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Message: 4150
Author: jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk
Date: 01/05/2004
Subject: Re: "Mega-tree" development disks
> Message-ID: <c6idrg+dli7@...>jet_visy <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> > Doesn't being at University exempt you?Ah yes, Suomen Tasavalta. A bit of a special case.
> I'm not actually in the university, I'm trying to get in!
>
> And about the army:
> Education doesn't mean anything to the army in Finland. You see,
> Finland is a country that has gone through many wars in the past
> decades, and it's really MANDATORY for every man to go to army. If
Variously Eastern Baltic Swedish Provinces, then North-West Russia,
eventually granted independance by Russia in 1917 as long as Finland - a
country full of trees - agrees to buy loads of timber from Russia. And
still the USSR tried to re-annex it in 1939.
> > And what would happen if youBack in the days of UK National Service (compulsary military service for a
> > aimed your rifle at a superior officer? ;)
> Nothing good, I suppose ;)
random sample of males aged 18-25) there were convoluted ways of claiming
you were a concientious objector. You could then pass your service in a
non-combat position. One of the ways, so my Grandad told me, was to say
you got irrisitable urges to shoot senior officers ;) They'd either lock
you up or post you somewhere a long way from any weapons.
National Service was eventually scrapped when it becase increasingly
obvious to the Army top brass that it was better to have profession
soldiers who wanted to be in the army than conscripts who wanted to be
somewhere else.
A little-known factoid is that being in the Armed Forces is incompatible
with being a member of Parliament, as you'd be both employee and
employer[1]. This resulted in a huge number of independant candidates in
the 1959 General Election as hundreds of conscipts stood for election
forcing the Army to terminate their military service!
[1] It's a bit more convoluted than that, but that's the essence of it.
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