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2007-09-24 Down Under
Australian navy pays for breast enlargements
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Posted by Gleck Unavising7367 2007-09-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 D *** NG IT, FARK.com keeps telling the world threads like this are useless without more pics.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-09-24 00:16||   2007-09-24 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Clearly these operations were given to these sailors strictly on the basis of safety.

As any military man will tell you - women with larger breasts float "face up" rather than "face down". Obviously, an important consideration for a sailor!
Posted by Leigh 2007-09-24 00:43||   2007-09-24 00:43|| Front Page Top

#3 The Royal Australian Navy is under pressure to explain why it has spent tens of thousands of pounds paying for female sailors to have breast enlargements

Because Australian sailors were allowed to vote on the issue. Any boob could figure that out.
Posted by gorb 2007-09-24 00:49||   2007-09-24 00:49|| Front Page Top

#4 This all goes to show that not even the government has the biggest boobs.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-09-24 00:57||   2007-09-24 00:57|| Front Page Top

#5 AAhh, The twin gazelles; mounds of Sharon. The elixir that has launched a thousand quests in the pursuit of meaning, contentment in the peace of nature. The spark of the universe, can be conceived in the cleavage of this aspiration!
Posted by smn 2007-09-24 03:52||   2007-09-24 03:52|| Front Page Top

#6 BIGGER GUNS, HAPPY NAVY
Posted by Boss Craising2882 2007-09-24 07:36||   2007-09-24 07:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Ooops. Busted!
Posted by Mike 2007-09-24 08:27||   2007-09-24 08:27|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm in favor of it, I guess. But only for the girls.
Posted by Fred 2007-09-24 09:06||   2007-09-24 09:06|| Front Page Top

#9 You wouldn't subsidize Neuticles for the boys, Fred?

Isn't that somewhat discriminatory?
Posted by lotp 2007-09-24 09:20||   2007-09-24 09:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Ferchrissakes, the Australian Navy is now officially in the business of trying to buy people out of their self-esteem issues. Sounds decidely unmilitary.

OTOH, before today I've never had even the slightest interest in being an Australian sailor.

This article is just begging for some alterate lyrics to that Men at Work song about the Land Down Under.
Posted by Mike N. 2007-09-24 09:27||   2007-09-24 09:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Breast enlargement, covered.
Breast reduction, not covered.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-09-24 10:10||   2007-09-24 10:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Esprit de corps and morale?
Posted by JohnQC 2007-09-24 10:11||   2007-09-24 10:11|| Front Page Top

#13 Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
Posted by Anonymoose 2007-09-24 10:37||   2007-09-24 10:37|| Front Page Top

#14 Bucking for CNO?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-09-24 10:40||   2007-09-24 10:40|| Front Page Top

#15 That's a civilized country!
Posted by gromgoru 2007-09-24 12:29||   2007-09-24 12:29|| Front Page Top

#16 from what I've seen of the general female population of OZ, breast reductions might be more appropriate... all those moving machine parts, donchayaknow.
Posted by Glaitch tse Tung7081 2007-09-24 13:02||   2007-09-24 13:02|| Front Page Top

#17 On a bit of a serious note, the USN used to pay for operations of what might be considered 'cosmetic' due to ensuring medical staff remain current on these procedures. I was fortunate enough to be fitted with some gold crowns rather than synthetic ones as the dentist was required to fit 'x' a year. this may be the case here.
Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-09-24 13:57||   2007-09-24 13:57|| Front Page Top

#18 When I was stationed at P.I. 4 yrs ago we had some female DI's go on convalescent leave and get breast implants. They even got the gov't to pay 80% of the costs (like $4K a surgery). The base CG caught wind of this and put a stop to future operations after about 5 of them got it done. The females used the same line as these Aussie sailors -- low self esteem or some such.
Posted by Broadhead6 2007-09-24 14:44||   2007-09-24 14:44|| Front Page Top

#19 They wanted to run with larger breasts? No doubt they quickly came to regret that choice.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-24 14:47||   2007-09-24 14:47|| Front Page Top

#20 TW, sometimes I wonder if you leave yourself open on purpose.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-09-24 14:55||   2007-09-24 14:55|| Front Page Top

#21 Nimble Spemble dear, I've no idea what you're on about.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-24 15:48||   2007-09-24 15:48|| Front Page Top

#22 This article is just begging for some alterate lyrics to that Men at Work song about the Land Down Under.

Your wish is my command, mate. (With apologies to Colin Hay)

Sailing on a fried out frigate
On a navy detail, ready to wig it
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
I dropped my gaze and she called me perverse
And I said,

"Do you come from a land down under?
Where the boobs grow and men wonder
Are these real and not a surgical blunder?
Or is this just another government funder?

Passing by the bras at Grace Brothers
I ran across Avril Carruthers
She asked, “Do you speak-a my language?”
I replied, “I’m a linguist, I just might manage.”
And she said,

"I come from a land down under
Where brassieres snap from stress, no wonder
If those straps, if they tear asunder
You better run, you better take cover."

Lying in my bunk in Sydney
With a sore jaw and full kidney
Had to ask her, "Are you trying to tempt me
Because your cups runneth over plenty?
And I said,

"Do you come from a land down under?
Where the boobs grow and men wonder
Are these real and not a surgical blunder?
Or is this just another government funder?
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-09-24 15:55||   2007-09-24 15:55|| Front Page Top

#23 I feel this breast
Posted by wxjames 2007-09-24 16:19||   2007-09-24 16:19|| Front Page Top

#24 oops, I hit submit

what was I saying again ?
Posted by wxjames 2007-09-24 16:20||   2007-09-24 16:20|| Front Page Top

#25 Like Goddess Oprah says: you have to increase, lift and separate that self-esteem. (Sarcasm alert)
Posted by McZoid 2007-09-24 18:57||   2007-09-24 18:57|| Front Page Top

#26 The US Army perform breast enlargements for female soldiers but with certain restrictions : 1) permission of the commander (elective surgery and the soldier will be on restricted duty for awhile); 2) the soldier buys the implants out of her own pocket; 3) the base hospital has a surgeon qualified in elective plastic surgery. The US Army permits the breast augmentations in these conditions since there are a number of female soldiers in danger zones in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places; and IED, fire, or projectile injuries to the chest would fall under the military's general rule about necessary corrective cosmetic surgery. By allowing the surgeries but having the women pay for the implants, the military keeps its doctors current on the procedure but is not actually promoting said procedure.
It seems to be popular with female MPs and drivers after a tour in a war zone : they have lots of money in their pockets and decide to do a little "home improvement" while they can afford it.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-09-24 21:19||   2007-09-24 21:19|| Front Page Top

#27 Trailing Wife (#19), after thinking about it for a few minutes, it donned on me, where would anyone in the navy need to run, Big Boobs or not?? Starboard? Port?
Posted by smn 2007-09-24 22:26||   2007-09-24 22:26|| Front Page Top

#28 Zenster, I got the parody bug in and out of my system in high school, but that is very good.
Posted by Grunter 2007-09-24 23:11||   2007-09-24 23:11|| Front Page Top

#29 smn, Broadhead6 is a U.S. Marine, so I assume his female drill instructors at Parris Island are Marines, too. Last I heard, Marines run. A lot. Big, bouncing breasts hurt under those conditions. Run a marathon, and a girl will want to pull an Amazon on both sides, because that would hurt less.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-24 23:28||   2007-09-24 23:28|| Front Page Top

#30 *cough* *cough* - Ahem, D ***NG IT, IN OTHER MILITARY NEWS, STRATEGYPAGE > CHINA'S PLAN TO ACHIEVE AIR SUPERIORITY OVER AMERICA. All the article says is that in time, history suggests that America like Great Britain will suffer some sort of decline allowing young turks [maybe China, maybe not]to get ahead; + CHINESE DEFENSE
FORUM NEWS > CHINA'S PLA SECOND ARTILLERY [STRATEGIC MISSLE FORCES] INTENDS TO SINK US CARRIERS, + PLAN'S NEW SHANG-CLASS SUBMARINE. MRV's = MIRV warheads in cluster swarm will hopefully sink one, or at least scare away. Lastly, WAFF > CHINA AND INDIA LEAD ASIA'S MISSLE BUILDUP, + RUSSIA TO EXPAND SU-25 FROGFOOT PRODUCTION. DEFENSETECH.org > HEAD FOR THE HILLS -ARMY'S BATTLEFIELD RAY GUN IS HERE, + LASERS FOR PHALANX CIWS UNDER DEVELOPMENT.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-09-24 23:39||   2007-09-24 23:39|| Front Page Top

#31 I got the parody bug in and out of my system in high school, but that is very good.

Thank you, Grunter. I may be getting older but I refuse to grow up.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-09-24 23:45||   2007-09-24 23:45|| Front Page Top

#32 If China can't make toothpaste without someone getting poisoned, what odds they'll be able to beat American flying machines and submarines?
Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-24 23:46||   2007-09-24 23:46|| Front Page Top

#33 If China can't make toothpaste without someone getting poisoned

They actually can, just not for us kwai loh.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-09-24 23:56||   2007-09-24 23:56|| Front Page Top

#34 will the PLAN compete by preforming Breast Enlargments too?

After all they need to contest the US and its allies in all areas.

Posted by 3dc 2007-09-24 23:58||   2007-09-24 23:58|| Front Page Top

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