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2008-01-01 Afghanistan

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Posted by Mike 2008-01-01 00:44|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
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#1 Way to go Brits! Happy new year!

Posted by newc">newc 2008-01-01 01:50|| 2008-01-01 01:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Ack! The anticipation is killing me! How many bad guys have found useful new roles as fertilizer? Or are they still counting the body parts?

Posted by gorb 2008-01-01 02:05|| 2008-01-01 02:05|| Front Page Top

#3 If he was a Jordie from Tyneside how did the reporter understand him?

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-01-01 03:53|| 2008-01-01 03:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Probably used this handy guide; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordie#Vocabulary

There are people born and bred in Newcastle that can't understand folk who live 20 miles away in Northumberland ;)

Posted by Tony (UK) 2008-01-01 04:58|| 2008-01-01 04:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Good on ya! The British have excellent soldiers, and against 7th century freaks the results are ... well, devastating.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-01-01 08:09|| 2008-01-01 08:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Taliban partying? What can they do for partying?. No alcohol (unislamic). No music (unislamic). No laughing. (unislamic). No dancing (unislamic). No women (unislamic). What's left?

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-01-01 08:57|| 2008-01-01 08:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Young boys?

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-01-01 09:54|| 2008-01-01 09:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Goats for everybody!

Posted by Excalibur 2008-01-01 10:05|| 2008-01-01 10:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Hash and Opium

Posted by 3dc 2008-01-01 10:19|| 2008-01-01 10:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Beheading videos.

Posted by Seafarious 2008-01-01 10:52|| 2008-01-01 10:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Dang! Have you *ever* seen such a good vs evil piece in the American media? Not even a hint of the old $GOOD_NEWS but $POSSIBLE_BAD_CONSEQUENCE meme. Simply heartwarming.

Posted by SteveS 2008-01-01 11:08|| 2008-01-01 11:08|| Front Page Top

#12 SteveS - remember, the U.S. papers don't care about their circulation going into the crapper as long as they hold to the "U.S. bad, enemies good" narrative. It's going to be fun watching them die off, one by one, complaining all the while of "right wing conspiracies." Same mindset as the Hollyweird types making movies for themselves, and the economics be damned.

Posted by PBMcL 2008-01-01 12:25|| 2008-01-01 12:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Hat tip to Sgt Conway and 40 Commando.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-01-01 12:28|| 2008-01-01 12:28|| Front Page Top

#14 Knees-up = party?

Posted by Captain Lewis 2008-01-01 12:37|| 2008-01-01 12:37|| Front Page Top

#15 This is the feel-good story of the new year if'n ever there was.

Posted by Mike 2008-01-01 13:04|| 2008-01-01 13:04|| Front Page Top

#16 In honor of the New Year, here's an intersting bit of British fighting spirit history.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2008-01-01 13:07|| 2008-01-01 13:07|| Front Page Top

#17 Yes Capn Lewis, knees-up very definitely is a party, as in "knees up Mother Brown, knees up Mother Brown, under the table you must go, ee-i-ee-i-ee-i-oh!"

The full lyrics are at the link (if you must ;)

Posted by Tony (UK) 2008-01-01 13:48|| 2008-01-01 13:48|| Front Page Top

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