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dustybin
27 Aug 13 09:46
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It's seems absurd ppl of today being manipulated to fight like they were a century ago, receiving feathers through the post would be laughable now and I rather suspect conscription wouldn't even be lawful anymore.

Our near ancestors might have been pretty much the same as we are now, suspecting that they'd not have to fight but they did.

So would you fight if it came to an all out tear up, say between east and west?
(Yes I know technology and industry have changed how wars are fought, but nukes are unlikely to be used and it could come down to old fashioned blood and snot fighting in the streets.
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Report SqueezeFirmly August 27, 2013 10:43 AM BST
No, as I'm too old.

Then again, who are we going to war against?

Some I'd sign up for, others I wouldn't.
Report dustybin August 27, 2013 12:49 PM BST
That's ok squeeze, we probs need a dads army too
Don't panic

Who would you sign up to fight then?
Report STUDYFORM August 27, 2013 12:50 PM BST
No, but the only way I might consider it is if I see all the politicians, royalty and other seemingly exempt groups from being on the front line.
Report orioles August 27, 2013 1:28 PM BST
What, with these feet?

Besides, I'm Canadian, if needs be.
Report Clungehungry August 27, 2013 1:30 PM BST
I'll be there.

Fashionably late.
Report dustybin August 27, 2013 1:34 PM BST
My grandfather wasn't accepted into the navy because of flat feet
So he spent the war in the rolling mills, and when fighting started and the services came calling they were deemed too skilled in steel making to be let go

Makes you think really, so in peace time its all about pomp and nonsense but they come calling in the end when they feckin need you
Report orioles August 27, 2013 1:34 PM BST
... and claiming the credit.
Report Makybe_Diva August 27, 2013 1:35 PM BST
I'll be a land girl.
Report dustybin August 27, 2013 1:37 PM BST
In fact my great grandfather on my mother's side was in Flanders with the air corps as an engineer
During the next war they came again wanting his services and he told em to get phooked (age)
But I rather suspect he felt he'd done his bit and I'd have agreed, one war is plenty enough
Report Ken Masters August 27, 2013 1:38 PM BST
Depends which country pays the best I guess, I'm not a fking charity.
Report orioles August 27, 2013 1:43 PM BST
Grandad was ARP in the second go around, after fighting in the 1st WW.

He refused to get out of bed during an air raid if he wasn't on duty that night. "No bloody German is shifting me from my bed!"

They only found his smouldering teddy bear Sad
Report alun2005 August 27, 2013 1:49 PM BST
Poor old Private Bobby Thompson, now there was a WW2 hero if ever there was one. He fought and fought and fought... but no, he had to go and do active service like any other man.
Report The Leopard August 27, 2013 1:51 PM BST
I will be a cyber-warrior.
Report alun2005 August 27, 2013 1:56 PM BST
My poor old grandfather died in a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany well before his time. Cruel it was. Accidentally fell out of his Guard Tower and died immediately on impact with the ground.
Report dustybin August 27, 2013 1:59 PM BST
RIP Bernard imo
Report dustybin August 27, 2013 1:59 PM BST
he was an unorthodox Jew
he was a nazi
Report alun2005 August 27, 2013 2:03 PM BST
There is actually a world war going on at present, though not everyone has realised. It's the Sane World against death cult nutters who like flying planes into World Trade Centres.
Report mobo August 27, 2013 2:09 PM BST
The eussr has already won - haven't you noticed!!??
Report Poppydog. August 27, 2013 2:11 PM BST
Isn't the next World War supposed to be the last World War?
Report SqueezeFirmly August 27, 2013 2:42 PM BST
dustybin
27 Aug 13 12:49   
That's ok squeeze, we probs need a dads army too
Don't panic

Who would you sign up to fight then?


Any facker who crosses st Dover who wants to change my idea of the UK way of life.

High up on the cliffs with endless ammo, picking them off as they come off the ferry.
Report dustybin August 27, 2013 2:44 PM BST
thats not war

thats a UKIP party political broadcast
Report HRH The Lager Khan August 27, 2013 2:50 PM BST
I'd fight if I had to, but strictly as a one man killing machine, across between Chuck Norris, a tank and a grizzly bear with a bad attitude.

I wouldn't want to be in a unit of modern day volunteers, trying to get me killed, as instead of looking out for sniper fire they are probably tagging themselves on bloody Facebook.
Report dustybin August 27, 2013 2:56 PM BST
yeh, Id probably fight (more passionately against some than others) but would have it written into some kind of contract that Im not part of any division....or the army for that matter
I do it my way, no rules fingers in eyes etc and I get up when I choose and turn nasty by getting tanked up before hand etc
Report dustybin August 27, 2013 2:57 PM BST
...and no barking orders, if the army guy starts shouting at me then Ill stubbornly refuse to play
Report erse2 August 27, 2013 2:57 PM BST
i'd sign up depending on how much molesting i can do.
Report starfish and coffee August 27, 2013 3:25 PM BST
All we are saying ...is give peace a chance
Report xmoneyx August 27, 2013 3:46 PM BST
NO
Report kenny mann August 27, 2013 4:15 PM BST
Don't worry cowards. You won't have to tie a handkerchied on your head and stick a pencil up your nose. I have it on good authority that any call up will be in alphabetical order. Asians, Blacks, Coons, Daygo's Ethnic minorities etc. So by the time they get to Whites they'll have far more than they need.
Report Ken Masters August 27, 2013 4:17 PM BST
As a card-carrying fop, this doesn't fill me with joy.
Report spellingandgrammarchecker August 27, 2013 4:25 PM BST
lol kenny.
Report Burton-Brewers August 27, 2013 4:25 PM BST
Kenny I would edit your post if I was you, don't offend me but you know there are some about
Report spellingandgrammarchecker August 27, 2013 4:29 PM BST
It's only a joke B-B, and a 45 year old one at that.
Report Burton-Brewers August 27, 2013 4:30 PM BST
I know but I don't want to see anyone else banned.........well apart from 1 other Happy
Report xmoneyx August 27, 2013 4:31 PM BST
Don't worry cowards.Laugh

you die for Cameron,hague then,enjoy
Report kenny mann August 27, 2013 4:34 PM BST
It was partly borrowed off Blackadder.
Report kenny mann August 27, 2013 4:37 PM BST
How do you edit a post?Scared I'll change it to aren't cats lovely fluffy creatures.
Report Ken Masters August 27, 2013 4:39 PM BST
Report kenny mann August 27, 2013 4:41 PM BST

Aug 27, 2013 -- 4:15PM, kenny mann wrote:


Don't worry cowards. You won't have to tie a handkerchied on your head and stick a pencil up your nose. I have it on good authority that any call up will be in alphabetical order. Asians, Blacks, Coons, Daygo's Ethnic minorities etc. So by the time they get to Whites they'll have far more than they need.


ha ha, got your pm btw. Sorry but I'm busy this weekend.

Report kenny mann August 27, 2013 4:41 PM BST
oh ****
Report PatraTheCat August 27, 2013 4:50 PM BST
I would fight against zombies or aliens but probably not other humans.
Report Mc Moonbeam August 27, 2013 4:56 PM BST
It's the zombies that'll be off to fight mate !

Personally i'd politely tell em to go & fck themselves , what's this country ever done for me .... Nothing ... and what will they do if i don't ... shoot me Confused
Report alun2005 August 27, 2013 5:17 PM BST
But surely Zombies and Aliens have feelings too ?  And aren't they covered by the Human Rights Act ? 

You can be sure that if any Zombies and/or Aliens are killed by a member of our Armed Forces, in whatever corner of our planet, some chancer lawsuit will be launched in a British court around 60 years afterwards.
Report Mc Moonbeam August 27, 2013 5:22 PM BST
Zombies = Purple
Aliens = Green

Yes Mischief
Report SqueezeFirmly August 27, 2013 5:25 PM BST
The Zombies

.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5IRI4oHKNU
Report Burton-Brewers August 27, 2013 5:52 PM BST
I'd join the Home Guard and sell stockings on the side
Report Thin and Crispy August 27, 2013 7:13 PM BST
My Dad told me he was in the RAFSC in WW2.
I'd carry on the family tradition.
Run Away Fast Someones Coming.
Report naydam August 27, 2013 7:58 PM BST
You would not be given the option of deciding if you 'wanted to fight' or not. Martial law is declared. All males between the ages of 16 and 45 are now members of the military and must report to their local town hall where they will be issued with further instructions.
Conchies will assist the medical corps. Deserters will be shot on sight. Without exception.

All families originating from whichever nation/ethnicity we are fighting against will be transported to The Isle of Man or The Orkney Islands, depending on how much money you pay towards the war fund.

Everything sorted...full time employment for all. Can't beat a good war for getting folk off the dole queue.
Report Mc Moonbeam August 27, 2013 8:03 PM BST
Ok Ok ..

I've decided it could be quite an entertaining break from the pokerz

Just Gimme the F*%^N GUNS !!! CoolDevilCrazy
Report Burton-Brewers August 27, 2013 8:06 PM BST
magic I'm exempt and all those lonely chicks waiting Tongue Out
Report dustybin August 27, 2013 8:08 PM BST
They'd never be able to up hold martial law in this day and age, since the Internet revolution everyone has been able to get more info and therefore more clued up. No government now could dictate on the masses something as egregious of giving up their life for the politicians, they'd not have the forces available
Report naydam August 27, 2013 8:09 PM BST
Do you remember the start of 'Enemy at the Gate'? They don't have enough rifles for one per man, so every alternate one gets a rifle and the next gets a clip of bullets to use when the rifle guy is killed?

Well,..................here's yer bullets. Good luck! SadLaugh
Report naydam August 27, 2013 8:12 PM BST
There wouldn't BE any internet. The satellites are under government/military control!
Report dustybin August 27, 2013 8:15 PM BST
They simply don't have the man power to control a nation that has moved on since the times of the hapsbergs
It's over, ppl are much more liberal now, the cat is out the bag and we only need look at things like the poll tax balls up to see that ppl wouldn't lay down their lives by a politicians say so
Report Burton-Brewers August 27, 2013 8:15 PM BST
this all sounds familiar, put that Guns n Roses toon on
Report Mc Moonbeam August 27, 2013 8:21 PM BST
I don't want no poptards rifle either I ain't goin the fkn fair to win Goldfish

You called now i do Business !

Hangs up the mobile ...
Report naydam August 27, 2013 8:40 PM BST
I think you would find that after the propaganda onslaught, most people would volunteer. Unless, of course, you would be happy to cede to the authority of the enemy. I wouldn't give much for your chances.

You seem to be forgetting that you are being called up to fight in a World War against a truly brutal regime.
If you fail to defeat this enemy, your freedom will be forfeit. The whole country will be enslaved and worked to death in slave labour camps. Apart for some females who will be kept for breeding purposes. They will be sired by the victorious invader. All British males will be neutered at birth.

We are not talking about some foreign skirmish in a poxy desert. The question is "Will you fight for your existence"?
Or will you welcome this murdering enemy to rape your children and slaughter you mother because she is too old for useful work.
These are the conditions...now are you with me, or not!! Altogether now "Land of Hope and"......sing up! Sing up!




Phew! Got quite excited there. Scared
Report a bitofinterest August 27, 2013 8:42 PM BST
would we still be able to bet ?
Report Mc Moonbeam August 27, 2013 8:44 PM BST
Yep .. we're 1.12 as usual bito
Report a bitofinterest August 27, 2013 8:45 PM BST
then i'd go
Report orioles August 27, 2013 8:50 PM BST
I'll hold the greatcoats.
Report dustybin September 1, 2013 11:59 AM BST
Well it looks like you have about a week or so before the bombing starts
Give perhaps another week for retaliation and uproar and the retaliation attacks

Then perhaps a week for dave to start sending the first batch of our lads with some sort of contrived political loophole

You got a month.
Tell the milkman, thanks but you won't be needing the deliveries in future
Report Mcginty September 1, 2013 12:33 PM BST
NOW YOU COME TO MENTION IT.

WHAT THE 'KINELL IS THIS ALL ABOUT?!!!!!!


National Service Bill 2013-14


http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/nationalservice.html
Report SqueezeFirmly September 1, 2013 4:56 PM BST
Conscription is coming back?

Excellent, get some of the youngsters away from here during the day.
Report i_agree_with_nick September 1, 2013 5:21 PM BST
It says a "system of national service". I doubt it will be military service
Report kenny mann July 25, 2019 7:43 PM BST
lol Squeeze.
Report SontaranStratagem July 25, 2019 8:42 PM BST
No

Because the lies are to ridiculous nowadays, one minute its global warming the next its climate change Crazy

Don't get me started on war propaganda SadSad
Report lybertyne July 25, 2019 9:12 PM BST
Depends who against.  I think a world war would be fought more via automatons now.  I'd happily fight in a civil war against the left.
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