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Prince Harry leaves armed forces after a decade of service including tours in Afghanistan

Tuesday, March 17th 2015 - 07:32 UTC
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Britain's Prince Harry announced on Monday that he will leave the armed forces after a decade of service that included two tours of duty in Afghanistan. Queen Elizabeth's 30-year-old grandson, the fourth-in-line to the throne, said he would quit the military in June following a four-week secondment with the Australian Defense Force. Read full article

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  • Clyde15

    I can hear the Trolls slavering in their dens, desperate to pour the usual load of invective and bile.
    After all, they have the saintly fatty Maximo to adore.

    Mar 17th, 2015 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    after killing dozens of innocent civilians, this wanker should rot in jail.
    but nobody expects too much from the english justice, no?

    Mar 17th, 2015 - 11:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Outlawcatcher

    Comment removed by the editor.

    Mar 17th, 2015 - 11:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    wanker 3
    “I see a wanker ...”
    are you looking at yourself in the mirror?

    Mar 17th, 2015 - 11:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    “ and continue his involvement in the Invictus Games - an international sporting event for wounded service personnel.”
    Has he been wounded...I never heard...?
    Well he does have Ginger hair...that's got to count as a disability...

    Mar 17th, 2015 - 11:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Alberto Bertorelli

    Brave young man with a strong sense of duty and compassion for the less fortunate. He is always up for a laugh too. The English Royal family is admired all over the world. Even republicans in France and the USA are fans. Here in Argentina we despair of our 'Royalty' which earns our country no respect elsewhere except amongst other dictators.

    Mar 17th, 2015 - 12:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #2
    As I said , on cue !!!!!! How do you know he killed dozens of innocent civilians. Were you there as the Taliban's press secretary ?

    #5
    Why does he have to be wounded ? He just organised it on behalf of the competitors and it seemed to be a great success for the participants and their families..

    A rather cheap slur on your part.

    Mar 17th, 2015 - 01:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    7
    It's the English Clyde...I know fine well he was never wounded, but the statement is ambiguous...
    Besides I can never resist a Ginger dig...they were put on earth for that purpose...

    Mar 17th, 2015 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Outlawcatcher

    ...bit of discriminatory practice going on here. Call a cognitively deficient twit a w****r (@3) and the comment gets removed but call a royal prince a w****r and the comment remains! Very strange house rules...'but' we all know who the puller is here I think....

    Mar 17th, 2015 - 04:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Alberto Bertorelli

    Dont excuse my countryman and please dont think he is typical of Argentinians. He is just typical of a small minority of Argentinians that have no knowledge of the world outside their Villa.

    Mar 17th, 2015 - 04:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Outlawcatcher

    @10...having visited your beautiful country last winter Alberto and having spoken to many of my Argentine friends, including 82 veterans I know the said person is not a typical representative of your land, far from it!

    Mar 17th, 2015 - 04:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    10 boludo
    and what country are you from, you bootlicker?
    chile?

    Mar 17th, 2015 - 05:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @2. Why are so many argie war criminals allowed to survive. WE British took 11,313 prisoner. Argieland didn't want them back. See how soft WE were? Should have shot the lot. “Board this vessel to reach home”. 200 miles out to sea. The ESMA solution. Fishfood. How ecological. Hang on for next time!
    @4. Try getting your thumb out of your arse. Suck it. Enjoy!
    @5. Are you accustomed to pablo's thumb? Or does he use something shorter?
    @8. Jocks scrabbling in their sporrans hoping for pleasure. Try dragging your balls, if you have any, through a field of nettles. The scotch; 2 inch arms and 3-mile deep pockets. More than £2 trillion in debts to England. No sign of repayment. and still they try to steal.
    @12. Perhaps you should get Maximo's diseased prick out of your arse. Or do you only take it down your throat? Is it just Maximo or are you generally available? Anibal, Axel, Hector? Do you get loaned out?

    Mar 17th, 2015 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pugol-H

    You can understand where Paulito is coming from on this, Harry is a dashing, handsome, decorated combat veteran, Prince of the Realm ((albeit GinGer).

    Doesn’t have to work too hard to pull the birds, or at anything else for that matter.

    Whereas Paulito is a bitter and twisted underbrained Twat, with no Pelotas and a bad case of Penis envy.

    Don’t worry Paulito, the acne should clear up when and if your balls ever drop.

    Mar 17th, 2015 - 06:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CaptainSilver

    10 Rosario, and you, are you even in my country, I doubt it? You are a disgrace.

    Mar 17th, 2015 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #13
    I see why we are having defence cuts. The UK doesn't need any armed forces .
    Conqueror the mighty can do it all on his own. He can fire ICBM's out his arse amongst the general crap that emanates from that area. Single handed he could send waves of ....fill in the current favourite missile...from waves of Typhoons against the hated Argies ...no make that the Scots. The poor old man is so jealous that he was awarded second class citizenship by not being born a Scot that it has unhinged him. Man up and live with it.
    With best wishes .

    Mar 17th, 2015 - 06:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    2 paulcedron
    After killing dozens of innocent civilians
    [Prove it]

    Paulcedron
    wanker 3
    “I see a wanker
    [ all you see is wan kin, and its on the map, not on your magazine, twat.

    Prince Harry
    Has done more for Britain than all of argentines put together,
    You guys are just envious and totally jealous,

    After all who have you got to brag abt,
    CFK the worlds biggest embarrassment.

    Mar 17th, 2015 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    It's Australian DEFENCE Force!

    But either way. An accomplished young man.

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 12:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Why all this 'ginger' nonsense? Are you all that insecure? That you judge a man on the colour of his hair?
    Or the colour of his skin?

    Not by his actions, or Service to his Country in the Front-Lines of Battle?

    Ridiculous behaviour.

    Such pathetic people.
    You should be ashamed of yourselves!

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 03:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    19 ilsen

    you just described “voice” - are you surprised??

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 04:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    no, not really.
    :-(

    these people just embarrass themselves, they are the only loosers.

    I'm am just sad that they are also members of the human race. I hate to to think that others might consider me to be similiar to them...
    :-(((((((((((

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 04:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    We call them 'rangas' or they used to nickname them 'blue' or 'bluey'.

    Nicknames and monikers don't always denote an insult.

    I'm blonde but my beard comes through ranga-ish blonde.

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 07:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    I was referring to those that think being a 'ranga' is a 'disability'... or that people of a certain colour hair exist to be bullied by others.
    Transpose ginger hair with 'brown - eyed' people and you can see how ridiculous these type of comments are.
    I hate this casual racism as it is to the detriment of all people, everywhere.

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 09:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    Oh no Ilsen must be Ginger....
    I'm so sorry...for you...
    All is not lost....say hello to Mr 40 vol Peroxide bottle...
    ...and don't forget downstairs...there's nothing worse...

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 10:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    Ilsen, I take your point.

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Thanks Skip.

    No voicey, I am not but I do have green eyes.

    Isn't that odd? Is that a disability too? Is that funny to you?

    See how ridiculous you are?

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 12:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #24
    The highest percentage of red haired people are Scottish. You live among them but care to ridicule them ?

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    26
    Do you know what Ginge....I don't believe you, the lady doth protest too much me thinks...bet the sun doesn't like you...;-)
    27
    On a wider scale you live among the human race, but oft times have been known to ridicule others...what is the difference...?

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 04:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #28
    wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair
    Scotland has the highest proportion of redheads; 13% of the population has red hair and approximately 40% carries the recessive redhead gene.[11] Ireland has the second highest percentage; as many as 10% of the Irish population has red, auburn, or strawberry blond hair.[12] It is thought that up to 46% of the Irish population carries the recessive redhead gene.[1] A 1956 study of hair color amongst British army recruits also found high levels of red hair in Wales and the English Border counties.[13
    Not for the colour of their hair. Why do you ?

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 04:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    28 i'm just a_voice

    “On a wider scale you live among the human race, but oft times have been known to ridicule others...what is the difference...?”

    The difference is, he may ridicule their ideologies,

    whereas YOU ridicule based on race, ethnicity, physical appearance, deformities, disabilities, or personal circumstance.

    You're a miserable bigot.

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 05:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    29
    Why not
    and not only me...
    Whats the difference between a ginger and a brick? .... At least a brick gets laid.
    Why are the Harry Potter films unrealistic? ... A ginger kid has 2 friends!
    What does a redhead, an anniversary, and a toilet have in common?....Men always miss them.

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    31 i am just a _voice

    And yet, even with your inherent advantages of not being a “Ginger”, Prince Harry is already far more accomplished and respected, better educated, smarter, more well-spoken, and more honourable than you will ever be.

    You are quite simply, beneath him, in every way.

    Nothing you can do about it.

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    30
    What a fcuking hypocrite you are...
    Perhaps it is just my “Boyish Antics” at play there...
    Wait a mo...I'm neither a boy nor is my name Clarkson...
    Now do you see why you are getting slaughtered by Heisenbergcontext on the other thread...it's because you simply can't see what a Fcuking hypocrite you are.
    32
    Better educated...I think not..
    ”In June 2003, Harry completed his education at Eton with two A-Levels (achieving a grade B in art and D in geography) having decided to drop history of art after AS level.”
    The guy's a simpleton...albeit a privileged simpleton...

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    33@
    I'm neither a boy

    A hint that you are a female then...

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    34
    or just maybe...as a possible alternative...a man...;-)))

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 08:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    well anything's possible on this site.

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 08:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    Bahahahaha yes Heisenbergcontext is such a stand up person.

    Is disgusted that Clarkson (a person he never interacts with) uses the word slope.

    But will happily chat to Think who uses it frequently. Along with less savoury terms.

    Hardly surprising that Voice is impressed by a hypocrit. Go easy on him guys, you can clearly see how much he values your interaction.

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 08:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    Skip...there is a difference as anyone with intelligence would know...
    Mr. Think uses racial slurs for effect...to get a response...Heisenberg, I don't doubt is aware of this and Troy...well Troy is just an idiot.
    I'm sure Heisenberg is quite sensitive to racial slurs having been on the receiving end of it in the past...
    I would have personally realised this and bowed out of the confrontation, unless of course it was intended....
    The only hypocrite I see is Troy...

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 09:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    38 i am just a_voice

    I've laid out the scenario in the BBC thread very clearly.
    Heisenbergcontext was a hypocrite, and he has backed down.

    @30 Heisenbergcontext chastised me for watching TG:

    ” If you can spin “There's a slope on this bridge” whilst the camera is ( pointedly ) framing a Burmese man I can only admire your verbal dexterity and willingness to swallow bullshit, and the same goes for a 6' 5“ middle -aged man reciting ”eny meny miny mo, catch a nigger ( mumbled )“ etc...all the while smirking like a little boy testing his elders as to how much he can get away with.“

    But he had already justified watching it himself, in the very same post.

    @30 Heisenbergcontext
    ”Personally I couldn't care whether they fire him or not. I don't watch Top Gear for the lads winning personalities. I watch it because it's the only place I know where I... “

    Hypocrisy much???

    Heisenbergcontext wanted to accuse me of being a racist, but he couldn't, based on what I had actually said.

    He made his statement,
    “Personally I couldn't care whether they fire him or not. I don't watch Top Gear for the lads winning personalities. I watch it because... ”,
    to disarm any criticism that he was not objective, and did not have a motive.

    Heisen needed to elicit something from me, he could pounce on.

    He goaded me to qualify my statements while he predicated my response as either 'accepting racism' or 'lying'.

    There was to be no 'acceptable' response - that was the whole point.

    He was dishonest. He contradicted his own statements.

    If he wants Clarkson fired over racism, he should say so. If he wants to condemn the BBC and Clarkson for racism, do so himself!

    Likewise, if he wishes to keep company with the likes of Mr. Think, who “uses racial slurs for effect...to get a response... ” (thx, a_voice), then that too, is up to him.

    @38 a_voice
    “......Heisenberg, I don't doubt is aware of this... ”

    I'm quite sure he is - he's very close with his chorus.

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 10:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    Bloody hell all that to justify your support of racial bigotry by saying it is acceptable as a “Boyish Antic”...
    Well for some it is not, because he is not a boy, he is a grown man and you can condone it all you like, but that means you are no better than him and consider it reasonable entertainment...
    There you go I didn't need countless posts to prove you are a hypocrite....
    ps...you are wasting your time calling me a racist or a bigot...I hate everyone equally...;-)))...water off a ducks back...

    Mar 18th, 2015 - 11:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    @40 i am just a_voice

    as you are not commenting on the whole exchange, and you are an amoral fcukwad, your opinion has no value.

    Mar 19th, 2015 - 02:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    Yes, yes, Think uses racial slurs for effect.

    I suppose anything can be justified then.

    Interesting!

    Mar 19th, 2015 - 07:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    Don't cherry pick parts of my opinion Skip....“for effect to get a response” is what I said and who isn't guilty of baiting someone to get a response...?
    All raise your hands and I'll call you liars...

    Mar 19th, 2015 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Weĺl Done Prince Harry !
    Thank you for your service.

    Mar 19th, 2015 - 12:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    42 Skip

    “Yes, yes, Think uses racial slurs for effect.”

    - and a_voice uses them for attention.

    Mar 19th, 2015 - 01:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Royal Navy's 'cool' new uniform will leave British sailors looking like garage mechanics, critics say
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11482597/Royal-Navys-cool-new-uniform-will-leave-British-sailors-looking-like-garage-mechanics-critics-say.html

    Mar 19th, 2015 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    46

    I don't think they look so bad.

    I wonder if they are better for working in? I'm sure being more fire resistant must be welcomed, isn't it?

    I notice the smart-looking sailor in the old uniform is at attention, while the new uniform sailor is standing at ease.

    That in itself, gives a different look.

    Mar 19th, 2015 - 09:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    the problem are not the uniforms.
    the problem are those boludo faces.
    but it seems gay toy like them.

    Mar 19th, 2015 - 11:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    If paulcedron and voicey are representative of the quality of trolls these days, then there is no concern.
    They are so good a making themselves appear as racist homophobic fools that no one else need bother.
    Take a holiday guys!

    Mar 20th, 2015 - 12:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    Yes, yes, Think uses racial slurs for effect TO GET A RESPONSE.

    Well thankfully that is cleared up and he is justified in using racial slurs.

    Mar 20th, 2015 - 08:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    These posters, voice/think/paulcedron have yet to emerge from the primordial sludge. They are not worthy of my interaction. I may dign to throw penguin-cedron a bone now and again as it amuses me, but for the other 'two'? I think they are best left to rot in their own bile.

    meanwhile Prince Harry has the adoration of the world....

    Mar 20th, 2015 - 11:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    51 imbecile
    “They are not worthy of my interaction.”

    then, why the fuck are you answering to them or referring to them, you ignorant isleter?
    bet you have a poster of that prince of the wankers in your shack, no?

    Mar 20th, 2015 - 01:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    48 paulcedron

    this is our uniform, not yours,
    so please refrain from your asbestos,

    besides we don't run down your white uniforms....lol

    Mar 20th, 2015 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    Briton....
    For you...;-)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBx6IjYrN1I

    Mar 20th, 2015 - 01:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    White flags all round for the rg trolls !
    Haha!
    Hahaha!

    Mar 20th, 2015 - 03:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Usurping Pirate

    I think the paid trolls are starting to realize that their days of state sponsored key board diplomacy are going to end soon .
    It will be interesting to see if there is the same level of trolling after the October elections .

    Mar 20th, 2015 - 06:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    A quick fit uniform,
    that will do the trick,

    some like it , some don't.

    Mar 20th, 2015 - 08:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • LEPRecon

    @46 Briton

    The new ones make them look like garage mechanics?!?! I'd suggest that these 'critics' have never bothered to actually look at the mechanic that is fixing their cars.

    The old uniform looks more like an old 'prison' uniform that the US used to use. But the RN aren't picking these uniforms to win a fashion parade, they're using them because they are functional and protect the wearer.

    In regards to the actual thread of this story, well thanks to Prince Harry for his service.

    The likes of paulcedron and voicey, both of whom have NEVER contributed one iota to society in any way, come across as so obviously jealous that it is breathtaking.

    So in their jealousy they try to rubbish him, tell amazingly obvious lies, and then fall back on the usual tirade of insults when that doesn't work. Yet all it does is make them look like impotent and pathetic fools.

    Poor paulie and voicey forever impotent, forever unimportant, and doomed to be failures your whole lives.

    Mar 21st, 2015 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    58
    How the fcuk would you know what or what I have not contributed to society....
    You haven't got a scoobies...
    ...and what lies...? Is he a carrot top or not...?
    Are his educational qualifications barely existent...?
    He scraped through needing 2 A levels to qualify for officer training...if that D was an E they wouldn't have accepted it...
    He was born with a platinum spoon in his mouth and you assume we've all got to worship him....
    He had done no more than the average squaddie....
    Get real you bunch of sycophants....
    If he wasn't who he is, his achievements would be barely noticeable....

    Mar 21st, 2015 - 07:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    HMS Lancaster is 1st ship sail with new Lynx Wildcat embarked for an operational deployment

    https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/579278594788167682/photo/1

    ///////////
    Royal Navy's 'cool' new uniform will leave British sailors looking like garage mechanics, critics say
    The new design will replace the light blue shirts and trousers worn by sailors for the last 70 years, but has been likened to a 'fire retardant bin liner'
    https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/579278594788167682/photo/1

    58 LEPRecon

    apparently the Falklanders will see them very soon, this ship left yesterday and is on its way south with the latest uniforms and helicopters.

    Mar 21st, 2015 - 08:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • RICO

    “Royal Navy's 'cool' new uniform will leave British sailors looking like garage mechanics, critics say.”

    Well as long as the boats float, the submarines sink and the cruise missiles can reach their target these new uniforms just mean us landlubbers have a chance with the chicks when the fleet is in port.

    Mar 22nd, 2015 - 07:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    the submarines sink --ooops,

    they will look fine.

    Mar 23rd, 2015 - 08:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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