cavortingcheetah
29th Jun 2006, 06:24
:hmm:
By a strange stroke of coincidence in relation to a recently closed thread on another forum:
(Burn your CAA Licence.) Interviews.
As I remember things, my first UK ATPL had a photgraph of my gorgeous visage in it. There was also a note somewhere inside the little green book to the effect that the licence acted as an entry and deparure document for the United Kingdom. That was pragmatic!
Of course, one of the rather nicer things about the British flag is its eclectisism. When you burn it, you burn the crosses of England, Scotland and Ireland, thereby making a real expression of broad distaste in one fell incendiary swoop. The Welsh of course, are not included in this vexillogical masterpiece. Perhaps they are best left, as Shakespeare might have intended, in his Falstaffian wisdom, to their leeks and marches.
Of course, the Royal Standard, only flown from buildings where the Queen is present and flown, at that, above the Union Flag, still only represents England, Scotland and Ireland. Two quadrants for the English and one for each of the other blobs of land.
The present Royal Standard dates from the time of Queen Victoria. She of course was the last ruler of The House of Hanover. Her ancestry was almost entirely German and perhaps she shed a tear at the dropping of the arms of Hanover which had heretofore been superimposed on previous Royal Standards.
By a nice irony therefore, were England to play Germany in that ridiculous game, only rivalled by golf in its idiocy, those Scots who waved the Royal Standard at the match, whilst seeming to support the English might actually be egging on their probable favourites, the Germans.
It is to be hoped that Gordon Brown, the Scottish MP, once he becomes Prime Minister of England, will bow to his socialist principles and restore Las Malvinas to Argentina in a great and gracious act of counter Imperialism?;)
By a strange stroke of coincidence in relation to a recently closed thread on another forum:
(Burn your CAA Licence.) Interviews.
As I remember things, my first UK ATPL had a photgraph of my gorgeous visage in it. There was also a note somewhere inside the little green book to the effect that the licence acted as an entry and deparure document for the United Kingdom. That was pragmatic!
Of course, one of the rather nicer things about the British flag is its eclectisism. When you burn it, you burn the crosses of England, Scotland and Ireland, thereby making a real expression of broad distaste in one fell incendiary swoop. The Welsh of course, are not included in this vexillogical masterpiece. Perhaps they are best left, as Shakespeare might have intended, in his Falstaffian wisdom, to their leeks and marches.
Of course, the Royal Standard, only flown from buildings where the Queen is present and flown, at that, above the Union Flag, still only represents England, Scotland and Ireland. Two quadrants for the English and one for each of the other blobs of land.
The present Royal Standard dates from the time of Queen Victoria. She of course was the last ruler of The House of Hanover. Her ancestry was almost entirely German and perhaps she shed a tear at the dropping of the arms of Hanover which had heretofore been superimposed on previous Royal Standards.
By a nice irony therefore, were England to play Germany in that ridiculous game, only rivalled by golf in its idiocy, those Scots who waved the Royal Standard at the match, whilst seeming to support the English might actually be egging on their probable favourites, the Germans.
It is to be hoped that Gordon Brown, the Scottish MP, once he becomes Prime Minister of England, will bow to his socialist principles and restore Las Malvinas to Argentina in a great and gracious act of counter Imperialism?;)
