What's so GREAT about Britian?

[greasytrucker]

No,you're wrong, they recruit throughout the armed forces, not just the Army and definitely not just the infantry. Lots of Engineers and R.Sigs for a start, and I've met former RAF Regt. and Royal Marines too.

Yes, but SAS signallers and engineers serve that specific task firstly, and undergo a different selection and training process. They dont get the sand coloured lid, only the winged dagger, same with RA foos, Although they rotated with G squadron, ie the SAS squadron that was based in the north. Obviosly some may have served with 14 Int company.

But Ive never heard of an SAS member from an armoured corps.

[hopi watcher]

Yes, but SAS signallers and engineers serve that specific task firstly, and undergo a different selection and training process. They dont get the sand coloured lid, only the winged dagger, same with RA foos, Although they rotated with G squadron, ie the SAS squadron that was based in the north. Obviosly some may have served with 14 Int company.

But Ive never heard of an SAS member from an armoured corps.

Could you guys not go to a 'klan' site and continue this love-in. The sane around here are sensitive to all this 'guns and bullits' waffle

[mutley]

A stupid and self-serving conclusion but I'm sure you enjoyed posting it. But if our intelligence was so lousy and our operatives so poor, then how do you think we ran agents at the very top of the Provisional IRA for years on end(and Sinn Fein too, not to mention the so-called Loyalists) and eventually defeated it? I mean, who exactly is in control of NI at the moment?

The only reason I don't like about the Brits is because oftheir arrogance as highlighted in the post above

Agreed, setting aside KingKane's clarification for the OP that Great is a geographical term, and not being a particular apologist for perfidious Albion, there are many things Britain has given us that give me no end of pleasure.

Her language and Literature, (which of course th Irish perfected, Wilde, Shaw, O Casey, Swift, Yeats, Heaney,etc) but how poor we would have been without Willie Shakepseare,
Donne, Vaughan, Pope, Marvel, Keats, Wordsworth, Shelly, Byron, Dickens, Elliot (Georgre), Hardy, Austin, the Brontes, Orwell, Pinter, and so many more.


Aos, Britain was ahead of the rest of us in her wariness of a European Super State by stealth, and is proving to be right about the corporatist and corrupt collosus that the European Project is becoming, pity Browne then has to betray his country's best instincts.

Well thats sort of the point - Britian may have been great once - but its greatness has been desperately eroded..... loyalists still think that Britian is still the great nation it once supposseldy was, they have no concept of how greatly its been run into the ground.

[Riadach]

Even most Irish writers were planters.

Can anyone name me even one building the freestate built in 80 years, one Bridge, anything ?

Seán O'Casey Bridge, James Joyce Bridge, West Link Toll Bridge, East Link bridge, Millenium Bridge, and that's in Dublin alone. Nice fancy bridges they are too.

[greasytrucker]

Seán O'Casey Bridge, James Joyce Bridge, West Link Toll Bridge, East Link bridge, Millenium Bridge, and that's in Dublin alone. Nice fancy bridges they are too.

This is the best in 80 years, even then it took EU money and a kick up the arse. Nothing special.

[Riadach]

This is the best in 80 years, even then it took EU money and a kick up the arse. Nothing special.

Living Bridge.



Boyne river bridge.



Barrow Bridge.

But of course, with everything I put up, you're going to engage in a no true scotsman fallacy, aren't you?

[greasytrucker]

Living Bridge.



Boyne river bridge.



Barrow Bridge.

But of course, with everything I put up, you're going to engage in a no true scotsman fallacy, aren't you?

Built with EU money and a push from the EU to get up the rep to the 21st century.

I remember the former BNP leader saying in the 80s on the election of a BNP govt the rep would be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century, the EU got there first.

[b.a. baracus]

Built with EU money and a push from the EU to get up the rep to the 21st century.

I remember the former BNP leader saying in the 80s on the election of a BNP govt the rep would be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century, the EU got there first.

F.. Off Troll.

[greasytrucker]

F.. Off Troll.

They havent gone away you know.

[murf13]

If it was not for the generosity of Britain in taking in Irish immigrants the republic would not be an independent nation. It would not have survived.

If it was not for the sacrifice of the British army standing alone before the Yanks got involved in WW2 you would be speaking German.

You suffer from classic small nation syndrome, its a psychological condition where by the inhabients of small nations next to bigger more succesful ones base their psyschological construct around negativity to their neighbour. Your a sad individual.

Hey Lilliput.
1) I am an American so small nation syndrome is the domain of the English. By the way , it's your language, try mastering it, ie. read what I write.
2) In the blitz you all got your collective asses kicked. The Krauts were within a few short weeks of taking controll of your tiny little bog. Churchill came a begging and Roosevelt threw the necessary bread crumbs in order that ye survive. (lend and lease which just got paid back after how many yrs?)
3) My next door neighbour is from London and swears he will "never live in that bog hole again" I wonder why?