And like I said yesterday – never met a smart Brit soldier yet.
The problem is, it takes a phecking nitwit to join the army in the first place "yeah sure, I'm joining the army for career prospects". I mean, the army has had a pretty steady intake of apes, even when they were getting their heads blown off by the potato munchers on the shankhill road in belfast.
One can assume that if they a) had a better grasp of the nuances of international politics or b) had a brain, they wouldn't enlist in the first place.
― C.Taylor, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)
Sure, that might excuse/explain the low-level grunts, but what about the NCOs and the rest of the Sandhurst mob? They go in with their eyes open, ostensibly for Queen and country, IN OUR NAME, and tell the squaddies what they can or can't do.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― ****:::, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― C.Taylor, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― C*Taylor, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)
I know three highly intelligent people, involved in philosophy, who are ex-soldiers - an ex-US marine and an ex-UK marine among them
― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)
i suppose it might be novel to see angry Brits with either military or Islamic ties flocking to this thread to register their outrage - is this the intention calum? are you trying to bring ILE down that way?
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)
I posted this precisely because I am against this entire crusade (and it is a crusade) against the muslim people. I was very disturbed and tearful this morning because of the footage I saw.
― C-Taylor, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)
Dickhead
― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― black anus, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)
You could at least try and be consistent in your verbal diahorrea, C*l*m.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)
I thought C.Taylor was fantastic at the Royal Festival Hall last night with B.Dixon and T.Oxley.
― M.Carlin, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)