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    May 21

    Lest we forget...

     
     
    The average age of the 199 men on board HMS Ardent was 23 on the 21st May 1982 when she was sunk in action after supporting the landing of British troops onto the Falklands, twenty two men died that day. The video below is a tribute to the men and women of the British Military - Army, Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy who have given their lives over the years, with an emphasis on the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. To all those who were too young to die - You are missed. Rest in peace.
     
     
    At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
    We will remember them.

     

     
    May 20

    It's not hard, it's not clever and it won't make your Mum proud but we do get to point and laugh at you though!

    Oh! By the way...the title of this video is "I'm not gonna flinch!".....um....oops! Anyone for new underwear?
     
     
     
     
    May 19

    QUOTE OF THE DAY

    Quirk: "If a prisoner tries to escape can we shoot him?"
     
    "NO!"
     
    Quirk: "What? Not even in the legs?!"
     
     
     
     
    LCpl Quirk 9 sqn - 3 Para Battle Group
    January 14

    Normal Service Resumed

    I've realised that this space is starting to take itself just a tad too seriously, so...
     
    The Twelve Days of Christmas by Kieran O'Lunacy
     
     
    Dear Nula,
    Thank you so very much for the gift. The Mother has positioned the pear tree in the front room and the partridge seems very happy in his new home. Hope to hear from you soon,
    Yours Affectionately,
    Kieran
     
     
    Dear Nula,
    I cannot tell you how surprised we were to hear from you again so soon and to receive the lovely two turtle doves. You really are too kind. At first the partridge was rather jealous and we had to send for the vet after the fight but the birds have settled down now, the stitches come out in a week and the Mother is over her annoyance now.
    Yours as ever,
    Kieran
     
     
    Dear Nula,
    We must be foremost in your thoughts! I had only just posted the last letter when the three French hens arrived. There was another sort out between the hens and the doves who sided with the partridge and the vet was sent for again. The Mother was raging but she has almost cooled down now.
    Thanking you for your kindness I remain yours,
    Kieran
     
     
    Dear Nula,
    You mustn't have received my last letter when you sent the four calling birds. There was pandemonium in the pear tree last night and the vets bill was £32.00. The Mother is on sedation as I write.
    I know you meant no harm and remain your close friend,
    Kieran
     
     
    Dearest Nula,
    Your generosity knows no bounds! Five gold rings! When the parcel arrived I was scared stiff it might be more birds, the smell in the front room is atrocious, however I don't want to seem ungrateful for the beautiful rings. Thank you.
    Your affectionate friend,
    Kieran
     
     
    Nula!
    What are you trying to do to us? It isn't that we don't appreciate your generosity but the six geese have not alone nearly murdered the calling birds but there are eggs everywhere. The vets bill was nearly £70.00 this time! The Mother is on 60 Valium a day and talking to herself in a most alarming manner.
    You must keep your feelings for me in check,
    Kieran
     
     
    Nula,
    We are not amused by your little joke! Granted seven swans swimming is a most romantic idea but NOT in the bath of a private house. We cannot use the bathroom now because they have gone completely savage and rush the door. If things go on like this the Mother and I will smell as bad as the front room carpet.
    Please lay off. It isn't fair!
    Kieran
     
     
    NULA,
    Who the hell do you think gave you the right to send eight hefty maids a milking here to eat us out of house and home? The cattle is all over the front lawn and have trampled the hell out of the Mother's rose beds. The swans invaded the front room in a sneak attack and the ensuing battle between them, the geese, calling birds, French hens, turtle doves and partridge made the battle of the Somme look like a week at Butlins. The Mother is on a bottle of whiskey a day as well as the 60 Valium.
    I am very annoyed with you!
    Kieran
     
     
    Listen you louser,
    There's enough pandemonium in this place night and day without nine drummers drumming, while the eight flaming maids a milking are beating me poor 'auld alcoholic mother out of her own kitchen and gobbling everything in sight.
    I'm warning you; you're making an enemy of me.
    Kieran
     
     
    You bastard,
    I hope you will be haunted by the strains of the ten pipers piping which you sent to torment us last night! They were aided in their evil work by those maniac drummers and it wasn't a pleasant sight to look out the window and see eight hefty maids a milking pogo-ing round with the ensuing punk-rock uproar.
    The Mother has just finished the third bottle of whiskey on top of 120 Valium.
    You'll get yours!
    Kieran
     
     
    You have scandalised my Mother you dirty jezebel!
    It was bad enough to have eight maids a milking dancing round on the front lawn but they've now been joined by your friends the eleven lords a leaping and the antics of the whole lot of them would leave the most decadent days of the Roman Empire looking like an episode of Songs of Praise.
    I'll get you yet, you 'auld bag!
     
     
    You have ruined our lives!
    The twelve maidens dancing turned up last night and beat the living daylights out of the eight maids a milking because they found them carrying on with the eleven lords a leaping. The swans got out of the front room where they'd been hiding since the big battle and savaged hell out of the lords and the maids.
    There were eight ambulances here lat night and the local civil defence as well. The Mother is in a home for the bewildered and I'm sitting here up to my neck in birds droppings, empty Valium and whiskey bottles, blood and feathers with the fecking cows eating the leaves off the pear tree.
    I am a broken man.
    Kieran O'Lunacy
    November 14

    Hi there,

    I am suffering  from the guilt of not
    forwarding 50 thousand fucking chain letters sent to me
    by people who actually believe that if you send them
    on, a poor 6-year-old girl in Alabama with a penis
    on her forehead will be able to raise enough money
    to have it removed before her redneck parents
    sell her to a traveling freak show.
     
    Do you honestly believe that Bill Gates is going to give you,
    and everyone to whom you send "his" email, $1000?
    Ooooh, look! If I scroll down
    this page and make a wish, I'll get a jump off every good looking
    man I meet! 
    For the love of God!
     
    Maybe the evil chain letter leprechauns will come into
    my house and torture me in my sleep for not continuing
    a chain that was started by God himself -  but all things considered; fuck them.
     
    If you're going to forward something, at least send me
    something mildly amusing. I've seen all the "send this to
    10 of your closest friends, and this poor, wretched excuse
    for a human being will somehow receive a penny from some
    omniscient being" 
    Thing is, I just don't give a toss - it really IS that simple.
     
    Show a little intelligence and think about what you're actually
    contributing to by sending out these forwards. Chances are,
    it's your own unpopularity.
     
    The point being? If you get some chain letter that's
    threatening to leave you shagless or luckless for the rest of your
    life - DELETE IT. 
     
    Don't piss people off by making
    them feel guilty about a leper in Botswana with no teeth who has
    been tied to a dead elephant for 27 years and whose only salvation
    is the 5 pence per letter he'll receive if you forward this
    email.
     
    Now forward this to everyone you know. Dismissed.

    Rememberance Day Tribute

     
    October 05

    NOTIFICATION OF COMPULSORY ENLISTMENT

     

    Under the Emergency Powers Act (1939) as amended by the Defence Act (1978), you are hereby notified that you are required to place yourself on standby for possible compulsory military service in Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL).

    You may shortly be ordered to depart for the Middle East where you will join either the 3rd Battalion The Queen's Own Suicidal Conscripts or the 2nd Foot and Mouth. The regulars are too busy being court marshalled to be there themselves.

    Due to the recent rundown of the Navy and the refusal of P&O to lend us any of their liners, because of the deplorable state in which they were returned after the Falklands adventure, it will be necessary for you to make your own way to the combat zone.

    H.M. Government have been able to negotiate a 20% discount on one way trips with Virgin Airlines and you are strongly urged to take advantage of this offer (Ryan Air also do a nice little £9.99 trip). Because of cutbacks in Government expenditure in recent years it will be necessary for you to provide yourself with the following equipment as soon as possible:

     

    * Combat Jacket
    * Trousers (preferably khaki - but please no denim)
    * Tin helmet
    * Boots (or a pair of sturdy trainers)
    * Gas mask
    * Map of the combat zone (the Ordinance Survey 1:2800 Outdoor Leisure Map of Iraq will do)
    * Rifle
    * Ammunition (preferably to suit previous item)
    * Suntan oil


    If you are in a position to afford it, we would like you to buy a tank (Vickers Defence of Banbury are currently offering all new conscripts a 0% finance deal on all X registration Challengers, but hurry, as the offer is only available whilst stocks last).

    We would like to reassure you that in the unlikely event of anything going wrong, you will receive a free burial in the graveyard of your choice, and your next of kin will be entitled to the 'new' War Widows pension of £1.75 per calendar month, index-linked but subject to means testing, and fully repayable should our side eventually lose.

    There may be little time for formal military training before your departure and so we advise that you hire videos of the following films and try and pick up a few tips as you watch:

     

    * The Guns of Navarone
    * Kelly's Heroes
    * A Bridge to Far
    * The Longest Day
    * Apocalypse Now
    * The Matrix
    * Blazing Saddles
    * The Desert Song
    * Mary Poppins

     

    We do not recommend that you watch Khartoum.

    To mentally prepare yourself for your mission try reading the works of Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brookes, Andy McScabb or anything by Sir Peter De La Billionaire (you will find copies of the last two author's work in the ficiton section of any local libarary).

     

    Yours amazed to still have a job,

    G Hoon, Ministry of Defence.  

    May 16

    Ground Rules

    Right boys and girls this is IMPORTANT so pay attention:

    The comments you are leaving are, to my surprise, generally complimentary - however I feel that some of you have been a little lax...we haven't been looking at things fully have we? I realise there is a LOT of blog on here and you don't have to read it all BUT...I insist if you are going to comment you read the entry called "Ground Rules" - you'll understand why when you read it so just do as you're told please. It is fairly easy to find even for those of limited intelligence...on the left hand side of the page you will see a box with "Category" written on it - go to the box and click on "NOTICES:" et voila "Ground Rules" May 14th.

    Now I realise that some of you haven't had the benefit of this warning and it could be a genuine mistake rather than an attempt to wind me up...so for those people who have already passed comment and do not comply with the "Ground rules" I will give you a break and leave your "two-penneth" published.

    However as of...

     ...NOW (Check the date and time of this posting for the definiton of now)...  

    ...there will be NO more exceptions - if you do not comply with the "Ground Rules" you will not be published and I promise I will enforce this very rigourously, no matter how clever or nice what you have to say is.

    This is a particularly major pet-peeve of mine so don't push me.

    Consider yourself well and truly warned!

    May 14

    Ground Rules

    The Ground Rules on here are very simple boys and girls - there are only four so shouldn't be too hard for you to remember.

    1. All comments/trackbacks to be written in ENGLISH - if you do not have the time to type words in full I would question whether you have the time to be commenting at all - Anything written in acronyms (look it up in a dictionary if you don't know and while you are there look up how you spell - you, for, mate, great etc. - and no before you think you've just come up with a great comeback - etc. is an abbreviation not an acronym - you will find they are quite different things so I suggest you look those up too fuckwit), text-speak or computer-speak or even pathetic attempts at adding an "ethnic" sound to language will quite simply not be published. Yes I am a fucking language snob - you are quite right and very proud of it. I have no time for iliterate wankers, mind you I don't have much time for literate wankers either but they are slightly more tolerable. Oh! Before some smart arse out there goes through this and picks out spelling mistakes of which I am sure there are many - I make no apologies for the fact that my spelling is appalling - I am not dyslexic, not even slightly - I just have never learnt to spell properly but then these are my Ground Rules so sue me (For all litigious [look it up] types don't get hopeful! There is nothing you can sue me for just yet so it looks like you'll be living in that trailer with Billy Bob for a little longer).

    2. Ground Rule 1. does not apply to me. Not fair? Awaaaah! Neither is life - get over it.

    3. Ground Rules are subject to amendment and/or change at any time without the need for warning or explaination. Any complaints can be sent to Icouldnotcareless@stopwastingmytime.com (and no that is not a real address eejit - in fact if you just even considered writing to that address you should probably leave now before you embarrass yourself further.)

    4. Other than Rules 1., 2., and 3., there are no other Ground Rules.

     

    I hope I have made myself clear - thank you for your attention. You are now free to wander off and explore the rest of the page.

     

    May 13

    Status Report

    I am as you read this working on the page - although that may not be strictly true because I do have a job, a life and I do occasionally sleep - so I may have inadvertently already lied to you but then you're on the internet that's what you expected right? Hope to be up and running in a few days but this largely depends on pub opening hours and whether I can be bothered and if you're thinking I'm not being overly friendly or encouraging you to come back then perhaps you would like to look at the top of your screen and re-read the name of the page - what exactly were you expecting? Those in search of all things pink and fluffy please f-off now! What? I said please!