ARmy Rumour SErvice

**velcrostripes** · 01-05-2012, 08:01

Originally Posted by Forastero

His pooches?!

Sent from my iPhone using ARRSE

He WAS from Scotland ......

**wet_blobby** · 01-05-2012, 08:05

Originally Posted by filthyphil

Murphy don't surf.

He not partial to strip searches in puddles either.

**BONNACON** · 01-05-2012, 08:06

Originally Posted by Biscuits_Brown

I spake th' lingo, so I do leek.

Y'doan wanna ask nae cun' wat doesn't spake rite. Ye'll jus' luk leek a gulpin so ye will.

Youre getting a grant for that arn't you.

**oldbaldy** · 01-05-2012, 08:19

Originally Posted by AlienFTM

And there is a new NI book due out imminently. Cannot remember whether it's one of Kenny's or not, but I have already blagged the Arrse review copy when it's printed cos it was me who found it on my Amazon "you might also want to buy" list.

Sir, They're Taking The Children Inside or similar.

Oh and since everyone else is explaining why they are anachronistically unable to talk about the 80s, I was there in the 70s with a very early model but brand new never-been-issued light-wood, triangular-profile stock SLR that had the rest of the troop salivating. And DMS and puttees obviously.

Author is Ken Wharton. This is for 73/74, his previous book was 1972 The Deadliest Year.

**BONNACON** · 01-05-2012, 08:34

Working in ROP and NI as a civvie in the mid 80's was an eye opener. Only once had animosity directed at me and that was a bunch of pissed up prods in Portadown. Working in Newery I would go out for a beer with one set of lads one day and another the next. It was as though everyone was trying to show how normal and nice they were. Neither lot slagged off the others either, most were good friends at work but could not be seen socialising with each other. In the south a lot were apologetic about the north and frankly most had never been up there and viceaversa. Hardly ever saw the Army and never witnessed anything kicking off. Because of my job (and because nobody else in the company I worked for wanted to go) I got to know the country well. It still amazes me how small the areas where troubes were/are and how few people live in NI.
I'm not trying to paint a rosy picture My own family on both sides were affected. It's just film/documentry makers forget life goes on. Shit happens but so do normal everyday stuff

**eodmatt** · 01-05-2012, 09:34

Originally Posted by BV_Technician

I wouldn't call throwing your email address into Google and clicking the very first link as research, but I'm not a writer. Also evident by my not dropping phrases like "The Hegelian philosophical principle that out of a thesis and its opposed antithesis comes the hardy alloy of a synthesis has a seductive power" casually into conversation.

You just did.