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British Soldiers Get Germ-Fighting Undies
Ant writes "Yahoo! News reports that British soldiers will be getting germ-fighting underwear. The antimicrobial underpants have been introduced by the Ministry of Defense as part of a new desert uniform for soldiers. They are the first undergarments issued to British troops, who traditionally have had to supply their own.
Military officials said Thursday the unisex trunks were made from artificial fibers for comfort, with silver particles woven into the material to prevent sweating.
"It is coated to prevent bacterial infection, and we have tried to arrange the seams so that they don't chafe," Col. Silas Suchanek, who led the team that procured the new equipment, said Thursday."
... how long til they get the rest of their equipment?
The British army is woefully underequipped... but hey, as long as they've got pants and tea, they'll be fine!
Just another harmless drunk
*ducks*
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The underpants gnomes finally figured out the missing part of the plan.
Step 1. Steal underpants.
Step 2. Sell to the military (ta-daaa).
Step 3. Profit!
unisex trunks
...nuff said.
I, for one, welcome our artificial fiber silver particle infused anti-bacterial non-chafing seam underwear-wearing British overlords.
Oh, wait, I'm in the USA, which means I *don't* welcome them as overlords! We still like them though, in spite of that bit of unpleasantness in the 1770's and 80's. And that whole War of 1812 thing.
Well, it's another development in our war to eradicate biological agents in our war on terror.
If you locate a hazardous bacterial sample, simply find a British soldier and drop it down his pants.
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Then the germs evolve and become resistant to silver and we're in REAL trouble.
Wow, war even drives innovation when it comes to clothing fashion. Seriously, these underwear seem to be really great. I wonder if the British Army will open up their own Yahoo! store and sell these underwear...
No? Well... now comes with complimentary free underwear!
If the number of British army enlistees suddenly skyrockets in the next month, we'll all know why.
The silver threads in the knickers are a good idea. That means if a werewolf bites him/her on the arse or crotch that the soldier will be protected.
I didn't know that the British armed forces were into the occult and supernatural.
It aint a reassuring thought.
Actually they look stretchy, like bicycle shorts. This means they should be able to accommodate either a cameltoe or a buck-knuckle.
Mal-2
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
On the plus side, we've descovered the illusive "2: ???" step...
1: Collect Underwear
2: Sell Silver
3: Profit!
This is just a dodgy attempt at getting a random geek-girl to talk about her undies
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SHHHHH!! Whose side are you on?
Sweet Jesus, man! That's the worst story I've heard in months! I'd recommend keeping that to yourself.
Don't anyone dare modding this man up. Think of the children!
I've come for the woman, and your head.
hey! thinfoil underwear!!
HORRAY!
Only stops them from reading your thoughts if your head's up your ass.
If you just took anything I said seriously, read it again.
Suppose we could get a pair of these knickers to the goatse guy? Looks like he could use some germ fighting action in that area of his body.
Why slashdot? Why not?
but do they have an anti-skid feature? it would be a shame to have u'r silver undies look like a shiny drag strip.
You're in the f'in Army. Go commando. Quit being a pussy.
Weird, my 'production cycle' is about 5 minutes.
Is there anything better than clicking through Microsoft ads on Slashdot?
Victoria's Secret announced the imminent launch of their new "Patriot" line.
Stay sentient. Don't drink bad milk.
By the women with boxers?
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
German soldiers get Brit-Fighting undies.
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The metallized silverfoil undies will show up on radar.
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
and we have tried to arrange the seams so that they don't chafe,
So, they're wearing them inside-out then.
Coincidently, I do this half the time in my underwear 4-day rotational schedule (forwards, backwards, inside-out forwards, inside-out backwards).
*scratch scratch*
Now, where's that stench coming from?
More like ask the female soldiers to send their used underpants to your prison inmates.
Little do they know you just want those panties for your massive silver extraction operation!
That reminds me the joke:
I'll do anything
A man was sitting at a bar enjoying an
after-work cocktail when an exceptionally
gorgeous young woman entered. She was so
striking that the man could not take his
eyes away from her. The young woman noticed
his overly-attentive stare & walked directly
toward him.
Before he could offer his apologies for
being so rude, the young woman said
to him, 'I'll do anything, absolutely
anything, that you want me to do, no
matter what it is, for $100 on one
condition.'
Flabbergasted, the man asked what the
condition was.
The young woman replied, 'You have to tell
me what you want me to do in just three
words.'
The man considered her proposition for a
moment, withdrew his wallet from his pocket &
slowly counted out five $20 bills, which he
pressed into the young woman's hand.
He looked deeply into her eyes & slowly,
meaningfully said, 'Paint my house.'
There's a picture on Wikipedia. It stops a lot of germs. Impressive.
Karma: Positive (probably because of superiour intellect)
Dip your balls in cold water. Watch them shrink and go closer to your body. Take a warm shower, watch it expand and move away from your body.
"But teach, Suzie and I were just doing *science*"
Table-ized A.I.
Anecdote: Our battallion was in the middle of a training rotation at the National Training Center in the desert that is Ft. Irwin, CA. At the conclusion of each mission, we would have a rather scathing after action review led by our evaluators. These AARs were filmed. We had just completed a pre-dawn assault on an enemy position that was protected by a *lot* of concertina wire. As a result, more than a few of us had torn our BDUs. We were tired and sort of spaced out.
We all sat on the side of a wadi, upslope from the Army camera crew that was setting up to film the AAR. My buddy Jim was sitting next to me, and I happened to glance over at him. His nuts were completely exposed from a six inch rent in his trousers, and he was sitting on his butt with his legs spread wide and his elbows on his knees, so he was giving the camera crew a view they didn't necessarily appreciate.
Jim, being Jim, just shrugged and put some 50 mph tape (basically green duct tape) over it. He was the same guy who forgot to button his trousers after taking a leak one January afternoon on a training exercise at Ft. Drum, but that's another story.
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