Interpretation of a common language

dhc4ever

Well if the cousins are confused by the aussie version of English, or you are a civie and cant understand what some of us ex mil types are prattling on about, read here for future reference.
Excuse the language, there's NOTHING politically correct in here;

en.wiktionary.org/wiki...tary_slang

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5947

Bin-A-Raffie as far as pranks go, that sounds kinda funny. Very Happy

Dimitri

Suzanne

Well that explains a few things. How do you remember all that anyway? Reminds me of my indoctrination to a Naval air station. The guy hauling me around for introductions had a slang name for everything and confused the heck out of me. He enjoyed every squinty look I gave him too. Once or twice I reminded him I was female, it only made him talk faster. They did clean up the wall paper in the office tho. (thank you Lord) Hustler spreads, wall to wall, glad I missed it. Nothin like staring at someones star-fish all day.....eeeewwwwwooooo

Suz

dhc4ever

Suzanne wrote:

Well that explains a few things. How do you remember all that anyway? Reminds me of my indoctrination to a Naval air station. The guy hauling me around for introductions had a slang name for everything and confused the heck out of me. He enjoyed every squinty look I gave him too. Once or twice I reminded him I was female, it only made him talk faster. They did clean up the wall paper in the office tho. (thank you Lord) Hustler spreads, wall to wall, glad I missed it. Nothin like staring at someones star-fish all day.....eeeewwwwwooooo

Suz

Thats why I like you Suz, you've been there, done that and still have a sense of humour.
That and the fact you've lion trained about 75% of the males on this site.
Outstanding.

Vince

Not hard to remember when you live with it all day every day Suz. Of course each particular service only needs remember their own slang terms.

Cheers, Vince

radar

I'm amazed how many of the terms of endearment contained in that are used in the police here in NZ.

Well worth a good read

Elvis

Ive always walked on civy street but more than a few of those are in my vocab too.

stovepipe

Where's Bollocks??!! Not MilSpeak enough or ? Meh...these foriegn tounges I dunnnow....

Man, what a list. I'll be stumpin' suckers fer hours now, thanks!

English Mike

Anyone who has ever eaten a banjo knows why they are thus named.......

camel

English Mike wrote:

Anyone who has ever eaten a banjo knows why they are thus named.......

The banjo's I've had were in Singapore years ago, late 70's, and they were bread rolls about 15 inches long and about 4 inches in diameter. Then stuffed with what ever you wanted, e.g. bacon and egg, cat, rat or monkey. Took a while to eat one of them suckers. Wouldnt want to drop a full one on ya foot or you would be walking with a limp for a while.