SLC 10:39 Sat Nov 15
The Gurkhas
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Remember Gordon Brown getting lambasted by the right wing media for denying them citizenship and having to kowtow to the want of the Tory mouthpiece Lumley?
Well it seems it's all gone a bit Pete Tong, as predicted by GB himself.......
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2835216/Joanna-Lumley-s-legacy-misery-fought-allow-retired-Gurkhas-Britain-heart-right-place-Five-years-say-s-backfired-terribly.html
Joanna Lumley's legacy of misery: She fought to allow retired Gurkhas into Britain with her heart in the right place. Five years on, even they say it's backfired terribly.....
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sanfrancis-co-uk
2:48 Mon Nov 17
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jfk 2:36 Mon Nov 17
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mannomates 1:05 Sun Nov 16
A tough and proud bunch,an absolute credit to the crown.
Agreed.
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jfk
2:36 Mon Nov 17
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mannomates 1:05 Sun Nov 16
A tough and proud bunch,an absolute credit to the crown.
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eric5bellies
1:36 Mon Nov 17
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fuckin ell, I never knew half of Aldershot were signed up for WHO
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sanfrancis-co-uk
1:22 Mon Nov 17
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normannomates 1:05 Sun Nov 16
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I remember when the good folk of the 'shot constantly protested about PARA Regt. Every military garrison town and neighbouring towns don't like the squaddies in their towns. Always been the same.
To true norm.Protest is a good word to use but is was just that,everybody accepted the army,warts an all,as they say.
The good people of Aldershot have always had a love/hate relationship with the army.The whole town is affiliated with the army(might not be true now).The town only exists because of the army.There were army pubs and civvy pubs and
everyone new what was what.Used to love going in those army pubs always a good time and safe as houses unless you wanted it otherwise..Aldershot died when the Para's moved out,the town centre half boarded up and there's Nepali's sleeping in doorways and as Martyboy correctly said,people shitting in the streets and the such.Every single person I know in Aldershot(that's a lot)would welcome the army/Paras back with open arms.
Sadly most of those great army pubs are now gone or have been turned into flats.
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J.Riddle
3:23 Sun Nov 16
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bruuuno 11:12 Sun Nov 16
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I was told this by 2 Argentinian ex soldiers who served in the Falklands that Gurkhas cut their friends throats while they were asleep and they woke up to find them (I changed the subject as they were irate).
There is reference to it if you google and someone claims that every other enemy soldier was killed while they slept, so the soldier next to them would wake up and find them.
Others reply that it is a myth, but some may be military and have a vested interest for tactics not to be revealed?
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mashed in maryland
2:10 Sun Nov 16
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sanfrancis-co-uk 6:19 Sun Nov 16
"and there you have it.10.000 people turning up overnight and everyones meant to be cool. "
Think you've hit the nail on the head regarding a massive amount of problems in the world there tbf.
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mashed in maryland
2:09 Sun Nov 16
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normannomates 1:05 Sun Nov 16
Think that was the case in the old days a lot more so than now. These days it is a lot more "fashionable" to appear to be behind the armed forces no matter what. Even when ironically the reality is very different.
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mentor
12:09 Sun Nov 16
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Maybe some of Bob Geldof's money could be put aside to help these poor desperate people go home.
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bruuuno
11:12 Sun Nov 16
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J.Riddle 1:56 Sun Nov 16
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The whole slitting throats thing was a myth
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Leigh Jim
11:02 Sun Nov 16
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Says the English bloke living in France
Silly rapey cunt
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Willtell
10:43 Sun Nov 16
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The whole immigration thing is a can of worms. How would these people have lived in Nepal?
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martyboy
9:58 Sun Nov 16
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People do understand they sign up to fight for he British army? its a great honour to them. it was explained what they would receive when employed and they were happy to do it. To now complain 10/20 years later is a bit of a cheek. like working for the same company for years and when it come to retiring saying I want the same as a director/owner!! its just not right. and as for there family, yes to wife and children, but mums, dads, cousins. where does it stop. sorry they had a good life in the army and were well looked after. yes they deserve a pension, but only what they were told they were getting when they signed on the dotted line. and not all just left to fend for them self's, hence why they have not moved away from Aldershot. as I said earlier not the cleverest of people.
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Silas Greenback
9:22 Sun Nov 16
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sanfrancis-co-uk 6:19 Sun Nov 16
Singapore too. They form the presidential guard.
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mentor
8:59 Sun Nov 16
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Only. Lazy cunts do gap year tours.
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yngwies Cat
7:30 Sun Nov 16
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We have a lot of them based at Knellor Hall the Army Music School in Whitton,
Nice blokes and put some great gigs
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Joke Whole
7:10 Sun Nov 16
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When you enter a relationship with somebody from that part of the world the relationship is not just with that person but whoever they consider family - I thought that absolute fact was clearly and widely understood amongst the better educated of UK society - they've done enough gap year tours to have at least an inkling, after all..
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