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Reply | Isla confirmed
at 23:35 2 Aug 2014
El Virgel near London Bridge - think its Chilean .... Been there few times and liked it |
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Reply | Marine A
at 13:30 8 Dec 2013
As I previously stated its easy to make these judgements in the cold clinical environment of a court room. We will have to agree to disagree - I just find the rush by certain people - yourself included - to condemn the man undignified and distasteful particularly when most of those people have no experience of the kind of pressures these men and women operate under but are happy to accept the freedoms they safeguard without question. |
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Reply | Marine A
at 22:15 7 Dec 2013
Let's have it right - he wasnt a prisoner he was an enemy combatant still on the battlefield, and he wasn't shot coldly he was shot in the aftermath of a heated battle during a tour of duty that cost 7 of sgt Blackmans comrades their lives. You can 'merely suggest' all you like but you made a generalisation about people that defend this country's interests year in year out 24 hours a day. Shame on you. |
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Reply | Marine A
at 21:48 7 Dec 2013
What qualifies you to know the motivation for people joining the armed forces and to refer to them as psychopaths? Shame on you, What has the reason for being in Afghanistan got to do with any of this? From memory we went in because bin laden and his terrorist associates were planning mass murder in well established training camps - plans that resulted in the death of thousands of innocent people at 911 and subsequently here in 2005. The 'victim' as you call him was an enmy combatant who would have killed those Royal Marines without a Second thought if the roles had been reversed. |
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Reply | Marine A
at 21:39 7 Dec 2013
As I said earlier it is easy in hindsight - be it on your sofa or in the cold clinical environment of a court room. The country's most senior military judge is basically a barrister who joined the navy to practice law there, dealing with military discipline matters - he has also ruled previously on such weighty matters as the rugby bloodgate nonsense forbthe RFU - not someone I imagine has seen much in the way of frontline action. I haven't previously mentioned 'liberal do-gooders' they're your words .... |
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Reply | Marine A
at 12:37 7 Dec 2013
Great thanks for the invite - are there also pixies and elves and people bursting into song on their way to the bakers? |
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Reply | Marine A
at 12:04 7 Dec 2013
I refer you to my earlier comment - can I come and live in your ideal world? They are out there fighting against terrorists that don't acknowledge the existence of the Geneva convention let alone follow its rules, he watched his comrades butchered by these animals who then hung their body parts in trees as a warning. It is very easy to judge from the comfort of your living room with the benefit of hindsight, but you live in a democracy where you can make those judgements and publish them on forums like this because of people like Sgt Blackman RM. Not sure why your job title is relevant to this discussion but well done for working with kids - you are not unique in saying if you messed up at work you'd have to face the consequences that is the same for all of us. However if you work in a war zone where people are trying to kill you day in day out and in some cases succeeding your perspective and decision making responses are a bit different than deciding whether to have a rich tea or digestive with your mug of tea at morning break. |
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Reply | Marine A
at 11:22 7 Dec 2013
Can I come and live in your ideal world mate? What utter nonsense, the man was out there to fight terrorism and sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. ... 42 commando lost 7 men during that tour. Sgt Blackman has been hung out to dry. |
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Reply | On the back of the KL thread - Bali?
at 07:50 8 Sep 2012
Try and get to ubud, it is very cultural, there is a monkey forest there and it is a lovely place. If you don't mind travelling for an hour get a boat to Nusa lembongan, a small island off Bali the snorkelling and diving there are the best I have ever seen, we stayed there overnight and it cost next to nothing and was well worth missing out on our hotel for a night. Kuta is just costa del sol for the Aussies, so probably not worth it tbh, oh and haggle your arse off when buying anything! |
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Reply | Joey-Boy
at 21:39 29 Aug 2012
He could have sat at rangers on big dough for three years, fair play to him for not doing that, think the rush to condem him his a bit over the top tbh. He's got his issues but he's exactly the type of player we are missing at the moment and he played a big part in keeping us up. Hope it works out for him.
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Reply | Women's beach volleyball
at 11:15 1 Aug 2012
I was fortunate enough to be there .... Fantastic and the volleyball wasn't bad either. |
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Reply | Non QPR - Ian Tomlinson
at 23:15 19 Jul 2012
Agree or not, there were only 12 people able to make a decision having heard all available evidence and they found him not guilty. That is the system we have and whilst it is not perfect it is the same for everyone and is a damn sight fairer than any other country in the world. I agree it seems a strange decision but no one here as heard all the facts like the jury did. |
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Reply | Newcastle to Paris
at 06:52 17 Jun 2012
Allow me to be the first to say well done, spectacular effort. Really really well done. |
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Reply | Best moment of the season.
at 21:01 15 May 2012
Easy for me - my son and daughter being mascots for the home game v Man City, followed by Mackies goal v Liverpool..... Memories I will take to the grave. |
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Reply | seems typical
at 17:05 15 May 2012
Tbh they are more involved and engaged with the fans than they have been for a long long time, the ticket prices couldn't really be sorted until we knew what league we would be in and the POTY would have been a nightmare if things hadn't gone our way, think the club got this one about right. All positive here. |
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Reply | Is Barton trying to end his career?!
at 00:02 14 May 2012
What by criticising a pundit? Hardly career threatening . . . He admits he fcked up, draw a line under it, we have stayed up that's what we should be talking about. |
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Reply | Barton passion
at 23:59 13 May 2012
I agree it wasn't pretty and didn't look great and he will know he was out of order BUT he has been very very good lately we wouldn't even have had the chance to stay up but for some of his performances at home. Tevez did a job on him and Aguero was straight in his face, he made a mistake in the heat of the game. He is a QPR player - get behind him. |
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Reply | Swap match tick for train tick on Sunday
at 22:59 8 May 2012
Can't help with train ticket but will happily take the match ticket off your hands? I am STH but was in hospital when tickets were released and missed out. Pm me if interested in selling mate.
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