National Service, Soon To Be Compulsory....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48755605
Surely that's against EUSSR regs? Don't get me wrong, good idea, we should do it.

[KARL]

Sqad, 15.16, I suspect both of will acknowledge that overall the world today is a far better place than it was half a century ago and both of us have enjoyed getting here to reap the progress. There are some black spots (locally and worldwide) but I cannot believe anyone wants to go back in time however much some take selective samples from the distant past to bathe in a nostalgic glow. Things have changed, overwhelmingly for the better - and sometimes, in some ways, we have had to adjust. There is still room for more improvement, more change.

[KARL]

jourdain2, Would he have enjoyed it any less if it had not been a military experience ?

[vetuste_ennemi]

A community exists and survives because it shares common customs and attitudes, and because it understands that communal success relies on co-operation, and, thirdly, that it may be necessary in extremis for the community to defend itself against its enemies.

Without the understanding that the grown-up world entails both rights and obligations society would end up in the same failed place as Spathiphyllum's gardening business.

[pixie374]

//Today I read that kids are abandoning music festivals because they don't like getting wet and muddy. Doesn't that say something? //

Yep. It says- don't believe everything you read.

I haven't read the whole thread... but my view of AB is that older people criticise younger ones, usually with no genuine reason, far more than the other way round.
As an option, this is a great idea, my son would love it, but obviously it wouldn't be for everyone.

[Peter Pedant]

// Yep. It says- don't believe everything you read. //
some common sense on one of the usual crazy threads
BA to pix

nope national service is NOT soon to be compulsory
or else only compulsory in the sense that you er dont have to do it
( dat is compulsory in the sense of somefing else entirely)

The Army as a youf employer giving young people fun things ( sorry fings) to do whilst maintaining the empire is shot as a concept and has been for around 50 y.
Last national service in 1962 as the army said - it was an army and not a youf employer. You need more than two years to train someone, hence people signing on for ten years etc

but hey this is AB so lets ignore THAT
and go into a cycle of "yeah foo me ole chyne - foo dat goot idea etc etc Brexit will settle all dis - Bo Jo ! Bo Jo !" [again]

oh - Socrates ( who he den when he's at home!) was found guilty of corrupting youf in oh 405BC - amidst loud complaints that youth of that day ( yup 2500 y ago) had no respect
so the BA has been around for a long long time....

[The Affenians did have a point - Alcibiades (WHD?) did lop off the bo-jo's of the herms ( what dey den) the night before he set sail for some place along with his pals. called back to face charges and acquitted I think.]

[Peter Pedant]

The herms were statues placed at the entrances of houses in and they had - you know those.... things, lower down, no underpants
and Alciabiades had had a foo bevvies and along wiv his pals took chisels to the lower parts of the herms
to their great fun. Sobered up and set sail
and the house holders thought it much less fun

[night of the mutilation of the herms]

[anotheoldgit]

Peter Pedant

/// You need more than two years to train someone, ///

They didn't need all that time to train the young Battle of Britain pilots.

/// When RAF Fighter Command was under extreme pressure in the later stages of the Battle of Britain, the RAF considered OTU squadrons as being eligible for use in combat and replacement pilots were receiving severely truncated transition and operational training, as little as a couple of weeks training in Spitfires and Hurricanes. ///

[jno]

Battle of Britain pilots were only expected to live for a month anyway. And there were more where they came from.