Born Hunter
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I think the standard of living here is significanlty better than that in India. That's why they're not skint. There's a lot of things we need to change here to sort the economy out mate.
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Ask India, the country that's investing hugely in defence to counter a growing China and at a nuclear stalemate with their Pakistani neighbours? LOL Aye born, at the expensive of their economy they have done that they are even in the space race ffs something we could never afford. Well of course bullets cost money. But they have both China and Pakistan to compete with. Investing in space tech usually proves beneficial to a countries economy. NASA has had a hugely possitive effect on the US economy. It's also something the UK leads the world in.
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All part of the master plan to westernise these places before they become 'Easternised' LOL. 21stC empire building. Not saying I agree but that's what it is, rightly or wrongly. We can sit back and let the rest of the world sort themselves out. Still need our military capability though, the Falklands proved that to me. We have responsibilites all over the planet, our armed forces ensure we can uphold those responsibilites.
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Which battles we choose to fight is something of a different discussion I suppose. Even if we chose to stay out of 99% I still feel we need a military at least as capable as we have today....
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Ask India, the country that's investing hugely in defence to counter a growing China and at a nuclear stalemate with their Pakistani neighbours? LOL
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I completely dissagree. Our strongest miltary ally happens to be the greatest military power on the planet presently, we have that relationship almost exlusively through our own capabilities. That is what keeps us safe from potential enemies like Russia and China if WWIII is your consideration. Also our completely independant nuclear deterant is sufficient to keep even a vastly superior convensional military at stalemate with us. Cutting back puts both those key strategies at risk. Other considerations is our capability to launch a rapid reaction force to any type of conflict anywh
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Don't be so condescending baw. I can sleep fine. Everyday their is a foreign power with a military and a conflict of interests we need our military.
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What specifically? Our entire military?
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IMO they all affect us, in subjectively different ways. I guess it's the argument of neoconservatism vs paleoconservatism. Scares the shit out of me cutting our defence budget. We're getting to a very critical point where if we're not carefull our military capability will be severely limited. We need to remain capable of launching operations anywhere in the world with zero assistance to protect all British assets, citizens and soil. Also to remain a credible ally to other western powers and a credible adversary to potential aggressors. We're looking weak and other powers are already making
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10615466/China-and-Russia-help-global-defence-spending-rise-for-first-time-in-five-years.html The west's appetite for war, conflict and defence expenditure is very low presently with what seems like an eternal recession and a high intensity of conflicts. I've heard it many times, "we don't need a nuclear weapons" "we should get out of all these foreign wars and only use our military for defence of the UK" etc etc. Do we really live in a world where we can safely assume our future and freedom is secure?
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A few things all men should have; shotgun, pair of boots, check shirt and a petrol chainsaw. Electric Honestly!
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Brave move, you never hear of people regretting it though. Work are threatening to send me to Brisbane this summer (their winter)............. fingers crossed.
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Knowing my luck though I would still get feck all Well you wouldn't get 6................... unless 2 were conjoined twins!
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Big knife, Hog dog, Another hog dog, Wet stone or steel, 500m spool of paracord. Possibly swap the hog dogs for spear gun or bow. Depends on the specifics....
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Christ, I bet he's got some stories! I read about that (before my time obviously). M squadron used to practice anti terrorism/hostage rescue operations on the QE2 when it was 'off duty' but with the crew on and unaware. Like I said, those boys have my full respect! What is it they say.... "we do the same selection and training as the SAS............ then repeat it underwater".
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You run a mean beating team then eh Dan. Recruit beaters straight out of Plymouth do ya? LOL Nige, very unassuming bloke, like a friend of mine who used to be 43Cdo FPGRM, toured Afghan and Iraq, you'd never put him as a RM to look at him! Just goes to show....
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One of the lads you met the other day with us served Really? Which one if you don't mind me asking?
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Riding shotgun on the wings of an apache to rescue a wounded marine! LOL http://youtu.be/JWKm4MS8wzo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbGcDJfawvY Paulus, how did you embed that youtube vid? Whenever I copy the embed code it just displays the code!
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A corps that is absolutely dripping with history and British pride! I never tire reading about the Royal Marines or their elite swimmer canoeists.
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All you'd need is a bloody .410!
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I could SMASH that right now Nick..... Think I'm gonna have to butcher, slice and fry up one of these mallard I have hanging.
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Nah, my house looks like it should be filled with half eaten takeaways though. Grilling a steak and boiling some veg takes 10 mins, knocks the hell out of some crappy chinese!
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Reminded me of this, Nick: The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, he said: “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
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"It's all relative......"
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I've just seen a couple of hunt lads who are mates of mine do this today, crazy b*****ds, covered in mud, wearing jock straps sat on a tonne bag being pulled by a quad in a field!
