August 02, 2006

• :-) He's taking pictures too and will be adding more during the week. My favourite so far is this one, which makes me smile every time I look at it and gives me hope for humanity in some way. I know I'm biased, but I think he's doing a great job. He's not there for very long, but this past week has given me enormous respect for all those with loved ones in the armed forces or in conflict areas generally - I'm not sure how I would cope if I knew he was in the front line for months on end. *frets until he's home again*
• Lots of us are fretting, not that that helps much. Thanks, Sqik, for posting this.
• Ah, Skrik. (Not sure where the other came from.)
• Go Ben go.
• So many of the pics are so fabulous. Fingers crossed for safe return!
• Thanks for the post, Skrik. *frets, as well*
• I dunno what else to say. Many, many hugs to DIMMN, and to mothninja. *waves to Darshon* I missed you!
• Wow. Those are some excellent pictures, too.
• Good on ya, Ben. Be safe.
• Sweet fucking Jesus! I had no idea! Mothy, we're coming for a visit in early-to-mid-October. Will dear Ben be home by then? Of course, I may be too cowed by his manliness to actually meet you guys when we do hit Firenze.
• ooh! Thanks everyone. I'm in Kandahar at the moment, but about to ship out to Helmand province, where all the fighting is. There should be more pictures up in ten hours or so. And don't fret :-)
• Good luck, DIMMN, and you're doing a great job. And huge hugs to you, moth, hang in there honey. *hugs*
• Holy cow! Best wishes to you both!
• Ben is in goddamned KANDAHAR, and yet is posting to MoFi. That's pretty cool. Good luck!
• Yeah dude. Take it easy, be careful! Great work, though, well done. Don't forget to smuggle me an AK. Fanks.
• Respect is due to Danger ... keep safe... So we've had a posting from Kandahar ... surely that needs marking out as a special kinda posting??? Have we had any other postings from war zones, ends of the earth or similar?
• I think kit posts from Liverpool sometimes. I fancy dimmn's chances better.
• That's a damn handsome man.
• Why thank you, I try to eat right and I excer- . . oh. Right, right, sorry. Rock on Heavy D! And feel free to be careful too! *pretends to be old, chatters on about 'kids these days' with GramMa*
• Ha Ha Bonk!
• The Kandahar Burger King. Really.
• Have we had any other postings from war zones, ends of the earth or similar? I live in a shithole, does that count?
• And you're very articulate for a gorilla. That's special too, Kokonibbers!
• /fart
• Oh way to derail the derail farty McPootsquee! I was going to say that this is an amazing face. But you blew it. Post blower.
• If customers at all Burger King's were that heavily armed, you really WOULD have it your way.
• It's great stuff, Ben - I've been enjoying the photos (my favourite) and pieces on the blog a lot. Stay... well, alive. (Yes, I'm another one who's been doing a little nervous double take thing any time I see bad news coming out of Afghanistan the past few days...)
• > this is an amazing face. yes. and what a great beard. thanks for sharing the photos, dimmn
• Good luck, and best of wishes dimmn.
• "fuck off septics?" so the aussies still sore about their embarrassing defeat in the australian-american war? sheesh... suck it up, mates. btw terrific photos, ben. stay safe!
• Home soon, home safe, DangerIsMyMiddleName!
• Dude, I love you dearly, so you know that I mean it when I say DUCK! DUCK! RUN! FUCKING RUN! DUCK!
• Where?
• I believe mothy said he's due home this weekend or not long thereafter. Huzzah!
• The Burger King photo is startling to me - I guess it makes sense, there, to take your rifles with you when you go get a burger, but chilling. And this one is such a beautful child that I want to give him or her a good hug and go get ice cream for both of us. All good stuff.
• Awesome pics! I like photographs that put faces to people so far away. (Did that make any sense?)
• I'm back, all safe and sound. Can I go again, please?
• glad to hear that you are back safe DIMMN!
• Yay, welcome back!
• welcome back and well done!
• When we count, My seems his middle name; and we welcome Danger who went and came!
• And he's spent! Welcome back! That other monkey was waiting for you.
• Yes. I was. Welcome back, our very own Micheal Herr.
• Bravo!
• Hardly here, and wants to leave! What a fliter-de-jibbet is he.
• Test-y, too.
• He's at it again! he's back in two weeks... *counts days*
• (sorry, in my excitement, forgot to add Video, requires Flash8)
• Be safe, Austin!
• Spending the day with the medics in Naray (video, requires Flash8)
• Come home safe, Danger.
• Damn, that poor kid.
• OK, am I the last one to realize that it was Ben who coined the term Podcast? I was looking it up for a friend and I'm all, wait, I know that guy. Not to mention that he's got his own Wikipedia page! Dayuum!
• ok, I knew that DIMMN was a stud and a half (hello, not just anyone is qualified to be mr. mothninja!!) but DAYUUM is right. that is some serious studmuffinism going on there. marathon de sable??? the north pole? if I ever decide to have a child can I borrow yr sperm?
• Link to the article in which the term "podcast" was born. I mean, fuck!
• link to an article about apple being prissy over the term And good for you DIMMN: 2005 word of the year in the New Oxford American Dictionary.
• Nice work!
• Many ))) must be bee-stowed on DIMMN!
• I'm insanely jealous, but obviously I still loves him.
• Pictures what I took at Davos. Not exactly being shot at, but still.
• Oh, Angela Merkel - stop taunting me with your lascivious, come-hither eyes! I have told you that I will never love another German Chancellor after Willy Brandt rejected me - let me be, Frau Doktor Merkel! Cease to tempt me with your sexy, Teutonic smiles, your feminine Germanic delights!
• Somewhere there's a portrait of Paul Wolfowitz, quietly ageing. Great shots, DIMMN!
• Ah er.... gosh!
• quid can have Merkel. I'm going for Queen Rania of Jordan. Allahu Mrowr.
• Is this Flash or something? God I hate my work computer. /kicksmash
• You using Adblock? I had to turn that orff.
• *registers sockpuppet: kicksmash*
• I'm using a retardoPC, which is lucky to have internet access, let alone fancy frillies like Flash and sound.
• *sings* Oh Angela Merkel! When you dress in purple And give a sexy smirk-el You make me go beserk-el Oh Chancellor Merkel! For you I'd love to work-el By day I'd be your clerk-el At night my penis you would jerk-el - fa la la!
• *applauds* Now write that on the back of some underwear and send it to her together with a picture of yourself and a vial of your blood. She'd like that.
• But not your real blood -- you don't want the cops having a DNA profile on you and cloning your ass. Use kit's instead.
• Yes! Little micro-dwarf kit clones to ride the baby pandas to victory! *busies self, hums "Ride of the Valkyries"*
• Now look what he's up to. Our little boy's growin' up!
• I’m going to Turkey to report on the general political situation in the run up to the elections there. I’ll be doing it in all sorts of interesting ways. I expect at least one interpretive dance.
• Hmm. Makes the fact that I finally finished some filing I've been putting off look kind of dull. Looking forward to more! (Reporting, that is, not filing.)
• Maybe after he's done reporting, you can do his filing for him. Then you'd have the best of both worlds.
• Why not report on the unrest in Fiji? Then we could have a Pacific meetup! Fiji!! *grumbles*
• Reporting from Turkey
• Because this seems as good a place to link this as any: Canadian Soldiers launch Op Timis Preem. If it wasn't a real war operation with people getting killed 'n stuff, that name'd be pretty funny.
• *Launches Operation Kee Rah Night Lee*
• Top international correspondents have written a book and guess whose essay is in it?!
• Clever boy! Well dones.
• Gyah! Name is on the tip of me tongue....
• *orders copy*
• I'm so proud of our monkey-boy!
• Superb! Well done, danger-boy!
• LET'S WRASSLE!