ENGLISH THAT DEFIES INTERPRETATION
Well yank my doodle this is a real dandy, this is right up my street, for years I suffered listening to this kind of codswallop, while serving in the British Navy, it now appears the 2nd best navy in the world has its own titillating but confusing jargon.
I was quite relieved to discover that three inmates at Guantanamo had not committed suicide,
It seems that it was just a communications glitch by the US Navy. The three men apparently just simply committed an act of asymmetric warfare. Sadly and unexpectedly for the US Navy, it has proved to be every bit as lethal as suicide.
Who in the world would have guessed that?
The cause of death was by hanging, but should they have survived their act of self destruction, they would have choked anyway on the over blown stupid frippery of the Base Commander Rear Admiral Harry Harris ( bomb happy Harry).
"I believe this was not an act of desperation but an act of asymmetric warfare against us" he said.
That is probably why Harry is in the rear and only suitable for a desk shore job.
I have met many guys like Harry Whose incompetence was feared by all, like the Harry's of today.
Imagine Harry under pressure during war time on the bridge of a warship.
"There are enemy planes congregating in an asymmetric pattern with every intention of transporting themselves down towards us while simultaneously releasing powerful airborne explosives that have the power to completely annihilate this sh--....BOOM! Sorry Harry. We were just a bit too late to get your message.
Harry should carry a verbal Rosetta stone so to interpret the bullshite hieroglyphics of what he says. and he should be keel hauled or whatever they do these days.
Saying something is "asymmetric warfare" is bewilderingly inexplicable puzzling obtuse, it is mystically brilliant.
Harry highlights a growing extension by society including business, the military, politicians and the public into the web of nebulous speaking and writing.
It is a type of new speak. A language that defies interpretation.
It may have started with garbage men becoming sanitation engineers or stokers on ships being given the title of marine engineers.
But it is the military who embrace such obfuscation...(sorry) who embrace such confused language.
Only the military could provide so many euphemisms for"Kill" to avoid using the word its self.
Targets are never killed. They are taken out. They can be terminated with extreme prejudice.
Harry would have been proud of that one.
I was quite relieved to discover that three inmates at Guantanamo had not committed suicide,
It seems that it was just a communications glitch by the US Navy. The three men apparently just simply committed an act of asymmetric warfare. Sadly and unexpectedly for the US Navy, it has proved to be every bit as lethal as suicide.
Who in the world would have guessed that?
The cause of death was by hanging, but should they have survived their act of self destruction, they would have choked anyway on the over blown stupid frippery of the Base Commander Rear Admiral Harry Harris ( bomb happy Harry).
"I believe this was not an act of desperation but an act of asymmetric warfare against us" he said.
That is probably why Harry is in the rear and only suitable for a desk shore job.
I have met many guys like Harry Whose incompetence was feared by all, like the Harry's of today.
Imagine Harry under pressure during war time on the bridge of a warship.
"There are enemy planes congregating in an asymmetric pattern with every intention of transporting themselves down towards us while simultaneously releasing powerful airborne explosives that have the power to completely annihilate this sh--....BOOM! Sorry Harry. We were just a bit too late to get your message.
Harry should carry a verbal Rosetta stone so to interpret the bullshite hieroglyphics of what he says. and he should be keel hauled or whatever they do these days.
Saying something is "asymmetric warfare" is bewilderingly inexplicable puzzling obtuse, it is mystically brilliant.
Harry highlights a growing extension by society including business, the military, politicians and the public into the web of nebulous speaking and writing.
It is a type of new speak. A language that defies interpretation.
It may have started with garbage men becoming sanitation engineers or stokers on ships being given the title of marine engineers.
But it is the military who embrace such obfuscation...(sorry) who embrace such confused language.
Only the military could provide so many euphemisms for"Kill" to avoid using the word its self.
Targets are never killed. They are taken out. They can be terminated with extreme prejudice.
Harry would have been proud of that one.
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but to dream
u gotta be asleep
-Bob Dylan
i read dis post twice
i am still in the dark
y cant u speak english like the americans do
dont think you will get much comment from the septic tanks on this post-- taking the pee out of a top american sailor boy
reminds me of the Kiwi Group Dragon, and their song 'April Sun In Cuba'.
Records also show. Arrived Portsmouth Eng 21 April, 1958,and on that day my eldest son 23-9-53 was twice as old as my second son, 27-6-56, confusing? not really.
maintaining a fertile mind at sea was essential, keeping a journal my passion.
women call dem diaries
the term taken out instead of
killed.
If you wish to stir the can do it in a civilised manner, thank you.
Now let's see.
You : Born 1923 Being you are now 83.
Joined Missouri Aged 20 Aug 1944.
served until end of war Aug 1945.
Tell me: How could you see any aircraft including Jap kamikazes from the interior of an enclosed armor plated gun turret controlled by the gun director high in the superstructure.
Me VEST: Born 16-7- 1942 now near 80.
Joined Brit Navy 7-1-1942, aged 15 years 5 months, 31 days after US enters WW2. Service delayed by cancer treatment at 16, resumed training, joined first warship at 17yrs 2 months. Sept 1943
Served in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian ocean, and the last 9 months in the Pacific on the Battle ship HMS King George V operating with the US Pacific Fleet until the end of the war.
My action station, the Air defence Control Position. a frightful undefended open area with very little cover, my friend on the starboard side and I on the port side would have seen those kamikazes sooner and far more often, than ANYONE on our ship, it was brown trouser times, yes , Amerigo man; diapers would have come in handy.
Sorry to have been there longer in the fray than you, but then there were younger CHILDREN than I serving on my ship. yes it was my ship which was near the Missouri at Guam. If you require more info I have plenty, and the reason others died and I survived was; I believed I was far too young to die.
"I am certain that those at home in Britain have no idea of what these long operating periods mean(He is referring to 3-4 months at sea in constant war activity)nor of the strain put on those in the ships, so many of whom, both officers and men, are mere children.
I have in my flagship the Battleship HMS King George v Leading Hands of 19 and Petty Officers of 21. and boy seamen who are recently 17 yrs old.
when I took on that which this untrained youth has managed to accomplish and to stick out, then I have no fear for the future of the British Navy, provided, but only provided, that we handle them with vision and understanding, and that we recognise them for what they were and are- people of great courage who would follow one anywhere, and whose keynote was that the word "impossible" did not exist".
"Our names will not go down in history except perhaps in some dusty naval archives, God bless you all".
Not even the great Admiral Horatio Nelson spoke about the men under his command in this fashion.