@Xuanfu. True, I only went with them and I didn’t enjoy it. I wouldn’t go again, nor do go out into the “bush” much if at all.
At the same time, pigs are an introduced species. In my country, they are spreading diseases, they’s killing native wildlife, they’re raping our natural environment. Although some pigs, I assume, are good animals.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
@Steve:
“…Here we have an Englishman who believes that Britain or England didn’t participate in European wars for most of the last thousand years…”
For the record, what I actually wrote above was:
“…but there was an island off the coast of Europe that was - to a degree - sheltered from this madness. Admittedly there were invasions: Romans, Vikings and Normans. But eventually we learned to build a navy (…and then turn the tables by doing a spot of invading ourselves in various far flung parts of the world!)…”
The assertion that I said “…Britain didn’t participate in European wars…” is therefore fake.
(Re-posted, because the original doesn’t show when I am logged out - I don’t know why not?)
If I understand you correctly, you don’t feel Britain was an exception to the Europe that was " a thousand years of war". I obviously misunderstood you.Sorry.
Wikipedia, by the way, is an excellent source of information, in my view, surprisingly up to date, and with detailed references about sources. I even support them financially, especially since they let us use their content in our libraries, if anyone wants to record them, in any language.
What I said was that we were “…to a degree sheltered from this madness…”. That plainly isn’t the same as saying “we didn’t participate in European wars”!
During the period in question the Island of Britain largely escaped direct attack and occupation, and the wars mostly weren’t happening on our soil - these are not contentious or factually incorrect statements, as far as I am aware.
As for Wikipedia, it is a minefield of alternative facts! Here is the obituary of Prof Sir Colin Stansfield-Smith (a man whom I knew slightly) in the Daily Telegraph:
“…He also acted, and for a time toyed with a career in the West End, appearing in a number of stage productions before qualifying as an architect…”
That kind of puzzled his family. The journalist got it from (yeah, you already guessed it) Wikipedia. Apparently his entry was edited at some point by a dumb-ass student as a prank.
The perverse beauty of it is, his Wikipedia entry could in theory now be edited back to include this piece of nonsense - citing the Telegraph obituary as an authoritative source! :-0