Getting out of phone contract

I think that suspending the mobile contract of soldiers on active duty would be a decent thing for the big three networks to do- if nothing else the PR value (to the networks) would offset any (extremely slight) dip in profits.

We don't pay our soldiers very much, sadly, so this would be a nice thing to do.

So otherwise their shareholders take the cost?

Why the fuck should anyone have to further fund our presence out there?

I love internet squabbles, so many shits and giggles.

No corporate entity has any RIGHT to any level of profit, simple as. Therefore, they have no RIGHT to take this fictious "cost" from anyone. Anymore than they have a right to reclaim donations, funding, sponsorships and 1001 other backing and "tax-efficient" endoresements from any other source. And seeing as O2 have forked so much into Help For Heros, with it's attendant publicity (which will have been well considered as part of the process), why it is so utterly repugnant to you that they make a small contractual gesture to those same Heros via-a-vis their mobile contracts?

I think that suspending the mobile contract of soldiers on active duty would be a decent thing for the big three networks to do- if nothing else the PR value (to the networks) would offset any (extremely slight) dip in profits.

it depends if you support the war or not

No it doesn't. There are millions of people who don't support the war, but support the members of the Armed Forces who are fighting it.

it depends if you support the war or not

Why?

In all seriousness, why?

I don't think it makes the slightest difference.

No it doesn't. There are millions of people who don't support the war, but support the members of the Armed Forces who are fighting it.

Quite.

No it doesn't. There are millions of people who don't support the war, but support the members of the Armed Forces who are fighting it.

And there are some who support neither.
Just sayin.

Yep, they are called idiots.

Why are they idiots?

Well, I am operating on the assumption that having some form of army/navy/body of people whose job it is to maintain sovereignty is a handy thing to have.

It would be rather churlish not to support them if one believes them to be needed?

Because dammit says so, and he has to be right.

Why? because dammit says so, etc etc

Well, I am operating on the assumption that having some form of army/navy/body of people whose job it is to maintain sovereignty is a handy thing to have.

It would be rather churlish not to support them if one believes them to be needed?

In what way are our forces in Iraq or Afghanistan protecting our sovereignty?

Why are they idiots?

You can call them what you like; they are as entitled to their opinion as the next man. None of which it seems to me has a lot to do with why it's so good and fine to refuse to suspend a few mobile contracts on the grounds (insofar as I can follow the argument against) of cost to us/taxpayers/government/corporate profits/shareholders/whatever. Or am I missing something?

Yep, they are people who understand that a career in the forces is just a career like any other, and does not automatically entitle you to special privileges/dispensations just because Toothy Tony says you're a hero.

ftfy.

Oops, Dammit

Just need to clarify, where you supporting bigtwit or mechanical vandal, its still ambiguous.

Actually it does entitle you to special privileges just as lots of other jobs have some form of perk(s).

Australian soldiers, for example, get paid based on danger levels, grants when buying property, good pensions, tax breaks and other things.

They also get fucking shot at, bombed and do pretty damn unpleasant things to keep their country safe and/or defend other countries.

Yep, whores get free cum.

I am positing that an armed service is a useful thing for a country to have.

We pay ours rather poorly, which I think reflects on us all badly.

Taking that into consideration I think it would be reasonable not to make them pay for a mobile phone contract whilst on active service.

Oops, Dammit

Just need to clarify, where you supporting bigtwit or mechanical vandal, its still ambiguous.

Here's a novel idea for you. Ever thought about not just trotting out a stream of personal abuse and swearing 19/12, and seeing if you can actually put down some form of cogent and intelligent thought?

Here's a novel idea for you. Ever thought about not just trotting out a stream of personal abuse and swearing 19/12, and seeing if you can actually put down some form of cogent and intelligent thought?

No, I don't think he has.

Bigtwin

What don't you understand?

Some of us do not support the war and also do not support our presence out there, what is so difficult with that?

Yeah support the troops...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/12/iraqi-citizen-murders-servicemen-suspects

Yeah support the troops...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/12/iraqi-citizen-murders-servicemen-suspects

twat

No, I don't think he has.

It seems you are entirely correct. Lucky those that do go and fight don't differentiate over on whose behalf it's worth risking their lives.

Keyboard warriors v the real ones I guess.