"Manners maketh man" A short tale.

[Sylvain VAN DER WALDE]

You all seem to have ignored the Subject: "Manners maketh man". You should take my message at face value, and not look for hidden agendas. You are ignorant and stupid people.

Sylvain.

[Sylvain VAN DER WALDE]

I must be thick. Please explain further.

Sylvain.

[Sylvain VAN DER WALDE]

Why send it twice? I've answered the first one.

Sylvain.

[Doctor Drivel]

Can't you get your legs seen to.

[Doctor Drivel]

Your Dad left you in occupied France and joined the Pioneers? The foreign nationals were mainly in the Pioneers.

[Clive George]

As you say, "Manners maketh man"...

clive

[Stephen Howard]

Yep, it shows. It also explains a great deal.

[HLAH]

Quite, one rule for him and one for everyone else.

H

[Sylvain VAN DER WALDE]

Do you have to talk in riddles? I spoke frankly; please do the same. Or are you just trying to "sound clever"? It probably explains more about you than myself. Why are people such hypocrites!

Sylvain.

[Sylvain VAN DER WALDE]

I _was_ in occupied France, and he _was_ in the Pioneers. These are facts.

That's correct.

P.S. My mother died when I was 4 years old, and I spent all my childhood years in orphanages.

Sylvain.

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[Doctor Drivel]

Liberation must have been fun.

[Sylvain VAN DER WALDE]

A good question, and I appreciate it. Yes, I intend to see my doctor about it soon. Luckily, I don't think that it's related to a poor (blood) circulation, as it's a dull pain, and not a sharp one.

Sylvain.

[Sylvain VAN DER WALDE]

I lived mostly in the countryside, and luckily was not directly affected by war events. So Liberation meant nothing to me. I do remember the fact that the Germans had rounded up all the young men in the neighbourhood. That as petrol was unavailable; cars, lorries and coaches had been converted to run on gas (made by heating and/or burning wood logs). You were aware of this, as a large burner was fitted at the front of cars; and on the side of lorries and coaches. The sacks of wood logs carried by these vehicles were usually clearly visible. I remember seeing the deep ruts made by tank tracks on the roads during a hot summer. Also a lot of cordite (used in cannon shells, I believe) could be found, which we used to light up. In another place, I heard about the massacre of a whole village's inhabitants (Oradour-sur-Glane). The houses were all burnt down with the people still inside them. Their bodies' fat covered the ground outside. This is what I heard at the time; I didn't see it.

Sylvain.

[Steve Firth]

It's one of the saddest features of parts of Brittany that there are villages with a stone (often a fountain) which list almost every person in the village with a simple message "killed by the Germans".

[Osprey]

Let me get this right, you have posted a completely off-topic subject (with no warning in subject line), and because the people on this group (dedicated to d-i-y) do not agree with you - we are ignorant and stupid. ?

If that is your opinion of us - then why post ?

[The Medway Handyman]

No mate, I was just taking the piss.

Even worse - no one likes the bloody French. I'll rephrase my comment;

These damn foreigners - nothing but trouble - send 'em all back home - to France.

[Sylvain VAN DER WALDE]

I hate war! Why can't we live without killing each other all the time. We call ourselves "human beings", and look down on animals. Yet, they are more "civilised" than we are.

Sylvain.

[Sylvain VAN DER WALDE]

Ha! But I'm British now; and have been that for a very long time. I no longer have dual nationality.

Sylvain.

[Andy Burns]

Well, I can happily agree with you on that point, always someone wanting to take advantage I suppose, and willing to go to more further extremes than someone else ...

They kill to eat, to defend themselves or their offspring ...

[Doctor Drivel]

The southern English (like you are) are half French anyway - the north of England think so, and with some justification too. The accent is directly taken from the French. Charrrce..Carrrrstle. Putting in Rs were they should not be. The southerners looked south, not north. The north looked north not south.

I am a Francophile.