Disband the whole f**kin Army NOW !

johnr1

Big Hooha going on about a few of our fat overpaid underworked toy soldiers having to drive a few miles extra to work, (the poor dears will only be paid a nice chunk to do it for the first year).

I say, disband the whole lot of them now, as they are as useless as a fork when its raining soup anyway. If we were to be invaded, (not likely) they could only put up a small token resistance anyway, and would be massacred within a few days.

Here's what we could do instead with the money saved ;

1. Keep a very small force - maybe 500 or so for protecting cash-in-transit and minding our Leprechaun in the Park (thats another thread entirely) and picking up old dears when their houses get flooded.

2. Spend half of the savings on hospitals, schools, - stuff we dont have that most normal societies do....fill in this blank to your own taste.

3. Spend the other half saved on equipping our token Navy properly seeing as most of our borders are in water, and most illegal incursions into our state happen when our fishing stocks (We have the largest waters in EU but one of the smallest fish quotas) get systematically stolen by other countries.
Our newly beefed up Navy could also play a more meaningful role in reducing drug trafficing through Irish waters.

Now I've no particular interest in fishing, or drug traffic reduction, or the Navy, but it seems mad to me that we have a huge coastline, and countries with almost none eg Poland have Navies which put us to shame, while we have a land army used almost exclusively for peacekeeping outside of Ireland.

RayM

It's 1am. This is no time to be disbanding the army.

Can it not wait until the morning?

The Internet Explorer

COME ON IRELAND !!!! OLE OLE OLE OLE !!! COME ON THE BOYS IN GREEN. OFF TO THE EUROS WE GO !!!!!!!!!!!!!! A GREAT BUNCH OF LADS !!!

starbelgrade

Why do we need an army when we can be protected by angry keyboard warriors?

Chuck Stone

What about our wicked, easily enraged, geese?

No way man.

Faith+1

What's the Army? We have a Defence Force and I think they're doing a fine job both here and abroad.

johnr1

The Internet Explorer wrote: »

COME ON IRELAND !!!! OLE OLE OLE OLE !!! COME ON THE BOYS IN GREEN. OFF TO THE EUROS WE GO !!!!!!!!!!!!!! A GREAT BUNCH OF LADS !!!

Dont get me started on that bunch :rolleyes:

Hande hoche!

Then we would be easy prey for the Luxembourgers.

Yakult

I say fence off the country's coast line, barbed wire or something like that which would stop them.

TheZohanS

johnr1 wrote: »

Big Hooha going on about a few of our fat overpaid underworked toy soldiers having to drive a few miles extra to work, (the poor dears will only be paid a nice chunk to do it for the first .

what's 7ft tall, ginger, built like a brick schit-house and would make you pee your pants if you said that to him?

Fago!

but but then how would we defeat the americans? we'd be helpless.

starbelgrade

TheZohan wrote: »

what's 7ft tall, ginger, built like a brick schit-house and would make you pee your pants if you said that to him?

The Thing from Fantastic Four?

rockmongrel

Are you mental?! We're Europe's left flank!

Yakult

Fago! wrote: »

but but then how would we defeat the americans? we'd be helpless.

Pitchforks my man, pitchforks!

TheZohanS

starbelgrade wrote: »

The Thing from Fantastic Four?

The thing from the Dublin City and martial arts forum more like!

johnr1

Yakult wrote: »

I say fence off the country's coast line, barbed wire or something like that which would stop them.

Interesting you should suggest that,
DeValera said similar in his "comely madiens" speech in 1943, He suggested we could feed 20 million of ourselves if we built a high wall around the coast and all live happily, dancing at the crossroads etc (ok, he didn't use the dancing at the crossroads bit, - other people added that bit in derision afterwards), but it pretty much sums up his thoughts......insane.

Jimmy Iovine

If they follow orders as well as these boys then they're worth keeping round I reckon.

Huh, huh, huh, huh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooDrCr-8ALI

mackg

I have a friend in the army, says the ratio of officers to privates is in the region of 3:1 there is a lot of money to be saved there without making soldiers who actually work; cash escort, portlaoise etc. redundant.

johnr1

TheZohan wrote: »

what's 7ft tall, ginger, built like a brick schit-house and would make you pee your pants if you said that to him?

I dunno,









but it ain't in the Irish Army anyway.

mackg

Fago! wrote: »

but but then how would we defeat the americans? we'd be helpless.

We know the American's weakness, diabetes.

starbelgrade

mackg wrote: »

I have a friend in the army, says the ratio of officers to privates is in the region of 3:1 there is a lot of money to be saved there without making soldiers who actually work; cash escort, portlaoise etc. redundant.

They have cash escorts in the army too? Fucking hell I thought having prossies in UCD was bad enough.

TheZohanS

johnr1 wrote: »

I dunno,









but it ain't in the Irish Army anyway.

Oh it is, it is and I hope he reads this tomorrow when he's on.

mackg

starbelgrade wrote: »

They have cash escorts in the army too? Fucking hell I thought having prossies in UCD was bad enough.

Obviously, welcome to the real world.

johnr1

mackg wrote: »

We know the American's weakness, diabetes.

And everybody knows our brave soldiers weakness, deafness.

johnr1

TheZohan wrote: »

Oh it is, it is and I hope he reads this tomorrow when he's supposed to be on duty.

I'm sure he will.:D

Thrill

johnr1 wrote: »

And everybody knows our brave soldiers weakness, deafness.

Thats their strong suit.

Or is it their lawsuit.

I forget.

davetherave

Disband the army?? And put another 9000 people out of a job and on the dole?? Who will step up when the firefighters go on strike, or the binmen go on strike? Who will dispose of the viable devices around the country?
You sound bitter op. Did the defence forces turn down your application or something.

FTGFOP

TheZohan wrote: »

what's 7ft tall, ginger, built like a brick schit-house and would make you pee your pants if you said that to him?

Doesn't he have a shaved head? How do you know he's ginger?

P.S. I know I'm on boards too much when, even though I don't know either of you, I'm 99% sure I know who you're talking about.

Chuck Stone

mackg wrote: »

We know the American's weakness, diabetes.

And stones with with nice Oirish things written on them.

geetar

in fairness im pretty sure those lads do a load of work.


its not as if our army is in anyway too big. i think its about the right size for a country our size.

ejmaztec

In before the firing squad.

talkinyite

Token resistance me hole, they'd be well able to mount a perpetual guerrilla war. I can't understand why people want to be completely defenseless. Military service should be mandatory, every household should have at least one gun.

prinz

Toy soldiers alright. Sitting between Lebanon, Israel and Syria.

jd007

"Just miles from your doorstep, hundreds of men are given weapons and trained to kill. The government calls it the Army, but a more alarmist name would be... The Killbot Factory." -- Kent Brockman

K-9

Sure we can rely on the Brits if anything goes wrong.

mackg

Chuck Stone wrote: »

And stones with with nice Oirish things written on them.

send em down to Killarney for a weekend with their defense budget and watch them blow it all on woolly jumpers, plastic leprechauns and Guinness.

The Scientician

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II5tqdp-JUk

Local-womanizer

johnr1 wrote: »

And everybody knows our brave soldiers weakness, deafness.

You haven't a clue do you?

Do you have any idea what is involved in a soldiers day to day life at work? Or do you just speculate as you actually have no idea and just base your assumptions on ill-founded opinions of those with an axe to grind with the Defence Forces?

And have you actually done any further reading into the Army Deafness cases other than what was in the paper at the time?

If you did you would see that the soldiers who did sue the state where well within their rights to do so. If the same carry on happened in a private workplace you would be fully supportive of the employees.

They are much braver than you, that's for sure, unless where you type from is worse than lets say, Lebanon, Chad, Afghanistan or Kosovo, but somehow I doubt it....

shannon_tek

We need the Army this afternoon for the riots. :pac:

LighterGuy

Every country needs an army.
Not matter how small or tiny it may be compared to other countries military forces.

Laisurg

Yakult wrote: »

I say fence off the country's coast line, barbed wire or something like that which would stop them.

We just need to take a lesson from the french and stick up our own maginot line.

Adam

LighterGuy wrote: »

Every country needs an army.
Not matter how small or tiny it may be compared to other countries military forces.

Wow.

Picture this: No country has an army.

Did I just blow your mind?

Cookie_Monster

Local-womanizer wrote: »

Do you have any idea what is involved in a soldiers day to day life at work?

Lots of hard work by the looks of things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1seJgRVNifk

Son Of A Vidic

K-9 wrote: »

Sure we can rely on the Brits if anything goes wrong.

The Brits you say? Why would we depend on the one army we have a track record of kicking the shít outta?

NinjaK

johnr1 wrote: »

Big Hooha going on about a few of our fat overpaid underworked toy soldiers having to drive a few miles extra to work, (the poor dears will only be paid a nice chunk to do it for the first year).

I say, disband the whole lot of them now, as they are as useless as a fork when its raining soup anyway. If we were to be invaded, (not likely) they could only put up a small token resistance anyway, and would be massacred within a few days.

Here's what we could do instead with the money saved ;

1. Keep a very small force - maybe 500 or so for protecting cash-in-transit and minding our Leprechaun in the Park (thats another thread entirely) and picking up old dears when their houses get flooded.

2. Spend half of the savings on hospitals, schools, - stuff we dont have that most normal societies do....fill in this blank to your own taste.

3. Spend the other half saved on equipping our token Navy properly seeing as most of our borders are in water, and most illegal incursions into our state happen when our fishing stocks (We have the largest waters in EU but one of the smallest fish quotas) get systematically stolen by other countries.
Our newly beefed up Navy could also play a more meaningful role in reducing drug trafficing through Irish waters.

Now I've no particular interest in fishing, or drug traffic reduction, or the Navy, but it seems mad to me that we have a huge coastline, and countries with almost none eg Poland have Navies which put us to shame, while we have a land army used almost exclusively for peacekeeping outside of Ireland.

What a load of condescending anti Irish b ull****

K-9

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

The Brits you say? Why would we depend on the one army we have a track record of kicking the shít outta?

When was this?

Who do you think will do it then?

Mr. CooL ICE

TheZohan wrote: »

what's 7ft tall, ginger, built like a brick schit-house and would make you pee your pants if you said that to him?

Dominick Bumpy Seal?

Gummy Panda

TheZohan wrote: »

what's 7ft tall, ginger, built like a brick schit-house and would make you pee your pants if you said that to him?

Dr Bollocko?


:pac:

Nodin

johnr1 wrote: »

Big Hooha going on about a few of our fat overpaid underworked toy soldiers .............

Good to see you've kept an open mind there.

daithimacgroin

making the army smaller to pay for a better navy and aircorps is a good idea imo

smurgen

i say we disband the army and outsource our defence to Somali pirates.We could turn a profit on them, they don't even eat that much and they could steal shi+ from the British for us.