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i noticed this too.JayMax said:
accident? or is the watershed for the f word now 9:30 and not 9pm?
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accident? or is the watershed for the f word now 9:30 and not 9pm?
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Funny enough I remember thinking it was rather 'blue' 
Class none the less
Class none the less
bakes0310 said:
Totally agree (and no I've never served - have you btw?), but these lads have an option to quit after a 24hr cooling period and most choose to stay and see it out after only a week or so in there as they learn basic fundamentals as loyalty and honour (to a certain degree). Could you quit National Service so easily? I'm sure you could be beasted for a longer period and harder in national service than in a tv show you could quit after 24 hours?
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i may be mistaken, but wasn't the only alternative to national service jail?JayMax said:
they could throw you out, but if you quit you were sent to prison??
The training they are doing is a very short version. I mean the survival training they did was one night in the woods and a small map reading exercise while supplied with rations.
I never did para training but i can tell you when i did survival training when i joined my local regiment it lasted 2 weeks. not one evening.
As someone said they have it easy, its just a brief idea of what they would have to do.
I never did para training but i can tell you when i did survival training when i joined my local regiment it lasted 2 weeks. not one evening.
As someone said they have it easy, its just a brief idea of what they would have to do.
Love bad lads army.
Allways missed the last few series as i never bothered with an aerial in my room, so i allways missed it because i couldnt be bothered going downstairs.
Got an aerial now, so im gonna be watching it properly now!
Its great laughing at the idiots that go on it and watching them slowly crack.
Allways missed the last few series as i never bothered with an aerial in my room, so i allways missed it because i couldnt be bothered going downstairs.
Got an aerial now, so im gonna be watching it properly now!
Its great laughing at the idiots that go on it and watching them slowly crack.
thought i'd lost this thread!
15th august episode
I loved last nights episode! It was a shame to see the fat guy go, he was a laugh, but i loved the end where they got kidnapped and put up in interigation!
If im honest, i would have been scared,but also known that they wouldnt have hurt me since it wasnt real :S?
15th august episode
I loved last nights episode! It was a shame to see the fat guy go, he was a laugh, but i loved the end where they got kidnapped and put up in interigation!
If im honest, i would have been scared,but also known that they wouldnt have hurt me since it wasnt real :S?
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The strange thing that i saw was that the bloke that won the interrogation shouldnt have. When captured you are to give NAME, RANK and SERIAL NUMBER... Nothing else... ESPECIALLY INCORRECT INFO! Lies are harder to remember than the truth so under stress even more so. He should not have divulged ANY info but the N, R SN. And the lad that stuck to it didnt win... How odd.
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I had an absolutely brilliant conversation with my Dad on monday night. I was discussing Bad Lads Army and he has never seen it. I told him what it was about and some of the things that happen and he said "What a load of *******".
He started his National Service in 1957 and he said that nothing like what I described ever happened. I asked him what happened if his bed space wasn't kept tidy and he said he was told to tidy it and never were they ordered to turn their beds over etc. One day he was told off for a dirty hangar behind his locker and he knew it wasn't there before the inspection so he asked for a Court Martial and scared them off. The only time anybody did anything nasty to him was when he was a naughty boy and ended up in the brig for a week. During that period three higher ranks kept throwing his belongings into the snow to show who's boss etc.
When he was shipped out to Germany (for forging Doctors notes) he was treated like a star because he could play a guitar and formed a band called The Planets that gigged all over Germany. Even then he never saw National Service lads treated badly.
HOWEVER, he did say that before he went in he'd heard the same horror stories and expected such treatment but it never came.
He started his National Service in 1957 and he said that nothing like what I described ever happened. I asked him what happened if his bed space wasn't kept tidy and he said he was told to tidy it and never were they ordered to turn their beds over etc. One day he was told off for a dirty hangar behind his locker and he knew it wasn't there before the inspection so he asked for a Court Martial and scared them off. The only time anybody did anything nasty to him was when he was a naughty boy and ended up in the brig for a week. During that period three higher ranks kept throwing his belongings into the snow to show who's boss etc.
When he was shipped out to Germany (for forging Doctors notes) he was treated like a star because he could play a guitar and formed a band called The Planets that gigged all over Germany. Even then he never saw National Service lads treated badly.
HOWEVER, he did say that before he went in he'd heard the same horror stories and expected such treatment but it never came.
So what you're saying is although National Service is alwasy paraded as the hardest of the hard, a place where you are taught discipline and respect, wasn't actually... like that? There's a surprise.
I'm 22, not old by far, but what really gets on my nerves are those who parrot on about getting the government to reintroduce national service in order to make crime and disrespect disappear. Let's be realistic, that would not be achieved. We would have the same number of gorillas we have on our streets now, but they would be called squaddies, and they would be as much a pain in the back teeth as they are now.
National Service might indeed help, I'd like to see it work, really I would, but using it as an end-all remedy? I don't think so.
I'm 22, not old by far, but what really gets on my nerves are those who parrot on about getting the government to reintroduce national service in order to make crime and disrespect disappear. Let's be realistic, that would not be achieved. We would have the same number of gorillas we have on our streets now, but they would be called squaddies, and they would be as much a pain in the back teeth as they are now.
National Service might indeed help, I'd like to see it work, really I would, but using it as an end-all remedy? I don't think so.
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no, he means his fathers experience of it wasn't like that.El Gringo said:
for example, i know more than a few people that have spent time in jail for one reason or another.
some said it was awful and unbearable, others said it was a walk in the park.
which do you believe?
answer=both of them.