Trafalgar Celebration Rant

[baztard]

Have just been told that during the Navys re enactment of the Trafalgar battle for the celebrations this week they will have the Blue side & Red side, not the English & French/Spanish.

Why.....they dont want to offend the French/Spanish!!

[big] FFS Did we win the battle or what????????[big] :ranting:

[JMGS4]

Worse is yet to come!
Apparently scientologist Tom Cruisemissile is now acting Nelson on USS Missouri and showing us how the americans beat Napoleon at Trafalgar with Clint Eastwood as Hardy doing the kissing, and the "Duke" John Wayneplaying Wellington in the sequel "Waterloo or how we civilised Europe"!!!

[silverback mike]

baztard said:

Have just been told that during the Navys re enactment of the Trafalgar battle for the celebrations this week they will have the Blue side & Red side, not the English & French/Spanish. Why.....they dont want to offend the French/Spanish!! FFS Did we win the battle or what????????

Surely not......even the Navy pc department can't stoop that low.

I was highly aggrieved when they dumped field gun competitions having run in Devonport crew for a few years, then mast manning team....God what next

[simpo two]

If you want to get mad, wait until they burn an effigy of the Victory.

That's right, of HMS Victory.

I expect we'll be paying damages, index-linked, to all the French and Spanish sailors' families

It's bloody appeasement I tell you, and the other lot aren't even threatening to invade.

[Flat in Fifth]

Afaik new recruits at Dartmouth are still told that our natural enemies are in order

1. Ministry of Defence
2. HM Govt
3. Royal Air Force Chief of Staff
4. Whoever we happen to be at war with
5. The French

and if they are still not told that WHY NOT!

mutiple and all allegedly of course ....

[silverback mike]

Flat in Fifth said:

Afaik new recruits at Dartmouth are still told that our natural enemies are in order 1. Royal Air Force Chief of Staff 2. The French

[jmorgan]

BBC link

[quote=BBC said]Lord Nelson's closest living relative has fired a shot across the bows of the Trafalgar 200 celebrations, labelling some of them as "pretty stupid".[quote]


And Totnes town council have just discovered fire and are still scared of burning their fingers.