Far Cough 5:55 Fri Oct 19
Légion étrangère
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That's it, I'm joining
After I've finished Narrowboating that is
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Gavros
5:58 Fri Oct 19
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pipe down, Cough, you boring old fucker.
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Far Cough
6:00 Fri Oct 19
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Hahaha
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Nurse Ratched
6:04 Fri Oct 19
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The old saw used to be that men joined the FFL 'to forget someone' and mend a broken heart. Why not instead book a teletext cheapy to Mafaluf and go on a drunken fuckfest with a load of northern dolly birds? Much more fun. Admittedly a higher risk of malaria and life changing injuries, though.
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Far Cough
6:06 Fri Oct 19
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Nurse, arf
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Gavros
6:16 Fri Oct 19
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you sure you wouldn't be better suited to collection for the Royal British legion?
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Hammer and Pickle
8:05 Fri Oct 19
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The Strange Legion?
Hello sailor!
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Mart O
8:10 Fri Oct 19
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That would be the 'Légion étrange'. I've seen stranger things...
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Far Cough
8:47 Fri Oct 19
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For Pickle:
Legion Cudzoziemski
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Hammer and Pickle
9:36 Fri Oct 19
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While I've got you Cough, I've been meaning to ask; when you berthed at Leningrad while in the MN, what was it like getting debriefed by that Soviet "nurse" mate?
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Far Cough
9:44 Fri Oct 19
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Haha, glad you bought that up, I was swigging from a bottle of vodka and offered some to the border guard on the gangway, you could see he wanted to but he had to decline, he just kept saying nyet bossy bossy
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Far Cough
9:50 Fri Oct 19
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That Soviet matron was one you didn't argue with, she was built like a brick shithouse but she did give me a sick note unfortunately I couldn't take advantage of it as I was the only on board who could do my job, so I just got on with it working and getting around on crutches
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Hammer and Pickle
9:53 Fri Oct 19
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She put you in crutches?
Suppose you got off lightly.
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Far Cough
9:55 Fri Oct 19
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I loved the Soviet Union at that time, it was like going back 20 years in time
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Hammer and Pickle
9:59 Fri Oct 19
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Poland was relatively advanced in those days - it even had something that might be described as a music scene and industry.
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Far Cough
10:02 Fri Oct 19
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Yeah I did visit Gdynia about the same time, it was a bit bleak there but I accept it was a port city, so to be expected
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Hammer and Pickle
10:04 Fri Oct 19
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The whole Gdansk, Gdynia, Sopot area rocks these days. Cracking night out.
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joe royal
11:04 Fri Oct 19
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Sopot is twinned with Southend on sea .
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normannomates
2:44 Sat Oct 20
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not many Brits stick this out...not so much because of the soldiering..but the general spartan life.
its pretty fuckin grim for a westerner.
good standard..purely on the intensity.and being thrown into the deep end from the start..with the language pressure added..not for mugs..thats for sure.
solid..dependable Soldiers
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Westham67
3:41 Sat Oct 20
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My mate joined in 1990 . He was the Corparal in Bear Grylis escape to the legion
He's still involved in it but it's been cloak and dagger stuff for about 15 years . I was chatting him on Facebook last week after he contacted me ,difficult to get hold of him because he's changed his name 3 times that I know of.
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gank
3:45 Sat Oct 20
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It's not a fucking fitness test, it's a hideaway for Sex offenders and ex-squaddies who can't integrate into society.
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