Would you fight for your country?

Well...

  • I'm British, yes.

    Votes: 38 32.2%

  • I'm British, no.

    Votes: 59 50.0%

  • I'm from somewhere else, yes.

    Votes: 10 8.5%

  • I'm from somewhere else, no.

    Votes: 11 9.3%
  • Total voters
    118
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Kurt said:
To be honest this is why we have infantry soldiers.... mainly made up of lads who left school at 16 with no qualifications who have a choice between flipping burgers for a career or the army. .. doesn't take brains to pull a trigger
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Noblest profession of all.
"It was the infantry I wanted to see, though, for (and I’m a horse-soldier as says it) I know what matters. When the guns haven’t come up, and you cavalry’s checked by close country or tutti-putti*, and you’re waiting in the hot, dusky hush for the faint rumble of impi or harka** over the skyline and know they’re twenty to your one, well, that’s when you realize that it all hangs on that double line of yokels and town scruff with their fifty rounds a man and an Enfield bayonet. Kitchener himself may have placed ’em just so, with D’Israeli’s sanction, The Times blessing, and the Queen waving ’em good-bye — but now it’s their grip on the stock and their eye at the backsight, and if they break, you’re done."
 
dandydan said:
Noblest profession of all.
"It was the infantry I wanted to see, though, for (and I’m a horse-soldier as says it) I know what matters. When the guns haven’t come up, and you cavalry’s checked by close country or tutti-putti*, and you’re waiting in the hot, dusky hush for the faint rumble of impi or harka** over the skyline and know they’re twenty to your one, well, that’s when you realize that it all hangs on that double line of yokels and town scruff with their fifty rounds a man and an Enfield bayonet. Kitchener himself may have placed ’em just so, with D’Israeli’s sanction, The Times blessing, and the Queen waving ’em good-bye — but now it’s their grip on the stock and their eye at the backsight, and if they break, you’re done."
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Meh.... get yourself a couple of A levels instead. Who wants to be cannon fodder
 
dandydan said:
Noblest profession of all.
"It was the infantry I wanted to see, though, for (and I’m a horse-soldier as says it) I know what matters. When the guns haven’t come up, and you cavalry’s checked by close country or tutti-putti*, and you’re waiting in the hot, dusky hush for the faint rumble of impi or harka** over the skyline and know they’re twenty to your one, well, that’s when you realize that it all hangs on that double line of yokels and town scruff with their fifty rounds a man and an Enfield bayonet. Kitchener himself may have placed ’em just so, with D’Israeli’s sanction, The Times blessing, and the Queen waving ’em good-bye — but now it’s their grip on the stock and their eye at the backsight, and if they break, you’re done."
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Lol.

You're getting the nineteenth and twenty first centuries mixed up mate x
 

-wizard- said:
All you people saying no should count yourselves lucky that you get to live in this free democracy that your grandparents fought to keep.

Idiots
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They fought to give me a choice. My choice is not to fight for this country as is my right.
 
I did my National Service when I was a younger man, but thankfully I didn't see any frontline action.

However, I think this country, for all its faults, is worth fighting for. My middle son is gay, so I am thankful that Britain is a tolerant and liberal country that allows people of my son's sexual orientation to get married and have the same rights as a heterosexual person. I once met a gay guy from Sudan who was in Britain as a refugee due to the fact that homosexuality is punishable by the death penalty in Sudan. I also like the fact that this country enabled my daughter to become a doctor. She was recently involved in some aid work in Haiti, where over a THIRD of females get ZERO education. And we all know the state of female education in places like Afghanistan. Essentially it's non-existent. The idea of a female becoming the leader of Afghanistan is almost unthinkable. It would be like Netanyahu becoming the leader of Hamas. And that is the case for scores of countries across the globe.

I also like the fact that we have an NHS. About ten years ago an American friend of my brother got a leg injury at work. He couldn't afford health insurance so he couldn't get treatment. He got gangrene and died. That wouldn't happen here.
 

-wizard- said:
Mocking homosexuals now.

A new low.
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On GOT, it is always a celebration of such things. "Fancy a bum" is essentially the oldest joke in the book.

I notice you didn't make a comment on Tommye 's because you are a complete coward - and a racist to boot.

Honestly, you are categorically the worst poster on here. Incredibly tedious
 
orly said:
On GOT, it is always a celebration of such things. "Fancy a bum" is essentially the oldest joke in the book.

I notice you didn't make a comment on Tommye 's because you are a complete coward - and a racist to boot.

Honestly, you are categorically the worst poster on here. Incredibly tedious
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Homophobe.
 

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