Reply to: Chicken Nuggets

[sadkingbilly]

Now you're just displaying your ignorance. For new conscripts it's 21 weeks boot camp, followed by another 6 weeks of specialising. Over half a year in training. Thereafter, you must complete six 3-week refresher courses. You're also obliged to spend time on the local firing range until your duty is discharged.

It's rather more rigourous than the TA.

oh, - now that's really tough! - gruelling even.
WOW!
OMG!
HOW can anyone go through THAT?


they've got a TA too?
what do they do? - two pressups and a run round the Zurichzee?

[WTFH]

For new conscripts it's 21 weeks boot camp, followed by another 6 weeks of specialising. Over half a year in training. Thereafter, you must complete six 3-week refresher courses. You're also obliged to spend time on the local firing range until your duty is discharged.

It's rather more rigourous than the TA.

Sounds like what Cojak put me through before I became a mod.

[malvolio]

Now you're just displaying your ignorance. ....

Let me stop you there...

[sadkingbilly]

Sure. Maybe the boy scouts had Swiss Army knives as well.

maybe, but arming part time civilians and calling it an 'army' doesn't make it so.

[WTFH]

<Conspiracy>
We mention the Pope and Swiss gnomes and all of a sudden he's being whisked off to hospital.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqldnp9rxzeo
< / Conspiracy >

<Conspiracy>
I read in the Daily Mail that he's actually a Protestant

< / Conspiracy>

[Uncle Albert]

Well, it's no coincidence that his personal army is Swiss. But I've said too much...

<Conspiracy>
We mention the Pope and Swiss gnomes and all of a sudden he's being whisked off to hospital.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqldnp9rxzeo
</Conspiracy>

[sadkingbilly]

I only use my British Passport to cross the UK border. The danger of crossing out of Switzerland with a Swiss passport is that the passport officer might speak to you in dialect.

Yeah. It's called The Swiss Army. Currently with 147,000 active personnel. Around twice the size of the UK Army.

seen better trained boy scouts.

[sadkingbilly]

I imagine that there are a lot of very well armed people who would not like anything to happen to the gnomes and their discreetly stored deposits.

yeh, in the bomb shelters under every bank and municipal building*

*and lots of private buiildings too.

[Uncle Albert]

The Pope?

Well, it's no coincidence that his personal army is Swiss. But I've said too much...

[Zigenare]

I imagine that there are a lot of very well armed people who would not like anything to happen to the gnomes and their discreetly stored deposits.

The Pope?

[Uncle Albert]

no, they just arm everyone involved.

And supply mercenaries.

I imagine that there are a lot of very well armed people who would not like anything to happen to the gnomes and their discreetly stored deposits.

[Zigenare]

no, they just arm everyone involved.

And supply mercenaries.

[sadkingbilly]

Isn't it safer to travel on a Swiss passport? I mean the Swiss don't go around starting wars.

no, they just arm everyone involved.

[SueEllen]

Yep. If you naturalise, you've decided that you want the UK to be your home country, even if your original country becomes safe.

I'd have surrendered my British nationality if I'd have had to, to become Swiss. I'm glad I didn't have to, but I no longer vote in UK elections even though I can. I've no desire to return permanently.

Isn't it safer to travel on a Swiss passport? I mean the Swiss don't go around starting wars.

[SueEllen]

Isn't this the root of the problem?

I'm guessing we are going to see more and more colourful excuses to try game the system. There is one ongoing about a lady from Grenada saying her Polish (or that region) husband won't like heat or the cuisine. Problem is here with so much noise the real cases where family life and kids that genuinely need looking at are just gonna get lost in the noise.

If he loses then his case will be used as a precedent so it will decrease the number of cases using that excuse or similar colourful excuses.

Anyway I think if you claim asylum and then naturalise you should be made to renounce your other citizenship before you naturalise. As if your original home country is too dangerous for you to ever go back there or dream of ever returning then it's citizenship you don't need. Being caught with that citizenship then should be grounds for deportation.