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02-07-2010, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Aerolor ->
My husband was one of the last to do compulsory national service - he went into the RAF and he says he had a great time and enjoyed it - taught him self discipline and made him grow up into a self reliant person. He thinks it would be worth re-introducing it. Anyone else think so.
I agree with every word your husband said Aerolor I don't say it wasn't hard and I liked it, but I got to like it and then I enjoyed it.
But if they think it was anything like that rubbish that was on the TV they can think again.
I also don't think I'd want National Service brought back in the present climate the lads that are sadly losing their lives are highly trained men.
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02-07-2010, 06:07 PM
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I think National Service should be brought back, in particular for repeat offenders and those who have had, or are on the verge of having asbos.

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02-07-2010, 06:16 PM
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National service?-don`t pull my leg. The costs would be horrendous and what would `yoofs` do?

Clean the streets?-nope cos there would be strikes by those whose jobs they would take.

I know-get a huge area seeded with mines,improved explosive devices,and get a wrap/crap band to play -now there would be a gig that went down with a bang

Sorry-I`m just bad
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02-07-2010, 07:27 PM
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LOL My idea of National Service is to keep them all in a compound and work hard until late at night for the smallest of privileges (I would have them scrubbing floors with a toothbrush) Maybe then they would learn a bit of respect for others and themselves and come out a bit more thoughtful and humble who knows?

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02-07-2010, 09:19 PM
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Re: National Service

Originally Posted by june1958 ->
LOL My idea of National Service is to keep them all in a compound and work hard until late at night for the smallest of privileges (I would have them scrubbing floors with a toothbrush) Maybe then they would learn a bit of respect for others and themselves and come out a bit more thoughtful and humble who knows?

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Can't do that June

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03-07-2010, 06:57 PM
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Hard work never killed anybody!!!! Too soft today....

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05-07-2010, 11:11 AM
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Going off topic . . . we have thousands of prison inmates doing soddall except watching telly and phoning for more drugs on their mobiles while in jail . . . get them out on chain gangs filling in the potholes in the roads from last winter.
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05-07-2010, 12:22 PM
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nero, I agree with you 100% but we can do nothing about it, why

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05-07-2010, 05:08 PM
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Hard work never killed anybody!!!!

Have you any idea how hard it is to drink 5 pints of lager,piss in a park and then have to walk,yes walk to the social?


These old folk have no idea

same as those foreign immigrunts who take our jobs by going out every day and working -pick in fields? not bloody likely mate,that`s hard work and I don`t get up before 10 in the morning anyway
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05-07-2010, 05:46 PM
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Oh gawd - Alf Garnett is alive and well and living in OFFland.
 
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