James Corden. How the hell anybody has managed to take the title of 'Britain's most annoying and unfunny man' away from Paddy Mcguiness is anybody's guess, but that fat pr1ck seems to have done it. When people like him become popular it makes me want to give up on this country and emigrate. He is a tool of the highest order.

Quote: Wilderspool memories "A young 18 year old private sent out there would be on a starting salary of around £12,000 per year. Would you want to risk getting your arms and legs blown off and spending the rest of your life in a wheelchair for those wages?'" New recruits start on 13,377, while the salary will increase annually as their career continues, regardless of promotion and extra responsibilities. Within five years you can reach the rank of Sergeant and earn up to £32,756. www.hmforces.co.uk/content/army_pay_rates_2009 £16,000 p/a and the chance to develop skills, discipline and make friends for live. Alternatively they could come out of education, get a minimum wage job in a fast food restaurant and pee it all up against the wall every saturday night getting drunk and in fights. I wish we could go back to the days where joining the army was a chance to "see the world", those that join nowadays do so full aware of what they may have to do.

Quote: Wilderspool memories "A young 18 year old private sent out there would be on a starting salary of around £12,000 per year. Would you want to risk getting your arms and legs blown off and spending the rest of your life in a wheelchair for those wages?'" New recruits start on 13,377, while the salary will increase annually as their career continues, regardless of promotion and extra responsibilities. Within five years you can reach the rank of Sergeant and earn up to £32,756. www.hmforces.co.uk/content/army_pay_rates_2009 £16,000 p/a and the chance to develop skills, discipline and make friends for live. Alternatively they could come out of education, get a minimum wage job in a fast food restaurant and pee it all up against the wall every saturday night getting drunk and in fights. I wish we could go back to the days where joining the army was a chance to "see the world", those that join nowadays do so full aware of what they may have to do.

That Sally, is your best post to date

People that don't indicate at Roundabouts

People that don't change the loo roll once the previous one has run out.

People that just talk a load of cow manure

Anyone ringing up at home trying to sell me summat.

Aussie Cricketer Steve Smith - trying to con the umpire this morning that he caught KP when he knew he'd dropped it - cheating beggar.

Diving footballers

Wasps

and Ryan Bailey

fantastic post

you my friend want to do a bit of research of what these guys do and the stories of helping each other in combat situations, you really think these lads enjoy being shot at and tiptoeing every step of their patrols wondering if the next step could cost them their limbs or lives You really think they want to be there leaving their families especially children behind crying not knowing whether they will return in one piece if at tall, go and pay a visit to quenn elizabeth hospital in birmingham and see and speak to the lads and girls in there whom are mostly in their late teens tell them "they knew what they were signing up for" your post has to be the most disrectful one i have ever had the displeasure to read on this forum

Luton Town fc
Simple Minds
Celery

nowt wrong with simple minds..
another hate of mine and i would string them up by there what nots is the P.C brigade..and the health and safety brigade totally ruined this once great country of ours..and finally andy murray scotch git made my day when i heard he got thrashed in todays final..ha ha ha ha ha

Community support officers
Sam Tomkins
People who don't indicate
People who only support a team when they're winning
Footballers who dive
Facebook morons that post status' on what they're doing every second of the day
Adverts on Spotify.

the rugby player Sam Tomkins- defo<-- that grinds my gears

the guy who gives money and time in the Wigan hospital baby unit- not so much

and that is the really annoying thing. Annoyingly good player, who is a cheat, but yet a great bloke.

these


and the [isilly people[/i that wear them.

prices ending in .99, it doesn't psychologically make me think it's cheaper and i pay by card so i don't need you to open the till for my penny.

metrosexuals

iPhones and people who queue over night to buy the latest gadget

people who don't thank me when i either let them out of the street or open a door for them

soya milk

children in restaurants (except fast food ones)

ambulance chasers

The thing is the skills and making friends for life only really applies to those who stay in a lifelong career in the forces. For those who spend time in the forces and then come out then really you get two categories:

1. Ex officers, who are usually middle class, often university educated, and find that they are well placed to get a good business career because employers are impressed by their military background, discipline, leadership etc

2. Ex squaddies, who are usually working class, joined up like you said to avoid having a minimum wage job or being on the dole, were told that they would learn skills and get qualifications etc, but find that they don't transfer over to civvie street (if you've been a communications engineer on 1950s style equipment that the army uses, you're 6 decades behind the civvie private sector). What often happens here is, they get back, find their missus has been cheating on them and left them, often taken the kid, their old mates have moved on because how do you have stuff in common with last who have been spending the last six years getting bladdered down Wetherspoons while you have been doing patrols in Helmand. Plus there is the psychological readjustment of having been in heightened states of adrenaline all the time and now having nothing to do. The type of jobs they tend to get are security guard jobs in a supermarket, standing round watching no scallies pilfer the penny chews. The ex officers who now find that they are in good fast paced jobs, can replace the adrenaline rush that they are used to, and they also enjoy the fact they are treated with a level of respect by their peers because they were ex forces. But the problem for a lot of ex squaddies who come back is they genuinely have no mates here any more. A job I had about 10 years ago had a security guard there who had been in the Falklands and I remember him saying he hadn't had a friend to his name since 1982. Nobody knows who they are. The only way they get mates is being back in action which is why some go to work for private security ventures where they are paid huge money for the risk factor of being targets for insurgents guarding places in Iraq and Afghanistan. But they don't really care about the risk of being killed they just feel that they don't have life on the outside any more.

Really if there's one place for government spending programme to provide jobs its for ex squaddies, they are all disciplined and know how to turn up on time, do the job whatever the circumstances and man up. I would put them on some training programme as teaching assistants or something, or youth workers with kids who don't know how to behave. It's like Shane Webcke said when he retired from RL and then suffered depression for a year, when you retire you can't just have something to retire from, you need something to retire to...
Also some respect for issues like Gulf War syndrome needs addressing, if the MOD uses them as human guinea pigs forcing substances down them in combat, it can't duck out of the responsibility when they end up disabled for life...

This topic wasn't really meant to ignite a massively political fire, but even so that's a damn fine post again SC.

Now lets just cover off religion and were done...

god to me is existence of which i am one tiny tiny aspect. to find god you have to look into yourself.

the world is created in some form, i don't think there can be any doubt about that. the act of creation, however, is inconceivable. we are definitely, to my mind, experiencing an act of creation though. it may well be us who have created it.