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Posted: Fri 18 Sep, 2009 11:08 am
by nel
You'll be fine just get a train journey planner from the internet and print it off, look for the platform and away you go, also I resent the fact that my generation are softer we deal with fecking chav mongs who would stab you in the face for 50 pence or would shoot you in the back, at the very least a scenario I witnessed the other day, sitting on a bench in the middle of town(nottingham) and some lad my age (21) punched this other bloke(30) clean off his bike infront of his nan
, then said bloke got up and beat him across the head with the bike
, then that bloke got up and pulled out a fecking Dog the bounty hunter style CS gas canister
and sprayed him and his relative in the face. I for one have grown up around shit like this most of my life and am not what you call soft. However I do have morals and enjoyed being able to play hide and seek in the local woods with 30 mates when younger without anyone holding my hand.
Our generation dont seem to be doing to bad a job out in Afghanistan do they?
Posted: Fri 18 Sep, 2009 11:37 am
by Wholley
I don't think it's a generational problem,more a governmental one.
The"Nanny"state has a lot to answer for.
I'll expound my views further if anyone is interested.
Except Flighty of course,who already knows
Posted: Fri 18 Sep, 2009 11:40 am
by HRH
Well I have 5 and a half hours till hometime and would be interested to hear more Wholley
Posted: Fri 18 Sep, 2009 12:48 pm
by jstagg
The thoughts all ways worse than the Deed, try a 8hour trip from Somerset to Catterick.
Posted: Fri 18 Sep, 2009 1:43 pm
by HRH
Good luck for sunday
Posted: Fri 18 Sep, 2009 9:03 pm
by flighty
Good luck for Sunday, all and Wholley ...... get fooked!!!!!
Posted: Fri 18 Sep, 2009 9:07 pm
by flighty
How about three days and nights on a train from London to Athens? Slept on the floor by the toilets.
Posted: Fri 18 Sep, 2009 9:26 pm
by Wholley
flighty wrote: all and Wholley ...... get fooked!!!!!
Chance would be a fine thing
Try crossing the Atlantic in a small sail boat...
28 days,wet through,cold,starving,no cigarettes,no rum,boat rolling on it's beam-ends,HEAVEN!!!!!
Arrrr.....
Cap'n Pugwash
Posted: Fri 18 Sep, 2009 9:39 pm
by flighty
Cool response.
Got bacon and eggs going on. Bollocks y'awl!
Posted: Fri 18 Sep, 2009 9:44 pm
by flighty
no bloody eggs and smoke alarm going mental. Time I went to bed.
Posted: Fri 18 Sep, 2009 9:49 pm
by flighty
Posted: Sat 19 Sep, 2009 9:21 am
by Tab
I wonder what is going to happen the first time an NCO bawls him out and screams at 180 decibels in his ear
Posted: Sat 19 Sep, 2009 11:47 am
by jstagg
Or a week and two days out of training straight to Afghan, seriously his is reeaaally scary.
Posted: Sun 20 Sep, 2009 12:09 am
by gunner75
well i was 16 when i left home. namely because me and my old man were fiercly competitive and i wanted to 'show' him. but i was also very streetwise. i often hear alot of stories from older lads i.e 19 or 20 bleating about things and i genuinley think you need to get a grip mate and stop being soft.
Posted: Sun 20 Sep, 2009 3:18 am
by ofens
I used to feel scared of the 10 minute train ride back to camp after weekend leave.
I don't mind admitting that!
My brother once told me that at 20 years in he still felt sick at the sight of the barbed wire!
Now, this post may have been started as a joke/prank, and that's fine - tosser! - but the reality of going to basic training is still the same stressful event it always has been.
It's just we didn't have potentially anonymous internet forums to vent our feelings on before.