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Long overdue and all that but:
What is it they're shouting and what does it mean?
They're shouting (roughly translated) 'She's not what she used to be, But I still would!'.
Sorry
Very good
If I remember right... it's the battle cry that means something like "here come the Gurkhas".
And I wouldn't do that Lumly bird... way too old these days 😉
Jai Joanna, Jai Jai Vir Gorkhali!
Never underestimate the little man with the big knife 😀 today has genuinely rejuvenated my belief in both parliamentary democracy and the British people.
Ram Ram
oh also it was a peacful demo. lumly also lucky not to be arrested for having the kukri out lol
I would, but I'd be thinking of Purdey
She needs some attention!
Great news.
Ayo Gorkhali.
😀
I would GLADLY let in someone who goes through a massive selection process then fought/serves our country than someone who does a runner/no idea what their background is, values or morals.
Well done. Otherwise, why are they fighting for us and not the Indian army?
RobS - Member
If I remember right... it's the battle cry that means something like "here come the Gurkhas".
Yep, "Ayo Ghurkali", which is as you say, "The Ghurkas are coming". Usually yelled at full tilt while running at a machine gun nest armed only with a big knife. Crazy little men from the mountains. They deserve it!
I love that Mash link there!
A Downing Street spokesman later added: "We've put the country £1.4 trillion in debt, government ministers are chin-deep in sleaze and the cops are beating merry hell out of everyone. We just felt that the obvious next step was to tell thousands of heroic soldiers to go **** themselves."
A Downing Street spokesman later added: "We've put the country £1.4 trillion in debt, government ministers are chin-deep in sleaze and the cops are beating merry hell out of everyone. We just felt that the obvious next step was to tell thousands of heroic soldiers to go **** themselves."
I know, sublime yet ..INYOURFACE class 😀
oh also it was a peacful demo.
Can you imagine the mess if the Ghurkas got really pissed off? The cops would turn and run! Ferking lethal, the lot of 'em!
😉
Good luck to them, they deserve it.
As an aside, the Gurkhas are based round our way and there's loads of them living in our neighbourhood. They have a club/meeting place about 2 mins walk from our house. Never any trouble, and the politest people you could ever meet. They love to sit outside the front of their houses, nattering. Very social. 🙂
And the bonus is they staff/run/chef most of the curry houses round here. They can bloody cook a bit, too!
EDIT - TBH, I think we should be honoured that they want to serve in the British Army and live in our country.
Some background info from The Incontinent:
[b]How many Gurkhas have won the Victoria Cross?[/b]
T[i]here have been twenty-six awards of this highest badge of courage made to members of the Gurkha regiments, half to Gurkhas and half to their British officers – more than to any other regiment.
Some of the acts of bravery were extraordinary, like that of Rifleman Tul Bahadur Pun, now 87, who won the VC fighting the Japanese in the jungles of Burma. Only three of his section survived the onslaught from the enemy. When all his comrades were dead or wounded he snatched up a Bren gun and made a solitary charge across 30 yards of open ground to take a Japanese machine gun which he then used to give covering fire that save a large number of Britsih lives, including that of Major James Lumley, whose actress daughter Joanna is now one of the staunchest campaigners for the Gurkha cause.
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[b]What happens after they leave the Army?[/b]
[i]Rifleman Pun returned to a tiny Nepalese hill village and raised six children. He lived on an army pension that was a fraction of those of British servicemen, in a small cottage without running water or electricity until his health began to fail. As heart problems, diabetes and asthma assailed him, and he was unable to obtain the drugs to treat them, he applied for permanent residency in Britain – only to be told that, despite being invited to the Queen's coronation in 1953, he had "failed to demonstrate strong ties with the UK".
A more recent veteran is Lance Corporal Gyanendra Rei, 52, who fought in the Falklands. He had his back ripped open by shrapnel, and was left in constant pain, but his application for a visa to enter the UK for treatment on the NHS was refused.
In 2005, after the Gurhkas used the Human Rights Act to appeal against their inequitable treatment compared with regular British army soldiers, the government agreed to increase the Gurkha pension for retirement after 1997 from £95 to at least £450 a month. But there remain 10,500 Gurkhas and 5,000 widows who receive no pension and live in near poverty; they are mostly veterans of the Second World War and are more than 80 years of age. They rely on £6 a month form a Gurkha welfare charity.
Many ex-Gurkhas and their families live in Hong Kong, scraping a living in private security. The United States Navy also employs some Gurkhas as sentries at its Bahrain naval base.[/i]
the treatment of the Gurkas is disgusting, and Browns arrogance over this issue just shows how deluded he is.
FFS even the Daily Mail think that its digusting
It is most infuriating how this brave regiment have been treated. Maybe they should have gone to Calais smuggled themselves onto a lorry and claimed asylum! The UK would be their oyster then 🙄 This country is screwed up beyond belief.
It is most infuriating how this brave regiment have been treated.
Is quite true.
Maybe they should have gone to Calais smuggled themselves onto a lorry and claimed asylum! The UK would be their oyster then
Is bum gravy of the worst possible kind.
FFS even the Daily Mail think that its digusting
that doesn't surprise me - war heroes and all that.
noone, NOONE, supports brown on this issue, cleary.
the man is so out of touch if he thinks that the cost of letting war heroes settle here is an issue to the british public.
The treatment of the Gurkhas is beyond belief. How complicit have the MOD been in all this?
Citizenship should become automatic of you put your life at risk for the benefit of this country.
Good luck to the Gurkhas.
Hope some of this rubs off on the Iraqis who helped our troops too.
They were the demo battalion when I was at Sandhurt. Damn fine currys in their cookhouse I can tell you - but I wish the chicken had been de-boned.
Sandhurst gurkhas used to put all us toffee nosed officer cadets in our place and no mistake. Specialist skills seemed to be lying still in freezing conditions for hours at a time then crawling on their bellies for hundreds of metres over open ground without being seen before leaping out of the gloom with an automatic weapon and a great big knife.
Smart, cheery, well mannered, honest and brave. Because no-one in our present government has every been a soldier they have no comprehension of the issue or the emotion it provokes. Call it sentiment if you must but we ought to be BEGGING these guys to come and settle here. Do people understand how difficult it is to make it into the Gurkhas, what calibre of man wears that uniform?
Sorry, I'm off on one......
You carry on mcboo, im with you on this one!
Especially the part about putting "all us toffee nosed officer cadets in our place and no mistake" 😆
"We" decided to take a trench of G's prisoner (like a flange of gorillas but different) one frozen morning instead of just over-running the position.
The officer cadet in charge was immediately zeroed-in by the Para Reg Rep and ended up joining them.
My own experiences are limited to Rowallan Company's shared cookhouse with the G's and as you say, their ability to withstand the cold trenches.
However, given the opportunity, I'd miss lunch to spend but 1/2 and hour with Purdey.
Tim