Wednesday, May 31, 2006
F16 Fallujah
Thought of the day
Why can't they make a yogurt that dosen't always explode over your best tie when you open the carton?
War memorial stolen off plinth
Read this Is nothing sacred?I'd like to get hold of the scumbag who did this!
Shops and pubs ban town's traffic wardens!
French bashing
Question: Why did the French plant trees along the Champs Elysees?
Answer: So the Germans could march in the shade.
Answer: So the Germans could march in the shade.
Grenade in washing machine!
Book review-Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem
Read this It's the year 406AD,The barbarian army is at the Rhine frontier and only a single Roman legion stands in their way,victory is certain-or is it?For that legion is commanded by General Maximus,veteran of 30 years service under the eagles of Rome!YOU Must READ THIS BOOK!!!The story that inspired the film "Gladiator"!
On this day
Lady Godiva rides naked through CoventryRead this Ding Dong!
English and German fleets clash at The battle of Jutland 1916Read thisThey got that sinking feeling!
Clint Eastwood born 1930Read this Go ahead punk,make my birhday!
English and German fleets clash at The battle of Jutland 1916Read thisThey got that sinking feeling!
Clint Eastwood born 1930Read this Go ahead punk,make my birhday!
Jump
Judge powerless to deport bogus 'lesbian' asylum seeker!l
Proof that road workers hardly work at all!l
Read this Not a surprise-The lazy malingerers have been fixing my road for two months!!!
Old graves may be used for double burials!
Read this Are they raving mad?-How about just building more cemeteries!
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Me and my team!
Just to prove I'm not an armchair warrior,I'm the one in the middle!-Basrah,Iraq 2004,my team-Two Three Delta,Scipio
Book review- Supreme Courage by General Sir Peter de la Billiere
Read this A book about heroes written by one of our greatest!!!
French bashing
HMS Victory-Admiral Lord Nelsons Flagship.Batttle of Trafalgar 1805
Workout
Heavy burden carried by bobbies on the beat
How I am related to Genghis Khan
Thought of the day
Why can't pubs sell spirits by the bottle like wine?
New ID card to improve security in UK!
Iraq bomb blast soldiers named
Magna Carta is favoured date for British Day
On this day-Joan of Arc burnt at the steak 1431
Our soldiers are being exploited and mistreated by a political leadership unfit to lick their boots By Max Hastings
Yesterday's news that two more British soldiers had been killed in Basra followed another report, that Army desertions have trebled since the Iraq invasion. The desertion figures should shock, but not surprise us.
This is the most unpopular war in living memory that our soldiers have been asked to fight.
Once, a parent might have told an absconding soldier son to get back where he belonged and do his duty.
Today, by contrast, many mothers and fathers are deeply reluctant to see their children risk everything in an apparently thankless cause — a reality also reflected in poor Army recruiting figures.
The absolute number of 'permanent absent without leave' cases — AWOLs — is not disastrous: 377 last year, in an Army of 100,000.
Most of our soldiers fulfil their orders with the same loyalty, dedication and professionalism they have always shown.
But the figures reflect a malaise that goes much deeper, and should alarm everyone who cares about our Armed Forces. These have been cut to the bone by a Government which insists that they do far too much with far too little.
The truth is that the 'can do' spirit on which British commanders have always prided themselves is being abused by ministers in the most cynical fashion.
When John Reid was still Defence Secretary, he issued draconian instructions that no officer should publicly discuss the Army's new mission in Afghanistan, where 13 people were killed yesterday during a riot in the capital, Kabul.
This was because he knew that most soldiers regard Britain's Afghan commitment, with 3,000 of our troops spearheading a Nato force of 14,000, as gesture strategy of the worst sort.
Credible
The British contingent is being deployed in Helmand province, an area the size of Scotland, with no credible plan, and no coherent chain of command beyond a battery of international committees.
Their task is to support the Afghan reconstruction process, a commendable objective, if there were 20 times the number of men to do it.
The British contribution is restricted by our desperate shortage of helicopters, a scandal in its own right.
The other Nato contingents will be prevented by their own governments from acting offensively against Taliban insurgents, or even from firing their weapons except in mortal peril.
The British will be able to train some Afghan soldiers, but if they attack the huge local heroin industry, no one doubts that the local people there will respond violently.
In other words, Nato troops are being deployed on an ill-defined mission with wildly inadequate resources, so that the British Government can pretend that we are 'doing our bit'.
A distinguished retired officer told me yesterday: 'This is a Mission Impossible, and it seems quite wrong to commit our troops on such terms.'
The Afghan deployment — which does not formally start for another month — is, of course, overlaid on the strain of British operations in Iraq.
Units are being rotated into combat so frequently that not only are soldiers' domestic lives uprooted, but their training is also being chronically dislocated.
Intensive training is vital, even when soldiers are getting battle experience. Yet cash constraints have caused all training to be slashed, except for units on the brink of deployment.
Most of the Army's equipment is still good, but delays in ordering a new infantry armoured vehicle represent another scandal.
The armoured Land Rover is not remotely adequate for patrolling in areas where insurgents are using landmines — as they did yesterday for the killings in Basra. Yet until a new vehicle is provided, our soldiers will continue to be blown up in Land Rovers.
The threat of legal action against men who make mistakes in action also casts a much longer shadow than senior officers admit.
Even in elite units, there are authoritative reports of soldiers proving reluctant to pull the trigger because of the lurking lawyers.
Unit colonels, whose word was once law among those they led, know that on the battlefield they must keep one eye over their shoulder, watching the hunting pack of civilian officials and special investigators who dog the heels of the fighting men.
The reputation of Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney-General, was destroyed by his change of heart to accommodate Tony Blair about the legality of invading Iraq in 2003.
Yet Goldsmith's sticky fingers continue to meddle in Army combat operations. The string of soldiers' trials for which he is responsible — even though most have eventually been abandoned — has done much harm.
Intelligence, the vital tool of counter-insurgency, is in a poor state.
Tony Blair appointed John Scarlett, the intelligence officer most intimately implicated with him in the 2003 weapons of mass destruction scandal, as director of the Secret Intelligence Service.
Scarlett's performance commands no more confidence now than it did then, but Alastair Campbell's 'mate' merely observes complacently: 'There have been no complaints from the Ministry of Defence' about MI6' s work. There certainly should be.
Betrayal
It is a fine mess, reflecting a historic betrayal by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. For several generations, Britain has possessed the finest armed forces of their size in the world. Now, increasingly, they are falling prey to the diseases which afflict their European counterparts.
Short of resources and overstretched, in operational areas units are encouraged to act cautiously, to restrict casualties and the political embarrassment they cause.
A senior soldier says: 'The British Army is rightly proud of its offensive spirit, but this is being knocked out of it.
We are now very much poor relations of the Americans, who are allowed to go after insurgents much more aggressively, because our politicians don't want trouble.'
Not long ago, I attended a dinner at which an American guest described how his son, a young officer serving with the U.S. Army in Iraq, received countless letters and parcels sent to him — as to every American combat soldier — from unknown well-wishers back in the U.S.
'Does the same happen to your men?' my friend asked a British officer beside him.
'No, it does not,' came the bitter response. 'This is a very unpopular war.'
Monstrous
In this matter, the American people are behaving better than the British.
It is no fault of our fighting men that they have fallen victim to the monstrous misjudgments of their government. They are as splendid as they always were, and deserve our unstinting admiration, affection and support.
But we should not fool ourselves that they are happy in their work. They are being exploited and mistreated by a political leadership which does not deserve them.
Iraq has become a familiar story of woe, and Afghanistan represents a nonsense that could become a tragedy.
'This Government is presiding over grave damage to the British Army,' says a former chief of staff who is not given to exaggeration.
Our soldiers are forbidden to show their anger and resentment. It is up to us to do this for them.
This is the most unpopular war in living memory that our soldiers have been asked to fight.
Once, a parent might have told an absconding soldier son to get back where he belonged and do his duty.
Today, by contrast, many mothers and fathers are deeply reluctant to see their children risk everything in an apparently thankless cause — a reality also reflected in poor Army recruiting figures.
The absolute number of 'permanent absent without leave' cases — AWOLs — is not disastrous: 377 last year, in an Army of 100,000.
Most of our soldiers fulfil their orders with the same loyalty, dedication and professionalism they have always shown.
But the figures reflect a malaise that goes much deeper, and should alarm everyone who cares about our Armed Forces. These have been cut to the bone by a Government which insists that they do far too much with far too little.
The truth is that the 'can do' spirit on which British commanders have always prided themselves is being abused by ministers in the most cynical fashion.
When John Reid was still Defence Secretary, he issued draconian instructions that no officer should publicly discuss the Army's new mission in Afghanistan, where 13 people were killed yesterday during a riot in the capital, Kabul.
This was because he knew that most soldiers regard Britain's Afghan commitment, with 3,000 of our troops spearheading a Nato force of 14,000, as gesture strategy of the worst sort.
Credible
The British contingent is being deployed in Helmand province, an area the size of Scotland, with no credible plan, and no coherent chain of command beyond a battery of international committees.
Their task is to support the Afghan reconstruction process, a commendable objective, if there were 20 times the number of men to do it.
The British contribution is restricted by our desperate shortage of helicopters, a scandal in its own right.
The other Nato contingents will be prevented by their own governments from acting offensively against Taliban insurgents, or even from firing their weapons except in mortal peril.
The British will be able to train some Afghan soldiers, but if they attack the huge local heroin industry, no one doubts that the local people there will respond violently.
In other words, Nato troops are being deployed on an ill-defined mission with wildly inadequate resources, so that the British Government can pretend that we are 'doing our bit'.
A distinguished retired officer told me yesterday: 'This is a Mission Impossible, and it seems quite wrong to commit our troops on such terms.'
The Afghan deployment — which does not formally start for another month — is, of course, overlaid on the strain of British operations in Iraq.
Units are being rotated into combat so frequently that not only are soldiers' domestic lives uprooted, but their training is also being chronically dislocated.
Intensive training is vital, even when soldiers are getting battle experience. Yet cash constraints have caused all training to be slashed, except for units on the brink of deployment.
Most of the Army's equipment is still good, but delays in ordering a new infantry armoured vehicle represent another scandal.
The armoured Land Rover is not remotely adequate for patrolling in areas where insurgents are using landmines — as they did yesterday for the killings in Basra. Yet until a new vehicle is provided, our soldiers will continue to be blown up in Land Rovers.
The threat of legal action against men who make mistakes in action also casts a much longer shadow than senior officers admit.
Even in elite units, there are authoritative reports of soldiers proving reluctant to pull the trigger because of the lurking lawyers.
Unit colonels, whose word was once law among those they led, know that on the battlefield they must keep one eye over their shoulder, watching the hunting pack of civilian officials and special investigators who dog the heels of the fighting men.
The reputation of Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney-General, was destroyed by his change of heart to accommodate Tony Blair about the legality of invading Iraq in 2003.
Yet Goldsmith's sticky fingers continue to meddle in Army combat operations. The string of soldiers' trials for which he is responsible — even though most have eventually been abandoned — has done much harm.
Intelligence, the vital tool of counter-insurgency, is in a poor state.
Tony Blair appointed John Scarlett, the intelligence officer most intimately implicated with him in the 2003 weapons of mass destruction scandal, as director of the Secret Intelligence Service.
Scarlett's performance commands no more confidence now than it did then, but Alastair Campbell's 'mate' merely observes complacently: 'There have been no complaints from the Ministry of Defence' about MI6' s work. There certainly should be.
Betrayal
It is a fine mess, reflecting a historic betrayal by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. For several generations, Britain has possessed the finest armed forces of their size in the world. Now, increasingly, they are falling prey to the diseases which afflict their European counterparts.
Short of resources and overstretched, in operational areas units are encouraged to act cautiously, to restrict casualties and the political embarrassment they cause.
A senior soldier says: 'The British Army is rightly proud of its offensive spirit, but this is being knocked out of it.
We are now very much poor relations of the Americans, who are allowed to go after insurgents much more aggressively, because our politicians don't want trouble.'
Not long ago, I attended a dinner at which an American guest described how his son, a young officer serving with the U.S. Army in Iraq, received countless letters and parcels sent to him — as to every American combat soldier — from unknown well-wishers back in the U.S.
'Does the same happen to your men?' my friend asked a British officer beside him.
'No, it does not,' came the bitter response. 'This is a very unpopular war.'
Monstrous
In this matter, the American people are behaving better than the British.
It is no fault of our fighting men that they have fallen victim to the monstrous misjudgments of their government. They are as splendid as they always were, and deserve our unstinting admiration, affection and support.
But we should not fool ourselves that they are happy in their work. They are being exploited and mistreated by a political leadership which does not deserve them.
Iraq has become a familiar story of woe, and Afghanistan represents a nonsense that could become a tragedy.
'This Government is presiding over grave damage to the British Army,' says a former chief of staff who is not given to exaggeration.
Our soldiers are forbidden to show their anger and resentment. It is up to us to do this for them.
Bomb Saadam
Monday, May 29, 2006
French bashing
"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes." —Mark Twain
Oh Muma!
Thought of the day
Why does a large doner kebab with chile sauce taste like shit when you're sober?
Blunders that left Abu Hamza free
Hunts could end rise of wild boar !
New Iraqi Army training almost complete!
Book review- Rifles by Mark Urban
Read this Excellent book tracing the history of the "Green Jackets" of Wellingtons' army.
On this day-Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing climbed Everest 1953
Japan is proud home of Christ's tomb!
Read this And King Arthur's real name was Tojo!- Insular,little,slant eyed,biggoted twats!
Moscow gangs beat up gay pride marchers
Read this Screaming Faggots!-At least Ivan still has some proper morals!
Competitors line up for annual cheese race
2 British journalists and 2 soldiers killed by roadside bombs
Read this
It is the soldier, not the reporter,
Who preserves the freedom of the press,
And it is the soldier, not the poet,
Who protects our freedom of speech,
It is the soldier, not the campus organiser,
Who puts his life on the line,
To give others the freedom to demonstrate,
And it is the soldier,
Who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who protects the protesters right
To burn the flag.
Freedom is NEVER free!
It is the soldier, not the reporter,
Who preserves the freedom of the press,
And it is the soldier, not the poet,
Who protects our freedom of speech,
It is the soldier, not the campus organiser,
Who puts his life on the line,
To give others the freedom to demonstrate,
And it is the soldier,
Who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who protects the protesters right
To burn the flag.
Freedom is NEVER free!
One thousand UK troops AWOL in Iraq!l
Read this If they make going AWOL Government policy they wouldn't have to disband any more regiments!
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Book review- Rules of Engagement by Tim Collins
Read this Bloody good book!The man's a hero,if you want to know about Iraq -read it!
Thought of the day
What is the point of alcohol free lager?-You can't get pissed!!
On this day-The battle of Goose Green, Falklands War 1982
Read this Lt.Col."H" Jone's awarded the Victoria Cross!
Citation
On 28th May 1982 Lieutenant Colonel Jones was commanding 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment on operations on the Falkland Islands. The Battalion was ordered to attack enemy positions in and around the settlements of Darwin and Goose Green.
During the attack against an enemy who was well dug in with mutually supporting positions sited in depth, the Battalion was held up just South of Darwin by a particularly well-prepared and resilient enemy position of at least eleven trenches on an important ridge. A number of casualties were received. In order to read the battle fully and to ensure that the momentum of his attack was not lost, Colonel Jones took forward his reconnaissance party to the foot of a re-entrant which a section of his Battalion had just secured. Despite persistent, heavy and accurate fire the reconnaissance party gained the top of the re-entrant, at approximately the same height as the enemy positions. From here Colonel Jones encouraged the direction of his Battalion mortar fire, in an effort to neutralise the enemy positions. However, these had been well prepared and continued to pour effective fire onto the Battalion advance, which, by now held up for over an hour and under increasingly heavy artillery fire, was in danger of faltering.
In his effort to gain a good viewpoint, Colonel Jones was now at the very front of his Battalion. It was clear to him that desperate measures were needed in order to overcome the enemy position and rekindle the attack, and that unless these measures were taken promptly the Battalion would sustain increasing casualties and the attack perhaps even fail. It was time for personal leadership and action. Colonel Jones immediately seized a sub-machine gun, and, calling on those around him and with total disregard for his own safety, charged the nearest enemy position. This action exposed him to fire from a number of trenches. As he charged up a short slope at the enemy position he was seen to fall and roll backward downhill. He immediately picked himself up, and again charged the enemy trench, firing his sub-machine gun and seemingly oblivious to the intense fire directed at him. He was hit by fire from another trench which he outflanked, and fell dying only a few feet from the enemy he had assaulted. A short time later a company of the Battalion attacked the enemy, who quickly surrendered. The devastating display of courage by Colonel Jones had completely undermined their will to fight further.
Thereafter the momentum of the attack was rapidly regained, Darwin and Goose Green were liberated, and the Battalion released the local inhabitants unharmed and forced the surrender of some 1,200 of the enemy.
The achievements of 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment at Darwin and Goose Green set the tone for the subsequent land victory on the Falklands. The British achieved such a moral superiority over the enemy in this first battle that, despite the advantages of numbers and selection of battle-ground, the Argentinian troops never thereafter doubted neither the superior fighting qualities of the British troops, nor their own inevitable defeat.
This was an action of the utmost gallantry by a Commanding Officer whose dashing leadership and courage throughout the battle were an inspiration to all about him.
Citation
On 28th May 1982 Lieutenant Colonel Jones was commanding 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment on operations on the Falkland Islands. The Battalion was ordered to attack enemy positions in and around the settlements of Darwin and Goose Green.
During the attack against an enemy who was well dug in with mutually supporting positions sited in depth, the Battalion was held up just South of Darwin by a particularly well-prepared and resilient enemy position of at least eleven trenches on an important ridge. A number of casualties were received. In order to read the battle fully and to ensure that the momentum of his attack was not lost, Colonel Jones took forward his reconnaissance party to the foot of a re-entrant which a section of his Battalion had just secured. Despite persistent, heavy and accurate fire the reconnaissance party gained the top of the re-entrant, at approximately the same height as the enemy positions. From here Colonel Jones encouraged the direction of his Battalion mortar fire, in an effort to neutralise the enemy positions. However, these had been well prepared and continued to pour effective fire onto the Battalion advance, which, by now held up for over an hour and under increasingly heavy artillery fire, was in danger of faltering.
In his effort to gain a good viewpoint, Colonel Jones was now at the very front of his Battalion. It was clear to him that desperate measures were needed in order to overcome the enemy position and rekindle the attack, and that unless these measures were taken promptly the Battalion would sustain increasing casualties and the attack perhaps even fail. It was time for personal leadership and action. Colonel Jones immediately seized a sub-machine gun, and, calling on those around him and with total disregard for his own safety, charged the nearest enemy position. This action exposed him to fire from a number of trenches. As he charged up a short slope at the enemy position he was seen to fall and roll backward downhill. He immediately picked himself up, and again charged the enemy trench, firing his sub-machine gun and seemingly oblivious to the intense fire directed at him. He was hit by fire from another trench which he outflanked, and fell dying only a few feet from the enemy he had assaulted. A short time later a company of the Battalion attacked the enemy, who quickly surrendered. The devastating display of courage by Colonel Jones had completely undermined their will to fight further.
Thereafter the momentum of the attack was rapidly regained, Darwin and Goose Green were liberated, and the Battalion released the local inhabitants unharmed and forced the surrender of some 1,200 of the enemy.
The achievements of 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment at Darwin and Goose Green set the tone for the subsequent land victory on the Falklands. The British achieved such a moral superiority over the enemy in this first battle that, despite the advantages of numbers and selection of battle-ground, the Argentinian troops never thereafter doubted neither the superior fighting qualities of the British troops, nor their own inevitable defeat.
This was an action of the utmost gallantry by a Commanding Officer whose dashing leadership and courage throughout the battle were an inspiration to all about him.
Americans and French get taste for English wine!
Read this Shove your french wine up your bottoms Frenchies-I'll have a bottle of Chataux Bethnal Green!!
D'Ya know what I mean?
Thanks to the 91st Engineers "Blackjack", 1st Cavalry Division,United States Army
Students complain, 'I've paid my money, I've got to get an upper second'
Read this Stop wingeing and try working for it you hippy,druggy spongers!!!
Dutch tell drug tourists to take trip to Belgium
No planes to bring troops home from Iraq on time!
Read this An utter discrace!-What's next,a time share on ammunition?
New Iraqi banknote
Work till you you're 68, for £3 extra!
Read this Could'nt give a toss!-I plan to have died of alcohol abuse long before then!!!
Ex-lovers could claim maintenance like divorcees!
Saturday, May 27, 2006
French bashing-why-They wear stripy shirts and berets!
Question: Why don't they have fireworks at Euro Disney?
Answer: Because every time they shoot them off, the French try to surrender!
Answer: Because every time they shoot them off, the French try to surrender!
Give it some more
Thought of the day
Why don't women realise that the amber traffic light means accelerate!
Book review- Hell Riders by Terry Brighton
Read this Brilliant,absorbing read!The true story behind the famous charge of the light brigade and what happened after the battle.
On this day-German Pocket Battleship Bismarck sunk 1941
A fairy tale!
Alcohol study has good news for men
Read this The amount of alchohol I drink every day must mean i've got the body of a olympic gymnast!!
Clowns' buckets of water banned by drought firm!
500 convicts freed from mental hospitals!
Frightenly true!
French bashing
Anyone see the French Military Rifle on eBay? It's never been shot and only dropped once!
Climber declared dead on Everest is brought down alive
On this day-John Wayne born 1907
Iraq Olympic diving
Millionaire must sell her home in divorce deal with ex-lodger
Galloway condemned for 'bomb Blair' comments
'Horrendous' foreign rapist can't be deported!
Thought of the day
Why,if eating meat is moraly wrong and bad for your health, does it taste so nice?!!!
Friday, May 26, 2006
Mosul rocks!
Is this the final collapse for the rugby scrum?
Read this! Are they insane?-Rugby is a man's game played by real men,who know the risks involved and play hard with aggresion and courage to win,if they get hurt it goes with the job and they don't winge about it because they're men,so the "Health and Safety Nazis" should wind their necks in and leave well alone!
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Marines in Iraq
Thought of the day
Why can't women understand that when we ask"How are you?" We're only being polite and really coudn't give a toss!
Book review-The Emperor Series
Read this Excellent series,Following the life of Julius Caesar but told as an adventure story-Could'nt put any of the books down!
The Islamic dream!
Honour suicides: death by a bullet in the back
Read this And the EU is welcoming these lunatics with open arms!(And they'll be allowed to settle in the UK!)
French bashing
French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly!
On this day-Battle of Dunkirk 1940
Gatling gun
Boadicea may have had her chips on site of McDonald's
Douglas Bader's bunny is back at base 50 years on
French trains? They're worse than ours
Read this Probably covered in onion skins and smelling of garlic and dead snails!
Boys Beware!
'I won't claim a penny for my 12 children'
Read this Spongers take note!-you can survive without freeloading off the state,it's called work!
Eight 'charity' workers held over bomb plot
Lethal Star Trek blade seized in knives amnesty
Nude sunbather wins right to roam her own garden !
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Book review- Once a Pilgrim
Read this Gripping page turner!True story of Ex-SAS soldier Will Scully who,in 1997 in Sierra Leone,single-handedly defended a hotel full of refugees against over 200 heavily armed rebels and led the hostages to safety.
Important advice!
Army abandons Everest ascent
Read this Well done anyway-I have trouble climbing up my stairs!
Dinosaur is dead ringer for Potter dragon!
Read this Final proof that Harry Potter is based on a true story!-I know him,he lives in Penge!
Pensioner used airgun to 'fend off' football fans
New speed camera puts more drivers in the frame
Read this Bugger!-How're we supposed to get away with it now?
Thought of the day
Why can't the police understand that the reason that you drink drive is because you're far too pissed to walk home!
French bashing-Why-Have you ever met one?
How many Frenchmen does it take to change a light bulb?
One. He holds the bulb and all of Europe revolves around him!
One. He holds the bulb and all of Europe revolves around him!
Beer drinking-A warning!
Scientists with Health Canada recently announced that drinking beer makes men act like women.
As part of their research, they gave 100 men six pints of beer each within a one-hour time period.
The scientists then observed that 100% of the men gained weight, talked excessively without making sense, became overly emotional, couldn't drive, failed to think rationally, argued over nothing, and refused to apologize when they were wrong!
As part of their research, they gave 100 men six pints of beer each within a one-hour time period.
The scientists then observed that 100% of the men gained weight, talked excessively without making sense, became overly emotional, couldn't drive, failed to think rationally, argued over nothing, and refused to apologize when they were wrong!
On this day-H.M.S. Hood sunk by German pocket battleship Bismarck 1941
New Iraqi Army tests new missile launcher!
Church votes for gay 'blessings'!
Attack victim denied payout because he swore at yobs!
Read this I would have done more than swear at the bastards!
Troops could be in Afghanistan 'for another 10 years'!
Read this At this rate we'll be sending our grandchildren to fight there!
American Soldier
Prescott 'dug his heels in to hold on to Dorneywood'
Husbands to pay more for divorce !
Read this What more do they want-We married them didn't we?
New mothers 'hooked by power-pramming
The BBC in Afganistan
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Everest update
Thought of the day
Why does the phone always ring when you've just sat down on the toilet?
French bashing-Why-They eat snails!
Next time there's a war in Europe the loser has to keep France!
Book review-In The Company of Heroes
Read this Brilliant book!Gripping true story of Michael Durant,US Special Forces helicopter pilot,shot down and captured by rebels in Mogadishu,Somalia in 1993,dramaticaly portrade in the film "Black Hawk Down".
Trout fishing Afgan style!
Gurkhas take petition to No 10
Read this We owe them so much more than money can ever repay!
On this day-Pirate Captain William Kidd hanged 1701
MoD anounces new sponsership deal!
EU forces the UK to buy defence equipment from Europe!
Addicts 'should be given cubicles to inject heroin'
Read this I agree-Lock them in the cubicles and throw in the gas!
Many soldiers 'want to quit Army'
Read this Perhaps if they gave them better equipment,a realistic wage and job security(instead of disbanding regiments every five minutes!)they might decicde to stay in longer!
I tried so hard
Everest update
Monday, May 22, 2006
Priceless!
French bashing-Why-Cos I'm English!
Question:What do you call 100,000 Frenchmen with their hands up?
Answer:The French Army!
Answer:The French Army!
Thought of the day
If we can send a man to the moon and translant a human heart,why can't we invent an alcohol that dosen't make you feel like shit the next day?
Book review-The Last English King
Read this Excellent!Informative and Compelling reading,telling the story of King Harold II and the Battle of Hastings in the words of one of Harold's bodyguards who survived the battle.
Primary pupils face annual obesity check
Read this Another bad idear from the Politburo-This will realy be good for kid's self esteem!
Bush attends Pope's funeral!
Spineless Idiots!
Read this All they've done is encourage more hostage taking-Gutless Cowards!!
On this day-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born 1859
Wanna take you down
Thanks to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit,Fleet Marine Force
Bare-skin protest over Guards
Read this I'd like to see the animal rights cowards try and attack the Brigade of Guards!
Police may look even younger!
Read this We're realy going to listen to some jumped up,snotty nosed little schoolboy telling us what to do!
Just how many people does it take to change a light bulb at the BBC?
Students are given lessons on how to keep their virginity
Beer opener
Sunday, May 21, 2006
French bashing-Why-'Cos they're French!
Send the Bastards home!
Read this! Have the Home Office gone raving mad?About time we re-opened Traiter's Gate!
Thought of the day
Stop the world-I wanna get off!
Book review -Once a warrior king
Read this Good book-you wont want to put it down,Biography of a special forces officer commanding Vietnamese irregulars during the Vietnam war
Everest update
Read this The definition of a true leader is to have the ability and courage to make the correct decision under the most extreme circumstances-Well done Dave Bunting!
On this day-Charles Lindbergh flys solo accross the Atlantic 1927
Apache attacck helicopter-Iraq
Army officers set up union to vent war anger
Read this About time-Somone to stand up for the British squaddie!
Doing it my way
Thanks to India company,3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment,United States Marine Corps
It's no time to quit Iraq - we're winning !
German coastguard
Apology
I accedently erased several of my video clips but iv'e rectified the problem and they should all now work-what can i say,i'm a idiot!
Hero's welcome for record-breaking yachtswoman
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Thought of the day
Why has London still got a hosepipe ban when it's been pissing down all week?
Book review - Trafalgar
Read this Couldn't put it down!Excellent book,Written at a fast pace taking you right into the heart of Nelson's finest hour.
The Scottish sobriety test!
French bashing-Why? Who cares!
Question:What's the difference between Frenchmen and toast?
Answer:You can make soldiers out of toast!
Answer:You can make soldiers out of toast!
What to do in a Bank Robbery!
On this day-Christopher Columbus died 1506
Armadillo
Iraq election card
Everest update
Heroes every one
US/French relations reach rock bottom!
Friday, May 19, 2006
Thought of the day
Why can't women understand when you say:"I'm just going out for a pint"you realy mean:"I'm going out to get totally pissed!"?
First case of Bird Flu in UK
French bashing-Why?Because they're there!
Question:How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris?
Answer:Nobody knows-It's never been tried!
Answer:Nobody knows-It's never been tried!
On this day-Anne Boleyn beheaded 1536
Book review-The Koran
Definatly a ten pinter!
I'd buy it!
Prescott takes a dip!
Everest update
Gets my vote!
Y Company
Will they Plod on?
Who's going to compensate their victims?
On this day
Book review-The Eagle series
Simon's Books Excellent series-iv'e read them all!If you imagine Sharpe as a Centurion in a Roman legion during the invasion of Briton in the first century you've got the general idea!Can't wait for the next one!
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Thought of the day
Why, When you use a pub toilet, do you only notice there's no toilet paper until after you've been?
First British troops arrive on Mars!
Latest news from Everest
Royal Green Jackets to be axed in defence cuts!
Read this
Another good regiment bites the dust!At a time when the current situation in Iraq seems to be getting worse,not to meantion our increased deployments to Afganistan and our ongoing commitments in Bosnia,Kosova,Belize,Sierra Leonne the Falkland Islands and Possibly next Iran,it makes you wonder that instead of decreasing our already hard streached and under funded army we should be expanding it with more regiments and funding not less. How can the government justify axing regiment after regiment when we quite clearly don't have enough troops as it is?
When is enough going to be enough?Already the Royal Navy have no Carrier aircraft,thanks to the axing of Sea Harrier,due to defence cutbacks,if,God help us,the Falkland Islands were invaded again(it was only 24 years ago,remember,since the last one!)we would be unable to send a task force without asking the US for air support.Ask the Americans?Lord Nelson will be turning in his grave!
With the proposed disbandment of The Royal Green Jackets,the axe will fall in 2007 when it is merged with three other regiments,200 years of Honourable service to the crown will end.Its unique individual Regimental identity will cease to exist forever.The government fails to understand the concept or importance of regimental identity.A soldier dosn't join the army he joins a regiment,because of its Regimental identity,who they are and what they have done.It is forged in battle and paid for with the blood,sweat and courage of its soldiers,from the feilds of Waterloo,Flanders and Normandy to modern day Iraq and Afganistan and it is that history of honour,service,duty and comradeship that is handed down to its soldiers and prized above everything else.
What motivates a soldier to put himself in harms way again and again?Patriotism,Duty,honour?Not wanting to let your mates or the Regiment down?All of the above.Take away a soldiers identity and you take away the reason for being a soldier.All the government are doing by axing another regiment is weakoning our defense and putting lives at risk.
Another good regiment bites the dust!At a time when the current situation in Iraq seems to be getting worse,not to meantion our increased deployments to Afganistan and our ongoing commitments in Bosnia,Kosova,Belize,Sierra Leonne the Falkland Islands and Possibly next Iran,it makes you wonder that instead of decreasing our already hard streached and under funded army we should be expanding it with more regiments and funding not less. How can the government justify axing regiment after regiment when we quite clearly don't have enough troops as it is?
When is enough going to be enough?Already the Royal Navy have no Carrier aircraft,thanks to the axing of Sea Harrier,due to defence cutbacks,if,God help us,the Falkland Islands were invaded again(it was only 24 years ago,remember,since the last one!)we would be unable to send a task force without asking the US for air support.Ask the Americans?Lord Nelson will be turning in his grave!
With the proposed disbandment of The Royal Green Jackets,the axe will fall in 2007 when it is merged with three other regiments,200 years of Honourable service to the crown will end.Its unique individual Regimental identity will cease to exist forever.The government fails to understand the concept or importance of regimental identity.A soldier dosn't join the army he joins a regiment,because of its Regimental identity,who they are and what they have done.It is forged in battle and paid for with the blood,sweat and courage of its soldiers,from the feilds of Waterloo,Flanders and Normandy to modern day Iraq and Afganistan and it is that history of honour,service,duty and comradeship that is handed down to its soldiers and prized above everything else.
What motivates a soldier to put himself in harms way again and again?Patriotism,Duty,honour?Not wanting to let your mates or the Regiment down?All of the above.Take away a soldiers identity and you take away the reason for being a soldier.All the government are doing by axing another regiment is weakoning our defense and putting lives at risk.
New improved security at US/Mexican border!
The new French forces magazine!
Welcome to Blair's Britain!
Fall in the Ghurkas!
Rock the Basrah
I'll have a Thames on the rocks!
Wembley Police recruit local WPCs!
Applications forms addressed to The Home Office!
(Aparently under Islamic law,women cannot testify in a court of law-even women police officers-what a medieval religion!)
Why isn't this national news?
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Heroes honoured
When will we close the door?
Mosque go there!
They must be barking mad!
EU new passport procedures!
An inspiration to us all!
Never been that pissed!!!
I want this job!
The Palace Anounced today of new security measures!
Just out!
Better Islam the cell door shut!
Put your left foot in,Your right foot out!
Al Quaeda Special Forces!
How many more before we leave?
Read this
What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries for them; no prayers nor bells,
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,-
The shrill,demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries for them; no prayers nor bells,
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,-
The shrill,demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
Wilfred Owen(1893-1918)
The EUs new world order!
Messines Company Iraq
Ramadi Rocks
Thanks to Theo Spark
Glad to see its not all doom and gloom out there!
What a surprise!
Welcome to the New Iraq!
