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You did? What did you make of the word "daring" and the name "Tristan da Cunha"?
I think he was trying to make a joke about Airdrop, I guess.
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#12Literally one of the worst places to fall seriously ill due to the fact you are absolutely and totally stuck in the actual middle-of-nowhere.
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#13I think this is one of the few things as late that makes me feel genuinely proud to be British, because, beneath the hostility that feels so rife across our country recently, we’ve so many good people making things like this happen. Bravo.
It certainly involved a lot of skill and expense, but how many more lives could be saved if the same money had been spent on improved traffic safety or NHS in general?
True, but this is military expenditure. So would you rather they spend this on an exercise or on actually saving people?
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#14What a heartwarming article.
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#15I think this is one of the few things as late that makes me feel genuinely proud to be British, because, beneath the hostility that feels so rife across our country recently, we’ve so many good people making things like this happen. Bravo.
It certainly involved a lot of skill and expense, but how many more lives could be saved if the same money had been spent on improved traffic safety or NHS in general?
People respond to inspiring stories that show what is possible. Inevitably that means choices that might not match what a perfect allocation looks like.
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#16I think this is one of the few things as late that makes me feel genuinely proud to be British, because, beneath the hostility that feels so rife across our country recently, we’ve so many good people making things like this happen. Bravo.
It certainly involved a lot of skill and expense, but how many more lives could be saved if the same money had been spent on improved traffic safety or NHS in general?
You'd rather we ignored our overseas compatriots?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It certainly involved a lot of skill and expense, but how many more lives could be saved if the same money had been spent on improved traffic safety or NHS in general?
True, but this is military expenditure. So would you rather they spend this on an exercise or on actually saving people?
Yeah and helps demonstrate thst Tristan is strategically important
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#18I think this is one of the few things as late that makes me feel genuinely proud to be British, because, beneath the hostility that feels so rife across our country recently, we’ve so many good people making things like this happen. Bravo.
The hostility is rife across social media. I don't see much of it day to day.
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#19The only reason military should exist is to perform such life-saving, not life-ending, missions...
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#20I think this is one of the few things as late that makes me feel genuinely proud to be British, because, beneath the hostility that feels so rife across our country recently, we’ve so many good people making things like this happen. Bravo.
It certainly involved a lot of skill and expense, but how many more lives could be saved if the same money had been spent on improved traffic safety or NHS in general?
This is a classic. It occurs in two forms:
Wow, logistics to are very expensive! We could spend that money better in the cities!
Wow, logistics in is expensive! We could spend that money better in rural areas!
I read about a new road tunnel in London last year, a ten-digit price tag for about 1km of road IIRC. I'm 100% sure some people suggested that that money could have been better spent in rural areas.