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    #11
    Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
    Nope, it's a lot more convenient to have mechanised divisions in Germany where there's lots of room to play rather than having them cooped up on Salisbury Plain.
    What about the 3,200 in Cyprus? There for the sun and wine?

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      #12
      Originally posted by minestrone View Post
      What about the 3,200 in Cyprus? There for the sun and wine?
      Protecting the (pretty handy) airbase?
      ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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        #13
        Originally posted by minestrone View Post
        What about the 3,200 in Cyprus? There for the sun and wine?
        Mostly RAF isn't it?

        The Prime Minister is talking to three Senior NCOs; one from each of his
        fighting forces.

        He asks each one what they would do if they woke up and found a deadly
        Camel spider in their tent on desert deployment?

        Army Sergeant : "I'd reach over, grab my bayonet and stab it to death!"

        Navy PO : "I'd reach over, grab my sea boot and batter it to death !"

        RAF Sergeant : "I'd reach over, pick up my 'phone, call reception and ask
        "who the feck put a tent up in my hotel room?"
        Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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          #14
          Originally posted by minestrone View Post
          Are we still expecting the Ruskies to storm over the border?
          We are already here

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            #15
            Originally posted by AtW View Post
            We are already here
            I think we've lost Birmingham.
            Step outside posh boy

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              #16
              no, I'd say Birmingham lost out on that one
              The proud owner of 125 Xeno Geek Points

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                #17
                Originally posted by Tarquin Farquhar View Post
                I think we've lost Birmingham.
                Is it such a loss?

                Perhaps the Russians could build a bigger bypass so it's easier to avoid?
                ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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                  #18
                  Had the company I contracted to got the contract it would have been hero xoggoth sorting those helicopters. The problem was no documentation, it all had to be engineered from assembler code.
                  bloggoth

                  If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
                  John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by minestrone View Post
                    What about the 3,200 in Cyprus? There for the sun and wine?
                    They are supposed to be there with a long standing agreement with the Cypriots being if the island is attacked the British would defend the island however, when the Turks invaded the British flew out all British air defence and the instead the troops stood and watched. The Cypriots want the British out for braking the agreement
                    "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
                      Had the company I contracted to got the contract it would have been hero xoggoth sorting those helicopters. The problem was no documentation, it all had to be engineered from assembler code.
                      If only ISVV was that simple.

                      You also need to inspect the development methodologies, processes etc.. So it is not enough to just reverse engineer the code.
                      Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
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