> > > Well, the Brit military I've been acquainted with are
> > > army and air force people and say those rude things
> > > about the navy, swearing up and down that "it can't
> > > happen here."
> > Odds are the Navy says the same of them.  
> 
> Nah, the navy says the others do it with pigs.

They date 1960s cops? (innocent look)

> > friend with a C3 or C4 (I forget which) fracture; he's paralyzed from the neck
> > down.  
> 
> As with C3 or C4, which did it is largely irrelevant.

Both equally nasty and permanent. 
 
> > Soba the time it does die, we'll all be heartily sick of it?
> 
> It won't tickle our fen si by then.
> 
...and if that doesn't make me pull out a fusil(i) nothing will.