In the News

[Ladyhawk]

There was a television movie made about him and was played last night. Showing his background. It was quite interesting.

[Jubal]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-19906942

Meanwhile, in Wales...

[Pentagathus]

Hahaha portugaling get on it lad! Starting pretty early there.

[comrade_general]

You're sure that's not Ireland?

[Othko97]

http://i.imgur.com/7QvbL.jpg
While not technically a news story per se, this image literally shocked me to the core. The Golden Dawn Party in Greece, who are literally neo nazis (and doing well in the polls might I add), have attacked a man while the police just watched. This is what he was tweeting.

[debux]

Extremes are never good :/

[Skull]

Soo....He was tweeting while being punched...?
:/

[comrade_general]

Yeah... I'm not buying into it based on that question.

[Jubal]

I don't know if I buy the actual tweets, but the fact that Golden Dawn is fricken' scary I certainly buy into.

Economically, it's arguable that Greece is in as bad a mess as 1930s Germany. Which I know fires off Godwin's Law, but even so - GD are a worrying, worrying political force.

[debux]

I think he was just using Twitter to spread out his experience... and was hampered by the character limit used by Twitter. I think he was narrating what happened to him after the whole incident, rather than being able to type while his glasses were knocked off.

[Skull]

I don't know if I buy the actual tweets, but the fact that Golden Dawn is fricken' scary I certainly buy into.

Economically, it's arguable that Greece is in as bad a mess as 1930s Germany. Which I know fires off Godwin's Law, but even so - GD are a worrying, worrying political force.

Nazis,what did ya expect?

[debux]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929620

Interesting article on China, found it interesting. Wanted to share it with you guys (although Jubal already knew of it somehow, I bet )

[Jubal]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-19944833

Gurkhas are awesome. 

[Othko97]

Reminds me of the Ghurka who killed 32 of the enemy single-handedly. His GPMG ran out of ammunition so he "neutralised" some using his tripod. Guys are insane.

[Pentagathus]

I remember a news story while ago of a Gurkha who'd just retired and was travelling on a train (in India I think) when it was attacked by an armed gang of muggers. Then they started telling a girl to strip so he attacked them and injured a fair number before the rest ran away. He was offered a senior position in the army if he re-enlisted after that.