Actually the title of the award is Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
it's an order of chivalry award for outstanding effort in arts, sciences, charity work and public service outside of the Civil Service.
English has too many homophones
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Actually the title of the award is Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
it's an order of chivalry award for outstanding effort in arts, sciences, charity work and public service outside of the Civil Service.now disabled
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Actually the title of the award is Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
Oh @Tez3, you do realize now that our entire honour system is gonna have to be explained (and including the order in which they come ). This could take a while lol.
Steve I punctuated lol
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Probebly not, it seems to have ended in 1947 when the lights had mostly returned to Europe
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The whole empires thing is rather a turn if phrase, we had co!lonies and we had over seas terrorties, but it was possesion of India, that gave rise to us having an empire, or rather queen victoria was crowned emperess of india and not of anywhere else. which sugfest the rest wasnt considered an empire
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The saying the lights went out all over Europe refers to WWI lol as it was the end of the golden age so to speak and when the empire was still as such. And back then we did have the grand Fleet and we did still rule the waves
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You forgot the comma after “Steve” and a period at the end of the sentence. You’re getting better though.
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You forgot the comma after “Steve” and a period at the end of the sentence. You’re getting better though.
Hope your next crap is a hedgehog and it appears sideways lol lol lol
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Just got done a few minutes ago. Quite the opposite, actually. It was all mush.
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OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH TO much info .........................waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to much info lol lol lol
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Alright, sometime ago on this forum there was a thread about fighting ranges where different fighting ranges were described and people were asked what their favorite fighting range was. Now I am not going to mention any names but somebody made a post on that thread about oven ranges saying that was their favorite range. Oven ranges and fighting ranges are obviously two totally different things but the word "range" can mean either of those things. But when there's a thread about fighting ranges than those are the kinds of ranges that are being discussed and to start talking about oven ranges in such a thread, this is not my call but I would say its trolling.
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I know, but it was the appropriate circumstances.
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Your punctuation was like eating a properly seasoned meal.
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Jeez, you guys take this stuff seriously. It was a tongue-in-cheek comment. This is like the British version of "mansplaining."
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Ah, I can see what you mean. I think there's an important difference between trolling and making a joke. I don't think anyone would mistake an oven range for a fighting range. Trolling suggests that the person is trying to start an argument or stir the pot.
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Its history mate, its like us mixing up the varius american ibvading of sovereign nations,Jeez, you guys take this stuff seriously. It was a tongue-in-cheek comment. This is like the British version of "mansplaining."
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Yes i know, and if yiur being picky, its lamps, not lights, but anyway yiur claim is the BE finished before the lights( lamps) went out and it didnt ut trundle on to at least 47 and us giving India back to the indians( and the pakistanies etal.) Plus we still had most of the rest, which took another couple of decades to give back.
In the 1930 s there were serious plans to blockaid New York ( and the whole easten seaboard) and bring those pesky amerian to heel, so we still ruled the waves then, unfotenttly for the civilisation of the usa, the germans got in the way, so thats how it all went wrong for them Americans
Or you have no sense of humour.
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Yes you are right as regards lamps, I would say tho that the Empire was not the Empire after the first war as such. Yes it still existed but not like it did pre 1914.
Yeah it took a while to hand it all back however look what happened to some of the countries when we did lol.
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Jeez, you guys take this stuff seriously. It was a tongue-in-cheek comment. This is like the British version of "mansplaining."
Yeah we do take it seriously as we do have a kinda long history and it seems so many want to grab at it lol.....Also it could be said that there is not very much that we haven't tried at one time or another, we even tried being a republic and decided that wasn't a good idea lol, much better to have a person at the top that will always be there no matter what politicians try and that the people can rally to and behind when we in the **** lol
Jeez, you guys take this stuff seriously. It was a tongue-in-cheek comment. This is like the British version of "mansplaining."
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