Alan Tonks

just a bloke doing Alan things

[Alan Tonks @Albow75]

I am joining Nedd's Uncomfortable Challenge to help raise $10 million for Australia's homeless. Your support can make a difference! Let's do this together! https://t.co/DOPKbFG5uD

[Moz Perkins⚓️🇨🇶🇬🇧 Author 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @MozPerkins]

On November 7th, 1920, in strictest secrecy, four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme.

None of the soldiers who did the digging were told why.

The bodies were taken by field ambulance to GHQ at St-Pol-Sur-Ter Noise. Once there, the bodies were draped with the union flag.

Sentries were posted and Brigadier-General Wyatt and a Colonel Gell selected one body at random. The other three were reburied.

A French Honour Guard was selected and stood by the coffin overnight of the chosen soldier overnight.

On the morning of the 8th November, a specially designed coffin made of oak from the grounds of Hampton Court arrived and the Unknown Warrior was placed inside.

On top was placed a crusaders sword and a shield on which was inscribed:

"A British Warrior who fell in the GREAT WAR 1914-1918 for King and Country".

On the 9th of November, the Unknown Warrior was taken by horse-drawn carriage through Guards of Honour and the sound of tolling bells and bugle calls to the quayside.

There, he was saluted by Marechal Foche and loaded onto HMS Vernon bound for Dover. The coffin stood on the deck covered in wreaths, surrounded by the French Honour Guard.

Upon arrival at Dover, the Unknown Warrior was met with a nineteen gun salute - something that was normally only reserved for Field Marshals.

A special train had been arranged and he was then conveyed to Victoria Station, London.

He remained there overnight, and, on the morning of the 11th of November, he was finally taken to Westminster Abbey.

The idea of the unknown warrior was thought of by a Padre called David Railton who had served on the front line during the Great War the union flag he had used as an altar cloth whilst at the front, was the one that had been draped over the coffin.

It was his intention that all of the relatives of the 517,773 combatants whose bodies had not been identified could believe that the Unknown Warrior could very well be their lost husband, father, brother or son...

THIS is the reason we wear poppies.

We do not glorify war.

We remember - with humility - the great and the ultimate sacrifices that were made, not just in this war, but in every war and conflict where our service personnel have fought - to ensure the liberty and freedoms that we now take for granted.

Every year, on the 11th of November, we remember the Unknown Warrior.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

Based on the map, you would think the temperatures are rising, but in the second image, they're actually cooler.

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

42°C IN ROME IN JULY 1841:
BEFORE CARS & PLANES:
UNRELATED TO CO2:
The maximum official temperature ever recorded by any weather station in Rome Italy, was 42°C on the 27th July 1841. A cursory internet search shows temperature reaching 40°C every other Summer. Therefore another 42°C is certainly not unprecedented, and since the last was in 1841 it does not equate with any gradual increase in the last few years. It would instead indicate the peak of warming was reached there in 1841. Long before everyone drove cars or flew in airplanes. How does this fit into the scaremongering? It does not.
https://t.co/OjCv3NurKO

[John Goddard @nonestlex]

YOU’VE BEEN LIED TO

Your power bill’s gone up 50% and your mortgage has doubled.

But anyone who explains why is a right-wing extremist.

And for some reason you defend their efforts to make sure you freeze to death this winter.

Because you can’t recognise that the power of a government depends on the weakness of its people.

That’s why Macron let the riots go on.

Did you see the new powers he got through parliament?

And it’s also why Chris Bowen wants expensive electricity.

If he wanted to reduce emissions, he’d be building nuclear.

But that would give you cheap electricity, which takes away the degree of control the government can exert over you.

So instead they take your guns, tax you into poverty, then flood your cities with immigrants.

And you become so weak that you’ll just take what they do to you.

Example: Western Australians had their property rights obliterated, but there were no riots.

Nobody said a thing.

Because Australians today are meek. And defenceless.

They tried to do the same thing to the Dutch farmers and now their government’s collapsed.

The Dutch had courage. The Americans have it, too.

But in Australia we said ‘thank you’ when they locked us in our homes.

And they gave an award to Brett Sutton for doing it!

Giving that award was a test to see how much they can get away with.

And you just sat there and cheered.

And now they’re spending $300m of your dollars to create an unelected body that will take more power away from you.

And anyone who tells you this is a bad idea is a white supremacist.

And I honestly want Australians to have guns again.

So that the government will think twice before locking us inside.

Or taking our property away from us.

Or raising our taxes.

(Because you know all that’s coming)

But you just want to sit in your one-bedroom apartment eating flavourless tomatoes from Coles.

Cheering on when your tax dollars get sent to a proxy war in Ukraine that they’re lying to you about.

You can’t even afford to have a child or buy a home, and you’ll defend the government’s efforts to make sure that doesn’t change.

What do you think made you that way?

Was it the state-funded media you consume?

Was it the concerted effort of Marxism to destroy the family unit?

Or was it the fact that they replaced your God with Greta Thunberg?

Either way, you should be able to run a marathon, but instead you’re trapped inside ‘battling depression’.

And shivering in the cold.

And you don’t even question it.

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@KeeganArmstron1 @CalvzM8 @DanielAndrewsMP The big fuck off

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@cricketcomau @greggles666 @KeeganArmstron1 check out the bat toss by @travishead34 about 3/4’s of the way through. #quality

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#gilbert

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@DimityMaher @greggles666 this is why no race was called

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@crickshouts @KeeganArmstron1 @greggles666 all been there

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