Reply to: Royal Marines to hire 30,000 wimps

[daviejones]

Good form EO.
Scalyback me, and proud of it!!

What trade?

[shaunbhoy]

Good form EO.
Scalyback me, and proud of it!!

[EternalOptimist]

Rough Engineering Made Easy?

<cough>

[shaunbhoy]

Blimey! That could do some serious at closer ranges. You sound like REME material.

Rough Engineering Made Easy?

[EternalOptimist]

You sound like REME material.

<cough>

[Doggy Styles]

my rose bow had a range of about 100m, more than double the rest of the gang with their bamboo cane efforts.

Blimey! That could do some serious at closer ranges. You sound like REME material.

[shaunbhoy]

Servicemen receive a pretty damn good pension these days don't they?

Depends. If you complete the full 22 years of service then you receive your pension straight away. How "pretty damn good" it is depends on what rank you attained during your time in service. If you leave before your full service then you do not receive your pension until age 60. As far as I am aware, someone like a sergeant leaving after 22 years service could expect to receive something like £13k a year or thereabouts. Good-ish, but you are hardly going to have the life of Riley. For anyone leaving before their 22 is up (e.g. after 13 years), they will receive 13/22 of the full pension from age 60. So you won't be buying a ferrari with it!!

[EternalOptimist]

Royal Marines- aren't they the ones that cry when their iPods get stolen ? seems they may have enough wimps enrolled already

heh heh. Troll wins the coconut, well spotted

[AtW]

Servicemen receive a pretty damn good pension these days don't they?

Not if they get blown up by IED...

[Troll]

Royal Marines- aren't they the ones that cry when their iPods get stolen ? seems they may have enough wimps enrolled already

[Board Game Geek]

Lego Crossbow for the win !

The black, technical lego axles were great when sharpened with a pocket knife, and served as adequate bolts.

I could punch a hole through a copy of a Famous Five paperback novel at 5 feet, and shot the eye off my teddy bear.

Hmm...just realised that shot the eye off my teddy bear sounds like a euphemism, in the same vein as licking the chutney spoon. Oh well...

[EternalOptimist]

Lethal for the user or the usee?

I played with my sisters' barbies and sindies too. I got into trouble when my Action Man set fire to one of them.

I was too poor to have a johnny seven or super-soaker. I had a spud gun, and one of those guns that fired gold balls. Anyone remember them?

gold balls yes. they were called...(banging head on table)


....(nowadays they call em BB guns - but we had a different name)

...it'll come to me.

my rose bow had a range of about 100m, more than double the rest of the gang with their bamboo cane efforts.

[Doggy Styles]

they did

i was too poor to have an action man, so i had to play with my sisters Barbie.

I bet you had a Johnny seven as well. and a super-soaker.

I once made a bow out of a rose branch. It was lethal

Lethal for the user or the usee?

I played with my sisters' barbies and sindies too. I got into trouble when my Action Man set fire to one of them.

I was too poor to have a johnny seven or super-soaker. I had a spud gun, and one of those guns that fired gold balls. Anyone remember them?

[EternalOptimist]

I can't remember. Did they all have scars?

they did

i was too poor to have an action man, so i had to play with my sisters Barbie.

I bet you had a Johnny seven as well. and a super-soaker.

I once made a bow out of a rose branch. It was lethal

[Doggy Styles]

wowser.
did he have a scar on his face ?

I can't remember. Did they all have scars?