The lads in several blocks can see similar images on their mildew-infested ablutions for free!

I really can't find the words to describe how angry I am that the comfortable self-serving establishment, designed to support the people defending this country, have evolved into such resource-sponging leeches. It's all well and good David Davis asking a question for an embarrassing answer but who is held to account? Had I spent £1000 on the lads block without authority I'd be for the high jump, so what happens to people who waste money like this to feather their own nest?

(seems I did find the words...)

Somebody told me last week an airman at BZZ is having to fund his own MRI scan because the Service won't fund 'things like that'. Pity he didn't ask for a Rembrandt...

And yet a Judicial Review leading to a (possibly unsuccessful) MoD re-examination of the Mull of Kintyre Chinook accident is said to need £20-30K of private funding. Disgraceful from all angles.

What sort of world do these people live in. Someone comes up with the idea to buy these bits. Lots of meetings to make decisions and approve budgets etc. Isn't there one person in authority who can just say bo****ks to it and ask them to justify the expense?

You must remember that these paintings are desparately needed to replace the valuable ones that have gone missing from MOD offices over the last decade or so. Another scandal that seems to have died away.

http://www.art.mod.uk/images/newsnimbus1.jpg

'A sense of massed energy - ready to leap into action but constrained by disciplined training and the political environment'

Bollocks

I see a pole dancer with diarrhoea, and is that an old man's knob, top right?



Or maybe Camilla P-B swinging naked from a chandelier...and an old man\'s knob, top right.



Maggie Thatcher, her parachute has failed, all her clothes are ripped off, she's come through the roof of my tent.

Jennifer Lopez on a skateboard

Mrs Depardieu indicating to her husband that the placenta is in the frying pan

Jayne Mansfield surrenders after the third lobster popped back out again

Maze Prison Christmas Panto - 1982

Swan Lake

SPHL, may I ask why you've posted an image from an endoscope examination?

From what I can dimly recall of spending far too much time with a medical student in a previous life, I'd hazard a guess that the image is taken from someone suffering from an excess of fat near the duodenum.

vecvec
Sandy Wilson, I believe.

What's wrong with the usual photos of jets, tanks, boats, etc taken by in-house photographers that tell you something tangible about HM Armed Forces? And I think we've all seen a lot of very good photography and artwork posted on this and other aviation/military websites. I have to honest, Nimbus hasn't inspired me to do anything yet - except to check the toilet pan tomorrow morning for anything similar.

Locked in
 

Anyone hear about the 2-star that got trapped in the bogs?

He was on a tour of run-down barrack blocks, but no one told him there was no handle on the inside of the door ('push' to go in, and 'errrr, well try this, err no, well I'm stuck now' to come out)

Was like that in Jan 2005 - and it's still like that now


TIP OF THE DAY
put your pinky in the hole where the handle should be, then pull

And as he peered into the bowl, I wonder what he might have thought about Aerial by Louise Cattrell?

http://www.art.mod.uk/images/aerial.jpg

Data-Lynx, you heathen, that's clearly upside down


Another for the 'Nimbus' picture

Chung-Li unconsciously crossed her legs as she heard the familiar sound of Gary Glitter's moped.



http://www.art.mod.uk/images/zil-thumb.jpg

Here we see a couple of important people enjoying the painting. I feel that I will have achieved something if that picture gets a nickname.

Zil Hoque is having a joke here, by the way.

'A sense of massed energy - ready to leap into action but constrained by disciplined training and the political environment'

This is clearly a play on 'Lions led by Donkeys'

Not only has he played a clever joke, he's took £40,000 for it!

Louise Cattrell is also having a joke, but the joke is that her kid did it in playschool.

More like 'Send three and fourpence, despite the fact that we've lent our body armour to someone else, and the lawyers will be watching every round that falls, making sure a local non-combatent's family can get in a huge claim for expenses while waiting for the murder trial'

heating at marham
 

This seems especially crazy considering the RAF's new baby at Marham the "pulse line" which has had no heating in the hangar for the past 2 weeks. And with no fore-seeable estimate for the repair, moral is even lower in the 2nd rate Air force we work in now days.

airborne artist

I don't want to join in the body armour debate. I prefer to fight naked.

tonka bloke

Phone up your Health & Safety people. I dread to think how cold it is for you out there in the sticks.



http://www.art.mod.uk/images/newsnimbus1.jpg

The Charge of the Light Brigade
Lady Lucan has them under starters orders, when her horse is shot from underneath her.


and another...

Leslie Crowther regretted not wearing his safety belt in his Rolls Royce, as he left his 'Crackerjack' on the hood ornament.

Bargains
 

We could have had the following three from Louise Cattrell at £3K each and the chippy (shipwright to lubbers) could have had a go at the frames.

http://www.axisweb.org/works/screen/B071/980309AU.jpg Crawick,
http://www.axisweb.org/works/screen/B071/980309AV.jpg Martinmas,
http://www.axisweb.org/works/screen/B071/980309AW.jpg Lammas.
Otis. Seriously disorientated so no idea which way is up.

Data-Lynx - I see a potent synergy of merging sea and sky highlighting the interaction of elements and vividly encompassing
the merged interaction of positive forces for good.

Or 'de- spinned' - the light blue bit looks like sky which can represent the RAF and the dark bit can be the Navy .


As for your heating Tonkabloke - sorry but your heating is never going to be a talking point at any Whitehall dinner party -spend the cash on the pictures instead!

I think they are all very nice and you folk are jolly lucky to have them and one day be able to aspire to pass down those nicely adorned corridors.



Hold on a sec!

£272,000 and they got more than one? Here's me thinking they had bought quality....................................................

Cheapskates!!