Comments on: In praise of… our armed forces

By: Angelalala

Angelalala — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:31:01 +0000

Hey sweetie, I muchly hope the things that are keeping you from blogging are the very best of things xx

By: clarissa

clarissa — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:17:15 +0000

Same sentiment as Peach.

Happy New Year.

Hope you are keeping well.

By: peach

peach — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:03:17 +0000

hello edvard mr, how are you ? merry christmas… hope you come back soon but more importantly, hope things are wonderful for you xxx

By: Zinnia Cyclamen

Zinnia Cyclamen — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:39:15 +0000

Wot Dumdad said. Missing you… I do hope you and Mrs Moonke and the Moonkelet are doing OK.

By: Dumdad

Dumdad — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:50:52 +0000

Edvard,

Have you stopped blogging?

Say it ain’t so….

By: Gail

Gail — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:04:13 +0000

Well, I’ve obviously missed out, cuz I’ve just found you and didn’t know you were gone. I read your recent piece over at IndieBloggers and liked it. But this piece here is simply to die for. Thanks, you give me hope that there are sane people in the world. And to think that the sane ones must try to be insane to get their points across, so sweet.

By: chloe

chloe — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:15:44 +0000

i was really scared until the last couple of sentences, where i laughed long and hard. it’s my first time here (via persisting stars).

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By: Ariel

Ariel — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:01:09 +0000

I don’t know whether to laugh, cry, be angry or just order another raspberry-flavoured drink. Really.

By: Dumdad

Dumdad — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:59:47 +0000

Edvard,

Interesting point about quitting the army re morally questionable situations. I haven’t the figures to hand but I believe a huge amount of service personnel are leaving especially skilled ones. If I were in the army I’d be looking to quit; but then again I wouldn’t have joined in the first place!

I also agree with you that the army should not be exempt from scrutiny or criticism by the public. Nor should any service, be it police or fire brigade, forget that it is meant to be serving and protecting the public.

By: edvardmoonke

edvardmoonke — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:26:08 +0000

dumdad: well, yes, fair point, and I’m sure it’s a view which a lot of people who were either for or against the war would share. but you know, it’s not as if anyone forced them to join; they chose to be in the army, and they could just as easily quit when they find themselves being asked to do something which they might consider morally questionable. I suppose I just don’t go along with the general consensus that the army is a sacred cow, and as such exempt from scrutiny or criticism by the public.

maryam: ‘condoned blood thirstiness’ is right on the money, I think.

isabelle: thank you. well, I’m terribly sorry to disappoint, but my real weight is in fact less than 12 stone. Also, I have, to date, managed to resist the occasional uncontrollable urge to wear sandals…

By: isabelle

isabelle — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:05:38 +0000

brilliant-hilarious…. ( and now I know who to look out for when next in Harrogate…..24 stone , beardy guardian carrying sandal wearing etc etc ….)

By: moroccanmaryam

moroccanmaryam — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:03:30 +0000

I think that might just go down as the most gulp-inducing last sentences I have ever read. I am seriously worried about the psyches of these soldiers when they come back from all that condoned blood thirstiness.

And you wonder why I’m a pacifist.

PS My son’s birthday was on Saturday and he received a “play”pistol, num-chuks, handcuffs, a sword and a dagger as gifts from guests. How very lovely. What kind of message are we trying to send here, people?

By: Dumdad

Dumdad — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:56:01 +0000

Ho, ho, point well made.

But on a serious note, I DO feel sorry for our armed forces who are mired in this dreadful conflict in Iraq. Soldiers are human beings, too, and they went there believing they were fighting against terrorism and trying to stop a madman with Weapons of Mass Destruction.

But it was all based on a lie; there were no Weapons of that ilk. If I were an officer out there I’d feel utterly betrayed and angry. How could I tell my men that what they were doing was a good thing? I couldn’t. And so everyday I’d send them out to go out on patrol to kill or be killed and all for what?

Blair should hang his head in shame but, like all politicians, he’ll just move on to another job, another fat salary all expenses paid. Meanwhile, the bodybags are sent home every week and the mutilated and wounded are quietly forgotten.

Anyway, pleased to see you’re back safe and sounding off again!

By: edvardmoonke

edvardmoonke — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:47:12 +0000

enidd: I have nothing to offer but blog, toilet jokes, crocodile tears and sweaty pits.

bohemienne: um, thanks. but can you give me any examples of people who are ’scary in a good way’?

herhimnbryn: thank you.

angelalala: zyban is a scary and powerful drug, and not in a good way at all. at the moment, it doesn’t seem too bad, but on the third day of taking it it made me feel like I was losing my marbles, which is not to say I wasn’t anyway…

By: Angelalala

Angelalala — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:18:41 +0000

Ah, that makes sense. Thank you for indulging my current state (aka hard of thinking). Apart from the thick psychotic haze, how is the zyban?