Would you fight for your country?

[jal123]

Ask him if he fancies a bum.

Thanks.

I wonder if he means middle in age or middle in the daisy chain?

 

[tommye]

I wonder if he means middle in age or middle in the daisy chain?

Maybe both?

 

[jal123]

Maybe both?

Wowzer now that *is* niche

 

[chicoazul]

I wonder who will be next after the wizard is hounded out?

I'm betting on @chicoazul , he seems like a good target.

Lads?????????????

 

[Donald Twain]

I wonder who will be next after the wizard is hounded out?

I'm betting on @chicoazul , he seems like a good target.

Someone lash an odds table up on candidates!

 

[Whitebootman]

To old to go to war now and would need to be close to a clean loo at all times if I did get called up. I'd join any fight against government as they deserve a good kick up the backside for the way they treat those who do fight for our country. God bless our armed services, and thank you.

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

I do, every two years. Many 'orrible foreigners have felt the wrath of plastic patio furniture I've launched in their direction.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

I do, every two years. Many 'orrible foreigners have felt the wrath of plastic patio furniture I've launched in their direction.

Spoken like a true patriot.

 

[dandydan]

I did my National Service when I was a younger man, but thankfully I didn't see any frontline action.

However, I think this country, for all its faults, is worth fighting for. My middle son is gay, so I am thankful that Britain is a tolerant and liberal country that allows people of my son's sexual orientation to get married and have the same rights as a heterosexual person. I once met a gay guy from Sudan who was in Britain as a refugee due to the fact that homosexuality is punishable by the death penalty in Sudan. I also like the fact that this country enabled my daughter to become a doctor. She was recently involved in some aid work in Haiti, where over a THIRD of females get ZERO education. And we all know the state of female education in places like Afghanistan. Essentially it's non-existent. The idea of a female becoming the leader of Afghanistan is almost unthinkable. It would be like Netanyahu becoming the leader of Hamas. And that is the case for scores of countries across the globe.

I also like the fact that we have an NHS. About ten years ago an American friend of my brother got a leg injury at work. He couldn't afford health insurance so he couldn't get treatment. He got gangrene and died. That wouldn't happen here.

Sorry everyone for being slightly serious.

How old are you mate? Curious as the last national servicemen were demobbed in the early 60's

 

[cromofo]

I've lived through a war in the 90s as a kid and it has scarred me forever.

I would fight, but only if it was for a righteous cause.

War indeed is hell.

 

[gorgeousgeorgeEFC]

Sorry everyone for being slightly serious.

How old are you mate? Curious as the last national servicemen were demobbed in the early 60's

Let's just say I'm older than Al Pacino but younger than Kofi Annan!

 

[zandvoort blue]

Absolutely.

If the Ruskies get too frisky, and push comes to shove, the UK, its values and my family are worth fighting for.

Expeditionary wars and conflicts in places that smell of diesel, sewage and sand again would be a no, however...

I'm an old git now but I dare say I can still tell one end of a SA80 from another.

 

[Kenshin]

to be honest the old saying 'when the rich wage war, it's the poor that die' (or a song lyric, either or) means i am not too enthusiastic for taking to arms to defend the country.

nothing to do with pride or lack of it, just see it as a pointless exercise when rich politicians decide to go to war and it is the lower classes who go off and die for that decision. Even if they don't they come back and get offered no support and end up homeless and addicts as a result.

So i voted no

 

[Frank Gallagher]

to be honest the old saying 'when the rich wage war, it's the poor that die' (or a song lyric, either or) means i am not too enthusiastic for taking to arms to defend the country.

nothing to do with pride or lack of it, just see it as a pointless exercise when rich politicians decide to go to war and it is the lower classes who go off and die for that decision. Even if they don't they come back and get offered no support and end up homeless and addicts as a result.

So i voted no

Plenty of officers at sandhurst go to battle..

 

[chicoazul]

Not particularly when you're fighting for people who are ignorant of your city and people.

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