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#91
General Discussion / The Troubles Bill
Last post by muddy - Yesterday at 08:52:10 PM
Is going to replace the Legacy Act .
This is going to mean trouble for military veterans who served in Northern Ireland .
The SAS a is especially incensed at the Bill which means that many British veterans now elderly can be  dragged through the courts.

Who would join the army if you can be pursued by your own government decades later for acts that happened in wartime ?
#92
General Discussion / Re: We really are a laughing s...
Last post by Vlad - Yesterday at 08:30:58 PM
The British Army has used a civilian ferry to send troops to mainland Europe en masse for the first time in a generation.
It comes as the soldiers prepared for drills on the continent over how to respond if a NATO ally was attacked.

On their way to take part in Exercise Rhino Storm, more than 1,400 troops embarked on a DFDS ferry from North [color=var(--article-link-colour)]Tyneside
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The soldiers, from the 7th Light Mechanised Brigade and known as the Desert Rats, then took trains to central Germany to report for the drills.

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The article states that an armed attack against one member shall be considered an attack on all.
It was the first time since the 2003 Iraq War that a whole ferry has been chartered for military use by the British Army.
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The Ministry of Defence said the use of a civilian ferry was not due to a lack of military transport.
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Company Commander Charlie Gilmore of Right Flank, The Scots Guards, admitted its use for a large-scale deployment was "unusual in recent times".
However, he added that "we used them a generation or two ago in the Falklands and a generation ago in the Gulf conflict".
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He added that "there's also a strong reason behind it", saying: "It shows a kind of flexibility."
"If we were to rely on the strategic airlift that's provided by the Royal Air Force, we would clog all of that up to move the circa 1,400 people that are going.
"It would take about seven flights to do that. So we can move by air, by sea, we can move by rail, and it allows us to force-project to the location we need to get to."
There was no alcohol or duty-free available for the ferry trip which was reserved for service personnel only.
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#93
General Discussion / Re: We really are a laughing s...
Last post by muddy - Yesterday at 07:56:58 PM
It's an incredibly mad obsession to want to destroy Israel .
Israel has no borders with Iran there seems absolutely no good reason to want to eradicate it .
However it has paid its proxies Hamas , Hezbollah and the Houthis to do just that .
Why ? 
For decades they have done this using money that could have benefited Iran .
Instead it has paid for terrorism on a global scale .
#94
General Discussion / Re: We really are a laughing s...
Last post by Michael Rolls - Yesterday at 07:30:53 PM
But they do to destroy Israel
#95
The Chat Room / Re: Lets write a Limerick, one...
Last post by klondike - Yesterday at 07:24:32 PM
Four skips in the car park filling up fast
A mattress-bed and an old cracked vase
Then something moved behind a big jar
'Twas the Cook, who'd fell asleep in the bar
Maybe the landlord thought he'd passed

Oh no who's that dumpster diving?
There's nowt in there that's worth reviving

#96
Gardening / Re: Gardening anyone?
Last post by klondike - Yesterday at 07:17:11 PM
Those little blue pellets don't. 

Really inaccurate out of an airgun and when I loaded a shotgun cartridge with them it blew the entire plant out of the pot.
#97
General Discussion / Re: We really are a laughing s...
Last post by klondike - Yesterday at 07:13:56 PM
True enough but they don't need nukes to destroy the world economy.
#98
Announcements / Re: Forum Update
Last post by klondike - Yesterday at 07:11:17 PM
Excellent.  :upvote:


Did you see my email to you and use the password I had set or did you manage to get a reset email?
#99
Announcements / Re: Hello
Last post by klondike - Yesterday at 07:09:12 PM
This is an old thread. CHF never did manage to get back in.
#100
General Discussion / Re: Glass half full / Cup hal ...
Last post by klondike - Yesterday at 07:04:59 PM
Ah right - I replied to your PM but that was about emails. Maybe you could msg her about those to find out what she is using. I used both to say I had manually changed her password and what it was changed to.