Leopold

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[Leopold @lrm_2017]

Still seems to confuse a lot of people...

[Chris Parry @DrChrisParry]

The one issue that is not being discussed in relation to the Russian warship incident in The Channel is the fact that the Russian Navy is paranoid about unmanned and manned suicide vessels.

The CO of the Russian frigate will have had that in mind yesterday, when the yacht came close.

People have pointed out that the Russian Black Sea fleet en route to the Pacific engaged British fishing boats in the North Sea in 1905 in the mistaken belief that they were Japanese torpedo boats.

Tradition dies hard it seems.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

In shameful contradistinction to Starmer’s failure to raise defence spending, even Neville Chamberlain, as he tried and failed to appease Nazi Germany in the late Thirties, saw the need to ramp up rearmament.
It grew from roughly 3% of GDP in the mid 1930s to over 7% by 1938, even as Chamberlain was trying to negotiate with Hitler, approaching 9–10% before mobilisation in 1939.
Starmer is struggling to reach 2.5%.

[🇨🇭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿InLucysHead🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇭© @InsideLucysHead]

A linguistics professor says during a lecture that, “In English, a double negative forms a positive...

But in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative.

However, in no language in the world can a double positive form a negative.”

But then a voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”

[Vice Admiral Steve Moorhouse @smrmoorhouse]

While most are carving the turkey, some are still keeping the watch. ⚓️ To everyone @RoyalNavy at sea or alongside this Christmas — thank you for your keeping the ship safe and steady. 🎄

[Lucy Easthope @LucyGoBag]

Message of the month 🚨

[HMS Severn @hmssevern]

Have you ever seen a rainbow at night? This rare and unusual spectacle is a Lunar Rainbow spotted at 0200 by the Middle Watch-Keepers (the moon was behind us!). @metoffice @bbcweather @carolkirkwood

[Rob Bonser-Wilton @WaterlooSunset]

I love this simple graphical illustration of why, in this age of the malicious manipulation of statistics, correlation does not automatically suggest causation

[Leopold @lrm_2017]

@ShipWrektPod @UKDefJournal The P2s are being used more for Ops and less for Trg. So, fewer Trg platforms, hence utilising sail trg (and MV placements). You've challenged none of the listed Trg a sailing vessel can fulfil.
A Trg squadron would be great. We don't have one and need to train people now.

[Leopold @lrm_2017]

@ShipWrektPod @UKDefJournal No, we don't. Assume what you will; you've cleared up nothing.

What needs to be ascertained is which YO training requirements you think can't be achieved on a sailing vessel. Chartwork? Visual fixing? Astronavigation? Line handling? Tidal calculations? Pilotage? Meteorology..?

[Leopold @lrm_2017]

@ShipWrektPod @UKDefJournal We're not discussing anything. I've asserted that sailing supports fundamental seamanship and navigation training for YOs, which is great in the absence of available platforms to qualify them as an OOW. You're challenging that, but you won't explain why. That is all.

[Leopold @lrm_2017]

@ShipWrektPod @UKDefJournal Specifically, what we're talking about is seamanship and navigation training for junior officers. This is a great way to support the 100s of hours of experience they need to qualify as Bridge Watchkeepers, with a lack of RN vessels available.

[Leopold @lrm_2017]

@ShipWrektPod @UKDefJournal An impressive list of experiences. Many could be trained/simulated on a sailing vessel if no RN platform were available.
Boatwork, ropework, specialist evolutions in adverse Wx? Planning and execution of hazardous activities?
We can compare CVs, but I'd rather debate the point.

[Leopold @lrm_2017]

@ShipWrektPod @UKDefJournal Thank you for demonstrating said sneering. And your strawman argument.
Practising weapons engagement is a wholly different type of training to what I alluded to. Sailing can instil the fundamentals for those who must know how to handle a ship before they learn to fight with one.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

Remember, there are more good human beings than monsters in this world.

Never let social media - or any media - convince you otherwise just because they give the worst of us the most attention.

They make more profit when we see each other as the enemy. Don’t let them win.

[Leopold @lrm_2017]

@geoallison If you can't find an escalator, then other suitable uses include standing in doorways or stopping for conversations in the middle of busy walkways!

[George Allison @geoallison]

Do you have a suitcase? Why not make the most of it by standing with it as soon as you come off the escalators at a tube station, after all, why should other people get off the escalators?

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Today is World suicide prevention day.
Every 90 minutes, someone in the UK or Ireland dies by suicide. We can all make a difference by checking in on those around us.

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

.@neilcox139. Quite so, but mothers (or fathers) who stay at home with their children *are* workers, among the hardest and most resonsible workers in the country. It is just that their work is nowadays despised because it is not paid a wage, and has no career structure.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Literally nothing this government won’t ban