Australia to Let-Go Foreign Troops: Come Here

**Bigfella** · 29 Dec 11,, 08:20

Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers

So Am I! I'm demanding you show me Scotts in Australia wearing underwear.

I'm not that brave Sir. I leave the checking of Scottish underwear to foolhardy RSMs. I suspect the theory is that if they can deal with that then charging an enemy position is a piece of cake. Besides, I'm irish. The sound of bagpipes & the sight of a sporran has long been a signal for us to take to the hills (or perhaps the far side of the world

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**Officer of Engineers** · 29 Dec 11,, 09:01

You do know the Irish had bagpipes and kilts. Why do you think it took so long for the English to conquer Ireland and even then, they had to bribe the Scotts to do it ... and the Scotts only done it to kill the rumour the Irish can outdrink the Scotts ... which is a rumour of course.

Anyone try Irish whiskey? Blehhhhhhh!!!!!!

**Doktor** · 29 Dec 11,, 09:03

That;s why it it called Scotch

**bigross86** · 29 Dec 11,, 09:22

Hey, I happen to be a fan of Irish whiskey. I've got 2 bottles of Scotch on my shelf in my apartment, but I happen to really like the Bushmills single malts

**Dreadnought** · 29 Dec 11,, 21:26

Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers

You do know the Irish had bagpipes and kilts. Why do you think it took so long for the English to conquer Ireland and even then, they had to bribe the Scotts to do it ... and the Scotts only done it to kill the rumour the Irish can outdrink the Scotts ... which is a rumour of course.

Anyone try Irish whiskey? Blehhhhhhh!!!!!!

You will have to excuse me OOE, Some of us like gasoline instead of turpentine. Jameson is rather nice as well as Irish Mist. There are a few others.

**astralis** · 04 Jan 12,, 14:43

all i got out of this thread was that OoE wanted to see Scots in underwear.

**dave lukins** · 04 Jan 12,, 14:58

Originally Posted by astralis

all i got out of this thread was that OoE wanted to see Scots in underwear.

He's actually demanding to see it. Not being privy to a collection of swinging Jock photographs I will leave this to BF to sort out.

**Aussiegunner** · 11 Jan 12,, 22:53

Originally Posted by Parihaka

our army is as the Colonel once pointed out a specialist unit of the Australian army

Specialising in doing the haka on parade and stealing digger's equipment on exercise ... ;-).

On a more serious note, I wonder if the Aussie government should be careful about recruiting to many trained Kiwi soldiers. There seems to me to be the risk that a New Zealand government will cite it as a contribution to the ANZUS alliance and use it as an excuse to cut defence spending even lower than the current 1 percent of GDP.

**Officer of Engineers** · 13 Jan 12,, 03:25

Originally Posted by Aussiegunner

On a more serious note, I wonder if the Aussie government should be careful about recruiting to many trained Kiwi soldiers. There seems to me to be the risk that a New Zealand government will cite it as a contribution to the ANZUS alliance and use it as an excuse to cut defence spending even lower than the current 1 percent of GDP.

What exactly is Australia recruiting? If like Canada, you're recruiting Officers, University degreed NCMs (in fact I know 2 PhDs who refused to take their commissions and stayed CSMs), then, they are automatically enroute to becoming Australian citizens.