The return of Anthea?
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You have no idea how cross that would make me. She was ill conceived, poorly written and imo acted as an object lesson in how not to do it. Act, that is. Oh, and if the social secretary side of things is important, she is distinctly not PLO.
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But sheâd be ideal from Fagashâs pov. The alternative is Brenda, and I canât see her approving her appointment.
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People have been speculating about Anthea for a while in various places.
Iâm pretty much with Gus about her. She put my teeth on edge like something grating on a blackboard.
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I donât disagree, but as I said this is _Lilianâ_s candidate; she doesnât want anyone charming or attractive.
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But with the social sec. dimension she would want someone PLO, which rules out Anthea and Brenda and (have seen speculation elsewhere) Kirsty too.
Oooh, talking of PLO, which is the Fatah, Brenda (who is a gurt healthy thundering yokel with open pores, treetrunk legs and a positively enormous arse; the voice confirmed it) or Anthea, who over the years has had just a few too many Twixes, Snickers and Bounties over her Word Puzzles For Morons and TV for the Hard-of-Thinking magazines in her carefully self-policed 15-min breaks?
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Iâm assuming you donât mean the Palestine Liberation Organisation, so what does PLO stand for, please?
(Publicity Liaison Officer doesnât fit eitherâŚ)
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People Like Oneself. No one PLO uses PLUâŚ
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Oh, I see: the opposite of NROKD. Thanks.
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I wouldnât dream of blaming you if it happens Joe. That would be particularly mean since I suggested it myself elsethread (a spoilers thread).
But speculative People Elsewhere seem to view the prospect with glee. I do not.
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Is the âDâ âDearâ? The rest I get, but since I had to work it out, I must be in that class.
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Darling.
There are lots and lots of these sets of initials for âI donât like himâ.
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Thatâs why weâre Here and not There innit? (Yeah, I know some are Both.) Gawd knows I triedâŚ
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As the teenage websites tend to say, LMFAO.
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I have come across instances of Guards regiments transferring junior officers to the Infantry of the Line for being NQAG (not quite a gentleman).
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Nowadays, or in the past? I would assume that these days they donât select the not-gentlemen in the first place unless they want them. You donât always get the regiment you asked for, after all.
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That was in the past, sorry to be unclear, when Wislon as PM was trying to loosen things up a bit. It meant for a while that regiments had officers pushed their way (grammar school, say) whom they wouldnât have taken before. The earlier exclusiveness (and racism) had led to 1960s dunder-headed dimwittery and something had to be done. But it meant that the ânewâ officers had to watch themselves, including making sure they didnât run up Mess bills they couldnât pay, go out drinking nightly with the guardsmen, or loudly proclaim their brother officers to be âexquisitesâ as a friend of mine did.
Things are very different now, and there are guardsmen with degrees. I know of people who started as guardsmen and worked their up to Lieutenant-Colonel. In the 1950s-60s commissions in the Guards were not available to guardsmen. Itâs still very different to the other services but much more like the rest of the Army. Port hasnât been abolished but a lot more people get to drink it. And junior officers are not stung for thousands of pounds to buy bespoke suits in Savile Row or face the wrath of the Adjutant.
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We wonât talk about that, please. Not on the open board. Edit it out?
Thatâs why I named no names. OK Iâll do it. Done. Very civilised.
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Thanks.
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