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Doc wrote:I can borrow the Welsh embassy in the Shetlands for a weekend or two and it has a football pitch sized reinforced rear balcony. We may need to borrow some shop dummies from Marks and Sparks to act as terrorists.

we can get Lewis Collins as a consultant for £4.95 minus travel expenses

Sneaky, alsong as our only roles are sitting at the burger van at the bottom of the fan and counting the money, your on!

Lewis Collins, was ex 21 right? Respect

sneaky beaky wrote:Hey Doc,
We could make a fortune here.!
You and I could run a Selection Week for a dozen or so numbskulls and clean up!!
12 * 800 = £9,600. Not bad for a weeks work!!
Sneaky

Funny thing is Sneaky is that this is exactly what goes on.

I have see first hand companies providing corporate team building activities charging whatever they like and in most cases, the rich employer will go with the most expensive because "it is probably the best"

I know of a certain management training group who will make up prices depending on the client. If they know the client is rich they will simply double the cost of the activities and make huge profits!

This company took a team of 8 managers from a London firm for a week doing climbing, kayaking and management skills challenges and charged the company £120,000 for a weeks work.

Corporate team building seems to be where the money is!

Cheers
James

james_m wrote:

sneaky beaky wrote:Hey Doc,
We could make a fortune here.!
You and I could run a Selection Week for a dozen or so numbskulls and clean up!!
12 * 800 = £9,600. Not bad for a weeks work!!
Sneaky

Funny thing is Sneaky is that this is exactly what goes on.

I have see first hand companies providing corporate team building activities charging whatever they like and in most cases, the rich employer will go with the most expensive because "it is probably the best"

I know of a certain management training group who will make up prices depending on the client. If they know the client is rich they will simply double the cost of the activities and make huge profits!

This company took a team of 8 managers from a London firm for a week doing climbing, kayaking and management skills challenges and charged the company £120,000 for a weeks work.

Corporate team building seems to be where the money is!

Cheers
James

James what you are saying is very true particularly in the corporate market, and the value seems to go "up" according the hke in price.

Funny story; my friend works for Orange. They went on a "management training" session to Legoland... and played with lego for 3 days at the cost of £12,000. And they wonder where comedy material come from? LOL!

Doc wrote: pseudo SF types claiming to sell gen medic type stuff. Usually it amounts to RMA level first aid training with lots of rhetoric about what the SF do in a trauma situation with a bungee and a head torch.

So the fact their CD was tosh and didnt actually work wasn't the dissapointment you would think

looks like yank medicine to me with no sf spin of any kind hilarious or otherwise

does not explain how to get jean reno to remove a bullet from your stomach

Sarastro wrote:I may well be wrong, but my bullshit sense is tingling. That particular course looks like it's a scam run by walts to me, apologies to anyone concerned if I'm wrong.

the coffee cup tests from ronin would help


test 1
knock their cup off the desk, if they catch it before it hits the floor they are definitely covert operatives of some kind

test 2
place a coffee cup on a desk, make target back up into desk by making robert de niro type faces, over acting and generally making him think you are insane, when he knocks cup off desk onto himself this means he is definitely not a covert operative of any kind.
otherwise known as the coffee cup ambush, 'I ambushed you with a COFFEE cup'

I think my role would be very much in line with yours, Doc.
Can I have my burger with onions, please?
I find the whole exercise, very implausible!
Sneaky

Talking of bullsh!te, hows this (sorry dont know how to change the name into a URL thing): http://www.how2become.co.uk/royalmarines.htm

Do you think this is for real?

Somewhat amusing that the 'marine' in the picture they keep using is wearing the wrong colour beret.

If you want anyone to make a mean cup of tea to quench your throat after all that shouting then I'm available.

are you fit sophie?

Black tea no sugar for me, and a saucer please Im not a heathen

sophiebutty wrote:If you want anyone to make a mean cup of tea to quench your throat after all that shouting then I'm available.

I'm not all that bad doc

Hello all,

Why the fcuk would anyone want to do a Pre-Pre Selection? AND pay for it?

21/23 can turn a reasonable (or usually unreasonable) human being into a crag stomping, reservoir dwelling, SLR toting ogre in only 6 months from door to door.

If you require any longer than that to a) get your phys up or b) get your nav/weapon handling together, then you're clearly to slow and fat to ever serve with His Royal Highness' United Kingdom Special Forces (Reserve) - P1SS Artists (TA).

Unless you want to be a driver or OPSINT - in which case go down on a drill night with your NHS number and three passport sized photographs of your best looking sister and recieve your beret and smock (but not the belt, oh no - cos thats for heros).

CS

I reckon its legit, you can tell by the type and colour of the fonts they use that they are obvously the real deal...

SiD wrote:I reckon its legit, you can tell by the type and colour of the fonts they use that they are obvously the real deal...

....that coming from someone who used to e-mail me with white writing on a green background. scary fella!!