stacker1
LE
Correct, so they dont get threatened on orders.
Officers vs Common Soldiers... what exactly IS the difference...
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woopert
LE
If you want to know which officers are on the naughty step then look in the Annual Review and see who has made a "contribution" to the Regtl Museum.
Lardbeast
LE
That would be the position on the line between the unwashed soldiery and effete hofficers where those who sport crocs in a manly fashion reside.
Now back to your newspaper and try not to spill your Horlicks.
javaguzzisti
LE
Because they pay for it.
PRI contributions? Not something I remember.
woopert
LE
And also because membership of the Offrs or Sgts mess is obligatory even if you never step foot inside the place. Not so Jnrs who "use" messing facilities and the NAAFI. The half-way house is the Cpl's Club which is usually just a separate area of the cookhouse and NAAFI to avoid feeding time at the zoo.
Which brings me to the other difference. Mess balls, cocktail parties and dinners. I lost count of the amount of times I'd end up having to subsidise the social habits of the middle-aged pads and their wives by having the costs of a ball or a dinner I didn't want to attend added to my mess bill whether I was there or not. Oh, and mess related secondary duties as "Silvers Member" having to waste your time counting out and then back in the knives, forks, spoons and candelabras after each event. The highlight of those shit dits being made a member of the "Wines Committee" by a joker of a PMC who knew I never touched the stuff. In reality all he wanted was a designated driver who could stay sober enough to stay on the road while he and his mates went on wine drinking jollies in the name of "buying" the shite in France. It never occurred to him that he didn't need to dick me for this, he could have just asked nicely and I might have done him a favour anyway in return for letting me off paying a fortune for the shit parties I never attended.
Investigation over. It was pretty much the LE and WO/SNCO community that had an issue. The youth thought the photos were great. On reviewing the photos again they are potentially a bit too close to bad taste for the old boys to swallow.
HCL
LE
I'd take tea from a machine any day of the 1939 powdered elephant dung that was issued in the rat packs. Could never get the water hot enough in the mess tins for even a tea bag.
So saying the sachet of Nescafe was infinitely pref as post prandial beverage with the Player's No 6.
Chin chin.
woopert
LE
I bet it was because one of them fancied breaking in the rather squirrel-cheeked filly that looked like she should be presenting children's TV rather than being a steely eyed dealer of BATCO and realised from those pictures that chances are she was caught up in a bufty group-sex "experimenting" thing where there was a bit of "non-binary" conjugation going on and his hopes were dashed.
It was still quegetry though.
woopert
LE
No, as long as the PMC was able to spank me and call me a naughty subaltern whenever the urge took him.
stacker1
LE
They ran out of Andrex?
Especially when the dentist smokes a pipe whilst pondering the merits of wasting precious anaesthetic on you. Yes, the bugger smoked whilst up to his wrists in my gob!
Is it too late to claim?
And paying, as a detached officer not even on their strength, into various Regimental funds which were leveed via Mess Bills.
Stonker
LE
Cheeses H Keerist, your mob was clearly mired in the Edwardian era!!
Give us a clue: county infantry, arty, cav/peeples regt of Track or one of the Corps?
O - and decade(s)
Mrs Doyle walt.
Go on, go on, go on etc...
He's a Saffer. They eat passing cars!
Do they still extort 'barrack damages' from the living in troops? I always thought that was the biggest scam going. It always seemed to be the same amount each month paid in cash. No details of what had actually been damaged. Some places didn't seem to levy it at all. I always suspected it paid for the QM's department's Christmas party.
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