Terry Taliban

[taB]

A modicum of political stuff follows - delete as appropriate.

Well, it turns out that Harry, no.2 in line for the throne has been in Afghanistan since before Christmas and has just said shit twice on the C4 news and referred to the other side as Terry Taliban.

I'm sure a lot more will come out over this now the apparent media blackout has been lifted.

Personally, as a pro-royal, I think it is good to see someone who will be a prominent figure in Britain's future (whether the monarchy continues to exist or not) maturing in the eyes of the media from a teenage pisshead to someone with leadership qualities. He certainly has impressed me.

Flame away fellow internet users,

Ben.

 

[throdgrain]

I with you mate, no problems here

 

[Furr]

3rd in line to the throne

But anyway, He trained to be a soldier, its what he wanted to do, from the sound of it he was right in the thick of it. Good on him.

 

[Embattle]

If it's what he wants to do then so be it, ok so it might be slightly more risky having him around but it's not like you'll notice much difference.

 

[Damini]

I think fair play to him, he signed up, he wanted to serve with his men and not be a token royal, and he managed to do it in a covert fashion that didn't endanger his colleagues.

I also think that the website that broke the story needs to be broken.

 

[taB]

3rd in line to the throne

Whoops, good call Although I like Charlie and his Duchy Original products, it does depend on how old he is when the mantle is passed as to whether he takes it on.

If it's what he wants to do then so be it, ok so it might be slightly more risky having him around but it's not like you'll notice much difference.

Another officer they spoke to in the camp said that the enemy are trying to kill them as best they can already, not like they can do better now he's there.

I also think that the website that broke the story needs to be broken.

Some bunch of yanks if I followed the story correctly - tosspots, it's not like George W's alky daughters will achieve fuck all. /stirr

 

[Mazling]

Good on him for going! Shame on whatever media though...

 

[Milkshake]

Can't argue with anything here, and I think props to the Army for allowing him to go...I guess they just had to do it a different way than when they tried in Iraq.

Also good to see a royal doing public service in such a dangerous fashion. I'm quite an ardent royalist, and this makes me proud to be British.

 

[Sydrik]

Yep, have to agree. I like a majority of the current british monarchy and for those i dont like zara's tits make up for it. Good on the lad and good on the army. It really does make you proud to be british as in many other countries it wouldnt happen

 

[DaGaffer]

Despite my strong republican tendencies I've got to give him credit for going and credit to the army for sorting it out. Anyone ever read "World War 2.0"? Prince Harry is in the books, as an SAS major...

 

[Scouse]

Just to be the one dissenting voice - he works in a forward air support division. Three's no way in the world he'd have been allowed to go from house to house doing the real dirty work.

Not my words tho - that's the opinion of a mate of mine in the marines who's just come back from active duty out there.

Of course, that's not Harry's fault...

 

[Guest]

fuck him,

 

[Sharma]

I'm quite proud of the fact that he's done this.

I've always pictured the royal family as one of those groups who wouldn't associate with the working class, however Harry (And William also) take remarkably after their mother and seem to shun the whole "class" system and he's proving the royal family doesn't have to be disconnected from the rest of the UK.

Me and 2 of my mates were saying about this last night actually, the media really are a bunch of ***** and i'll quote my mate - 'They'd see their own country burn just to make a quick buck' - which really stands as a truth as far as the sodding media is concerned.

Good on Harry, he's doing well for himself and it is good to see him change from a wreckhead to someone who you'd loyally follow in a battle ground.

 

[Furr]

I also think that the website that broke the story needs to be broken.

More Yank friendly fire

 

[Damini]

Yeah, the british media have actually behaved really responsibly, and they agreed not to broadcast details of Harry's deployment until he was safely back at home. It was an american website called the Drudge Report that broke the agreement, and posted details - and once that cat was out of the bag, several other european news sources followed suit, not wanting to be seen to be lagging behind the big story, and then the mainstream british media didn't really have much choice about publishing.

The guy behind the Drudge Report has just put hundreds of lives at risk, and I think he really needs someone to break his interweb. He's going to be profitting greatly from this story, so I think his website needs some downtime to counterbalance this.

Sadly, as I'm not at all 1337, all I could manage was sending him an email. It was a rude one though.

 

[taB]

Sadly, as I'm not at all 1337, all I could manage was sending him an email. It was a rude one though.

Thoughts of Damini with a Father Ted style "Down with this sort of thing!" banner spring to mind!

 

[Sharma]

Well, which website broke it then?

What's the actual URL?

 

[Frizz]

BBC NEWS | UK | Harry withdrawn from front line

He's being pulled out.

 

[Scouse]

Right move - but I'll only start cheering when they pull the others out too...

 

[throdgrain]

I'm quite proud of the fact that he's done this.

I've always pictured the royal family as one of those groups who wouldn't associate with the working class, however Harry (And William also) take remarkably after their mother and seem to shun the whole "class" system and he's proving the royal family doesn't have to be disconnected from the rest of the UK.

Me and 2 of my mates were saying about this last night actually, the media really are a bunch of ***** and i'll quote my mate - 'They'd see their own country burn just to make a quick buck' - which really stands as a truth as far as the sodding media is concerned.

Good on Harry, he's doing well for himself and it is good to see him change from a wreckhead to someone who you'd loyally follow in a battle ground.

Prince Andrew flew a helicoptor in the Falklands war as well.

 

[throdgrain]

Right move - but I'll only start cheering when they pull the others out too...

You think we should pull our troops out of Afghanistan so that they can go on training terrorists, abusing thier own people and being the worlds major supplier of heroin into the bargain?

Shame on you.

 

[Damini]

DRUDGE REPORT 2008®

It is an u-g-l-y website. Any uglier and I'd assume it was hosted on angelfire, and would have back ground music that sounds like it's played on a stylophone.

 

[Will]

I'm quite proud of the fact that he's done this.

I've always pictured the royal family as one of those groups who wouldn't associate with the working class, however Harry (And William also) take remarkably after their mother and seem to shun the whole "class" system and he's proving the royal family doesn't have to be disconnected from the rest of the UK.

Charles served in the Royal Navy on active duty, Andrew served with the Navy during the Falklands war. Edward dropped out of the Royal Marines before graduation. Phillip fought in the Royal Navy in WW2, and had a dazzling military career, before he married the Queen.

I'm sure they will all have encountered a couple of working class people in this time. Though maybe thats why Edward dropped out.

 

[Damini]

You think we should pull our troops out of Afghanistan so that they can go on training terrorists, abusing thier own people and being the worlds major supplier of heroin into the bargain?

Shame on you.

I've got a mate who's been deployed over there. He says they're told to leave the poppy fields alone. Afghanistan is producing more heroin now than it ever did under the Taliban.

That's not to say I think the Taliban should be left alone. I think it would be terrible if they took back the whle country.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

They should send all the royals there, giving them the same equipment normal foot soldiers have.

Most effective way of ending our pointless waste of a monarchy IMO.

 

[Sharma]

Jesus christ, I hope the people who run the Drudge Report happen to end up in a rather unfortunate accident.

MORONS!

 

[Chilly]

the thing with the opium poppies is that its the best cash crop the farmers can grow. You cannot blame them for doing so when things are so tight. If the market shifted and barley (or whatever) became a better earner then they would grow that. Until the head is chopped off the drugs markets this isn't really going to happen and we would be reducing heroin production at the cost of the livelihoods and wellbeing of thousands of effectively innocent Afghan farmers. It's not as cut and dry as you might think.

 

[throdgrain]

Of course I can blame them mate. And so can anyone else with any experience of heroin.

 

[Ch3tan]

thing is throd, it will hurt those farmers a lot more than it will the drug barons that are sitting at the top of the pile. They can just get it elsewhere, it will not really change anything.

I am sure the US and other major world powers could stop drugs overnight, but obivously it is not in their best intrests. But that is another argument.

 

[Scouse]

You think we should pull our troops out of Afghanistan so that they can go on training terrorists, abusing thier own people and being the worlds major supplier of heroin into the bargain?

Shame on you.

Erm, double-shame on you m8...

British troops are actively encouraging the locals to grow opiate crops as a way out of poverty. The country used to supply (IIRC) about 60% of the world's heroin and it's now about 90%.

If you think that our politicians give a mokneys that a few more smackheads get fucked over in Britain because of it that's just foolish. They've got (in their minds) bigger and more important fish to fry.

Again. Got this information directly from the horses mouth (a marine who's helped them do just that). I knew anyway - but I wanted to check I was right. And I was...unfortunately