The question which always amuses me is how many painted figures do you have. While someone with a 28mm collection might know (and I've got about 150 28mm VSF figures) those of us with 6/10mm collections might struggle. Theres ~2800 bases for Spearhead and Modern Spearhead (again a guess), and some of those have an APC and 6-7 figures (do I count that as one or 8?). Likewise the Volley and Bayonet Napoleonics have 50 odd figures a base. I made a guess at somewhere between 10-15000 figures which I think might be a bit low.

I gave up counting many years ago....

Quote from: Ithoriel on 05 August 2022, 08:12:53 PMAnd yet by that very statement you are identifying as a man

No, I am one.

Quote from: Rhys on 06 August 2022, 06:36:45 AMThe question which always amuses me is how many painted figures do you have. While someone with a 28mm collection might know (and I've got about 150 28mm VSF figures) those of us with 6/10mm collections might struggle. Theres ~2800 bases for Spearhead and Modern Spearhead (again a guess), and some of those have an APC and 6-7 figures (do I count that as one or 8?). Likewise the Volley and Bayonet Napoleonics have 50 odd figures a base. I made a guess at somewhere between 10-15000 figures which I think might be a bit low.

Yeah, I found myself pondering this too. Are Warmaster strips one figure or six are my Project Wargaming Roman Legion blocks one item or sixty? Just fudged a figure in the end.

Quote from: Ben Waterhouse on 06 August 2022, 07:46:01 AMNo, I am one.

Me too.  'Identify as a man'.  What a load of utter BS.

Quote... I made a guess at somewhere between 10-15000 figures which I think might be a bit low.

Definitely low for your collections

QuoteMe too.  'Identify as a man'.  What a load of utter BS.

I refused to have that my gender was "assigned at birth."

QuoteI gave up counting many years ago....

Tsk! 892 aircraft, 51 ships, 11,433 infantry, 1649 cavalry, 1094 artillery, 249 guns, 683 vehicles, 521 command figures and 1301 "other" - total 17,863.

Quote from: fsn on 07 August 2022, 07:58:59 AMI refused to have that my gender was "assigned at birth."

More equality and diversity BS.  You are trying to wind me up

Quote from: John Cook on 07 August 2022, 08:41:13 AMMore equality and diversity BS.  You are trying to wind me up

I wish I were. It was in a staff survey.

We recently had a Diversity awareness course at work. It was aimed almost exclusively at the white staff and the way they behave towards those of African or Caribbean ancestry.

I tried to do it with an open mind , but thought it full of woke BS and "facts" that did not take into account the real world. However I thought that as a white man it was probably best if I kept mouth shut.

Two weeks later, I saw a colleague who for various reasons I had not seen for a while, and went to chat. He had just completed the same course, and was spitting bullets. He sounded off for some time about what total crap the course was, how the Woke people who had put it together did not know what they were talking about etc etc.

He said "I came to the UK with my parents from Jamaica, in the 70's and while I had some racism at school I have never experienced any form of abuse about my colour in 40 years with this company, and as for white privilidged I think its total B*ll*cks.  its courses like this that cause trouble"

"To every one in this office I was Roy and was treated the same as everyone else. thanks to this course  I am now Roy the black man, and have to be treated differently, lest I be offended"

I have since had similar comments (although not as vociferously put) by other non white colleagues.

Not to mention those other Africans like me who are told in our own country that we're not really African.

Quote from: FierceKitty on 07 August 2022, 04:25:16 PMNot to mention those other Africans like me who are told in our own country that we're not really African.

A colleagues parents came here in the 60's from the Caribbean  and he was born in the UK. So in my book he is British/ English the same as me. His ancestors may have come from Africa, in the same way as some of mine came from Italy.

I assume its the black population that say you are not really African? But most of the blacks in South Africa are descended from those that invaded from the North at roughly the same time the Europeans were invading from the south.  Therefore either you are all now proper South Africans, regardless of skin colour or none of you are.

If none of you are perhaps power should be handed over to the Khoe-San as the original inhabitants of the area.   

It would make sense. The Bushmen were the most culturally attractive people there, and about the only ones of any colour who didn't make exterminating their neighbours a priority project. Naturally, the rest of us did everything possible to wipe them out.

After everyone had conscientiously started calling them the Khoi San, it turned out that the term meant something like "wandering thieves".