Thread: Joke I had to share

I hope I am posting this in the correct place. I was sent this joke this morning and am still laughing. Thought it may brighten up your day as well!

AMENDMENT TO UK FORCES (AFGHANISTAN) UNIT SPECIFIC SOP’s:
ACTIONS ON: IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE (IED)

1. Household Cavalry
Regard IED with haughty disdain and rustle Daily Telegraph angrily. Maintain that presence of IED in Knightsbridge is “absolutely preposterous�. Return to regimental main effort of defending Central London from the Roundheads.

2. Cavalry
Declare IED as best thing since tinned champagne; hold impromptu Pimms party to celebrate. Declare subsequent IED detonation as even more “Wizard prang�, extend Pimms party and incorporate mandatory drinking of champagne from remains of IED as regimental custom for next 300 years.

3. Footguards
Reduce words-of-command and halting in quick time to a minimum. Deploy No.1 fatigue party in close-order to polish IED to acceptable standard, followed by No.2 fatigue party to paint IED blue-red-blue and swab immediate area. IED detonated by massed bands. Deploy 2x Battalions worth of fatigue parties to swab resulting mess.

4. Armoured Infantry
Fail to see IED. Crush IED. On realising error, detract attention by initiating faked contact against nearest dwelling using all available weapon systems. Hide remains of IED in side bin.

5. Light-role Infantry
Find IED. Fail to find a solution to IED due to environmental differences to Salisbury Plain. Attempt cordon operation and set new record for miles of mine tape used. Withdraw to nearest FOB under cover of mine tape.

6. Parachute Regt
Decide IED is a “hat�. Deploy most junior paratrooper to “crack the hat’s skull�. Call junior paratrooper a “hat� when he gets blown up by IED. Remind all others that they are “hats� because they weren’t there.

7. Royal Marines
Declare that IED is “hoofing�. Get junior men naked with IED as an initiation. Turn IED into an improvised free weight for bench pressing. Indent for extra, extra supplementary rations from “the galley�. Hoofing.

8. SAS
Deploy bearded men 200km behind IED using HALO/Landrover insertion. Tab into area of IED and capture alive. Smuggle IED out in burka and extract to UK. Write a book per team member, all with hugely differing accounts of OP.

9. SBS
Get into black rubber suits. Steal IED as above. Construct black rubber suit for IED. Move to a special swimming pool and do bad, bad things with black rubber coated IED. Turn on wave machine and let things get properly nasty. Be very grateful for UKSF non-disclosure policy.

10. SRR
Dig hole in ground to hide in. Proceed to watch IED for ten days to make association to Bravos. Divert entire Bde assets onto tasking. Manage to maintain dignity when informed three weeks later that it’s a small rock and not an IED.

11. Royal Artillery
Level entire 10 square-kilometre area around IED. IED still functional. Repeatedly remind everyone that artillery neutralizes, it doesn’t destroy. Create promotional DVD of IED neutralization with images of Apache and accompanying Tina Turner soundtrack.

12. Medical Corps
Send out a fit hottie to chat up IED. Fit hottie lightly dabs a damp cloth over IED to keep it cool and offers reassuring words. Ends up sleeping with IED before announcing undying love of IED and marrying it. IED later detonates when it catches her in bed with an Irish Guards private.

13. Chaplain Corps
Approach the IED preaching about The Lord, oblivious to having entered a come-on. Rounds from nearby insurgents pass over and around the padre without harming him. IED attempts to detonate and fails as some mysterious force prevents it from engaging. IED is later found giving sermons to scared soldiers new into theatre.

14. REME
Stand around looking at IED whilst stroking their chins and drinking a brew. Attempt to recover IED with Foden winch. IED will not move. Junior Craftsman is sent in to assist with “Tools Fine Adjustment�. IED breaks and parts are mounted on LAD bar as trophy.

15. Royal Engineers
Destroy IED using charge with 10x more explosive content of IED. Build a Sqn bar in crater. Use second massive charge to blow second crater in which to build another Sqn bar/gym complex with BBQ’s every night for rest of tour. IED appears on next Sqn t-shirt.

16. Royal Signals
IED self-destructs to avoid Bowmanisation.

17. Royal Military Police
Issue IED with penalty fine of £1000 for loitering and not having FFD/Tourniquet/Morphine. IED detonates in anger and annoyance at the monkeys wasting its time. Surviving RMP’s issue IED with penalty fine for littering.

18. Army Air Corps
Identify IED as ideal opportunity to prove AAC has an offensive role and is not just a taxi service. Launch TOW missile at IED. Missile fails due to armaments contract being given to cheapest bidder. Accept that was the AAC’s ONLY missile and disband.

19. Intelligence Corps
Deny existence of IED to reporting unit, as they are not sufficiently cleared. Issue BG’s with a list of int-based questions to ask IED. Study Q&A analysis and find two main results:
a. Suggest IED may detonate having studied trend analysis of previous IED’s
b. Claim it’s part of a come-on involving 400 Taliban insurgents, as that’s what the guy who cleans the toilets told them.

20. RLC
Get pictures taken whilst posing next to IED with another unit's GPMG/GMG/WMIK. Check IED for NSN to see if it can be put back on the shelf or backloaded to the UK. IED detonates due to someone making a video call on their mobile phone.

21. ANA
Turn up 5 days after IED reported. Cordon area, remove IED. Corrupt elements of ANA then move IED five hundred yards further along road and bury. Inform ISAF HQ area is now clear.

22. Afghan Civilian
Dig up IED and take to nearest ISAF post, and attempts to sell IED. Upon refusal, attempts to sell IED to Taliban. Taliban take IED and bury it at target location. Civilian digs up IED and takes to nearest ISAF post, and attempts to sell IED…….and so on.

Go on then CC, whats the punch line?

Originally Posted by CavalryCaptain

Thought it may brighten up your day as well!

Thanks. I read that hoping it might brighten my day since my dear old Nan finally succumbed to cancer of the bowel after a spirited fight and passed away at 07.23am today, God rest and keep her.

But it didnt.

You got any more jokes like that?

Originally Posted by trowel

Go on then CC, whats the punch line?

I'm a rabbit, I'm a rabbit.

Hope this helps.

Originally Posted by TheIronDuke

Originally Posted by CavalryCaptain

Thought it may brighten up your day as well!

Thanks. I read that hoping it might brighten my day since my dear old Nan finally succumbed to cancer of the bowel after a spirited fight and passed away at 07.23am today, God rest and keep her.

But it didnt.

You got any more jokes like that?

Well Im sure the old slag had a good innings. Are you sure it wasn't ovarian cancer because her knickers were proably up and down like a bride's nightdress ans Im sure she was a Jade Goody plus twenty years. Blessed relief for the old bitch really.

Originally Posted by CavalryCaptain

I hope I am posting this in the correct place. I was sent this joke this morning and am still laughing. Thought it may brighten up your day as well!

Perhaps you could repost it in the jokes section ?

Originally Posted by CavalryCaptain

I hope I am posting this in the correct place. I was sent this joke this morning and am still laughing. Thought it may brighten up your day as well!

Don't miss to burst your bubble Rupert, but it's been done before

Originally Posted by BarkingSpider

Originally Posted by CavalryCaptain

I hope I am posting this in the correct place. I was sent this joke this morning and am still laughing. Thought it may brighten up your day as well!

Perhaps you could repost it in the jokes section ?

Ah, had a look but could not find. Thanks for this.

Originally Posted by CavalryCaptain

Originally Posted by BarkingSpider

Originally Posted by CavalryCaptain

I hope I am posting this in the correct place. I was sent this joke this morning and am still laughing. Thought it may brighten up your day as well!

Perhaps you could repost it in the jokes section ?

Ah, had a look but could not find. Thanks for this.

You're welcome.
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JOKE WALT!

You didn't get sen it, this joke is on Arrsepedia, I read it about a week ago.

http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/IED_SOPs

Couldn't be arsed reading the long joke,the comments by other Arssers were good tho'.

Originally Posted by 81cufc

JOKE WALT!

You didn't get sen it, this joke is on Arrsepedia, I read it about a week ago.

http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/IED_SOPs

It was attached to an email on Wednesday from Ex-Mil Recruiting and attributed to Gerry S-C. Hmmm, perhaps a fellow ARRSE.

The one on the link goes further (The Danish etc) and is slightly superior. Thanks for the link.

Originally Posted by CavalryCaptain

Originally Posted by 81cufc

JOKE WALT!

You didn't get sen it, this joke is on Arrsepedia, I read it about a week ago.

http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/IED_SOPs

It was attached to an email on Wednesday from Ex-Mil Recruiting and attributed to Gerry S-C. Hmmm, perhaps a fellow ARRSE.

The one on the link goes further (The Danish etc) and is slightly superior. Thanks for the link.

no dramas, was just being a baligerant Cnut for the sake of it ;)