Comments on IDLE: None Braver

My father served with Gurkhas in India. Adored the...

2008-03-14T12:24:00.000Z

My father served with Gurkhas in India. Adored them; indeed, he adored India and the Indians. The Urdu he picked up there alwayse served us well when we visited Indian Restaurants (so exotic, once).

The treatment of the Gurkhas and their pensions by our various governments is nothing short of criminal.

Ha ha.Very true. I'm sure height is a disadvantag...

2008-03-10T20:42:00.000Z

Ha ha.

Very true. I'm sure height is a disadvantage sometimes. We City cops were all over 6'2" and I was the shortest therefore at the front.

Good tale, dc. Both my grandfathers were Indian Ar...

2008-03-07T12:52:00.000Z

Good tale, dc. Both my grandfathers were Indian Army cavalrymen, so I like tales from the plains and the hills.

The thing about Johnny Gurkha is that he lives life at an acute angle to the earth, e-k (when you think about it), whereas we tend to be a right angles to the ground. So no wonder they are good at tug-o-war.

True about the lardy chavs, Idle.I had the misfort...

2008-03-07T02:15:00.000Z

True about the lardy chavs, Idle.

I had the misfortune of pulling against the Ghurkas in a tug-of-war competition at the Royal Tournament. I shall blog about this in the near future.

I ended up in a right state is all I'll say. (Second only to the RUC in strength.)

Thanks Idle - India, just south of Bengal on the e...

2008-03-07T00:29:00.000Z

Thanks Idle - India, just south of Bengal on the east-coast in Orissa - missionary kid. Very rural area with lotsa Adavasi and Santal tribals.
Summer of '68 I was Ten and we went up to Darjeeling to get away from the heat of the plains. We flew from Calcutta in a godawful NOISY old Military Surplus DC-3 that belonged to Indian Airways.
Stayed at Mt. Hermon School in a small rental cottage, doing our school lessons by correspondence. We attended a graduation ceremony of the Women's Climbing Class of the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, and there were Ghurkas playing bagpipes in an Honor-Guard band. Tenzing gave out the Graduation scrolls.
After much begging and pleading our Parents got us the Kukuri back then and me and my brother and a friend cut down many young saplings and built a lean-to fort deep in the Govt. Forest across from where we were staying - oops! Good thing we weren't caught. "Idle" - heh, reminds me of Idli! ;-)

Welcome, dc. Over where? HK, or India?

2008-03-06T10:31:00.000Z

Welcome, dc. Over where? HK, or India?

As a kid growing up over there the Ghurkas were my...

2008-03-05T23:19:00.000Z

As a kid growing up over there the Ghurkas were my heros, and Jim Corbett too.

Absolutely; to this weak-kneed government, bravery...

2008-03-05T09:18:00.000Z

Absolutely; to this weak-kneed government, bravery exists as putting your expenses through hoping nobody will notice the discrepancies.

I heard this morning that we are apparently paying much more just to get convicted foreign criminals to return home, from where they will eventually return to sponge of us.

The cheque (not very much - we aren't millionaires) I sent to HMRC yesterday will pay for one of these gits to get about as far as Dover. I'd much rather it went to keeping a Gurkha, with his loyalty and sense of duty and friendship, for a good deal longer than the scavenging scum we bow down to here.

As we know I am an admirer of our wily oriental fr...

2008-03-04T20:35:00.000Z

As we know I am an admirer of our wily oriental friends.
They know what sacrifice and duty mean, something we used to understand but now dont .
Our society has been watered down by homosexual propagandists, feminazis and all round cunts.
I could tell you (but wont)some truly humbling stories of the things my friend Eves family have had to endure to achieve what they have.
Asia is the future.
The way the Ghurkas have been treated is just a sympton of our fat ,bloated soon to be dead, degenerate society.

A true hero - I spotted his sons were Ghurkas too....

2008-03-04T13:57:00.000Z

A true hero - I spotted his sons were Ghurkas too. All we need now is the nasal cavity foraging sporran-licker to post a moving tribute to him on Labour Youtube and the circle will be complete (Apols to Darth Vader).

If forced to choose, the Tuscan would rather eke out the rest of his days in yellow peril infested Hong Kong than white chav plagued Basingstoke.