Poll of the Day > Do you think you could make one of these Guys LAUGH???

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You might have seen them if you visited or live in the UK but these royal guards are trained to supposedly not to show any emotion and if they do, they get PUNISHED with a slash in their pay if they are caught smiling, laughing or making any gesture..but do you think you could crack one?.

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https://i.imgur.com/52eDt5U.jpg
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I just sang him the Banana Phone song

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Do they go through some special kind of npc training before they do this?

I have a huge urge to tickle one of them now. Although, that sword does not look to friendly (wonder if it is dull).

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Maybe when they are off duty

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I would read bad puns to him one by one. Honestly he's bound to crack a smirk at one at least

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dedbus posted...

Do they go through some special kind of npc training before they do this?

Soldiers in the Queen's Guard are normal infantrymen of the British Army, assigned to this duty in between more active combat and garrison missions. As such, each has undergone the six-month Combat Infantryman's Course at ITC Catterick in Yorkshire. This has roughly a 65% pass rate. The current curriculum is as follows:

• Week 1: introduction, fitness assessment, rifle and drill lessons
• Week 2: 1 night spent out in the field. Rifle, drill, fieldcraft and physical training lessons.
• Weeks 3-4: 2 nights per week spent out in the field. Rifle, drill, outdoor activities and physical training lessons.
• Weeks 5-7: 3 nights per week spent out in the field. Live fire marksmanship training. Battlefield casualty drills. Map reading. Physical training.
• Week 8: Live fire marksmanship training, 300 metre range. Swimming, obstacle course. Drill. Route marches. Map reading lessons. Light machine gun training.
• Weeks 9-11: Live fire marksmanship training, 400 metre range. Drill. Six mile route march in full kit. Battlefield casualty drills. Swimming. Signals training.
• Weeks 12-13: Adventure training (kayaking, climbing, caving, hillwalking). Training with light machine guns and grenades. Ceremonial drill. Six mile route march in full kit. Battlefield casualty drills. Signals training.
• Week 14: Tactical exercise. Battlefield casualty drills. Ceremonial drill. Strength training.
• Weeks 15-16: Urban combat skills training. Light machine gun live fire exercise. Obstacle course. Battlefield casualty drills. Ceremonial drill.
• Weeks 17-18: Tactical exercise. Training in handling IEDs. Seven mile route march in full kit. Circuit training.
• Weeks 19-20: Tactical exercise. Seven mile route march in full kit. Obstacle course and circuit training. Live firing exercises: close quarters marksmanship and night-time firing. Ceremonial drill. IT training.
• Weeks 21-22: Eight mile route march in full kit. Live firing exercises. Bayonet drill. Training with grenade launchers and flares. Use of chemical/bacteriological/radiation protective gear. Driver theory training. Ceremonial drill.
• Weeks 23-24: Eight mile route march in full kit, five-mile run. Training with grenade launchers and general purpose machine guns. Live firing exercises using automatic weapons and grenades. Use of NBC gear. Ceremonial drill.
• Weeks 25-26: 'Battlecamp': tactical training in the field using live ammunition. (A six-day field exercise in the Scottish Highlands.)
• Weeks 27-28: Ceremonial drill parade. Marksmanship and marching competitions. Passing Out parade.

The course is designed to teach the following basic skills:

• Personal administration (maintaining your kit, and so forth)
• Weapons training - to operate the SA80 rifle, light machine gun and general purpose machine gun, and night-vision gear.
• Drill - marching and parading. The purpose of this is to instil fitness, discipline and teamwork.
• Fieldcraft - camouflage, first aid, map-reading, entrenchment, observation.
• Fitness - running, swimming, assault courses, gym work and sports.
• Teamwork - outdoor 'adventure training' requiring cooperative activity - abseiling, kayaking, rock-climbing.

Recruits joining Guards regiments also have to complete a full-dress mock-up of the Trooping the Colour ceremony.
Once qualified, the Army also arranges additional training on an ongoing basis whenever possible. For example, the Grenadier Guards - one of the regiments that most often provide the Queen's Guard - recently completed a one-month jungle combat and survival training exercise in Belize.

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All that and they just stand in front of building in silly hats.

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