You couldn't make it up !

ciphers wrote:

Hey. I'm at 300 ... I'm gonna be a colonel .. chin, chin ..

Len Ciphers)

Drinks all around on your aid de camp bar bill I assume

We don't have mirrors here as I crack em!

Congratulations Sonny.

I always get bemused expressions whe I say "Say Again" when I want something repeating.

The things that stay with you. LOL.

I have a bad one, I say "copy" at times.

Being a driver of big green lorries I have the habit of saying 'clear left or right' when looking out for someone, say again and alles uber die platz even though thats wholly incorrect.

alles uber die platz even though thats wholly incorrect.

What does that translate into? Sorry failed both English and other languages at school, but what the heck....no one speaks English in this country anymore anyway

handler 69 wrote:

alles uber die platz even though thats wholly incorrect.

What does that translate into? Sorry failed both English and other languages at school, but what the heck....no one speaks English in this country anymore anyway

Suppose he means "all over the place"?

I say "as you were", usually to myself when I cock up. Say again of course. Nichts Verstehen (sp?), Ich weis es nicht (sp?)

I just can't understand why people look at me in a daft way when I do it?

The trick is to let go....

Cornflakes still get called "Soggies"- (the cooks used to hot milk on them in the winter).

Underpants still get called "Shreddies"

Like Teabag, I still use "As you were".

Bits of radio procedure still crop up but that is partly due to it's usage when I was on the Ambulance Service.

Trouble is, Gordon, we can't, (don't want to), let go !

I still use all of the above, but now that I am of a certain age (people offer me their seat on public transport, not in this country, I hasten to add), I also say "I don't bloody believe it!!"

I think that it becomes part of our make up. A hold onto (if you like) to good and bad memories.
Reading some interesting stories about Chieftans getting lost and where abouts they end up...some are amazing
60 odd tonnes wandering around the German Contryside LOST How do you say "Iam Lost" in German???

If you were driving a 60 ton Chieftan around the German Countryside would you admit to being lost? Not good for your credibility!

Shelldrake wrote:

If you were driving a 60 ton Chieftan around the German Countryside would you admit to being lost? Not good for your credibility!

Tank Commanders were never lost in QOH. When challenged they allways said "I was following a contour line".

Yeah right, one that led straight into Schwindebeck !

I hadn't realised how many army expressions I still use.

One of the most descriptive I've ever heard is "Kit Check", to describe the result of someone throwing up.

To the puzzlement of most civilians, I still say

"Stand Slack",
"Out of Action"
and that old favourite-"Buckshee".

How about, "Change round, Tell off"? Nah, didn't think so.


Yellow Handbag?

Shelldrake wrote:

Shiters, Double Bagger, Gopping. They could all be employed in the same sentence. "I was Shiters last night, woke up this morning with a Double Bagger who was Gopping!".

Hmmmm....it's been many years since I hung around you lot, and learned how to speak the sort of English you all insisted was "English" so let's see if I can figure this sentence out....

"I was really really drunk last night, shit-faced, and woke up this morning with a girl so ugly she needed two bags over her head..." the only thing I can't figure out is what Gopping means...do I even want to???

handler 69 wrote:

I think that it becomes part of our make up. A hold onto (if you like) to good and bad memories.
Reading some interesting stories about Chieftans getting lost and where abouts they end up...some are amazing
60 odd tonnes wandering around the German Contryside LOST How do you say "Iam Lost" in German???

Ich bin forlorn....

Now, not sure of the real spelling of "forlorn" auf Deutsch (it could be verloern (an umlaut over the 'o') as I think of it) but I find it interesting the similarity between it and the English word "forlorn" also meaning a bit lost, but emotionally lost....I found a lot of German words were very close to English or at least Old English but then the two languages do share the same roots....

And just how in hell do you "lose" 60 tonnes of vehicle????

(patting down one's pockets)...I know I had it here a second ago....!

Stephen Lock wrote:

Shelldrake wrote:

Shiters, Double Bagger, Gopping. They could all be employed in the same sentence. "I was Shiters last night, woke up this morning with a Double Bagger who was Gopping!".

Hmmmm....it's been many years since I hung around you lot, and learned how to speak the sort of English you all insisted was "English" so let's see if I can figure this sentence out....

"I was really really drunk last night, shit-faced, and woke up this morning with a girl so ugly she needed two bags over her head..." the only thing I can't figure out is what Gopping means...do I even want to???

You are on the right track Stephen !

File "Gopping" (a word that emerged in the late 70's),
under "Generally disgusting".

Most of the words that describe a remarkably ugly woman could all fit under the title "A five pinter".

We must keep these things simple if we can.

brum

Dingo ugly mate! Creeping out windows before they wake up!

Stephen, a "Double bagger" means "She was so ugly that you needed two bags, one to put over her head and one to put over your head in case the one over her head fell off".


How about a "Six coiler" - I'll leave that one for Brum to explain!!

Rough as a badgers arse

I need a pint of wd40/AL39 before I'd go near her

Egg Banjo

Babies heads ...yummy...

LOL, I love this thread, triple bagger anyone? one for her, one for you and one to be sick in when you see her face/body/age in the morning

Mein freund bezahlen (apologies for the spelling)

JPW - whatever can you mean?

Oh dear