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where is the QC calieback? You chaps are getting away with mudr. Are you aware he is an assistant to Mrs Blair, wide mouthed frog as they say in Britain?

Forgive me for disagreeing. Those from Blighty here are not idiots by any shade of comparison. To see idiots you have to visit their Forum! Those on that forum is what the Americans would say - The Real McCoy! ;) When you feel real down in the dumps, visit them and have a good laugh! It...

And what about this? DWP 'did not do enough to stop fraud among welfare-to-work companies' National Audit Office finds Department for Work and Pensions knew risk of fraud but did not introduce checks Total losses to fraud since 2006 averaged £129,000 a year, compared with a total spend of...

India is plagued by corruption and horrid citizenship and all that and so we must learn (implied) from the worthies of the first world. How about this? Call that governance? And such worthy citizens and an example for us all in nations that are so horrid, right?

Musing of Chariman? I rather have them as Stray Thought, like our PM Indira Gandhi. A seat in a toothless organisation like the UN with a toothless grin since nothing can come out that is constructive..

I second that! This forum is not a Circus as some forums we have seen! ;) Fair play, democracy and justice prevails!

As a signaller, you had to keep the transmissions short. And in short, dropping the article and the verbs; forget about figures of speech. Result :you have forgotten the language! ;) A power indeed! Like a seat in the UN because of the Empire. Power projections and Force Projection - like...

Ho is also Yes in Marathi, but the villagers use it. Ho ya is the sophisticated version in Marathi!

Tongzhi means Comrade in Chinese as far as I know and it is unisex. What ho? That does not mean calling anyone. It means what do you say to that.

I hope that helps you, Tianshan, to realise which country stands where. But it is good ploy to confront people so that they fight it out, while one stands in the wings and pick up nuggets. ;) India and the UK are not competitors, but are on the same side of global geostrategy. We are buying...

GlobalFirepower.com (GFP) GFP provides a unique analytical display of data covering global military powers with statistics compiled through various sources. All manner of countries are considered in the ranking, a spectrum helping to produce a near-complete comparison of relative military...

One reads a whole lot from British forums and western media of the pathetic state of India and they gloat over the same. Now, here is just a tip of the iceberg of what ails a 'first rate' country and a 'power'. I leave it to better judgement if that is the criterion to call oneself a 'first...

Old bean and what ho maybe because I like PG Wodehouse. Surprising that even though he is from the Blighty, he settled in the US. And anyway, I have also said in ARRSE that Scalie was a good apple. Apples or oranges is actually Quebec French (now used in India too; we are getting...

Modern British is who? The egalitarian Britain? I do appreciate many thing British, but that does not mean I have to fawn over Britain. The fact that they have come to this state where they have lost being the 'old generation' (as you put it), they are coming to grief! Does Cameron or even...

I don't try hard; it comes naturally to me. I have been taught English as my first language. Yes, I have nothing to feel shy about and there is nothing wrong in speaking the language as close to the real natives of the language. Though I am told that the syntax has changed at the street level!

Tianshan. Sadly the British soft power, if you are meaning the language, has shifted from Britain to the US. What spellings do you use? British? What accent do you try to have? British?

Tianshan, A cultural revolution and UK defence budget miracle | UK news | guardian.co.uk I won't comment on it, except that it is the Fourth largest defence budget. Should it not be? It is fighting active wars and have fought active wars in recent time i.e. Iraq, Libya and currently in...

We are aware of the GDP and if you are good enough, visit the forum and check what Yusuf had to say. I believe they have removed that thread! Guess why? Defence and budget? Well I would skip it for the moment, since one can say much.

Hounded you shall be, but not hounded out. You won't get banned for stating your views on issues with facts to back up or with links. The shoe pinches, right? You must realise how we felt. And you had a whole lot swarming with the choicest. We are not that proficient in lowdown language...

Correct, if it were what DFI did, you would be banned forever. But then it is their ways and it is there forum. Why feel bad?