Entertainment

Reality TV - Bad Lads Army

I don't know if any of you guys watch this at all but I think that it is great entertainment. Watching these so called hard-cases reduced to tears gives a certain sense of pleasure, as they begin to feel how their victims have felt.

For those unfamiliar with the program, a basic synopsis is a bunch of reprobates, criminals, and lets just say 'bad lads' are taken through an army basic training regime 1950's style.
Now not only does this involve the lads having to wear the uniforms of the 1950's they are also given punishment beatings like the 1950's.

To make the series work you have to have some good characters in charge of the sections Blue (Cpl Nauyokas) and Red (Cpl Murray). Both have their own way of dealing with things, but both can shout the hair of your head, and one things the lads learn early on is not to piss these two off.

Cpl Murray & Cpl Nauyokas

This time around they are doing Para-training, and the sight of seeing probably the fattest para-recruit in history been fooled into jumping off what he thinks is a 10ft building blindfolded, when in reality it is 2 inches is indeed a sight to see.

But no-one should ever piss off Provost Sgt Tim Weston, he is mean sod for sure, and is someone I'd hate to bump into in a dark alley.
He is in charge of the Beastings that seem to occur on a frequent basis. Here he is in action with a couple of lads, been punished for some misdemeaner or other. That is a big Pacing Stick that he is rattling between their heads. :)

"You 'Orrible little F*!KERS!!!!!!

Now a lot of people condemn the program, but lets look at it this way, these thieving, cheating waste of space gits, are off the street. They are going through hell compared to the luxury of prison. They are also learning respect for others, teamwork, respect for themselves. They are also learning humility, now we are in the 4th series, and already after only a week of all the punishments, all the shit and all the physical and mental abuse they suffer, there are some of them saying they want to stay!

In the last episode we saw them ALL munch on a grub/worm/locust omelet, because they are beginning to understand what it means to be someone.

If I had my way, each and every serial criminal of this age 18-24, would have two choices, prison or 2 years National Service (50's style!). For those who say it doesn't work, after series 3, they had an Army recruitment van turn up outside the barracks, and out of those that were left 14 signed up.

So does it 'cure' these bad lads, I'd like to say too bloody right it does!