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22 minutes ago, General Specific said:


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... and you were right. The stuff you quoted, that's not  Math, it's Fantasy. Lewis Carroll shoulda toldja. 

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11 hours ago, Nuge said:

oof.  I would change my name.  Something a little less nazi like. 

I had about a 3 hour layover when changing trains in Gstaad, Switzerland back in ‘97, so I went into a shop and picked out a blue Swiss Army knife, because I had heard in my hostel in Madrid or Geneva that you could only get their classic utility knife in blue if you bought it in Switzerland.

 Picked out my knife and asked fire an engraving. (Maybe “Summer ‘97” or something like that.)

I picked up the knife an hour later before heading to the train station and saw the engraving on the knife… then noticed on the receipt that I had patronized a shop named “Fuhrer Tobacco” (or something with “Fuhrer” in the name) and I believe that the shop name may have even been imprinted on one side of the blade. 

I mean…. Heil! It just seemed a little odd.

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6 hours ago, Napoleon said:

I had about a 3 hour layover when changing trains in Gstaad, Switzerland back in ‘97, so I went into a shop and picked out a blue Swiss Army knife, because I had heard in my hostel in Madrid or Geneva that you could only get their classic utility knife in blue if you bought it in Switzerland.

 Picked out my knife and asked fire an engraving. (Maybe “Summer ‘97” or something like that.)

I picked up the knife an hour later before heading to the train station and saw the engraving on the knife… then noticed on the receipt that I had patronized a shop named “Fuhrer Tobacco” (or something with “Fuhrer” in the name) and I believe that the shop name may have even been imprinted on one side of the blade. 

I mean…. Heil! It just seemed a little odd.

My FIL served in the British military for a decade. He then went on to work for a UK conglomerate working in "development" behind the Iron Curtain, in the USSR, the Middle East, Iran and the Far East for various stretches of time. He tells random stories of the same ilk as you do, although often really absurd or disturbing. He does it in the same matter of fact manner.

"I was bringing across £50,000 through Ashgabat once via a hidden floor in the soles of my shoes for a mate once ..." or "our friend in Dubai, Ramy, kept buying canaries at the pet shop after he first brought his family over. it took awhile to figure out what was going on ..." or "the bloody problem with Russians is that life is not valued by them. I've run into more sociopaths in my dealings with those dirty bastards than anywhere else in the world outside of Kowloon ..."

Now, I'm fairly certain that he actually was part of the British intelligence world. I sometimes wonder if you're not our Surly version of that. 

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42 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

My FIL served in the British military for a decade. He then went on to work for a UK conglomerate working in "development" behind the Iron Curtain, in the USSR, the Middle East, Iran and the Far East for various stretches of time. He tells random stories of the same ilk as you do, although often really absurd or disturbing. He does it in the same matter of fact manner.

"I was bringing across £50,000 through Ashgabat once via a hidden floor in the soles of my shoes for a mate once ..." or "our friend in Dubai, Ramy, kept buying canaries at the pet shop after he first brought his family over. it took awhile to figure out what was going on ..." or "the bloody problem with Russians is that life is not valued by them. I've run into more sociopaths in my dealings with those dirty bastards than anywhere else in the world outside of Kowloon ..."

Now, I'm fairly certain that he actually was part of the British intelligence world. I sometimes wonder if you're not our Surly version of that. 

Did he go down to the Falklands in the 80s? My uncle was a captain in the British army and I would pen pal him when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade for class.

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2 hours ago, Butch Had Not said:

Did he go down to the Falklands in the 80s? My uncle was a captain in the British army and I would pen pal him when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade for class.

@Napoleon will have you know it's the Malvinas, not the Falkland Islands.

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1 hour ago, UDontKnow said:

@Napoleon will have you know it's the Malvinas, not the Falkland Islands.

I may have picked up the passport, but I know hypocrisy when I see it.

 Call it “The Falklands” unless I’m in the wrong company and then I just don’t mention it.

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My good Brit friend was a Chinook crew chief in the Falkllands War. 
Trouble was, he didn’t have a Chinook to crew chief with….after the Argentines sank the freighter carrying it and several others before unloading them.

 

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