What a fantastic day to be British!The Royal Marines accidentally invade Spain during an excercise after mistaking it for Gibraltar, the most audacious robbery in history turns out to have been under suspicion for so long that the entire diamond collection they were after had been replaced with replicas months before, and the Paras open fire on a guy in Kabul rushing his pregnant wife to hospital. Today, I am proud to be British.
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crab_bloke),
Mon 18 Feb 2002, 14:00,
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perhaps we ran out of real news,and the beeb just copied a load of seventies film plots to kill time.
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spacefish bong!,
Mon 18 Feb 2002, 14:35,
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Yesit really does seem like that. an utterly implausible series of things to happen in one day. The copper on the telly was blatantly out of the sweeny (the tv show- obviously he was actually from the real sweeney ostensibly), the crooks were blatantly off a guy ritchie film and the marines invading spain were obviously from a carry on film. ludicrous. i don't believe any of it for a minute.
( crab_bloke),
Mon 18 Feb 2002, 15:20,
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