Thread: Nob Brown-mis-spelled dead Soldiers name in letter to family

Originally Posted by ottar

Originally Posted by ash_p

Originally Posted by ottar

Oh, the irony.

You clearly hate the Armed Forces.
Are you wearing a poppy? Have you had one stapled to your forehead to ensure you are never without. You're just showing your contempt if you haven't.

Yeah, clearly. What's your phone number? I'll ring you up and apologise.

Fucking e-police.

So you are saying it's 'bad' when Brown misspells his name, but acceptable when you do? I'm being a pedant, but you and all the hand-wringers aren't?

When I write important letters I make damn sure I get the spelling right. Fair enough I have more time on my hands than Brown, but I don't have flunkies to help me.

Of course he is sorry to have caused offence, especially since it ended up on the front pages of the press but it does not excuse his incompetence in making the mistakes in the first place.

The real problem is that Brown is such a busted flush that whatever he does he is going to be jumped all over.

If he had an ounce of decency he would go. By staying he forfeits the benefit of the doubt.

Originally Posted by petergriffen

Originally Posted by Oil_Slick

Originally Posted by vvaannmmaann

Nor has he got any dress sense or style.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...ing-pants.html

The mong looks like he's about to expire. :D

With the UK's wonderful H&S laws should he even be allowed out running with one eye blind and the other on it's way to joining it?

Nice of him to try and get Phil Mitchell fit again.

Has he written letters to families of all the fallen since he became PM? I can't recall any other family complaining about the style and content of a PM's letter that they had received. She hasn't got her son back yet, I don't think any of the five have been flown home, and said letter gives her something to blame, understandable in those circumstance.

There is a very real danger of the military being tagged as inveterate whingers. Every real and imagined issue now seems to be escalated and magnified out of all reasonable proportion.

If you fight every battle you end up winning none.

Easymoney, her son was killed on the 5th October, so I would imagine the letter is very recent.

For those who are giving him the benefit of the doubt, it was he who brought up the subject of writing letters in a radio interview on Friday while he was electioneering in Glasgow. Writing letters to the families of the fallen is something that was also carried out by his predecessors.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8347799.stm

Originally Posted by pombsen-armchair-warrior

There is a very real danger of the military being tagged as inveterate whingers. Every real and imagined issue now seems to be escalated and magnified out of all reasonable proportion.

If you fight every battle you end up winning none.

My bold. I agree, but in most cases it is not the military who whinge. We have been used as beating stick for the govt since the early days of the Iraq war. It is only going to get worse as we get closer to an election.....

What a load of tosh. The only people who will get irritated about this story are of the sort that routinely use one of the following bone phrases (not exhaustive!) that seem to litter ARRSE's threads these days:

Zanu Labour
Liarbour (and all other conceivable iterations)
Tony Bliar
Neu Arbeit
Simples
'Them'
'I've met good TA and bad TA, and I've met good Regs and bad Regs.'
'Let's start up the outrage bus.'

Fuckin' get a life!

Originally Posted by Sangreal

What a load of tosh. The only people who will get irritated about this story are of the sort that routinely use one of the following bone phrases (not exhaustive!) that seem to litter ARRSE's threads these days:

Zanu Labour
Liarbour (and all other conceivable iterations)
Tony Bliar
Neu Arbeit
Simples
'Them'
'I've met good TA and bad TA, and I've met good Regs and bad Regs.'
'Let's start up the outrage bus.'

Fuckin' get a life!

May I commend this post to the house.

Funny that the Sun points out all these little mistakes in Brown's letter, but on the next page, they call SSgt Olaf Schmid (RIP) "sergeant", didn't even bother to capitalise it.
I've seen the odd "Warrant Officer First/Second Class" in The Sun as well.
Fair enough they give the Army bags of support, but they've taken this way out of proportion, and I think its pretty fckuing cynical of them to exploit Mrs Janes' like this.
Fair dos to Brown for taking the time to write.

Bet Blair doesn't.

Originally Posted by BuggerAll

The real problem is that Brown is such a busted flush that whatever he does he is going to be jumped all over.

Ain't that the truth

Originally Posted by Bazzinho1977

Originally Posted by Sangreal

What a load of tosh. The only people who will get irritated about this story are of the sort that routinely use one of the following bone phrases (not exhaustive!) that seem to litter ARRSE's threads these days:

Zanu Labour
Liarbour (and all other conceivable iterations)
Tony Bliar
Neu Arbeit
Simples
'Them'
'I've met good TA and bad TA, and I've met good Regs and bad Regs.'
'Let's start up the outrage bus.'

Fuckin' get a life!

May I commend this post to the house.

I'll second that.

Originally Posted by FiveAlpha

Originally Posted by Bazzinho1977

Originally Posted by Sangreal

What a load of tosh. The only people who will get irritated about this story are of the sort that routinely use one of the following bone phrases (not exhaustive!) that seem to litter ARRSE's threads these days:

Zanu Labour
Liarbour (and all other conceivable iterations)
Tony Bliar
Neu Arbeit
Simples
'Them'
'I've met good TA and bad TA, and I've met good Regs and bad Regs.'
'Let's start up the outrage bus.'

Fuckin' get a life!

May I commend this post to the house.

I'll second that.

Thirded.

Be interested to hear what peoples opinion of Browns (forgetting) (neglecting) (not bloody bothering) to bow when laying his wreath went down?

Originally Posted by How_Did_I_End_Up_Here?

Be interested to hear what peoples opinion of Browns etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc ad nauseum

No it wouldn't.

Originally Posted by How_Did_I_End_Up_Here?

Be interested to hear what peoples opinion of Browns (forgetting) (neglecting) (not bloody bothering) to bow when laying his wreath went down?

About as interesting as receiving a caustic soda enema. Just like all the other Brown/poppy/Liebour/Bliar/walt/outrage threads.

There has been an exponential increase in the wetness of the average Arrse poster in the last year. It's not a competition to see who is the most offended or who cares the most about people you've never met.

Four pages of 'man makes spelling mistake' FFS.