| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Nice bit of writing | |
| Posted by: | Claire Moran | |
| Date/Time: | 19/06/19 20:05:00 |
| Wouldn’t normally bother to reply to someone that demonstrates repeatedly ongoing unpleasantness and arrogance on here as you do, Alan, but as you are clearly deprived of something, I will indulge you this once. Courtesy of Google: - Definition of wet:- informal•British a person lacking forcefulness or strength of character. synonyms: namby-pamby, weakling, milksop, milquetoast, baby; More What does it mean when you say someone is wet? If they say, “you're all wet”, it means you don't know what you're talking about. Possibly the saying comes from “being wet behind the ears” which means you're new to something, junior, just getting the hang of it. Sums up his appearances on TV. As for his ‘military career’ that you reference,it has mainly been of the intellectual rather than the practical type:- “His previous career was in foreign affairs, particularly focused on military intervention and international development. After a very brief period as an infantry officer (a Short Service Limited Commission in the Black Watch before University) he joined the UK Diplomatic Service, serving overseas in Jakarta, as British representative to Montenegro in the wake of the Kosovo crisis, and as the coalition Deputy-Governor of two provinces in the Marsh Arab region of Southern Iraq following the Iraq intervention of 2003. On leave from the Foreign Service he walked for 21 months crossing Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal, staying in 500 village houses on the journey.” I have no doubt at all that he is a very pleasant man, reasonably intelligent, with good intentions. But so probably did Theresa May have those same characteristics. A political leader he is not, and neither was she, and in her case, the UK is suffering as a result. If not a hot dinner, maybe a cup of cocoa and some slippers warmed in front of the fire? Have a nice evening. |