I'm sure there will be 'misery' next week when the EU comes along to 'raid' it back again. Do these idiots not notice that their pensions don't actually fluctuate by 10,000% every month?

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Soppy anti-British, pro-crime, anti-education, pro-immigration, anti-family nonentity

I thought a similar thing when I kept seeing Taleban fighters being called cowardly for using IEDs. No, admittedly, it's not lining up at a prearranged time for a good clean fight, but then we're hovering over them in $50,000,000 flying death machines. We use unmanned drones to kill them without ever going near them. We're not exactly undergunned compared to them. They're trying to hurt a vastly superior force, they're not going to line up and wait to be hit by a bomb dropped by an unseen Predator a few miles away, controlled by a 'brave' pilot sitting at a screen on a Texan airbase.

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The upper hand is on the other foot now.

Feb 13th.


Feb 15th.

Exactly. You'd have to go back to fighting hand to hand with swords not to be "cowardly". Modern warfare is all about killing at long range.

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Sick Left-wing Zealot.

Not sure it makes much difference to the coverage what sort of range they're fighting at- Express and co. are happy enough to describe suicide bombers as 'cowardly' when it suits- surely the least appropriate hostile adjective you could think of.

Bastard Royalty laughing at our brave boys

There was a docu-drama on one of the History channels recently dramatising the experiences of a young Spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain. When you consider the amount of danger those men faced every time they went up into the air it highlights the intellectual dishonesty of using WWII language and themes to glorify modern day warfare. Back then, after flying half a dozen missions a day, every day for weeks on end, if your concentration dipped or you showed a hint of fatigue, your number was pretty much up. Nowadays, take your eye off the ball and you might bomb a wedding instead of a compound. I don't have the figures to back this up but judging by the news you could be forgiven for thinking our own helicopters kill more airmen than the Taliban do.

Not, of course, that this diminishes their "hero" status one iota.

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"Common Sense is the collection of prejudices aquired by age eighteen" - Albert Einstein

I think this sort of coverage has been going on since the Crimean war.
The assumption that the enemy aren't up for a straight fight.

Russians shooting cannon at our brave light horse - the blighters.
Zulus using sharp spears (You'll ave someone's eye out with that).
Cunning Boers hiding and taking pot shots at our lads in their obliging formations.


Ever since that, "Cunning" has been a byword for the inscrutable sneaky foreigner.
And when they're not being cunning, chances are that they're doing something with jackboots.

Coventry vs Dresden.

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

Archetypal Express front page.
Free crap.
More free crap.
Cancer cure.
Maddie.

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Sick Left-wing Zealot.

Are they sponsored by bloody SmithKline or what?

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"Now get those trousers off before someone dies!"

Parents' joy as Express exploits the tragic disappearance of their daughter to sell newspapers, again.

Will this add another 20 years to the state retirement age?

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Sick Left-wing Zealot.

Come off it. That's a hilarious spoof parody of an Express front page, surely. Can't possibly be an actual one.




Can it?

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I'm a nasty, violent lefty. You cunt.

There's a tit on the front cover, BAN THIS SICK FILTH!

P.S. Yes, I do think he's a tit. I lost any respect I could possibly have had when his ITV show "tackled" gaming about two years ago.

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Changin' avatars like there's no tomorrow