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A Royal navy fit for the new millenium

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  1. DevAdvocate

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    Britain's New Navy

    The Royal Navy is proud of its new fleet of Type 45 destroyers.

    Having initially named the first two ships HMS Daring and HMS Dauntless, the Naming Committee has, after intensive pressure from Brussels , renamed them HMS Cautious and HMS Prudence.

    The next five ships are to be named:
    HMS Empathy,HMS Circumspect,HMS Nervous,HMS Timorous and HMS Apologist.

    Costing £850 million each, they meet the needs of the 21st century and comply with the very latest employment, equality, health & safety and human rights laws.

    The new user-friendly crow's nest comes equipped with wheelchair access. Live ammunition has been replaced with paintballs to reduce the risk of anyone getting hurt and to cut down on the number of compensation claims. Stress counsellors and lawyers will be on duty 24hrs a day and each ship will have its on-board industrial tribunal.

    The crew will be 50/50 men and women, and balanced in accordance with the latest Home Office directives on race, gender, sexuality and disability. Sailors will only have to work a maximum of 37 hrs per week in line with Brussels Health & Safety rules, even in wartime!

    All the vessels will come equipped with a maternity ward and nursery,situated on the same deck as the Gay Disco. Tobacco will be banned throughout the ship, but cannabis will be allowed in the wardroom and messes.

    The Royal Navy is eager to shed its traditional reputation for; "Rum, sodomy and the lash"; so out has gone the occasional rum ration which is to be replaced by sparkling water. Although sodomy remains, it has now been extended to include all ratings under 18. The lash will still be available but only on request.

    Condoms can be obtained from the Boatswain in a variety of flavours, except Capstan Full Strength.
    Saluting officers has been abolished because it is deemed elitist and is to be replaced by the more informal, "Hello Sailor". All information on notice boards will be printed in 37 different languages and Braille. Crew members will now no longer be required to ask permission to grow beards or moustaches - this applies equally to women crew members.

    The MoD is working on a new "non-specific" flag because the White Ensign is considered to be offensive to minorities. The Union Flag had already been discarded.

    The newly re-named HMS Cautious is due to be commissioned soon in a ceremony conducted by Captain Hook from the Finsbury Park Mosque who will break a petrol bomb over the hull. She will gently slide into the water as the Royal Marines Band plays "In the Navy" by the Village People.
    Her first deployment will be to escort boat loads of illegal immigrants across the channel to ports on England 's south coast.

    The Prime Minister said, "While these ships reflect the very latest in modern thinking, they are also capable of being up-graded to comply with any new legislation coming out of Brussels ."
    His final words were, "Britannia waives the rules."
     
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    [video=youtube;-JFfN5pKzFU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JFfN5pKzFU[/video].
     
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    Can't watch YouTube at work Nev <ok>
     
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    Red cross?
     
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    St John's Ambulance <ok>
     
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    I like Aliens, one of my favourite films.
     
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    I would like Britain a lot more if we didn't feel the need to get involved in everyone else's ****. By all means peace keeping forces and the like, just like the Swiss or Germans do - but this macho thing where there is a need to have big guns to **** with whoever crosses our path is a bit antiquated, it smacks of the midget school ground hard man trying his best to convince the rest of the bigger kids how important and tough he is.
     
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    By the way I didn't even read the original post, obviously <ok>
     
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    So you would have been happy being a nazi then?
     
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    It's debatable whether the Nazis would have treated my community any worse than the incumbent single party dictatorship at the time but I guess we'll never know.
     
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    I reckon they would Mick. The Nazis were pretty hardcore back in the day. Forget being wrongly imprisoned for a decade, any ****ing about in Nazi Germany and it was off to the chamber.
     
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    YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP <grr>
     
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    <laugh>.
     
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    We're gonna need those boats soon when the Argies invade the Falklands<ok>
     
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    russ made a funny <laugh>
     
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