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well said that man,i fully agree with you.:clap2::clap2::clap2::clap2:
Land Rover World Record Attempt, Gaydon 23-24 April 2011
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well said that man,i fully agree with you.:clap2::clap2::clap2::clap2:
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bollix there paid assasins they aint been called up....
Strewth redhand so cynical! A few points to allay your concerns
All profits from the event will go to the charity Help for Heroes. Thats stated loud and clear on the homepage of the website. Youve obviously never run a charity event, for if you had you would realise that there are always hidden costs involved, and unless you have the financial clout to fund the event out of your own pocket, then some of the admission/camping fees have to be diverted to meet these costs. A mate who is a farmer can give you a field, but you still have to supply water, toilets, etc. The Motor Heritage Centre at Gaydon is a registered charity itself, so they are not going to simply let event organisers turn up and run an event for nothing, even if it is for Help for Heroes, cancer, feed the planet, whatever!
No organiser is making a profit for themselves from CONVOY for HEROES. In fact everyone involved from the bottom to the very top is paying for entry, admission and optional camping exactly the same as everybody else!!!
CONVOY for HEROES is being run by volunteers.
The target of 500 is sensible Ill explain exactly why. To break the record is not as easy as folk think. In recent years the Dutch and the Belgians tried it not once but twice. They failed on both occasions, and this was despite having 800 Land Rovers at the first attempt, 1,200 at the second. If the logistics arent right it will fail. The event was established with only 260 Landies, but as it was done correctly in the eye of the adjudicating panel at Guinness World Records, the record was verified. Besides, I go back to my guess that youve never run an event before. Have you any notion what its like to corral 500 vehicles? Plus of course there are all the spectators and traders vehicles to accommodate! No, didnt think so.
Fair enough for being sceptical redhand, its the age we live in, but let me assure you CONVOY for HEROES is 100% genuine. Its being organised and marshaled by volunteers all of whom are Land Rover enthusiasts, and the folk at the top so to speak are decent people with only one intention to raise as much money as possible for what is a very worthy cause.
Yes the Help for Heroes charity is the flavour of the month at the moment, you seem to see it everywhere, but thats only because the British public have finally realised that our Armed Forces are doing a stirling and often thankless task out in Afghanistan, so deserve our support when they return home either injured or traumatised by the whole sorry affair that is war.
Now you realise what this event is all about, I trust you will be joining us next April?
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no their not bob,they have volunteered to fight and protect our country and the people in it.they get ordered to go to which ever country they are told to go to.i have done this you have not,so dont call soldiers when you have not got the balls to do it yourself.all you seem to do is smoke yer drugs and climb bloody trees ffs.well done you hey.if this country ever needs tree killers you would be the last one to be called up.
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bollix why would anyone do that for the countrys politicians and oil is beyond me...no their not bob,they have volunteered to fight and protect our country and the people in it.they get ordered to go to which ever country they are told to go to.i have done this you have not,so dont call soldiers when you have not got the balls to do it yourself.all you seem to do is smoke yer drugs and climb bloody trees ffs.well done you hey.if this country ever needs tree killers you would be the last one to be called up.
they get paid.......
no their not bob,they have volunteered to fight and protect our country and the people in it.
World war is one thing this Iraq and Afghanistan **** is another.
If you join and get paid-I'd sit this one out for the **** it is.
I'd do armed resistance, but **** that ****.
they get ordered to go to which ever country they are told to go to.i have done this you have not,so dont call soldiers when you have not got the balls to do it yourself.all you seem to do is smoke yer drugs and climb bloody trees ffs.well done you hey.if this country ever needs tree killers you would be the last one to be called up.
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World war is one thing this Iraq and Afghanistan **** is another.
If you join and get paid-I'd sit this one out for the **** it is.
I'd do armed resistance, but **** that ****.
i agree we should not be there,but if you refuse a direct order you are in very very deep doo doo beleive me.you would not have joined the army etc if you would not be prepared to fight for YOUR COUNTRY.
If you join and get paid-I'd sit this one out for the **** it is.
I'd do armed resistance, but **** that ****.
i agree we should not be there,but if you refuse a direct order you are in very very deep doo doo beleive me.you would not have joined the army etc if you would not be prepared to fight for YOUR COUNTRY.
Correct I wouldn't fight for something I do not believe in, bush,blair and brown are war criminals.
I would have happily been a resistance fighter/spy or fighter pilot in world war two.
There is no gallantry or honor in fighting a war that has needlessly killed innocent people.
My opinion would be secure the countries frontiers and contain the **** in the country.
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refusing an order would make you look a **** and get you filled-in
The Armed forces is away of life not a job you knock off at 5 and forget.
Bob you have just made ya self look a prick.
The Armed forces is away of life not a job you knock off at 5 and forget.
Bob you have just made ya self look a prick.
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so you would not be a soldier,but you would be a FIGHTER PILOT,they kill a lot more peeps than a soldier does.
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peeps who have never served in the forces have no idea how it all works have they.
nope. and never will.
so you would not be a soldier,but you would be a FIGHTER PILOT,they kill a lot more peeps than a soldier does.
I wouldn't be anything in current conflict, it is a conflict without honor and is part of America's empire building scheme.
Your not fighting for your own people, your fighting for a cesspit **** hole and a poorly educated backward nation.
Here's an Idea a British foreign legion-send prison scum out there.
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i understand what your saying,but when you sign up you have to go where they tell you to,no if's or buts.
i understand what your saying,but when you sign up you have to go where they tell you to,no if's or buts.
I hear what your saying, but I think history will be the judge of things and I wouldn't join up unless my very way of life was under threat.(current conflicts are nothing like world war 2)
Lock down the cesspit, not stir up a hornets nest- Vietnam springs to mind.
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i understand what your saying,but when you sign up you have to go where they tell you to,no if's or buts.
which is exactly why I would never sign up.....I dont trust the feckers as far as I can throw em.......ffs we live in a country where a woman was arrested under anti-terror laws for reading out the names of british forces KIA within 1km of no10???? god help anyone who mentions Iraqi/Afgan civilians....women....children
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thats ok in theory,but what do you say to the soldier that has joined up before any of these conflicts started.ie the gulf war etc.
Also it ****es me off that their is the implication that it is done on our behalf and without consultation we all agree or are un patriotic.
From various independent accounts I am convinced that 9/11 was staged as too many very peculiar things.
From various independent accounts I am convinced that 9/11 was staged as too many very peculiar things.
