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Heard that McNab's undies are excellent if you are tired of your wife: give hear a pair of camouflaged and you'll never find her again.
>>By Lynn (Tuesday, 6 Dec 2005 13:59)
spiketheprovo:
aib, do you really think that if mcnab had stayed with the green jackets or if he'd been para, he would have had the same success ?
a-i-b:
Good grief, of course not! It's only because of the B20 mission that AM ventured into writing at all. And, fortunately for me, I was captured by his books! :o)
spiketheprovo:
Let's face it, he's using the Regiment for his own goal.
a-i-b:
Huh?--"using" the Regiment? Ohmigod! You may be right! Are you thinking what I'm thinking? The Regiment's SpecOps guys (all volunteers, of course!) being "used" to carry out dangerous, covert panty-raids! What a brilliant... err-uhm... marketing strategy! ;oP
spiketheprovo:
He should stick to his books.
a-i-b:
No kidding! ;oD
>>By am-i-binned (Tuesday, 6 Dec 2005 18:21)
The news ain't all pants - when the dust has settled on this knicker madness in a day or two, the good news is going to be that Aggressor is Number One on the Sunday Times bestseller list.
>>By fastball (Tuesday, 6 Dec 2005 19:39)
Thanks for the update, Fastball! :o)
>>By am-i-binned (Tuesday, 6 Dec 2005 20:53)
Wonderful news and fully expected, and earned!!! Aggressor was wonderful. I loved it. Time has rightly come for Andy's writing to be honored with a top-of -the -charts!
I highly recommend Aggressor for any thriller reader.
>>By Reighnman (Wednesday, 7 Dec 2005 00:58)
Well i have got to say that Mcnab has lost the plot "underwear line" wtf?. From squaddie to authour to designing lingerie, personnaly i have never cared about the design only how to get them off (and some have required a bit of dems work). As far as the marine videos, Whats wrong with that? it's just a bit of fun and that was kinda light in comparison to other antics the average brit squaddie gets up to. eg a milk race, i'll leave it to your own imagination but involves two sections facing each other and staring into each others eyes, (not gay, just one of the games that come up) and theres also freckles but i will leave that to your detective skills if you really want to know.
>>By fony (Wednesday, 7 Dec 2005 13:11)
Fony,
Wars hell, but you did not help your fellow Royals with that? hahahaha
Hope all well with you and your're safe as can be. Good to see your post!
>>By Reighnman (Wednesday, 7 Dec 2005 14:23)
What does a sixteen-year-old girl need more than anything? Underwear that are easy for a squaddie to take off of her (I'm a civ, never had any prob figuring that bit out).
What do under-paid squaddies who will have virtually no job opportunities after leaving the forces need more than anything? A freakin' statue, of course!
And again, what do young readers need? Books about the S-A-ass-kickin-S is what!
Do you not see the evil plot here? I'll spell it out for you:
Kid buys book. Kid forgoes the classics in favor of military thrillers. Kid fails to complete school. Kid meets equally ill-informed girl-kid, whose underwear are surprisingly easy to remove. Kid gets her preggers, joins military to support the yard ape. With no other options, kid stays in so he'll get in on the statue commitee, but dies in a middle-eastern KFC bombing before the statue's ever built. MOD gives Andy his finder's fee.
QED.
>>By Just Jon (Thursday, 8 Dec 2005 01:16)
Don'rt worry ladies and Gents, JJ had a hard day at work, and someone took his toilet tonight when he returned home.
True story folks, so cut him some slack.
>>By Reighnman (Thursday, 8 Dec 2005 02:35)
Hmmm....
Anybody remember that scene in the movie "Good Will Hunting" where Will is asked what he thought about taking a job working for N.S.A.?
Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody
puts a code on my desk, something nobody
else can break. So I take a shot at
it and maybe I break it. And I'm real
happy with myself, 'cause I did my job
well. But maybe that code was the
location of some rebel army in North
Africa or the Middle East. Once they
have that location, they bomb the
village where the rebels were hiding
and fifteen hundred people I never had
a problem with get killed.
Now the politicians are sayin' "send
in the Marines to secure the area"
'cause they don't give a shit. It
won't be their kid over there, gettin'
shot. Just like it wasn't them when
their number got called, 'cause they
were pullin' a tour in the National
Guard. It'll be some guy from Southie
takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he
comes home to find that the plant he
used to work at got exported to the
country he just got back from.
And the guy who put the shrapnel in
his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll
work for fifteen cents a day and no
bathroom breaks.
Meanwhile my buddy from Southie realizes
the only reason he was over there was
so we could install a government that
would sell us oil at a good price.
And of course the oil companies used
the skirmish to scare up oil prices so
they could turn a quick buck. A cute,
little ancillary benefit for them but
it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty
a gallon. And naturally they're takin'
their sweet time bringin' the oil back
and maybe even took the liberty of
hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes
to drink seven and sevens and play
slalom with the icebergs and it ain't
too long 'til he hits one, spills the
oil, and kills all the sea-life in the
North Atlantic. So my buddy's out of
work and he can't afford to drive so
he's got to walk to the job interviews
which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his
ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids.
And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every
time he tries to get a bite to eat the
only blue-plate special they're servin'
is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State.
So what'd I think? I'm holdin' out
for somethin' better. I figure I'll
eliminate the middle man. Why not
just shoot my buddy, take his job and
give it to his sworn enemy, hike up
gas prices, bomb a village, club a
baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join
the National Guard? Christ, I could
be elected President.
Hate to disillusion you, Just Jon, but when it comes to cynical extrapolation, Will Hunting you're not... :oP
Source: http://www.un-official.com/GWH/GoodWillS.html
(the screenplay as originally written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck)
PS: purloined potty = pissy posts…? ;o)
>>By am-i-binned (Thursday, 8 Dec 2005 15:13)
jon, nice conspiracy theory although slightly dramatised. and anyway whats wrong with easy off underwear, saves a lot of that foreplay crap huh!
Reighnman "Fony,
Wars hell, but you did not help your fellow Royals with that? hahahaha"
whats that supposed to mean?
>>By fony (Thursday, 8 Dec 2005 16:10)
Fony,
Only refering to the mention of the naked Royal Marines...ie: not my style!
Thats all,
>>By Reighnman (Thursday, 8 Dec 2005 20:07)
no probs i just read it wrong, sorry i was suffering from a severe hangover when i read it. thx for the explanation.
>>By fony (Thursday, 8 Dec 2005 21:16)
Andy Mcnabs new range of underwear has show that his years as an operator in the sas have not let him down. all panties/knickers come with a map to the g spot and are edible in case your caught by the enemy or her husband.
>>By fony (Friday, 9 Dec 2005 12:59)
LOL, fony!!!
And also, in the event of hostile contact or should push come to shove, there's a special little "something" tucked away in the waistband!
"Sources" report that after intensive personal test marketing of the original 1991 prototype, AM's reaction was: "It was a wonderful feeling: you don't know this, big nose, but I've still got an escape map and compass, so up yours."
;oP
>>By am-i-binned (Friday, 9 Dec 2005 14:40)
it's getting underweary now ;-)
Daily Record GET IN THE GOOD BOOKS Shari Low gives her guide to the best reads around for Christmas prezzies.
FOR BLOKES
The Innocent, by Harlan Coben
Jamie's Italy, by Jamie Oliver (??? she's saying "SOMETIMES subtle hints just aren't enough.")
If he resists, give him The Aggressor by Andy McNab instead (SAS, guns, baddies, explosions and not a vol-au-vent in sight)
For blokes huh
So what's on the ladies list according to Low....
Romancing The World: A Biography Of Il Divo, by Allegra Rossi
Lovers & Players, by Jackie Collins
Have Love Will Travel, by Lucy Sweet
BLEH!!!
>>By Lynn (Saturday, 10 Dec 2005 13:33)
not sure about Jamie oliver but harlan coben is a good author, I've read a couple of his books and they ain't half bad.
>>By fony (Saturday, 10 Dec 2005 21:24)
Okay - why does all the book titles under ladies have to involve romance or love. ?
I want books about the SAS, SBS and military history... maybe other books not on the military, and I can not deny that love can be a theme. Maybe i'm in a rare branch of the female species, and can not be represented on such a best read list :) (but maybe we are not so rare, considering how many ladies are following the likes of Andy McNab)
>>By Elendar (Saturday, 10 Dec 2005 23:30)
Full Mental Jacket
By Andy McNab
(Filed: 11/12/2005)
When I heard that Hollywood was to adapt Jarhead, Anthony Swofford's excellent memoirs, into a major motion picture, I was worried that the film version would not do it justice. What struck me most about reading Jarhead was how Swofford's descriptions of his time spent serving as a US Marine during the Gulf war rang so true. I feared that Hollywood would do to Jarhead what it usually does to American military memoirs: reduce it to mostly bravado, very little fact.
I served in the British Army for 18 years, with 10 of those spent in the Special Air Service. I was fortunate enough to have served with United States forces during that time. I earned my air assault wings with their 101st Airborne, my parachute wings with the 82nd Airborne, and spent a lot of time with US Marine sniper units stationed at Quantico, Virginia, during my time as an SAS sniper. Swofford, too, was a sniper, so we have something in common. Our job was to do one thing: kill the enemy.
(...)
Some people might find it uncomfortable watching young men get excited about blowing other human beings apart, but this is the natural result of training soldiers to be aggressive and to want to fight. It happens in training camps around the world. I have been to a number of funerals of SAS men who died in action and at each of them Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries was played. Soldiers get excited by violence because they are trained to be - they need to be - so that they are able to kill people. We do not have to like this fact, but we need to understand it. This film helps us do that.
(...)
What is extraordinary about this film is that it has no heroes, no bang-bang, and no blood and guts. If you are looking for a gory war film, don't bother going to see it. But if you want to see a realistic and thought-provoking account of the psychology of soldiers in wartime, sit back and enjoy.
Full article on:
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=
/news/2005/12/11/njarhead11.xml
>>By Lynn (Sunday, 11 Dec 2005 15:20)
Good post lynn i had reservations about what hollywood would do to the film after such a brilliant book. but i watched the film and it does the book justice although not as good. The defining moment of the film for me was when they had the chance to take out an iraqi officer in a control tower, and just as swafford was in the zone, an officer bursts in telling them to hold fire he has put an air strike in. His spotters reaction to this is brilliant and the actors really are brilliant. Well worth watching, but this is a look at the mental state of soldiers.
>>By fony (Sunday, 11 Dec 2005 16:04)
Should go see it, doubt it's in theaters here yet. I'll check. Ah, January 12 next year. This Dutch movie site had an anecdote btw:
Acteur Jake Gyllenhaal viel een tegenspeler aan nadat hij gewond was geraakt tijdens het filmen van de oorlogsfilm 'Jarhead'. Gyllenhaal beschadigde een van zijn tanden tijdens een scène en flipte daarna helemaal. Hierop sloeg hij zijn medespeler meerdere malen.
Jake zat naar eigen zeggen zo in de scène dat hij zich niet van zijn rol kon distantiëren. Regisseur Sam Mendes ('American Beauty') legt uit hoe dat komt: “Je staat midden in de woestijn, het is zowat 40 graden, geen schaduw, je hoort niets door de wind en je bent al weken weg van huis. Ik denk dat Jake door zulke barre omstandigheden vergat dat hij aan het acteren was.”
Gyllenhaal attacked a co-actor when one of his teeth got damaged during filming, he hit the guy several times. Apparently, also because of 'tough' circumstances (40 C degrees, no shadow, weeks away from home etc) he forgot he was acting, he couldn't distance himself from his character, or so director Mendes explained.
So you soldiers beat each other up all the time or are actors not trained for circumstances like that?
The article doesnt say if the other actor was 'damaged' by Gyllenhaal
>>By Lynn (Sunday, 11 Dec 2005 18:33)
Must say, the movie website is very neat too!
http://www.jarheadmovie.com/welcometothesuck.html
>>By Lynn (Monday, 12 Dec 2005 00:01)
I mean... BCG's?? hahaha
>>By Lynn (Monday, 12 Dec 2005 00:04)
Yeah the site is good - I also like the wallpapers.. I have them a rotation this week, a new one everyday :) Just to cheer me up.
>>By Elendar (Monday, 12 Dec 2005 13:06)
And was Fastball right...;-)
The Sunday Times - Books
HARDBACKS: Fiction
1. Aggressor/Andy McNab
(Bantam Press £17.99)
Nick Stone is stung back into action by a terrorist atrocity
25,595 (69,180)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/
0,,2775-1910958_3,00.html
>>By Lynn (Monday, 12 Dec 2005 16:15)
Woo-hoo!!! x 2...
(1) Fastball = excellent call!
(2) Aggressor, and Payback, arrived Saturday via snailmail! :oD
>>By am-i-binned (Monday, 12 Dec 2005 17:11)
Shifting gears a bit, a question came up on another messageboard about the definition of precanulation, which reminded me of a question I've been kicking around ever since reading B20, so I'm doing a bit of cross-posting...
Could anyone explain AM's "fizzer" comment? (This is after the LUP has been compromised by the goatherder boy, and they're preparing to move out of the wadi.)
"... 'I'll put you on a fizzer!' Vince shouted as he went out and took over from Stan on the Minimi. It was a standard piss-taking joke, referring to a piece of army slang that people think is said but which in fact is never heard. ..."
I've found definitions ranging from slang for firecracker to an outstandingly lively or excellent thing (UK) to a failure or fiasco (AU/NZ). But I can't figure out what AM (quoting Vince) is actually talking about. What is the piss-taking joke and/or army slang that is never heard?
>>By am-i-binned (Tuesday, 13 Dec 2005 15:55)
@ crossposting: ditto. I read it's (precannulation) something "apparently in limited use with specialized UK units. It is obviously used only in short-duration, high-intensity urban environments"
Is this indeed something British? And why?
>>By Lynn (Tuesday, 13 Dec 2005 16:35)
[quote]Is this indeed something British? And why?[quote]
Don't know if it's a brit thing or not but ever tried sticking a canular in when you're adrenalin is pumping and hands shaking?. if they expect casualtys it's a lot easier to get fluid or plasma into the victim. I've seen nurses and doctors having trouble on a normal day, so it makes sense to have easy access and possibly increase the chance of survival.
>>By fony (Tuesday, 13 Dec 2005 17:49)
ref: fizzer you have the meanings i know down so not sure i'll read that chapter again and see if i get anywhere.
>>By fony (Tuesday, 13 Dec 2005 17:50)
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