Prisons.

They’re massively overcrowded here in Britain, thousands of nutters sitting around on their arses.

What’s the prison population made up of?

The answer is: -

Vicious hard bastards mostly. Desperate misfits who’ll stop at nothing to give vent to they’re every malicious little desire.

These guys are just lounging around in their cells masturbating, watching quiz shows and basically costing the British tax payer a fucking fortune! Something like £30K a head, I hear.

What’s that all about?

Look, what we have here is a terrible waste of a great opportunity.

They should be put to good use, earn their fucking crust.

Right then, so let's think of another operation made up of thousands of louts sitting around with fuck all else to do but wank.

The army.

That’s right. You see where I’m going with this one huh? Maybe.

Ok here’s my proposal including some off-the-cuff plans for implementation.

Anyone sent down for a decent stretch, say the equivalent of 3 years + (the sentencing of convicted prisoners will need to be restructured) gets drafted into the penal battalions.

It’s tough, though. A 10 year minimum stretch, a training regime so hard and so strict that only 60-70% will even survive it, let along make the grade. Those unfit or just too wild to make the regiment will be treated and found other useful work *

For those who make it there will be advantages, a reason to live, the camaraderie of the regiment, and newfound self-respect.

There will be more tangible pay offs too. Though they will remain ‘locked up’ they will get better facilities. Current army bases will be made secure for containment. Here they will get plenty of exercise and decent food too.
Once a man has served 5 years without trouble, his wife and kids (if he has them)will be allowed to move onto the base (though the family units will be separate from the main barracks) and they may even get day or weekend passes (any regiment member causing any kind of shit on a pass will suffer (i.e. probably die) at the hands of his fellows as his whole company is very severely punished for his actions).

Initially command will be assumed by existing experiences army leaders of all ranks, but later prison soldiers may rise in the ranks and take some responsibility.

A lot of guys currently in the army as volunteer soldiers, less suited than the cons to combat duties by dint of they’re innate civility could be freed up for other duties.

The penal battalions will be on a rigorous and constant program of tough training and battle conditions exercises.

These people are so well suited to this set up its madness that it hasn’t been done already, it would be the making of most of them, I’ll bet after a 10 year stretch most of them wouldn’t even leave, especially if you start to pay them properly to stay on after they’re sentence. Even if they left for civilian life they would be so completely reprogrammed by they’re time in the regiment that they should pose no further threat to society

Shit these guys could be, with effort moulded into the best, hardest fighting force in the friggin’ world……….effectively for free!!!!!

I’m a firm believer in people being allowed to excel in the sphere in which they’re talents lay, these particular people excel in mindless violence, acts of extreme brutality and unthinking unfeeling wonton destruction of life and limb, they’re made for the fucking penal battalions………its perfect.

Tell me I’m wrong.

* Medical experiments for example

If you would have the choice between a 1 Euro coin and a good old English Pound one, for which one would you possibly go? Let me have a good guess: If you are from somewhere Central Europe like Switzerland you'd probably tell me to shut up and explain why cheese and goats are a wonderful trading payment system, if you are from proper Central Europe you'd tell me all the wonderful stories about the new currency like how it saved your day 'cause you were in Italy and somebody did nick your money but because the Euro is nearly everywhere you could go to the next cash mashine and get some money out of there for your next experience with a street robbery. Fine. But the question I want to ask is: Why the hell are these euro coins so damn heavy? Don't start argueing about the Pound coin, we all KNOW for a fact, that a pound is not necessarily a light thing, do we? Also earning a pound is something which needs to be achieved first of all. But nowadays you can see all the Euro-transformed people in the streets, carrying huge leatherbags full of Euro coins because the do not fit in any way anywhere in your wallet. I thought the development of the world is based on evolution which somehow does include experience from the past, means: If we English are happy to have something like 3 pound 50 pence in our wallets, it doesn't mean heavy coins is somehow a state of richness, does it? I would have thought that the people who did design the Euro would go like this: "Well, the English Pound coin is far too heavy, we european people are nearly all rich, expect for Switzerland, these bastards have shedloads of money but they should use anyway cheese and goats as their payment system, so let us make the Euro coins small and handy." But no, instead they went something like "..we want to increase the sales of leatherbags and the best way to do this is to make the Euro coins a) damn heavy and the Euro Cent coins b) so damn small that you WILL loose them in your wallet."
The idea of having a global european currency is absolutley fine, no one should argue about that (except the French but hey, if they don't argue about anything non-french-related they'd propably invaded by aliens). But if a global currency then with an increase of usage-usabilty, not an increase of your body weight.
Damn bastards.