British soldiers get really bored in their Afghanistan military camps when they’re not busy defending democracy with assault rifles and rocket launchers. Things get so boring in fact that there’s often nothing better to do than tricep push-ups, reading on the toilet, and making homoerotic videos to Glee’s cover of “Don’t Stop Believin’.” Strangely most of the soldiers are smooth-chested and can’t dance—the military teaches manscaping, but not dance. We’d just hate for these boys to confront Taliban forces on the disco floor—they’d surely get served. Won’t someone teach these able-bodied soldiers how to shake what their mums gave them?
Via JMG
Spike
My money is on Spink (dark shirt sitting at the table eating next to the dufus with dark glasses) to be the only gay one in the bunch. His timing was impeccable and understood the concept behind lip synching the lines he was given.
Nice Sean (formerly Sean, and Sean from england.)
“Imperialist Privilege” What is that supposed to mean, queerty? *grumpy face*
Jim Hlavac
3/4s of the hetero men in this country, and 1/2 of the gay guys in this nation couldn’t do what those guys did — lipsynch, dance and fight a war — God Bless those Troops — (even if we should get out of there by now.)
Gunga Dun
Love all these guys. Good to see the Brits struttin’ their stuff too.
Jim Hlavac
@Nice Sean (formerly Sean, and Sean from england.): And correct, sir, I echo — what is “imperialist privilege”? Is that when we should have gone in to at least save the Bamiyan Bhuddas? Wondrous things, hundreds of feet high – there for 1500 years, World Unesco Heritage sites, I’m sure, and architectural marvels, they having been carved by hand out of the living rock with the tools, such as they had, 1500 years ago – and the Taliban miscreants shot missiles into them all day long and the world did nothing. Hey, what is it about blowing up buildings and structures with that certain group?
And maybe “imperialist privilege” has something to do with protecting the women of that nation from the bizarre cultural milieu they are in, and actually letting them go to school to learn to read and write, for we are for women’s empowerment, are we not? Not to mention that while the men of that nation are paying boys to dance on their laps, they are burning to death grown gay men, and we should respect that bit of cultural oddity, no doubt, to avoid the hint of “imperialist privilege” indeed. For to live in a free country, such as we do, and say and be whom we want with a minimal of fuss and muss is a great horror the rest of the world should not experience. I suppose, for the “respect” of their culture, that nothing should have been done, lest it be “imperial.” And what with the Taliban making billions off of heroin sales, while condemning pot smokers to lashings, after they were done smoking hooch themselves while pushing walls of stacked bricks and rocks onto our gay brethren. Oh, what a fine culture they do have, that no amount of “imperialism” should intercede.
And part of the lack of “imperialist privilege” is the near destruction of every artifact of ancient humanity that was in the museums of that nation — let us ransack the Smithsonian, with all that new stuff, and see how one feels.
I mean really, here we have young men, sent to do their jobs, with as much power as we do to affect anything (aka, none) and they pull themselves together to make a fine video, and one with the requisite gay tinge, ergo showing that gays are not a threat to the military — and you call this “imperial privilege”?
boomer
In Queerty’s defence (and trust me, I don’t defend them often), “imperialist privilege” in this case is the lack of recognition that a lot of these political and social problems you’ve named were instigated and/or exacerbated by aggressive imperialist moves decades or centuries ago. It’s the attitude that you’re taking the high road by going in and saving these people, when you’re of the group that went and and screwed these people in the first place.
Dali
@Spike: Actually, I think AB at 0:36 was impeccable. Too bad we couldn’t see his eyes.
jack e. jett
Awesome…and then some.
Allen D.
Spink & Reagan made that video worthwhile.
Hephaestion
Ya gotta love the Brits!
James
These boys been lickin down some too much cheese toasty eh wot. Aoh bother I went and made my-self hungry.
christopher di spirito
YUM! Thank you, Britain!
averageguy40
How cute are those guys? Very!
Muscles
Hunky? These guys are skinny, I can’t believe they’re soldiers.
Jay
Muscles, these guys look like young men are supposed to look like. Most American men are either overweight or overmuscled on their upper bodies. Unfortunately the Brits are catching up to the US’s bad habits.
toferdavid
God bless them. In light of the deadly helicopter shooting yesterday this video sadly puts into perspective the subtle moments that soldiers are granted to laugh and have fun with each other.
JMC
Love it! Gaz, Ab, Taylor, etc. great job. Be safe.
kevin
I can’t believe some of these comments.
Some of you guys are such miserable bitches!
Your comments are disgusting, pathetic and about as deep as a puddle.
It’s a lip-syncing video to a song! That’s all!
Jeez.
Great fun video! Be safe.
sweetkym
Way to go Brit boys! Lookin GOOODD! 🙂 Much Love! xoxo
BillCooney
When asked what my favorite color is, I invariably reply “camouflage”! Too cute group of guys having fun!