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[eracles]

If you want to see what squaddies think of cyprus and cypriots look at www.arrse.co.uk/ -here's some examples

"Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off to Napa we go...

..with a shovel and a pick, and a Danish chick..

..hi ho, hi ho, hi ho"

Thread entitled " if you absolutely had to fill a mass grave"

"1. Ex Bosses
2. Ex Boyfriends (would probably fill the bloody pit!!)
3. Cypriots (esp Peter Andre!!)"

Another one entitled "disgusting foreigners"

"Can't believe no one's mentioned the Cypriots.

* idiots worst habit they have is to continue to exsist!
I wonder if we should leave them to the Turks and had done
with it?

Then the arogant little fcuks could have had their mettle tested
and no doubt been found wanting.

Has anyone noticed how camp they are and the strange habit the
men have of touching each others genitals in the street? "

[Pete_D]

Unfortunately, I expect you would see the same sort of things said about any other culture or place that you can find the british army.

Now, this isn't a defence (no pun intended) of the squaddies, but don't forget that they do have one of the most difficult jobs in the world. And most of them are very young men sometimes not even old enough to vote!

Today, it saddened me to see a report on the news about young American soldiers in Afghanistan, I think that's where it was, who committed suicide because of the harsh realities to have to fight such a difficult war. Yes, you can say that "they shouldn't sign up if they don't want to go to war" but we all know that in practice it isn't as simple as that.

Pete

[Damsi]

Damn that Cyprus Mail. Always covering up bad stuff about Brits.

Paphos cabbies warn of all-out war
By Jill Campbell Mackay
(archive article - Sunday, January 14, 2007)
“I approached one Englishman and asked if he was collecting family or friends. When told I was from the Sunday Mail, he said he was collecting his neighbour, but when I wondered why he needed a large placard with the name Mr and Mrs Edwards on it to recognise his neighbours, his answer was “F*** off you nosy bitch!”


British minister: no flights to north without Cyprus agreement
(archive article - Saturday, January 13, 2007)
BRITAIN is unlikely to be able to allow direct flights from the UK to the north without the government’s agreement, British Minister for Europe, Geoffrey Hoon has said.


Was Cherie involved in ECHR application?
By Jean Christou
(archive article - Sunday, January 7, 2007)
A BRITISH bases spokesman said yesterday that, as far as he was aware, British Prime Minster Tony Blair’s wife Cherie Booth had not been on the island in mid-December for talks with Turkish Cypriot lawyers.
Spokesman Captain Crispin Coates was responding to reports in Politis that Booth was behind the recent application by four Turkish Cypriot siblings to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to reclaim their Limassol property.
Politis had reported that Booth was on the island to meet with Turkish Cypriot lawyers involved in the Orams case.
Booth last year defended David and Linda Orams in a high-profile case in Britain brought by Cypriot lawyers for a Greek Cypriot refugee whose Lapithos property the couple had illegally bought.]

UK discussed partition as final Cyprus solution in 1976
By Kyriacos Tsioupras
(archive article - Saturday, December 30, 2006)
THE possibility of partition as a final solution to the Cyprus problem was the subject of a high level discussion at the Foreign Office in the second half of 1976, according to confidential British government papers released under the 30-year rule yesterday.

Judges to decide fate of British tourists
By John Leonidou
(archive article - Wednesday, December 13, 2006)
A LARNACA Criminal Court will next week decide the fate of two British tourists accused of involvement in the death of a local teenager last July.


Transatlantic friendship is all give and no take
(archive article - Saturday, December 9, 2006)
What Tony Blair has done is to give a cloak of international legitimacy to the most arbitrary, unilateral American administration in years. It has allowed Washington to claim it was leading an alliance in the defence of certain freedoms and principles, when what it has done has been a flagrant exercise in naked power for its own selfish interests.

Episkopi suicide inquest told of systematic bullying
By Joe Lewis
(archive article - Wednesday, November 29, 2006)
AN INQUEST was told yesterday that a British soldier who committed suicide at Episkopi barracks had been bullied, beaten for not marching properly, had his nose broken twice by colleges and suffered death threats.


PACE rapporteur says SBA inhabitants are ‘second class citizens’
(archive article - Thursday, November 16, 2006)
A VISITING Council of Europe official has put the Sovereign British Areas into the spotlight, after he described the local inhabitants of the areas as ‘second class citizens’.

Jensen family fury at release of daughter’s killers
(archive article - Sunday, August 20, 2006)
THE PARENTS of Louise Jensen, the Danish tour guide brutally killed by three British soldiers in 1994, are furious that their daughter’s killers are being released one by one, with the last one likely to be freed tomorrow.
Allan Ford, 38, was quietly released on August 8, while Justin Fowler, also 38, is believed to have been released on Friday. The third man, Geoffrey Pernell, 36, is due out tomorrow, according to unconfirmed reports.
The authorities have tried to avoid publicising the release of the soldiers, which is being done separately to avoid media attention. It is believed they were each spirited back to the UK with the aid of the British High Commission.

Chemistry and the politics of fear
By Jean Christou
(archive article - Sunday, August 20, 2006)
HOLES have already begun to appear in the great British terror plot that disrupted the lives of millions of people in the past couple of weeks, and which will have serious implications for air travel in the future.
Laying aside the fact that the threat was hyped as “imminent” even though none of the would-be terrorists had purchased air tickets and some did not even have passports, the Guardian yesterday revealed police had confirmed that the explosive in question was a substance called TATP.
If this was the plan, then TATP was not the easiest way to “create mass murder on an unimaginable scale”, at least not on an aircraft.



Did it ever occur to anyone that newspapers get their info from the police for crime stories? Ever hear the expression "A story is only as good as the sources used". We all know how much Paphos police just looove Pontians and hate Brits. They would never smear the Pontians just to keep the Brit property buyers happy...would they? Huh. As someone said....biting the hand that feeds them.

[Sotos]

but don't forget that they do have one of the most difficult jobs in the world

And don't forget that that to join the army as a plain soldier you must be a total looser When I was serving in the army - because I had to - we used to say that only those that fail in life would get such kind of job!

[andri_cy]

How funny Soto. Why not make fun of the people who spend their lives trying to make it so you can spend yours trash talking them. Have you ever thought that because of the people in the army you don't have to worry so much about what will happen to you? And have you ever wondered why when you apply for an army school you need one of the highest scores to enter? I would hardly call those people losers. Maybe I am just biased...

[G.Man]

Sotos, perhaps the youth have to be MADE to join the army

Unfortunately, ALL soldiers are sadly bred this way... without authority, they go mad and behave in the worst possible way... It was one reson I left the royal navy, they are all the same.. what they do to each other is far worse than what they do outside of the forces...

If you want to talk about freedom, thats what the army give's to us all, all armies... They do the jobs we could not.. its no suprise you get messed up in the head when your sole purpose in life is to trust nobody and kill at the drop of a hat...

I actually feel sorry for them, but if you think Cypriot troops are any better, look at how many of them get locked up for setting animals on fire and other acts of cruelty... I am also guessing that you have seen how the soldiers are if you have served time, as I am guessing it wasnt in the girl guides...

[orokliniservices]

Andry_Cy wrote:
"I wouldnt say it is because they are stressed or anything because they are in Cyprus not Afghanistan"


Are you aware that 2RRF based in Cyprus has on average spent only 2 months in Cyprus this past 2006 year? The other 10 months of the year they were in Iraq, Afghanastan & Jordan. Whilst in Afghanastan they were bombed for something like 36 days straight.. Watching their mates get their legs and faces blown off.. So for you to make that comment saying they're "Not stressed or anything" is completely incorrect. I'm not saying that breaking out into pub brawls is the answer to their problems, but mearly correcting your previous statement.

Oh and they are being sent back to Afghanastan in about another month, for another long tour.. But no.. No reason at all to be just a little stressed out...

[pantheman]

Andry_Cy wrote:
"I wouldnt say it is because they are stressed or anything because they are in Cyprus not Afghanistan"


Are you aware that 2RRF based in Cyprus has on average spent only 2 months in Cyprus this past 2006 year? The other 10 months of the year they were in Iraq, Afghanastan & Jordan. Whilst in Afghanastan they were bombed for something like 36 days straight.. Watching their mates get their legs and faces blown off.. So for you to make that comment saying they're "Not stressed or anything" is completely incorrect. I'm not saying that breaking out into pub brawls is the answer to their problems, but mearly correcting your previous statement.

Oh and they are being sent back to Afghanastan in about another month, for another long tour.. But no.. No reason at all to be just a little stressed out...

Perhaps you should be complaining to the UK GOVERNMENT about the squaddies psychological condition and not here. Its self inflicted. Get out of afganistan and iraq and let the boys (and gals) go to the beach instead.

[orokliniservices]

"It's self inflicted"

Oh Pantheman.. you really need to sod off!

Maybe one day when there are no more people left to sign up for this "self inflicted work" Maybe just then the world will go back to military drafting.. and your family and friends will be the ones out fighting for your country.. betcha you won't have a cheeky comment to make then... will ya.

[Strahd]

I read this story on-line too. The Cyprus mail seemed keen to point out that Pontian Greeks were to blame and not say anything about the brits involvement.

Sorry for my ignorance but what is a Pontian Greek?

Pontians are greeks that come from the region of Pontus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus. I was really amazed when I visited the region a few years ago and found greek speaking people in the heart of Turkey...