We are likely to end up with a transsexual having some sort of breakdown on the front line and taking legal action over the lack of support, that's a given, but declaring it a myth that you need to be fit how the fcuk are they now trying to sell the army as a career for fat people?

Daily Mash always has intrusive adverts, so I'll copy and paste the text verbatim...

OVERWEIGHT middle-aged men who the army could not use even to soak up bullets have demanded recruitment ads be aimed directly at them. 

The men, who have never fought in a war but still act like beating the Nazis was somehow down to them, have spoken out against new adverts targeted at young people. 

Denys Finch Hatton of Hereford said: “Gay? Gay? We need fighting bloody men, like me and my friends down the Rotary Club would’ve been if we’d joined up when we were younger, which we didn’t. 

“They don’t want men with crying and sexualities. They want proper lads who’ll take out Jerry – or whoever – with a steady trigger finger and a devilish smile playing about their lips.” 

Army recruiter Nikki Hollis said: “Oddly enough, paunchy gentlemen who wheeze at the top of stairs and shout ‘Traitor!’ at Huw Edwards are not our preferred recruitment demographic. 

“We need fresh-faced, healthy young people who are trans-friendly, unafraid to cry and are ready to turn their anger at the state of the country into violence against others. 

“Will they, when trained killers, realise that it’s the red-faced b******s’ fault they can’t buy a house and turn on them? Could do. Could do. Still, not my problem.” 

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Wow. Just wow.

You do know how we treated those with in WWI who suffered with mental health problems (they are real btw, and believe it or not have been around since sentience, not invented in 1999 with the millennium bug) right?

Btw those guys also wrote poetry and collected pansies, literally. What's your take on that?

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Nail hit firmly on head by The Mash, there. I think Stirling needs to have a word with them for some sort of intellectual property usage fee, given how they've clearly been inspired by his views on the matter.

Well I think Simon's head is large; always involved in espionage. (Name that tune)

Go on then I'll bite, WTF are you talking about, and how does it relate to this thread.

My take is that war is hell and that it isn't won by pansies. The very idea of fairness during WW1 seems also a risible topic. The great war was a bloodbath for everyone.

In conscript armies you get those who can't hack it. However, it was a sh1t sandwich I'm not exactly seeing why the mentally fail get to survive and pass on their genes while those with balls had to drown in the mud.

The war poets were also soldiers and people like Owen died doing his duty so today's post modernists can laugh at the idea of national duty.

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