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Originally Posted by Bingobongo

I'm glad Scotland's finally leading the way in something. Up until now the only thing they were good at was being aggrieved, self pitying victim playing twats with a massive sense of entitlement and delusions of grandeur....and they were still behind the Scousers when it came to all that.

What a shame. You had an opportunity to say something original, witty or worthwhile and you blew.

Originally Posted by Bingobongo

I'm glad Scotland's finally leading the way in something. Up until now the only thing they were good at was being aggrieved, fat, toothless, jobless, thieving, alcoholic, self pitying victim playing twats with a massive sense of entitlement and delusions of grandeur....and they were still behind the Scousers when it came to all that.

There, fixed that for you

Originally Posted by ScouseD

What a shame. You had an opportunity to say something original, witty or worthwhile and you blew.

I know. I could have done all of those things and I wasted the opportunity by pointing out boring old fact instead.

Ah well...

Unfortunately, its all too easy to fool civvies rather than ex-servicemen.

I was at a wedding reception last year which was being held within the grounds of an ancient castle in Sussex. One tall and muscular chap who was there with a fairly decent looking bit of tart was telling everyone around who would listen that he had won a medal with "1st Parachute Battalion" in the Falklands, and he had it with him. Being curious as I am, and I must admit. not at all soldierly looking, I asked to see our hero's medal, to which he produced an outsize bronze medal that he had probably acquired from some tennis club or other. I think it was then that I spoiled his thunder by telling his listening audience that to my limited knowledge, 1 PARA did not serve in the South Atlantic during Op Corporate, and military medals were much smaller and normally had a pretty ribbon attached to them.

He was not best pleased and left before the Reception ended !

No Moral to this, jut the old saying - YOU CAN FOOL SOME OF THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME BUT NOT ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME

And I'm Proud to be Scots

Originally Posted by Markintime

If you have a group of six or more there will always be one who says nothing although they feel that they themselves are participating and will remember what's said. Sometimes better than those who have taken a more active part because the active members tend to remember their own issues and counter arguments to those issues. That is a group dynamic. All he needed to do was sit and listen then he just needs to refer to an incident and people will assume he was there. It is usually a nugget that is a bit hasey. They may have heard someone say "Remember at so-and-so that clumsy cunt Ginger stuck someone and got his bayonet stuck in the cunt's webbing." He waits a while and then just alludes to the it. Someone talks about bayonet drills and he laughs and says "Yeah, unlike Ginger the daft cunt." People laugh because they remember the incident but not necessarily wonder how the person hears about it and if they do he just says something like no, I wasn't there but you cunts were full of it back at the RV, on the boat back/plane back etc. Before you ask if I'm a walt, no but a similar technique is used for establishing rapport in sales.

Tierney fooled some very intelligent and normally fairly cynical people on here, probably by the same technique. Listen out for names then casually drop them into conversation. Listen out for events then mention hearing about it or even say you hadn't heard about that one. No-one knows everything that goes on in a battalion so to appear to do so makes you suspicious so if you say you haven't heard about the odd minor incident that adds to your credibility. These guys don't worm their way in by being in your face they worm their way in by being one of the lads and someone no-one knows too much about but he knows so-and-so so he must be OK. if you're in the group you're accepted and all you have to do is listen, nod and laugh at the right points and you're well away to being one of the lads.

Of course it can happen the other way. I was organising a reunion for a past unit and this bloke contacted me and said he would like to come. He joined the forum and after a while he started entering into discussions and he appeared to know us all although I couldn't remember him (he even posted a picture of himself at that time) and no-one else could remember him either. He came to the reunion and still no-one remembered him then he took out a load of pictures and most of us were on them with him. He was just a very quiet lad who didn't stick in your memory. While there are gaps in all our memories then it's easy for a walt to step into the breach.

I met BogusBob once and he was very much like you describe he was stopping at a friend of mine's house for a couple of days and we went out for a drink together.He didn't really join in too much while we were waffling on about old squaddie days,but he certainly looked the part with his Para jacket on.He had me fooled anyway.

Bob Campbell is also a trustee and runs the head office of a charity called support our soldiers up there in scotland

Originally Posted by sue robinson

Bob Campbell is also a trustee and runs the head office of a charity called support our soldiers up there in scotland

Then he should be forced to resign and a full audit carried as his honesty is compromised.

I have just looked and they have taken his name off their website but he is still a trustee