In The Lap Of The Gods

[Lord Steve]

The new DVD just arrived today - Thank you Amazon!
I know what I'm doing tonight - folding chair in the lounge, few cans of beer, appropriate CA t shirt.
I'll let you know tomorrow!

Steve

[Steve Pyro]

Steve, you really do need to log on here more often 

http://www.clubarnage.com/forum/index.php?topic=6086.0

[Lord Steve]

Oh, fair point.......

[Ferrari Spider]

Steve, you really do need to log on here more often 

http://www.clubarnage.com/forum/index.php?topic=6086.0

LOOK, what's going on 'ere, first we get bollocked for writing what we think when Johnny Newbie turns up trying to flog some overpriced film to us, then a regular comes back on the scene and gets shot down for putting his nose over the parapet.  It just seems a bit inequitable, that's all

[mgmark]

Peter,

           I think it's a mixture of semi-benevolent autocracy and the privilege of rank going to the youngster's head old boy - y'know the top brass are never wrong and all that....

MG Mark

[Ferrari Spider]

Peter,

           I think it's a mixture of semi-benevolent autocracy and the privilege of rank going to the youngster's head old boy - y'know the top brass are never wrong and all that....
MG Mark

Damn right, Mark.  AND Rank hath its Privilege Too.  The higher you rise the bigger the  fall fool.

[Steve Pyro]

Peter,

           ...  youngster's head ...

MG Mark

I'll take that as a compliment Mark  .

Oh, and I'll put the 4 stripes with the Royal purple back on my sleeve too. 

Following the Titanic sinking, and loss of life of all marine engineers, King George V degreed that British Marine Engineers should, henceforth, show a purple background on their rank insignia.

[Ferrari Spider]

Whats that steve, Cap'n 't 'eads

[mgmark]

Peter,

           ...  youngster's head ...

MG Mark

I'll take that as a compliment Mark  .

Oh, and I'll put the 4 stripes with the Royal purple back on my sleeve too. 

Wow  - I'm so jealous.   Those are really pretty patterns.   We just have to put up with plain old rings......... .   

I am, of course standing rigidly to attention and saluting at this time, in deference to a service whose roots grew from piracy, and in case you start trotting out that standard bollox about senior services and ruling the waves....... .  Just remember to be worried when you hear any of the following:

A Third Officer saying, "I learned this in training..."
A Second Officer saying, "Trust me, Sir..."
A Chief Officer saying, "Based on my experience..."
A Captain saying, "I was just thinking..."
A Chief Engineer chuckling, "Just watch this sh*t..."

 

MG Mark

[Ferrari Spider]

Mark, often wondered about the crabs calling rings, stripes?  All seems very odd.  Just a beeeezarre set-up, chief petty officers! What a mouthful, have a row of three buttons on each sleeve, its not decorative you know, oh no, its to stop them wiping their dripping noses on their sleeve, yuuuck, what a service.

[mgmark]

Mark, often wondered about the crabs calling rings, stripes?  All seems very odd.  Just a beeeezarre set-up, chief petty officers! What a mouthful, have a row of three buttons on each sleeve, its not decorative you know, oh no, its to stop them wiping their dripping noses on their sleeve, yuuuck, what a service.

Indeed, thoroughly uncultured really, but probably something to do with small boys and powder monkeys.   Difficult to work it out when simple phrases with common meanings seem to be completely lost on them.  Like when you ask politely where the nearest toilet is and they start laughing and talking about "heads".  The only time I'm interested in a combination of head and toilet is when needing to dispose rapidly of a part-digested curry.  Or you suggest cutting across some grass and get told you're getting your wet.  Or you ask where someone's bedroom is.   Or you ask for the dining room and they start banging on about ward rooms.  I mean, what have wards got to do with food    Probably something to do with tea, bromide and ancient mariners I suppose.

MG Mark

[Ferrari Spider]

I know just what you mean, galley for kitchen, below for downstairs, deck for floor.  Once, a very long time ago, I had the experience; we will call it that, of being billeted in/on a RN shore establishment, I believe they call them ships!!  Anyway, it was knock off time for us, the delights of the local pub beckoned,  we were all in our finest running ashore rig, whooops, Andrew slang creeping in, just to exit the base when some screaming bod comes tearing after us, you can't go out there!  The liberty boat's left, you'll drown!!  I rest my case.  Mad, the lot of them.

[termietermite]

This is all helping to explain why my neither of myparents ever understood what the other was talking about, one being airforce and the other navy.  Funny the things you discover on this site!

[Steve Pyro]

This is all helping to explain why my neither of myparents ever understood what the other was talking about, one being airforce and the other navy.  Funny the things you discover on this site!

It's all part of the rich and varied history and heritage of the UK.

I'm afraid, having been part of the Merchant Navy, rather than those part time sailors of the RN, I went to sea to do a job.  We had no time for bullshit, spit and polish and 'yes sir, no sir'.

The merchant navy is like any other haulage business, you get a contract to take cargo X from loading port A to discharge port B.  You do it in the required timescale, the company gets paid, you go to port C for cargo Y - and so on.

Various parts of my floating home were called proper names and attitudes were left at home.

[mgmark]

This is all helping to explain why my neither of myparents ever understood what the other was talking about, one being airforce and the other navy.  Funny the things you discover on this site!

It's all part of the rich and varied history and heritage of the UK.

I'm afraid, having been part of the Merchant Navy, rather than those part time sailors of the RN, I went to sea to do a job.  We had no time for bullsh**t, spit and polish and 'yes sir, no sir'.

The merchant navy is like any other haulage business, you get a contract to take cargo X from loading port A to discharge port B.  You do it in the required timescale, the company gets paid, you go to port C for cargo Y - and so on.

Various parts of my floating home were called proper names and attitudes were left at home.

Steve,

        And there was me thinking that your absence from the thread had been because you had either fallen asleep or just couldn't take the withering onslaught of air-minded banter from the cabbage crates over the briny squadron.   And all the time it was because you call things by their proper name.  Like front and back.  Or Left and Right......    

And you're being far too modest about the Red Ensign brigade being a haulage business.  When we do our job and people shoot at us, we have stuff to shoot back with - utmost admiration for those who do their stuff hauling what we need around without that benefit.

MG Mark