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mackem

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  1. American consulate attacked by mob in Karachi over the Iran strikes,9 Pakistanis shot dead and a couple of dozen injured.
  2. Enjoy the trip,and your good lady,have a chat with her The thing with you is your a bit different from the norm,you have had an unusual life so your mindset isn’t average,you still have itches you need to scratch
  3. Your retired,take your lady and go somewhere nice and hot,rekindle the romance,have an adventure together,walk on powder white sand down a paradise beach as the sun sets,you still have kick in you,the worlds your oyster,enjoy life,it’s not the number of years you live but the mileage in those years,there’s still fire in you
  4. If you’re bored of retirement will she let you get a job collecting supermarket trolleys in a store car-park as befits a man of your dotage?At least she will know your location to the minute and assure her the store has a defibrillator
  5. He is very Simon Mann but a better business model,third world cannon fodder recruited for buttons.
  6. Kier starmer issued a “Nowt to do with us” statement.
  7. The French quebecois guy in that looked like Elon musks older brother,the film wasn’t what I anticipated it to be Seen this film many times,never get tired of watching it
  8. I have met lots of Ghurka and ex-Ghurka,don’t blame me for the “mercenary” observation,it’s @jukel123 who wants to go full on Executive Outcomes
  9. Some incredible views at high altitude Mel
  10. Several news agencies reporting the ayatollahs death.
  11. The Geneva convention actually doesn't consider Gurkhas mercenaries because the Nepalese government resented the classification but taken literally a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army dictionary defenition is,and that's why I added dictionary defenition,a mercenary.
  12. You will enjoy that,theres a few places in Toronto you can hire winter sports gear.
  13. We still do in a way if you follow the dictionary definition.....Gurkhas. Yup,a lot of Ukrainians fled the fight.
  14. Head over here,local lakes/rivers are kite skiing heaven.
  15. Haven’t had much caviar over here mate,wrong environment EBT=Everest Basecamp Trek If your into mountains it’s the holy grail for a trek.
  16. That air-rifle is retro charts,is it a BSA meteor?
  17. Do the EBT before you pop your clogs,don’t be a shoulda woulda coulda (but didn’t)don’t make excuses,just do it if your really into mountains
  18. I spoke to two Ukrainians a month or so back,refugee immigrants in their late 20’s or early 30’s both worked in construction here and neither had a desire to return permanently to their homeland,both had family or knew people who had died in the conflict.
  19. Did he ever send a postcard from Kiev?
  20. 13 year old girl killed here maybe 3? weeks back while on a ski trip.My younger son enjoys snowboarding when he comes up,I remember when skiing was the pastime of the middle and upper classes,now all of us plebs can get on the slopes
  21. I read an article a few weeks back about Filipinos fighting for Russia,they were on a thousand dollars a month,one was squashed I think his family got $4000 the other was captured.I have met a few Ukrainian guys in their 20’s and 30’s who are here as refugees.Gamerooster is alive and still sounding the dawn,he was on here recently.
  22. Never too late for you to do anything mel,a place in can recommend close to the UK is chamonix its ski central,first place I ever tried to ski was in India and I wasn't really into it,I have done cross country skiing which is big over here the neighbours are all into it,my lady is a skier and a snowboarder,its second nature to her,beats lying on a beach as a vacation.
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