The British army is doomed

[EternalOptimist]

They can. Then they leave the army (former major as you say), and if they don't get a job on the telly making unfit celebrities eat raccoons' testicles like Bear Grylls, they continue eating the fried breakfasts without doing the hours and hours of gruelling exercise and turn into big fat heffalumps. Perhaps they've earned the right to do so.

good point , well made.

although I never ate a racoons testes. I was more of a willy man myself

[aussielong]

err - what is the RLC?

This was suggested. However my brother only interacts with those he wants something from. The only reason he was coming down is he wants me to get him a trading job at the hedge fund I have just joined. Thankfully he has never had children.

rofl

Are you going to get him a trading job? Given his performance on Million Dollar Trader you would be risking your bonus wouldn't you?

[SimonMac]

Jeez. Men these days.

I wash my face with broken glass and brush my teeth with barbed wire.

Yeah but you are an ugly ***** to start off with

[Mich the Tester]

Jeez. Men these days.

I wash my face with broken glass and brush my teeth with barbed wire.

There you go, taking it to extremes, which suggests you are a fat pansy trying to look like a man. You need a bit of discretion in this. While it's good to implement a complete ban on products of the Laboratoires Garnier company in a man's bathroom, broken glass and barbed wire are completely over the top. Soap, toothpaste and perhaps a drop of hydrogen peroxide solution mouthwash will do the job.

[scooby]

The fact he is was a para AND a major is the issue! Para's only go where the planes drop them (that and Aldershot pubs for a fight, and then fight themselves when no one will fight them!) and an officer who is probably desk based...

paras dont think for themselves, they are robots!

BTW Brillo, RLC are "Loggies", Royal Logistics Corps, i.e. truck drivers etc.

[BrilloPad]

Are you going to get him a trading job? Given his performance on Million Dollar Trader you would be risking your bonus wouldn't you?

Let him ask me directly. I am probably going to send him a link to this thread. Last time this happened (after million dollar trader) he called me and swore at me for 30 minutes. But it was nice to get some sort of communication from him.

The fact he is was a para AND a major is the issue! Para's only go where the planes drop them (that and Aldershot pubs for a fight, and then fight themselves when no one will fight them!) and an officer who is probably desk based...

paras dont think for themselves, they are robots!

BTW Brillo, RLC are "Loggies", Royal Logistics Corps, i.e. truck drivers etc.

Agree totally about the paras. Personally I never understood why they were allowed into Northern Ireland. I blamed Heath for all that.

[MyUserName]

My brother came out of the army after 22 years. Apparently it used to be the fact that if you failed the same course twice (I think) you were booted out of it but now they say if you fail the same course twice you pass the third even if you actually fail. This meant that you could literally do a course, do no work and eventually pass. He said that was when he knew the army he loved was dead and it was time to leave. He recently retrained as some kind of anti pirate security guard for British ships in the middle east.