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April 11, 2007

The Fiendish BASTARDS!

...Seaman Batchelor's claim that he cried himself to sleep after his Iranian captors likened him to the comedy character Mr Bean made him a laughing stock.
Oh, those cagey Islamic Republic types sure know how to go for a guy's cajones, eh? Not guns. Not mock executions. Not CAR BATTERY LEADS CLAMPED TO YOUR TESTICLES!! All is takes is the unspeakable cruelty of being compared to...

Mr.

Bean.
And his unfeeling mates in the British military are piling on...

...One serving soldier posted: "Batchelor didn't do the reputation of servicemen much good either! Being broken by being called Mr Bean FFS! - that must be on a par with Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition and the comfy cushions."
Wretches! All of them. You can laugh about the Spanish Inquisition...until they're at your door! We'll see who sheds girly tears then.

Posted by tree hugging sister at April 11, 2007 12:55 PM

Comments

Oi. Talk about your girlie men.

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at April 11, 2007 02:07 PM

"We are the Iranians who say 'Ni!'"

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 11, 2007 05:40 PM

Unbe-f***ing-lievable.

If you're going to join the military and you look like you're 13 years old, it's wise to do your utmost to overcome the perception that you're a bedwetting crybaby. Otherwise, when you say you're a bedwetting crybaby, people might believe you.

Posted by: Mike Rentner at April 11, 2007 09:35 PM

But I guess the positive point, and I always look for that, is that the British people have not been wholly hoodwinked by their government's and their military's attempt to make them look like heroes. There is hope for our cousins after all.

Posted by: Mike Rentner at April 11, 2007 09:38 PM

Hmmmm.

I'd guess that repeating the phrase "comfy chair" to a member of the Royal Marines would get you a quick emergency appointment with a dentist.

Posted by: memomachine at April 12, 2007 01:53 AM