catches fire you will inform the firemen that they better do a good job as you are paying them....
...and when the ambulance arrives to help remove the firemans hose nozzle from your anus, you demand the level of service you, the paying customer, deserve?

The fact that we continue to have a military as we have done in the past, is what ensures you can continue to live your banal little existence with some continued degree of security and freedom.

Edited to add:

Even the most pathetic human creature to be born in the UK qualifies as a UK civilian - not quite so easy to qualify to call yourself a serving or ex-soldier though is it
How does the dictionary definition of "inferior" read......