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on Tue 2 Feb 10, 10:58 PM to x_Thunder_x's blog.
What the hell am I doing here ?
This was me tonight
It all started here when I decided to follow up my former Army service
I had joined my Regimental Association and then discovered that there was an Ex Serviceman's Association locally and decided to join and went to my first meeting tonight
About a hundred worthy people (ex service people and their partners) in a hall discussing holidays together at Holiday camps etc. speeches congratulating each other - tea and biscuits and then a Vera Lynn type figure leading everyone in a sing song . The woman sitting next to me said "I bet you'd rather be at home watching television wouldn't you" . I resisted telling her WHAT I'd rather do 
Problem I suppose is that when I was in the Army , for certain reasons, the bulk of my unit were Scots with a few Geordies thrown in - I was the only Londoner (Strange how people used to ask me if I knew such and such a person and when I said "no" they had said "but he lives in London" as if I knew everyone in London 
Nice people but I had nothing in common with them apart from serving in the Army
Oh well
Edited Tue 2 Feb 10, 11:00 PM by x_Thunder_x
| 3 Feb 10, 12:34 AM Lounge_Lizard 5 yrs |
I had the same 'questions' in the states...At a BBQ on a farm in Minnesota,a couple asked me if I knew Mr & Mrs (Can't remember their name) in Oxfordshire... Oh...You should've joined the RAF old boy...
...We're all kinky buggers. Tally Ho!... | |||
| 3 Feb 10, 9:31 AM Neophites_jewel AU, 3 yrs |
Well there's your first problem.
And there's your second.
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln | |||
| 3 Feb 10, 9:46 AM Lj_switch UK, 2 yrs  |
I sympathise. I'm a member of a very "straight" 'nilla organisation and I find the contrast of coming back from a playparty, either bearing the results of a flogging, or knowing I have just been delivering one, and then going to on of our meetings. You just need someone innocently asking "did you do anything interesting today?..." | |||
| 3 Feb 10, 10:19 AM Betony UK, 7 yrs |
Oh the bliss of being an RAF brat | |||
| 3 Feb 10, 10:42 AM ThedaVamp UK, 6 yrs |
Surely that was the point? Same as a munch, or a knitting group, or a model railway club? Perverted Pederast Puppetmistress Pimp Pandering to the Patriarchy... apparently | |||
| 3 Feb 10, 10:55 AM x_Thunder_x UK(E), 9 yrs      |
At a Munch (don't know about knitting groups) one doesn't sit on chairs listening to someone (with a half decent voice) singing for an hour songs like "Underneath the Arches" "Lambeth Walk" and from long forgotten musicals Maybe a social thing but I'm afraid not my scene (and little chance of meeting people I served with or who had shared experiences there) ^Thunder^ Edited 3 Feb 10, 11:09 AM by x_Thunder_x | |||
| 3 Feb 10, 2:13 PM Betony UK, 7 yrs |
which is why I don't go to Munches | |||
| 3 Feb 10, 4:13 PM stormywaters PT, 4 yrs |
What about a knitting group munch? Think I might feel quite at home there. My object all sublime... | |||
| 3 Feb 10, 5:19 PM Betony UK, 7 yrs |
Good idea. We could knit balaclavas |
...They were surprised I'd not heard of them...
