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AIBU?

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Original poster

AIBU, the miltery awards on ITV

252 replies

RoseRedder · 16/12/2013 21:01

AIBU?

I think this is wrong

The 'wars' these men/women have been in are all made up wars by the UK and USA government

And now there is a tv programme giving them celebrity status

I don't doubt the people of will be nominated will have gone out their way to aid their colleagues

But turning war into a tv programme is beyond sick

OP posts:
WildThong · 16/12/2013 22:47

IT WONT GO IF YOU CONTINUE TO FEED IT!
OR ITS MATE NIGELLA...

IamInvisible · 16/12/2013 22:48

His unit are being really good, everyday, they have been the most supportive one yet, tbh.

We're on the downward slope now, thankfully, only 5 weeks left to go.

Original poster
RoseRedder · 16/12/2013 22:49

I do not agree with war

I do not agree with government 'recruiting' young men and women to be employed to face a potential death every day

To everyone who has told me to fuck off, and there have been many of you

No I won't because I do not believe in war

OP posts:
IamInvisible · 16/12/2013 22:52

Why do the people who start these threads do it when they know nothing about life in the military? It just makes them look thick!

DH does not "face a potential death everyday".Hmm

SPSJSAT · 16/12/2013 22:52

Don't believe in answering direct questions either, do you Rose?

wannakillem · 16/12/2013 22:53

SPSJSAT well said x

chuddies · 16/12/2013 22:54

OP... dont like people joining up in case they may die... cool I get that but hey you also could be speaking german if your parents even made it under nazi occupier UK.... how very lucky so so so many stood up and chose to serve fight and die so you can be this fucked up eh?!

big bravo and huzzar to the OP... I have now found a new definition of moron.

Rufustherednosedreindeer · 16/12/2013 22:55

rose love! I think most people don't like wars???it's the misinformed! ignorant bollocks you are talking that's pissing people off and making them say fuck off

Just felt that should be clarified

halestone · 16/12/2013 22:55

The military aren't just about fighting wars! But again you would know that if you just bothered to EDUCATE yourself! So don't fuck off, instead go and do some reading learn some basic things about the Military and also about war. Then come back with a well reasoned argument and not a nasty little OP and people may well respect you a little and you could have an actual conversation then!

JohnnyBarthes · 16/12/2013 22:56

Is OP going to start confusing the Falklands with Gibraltar again, like she did last month?

Chesntoots · 16/12/2013 22:58

This thread was making me chuckle, right until the point that I realised people like Rose are allowed to vote and serve on a jury. I find that quite scary...

Original poster
RoseRedder · 16/12/2013 22:58

IamInvisible

Why do the people who start these threads do it when they know nothing about life in the military? It just makes them look thick!

perhaps because everyone is allowed an opinion on it?

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ThursdayLast · 16/12/2013 22:59

I can only imagine the OP gets their kicks from winding people up. No one is seriously this ignorant over and over and over and over again.

everydayaschoolday · 16/12/2013 23:00

but a well informed opinion would carry more credibility.

Mitchy1nge · 16/12/2013 23:00

to be fair to OP you don't really have to spend much time on internet message boards or any sort of news article that invites 'comments' to appreciate the limitations and drawbacks of both the jury system and democracy as we know it

Original poster
RoseRedder · 16/12/2013 23:01

Chesntoots

right until the point that I realised people like Rose are allowed to vote and serve on a jury. I find that quite scary

Why?

OP posts:
halestone · 16/12/2013 23:07

Oh Chesntoots please tell her. As i am struggling to see why she needs to ask that question when its plain for everyone to see.

NigellaLaw5on · 16/12/2013 23:08

It's economic times like this that we should be conscripting the work shy and the feckless. All of these reprobates that refuse to earn their keep and see an appearance on Jeremy Kyle as a badge of honour should be forced onto the front line if they want to continue scrounging benefits.

Original poster
RoseRedder · 16/12/2013 23:09

I can only imagine the OP gets their kicks from winding people up. No one is seriously this ignorant over and over and over and over again.

This ingorant......how I'm I igornant?

Read back, there are good many people who argee with me that war is wrong

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IamInvisible · 16/12/2013 23:11

You can have an opinion, Rose, but I find it is better to have an educated one.

Yellowcake · 16/12/2013 23:11

I know nothing about these awards, but anyone at all conversant with British Army activity in Northern Ireland over the bourse of 'Operation Banner' could be forgiven for taking a slightly cynical view of serving soldiers being regarded automatically as heroes.

TheNightIsDark · 16/12/2013 23:12

Nigella, be a dear and fuck off back to the daily mail comments pages please.

NigellaLaw5on · 16/12/2013 23:15

Petty criminals as well, anybody sentenced to less than 5 years should be forced to serve their time in the army.
Although I can see the danger of turning criminals into trained killers.

ConferencePear · 16/12/2013 23:15

Rose, I don't like war either, but I do think that it's sometimes necessary.
I didn't agree with the war in Iraq either but that doesn't mean I'm think we don't need a well-trained professional army.
Without the military would we have been able to stop the slaughter in Sierra Leone ? in Bosnia ?

ThePollyAndTheIvy · 16/12/2013 23:15
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