virtual crazy gang, part II

Varley · #**9301** 5th October 2024, 16:47

I think the boys in blue would deem driving while doing that unsafe. Worthy of note in acrobatic circles, no doubt, but certainly unsafe nonetheless.

Engine Serang · #**9302** 5th October 2024, 21:27

Don't need to drive, competency in mushing will suffice.

billyboy · #**9303** 5th October 2024, 23:15

Charming! ... nipped down the Engine room to check on things and got smacked in the mouth with a shifter thrown by Squeak. Must get Tmac to have a word with that Rat.

billyboy · #**9304** 5th October 2024, 23:17

Beware of Squeak when he is in a Temper.

Engine Serang · #**9305** 6th October 2024, 07:33

Where is our old china, Tmax? His weeks leave has stretched to months and the two rats are missing him. They are off their food and doing No 2's in the shaft alley, what next? I have a sneeking feeling he was moonlighting in H&W on the ill-fated liner Odyssey.

I, and many others, eagerly await the whole story breaking, as it surely will.

YM-Mundrabilla · #**9306** 6th October 2024, 08:53

Hope that he hasn't been 'frozen' as one of the assets at H and W.
His MBE must be worth something. Wish that I had one but closest that I ever came was driving my big boss to Government House to get an OBE about 100 years ago..

Malcolm G · #**9307** 6th October 2024, 10:32

OBE = Other Bugger’s Efforts.

Varley · #**9308** 6th October 2024, 12:13

Dear me Sir W. Lucky he got you without your teeth 'in'.

YM-Mundrabilla · #**9309** Yesterday, 02:03

Absolutely Malcolm.
Just proves the dangers of acronyms!
Two others come to mind:

Breakfast radio program had a segment 'WTF' which they thought represented 'why the face'. Only problem was everyone else thought it stood for 'what the f***'. The are now very careful to emphasise their version of WTF.
There was also a Union called the 'ATOF' which was the 'Australian Transport Officers Federation'. It was universally deemed to represent 'All The Other F*****s'.

Engine Serang · #**9310** Yesterday, 06:52

Was the General Secretary called Jack?

Engine Serang · #**9311** Yesterday, 07:00

Isn't that typical of our antipodean cousins, the only thing that's keeping youse within the Realm is the hope that Him Belong Mrs Parker-Bowles will give one a gong of some sort.

tweediekiwi · #**9312** Today, 07:03

We need the GD and your crews expertese down here. The NZ Navy's Manawanui research ship has hit a reef in Samoa and sunk!

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...nken-manawanui

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...cid=newsletter

We need to pump it full of ping pong balls and get it refloated from 150 metres down! Anyone up for a bit of South Seas Salvage? I hear that HMS Tamar is on patrol there keeping people away from the wreck site, so, if you have RN contacts and mates in the Dutch salvage business, all the better. Free salt water and all the LFO you can drink! Apply Within.

Malcolm G · #**9313** Today, 08:46

Does the Lady driver know that you can just look at a reef, you don’t have to go up close and give it a poke to see what it is?

Engine Serang · #**9314** Today, 10:08

For the Officer Commanding, the OOW and the MEO it's squeeky bum time.

The environmental gobshites will start shouting about damage to the reef. If they haven't started already.

rustytrawler · #**9315** Today, 11:08

I hear Varley has been taking swimming lessons, why don't we send him down there to have a look he has bought a pair of woollen trunks that will help him sink.

Varley · #**9316** Today, 12:00

A lady driver? I I didn't realise it was a parallel parking issue. I'll have to check our ECDIS to see if it's software has the 'reef parking' upgrade implemented.

And, budget woolly-snugglers or not, Mrs.V's hyper little boy doesn't do anything barbaric.

(Not that I can talk. I reversed into a wall on my first test. On my second and last I failed because I used the mirror too much. It was acknowledged that this was an unusual trip-up but that one "must look out of the front occasionally"!)