Prince Harry (Army)

[allieyoung666]

If this boy lasts 44 weeks, I will be a miracle!!!! I doubt if he will last less than 8wks, he doesnt look the sort who will take well to taking orders. I bet he will walk

[Theodoric]

Originally Posted by homealone

not at all - I presume you are familiar with the diamagnetic properties of liquid oxygen,

http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry...TML/page02.htm



Of course Prince Harry might not understand a word of it???

It rings a faint bell. Once upon a time I knew the difference between diamagnetism and paramagnetism and, possibly, even ferromagnetism, but not now!

[allieyoung666]

Please explain????

[Theodoric]

Originally Posted by BBKing

AFAIK Andrew wears his Commander's uniform with his South Atlantic Medal. The Princess Royal wears a Rear-Admiral's Trousers. What the Rear-Admiral wears is open to question. Possibly his Rear is Bare.

Re medals, and going totally off topic, there's an interesting series of letters in today's Grauniad about American miltary medals.

[allieyoung666]

Ahh I see, I like medals

[Tuftus]

He won't make it and I would be willing to put money on it, just like his uncle and the Royal Marines...

When you get put in to the situation of having to graft for somethin when you have had it put on a plate for all your life somehow I just done think so...

[Mal]

Originally Posted by allieyoung666

Please explain????

Diamagnetism
Paramagnetism
Ferromagnetism

[allieyoung666]

Thanks for that mal and it is off topic.

[BBKing]

French-built air-to-air missiles actually

Going off-topic in the other direction, they were air-to-sea missiles, really. At least the French let us look at the specifications (we'd never considered we'd be facing weapons from our own side, so had no intelligence on them!). Also remember that the General Belgrano was originally American, they also had almost new British built Type 42 frigates, the Argentine aircraft carrier was a former British one and the Argentine air force was supplied by France, Israel and the USA.

One of the more curious side-stories to the Falklands debacle was the efforts by the British secret service to buy up any black market Exocets before the Argentinians could get hold of them. There were very few actually shipped to Argentina before the war, luckily.

I don't see why Harry wouldn't make it - Edward might not have enjoyed the Marines much, but Harry's father and grandfather both served in the Navy - Prince Phillip was even Mentioned in Despatches for working a searchlight during the Battle of Matapan (look it up, it explains all the jokes about why the New Italian Navy has glass-bottomed boats)*.

* So they can see the Old Italian Navy