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nono Tom you've got it all wrong, I haven't seen that kind of Keith's since I was in the navy and Captain Highliner asked me if I'd ever been "been to sea", which is where I purchased my manservant. Sorry Scott, take your thread back.

I was going to say Chinese butler, in an ode to the Pink Panther movies, but I figured that would offend someone. And butler sounded pretentious, and not nearly as funny as manservant. I suppose i could have gone with womanservant, but if Chinese Butler offends, womanservant would outrage.

Cheers for that, that's exactly what I was looking for.

Oh everyone hates a know-it-all agreed; I was under the impression we were talking about things like volunteering when an instructor says "I need five of you over there, move." I mean you know you're going to get stuck with a shit job but nothings worse than an instructor saying that and no one...

I've been reading about health-workers and the differences between them lately (IE; The roles of Doctors, RN's, NP's, LPN's etc.) and from there trying to see how they fit into the forces. I'm under the impression that an NP technically requires an RN or a Doctor around as they haven't got a...

I get my manservant to attack me anytime, anywhere and I find that does wonders for honing my senses. As a result I'm always ready, in fact there are times when I'll attack people pre-emptively because I sense that they're about to attack, or that they're thinking about being about to attack.

As far as I know, William has never tried out for the RM, that was his uncle (who did drop out) as Tomahawk said he's been at St. Andrews for the past few years. Good point Geo, Could it be that the current conflicts in the world are giving newfound relevance and respect to Britains land...

I got the opposite impression from the last two poster, I'm kind of with Ghost. I noticed that if people see someone else being pro-active and volunteering, getting right in there, the rest of the course picks up the pace a bit too and everyone benefits as a result. You don't have to blade the...

Excellent point Calvin; I went to vote today, with no card and my drivers license. They didn't ask to see either, they asked for my name and address and that was enough, I could have gone through any number of times with any number of names. If I go to the liquor store on a Friday night, to buy...

One would almost hope that you wouldn't have to set guidelines when it comes to political parties; That they might, Oh I don't know, behave less like 12 year old girls fighting over a boy they'll get tired of in a week and more like leaders of a country of 30+Million people. Negative ads are...

After Hours with Ross Porter is probably the best thing on CBC Radio, and if you're trying to fall asleep he's got one of those voices that doesn't blare in between songs and wake you up. As for albums, I really like Wynton Kelly, he's not really well known but he's excellent and generally is...

Laptops are tricky things like that, Mine is over a year old and despite having been dragged around with me everywhere, plugged into improper voltages, subjected to all kinds of extreme temperatures and a number of sudden battery deaths; It's going strong. However, my girlfriend's never left...

Except for me, I voted for the Monster Raving Looney Party, Which is doubly shocking because they didn't have a candidate in my riding, I just wrote their name in at the bottom of the ballot and drew a picture of a duck Kidding, voting is one thing I do take seriously, despite any of my...

I've always had mixed feelings when people say this, I think largely voting is more symbolic of what these people died and are dying for, the actual meat and potatoes of what they seek and sought is freedom from tyranny and oppression, the ability to voice opinions without fear of reprisals and...

Raise your hands if you clicked "refresh" enough times that you lost count, be honest people. ;D

I'd like to preface all of this, by saying that I am voting and vote in every election, I'm just spinning ideas to generate (hopefully) good debate: If someone is "informed" and chooses not to vote because they disagree largely with all of the parties direction, is that worse than someone who...

http://www.nathanielfick.com/index.html Excellent writer, a Dartmouth grad turned Marine Officer. I've been reading One Bullet Away, and while I readily admit I have a bias towards first person writing, this is an excellent book so far (about halfway through). On the site are links to some of...

Thanks again guys, There's actually one book I'm looking for and it's just on the tip of my tongue. It was about an advisor in the war who was advising a Special South Vietnamese Unit, the same general went on to be an advisor to Clinton I believe, and the book is more or less about his...

Honestly the Vietnam section at the chapters in Halifax was tiny, the smallest war section in the store actually. And I think some Anti-war people got in there because for some reason there was a chunk of books on Buddhism and a chunk of books on the war in Iraq, and I don't mean like one book...

After spending an hour in the military history section at Chapters and coming away with a book I'm somewhat unsure about (Michael Herr's: Dispatches") I need some help finding a history book, somewhat anecdotal in nature, written in the first person perspective on the Vietnam War. There are...