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Swedish Army castrates lion.

  • 13-12-2007 10:09pm
    #1
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,595 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Please tell me it wasn't the Irish members of the group that caused this change:

    http://www.thelocal.se/9398.html
    Protests from female soldiers have led to the Swedish military removing the penis of a heraldic lion depicted on the Nordic Battlegroup's coat of arms.

    The armed forces agreed to emasculate the lion after a group of women from the rapid reaction force lodged a complaint to the European Court of Justice,

    <snip>
    The Nordic Battlegroup is one of eighteen such military groups in the European Union. Some 2,000 of its 2,400 soldiers come from Sweden, with the rest coming from Finland, Norway, Ireland and Estonia.

    NTM


Comments

  • #2
    eroo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,084 ✭✭✭eroo


    thats ****ing stupid but i can see where the ladies are coming from...


  • #3
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    why are we in the nordic battle group?


  • #4
    bizmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭bizmark


    Sum's up perfectly what's happening to the military and society in general i guess


  • #5
    eroo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,084 ✭✭✭eroo


    http://www.military.ie/dfhq/pubrel/news/2007/october/newsoct18.htm


  • #6
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    What a joke...


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  • #7
    ChapOfDRyans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭ChapOfDRyans


    DaveMcG wrote: »
    What a joke...

    the battle group or the castrtaing of the lion


  • #8
    Flying
    Closed Accounts Posts: 636 ✭✭✭Flying


    Women again talking complete sh1te, they should'nt be in any army as they are merely a useless burden.


  • #9
    Ronan Raver77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭Ronan Raver77


    Flying wrote: »
    Women again talking complete sh1te, they should'nt be in any army as they are merely a useless burden.
    People aint guna like that comment..I pity the lion.Whats guna happen next!!!!all women who work in Zoo's guna get every animals member chopped:eek:


  • #10
    bunny shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭bunny shooter


    Mordeth wrote: »
    why are we in the nordic battle group?

    Heard it was cause we were to be kept seperate to UK/Nato ?


  • #11
    bunny shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭bunny shooter


    eroo wrote: »
    thats ****ing stupid but i can see where the ladies are coming from...

    the lion won't be see where they are coming from


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  • #12
    Mick86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 982 ✭✭✭Mick86


    bunny shooter wrote: »
    Heard it was cause we were to be kept seperate to UK/Nato ?

    Estonia and Norway are in the Nordic battlegroup and are NATO members. I'd imagine the Govt doesn't want Irish troops under British command againg.


  • #13
    purple'n'gold
    Registered Users Posts: 838 ✭✭✭purple'n'gold


    Mordeth wrote: »
    why are we in the nordic battle group?

    I would imagine it’s because we have to be kept as far away from the British as possible. For old times sake.


  • #14
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,595 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Mick86 wrote: »
    Estonia and Norway are in the Nordic battlegroup and are NATO members. I'd imagine the Govt doesn't want Irish troops under British command againg.

    Did that not happen in the Balkans?

    NTM


  • #15
    Mick86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 982 ✭✭✭Mick86


    Manic Moran wrote: »
    Did that not happen in the Balkans?

    NTM

    Probably did. But the great Irish public doesn't know where the Balkans is and is blissfully unaware that there are Irish troops there.:D

    Putting 100 Paddies in a British Battlegroup would send the IAWM into orbit.


  • #16
    Oilrig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 727 ✭✭✭Oilrig


    The Swedes are Boy Scouts... they have all the toys but maybe due to conscription their "hardness" under battle circumstances is pathetic.

    They're great for setting up canteens etc but when it comes down to clearing an area of aggression they're not good.

    Oh, BTW, most of them I've met are gym addicts, like porn stars, huge chest, tiny legs...


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