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Right!... NOTHING to do with the cheap fags & beer in the NAAFI! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Absolutely. Once you enter, you take the whole package. No-one gets to sign up exclusively for "The wonderful water-skiing opportunities", you have to walk backwards through Londonderry as well! Personally, I'd like to see Court Martial for desertion, 1 or 2 years in military prison (do they have one in Baghdad / Iraq?) and "Soldier-On" after the sentence. Pour Encourager Les Autres. Mike. edited to add: I don't think he's a traitor. That implies an act of commission, whereas he's threatening an act of omission (desertion). He's not wilfully inciting others to follow his example (other than by presenting the example), so the important thing is to show that this is a bad example to follow. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Are we going to start looking for Osama again? Cool! When's this happening? Hey...! Maybe he's hiding in Iran! Doesn't he have a degree in physics or similar? Edited to add: No degree in physics. He's got them in Civil Engineering and Management. Just the sort of man to get the contract to build nuclear bomb factories & installations for "certain clients"! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Herewith the BBC version made user friendly for the "clicky" generation!

Just curious. Why should he reread this? What's your point, if there is one. The point John makes is that the atomic bomb project was about as American as their space program! I.E. As far as the contributions to The Manhattan project went... America supplied the money, and emigre British & European scientists spent it! "Little Boy" was a British design based on British theoretical work (but could only have been made with the massive industrial resources America had available). Likewise, it's been argued that "Fat Man" was unworkable until Dr. Heinz Schlicke provided his research & expertise on precision thyristor fusing to The Americans in June 1945. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I raised this before: Since the Phelps Family are so keen of the right of free speech & assembly, I'm sure they wouldn't object to a 24/7 demonstration outside their homes. Perhaps celebrating the music of Marilyn Manson, Eminem, Alice Cooper, etc... played continuously & loud as an expression of the demonstrators' beliefs. I'd be willing to bet that in the circumstances, such a demonstration would be accepted (even supported) by neighbours, and that the police would attend to ensure that there was no breach of the law. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

ONCE MORE FROM THE TOP! In a high stress situation, training, what someone has practised & "pretended to do" all those times before, is what kicks in. Surely we all remember this from our own constant reserve drills! Soldiers are trained to "house-clear" in a very aggressive way, completely different from the way a police force is trained. While Police officers play "Shoot-Don't-Shoot" soldiers play "Shoot-First-Kill-The-Enemy". Soldiers don't train with "Innocent Civilians" or non-threats in their scenarios in the way that police routinely do. Soldiers train at house clearing or urban warfare exclusively against an opposing force. So... When the roadside IED goes off and the troops stress levels are sky high, they follow the lead into nearby buildings and follow their training which is to move from room to room eliminating threats - anything that moves!... Just like all the times they've done it in training against their mates from another platoon who were similarly armed. Soldiers "Win" (or pass) an exercise by "killing" everyone who isn't on their side. It wasn't murderous cruelty & revenge that killed those "Innocents". It was tension stress and training. THAT is why a military force makes such an incompetent police force. It's not that the troops are inadequate in any way, it's simply that they're TRAINED to behave in a different manner. THey're trained primarily for aggressive combat rather than gaining control. Put another way, "Control" to a soldier is defined as "I'm Alive & They're Dead". In effect, our Great Leaders are hell-bent on using an unsuitable tool for the job, then blaming the tool when it turns in their hand. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Yeah... Next time you're in Bradford and a bunch of Skinheads goes into the local Pakki Shop for a carry-out to take to the NF Rally, Think how much worse it could be! Mike. PS. Everyone *KNOWS* that The Queen of England is God's only true representative on Earth. Well... Either her or The Pope... And that particular debate has fuelled The Armada, etc... Right through to the current Northern-Ireland situation! Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I'll go for #2! One of the things which leapt out at me was the fact that there in the piss-poor village the Marines had murdered their way through, there just happened to be a "Journalism Student" who was fortunate to have possession of a broadcast-quality video camera, along with the knowledge and the means to send it to news channels! Now... I appreciate that their culture is different, but this stuff isn't exactly thick on the ground in our poorer areas which haven't been blockaded for 13 years. I suspect that the publicity machine of the insurgency was VERY handy at the time of the "massacre" and shot a typically impartial video. As Miles Copeland (Police Drummer Stuart Copelend's Dad) once said: "Listen to what someone's saying, Then work out WHY they're saying it." Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Nah! That's just them fun-lovin Iraqis having a wee debate about whether Mohammed's Son-in-Law or his best mate was his religious successor, the next prophet and head of Islam on Earth! http://islam.about.com/cs/divisions/f/shia_sunni.htm Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

GOOD! After the major news of tonight: "Wayne Rooney kicks a ball"! YOU can be the "Man On The Grassy Knoll" if I let go at the England Football Bus with an MG-42 M-60... Or vice Versa. I *did* have a photo shoot planned. Production of an image (images) with the provisional title "Thousand-Year-Reich?" planned. One $hitload of research on images of The Nuremburg rallies, technical analysis of perspectives, dates, times & viewpoints of original 1930's images, etc... and someone decides to arrange the presence of the genetically modified cream of British Idiocy all over my travel plans! NOT CHUFFED! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

OK... I "Won't Mention The War"! Actually... This is something of a pain in the arse for me - I "was" planning a trip to Nuremburg this summer, but there's NO WAY I'm sharing the town with a bunch of English Football "Fans"! I honestly couldn't be bothered with the hassle & I'll just put my trip back until "Der-Fussball-Arselocher" have all pissed off back to Slough. That way, the reasonable, decent Briton can have a reasonable decent time with the reasonable, decent Germans and enjoy the time there WITHOUT the idea that 22 thickheads kicking a bag of air around a field is some symbolic re-enactment of 1914-18 or 1939-45. Mike (perhaps the only European male who doesn't like soccer). Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

When you see the ABC News reports tonight, PLEASE remember what your troops are trained to do. Any army (& Marines to cater to bodybuilding poofs who want to oil up in camo) is trained to be an aggressive force. Strangely, the most aggressive forces are actually defensive in nature. They're trained to react to particular situations in particular ways. It's a bit like the saying: "Plan the Dive, then Dive the Plan". So... before Y'All say "That's Terrible", think about their training and orders.... Think about how YOU would react in the same situation with the same training.... Think about WHY they're there.... THEN think about where the "blame" lies. Not with the troops. [end hissy-fit] Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

None so we aint goin there Which comes rather neatly to the moral aspect of the US & UK milirary. IF you MUST try & set yourself up as the World's policeman, then you can't pick & choose what you "Police". Once you free one or two "Poor-Oppressed-Peoples" from an "Evil-and-Dangerous-Madman"... Then... That implies that you have a list of similar situations which you're going to work down just as fast as you can! So... Zimbabwe... North Korea... China... Vietnam(!)... Saudi Arabia... There's A LOT of folk out there without democracy, freedom of expression & the right to self-determination. Suddenly, the Moral High Ground is looking like a very difficult climb. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I feel that we were right to effect regime change in Iraq and restore self-determination to the Iraqi People. Then we should have withdrawn back into Saudi Arabia & Kuwait. That's what we should do now. That way we preserve the force in theatre without being such a soft target for any self-styled sand-kicker with a grudge. We could also exert almost as much influence from near Iraq as from within. We could also prepare for some "Winter-Exercises" somewhere suitable on the way home. Somewhere like Rhodesia Zimbabwe.

Having the Euro as the currency of numerous nations actually makes for a very conservative economic policy in those nations, particularly in the area of money supply. In effect, a single country can't "print" it's way out of a money supply problem in the way that Germany under The Weirmar Republic did in the 1920's or the way that The US is doing now. AS to it being "Not worth going to war over." It is. A move to trade oil in Euros at the expense of the US Dollar could easily destroy the US economy, which is possibly a significant motivation for Iran, venezuela and the old Iraqi regime wanting to so trade. IN effect, they'll remove, or at least greatly reduce American trade & influence, particularly within the third world and oil importing countries. The current American trade influence would be replaced by the far less cohesive/restrictive European trade policies. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

My read of it is that the top of your investigation & prosecution system will resign if The FBI doesn't get to use the evidence they seized when they searched the office of a crook Congressman. The politicians don't like the idea of being searched, and if it turns out that they can be searched, then they're going to stop playing. I wonder WHY the politicians get so upset at the prospect of being investigated under the same rules as the people they govern!? If it's a purely criminal investigation then they shouldn't have anything to fear. Should they? Jefferson was caught fair and square in a criminal act. Now he's trying to pervert a law designed to protect him from political persecution to save him from a criminal prosecution! It's interesting to see who's supporting him, and from there... WHY! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

That's funny. In a sense, it still kind of means the same today: "I'd like to hit that!!" "She Bangs!!" Yeah... And it gets worse! It's thought that "Fik" / "Fok" "Feck" etc... was used in germanic or Scandanavian languages as an euphemism for another word meaning sexual intercourse and gradually replaced the earlier word which is now lost. They WERE saying in their language: "I'd Hit that!" So as not to be impolite! It's strange how things go around. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

No. Because it doesn't! The work "FUCK" has it's origins in Scandanavian language (german, Swedish, Dutch, Fresian (like so many English words).- it's original meaning is thought to be a verb to strike. http://www.answers.com/topic/fuck Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

And you just *KNOW* they're gonna lie about the size of their Assetsholes! And yeah... I wonder how they're paying their lawyers if they really have no money. No doubt the money's somewhere like Switzerland, Cayman Islands, Lichtenstein... Somewhere with nice confidentiality on banking laws. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Makes perfect sense. Most helicopters can hoer "In-Groud-Effect" on less power than hovering at altitude. A helicopter which neds full power to hover at 10,000ft above sea level in clear air will hover at around 13,000ft above sea level if it's within 20(ish) feet of the ground and can get the assistance of ground-effect. Perhaps the best visualisation of ground effect is the Ekranoplan which effectively flys in ground effect on less than half a wing. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

The Mi-12. Nato codename (appropriately enough) is Homer! Lifted 40 tonnes compared to the CH-53's 33 tonnes, on around 25% more power that the CH-53. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

There are plenty of helicopters around that're A LOT more powerful than the Astar 350-B3. They're also an even bigger lot heavier! Russia had always dominated the heavy lift & high performance helicopter arena: http://www.faqs.org/docs/air/avhvmil.html The more so under the old soviet doctrine of producing designs to outdo "The West"! It runs in my mind that there was an MI-13 - a real monster with two rotors which never went past prototypes, a few records for payload to altitude, and a couple of airshows. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

WOW, I didn't know that Further to that, Eurocopter claim that it was a standard Astar, unmodified, and did the landings with a crew of 2 on board. and while it was in Nepal for the month of the attempt it also did some mountain rescue work (but none as high as 29,053ft). It's great publicity. IF you were shopping for a rescue helicopter, or even a general purpose helicopter, what would you buy? Eurocopter have forced themselves onto everyone's shortlist with this feat. "With this landing on the top of the world, EUROCOPTER demonstrates that its technological innovations provide its products a length - height - ahead, set at the disposal of its worldwide customers." http://www.mounteverest.net/story/FrenchEverestMysteryChoppersUtopiasummit-VIDEOMay272005.shtml But... Did it land there? or is this another tall French tale of heroic success against overwhelming odds? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4152854.stm http://www.everestnews.com/stories2005/everestcopter06032005.htm http://www.shephard.co.uk/rotorhub/Default.aspx?Action=745115149&ID=51d836c4-2c1c-4854-a093-82d4ca8c3dde So... Did it landon the SUMMIT of Everest? Eurocopter says "OUI did" ...but The Nepalese Civil Aviation Authority doesn't agree! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Acclimatisation doesn't cure or prevent Soroche. It alleviates it to a small extent. Too little oxygen is still too little oxygen. It's just too shitty an environment to adapt to. As for help - lacing your own boots counts as a major achievement!.. One you'd save for after your morning O2 hit. Going to help just doesn't happen - this isn't wandering over to your neighbour tinkering under the bonnet of his car! It's just too much effort with too little higher brain function. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.