(For yet more 'stuff' which hopefully will raise a smile.)
Sir.....
I write to inform your readers, about my concerns regarding the huge windmills that continue to blight our fair countryside.
Why, oh why, do we have to see these monstrosities sitting all over the top of hills.
What are they doing ?
They never work, to give a fair breeze when the weather is hot...and help us poor mortals to cool down.
BUT....When the weather is inclement, windy and cold.....why do they run like there's no tomorrow ?
I know I'm an old duffer.....but surely this is a complete waste of electricity when we are told, by our peers, that we have to cut down on our footprint.....wherever that means !
To help the planet...I have decided to wear size 8 instead of size 10's...!!!
I can tell you.....this is not comfortable....
Sincerely - Col Buffington - Tuffington.
Why oh Why Oh Why oh Why do they allow cyclists on to the roads ?
Dear Sir or Madam,
I wish to complain about the pernicious habit of Supermarkets stocking new things that I discover I like very much only to remove them from their inventory a month later!!
The response to queries as to the lack of said items from the girls stocking the shelves,"I've been telling people all week that nobody wants them!" adds insult to injury.
I have offered my services as a food taster to various outlets but been rebuffed, rather rudely in my opinion, on the ground that they do not need someone to say,"That's delicious, no point in stocking that."
Yours,
Mrs Trellis, North Wales
pp Sir Ambrose ffuffington-Smythe, Major (Ret.), LLB (failed), DSO, DFC, DDT, Blue Peter Badge(and bar)
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 23 October 2021, 02:51:22 PM
Why oh Why Oh Why oh Why do they allow cyclists on to the roads ?
Indeed, it takes all the fun out of running them down. :P
Having been knocked off my bike and nearly killed by poor bus driving, I tend to take exception to comments about cyclists on roads >:(. There are bad cyclists but many, many more bad and dangerous drivers. Enough said.
Quote from: Steve J on 23 October 2021, 03:59:10 PM
Having been knocked off my bike and nearly killed by poor bus driving, I tend to take exception to comments about cyclists on roads >:(. There are bad cyclists but many, many more bad and dangerous drivers. Enough said.
No offence intended in the previous post, but having been run into three times by cyclists, once while on crutches, and all while on a stretch of path with the words NO CYCLING painted on each end of the path in three foot letters. On each occasions the cyclist cursed me roundly for getting in the way and one, the guy who knocked me off my crutches, threatened physical violence. Fortunately, since I couldn't stand unaided, others came to my aid and defence. So, my lived experience and yours are clearly different.
However, I don't want this to degenerate into who's right and who's wrong argument. Clearly cycling is good for both the cyclist and the environment and should be encouraged. But it is also one of those things that kind of need to be either compulsory or forbidden. :)
I applaud efforts to provide separate spaces for pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles, where ever possible.
Dear Sir,
I would like to complain about the children in your supermarket supermarkets, they cry and scream and get in every one's way. I also object to the highly unhygienic practice of putting children who are two big to sit in the child seat being placed in the main body of the trolleys with their shoes on. God knows what's been on the soles of those shoes, and the next shopper to use the trolley has to put their food there.
Please can we ban then, if not completely at least from the supermarket.
Yours faithfully
Prof. Hylactic.
I liked it best when cyclists were 10 points each but now they are only 2 points each since there are so many of them these days :)
I'm taking myself off the forum for a while due to a few of these comments, which I've found in poor taste.
Quote from: Orcs on 23 October 2021, 04:46:46 PM
Dear Sir,
I would like to complain about the children in your supermarket supermarkets, they cry and scream and get in every one's way. I also object to the highly unhygienic practice of putting children who are two big to sit in the child seat being placed in the main body of the trolleys with their shoes on. God knows what's been on the soles of those shoes, and the next shopper to use the trolley has to put their food there.
Please can we ban then, if not completely at least from the supermarket.
Yours faithfully
Prof. Hylactic.
In our local Co-Op was a bloke with a young lad of about 18 months - 2 years. The child was on a harness and constantly threw himself onto the floor. Eventually, the dad just dragged him around like a mop. All one could hear from all across the shop was pitiful wails of "I'm not happy! I'm not happy!".
;D
Quote from: Steve J on 23 October 2021, 06:50:36 PM
I'm taking myself off the forum for a while due to a few of these comments, which I've found in poor taste.
I understand your view Steve. As someone who has cycled considerably further than I driven in the last year some of the 'humour' is far from humour. I've been fortunate in not having had any accidents, but had quite a few near misses, and most in cases it is in good weather conditions and feels down to impatient or unobservant drivers.
Quote from: fsn on 23 October 2021, 07:48:59 PM
In our local Co-Op was a bloke with a young lad of about 18 months - 2 years. The child was on a harness and constantly threw himself onto the floor. Eventually, the dad just dragged him around like a mop. All one could hear from all across the shop was pitiful wails of "I'm not happy! I'm not happy!".
Were they from the bloke, his son, or both :'(
I still remember having to push my screaming son in a trolley out of a store, through a shopping centre, out into the car park and putting him in his car seat
The sound only reduced once the car door was shut
Quote from: Steve J on 23 October 2021, 06:50:36 PM
I'm taking myself off the forum for a while due to a few of these comments, which I've found in poor taste.
Dear Editor
There are a several reasons that drivers get fed up with Cyclists, and consequently make jokes about them.
The first is while I accept my "Road Tax" does not actually get spent on the roads, I have to pay it to use my vehicle on the public highway. Cyclist don't
The second is that I also have to pay insurance for any damage I might cause others, again cyclist generally dont have insurance. You have a accident with a cyclist that is their fault you will have the devil of a job getting your damage paid for.
Cyclist do not have to register their vehicle so actually proving it was them is very difficult.
To exacerbate this quite a few cyclist exacerbate this by taking up the whole of the lane, or cycling in a group so trying to get round them is nigh on impossible. I have had cyclists spread out when they see me behind them to make it harder for me to overtake on a road that is national speed limit.
Our village has Chicanes built like small islands on alternate sides of the road to slow the traffic. These islands have a gap between the pavement and the island especially to allow cyclists to keep going. Recently I was driving through the village approaching the chicane, that was on the right hand lane. A cyclist was also coming the other way. it was clearly signposted that I had right of way, and any way the cyclist could use the cycle bit to keep going. Despte him having a perfectly safe and easy path round the inside of the island he decided he was not going to. when he realized I was not going to stop for him ( as there was no reason for me too, it was too late. He went straight into the kerb of the chicane and buckled his wheel.
He then proceeded to give me two fingers and shout obscenities' at me for something that was all his fault. Had we collided I am sure I would have been left having to pay for the damage to my car myself as I doubt he was insured.
The other thing they do near me is have cycle races on the A41. This is a 70MPH dual carriage way with a hard shoulder. It has several undulations, and there have been several near misses and one fatal accident due to cars on the inside lane travelling at 70 suddenly seeing a cyclist in the middle of the lane in front of them and having no where to go as there are other vehicles in the outside lane.
We also get them cycling on the pavement and being abusive to pedestrians who do not get out of their way quick enough.
Is it any wonder we get fed up with cyclists?
I suggest they bring in some form of compulsory registration, Road tax and third party insurance for bicycles using the public highway. Perhaps when they can be held accountable they might behave in a more responsible manner.
Yours
Squadron leader
Miss D Fokker
Well, it was a good idea before it went TMP, Phil.
Quote from: fsn on 23 October 2021, 07:48:59 PM
In our local Co-Op was a bloke with a young lad of about 18 months - 2 years. The child was on a harness and constantly threw himself onto the floor. Eventually, the dad just dragged him around like a mop. All one could hear from all across the shop was pitiful wails of "I'm not happy! I'm not happy!".
;D
What self respecting 18 month old would want to waste their dwindling lifespan in a supermarket.
One day I'll recount the ripping yarn of "Cameron the egg smasher", who I estimate was somewhere between 8 and 12 years old.
Dear Miss Fokker,
Never was nominative determinism better illustrated.
The Editor.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 24 October 2021, 12:26:26 AM
Well, it was a good idea before it went TMP, Phil.
X_X :'( :'( :'(
Cyclists are really well behaved around us, when they're bimbling around the countryside, especially as a lot of the roads are so narrow.
They'll pull in and wave you past....perhaps because I show them I'm not going to try and zoom past them.
I like to think that I show them consideration..and that seems to be returned .
I don't know how long the
flashing rear light has been around for cyclists to use.....But that really makes then SO much more noticeable from a distance. Terrific safety feature.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Quote from: Techno II on 24 October 2021, 06:17:38 AM
I don't know how long the flashing rear light has been around for cyclists to use.....But that really makes then SO much more noticeable from a distance. Terrific safety feature.
Flashing lights are great for daytime use. At night you want a steady light - makes it much easier for others to judge distances.
Quote from: Raider4 on 24 October 2021, 08:19:15 AM
Flashing lights are great for daytime use. At night you want a steady light - makes it much easier for others to judge distances.
Quite right about distances.
The general practice when I last commuted by bike (2004) was to have two rear lights, one flashing and one steady.
With a steady light alone, it's difficult for a fast moving vehicle to distinguish a slow moving bike fomr stationary street furniture.
The flashing light does a great job of "Hey something here", but is harder to track until close up.
Sir,
I write in relation to a previous correspondent.
While some cyclists are idiots, from a financial point of view they cost the government nothing in road use, hence no taxes. While some are menaces, they are covered by the law in any damage they do.
I would also point out he doesn't pay road tax, he pays Vehicle Excise Duty, a different concept.
Your
Walter Wall-Carpeting (retired)
Dear Editor,
In response the letter from Mr Wall-Carpeting, that while cyclist are covered by the law for any damage they may do, this will not recompense a person for the costs of that damage. Secondly as they are unregistered road users it is very hard to prove who they are after an accident should they choose to deny it was them. As I found out when one of them scraped my Range Rover last month in Kensington.
As to Vehicle Excise Duty, even the governments own website referring to the charge calls it a tax.
Ms S Loane-Ranger
Sir.
With all these references to these cycle fiends...... ;)
When was the last time there was a prosecution of someone being drunk in charge of a bicycle.
Or an equine.
Sincerely - MR Trellis of North Wales. (Please ignore any correspondence from my wife.)
To All Who May Be Concerned.
With regard to Bicyclists... whose conveyance is a benefit to fitness for the fight and our green and pleasant Land.
I concur that adequate lighting is essential for ALL such vehicles... those Dynamo things would be perfectly adequate, and 'more green', to use the term, than batteries.
I have been pleasantly surprised by younglings who had the courtesy to ring their bell on approaching a pedestrian / dog walker. Such good manners is to be a credit to their handlers! Full Marks! I find it incrediible that such devices are not a standard fitment to ALL such macines.
There are such bicyclists , whose desire for power and speed, precludes such common sense... on the Bridle Path/Footpath now designated, (Without , to mine own knowledge or consent!), as a 'cycleway', do not appear to have such concern for others. Should such cause injury to my large Dog or receive injury from him without apology, such would possibly accompany his 'bike' well into a Hawthorn! Ha! to You Sir!
As a proud beneficiary of the 'Cycling Proficiency Test' in my, admittedly, long ago, youth... I personally regard such training to be a pre-requisite for the use of Bicycles upon the public roads...for younglings AND their hanlders. And backed up by legislation... re 'Provisional Driving License'.
Until such time as an 'updated and enlarged' test should become available as Bicyclists become more experienced, the INSURANCE should be borne by the parents... and then transferred upon passing a 'Full Cycling License', to the fledged Cyclist! May He / She enjoy the pleasures of the open road... alongside Mororists!
General D'Isgusted
Sir
I was driving on a poorly lit road this morning and thought the dark shape in front of me was a cyclist moving away from me, it was a runner in the roadway wearing dark gear with no lights. As to cyclists, electric scooter users and elderly in mobility chairs they make the pavements round here very dangerous. It is obvious that cyclists et al cannot read, Grange road is a no unpowered vehicle area, and pedestrian area covered in signs baring such. Totally ignored.
L.Cpl Jones (ret)
I know someone who thought that they nearly ran over Shearer when out running....
PAH !!....
That's nothing....
I nearly hit that nice Mr Richard Branson,,,,,His wife, child and mother, near the mother's home near Shamley Green (Wonersh/Guildford) over 40 years ago....True....
Though i wasn't that close to hitting them.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 24 October 2021, 02:51:01 PM
I know someone who thought that they nearly ran over Shearer when out running....
Shearer who?
Sir,
Whilst my forefathers since the conquest have always lived by our family motto "Aquila non capit muscas", I am plunged into the darkest despair to see this once great institution so conceived and so dedicated to the admiration of small but perfectly formed wargame miniatures has been hijacked by fanatical minorities which favour or disfavour the use of two wheeled perambulation. The world may little note, nor long remember what we write here, but surely we must heed the wise words of Horace that "Omnes una manet nox" . Whilst I, myself may prefer my Qashqai for the transportation of said little folk to balancing really useful boxes across the handle bars of my (t)rusty velocipede this should not lead me to castigate others for their choices.
Where Sir?, where? is the leadership to put us back to genuine discussion on, for example the merits of shallower bases to represent well armoured troops fighting in close order? Or indeed, the inexplicable dearth of poses of kneeling firing figures in Czapkas.
I suggest that this forum be shortly taken down for maintenance until the panic induced in these quarrelsome pests brings them back to the one true lane path.
Your servant
Captain Decem "Naseby" de Braose
Well said Captain
Quote from: paulr on 24 October 2021, 10:32:14 PM
Well said Captain
+1 from me.....in the middle of writing up a serious battle report right now actually O:-)
Quote from: pierre the shy on 24 October 2021, 11:43:38 PM
+1 from me.....in the middle of writing up a serious battle report right now actually O:-)
No you are not, you are obviously reading this nonsense! ;)
Sir
In a recent letter from a military gentleman it was claimed that and I quote, “Eagles don’t hunt muskrats”. I must beg to differ. Have seen’ em do so with mine own eyes. I do concede to the gentleman that “we all eat oxburgers with mayonnaise”. As to the two-wheeled travel devices an inner ear injury during a hurling match in my youth has left me, non compos mentis ergo ego non canis in pugna.
Rt. Rev. Maxwell-Smith-Burton, MA, DD (in wistful anticipation)
Sir,
I submit that posts on muskrat hunting eagles would be better posted in the Nature file thread.
However, I must commend your correspondent for his suggestion that we should see more dogs in our model battles. Although they seem sadly neglected in WRG army lists, dogs have often formed part of armies. Commencing, as every schoolboy knows. with Alyattes of Lydia against the Cimmerians around 600 BC.
Whilst NML5 do appear in one of my armies, I fear they are more cute pet than warrior. Indeed Rupert's fine poodle has sadly drawn many a ribald comment from those who have faced him on the tabletop. Perhaps we may look forward in future to something more fearsome along with a range of handlers through the ages. Even 1/72 plastics can offer the fine mastiffs in the Strelets 909 box. Alsatians were used in Polish armies so some handlers in Czapkas would be useful and given that all right thinking Englishmen are dog lovers, I am sure will easily sell in the 200 packs required to maintain our glorious founder's living.
Yours,
Captain Decem "Naseby" de Braose
Dear Sir,
I must voice a protest in the strongest possible terms about protests in the strongest possible terms.
Yours faithfully,
Major Enid Arbuthnot, 23rd Disgusting Bombay Fusiliers.
Dear Readers,
Whilst I have no particular truck with cyclists, I will admit a ceaseless frustration with a minor percentage of most categories of road-user. Every day my commute to work is impacted by car drivers who can't indicate, can't get in the right lane, or think they have some superior right to drive like aggressive a*seholes. At other times I have watched cyclists ignore red lights, swerve across traffic and jump onto pavements forcing pedestrians to avoid collision. And then I've watched pedestrians amble across roads without a care in the world, glued to their mobile phone screens and unaware of the 2-ton metal box heading their way.
Generally though, these people are the minority who give the majority a bad name and most folks get along fine and have some consideration for other road users. Except taxi drivers, there it's certainly the majority who need to go back to driving school ... :P
- Editor
Sadly vast numbers of people think they are the "special" ones and that society's rules don't apply to them (only to "others").
Of course, there is no consensus as to who is "special" and who isn't.
;)
My opinion of taxi drivers is completely unprintable.
Dear Mr Editor,
I totally agree with your comments on Taxi drivers. One of the good ones al like the minority you referred to . You can tell he was a taxi diver due to his reluctance to give change when paying your subs at club. :)
Regards
Mr S.K Int
Dear Editor,
Dungeons and Dragons 5e makes WRG 7th seem like child's play.
At least there are fewer miniatures to paint.
Yours,
George Engelheart
Sir.
Once again I have to draw your readers' attention to the paucity of accuracy in the BBCs (so called) News stories.
Today I have, on numerous occasions, heard the presenter talking about the Sewage Crisis.
Check your facts BBC !!
This happened back in 1956, and should be confined to the history books
Yours Col Buffinton-Tuffington (deceased)
(Seriously though X_X - YUKK !! :-&)
Col Buffinton-Tuffington
It appears that your demetia has taken far back into the past. No such Crisis is showing on my BBC News site. It's all about the budget. Can you forward me the address for your carrer as you obviously need some help.
FM Chepstow Retd (Dec)
Sir
I write to complain in the strongest possible terms over the infiltration of this forum by sewage crisis deniers. Less than a mile from where your correspondent is writing this, raw sewage is right now threatening my neighbour's homes. Not only is it doing little for our tourist trade since the sea is unusable, if we are levelled down any further, we will be knee deep in the stuff. No doubt the budget response will be to subsidise air freshener manufacturers rather than deal with our crumbling infrastructure.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/19672912.southern-water-dealing-burst-sewer-lancing
Yukk indeed.
:-& :-& >:(
Yours
G. "Pongo" Reaper
Sir
In response to Mr G Reaper, I can only offer my deepest sympathies at his very smelly predicament. He has a surplus smelly fluid that needs to be moved elsewhere.
I would like to recommend the method we used in the army when we had liquid we wanted to move elsewhere. We simply siphoned it into a bucket. All he needs is a bucket, a length of hose, and a good suck.
Regards
Major T Whit rtd.
To The Editor
I feel that I must express my OUTRAGE over the state of Public Toilets in the United Kingdom. There has long been a British traditional value of 'Spending A Penny' to use such conveniences... indeed, the phrase has become a recognised term in our English language!
I carry a little embossed leather purse containing pennies sufficient for my needs.
However, in recent times, there has been a DEPLORABLE tendency for such conveniences to lack ANY FORM OF COIN SLOT!!!
What is one supposed to do? Wave one's 'thingy' around... so that anyone can see the numbers written upon it?
On a recent trip to our Capital City, I was very gratified to find a Gentleman's Convenience in an 'Underground Railway' station. Imagine my embarrassment to have to pass a TURNSTYLE in full public view! DISGRACEFUL! And there was a 20p charge!!! And THEN, the infernal thing could not be induced to accept my penny coins!
After many unsuccessful attempts to pay for my needs... quite unasked for and unexpectedly, , two kind gentlemen assisted me over the offending contrivance! My grateful thanks for your kind assistance to an ageing Gentleman. However, the unexpectedness of such A Good Act had unfortunate consequence. and the facility was no longer required.
This once Great country is going to the dogs... but THEY do not get fined... agian... when THEY 'do it' against llamp posts!
Lord George Wette-Fuyminge.
Dear Mr Editor
I must agree with wrath felt by Lord George Wette-Fuyminge. I too wanted to use the convenience AT Euston station late one evening, only to find that I did not have a 20p piece. None of the retailers would give change)(presumabley they would spend half the day giving out change for the toilets if they did).
The ticket office was closed so I spoke to one of the station staff, who was most uninterested in my predicament. I asked if he had an override key and he replied in the negative. I then said "Nature will not be delayed So I will be forced to relive myself behind your ticket booth. Then Miracle of Miracles - An override key materialised in his hand.
I suggest that in future times if caught short without the correct change Lord George Wette-Fuyminge offers to irrigate or even fertilise part of the station near the staff to see if the same miracle occurs.
Yours
Mr C.T Short.
Sirs,
In the headlong dash towards the cashless society of the future, why oh why are the railway stations of this great country still insisting that our fine citizens carry actual coins around with them, thus placing them at great danger of being mugged by some of the younger, less law-abiding members of society?
Is it not the modern way to require some sort of 'app' to do anything important? Preferably one that requires one to be tracked at all times, and provide copies of any photographs or electronic communications received or transmitted?
Yours
Sir Hugh Jass Esq.
Dear Editor
I must protest in the strongest possible terms about the way the youngsters are abandoning out traditional celebrations in favour of Colonial practices.
I refer in particular to the celebration of "Guy Fawkes Night". In My day you regularly had children (Normally small boys) on street corners with a straw or paper filled mannequin of Mr Guy Fawkes ,calling out "Penny for the Guy!" This was to enable them to go and buy some fireworks. Now I appreciate that a collection of pennies does not but many (any?) fireworks, but I for one would not object to giving them a few bob or even a £1 for said fireworks.
Instead we pumpkins everywhere and Children (and often adults) dressed up as Ghosts, ghouls and other dreadful things knocking on doors asking for sweets. supposedly celebrating that American nonsense of "Halloween". I think this trend is most unhealthy, all that sugar is no good for them. Not to mention the dangers of knocking on strangers doors at night.
Far better and safer that they spend thier money on pyrotechnics, at least then it would not contribute to the obesity problem we have in our young, and they might even learn a bit of history in the process.
J.Brock Esq.
Sir
Where am I? What is this place? It's like the time I went on a two day business trip and they changed all the locks.
I. B. Confuzed, man about town (ret)
Dear Sir
When are you next presenting the News Quiz?
Yours
Mrs Trellis,
North Wales
Dear Editor
Having recently been released from Hospitalisation, I feel that I must comment on the proliferation of Pumpkins at Halloween.
My ex-girlfriend regards them as upsetting and derogatory.
Recognizing that this may be due to her ample stature, use of spray tan and unfortunate dentistry, I attempted to sooth her qualms by saying;
"Luv... you look good enough to eat..."
T. Lantern
To Whom It may Concern.
Having finished yet another hectic Night Shift, may I re-iterate a long standing plea?
When hanging up socks/stockings in the expectation of gifts to be placed therein...
... could you please WASH the hosiery beforehand?
And To All, A Good Night.
S Claus.
Hugh Jass - get yourself over here. One OV card for trains, buses and trams from one end of the country to the other. And no need to book months in advance for a reasonable price.
Quote from: Leman on 07 January 2022, 10:42:50 AMHugh Jass - get yourself over here. One OV card for trains, buses and trams from one end of the country to the other. And no need to book months in advance for a reasonable price.
Yes, but you can walk from one end of the country to the other in about twenty minutes anyway!
QuoteHugh Jass - get yourself over here. One OV card for trains, buses and trams from one end of the country to the other. And no need to book months in advance for a reasonable price.
Mr.Jass' comment was in connection with being charged to use the bog.
I'm glad they don't make you book months in advance for that.
Couldn't see a specific reference to the old WC. Assumed it concerned the stupidity of still requiring individual tickets. The last time I took a train in the UK, day return to Leeds, I was issued with about 6 individual pieces of cardboard. Utterly daft.
Sirs,
I have been watching some of the sports from the Commonwealth Games. I am outraged that some of the countries competing are actually beating competitors from Great Britain. Do they not know their place??
GREAT Britain means exactly that. This country is the head of this commonwealth and the others have had the good fortune to be invited to join this exclusive and wonderful Commonwealth. In deference to the great privilege we bestow on them they need to behave in a suitably subservient manner. Beating our athletes is just NOT ON!
Regards
Mr B I Gott
And all the world over, each nation's the same
They've simply no notion of playing the game
They argue with umpires, they cheer when they've won
And they practice beforehand, which ruins the fun!
:) :) :) :)
What do you call a Scottish person who wins gold? British. What do you call a Scottish person who doesn't win? Scottish.
What do you call an English person who wins gold? English. What do you call an English person who doesn't win? Cheated by those damned colonials.
I am also somewhat appalled at the commentary referring to a Northern Irish runner as a "menace" for daring to challenge the English runner. I thought it was the British Broadcasting Corporation. ;D
Sir
I must protest that this minor unimportatnt activity of running round in circles is takeing up so much of the valuable space in your letter column.
Yours H. Simpson CP
Quote from: mmcv on 05 August 2022, 10:46:51 AMI thought it was the British Broadcasting Corporation. ;D
It has been the Biased Broadcasting Corporation for years.
Dear Sir
I would like to complain about the lack of inclusion in "the Great wargames Survey". The survey only allowed you to identify as a Man, Woman or Non Binary. This is preposterous in this day and age.
I identify as Zebra, my significant other as a Merperson and my six year old as a Unicorn. They did not even have a box marked as "Other" where you could enter how you identified
I did phone up to complain and the intelligent being who answered , said that they did not have enough room on the form for all the identities now.
The intelligent being said that they had actually suggested that only Male and Female be included, but this was vetoed by His/Her/their boss identifies as Tlaltechutli, (the Aztec monstrous earth goddess). Yes I had to look that up as well.
Well I am off into the Savannah, "Must keep a look out for anyone identifying as a Lion"
Regards
S T Ripey
Sirs,
I would like to complain about the lack of inclusion in "the Great wargames Survey". This is survey of Wargamers, for crying out loud! At no point did it request you advise them of your normal level of B.O. Have they never been to a Wargames convention?
I suggested that next year they include the following question.
"What is your normal Level of B.O?"
Smelling of effeminate aftershave
Fragrant
Whiffy
Eye watering
Asthma inducing
Knock Out
Regards
Patrick Ong