Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Or, what goes around comes around.
I'm not a royalist as most of you know (bang goes the OBE again). However if I were, I'm pretty sure that I would be horrified that the royal train is being hauled by a GERMAN locomotive.
Yes, the current loco is owned By Deutsch Bahn Schenker. If Churchill were alive today I'm sure he would turn in his grave.
http://www.jamiesquibbs.com/the-royal-train.html
Terry
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
cor blimey a sourkraut loco,better get the bratwurst out.
If it had been Italian at least it would run on time..............
Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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If it had been Italian it would most likly be going backwards.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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princess diana referred to the royal family as "the germans" in a rather unpleasant way.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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That's what sealed her fate then.
Terry
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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i thought phil was greek.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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- Posts: 23,940
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
Not political Barry, jingoistical.
Terry
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Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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The Spencer family and other top aristocratic English clans apparently see themselves as being superior to the parvenu German Hanoverians (sorry, Windsors). Perhaps Diana thought she was too good for Charles...
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Phil may be Greek but his surname was Battenberg before he changed it to something a little less Teutonic.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i have always wondered why so many other nations, particularly the states take such an interest in our royal family.
they never come across as interesting, prince philip excepted.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The family name was Saxe-Coberg & Gotha (a branch of the House of Wettin) which King George V changed to the House of Windsor on July 17th 1917 due to anti-german sentiments during World War One.
'Very interrestin, but stupid' - Rowan & Martin's Laugh In's German sniper
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Is that a chicken joke Barry?
Terry
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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......rubs salt in the wound of the Bombardier decision............speaking jingoistically........of course.....
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
Just for the record, the loco is owned by DB Schenker and built in Spain!
Terry
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Most of the aristocracy are Norman Germanic 1066 they stole the land, and they have been interbreeding with each other ever since
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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does that make them bad people keith?
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Don't forget that most of us are, similarly, from a mixture of nationalities !! People in glass houses ??
But perhaps not so inter-bred...
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