Trooping the Colour

[MCN]

Watching the guards marching and falling into place in a row from a right wheel.
Marvellous precision and discipline.
One by one dressing along the line.
Then there ONE fucking edjit not wearing regimental dress most significantly a large furry bears skin hat.
It's a Sikh so determined to follow his religion he's permitted to not parade in full parade dress.
He's wearing his mum's/aunt's/sister's/nan' s headscarf.

The symbolism of the regiment, discipline, duty and honour is lost on the bell end.
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[Bikeless]

And he's laid his life on the line for this country as a coldstream guard, more than some.

[kippyzona]

If the Queen doesn't mind then it's not really for anyone else to complain.
They are her troops.
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[MCN]

So we've had the victory bit lost the battle. 😔
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[Freddyfruitba...]

I don't give an iota about the Sikh dude wearing his turban, but I did get to wondering why he couldn't simply pop a bearskin on top? I mean, presumably it's not exactly a tight fit inside those things?
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[Nobby the Bastard]

I'm just grateful that her maj is still giving me the day off for her birthday despite the best efforts of the torys.
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[grr666]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhs_in_the_British_Indian_Army

They've served this country for years. I have no issue at all with Sikhs. I wonder how many of the other lot
would serve this country and possibly give their lives for it rather than against it? A big fat zilch I reckon.
The only reason they might join up is to infiltrate and strike from within, a tactic straight from the instruction manual.
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[ThoughtContro...]

[MCN]

The deal is a ceremony. The garb is theatre.
He looked like a edjit and out of place.
Join the guards wear the dress.
Don't want to wear the dress join some other thing.
Fighting man or not the uniform is part of the team.
Religious nonsense.
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[Johnnythefox]

I hope the chap wears a proper hat when the bullets start flying.

[grr666]

[recman]

We have a Sikh supervisor at work, the only one I really get on with and have any respect for if I'm honest.

[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

[Suntan Sid]

Meh!
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[Rogerborg]

Ste for banning everyone but Sikhs.

They deserve an exception, because they are exceptional. And I don't mean that in a wishy-washy all-cultures-are-equal sense. I mean they are better than muslims, better than Hindus, better than Scotch.

They're part of the solution, not the problem.
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[MCN]

You all miss the point.
The trooping of the colour is a ceremony/theatre/big show.

The trick does not work if there is an odd one out within the ranks.
As often said, even if one guard puts a foot wrong it can have an effect throughout.

It's someone so festooned by his own importance who demands to be treated different from the 'rank and file'.
It's at the heart of the PC Problem. Some things have to be the way they are.
If you cannot wear the bloody outfit properly then do not join the guards.

He could be the greatest person/human in the world but it ruined the show for me.

Even the horses have to look more or less the same for the illusion to be complete.
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[Rogerborg]

[stinkwheel]

Also have to disagree. I'd take a regiment of Sikhs over a regiment of neds who didn't know what to do when they left school any day of the week.

Sikhs have worn turbans in British infantry regiments for so long it practically IS tradition.

I wonder if it has been for longer than guardsmen have been wearing stolen French bearskins (203 years)?
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Maybe he could compromise?

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[Nobby the Bastard]

If you are gonna referrence the sky fairy....

You do know that the Queen is the Protestant leader of the sky fairy crew?
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Unyielding uniformity in appearance, mission and obeyance is surely the intended message so whilst inclusiveness is admirable I see no reason why the soldier couldn't have worn a bear skin. Putting his special sky-fairy's supposed demands above those of his chosen task doesn't make a lot of sense to me.[/i]

[stinkwheel]

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