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Star Trek does 9/11...

That Green Corps sounds like a smashing idea, so long as it's voluntary. I'm not really a believer in compulsory servitude.

I once put my back out on account of a lorry-load of Christmas trees and a pillock. Ouchy indeed - hope it clears up soon, Mogz.

168 Children.

Would that he were... or possibly was...

He's bluffing.

Not until you're told, soldier! And less of your lip you 'orrible little man.

Ouch... by dose...

She wishes.

But who got my cheese?

I've never been a parent so I don't know. Most of the kids around here seem looked after well enough. Some of them are cheeky little sods and a few enjoy smashing stuff up from time to time, but that was the same when I was a nipper.

Maybe we should teach people real-life skills like this at school.

Probably a modified UH-60 Blackhawk like the one that crashed in Abbottabad:

UK riots: Amazon withdraws truncheons after bumper sales. Sales of baseball bats, Kubotans and other self-defence items soar in aftermath of rioting in English cities.

"Everyone watching these horrific actions will be struck by how they were organized via social media. Free flow of information can be used for good. But it can also be used for ill.

"So we are working with the Police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality. I have also asked the police if they need any other new powers." David Cameron. YouTube (1:27)

Across the Middle East, brutal, authoritarian regimes took similar action against communications in the face of unprecedented unrest, blocking Facebook, Twitter, and in many cases cutting off Internet and mobile phone access altogether, but each successive step only made the regimes' problems worse.

Since when was being a parent seen as a pointless exercise?

Since people started being so fucking shit at it?

Is that all people or just some people?

Us lot for Parliament!

Bagsie the Ministry of Sex, Drugs and Pizza!

I know you know what you're talking about, CF - but if your CO could choose between a cutting-edge stealth chopper and and an old Chinook, which one would be chosen for an attack mission?

Also, tagging the names of clandestinely KIA troops to subsequent air accidents or training accidents is an old trick. It was used extensively by the Russians in Afghanistan and the Americans in Vietnam before war had been officially declared. I don't know if that's what happened here but given all the mystery and confusion surrounding SEAL Team 6's supposed location and murder of Osama bin Laden, let's just say that I wouldn't be surprised.