Originally Posted by Mr Happy

Originally Posted by Whiskybreath

I can assure you that he was an officer in 21 SAS in the early 70s. If he wasn't, I must have been on a hallucinogenic bender for a couple of years.

Ah haaaa, the plot thicken's, did Sir Ran supply you with these drugs?

......and the news that Michael Barrymore was 21 is a bit of a revelation.

Originally Posted by Mr Happy

Thanks CPunk.

Its worth noting here that CPunk also has issues with Feather Men (see early pages of this thread) but that doesn't mean his has to resort to lies to make his point. A point worth noting XBC.

Mr H
Guardian of truth, halter of fibs, drinker of fine beer

I'll concede the point and check the records later. Not deliberately resorting to lies but this has been discussed elsewhere. As I say, I'll have a quick check and come back to you even if I have to scoff boil in the bag pie (humble)

Would that be a great ration, humble pie in a bag...

Anyway, "lie" was a bit strong of me, so save a piece of pie for me...

1934...

Perhaps this helps..

need to dig it out of a box and re read, was a good book if i remember rightly

Originally Posted by Mr Happy

1934...

Perhaps this helps..

You just invented "digital error correction", well done

Thank you Xerxes Blue Cat for the compliment.

I love the fact that I can say something on here and no one believes it at all - perhaps I should take up being a labour politician!!!

By the way there is no such thing as MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING there is however, MAN MADE GLOBAL POLUTION.

There is ar too much money being made by so-called experts who panic everyone into believing that Global Warming is man made and we should do all we can to stop it. Bit like research of any kind really. If you are a researcher and haven't found what your looking for and people with money think it is important then they will pay lots for you to find it.

The thing is when you do find it you lose your research grant - so you carry on pretending that you cant find what they want you to look for.

In this case, those who have researched the earth and stated that global warming is man made now get lots of money to look into ways of stopping the global warming. also governments can put green takes on all sorts of things in order to say they are doing so to stop global warming, but in fact they are just using peoples fears to raise more taxes.

Global warming has been around for many milenia and will continue to come around every so often in the never ending future. The last global warming occured when the population of the world was a fraction of what it is now and there wasn't even any industry because the industrial revolution hadn't even happened. So what do governments have to say about that - it was alien made global warming then! Certainly man couldn't have made it because he had no means to do so.

Perhaps there has always been an engine that can run on water which after all comes from hydrogen which is quite flamable in the right form. But the oil barons paid to have the idea kept secret - know how about that being brought out from inside the woodwork. After all the planet is mostly covered in water is it not?

as for troops going to Iraq and Afghanistan ill equipped - is this really new news? Of course not it happens every time there is a war to be fought. Northern Ireland equipment improved immensely over the time of the 'troubles' but it took a long time to do so. The Falklands was the same, so it is not a suprise that men in Iraq had to patrol using hire cars, or men die of their wounds because there isn't the right sling to lift them by helicopter for casevac.

So long as there are peace times and bleeding heart anti-war mongers in government then PBI's will constantly be sent off to do the dirty work for over paid, puffed up, incompetents who get voted into power by less than a third of the people allowed ro vote in this country.

On a parting shot - I really haven't got an axe to grind with any serviceman or woman as they have all been there done it and got more than their fare share of bloody t-shirts. So good luck to all who fall into that category on here and be assured of my support always. Erik (not the viking)

As I understand it Fiennes was a member of 21. In fact it was a pre-requisite for joining his Transglobe Expedition that you pass 21 Selection. I thought it was a smart move: getting the Govt to pay for the selection and training of his main support party. And he worked out of DoYs.

Whilst I admire his willpower and obvious physical hardness, he has always struck me as a guy who has WAY too many photos of himself looking whistfully into the distance for his own good in his books. He's obviously a major self-publicist. Partly through ego and partly to fund his expeditions. I'm not sure I'd want to be his tentmate. He gave Dr Mike Stroud a literary tongue lashing for being a whimp. I think he likes to blame everyone but himself when things go wrong. And as for doing Everest at his age and with his health ? Was that brave or foolhardy and waste of money ?

D_B

Originally Posted by dogs_bollox

As I understand it Fiennes was a member of 21. In fact it was a pre-requisite for joining his Transglobe Expedition that you pass 21 Selection. I thought it was a smart move: getting the Govt to pay for the selection and training of his main support party. And he worked out of DoYs.

Whilst I admire his willpower and obvious physical hardness, he has always struck me as a guy who has WAY too many photos of himself looking whistfully into the distance for his own good in his books. He's obviously a major self-publicist. Partly through ego and partly to fund his expeditions. I'm not sure I'd want to be his tentmate. He gave Dr Mike Stroud a literary tongue lashing for being a whimp. I think he likes to blame everyone but himself when things go wrong. And as for doing Everest at his age and with his health ? Was that brave or foolhardy and waste of money ?

In one of the old SF photo books by James Shortt ( a man who should know), in the preface he mentions that there have been and will continue to be many secret groups that come and go for singular purposes or hang around, but that knowing about them is not necessary to those who are not involved in them. That's how it should be.

There was a book (who's title escapes me) about a group of lads who were undercover in NI for YEARS who were all quietly despatched by the IRA. I knew one of the sons who said that he never saw his dad for months at a time and when he did that he had long hair, a long scraggy beard and NEVER talked about where he'd been or what he'd done. I'll try to find the title. Those guys were let down by HMG and were brave as fook. They deserve to be recognised.

D_B

That's James Baron Von CastleShortt to you! Grand Chevalier of the order of Wizards And Lepricorn Trainers

Shortt is comprehensively dismantled in the Legion of Frontiersmen threads. I think you might find it enlightening... ;)

Here's one to start with:
http://www.arrse.co.uk/cpgn2/Forums/...start=180.html

Ran Fiennes is all right really. He's really quite balanced - Huge chip on one shoulder and an ego to match :P

Cheers for the info' Ex-Stab. I had no idea that Shortt had done a David Icke !!!!

Although I still think his note about covert groups that was written in the 70's was spot on.

D_B
How's the paddle training coming on ?