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Gives me goosebumps and takes me right back to 1980...
Made the SAS a household name around the world...
Looks fun, but it's going to give the hard-of-thinking such a chubby it's going to be unbearable.
Bit far-fetched IMO.
Also, flobbing out his gum like that? Pleb.
Untold story apparently... (stealth edit - apart from what he said down there VVV)
Shoulda called it Transits and Taches and picked a lead man who could grow a proper one.
It's a story that's been done to death in so many books and documentaries.
In some circles it's the worst thing that ever happened to them, it brought a world of publicity and attention which distracted from their heritage. Prior to this large sections of Bradbury Lines only had 4' angle iron fence posts and chainlink.....afterward this all changed along with the appearance of loads of folks making ££££ from books.
Oh god...every single pub in England will have one bloke sat in the corner who'll assert "that was me".
I used to have to endure a guy in my local who every week claimed to have been an army officer who trained with the SAS and was invalided out after a firefight in Bosnia. It turned out that he'd failed basic infantry training.
I shouldn't really be saying this on a public forum, but... that was me 😉
I'd like to say more, but then I'd have to kill you.
APF
PMJ1974 too right it will bring out all the Walter Mitty's....
Searches google maps to check the colour of the boathouse at Hereford
I'm Kate Adie.
Searches google maps to check the colour of the boathouse at Hereford
Breaks down in tears realising he's been made....
Meh..
Breaks down in tears realising he's been made....
🙂
Well I did actually make a training film with them in the early 90's. I even rescued a shirt from them, it was a very loud paisley number in a suitcase with 50kg of PE4 that we detonated in a train carriage. I wasn't going to let an innocent shirt be vapourised and I told them so 🙂
50kg of PE4
Where did you get permission to do that? That's way over most training/demolition ranges limits.
Where did you get permission to do that?
The boathouse.....
I worked for 7 years for the MOD on Foulness as a photographer, 600KG was the biggest we did in that time.
was released in 2002
I know/knew two of the guys who were involved with that affair. Only met them in their later retired lives and through vaguely associated but different activities.
The last time I was with the guy who placed the charges on the window (on the balcony, of course!) I was supplying him with lemon curd sandwiches at various points through the day as he paddled his kayak down the Wye. Funny, articulate and mischeivous. Had a few stories to tell but most of them were related to his later life, he'd talk about the embassy occasionally if asked but mainly about how it gave them so much more freedom to buy decent kit, etc...
As for the first time I visited his house, it started with being Tasered by him as I walked throu the door and ended with Victoria sponge and strong tea...
Where did you get permission to do that?The boathouse.....
I laughed. Now I have to kill you.
Sorry.
Now I have to kill you.
You're most welcome to try, plenty have... 😉
it started with being Tasered by him as I walked throu the door and ended with Victoria sponge and strong tea...
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The SAS team undertaking that operation must have been about 500 strong.
it started with being Tasered by him as I walked throu the door and ended with Victoria sponge and strong tea...
my kind of foreplay.
my kind of foreplay.
Careful now, your matress is made of congealed petroleum....
Needs more Lewis Collins.
a suitcase with 50kg of PE4
That's about £20K of 'bang' are you sure it was that much????
Was a new thing he was working on for a German company. Aparently it's hard to train people to counter being attacked with a knife as they tend to use plastic 'training' knives, which won't cut you, so it's not that realistic. He'd been tinkering and they had developed a dummy knife with a taser in the handle. I walked in with another friend (who has known him for a lot longer) and as soon as I was through the front door he 'stabbed' me with the damn thing. (This is a 70 year old man, even knowing something of his past life not something I had expected!)
The cake luckily didn't contain explosives or anything, just jam and buttercream in the middle...
Racals and Rangerovers would've been a good and apt title.
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Needs more Lewis Collins.
And Joe Cocker...
Thought this was a thread about going on holiday to the Isle of Wight.......
The Whitelink ferry does cost so much because it's basically a time machine...
Is there a pub that doesn't have an 'I was special forces but I can't tell you that' guy in it?
Is there a pub that doesn't have an 'I was special forces but I can't tell you that' guy in it?
There is, but if I told you where it was...
I watched it on the telly in my hotel room at Heathrow the day before flying out to Saudi for the first time.
I watched the real thing live on telly when I was 14 8)
Am I a hero??
I'm afraid I cant' tell youAm I a hero??
They used to send some of their staff/soldiers to our ambulance service (when we were seen as the best ambulance service in the country) for their paramedic type training.
First names only (obviously), they dressed like 'normal' blokes on a semi physical medical/trauma course and were always happy to tell a good yarn....although how much of it was true and how much was for entertainment was debatable.
No paperwork or certificates were issued, they'd just attend for a week, have a syllabus to work to and then leave again.
This was late 90s early 00s so I'm hoping things are a little more professional these days, I know they no longer use us as a service as our reputation is in the toilet at the moment!
Sam I sure it was 50kg? If you'd seen the train carriage afterwards you'd not be asking 🙂
My eldest son's best friend is the grandson of one of them. He has written at least one book on it, and if you meet him is hard to believe that there was anyone else in the operation with him.
He's also the husband of the worst loser on Come Dine With Me.
He was written out of the film and not happy about it at all.
Which amused me.
Is this the sort of thing we can expect back after Brexit? I do hope so, keeps the moral up and all that
Well I did actually make a training film with them in the early 90's
"Perfect Bums and Tums with the SAS Shape your Body Feel the Burn Jazzaerobics 60 Minute Beasting"
Available in the VHS racks of all good charity shops.
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