MoD Bans Our Boys’ Page3.com
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MoD Bans Our Boys’ Page3.com
I came across this little piece of MoD fun-detection yesterday:
From The Sun:
Page 3 girls yesterday launched a full frontal attack on Ministry of Defence killjoys - after they banned troops from looking at our beauties online.
Our girls staged a protest at the MoD's HQ in Whitehall after bureaucrats ruled that admiring their bazookas on Page3.com was "inappropriate" for Our Boys.
Our girls staged a protest at the MoD's HQ in Whitehall after bureaucrats ruled that admiring their bazookas on Page3.com was "inappropriate" for Our Boys.
The bombshell means 10,000 soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus 25,000 sailors and airmen, are barred from seeing the site - even on their own private laptops.
Yesterday, cars and even a van of police honked their horns in support as Ruth, Becky, Nikkala and Peta held up banners and chanted "Free Page 3".
The Sun is urging Defence Secretary John Hutton to intervene. We have been bombarded with complaints from soldiers and sailors since MoD internet servers began blocking Page3.com.
A Royal Navy chief petty officer said: "The fun police have struck again - it's maddening. Being able to relax and look at Page 3 is good for morale. It helps us do our job, not hinder us."
The MoD insisted: "Adult content has nothing to do with our core business of defence."
- hasn't the Ministry of Madness got better things to do than censor recreational Internet access?
From The Sun:
Page 3 girls yesterday launched a full frontal attack on Ministry of Defence killjoys - after they banned troops from looking at our beauties online.
Our girls staged a protest at the MoD's HQ in Whitehall after bureaucrats ruled that admiring their bazookas on Page3.com was "inappropriate" for Our Boys.
Our girls staged a protest at the MoD's HQ in Whitehall after bureaucrats ruled that admiring their bazookas on Page3.com was "inappropriate" for Our Boys.
The bombshell means 10,000 soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus 25,000 sailors and airmen, are barred from seeing the site - even on their own private laptops.
Yesterday, cars and even a van of police honked their horns in support as Ruth, Becky, Nikkala and Peta held up banners and chanted "Free Page 3".
The Sun is urging Defence Secretary John Hutton to intervene. We have been bombarded with complaints from soldiers and sailors since MoD internet servers began blocking Page3.com.
A Royal Navy chief petty officer said: "The fun police have struck again - it's maddening. Being able to relax and look at Page 3 is good for morale. It helps us do our job, not hinder us."
The MoD insisted: "Adult content has nothing to do with our core business of defence."
- hasn't the Ministry of Madness got better things to do than censor recreational Internet access?
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The MoD insisted: "Adult content has nothing to do with our core business of defence."
I was reminded yesterday that my "mandatory" Equality and Diversity training is overdue. Oh joy, oh rupture!
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Happier times some years ago:
Jag SqInt-ess at Deci visiting the station shop notices some Lads' Mags (the politer stuff, such as Mayfair etc), so thinks that it would be morale-enhancing gesture to buy a few for the squadron.
So she gets some dosh from the squadron fund and goes back with the driver to pick up some cold drinks and the magazines. Being slightly coy, she gives the driver the money and waits at the door.
A few minutes later the driver turns to her and says in a none-too quite voice "EXCUSE ME, MA'AM, YOU HAVEN'T GIVEN ME ENOUGH MONEY!".
Poor girl went bright pink, much to the amusement of the other shoppers! But saw the funny side when she told us later.
Jag SqInt-ess at Deci visiting the station shop notices some Lads' Mags (the politer stuff, such as Mayfair etc), so thinks that it would be morale-enhancing gesture to buy a few for the squadron.
So she gets some dosh from the squadron fund and goes back with the driver to pick up some cold drinks and the magazines. Being slightly coy, she gives the driver the money and waits at the door.
A few minutes later the driver turns to her and says in a none-too quite voice "EXCUSE ME, MA'AM, YOU HAVEN'T GIVEN ME ENOUGH MONEY!".
Poor girl went bright pink, much to the amusement of the other shoppers! But saw the funny side when she told us later.
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More non-news. Thanks for raising it old fella. I think the bandwidth (limited, expensive) in theatre is best spent on keeping comms open back to the families - not staring at titties on some pish corner of a pseudo-newspaper. If our brave tommies want jazz mags on tour, take jazz mags - I admit it is old fashioned to suggest paper in this day and age. It is a Sun self publicity stunt and nothing more. If you can't go through the day without page 3 you probably shouldn't be allowed out in public without a shock collar on.
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no, but there was a very interesting photo of her in the 'classified' 56 sqn photo album for a while...
Mr C Hinecap, what a happy little soldier you must be.
Sorry if the support from The Sun, which I grant you is hardly The Times, for Help for Heroes has bypassed your little trench, but to me it does a good job of communicating its support for the Armed Forces to the gen pub. So banning one of its more well-known 'assets' is a mean and unnecessary piece of fun-detection by faceless 'MoD spokespersons'.
no, but there was a very interesting photo of her in the 'classified' 56 sqn photo album for a while...Mr C Hinecap, what a happy little soldier you must be.
Sorry if the support from The Sun, which I grant you is hardly The Times, for Help for Heroes has bypassed your little trench, but to me it does a good job of communicating its support for the Armed Forces to the gen pub. So banning one of its more well-known 'assets' is a mean and unnecessary piece of fun-detection by faceless 'MoD spokespersons'.
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page 3 girls
So our brave boys are denied some amusement in theatre whilst the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has been caught out recently claiming the cost of downloading two porn movies on MPs" expenses !! Speaks volumes.
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Mr Hinecap, stopping them downloading pg 3 is hardly going to save on bandwidth. In fact if they stop to admire a particularly good pair it may even save bandwidth because they won't be downloading anything else.
It would take more bandwidth to download a recording of Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet from Radio 3. Will we bar that?
It would take more bandwidth to download a recording of Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet from Radio 3. Will we bar that?
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Page three
a long while back (cold war days) I used to really enjoy the little magazine type things which would be circulated during NATO exercises. These contained such things as differing rank structures of other nations, a message from some general or other and a page three photo (courtesy of the sun). I must admit that the photo always seemed so much more entertaining than the generals message
Secondly, having lived with a page three model for several years, I can also report that she had an interest in classic art, as well as being degree educated, so was just as likely to read the times as the sun. (just added for anyone wishing to ban the sun on elitist grounds, and also having forgotten its contribution to help for heroes)
Secondly, having lived with a page three model for several years, I can also report that she had an interest in classic art, as well as being degree educated, so was just as likely to read the times as the sun. (just added for anyone wishing to ban the sun on elitist grounds, and also having forgotten its contribution to help for heroes)
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T*ts!!!
Surely the massed ranks of the civil service (for only they would think of banning something as harmless as a picture of a pair of knockers) must be used to the view? Most of the main building, from memory, seemed to be full of useless t*ts anyway................
I would rather see a ban on useless, glossy (and probably expensive) periodicals pushed out from random parts of the MoD, service or otherwise. Then, maybe, we might have money for trivial stuff like, fuel, exercises and travelclaims. Just a thought.
Having a quiet word with myself now.....................
I would rather see a ban on useless, glossy (and probably expensive) periodicals pushed out from random parts of the MoD, service or otherwise. Then, maybe, we might have money for trivial stuff like, fuel, exercises and travelclaims. Just a thought.
Having a quiet word with myself now.....................
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Remember the Flight Safety posters - Don't assume, check - the tennis player.
There was also Civil Servant who wanted to break in to modelling. The IFS guys had no problem squeezing her into a flying suit even it the zip would not work properly.
The posters worked and were certainly in great demand.
There was also Civil Servant who wanted to break in to modelling. The IFS guys had no problem squeezing her into a flying suit even it the zip would not work properly.
The posters worked and were certainly in great demand.
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you and your church may not wish to look at them - that is your choice. The fact that it is acceptable to still publish bare tits in a national newspaper where there is no age barrier to purchasing said newspaper, means that society has a choice. Don't take away our soldiers choice!
Personally I do not need to view them online however, if it is good enough for you back in blighty to have the choice, it is good enough for our soldiers, sailors and airmen.
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you and your church may not wish to look at them - that is your choice. The fact that it is acceptable to still publish bare tits in a national newspaper where there is no age barrier to purchasing said newspaper, means that society has a choice. Don't take away our soldiers choice!
Personally I do not need to view them online however, if it is good enough for you back in blighty to have the choice, it is good enough for our soldiers, sailors and airmen.
Rant over.
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I'm in agreement with Mr C Hinecap here... the level of the indignation on this thread is quite comical!
I'm afraid most here are giving away their lack of recent operational experience.... anybody deploying to Afghanistan or Iraq in the last few years have been taking gigs upon gigs of the grottiest filth you can imagine with them, loaded onto portable hard drives... they hardy need a coy peep at a pair of paps on page 3! Everybody I last served overseas with had at least a hundred hours of "morale", usually double that by the time they left.
Harumphs about "our boys", "bazookas" and especially "morale" are laughably out of date, and oh so 1943. But do carry on, at least I'm spotting the irony!
I'm afraid most here are giving away their lack of recent operational experience.... anybody deploying to Afghanistan or Iraq in the last few years have been taking gigs upon gigs of the grottiest filth you can imagine with them, loaded onto portable hard drives... they hardy need a coy peep at a pair of paps on page 3! Everybody I last served overseas with had at least a hundred hours of "morale", usually double that by the time they left.
Harumphs about "our boys", "bazookas" and especially "morale" are laughably out of date, and oh so 1943. But do carry on, at least I'm spotting the irony!
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Well, at least the Page3 girls have been out to lend their support - whether Chincap and Laarbruch72 like it or not:
Photo from The Sun - but not marked as copyright.
Photo from The Sun - but not marked as copyright.
I'm not saying I don't like it Beags. Good on them. It's still extremely old fashioned to think that everyone likes a peek at a pair of boobs in their 30 minute, very public internet session! Most have their own laptops for any titilation and the 30 min public internet sessions are used to email home. Still, you wouldn't know that.
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Doors off - I don't think it is acceptable to publish women with their norks out in a daily newspaper. We've supposedly come to see women as equals in society - and in the Armed Forces. Objectifying them in a 'newspaper' is just a last bastion of the macho bolleaux some of the Cold War Warriors on here can't give up.
I'm possibly more red-blooded than many, but I prefer to get my kicks away from a newspaper. If one desires, there is the rest of the internet for filth. I am one of the soldiers, sailors and airmen - don't for one minute think I'm a god-bothering civvy who believes in high necklines and low hemlines. I do know that not viewing page 3 does not for one minute impact morale or operational effectiveness. Many of the ground troops are nowhere close to the internet out there and have their ways of viewing the female form as they desire.
The Sun is self-serving and publishes whatever sells at the time. They will always print bad press about us as well as H4H - punters buying The Sun is the object - they are a business not a charity.
I'm possibly more red-blooded than many, but I prefer to get my kicks away from a newspaper. If one desires, there is the rest of the internet for filth. I am one of the soldiers, sailors and airmen - don't for one minute think I'm a god-bothering civvy who believes in high necklines and low hemlines. I do know that not viewing page 3 does not for one minute impact morale or operational effectiveness. Many of the ground troops are nowhere close to the internet out there and have their ways of viewing the female form as they desire.
The Sun is self-serving and publishes whatever sells at the time. They will always print bad press about us as well as H4H - punters buying The Sun is the object - they are a business not a charity.
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Now I understand that this is a good moment to stand for parliament. Anyone iwth strongly held views might like to consider standing on a moralistic and public service stand especially servicemen who might cite their well-deserved reputation for honesty and integrity.