Speaking of the world cup

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No offence to the Scots, Welsh and Irish. I would be just as riled if they did the same.

What???? Burned the English national flag?..Don`t see anything to be riled about there.

Now if it were our own national flag???/wellll

I'm no football fan, but I was amazed that many of my mates truly believed England were going to win. sad really, now these same mates truly believe we're going to win the Euro cup. Sad really, and it's not as if they are thick either, well mostly not

I am no football fan either but received this today click for full size

LOL yes, seen that Steve.

steve wrote:

I am no football fan either but received this today click for full size

Now that's funny. Never takes long for the jokes to come out does it?

Some MP's are demanding an enquiry into why we did so badly at the world cup. Country is in crisis, our lads getting battered in hot places and they are worried about this nonsense. You couldn't make it up!

ITS AMAZING THEY CAN SPARE TIME AWAY FROM FIDDLING THERE EXPENCES TO WORRY ABOUT FOOTBALL , WHO RUNS THE COUNTRY? HIGH PAID CONSULTANTS

This was just posted on the RAOC board, speaks for itself think

Teabag wrote:

Some MP's are demanding an enquiry into why we did so badly at the world cup. Country is in crisis, our lads getting battered in hot places and they are worried about this nonsense. You couldn't make it up!

Obviously seen as more of a vote winner than fixing Labour's rape of the economy and preventing British lads and lasses getting killed.

Now where's that expense form?

jim wrote:

This was just posted on the RAOC board, speaks for itself think

Very funny, but I note from the URL in the bottom right hand corner that it is yet another dig from our Northern Celtic Bretheren.

Mike

Er....is it politically correct to call them "Celtic Brethren".
(Last ah haird ye're no supposed tae call them "Jock" anymore !)

brum wrote:

Er....is it politically correct to call them "Celtic Brethren".
(Last ah haird ye're no supposed tae call them "Jock" anymore !)

Oops! Sorry! Where would we be without political correctness? (in a democratic society perhaps?)

I suppose it's a bit like the story told to me donkey's years ago.

The Air Ministry sent an official complaint to the Admiralty stating that sailors were referring to airmen as Crabs or Crabfat.

Of course this was not to be tolerated so the Admiralty acted swiftly in sending out the following signal:

"To all HM Ships and Shore Establishments. In future Crabs are to be referred to as the Royal Air Force"

LOL Mike I hadn't even noticed the url.

We always called them crab air as well, never heard crabfat though.

jim wrote:

LOL Mike I hadn't even noticed the url.

We always called them crab air as well, never heard crabfat though.

I have some ex-Navy mates and Crabfat is a peculiarly RN expression. Something to do with the colour of said fat and the RAF uniform.

But in the Army, yes; Crabs, Crab Air or White-knuckle Airways.

Mike

At the Army Navy game this year I heard some Navy guys being called swabbies, not I term I've ever heard of, but then I didn't come into contact with the Navy at all during my service Mike.

hard luck

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Looks a bit like a man u saved goal to me John.

yes under "FERGI RULES " you play extra time untill they win !

jim wrote:

At the Army Navy game this year I heard some Navy guys being called swabbies, not I term I've ever heard of, but then I didn't come into contact with the Navy at all during my service Mike.

Thought that was an American term for their blokes Jim? I can remember hearing Popeye say it! Something to do with swabbing the decks maybe?

Just to keep up with the wild fluctuations generated by the subject of the World cup.......When we were in Fort George in Derry, we had to live on HMS Rame Head, a sort of floating workshops, with a RN crewe for a while.
To me "The Andrew" was the name for the Senior Service and one on his own was a "Matelot".
They called us "Gizzits", instead of the usual "Pongos" because every time we saw something interesting on the ship worth cadging we always said "Gizzit"!

Might be Teabag I don't know. Never heard the RN called the Andrew either Brum?

The Navy is stiff with it's own words for things Jim, like "The Oggin"
(The Sea), "Gash", (rubbish) and "Uckers", (an incomprehensible game, designed to baffle Pongos.)
"The Andrew" was in common usage way back when I was a kid.

brum

brum wrote:

The Navy is stiff with it's own words for things Jim, like "The Oggin"
(The Sea), "Gash", (rubbish) and "Uckers", (an incomprehensible game, designed to baffle Pongos.)
"The Andrew" was in common usage way back when I was a kid.

brum

Pussers is a favourite. Think it means the real thing? Amazing how we got from the world cup to slagging off the matelots.

uckers is a game loosley akin to ludo.a great favorate within the AAC for some reason,i dont know if there is anyone who fully understands the rules,every time a situation came up someone would usually pipe up,"well this was the rule at my last unit "so the situation would be overcome,games have been known to last for days.

PUSSER'S IS THE BRAND of NAVY RUM