http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7284783.stm
I know this was a few days but as dom pointed out elsewhere - we really should have had a thread. For me the most interesting thing was the way the story played out, with Gordy making a statement about it within hours and the sounds of knee jerking all over Westminister. And no-one seems to know what actually happened in Peterborugh, except that an army nurse had her car vandalised last year and thought it might have something to do with the war.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 12:03 (seventeen years ago)
I think that whole "squaddies being picked on" story overlooked the fact that people have always hurled abuse at squaddies.
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― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 12:03 (seventeen years ago)
Can't wait for our remake of Born on the 4th of July starring Danny Dire tho.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 12:04 (seventeen years ago)
Storm in a teacup
― Tom D., Tuesday, 11 March 2008 12:05 (seventeen years ago)
Fry out
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 12:06 (seventeen years ago)
I mean, at the end of the day, this is just Brown going "I can do populism! Look!"
Noodle otm
I used to visit Colchester back in the 80s and it was pretty shocking (even for a cheese eating surrender monkey like myself) to see squaddies getting shouted at in the street ("too think to get a proper job"). Of course, they would would then proceed to beat the shit out of the abusers. But they can't do that to-day what with all this political correctness and immigration and that.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 12:08 (seventeen years ago)
even though it's true a lot of the time! the intelligent ones go to uni and join the OTC.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 12:10 (seventeen years ago)
I dunno, squaddies. They come over here, drink our beer, nick our wimmin with their so called 'uniforms' and short hair and ruggedness and unreconstructured sexism and that...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 12:16 (seventeen years ago)
Plus, y'know, within three years of leaving the army they're either gonna become bouncers or kill themselves, so there's no real need to treat them nicely.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 12:16 (seventeen years ago)
Soldiers are generally shady or comic characters in 18th and 19th century literature: don't think this is a new phenom.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 12:18 (seventeen years ago)
So many Calum pseudonyms.
― aldo, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 12:18 (seventeen years ago)
Yeah, maybe Calum is living in Peterborough?
― Tom D., Tuesday, 11 March 2008 12:19 (seventeen years ago)
Horror capital of the UK.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 12:20 (seventeen years ago)
Didn't Ernie Wise use to live there?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 12:25 (seventeen years ago)
I seem to remember nv's dislike for P'borough before but it's really not that bad. Lovely cathedral. In fact I'm sure there's some youtube of some peterborough youths chasing a street preacher away from the front of said cathedral. They've got form.
Very easy to avoid anyway what with the A1 and a dual carriageway through the middle.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 12:38 (seventeen years ago)
things are looking bad for peterborough
― DG, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 13:00 (seventeen years ago)
I've never even been to Peterborough! TBF I can imagine it being a place to score cheap points off of, but no more than Hull.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 16:47 (seventeen years ago)
Panic Street Preacher!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 16:50 (seventeen years ago)