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**Father_Famine** · 27-01-2012, 12:44

Originally Posted by Ravers

Get fucked, of all the insults, I've ever received this is possibly the worst. I was a WE.

I did a stint as a gunner and even spent some time with the State Ceremonial lot at Collingwood, but realised fairly early on that gunnery was only funnery if you had a very short attention span and counted headbutting stuff as one of your primary hobbies.

I bet you have a gash tat that says 'If it flies it dies' don't you.

WE? are WEs still referred to as Pinky Faggots? Did you have to get the mattress surgically removed during your time as a Gunner?

I am sure you realise my part of ship from my user name, but, if not there is 'baby sick butties for four o clockers today.......

**Dennis48** · 27-01-2012, 16:05

Originally Posted by Father_Famine

WE? are WEs still referred to as Pinky Faggots? Did you have to get the mattress surgically removed during your time as a Gunner?

I am sure you realise my part of ship from my user name, but, if not there is 'baby sick butties for four o clockers today.......

Four o'clockers?? Were you a barrack stanchion?

**seaweed** · 27-01-2012, 16:57

Careful, shippers, keep the stories toned down, we don't want the pongoes to think our grey steel messengers of death are some sort of floating lunatic asylum, let's keep that to ourselves shall we?

**Joe_Private** · 27-01-2012, 18:06

Originally Posted by northern-matelot

From what I've been hearing from one of my RMP buddies, due to the RNP's refusal to wear a red berret like their RMP counterparts, the MoD is looking at bring a tri-service beret, any guesses what colour??

Tri-service, surely it must be purple. (The kind you find in a second-hand store.)

**Nobby Sapper** · 27-01-2012, 18:33

Originally Posted by Bladesman

This is all very entertaining. Perhaps in the interests of greater harmony and homogenisation, we should all share one beer tent at Twickenham this year. The RAF can run the bar and the Army v Navy settle their differences by drinking until everything turns purple.

Surely the Mate a lots are better at drinking than playing rugger?
It all went Pete Tong when the burly agressor wanna be squaddies types stoped throwing those little cannonettes over walls etc. The wheels really fell off the limber there.

At least the French navy have a half decent motto.
" To the water, it is time!"

Or as they say in France:
"A leau, c'est l'heure!!!!"

**Father_Famine** · 30-01-2012, 12:43

Originally Posted by Dennis48

Four o'clockers?? Were you a barrack stanchion?

You had four o clockers on a ship at sea as Tea wasn't served until 7.30, nine o clockers in harbour or barracks when tea was served at 5

**Dennis48** · 30-01-2012, 14:02

Originally Posted by Father_Famine

You had four o clockers on a ship at sea as Tea wasn't served until 7.30, nine o clockers in harbour or barracks when tea was served at 5

Only time I came across four o'clockers was when under training at St Vincent. Never had it at sea.

**A2_Matelot** · 30-01-2012, 14:06

Originally Posted by Father_Famine

WE? are WEs still referred to as Pinky Faggots?

Surely that would be greenies - or pinkies if they were WAFU's L's?

**Dennis48** · 30-01-2012, 15:29

WE used to be Weapons & Electrical Dept consisting of Tiffys and Gunnery rates who looked after Turrets, magazines, missile launchers and on the Eagle the bomb lifts.

**Issi** · 30-01-2012, 19:12

We had a PO Aircrewman attached to our AAC sqn in the late 80's. He turned up on CO's parade one morning in all of his blue kit.

The RSM just looked at him and screamed - 'Get that shagging slidy foot off my square".
Still makes me smile when I think about it, he was a nice bloke, the PO, despite getting me monged on Whisky and IrnBru at about 1030 one Christmas morning.