Discuss ARRSE Foreign Legion in The NAAFI Bar on The Army Rumour Service; This time-zone stuff is doing my head in. Is it Wednesday?
Anyway, tick-VG on progress so far. Could I just ask that the Rum Ration be exchanged for Calvados, Armagnac and/or Cognac for LTCs and ...
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This time-zone stuff is doing my head in. Is it Wednesday?
Anyway, tick-VG on progress so far. Could I just ask that the Rum Ration be exchanged for Calvados, Armagnac and/or Cognac for LTCs and above? Rum makes me fart.
Im still lacking a few bank account details, but thanks to those who responded promptly.
The Regimental Mascot should deffo be a a sloth ... although I really don't care, cos I'm one as well so I could do double duty provided I didn't have to do anything ... apart from look after the finances, of course. I will work very hard on that, in concert with our friend in Nigeria. Can I be a part-time sloth and full-time OC Accounts? Probably achievable, if I'm excused PT and sh1t like that ... But then as an LTC I'm excused anyway.
Oh ... Can I wear all my shooting medals? I know I'll look a bit like Kenny Everett in that US general's outfit, but at least I earned them. All 154 of them.
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You probably should wear half on your chest, other half over your shoulderblades. Otherwise you might fall over forwards.
Originally Posted by blue-sophist 
Nuair a chacann caora, cacann siad uilig
Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to a teen-age boy - P.J. O'Rourke
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul - George Bernard Shaw
- 24-05-2012, 02:10 #173Of course the officers may have a wider spirits list in the mess. Shooting medals are authorized for wear (if necessary they can flow over the left shoulder under the roulette and down the back). Originally Posted by blue-sophist "A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority (who vote) will vote for those candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship." Lord Thomas MacCauley 1857
- 24-05-2012, 02:11 #174The line "great minds etc. etc." comes to mind. Originally Posted by DavidBOC
"A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority (who vote) will vote for those candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship." Lord Thomas MacCauley 1857
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I resemble a homeless serial killer, what role could I perform in this fine regiment?
High on life. And glue.
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jumpinjarhead,......Sir, Originally Posted by responder1
If I may. Submit my application for QM SGT. In the QM's defense....if we go about handing out full rations of rum....what have we left to trade with for really good stuff. Besides....that wasn't really rum......and I'm not sayin who socks and underwear we strained it through.
- 24-05-2012, 03:44 #177Shhhhh....not so loud. Originally Posted by goatrutar
I think you would make a fine medical first responder with your knowledge of scalpels, ligatures, tape and such. How does that suit you old sport?"A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority (who vote) will vote for those candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship." Lord Thomas MacCauley 1857
- 24-05-2012, 03:47 #178By all means if you are up to the task. We will leave the rum ration as it is but please do order an abundance of flags of our likely enemies, quilted poncho liners, Norwegian Army sleep shirts and Fairbairn-Sykes and K-Bar knives for trading with the locals. We can always use sterno strained through a sock for alcohol to trade as well. Originally Posted by Texas_MSG "A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority (who vote) will vote for those candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship." Lord Thomas MacCauley 1857
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Are you sure you are a Marine. Sounding more like a USN Chief Bo'suns Mate. Originally Posted by jumpinjarhead 
Nuair a chacann caora, cacann siad uilig
Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to a teen-age boy - P.J. O'Rourke
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul - George Bernard Shaw
- 24-05-2012, 03:59 #180Having had the benefit of serving on a ship of the line (not sail mind you) for 2 years with the Marine Security Detachment, I learned at the feet of the master--a CWO-4 who was the ship's Bosun and who had in 1972 44 years in the Navy. Originally Posted by DavidBOC Are you sure you are a Marine. Sounding more like a USN Chief Bo'suns Mate.
His piece de resistance was trading the highly prized (only 1 in 4 was brass instead of steel) brass shells from the 6"/47 turret with "Susie Wong" who negotiated the deal from a bobbing sampan in the harbor at Hong Kong. Within a hour of the shells being transferred to a small fleet of other sampans, another fleet of them magically appeared with bamboo scaffolding and seemingly a million chinamen with rollers and hundreds of buckets of (strangely enough with US Navy labels) haze grey paint. The ship was entirely painted within an afternoon."A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority (who vote) will vote for those candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship." Lord Thomas MacCauley 1857
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