i see young Hewitt may not be going to Iraq after all because of an "increase in violence".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6594223.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6594223.stm)
i'd say he'd be top of a hit/kidknap list over there alright.
Quoteyoung Hewitt
:D :D
Isn't it amazing how no one ever dares suggest this in the UK in mainstream media etc
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QuoteIsn't it amazing how no one ever dares suggest this in the UK in mainstream media etc
and we all accept it as fact. Its so bloody obvious.
I don't see the likeness other than the ginger hair! You could alternatively use a picture of Harry and Bernard McHugh (he of Killybegs/Blind Date/Delilah fame) and say they were father and son!
Quote from: Tony Baloney on April 26, 2007, 02:01:52 PM
I don't see the likeness other than the ginger hair! You could alternatively use a picture of Harry and Bernard McHugh (he of Killybegs/Blind Date/Delilah fame) and say they were father and son!
Is thon eejit McHugh still about?
He made a clean fortune out of doing f**k all. He was making £200 for 10 minutes work.
Quote from: Great Leap Forward on April 26, 2007, 02:20:50 PM
He made a clean fortune out of doing f**k all. He was making £200 for 10 minutes work.
Was he at Diana as well?
remember reading somewhere in the media discussing the possibility, but concluding diana didnt actually meet hewitt until after Harry was born.
Quote from: Donagh on April 26, 2007, 02:22:30 PM
Quote from: Great Leap Forward on April 26, 2007, 02:20:50 PM
He made a clean fortune out of doing f**k all. He was making £200 for 10 minutes work.
Was he at Diana as well?
Would explain the ginger hair.
Could all the feckin Royals (no, not Meath folk) be sent out there.
Quote from: Shamrock Shore on April 26, 2007, 03:31:46 PM
Could all the feckin Royals (no, not Meath folk) be sent out there.
Not all of them.
Is it Edward that is a good laugh & we would stick one into Zara 8)
I thought Bernard McHugh would have been a TD or mayor of Killybegs by now! Does anyone know where he is?
QuoteCould all the feckin Royals (no, not Meath folk) be sent out there.
I now can't get an image of Harnan and Foley double teaming some poor Al Quaeda fcuker. ::)
Lyons you are an animal
Quote from: Shamrock Shore on April 26, 2007, 03:31:46 PM
Could all the feckin Royals (no, not Meath folk) be sent out there.
No send the Meath folk too!
Saw this story and had some laugh at it. I mean in fairness, what's the point of a soldier who can in no circumstances can be put in harms way? Is that not the point of the job on some level? This would have to engender animosity in his fellow troops, they can be sent to Iraq to face possible death or maiming, but a guy getting paid to do the same job can't be? And if Iraq was completely pacified could he be sent? Unlikely, as he is still a kidnap target. In fact he isn't safe in any theatre of war, his regiment are in fact his bodyguards. He really has no place serving as a soldier in that case. But I guess we always knew it was really a sham anyway. Now doubt he'll be made an honoury general and commander of a regiment instead, promote him out of harms way. What a life.
If he went he would be protected round the clock and kept from harms way.
Then come back with tales and reports of heroism, then the British would have renewed pride in the Royal family.
Would be a masterstroke if they could pull it off.
Quote from: his holiness nb on April 26, 2007, 05:13:22 PM
If he went he would be protected round the clock and kept from harms way.
Then come back with tales and reports of heroism, then the British would have renewed pride in the Royal family.
Would be a masterstroke if they could pull it off.
I said "stroke" and "pull it off" in the one sentence about the Royal family.
Ironic eh :o
Prinnce Harry of Basra has a ring to it alright..
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Quote from: full back on April 26, 2007, 03:33:56 PM
Quote from: Shamrock Shore on April 26, 2007, 03:31:46 PM
Could all the feckin Royals (no, not Meath folk) be sent out there.
Not all of them.
Is it Edward that is a good laugh & we would stick one into Zara 8)
Reminds me of an episode of Have I Got News For You a few years back during the odd one out round which featured a pic of the Nepalese prince that shot dead the King, Queen and seven others of his relatives before turning the gun on himself - Paul Merton came out with the quip "does Prince Edward have a gun licence?" ;D
Quote from: Mentalman on April 26, 2007, 05:10:41 PM
But I guess we always knew it was really a sham anyway. Now doubt he'll be made an honoury general and commander of a regiment instead, promote him out of harms way. What a life.
I think you misunderstand. The problem is that Harry won't accept a desk job, or a posting to e.g. Cyprus, or even a stint in the safest bunker the army can find in Iraq.
Instead, he has insisted that if he can't go out there and serve like any other Officer in the Regiment, then he will leave the Army entirely.
The problem which the army faces is that whether the insurgents can get to him personally or not, they will at least know where his Regiment is based and throw everything they've got at them.
This is rather different from e.g. Prince Andrew when he served in the Falklands. All the Argentinians knew was that he was one of a number of helicopter pilots based on a number of ships anchored or manoeuvering off shore. Consequently, whilst he was at significant risk whilst actually flying on operations, this was no more than any other pilot i.e. they couldn't specifically target him or his unit. Plus, the Argies didn't deploy suicide bombers :o
Whilst I have little time for many of the leeches who make up the Royal Family, I actually quite admire Harry for this. It's easy for the rest of us to make jokes or idly speculate about such matters, but if it were me, and I had any chance of avoiding being sent to that shithole, you wouldn't see my arse for smoke!
i'm just glad he got a job. wished the rest of them did the same....
The thought alright of Harnan, Foley and Lyons in a front line in Eye-Rack would frecken a horrid lock of Fundementalists.
Shur freckened a horrid lot of Dubs :D
Quote from: Evil Genius on April 26, 2007, 07:42:21 PM
Instead, he has insisted that if he can't go out there and serve like any other Officer in the Regiment, then he will leave the Army entirely.
Balls
From the BBC
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Harry will not quit, say friends
Prince Harry
Prince Harry has long stated his desire to serve as an active officer
Harry training
Friends of Prince Harry have denied reports that he will quit the Army if he is not allowed to serve in Iraq.
But they admitted
he would be "very disappointed" to miss out, the BBC's royal correspondent has been told.
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It seems to be a case of "you can send your sons but I'm not sending mine " for queen and country me ballix . Pull them all out ffs , in the words of Billy Bragg
"You can fight for democracy at home but not in a foreign land "
Pardon my ignorance Donagh but what does the white feather signify?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_feather
QuoteThe single White feather as a symbol of cowardice comes from cockfighting and the belief that a cockerel sporting a white feather in its tail is likely to be a poor fighter. Pure-breed gamecocks don't show white feathers, so its presence indicates that the cockerel is an inferior cross-breed.
The symbol is particularly recognised within the British army and in countries associated with the British Empire since the 18th century.
Looking at the where this phrase came from it's not one I'd use. Ideas of pure breeds etc. coming from so called aristocrats? If they mean inbreeding...
QuoteI think you misunderstand. The problem is that Harry won't accept a desk job, or a posting to e.g. Cyprus, or even a stint in the safest bunker the army can find in Iraq.
No I don't really EG, hence why I said what a life. Even if the guy genuinely wants to he can't go to Iraq, it simply wouldn't be tolerated that he be put in harms way, and in effect he actually would become a danger to his own men. Niether will it be tolerated that he resign his commission, for publicity reasons. So he will be convinvced to limp along for the period of his enlistment, and bow out gracefully I imagine? Later on he'll get the honoury generalship, like his old man and the rest of the clan.
Passedit – that made me spit my coffee all over the screen. And Shamrock – you have a freckeningly accurate grasp of the Shakespearean English we speak by the Boyne.
Anyway, it seems to me the (cheap, English imitation version) Royals would be missing a chance to kill two birds with one suicide bomb here. If the wee fella is really the result of his ould wan's playing away, what better way to avoid the potential embarrassment (though it never bothered them before) of having a bastard on the throne than to make sure he gets in harm's way in Iraq? Hewitt problem solved and a real live (dead) royal hero to boot.