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   Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:04:39 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic
   new book, planning to book thread it
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:04:34 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     “Not racist, just don’t like ‘em. Simple as.”
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:04:34 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     Wolseley was our guy:
     
     “I have met two men whom I prized as being above all the world I have ever known, and the greatest of the two was General Lee”
     
     “This Southern army interested [me] beyond any army I ever saw before or since.”
     
     “the military despotism of one portion of the States under the dictatorship of an insignificant lawyer attempts to crush out the freedom of the rest.”
     
     :confederateflag: 🤝 🇬🇧
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:04:35 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     Our next personage is Garnet Wolseley. skipping past his youth and first campaign in Burma to when he was seriously wounded in the Crimean War. I wonder if there was ever a time when doctors were anything but psychopaths.
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:04:35 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     Apparently enough English officers had native concubines in India that there was a turn of phrase for it. No, I will not be imagining the smell. you can’t make me.
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:04:36 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     Fetid pajeeta vaginas forced the British government to take over the whorehouses of India to try and staunch the spread of STDs among its soldiers, moral outcry against this back home led to the policy ending and the problem got worse.
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:04:36 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     Roberts spent the last years of his life unsuccessfully attempting to modernize the British military and better prepare it for the Great War.
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:04:36 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     “You are their heir.”
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:04:37 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     🥂
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:04:37 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     Great image of the empire. A general almost too sick to function winning historic battles sipping champagne on the battlefield to stay conscious.
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:04:37 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     🫡 I wonder if I’ll live to see a day when an Anglo general is loved by his men again instead of universally despised. Seems like a better way.
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:04:38 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     Can’t imagine losing 4 kids in a row, very harrowing. India really seems like hell on earth, flies and shit and jeets everywhere, you’re sick all the time, your kids keep dying. I’ve got a lot of respect for the personal gallantry of these imperialists but going to these shitholes at all was the height of Faustian folly.
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:04:38 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     In a just world there would be big budget movies made about stuff like this
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:04:39 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     Frederick Roberts, another great manlet warrior
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:04:39 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     Liquefy pajeets, vaporize pajeets, fire pajeets out of a cannon, etc
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:04:39 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     How Roberts won the Victoria Cross
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:05:38 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     Okay, Wolseley was DEFINITELY our guy
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:05:57 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     Fact check: True
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:06:28 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     Wolseley was THE model of a modern major-general
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     Jimmy Buffett Fanatic (jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:06:29 JST Jimmy Buffett Fanatic

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     true, true, true, yeah that’s true, that’s pretty true