unclebuck

Come on... don't hijack this thread. Tonight, we can rejoice that truth has prevailed.


Be happy.....



TOSSPOT!!!!!

UB

ProperCharlie

most people are bl**dy glad that the emergency services and armed forces are there when they happen to need tham. i suppose the problem is that most people don't *need* the armed forces on a regular basis. i think it would help to have forces exercises that were accessible to "ordinary" people.

ProperCharlie

UB - nothing like humility in victory, is there?

unclebuck

Sod that!! It's Friday night and we deserve some good news....

LET'S Rock!!!

UB

ProperCharlie

i can imagine the scene in UB's house:

Queen "We are the champions" is blaring out of the stereo. UB is doing heavy air guitar, astride the couch, dressed only in a pair of boxer shorts.

Taff107

I just hope that it has been made clear to him that he and the ******* clowns who did it can consider themselves responsible for the possible deaths of others. All in the name of journalistic sensationalism and the opportunity to sell a few more copies of the toilet-paper that is the Mirror.

unclebuck

Couldn't agree more.

PC - You will *never* hear me listening to Queen. Can't stand them. Got Donald Fagan on ATM, and it sounds extra sweet tonight. Now, where's my union jack boxers?

UB

ProperCharlie

this is dangerous stuff: possible UB/PC common ground.

ah well.

unclebuck

LOL

tiggers

Taff107,

Exactly mate - see my earlier post. My mate has just come Back from serving out there and he cannot believe the way the press are painting the picture of events in Iraq. He nearly burst a blood vessel at the BBC news coverage - as mentioned in my previous post most Iraqia are happy that the coalition are there.

Our soldiers are out there carrying out their orders, fighting for Queen and country and the press are basically stabbing them in the back - they're just scum plain and simple. Round the f**king lot of them up and take them to Iraq so they can give us a first hand report of being beaten at the hands of Sadr's militia or maybe even being beheaded.

tiggers.

LeeMac

iTrader: (1)

Used to be an employee of Trinity Mirror (another printer), its not been the same sinice I left, but its been p!ss poor while he's been there, he shouldve been sacked ages ago, the Sun has always had the best promotions although both papers are crap anyway, 3am girls? what the f



The media here is bringing this country down and something should be done to sort them out, they are pathetic and Piers should be done for Treason as should all the media, they just want to bring all and everything down. Why tho

jjones

read this thread until i got to this post. it sums it up nicely. any sandle wearing tree hugging prats can do us all a favour and save the world some oxygen by launching yourselves off beachy head. has anyone who slated the army on the original post about these pictures, that now turn out to be fakes, posted on this thread saying how stupid their original comments now seem?

ProperCharlie

ok.

but what about all the photos that aren't fake? i beleive the americans have several hundred of them.

jjones

oh and hope there is some system for the family of that american guy who got decapitated to sue the mirror.

jjones

the photos published by the mirror and touted all over the middle east as genuine directly caused the death of the american contractor.

this is not about some alledged photos the americans may or may not have it is about the FAKE PICTURES published in a daily newspaper that have lead to civil unrest and placed our service men in more danger than they were facing already.

are you not making your way to eastbourne?

ProperCharlie

iirc there was major "civil unrest" before the publication of the mirror photos. other "non fake" photos (featuring US troops) had already been uncovered and published. the mirror photos merely made a bad situation worse. nick nerg wasn't a british soldier. he was an american civilian.

get the connection?

zoog

Piers Morgan was a total C u n t.

Love to have done what Calrkson did to him.

Jaybird-UK

The Mirror should use the same amount of page area to apologies and admit they were wrong as they did to publish this filth.

A small column saying we were tricked and are the victims here is not enough.


edit: it is front page, but all they say is "Sorry.. we were hoaxed"... ah poor mirror was hoaxed was it????

Brendan Hughes

Made me smile last night.

Too bad he will be replaced and the tabloids will continue.

If they all quit at once and shut the bloody papers down, I'd buy scoobynet a beer.

Jess

If you want the tabloids to disappear STOP buying their papers.

I took this stance many years ago due to so called journalism about an incident I was close too (whilst in the Army), as usual total untruths about what actually happened, which caused distress to friends and family.

BishopDevious

Their apology is pathetic. It reads like a whiney little childs excuse, "sorry BUT...its not our fault so and so told us this that and the other".

On the subject of Journo's;

Jon Snow from Channel four posts an email each day (reprinted in the Guardian I think). This is a bit from a couple of weeks ago.

"The inescapable fact is that these photographs feel remarkably pristine and dreadfully obvious. The clean highly Iraqi t-shirt, the brand new mx rifle that doesn't look as if it's ever seen active service, the uniforms likewise. If the photographs are genuine, British forces have a particularly good laundry and the Iraqi victim appears to have few of the reflexes you would expect to kick in, in the face of such aggression."

I just love the bit "particularly good laundry"

Finally from last nights email;

"From the wrong truck, the wrong rifle to the clean floor, the spotless tee shirt and the shaved legs of the supposed victim - is the evidence and testimony accompanying the hoax also fake? The consequences of their publication are inclaculable."

These ba$t@rds should not be let off so easily!

tiggers

Couldn't agree more, problem is the morons that buy them aren't capable of making such a difficult decision as that would mean they've actually got to think for themselves - if they could do that then they wouldn't keep believing every word they read in the rags would they?

The press are one problem, the large amount of stupid people living in the UK are another.

tiggers.

mattstant

What was it clarkson did to piers moron ??
Something highly despicable I hope

Chip

Which in case youve never thought about it, is their job.

Chip.

mattstant

Best quote of the days was from the Lancashire Regiments top brass something like
"its time to weigh the ego of a tabloid editor against the life of a soldier"
neatly sums it up in my opinion.

There may already have been pictures in circulation from america but the high quality neatly graphical images from the Mirror are perfect for posters and t shirts and it was these images (in high qaulity) pasted to the desecrated commonwealth graves in lebanon they will serve as recruiting posters for decades to come

Every man and his dog knew the images were fishy the moment they set eyes on them
So how come a very experienced editor who must be presented with hundreds if not thousands of photoshopped dodgy images designed to make a fast buck couldnt.

I'll tell you why because the moment the piggy eyed arrogant t**t set eyes on them he saw nothing but pound signs and political expediency.

Private eye reports that sodier "c" and his mates were told if they could back there story up with pictures it would be worth £20,000 and hey presto scant hours later they returned with the dodgy photo's.

this issue has NOTHING whatever to do with any actual abuse or comparison to governments hypocrisy or "highlighting the real issues" (f****ing pathetic argument from the Mirror) or even the digusting pictures from america

Its about one man willing to inflame a highly dangerous unstable region where his own countrymen are at immeadiate risk to further his own ends.
Who then pretends to hide behind a grossly thin veil of piety and innocence to save his own pitiful worthless behind.

Being sacked is the very least that should happen to him

tiggers

Yes it is, but how demoralised would you feel in your job if no matter how well you did it everyone was being told you were doing it badly? Now factor in to that that your job could end up with you getting killed and surely even someone as anti-government (well this government anyway as you probably worshipped Maggie's crowd ) and anti-war as you can see that it is not right and not fair.

Then again probably not!

tiggers.

Taff107

Tiggers, run for Prime minister - you'll get my vote!

Brendan Hughes

A nice point was made in the (broadsheet) press, in response to Piers' plea that "OK, maybe the photos themselves were fake, but they still were representative of behaviour, so they were OK by me." The response was akin to "This is the equivalent of the police planting drugs in a known criminal's house just so they can jail him for five years for other stuff which they can't prove." Good call.

As for the tabloids, what do you mean, stop buying them? I'd have to start first.

Up_North

I also work for Trinity Mirror plc but fortunately not the bit that publishes the Mirror. Even so - feel ashamed working for the company right now. The "Mirror" bit has definitely dragged down what was once the good name of Trinity.

Ian

bluto22b

I did STOP buying the tabloids many years ago. I now spend about four minutes scanning their pages in my local village newsagent before placing them back on the bottom shelf. My daily read now happens to be a local county newspaper. If EVERYONE took my approach to the daily rags then they would go bust and go out of circulation, which after all, would be no bad thing, the news they offer is trite.