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2009-02-27 Afghanistan

Army is fighting British jihadists in Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2009-02-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 What an opportunity to thin the herd! Remember, chaps, every one killed over there won't be going home to plot mischief... just like what happened in Iraq. Roach motel, I recall some Rantburgers calling it.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-02-27 00:40|| 2009-02-27 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Think of it as training for liberating Manchester from Islamic occupation.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-02-27 05:22|| 2009-02-27 05:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Fly them all back to the RAF Burtonwood Detention Center. It's close to Manchester and they can see their loved ones on week ends and holidays. Burtonwood has long since closed? hmmm well....

Posted by Besoeker 2009-02-27 07:36|| 2009-02-27 07:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Two competing opportunities here: with that many Brit-Pakis in the Taliban it ought to be relatively easy to emplace some spies. If Britain cannot or will not emplace spies, then they can let it leak that they have emplaced many spies.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-02-27 09:43|| 2009-02-27 09:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Civil war means two sides from a same people or Nation are fighting each others; here, you've got british fighting against muslim pakistaneses and arabs and possibly others, living in GB, but who certainly wouldn't even themselves think they're british, whatever the ID paper may say. It's actually kinda a decolonization war at distance, with the indigenous brits fighting against their colonizers... in afghanistan. How surreal.

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-02-27 12:22|| 2009-02-27 12:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Anonymous, by that definition, the American Revolution was a civil war, we were all British at the time.

Posted by Rednek Jim 2009-02-27 13:02|| 2009-02-27 13:02|| Front Page Top

#7 The War of the Revolution did have a build-in Civil War - nasty one too.

Posted by .5MT 2009-02-27 13:15|| 2009-02-27 13:15|| Front Page Top

#8 5MT, contact me for help with your english, I'll be glad to help.

Posted by Rednek Jim">Rednek Jim 2009-02-27 13:27|| 2009-02-27 13:27|| Front Page Top

#9 sad thing, Jim, is half is a teechur

Posted by Frank G 2009-02-27 15:02|| 2009-02-27 15:02|| Front Page Top

#10 I know many teachers, it's sorta irrelevant, only would count if he's an "American English" Teacher, otherwise he'd not need to be good in English.
By the way, he's fair, but the idioms escape him, no harm, no foul.
I offer in friendship, not as snark.

Posted by Rednek Jim 2009-02-27 16:18|| 2009-02-27 16:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Ummmm .... .5mt mangles the language deliberately, in case that wasn't obvious .....

Posted by lotp 2009-02-27 16:31|| 2009-02-27 16:31|| Front Page Top

#12 By the way, as a machinist I know what a 5 MT really is, I also know there's no such thing as a point 5 MT.

Posted by Rednek Jim">Rednek Jim 2009-02-27 16:32|| 2009-02-27 16:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Half empty, Jim. Half empty.

Posted by lotp 2009-02-27 16:34|| 2009-02-27 16:34|| Front Page Top

#14 What is a 5 MT, Redneck Jim? (Sorry, that missing C, unimportant as it is, has been driving me nuts. Please, please put it back!)

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-02-27 16:43|| 2009-02-27 16:43|| Front Page Top

#15 Simply put, MT stands for Morse Taper (Yes the same Morse that invented Morse code) It's an Quick Change adapter for drills, centers and such in heavy machinery such as huge platform drills (capable of drilling holes at to 6 inches in diameter or larger, (although huge holes are usually not drilled at all, but bored, it's faster)and changing them is very easy, it's a round shallow taper sliced into different sizes, smallest is 1 Morse, and is about 3/4 inch at the big end and 1/2 or so at the small end, the beauty of Morse tapers is that you can simply slam them together by hand and they'll transmit a huge twisting force without slipping, to disconnect, a tapered wedge and a small hammer is used a few taps and they release easily,

the trick here is a 5 MT is about 2 inches across the big end and 1 3/4 at the small end,
Saying "I'm a 5 MT" implies a huge male appendage.

Off topic, OK TW the idea wasn't to irritate, the "C"s' back. JIM

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2009-02-27 18:59|| 2009-02-27 18:59|| Front Page Top

#16 *happy sigh* Learning!! Thank you twice for that, Jim dear, and a third time for putting back your C. I didn't think you meant to annoy, only that you didn't notice one of the things I get silly about. May I buy you a drink in the O Club to make up for it?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-02-27 22:19|| 2009-02-27 22:19|| Front Page Top

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