BF2S Forums Being an Iranian hostage is apparently a profitable joke...

GorillaTicTacs wrote:

I'm not sure what to make of this.  I'm not taking a liberal or conservative stance here, but damn.  It seems that after selling his story for a 5 figure paycheck, one of the British Marines decided to goof off in public and had the bad sense to get caught on camera.

Apparently, the only real trauma he experienced in captivity was that the Iranians took his Ipod and called him "Mr. Bean".  My contention is that if he really were horribly mistreated, he wouldn't be acting like such an ass clown so soon afterwords.   Nothing really to debate here, its just bizarre.

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Or maybe the fact that he have been an Iranian hostage explains why he now is acting like a clown ?

Chalk up another one to the daily mail sensationalising irrelavent shit.

humans....

Braddock wrote:

It's no biggy, he's only human. I saw a load of former Guantanamo bay captives doing shots in a bar in town the other day.

...or maybe I dreamed that?

Yeah and I saw Terry Waite last week ballroom dancing.  I'm not one to judge, but he looked like he  was having a whale of a time.

Last edited by =OBS= EstebanRey (2007-04-23 12:38:43)

Mason4Assassin444 wrote:

He looks like Giovanni Ribisi from Saving Private Ryan.

Holy shit he does. He's just a bit heavier but he does. Damn.

I guess what struck me was that he gets captured, gets his Ipod taken away, gets called "Mr. Bean", and then has the right to collect a 5-figure award to tell the story about how the mean Iranians...ummm...took away his Ipod and called him Mr. Bean and then made him chow down on some good home-cooked Persian food.  How come this couldn't happen to me?

Churchill is rolling around in his grave.

In the navy...

It ain't fair on all the other servicemen and women. They get taken hostage, get rich and famous. How the fuck does that work. Fucking country doesn't give a shit about the real hero's, what exactly have these guys done except be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Only, it seems they were in the right place at the right time.

The Iranians must be laughing at us. It's disgraceful imo. Feel sorry for the real hardworking chaps out there...

And who gives a fuck what this prick was doing, he was a fucking hostage (no, a PoW) ...not exactly something to be fucking proud about and then get 5 figures for is it.

Last edited by Mekstizzle (2007-04-26 15:11:06)