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| Rupert Everett Apologizes To UK Troops For Calling Them "Wimps" |
| 2008-06-11 |
| Nothing says "manly man" like Rupert Everett. |
| Posted by:charger |
| #5 According to Wikipedia, he wouldn't get into too many Roman shindigs... ...but he dropped out of school aged 15 and ran away to London to become an actor. In order to support himself, he worked as a male prostitute, or "rent boy", for drugs and money as he later admitted to US magazine in 1997 |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-06-11 16:39 |
| #4 back in Roman times prostitutes, actors and other low trades were not allowed to attend high ceremonies of states that the rest of the plebs could go to... |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2008-06-11 16:33 |
| #3 actors = light weight low lifes. |
| Posted by: RD 2008-06-11 13:05 |
| #2 I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here." The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die, I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I: O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away"; But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play - The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play, O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play. I went into a theatre as sober as could be, They gave a drunk civilian room, but 'adn't none for me; They sent me to the gallery or round the music-'alls, But when it comes to fightin', Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls! For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, wait outside"; But it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide - The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide, O it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide. |
| Posted by: gromky 2008-06-11 05:03 |
| #1 The apology came after he said during an interview to promote his new film The Victorian Sex Explorer – in which he plays the renowned explorer Sir Richard Burton: "In Burton's day they were itching to get into the fray. "Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now! "The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits," he said in the interview published in The Sunday Telegraph. "Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining! "The whole point of being in the Army is going to war and getting yourself blown up. That and p---ing on prisoners. Yet we all get shocked by Abu Ghraib." He won't be going to any pubs soon. |
| Posted by: Blinky Elmaitch9489 2008-06-11 02:22 |