Perhaps I should answer some of the questions or comments while I'm here:

@Oblyvious: many guards in the British tradition do wear the tall black hat, typically called a bearskin (and made of bear fur), as part of their uniform. I'm not sure what this guy is doing, although he actually seems not to be a palace guard (not guarding Buckingham Palace at least).

@MINK: I don't think you meant to say that a soldier on ceremonial guard duties is necessarily soft / not hardcore, so I'll use your comment as a springboard to a wider audience, since there are not a few people who tend to imagine that if a soldier is on ceremonial duties then that is all he does and is all he's good for. Again I'm not sure how the Brits do it (I reckon they use full-time troops and would guess that they rotate into / out of ceremonial duties) but in our case we reservists have the option of doing ceremonial duties during the summer (it's a big guaranteed chunk of money, esp. for those soldiers who are also students), while the rest of the year we're training with our usual reserve units practicing infantry shit. I know plenty of guys who have volunteered to do ceremonial duties one summer and then the next they were (again voluntarily) doing work-up training for deployment and the summer after that they were (voluntarily) on mission in Afghanistan. All this to point up the fact that soldiers doing ceremonial taskings are every inch "real" soldiers.

@AeroMech: I'm guessing that was tongue-in-cheek but ceremonial guards are exactly that -- ceremonial, there for the sake of tradition and pomp, as well as (it must be said) for the delight of the tourists. Going back a few hundred years when this sort of guard posting was for reals, when the guards actually had live ammo and were actually there to seriously guard some dudes, perhaps the guards were allowed to look around periodically. In any event they would have been able to walk a beat, during which they'd be able to see everything around them (the guard who's on the move in this video is walking a beat).

Also, yes, bewbs. Sex. ("Sex you've had or sex you haven't?" -- both.) Tourists are a chatty lot so you can listen in on their prattling if there's a bunch of them around. You people-watch, too (and girl-watch) if they happen to be around the center of your field of view.

@Shepppard: not fired, but extra duties if his superiors found out about it -- which, since it's on the you tubes, they probably did

Rfid is extremly weak. They can be cloned and ripped for us black hats out there.

They can be used against the manufactures for us white hats out there.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/19/rfid-credit-cards-easily-hacked-with-8-reader/

the site above has RFID, from there you have to chose which pill you take.

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