Trident
March 4th, 1992. The launch of HMS Vanguard, first of a fleet of unlimited range nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines. Five hundred feet long and fifteen thousands tonnes. A seriously awesome piece of engineering.

The student branch of CND were laying on coaches to Barrow to protest the launch. So of course quite a lot of students went. Were quite of lot of those students engineering students? Yes. Were they there because they held a deep, sincere ideological objection to the concept of nuclear war? Maybe. Were they mainly there because it was a chance to see one of these beauties up close, and be awestruck? You bet your ass. Let's just say not everyone was "protesting" as enthusiastically as some of the hippies were. The ones who actually CHEERED got some funny looks on the coach home...
(SonofRojBlake, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 13:47, 8 replies)

No
You be YOUR ass.
(posthumous mince is tiptoeing through the tulips, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 14:04, closed)

No
You be MY ass!
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 14:19, closed)

HIS ASS!

( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 14:23, closed)

touching all time your ass?

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 14:36, closed)

I sampled the bilge water on Vengence once.
I had such an interesting job back then.
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 14:17, closed)

And what
did it taste like?
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 14:25, closed)

No
You be YOUR ass what?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 14:21, closed)

Typo fixeded
I must protest.
(posthumous mince is tiptoeing through the tulips, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 14:30, closed)

I worked for CND at the time.

Spent half the day in a caff. Never been rained on so much in my fucking life.
(genghis, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 19:19, closed)