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  1. Ticklishchap

    WWII/old-fashioned military slang for passing gas.

    'Capital punishment': that sounds a bit drastic. Please explain what you mean. We didn't call it 'PT' but 'PE': it was one double lesson during the week. As I've explained on another thread I had to play Rugger every day except on Wednesday afternoons when we had Corps. As it happens, the PE...
  2. Ticklishchap

    WWII/old-fashioned military slang for passing gas.

    http://www.pointsincase.com/articles/the-fart-collector-turns-shame-into-profit
  3. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ... And as a result of what I have described above, for a growing number of Londoners its 'Hello to Berlin'.
  4. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ... Re. the latter comment, I shouldn't say it because I work in property management and should be delighted tat values are rising and 'a better type of person' is moving in. But in reality I think it's creating an increasingly antiseptic and conformist atmosphere - as well as, of course...
  5. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Oh dear. Looks straight out of Shoreditch, the Hipster Capital of London: there's even a 'silicon roundabout'. It was more interesting and more real when it was a working-class area.
  7. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The worst thing they've done is to try to 'reflect society' and resemble civilian life when the whole point is to have an ethos that is distinct from 'divvy street'.
  8. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    At least this chap doesn't look embarrassing, but I agree with you - it's regressive behaviour. I come across it a lot when I'm working in central London: it's a hipster thing that's spread out to City professionals and students.
  9. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Ah, Nabisco, the makers of Ritz crackers, which I associate with my earliest school lunch boxes and still like very much. I think they were called something else in Melbourne (my first school was there, because we lived there for a few years in the late 60s/early 70s). The local name might have...
  10. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It was on our news last night: sheer daylight robbery!
  11. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    Having said that there was little chance of WPs until Fall, I have been able to wear a Navy Woolly Pully this morning because of a drop in temperature - still humid but no longer hot. July is the worst month here I think: either it's hot and sticky or its wet and sticky. Roll on crisp autumnal...
  13. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Aren't they horrible? They have been parodied mercilessly in Britain, notably by a brilliant writer called Lynne Truss. This means that most people are too embarrassed to send them. Some are still shameless enough to do so - and they are mainly, as you say, about improbable and 'fantastic'...
  14. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    'Dude' is a really nice word. I think this is best understood as a linguistic and cultural issue, with these words taking on a different connotation - and having different associations - in the US than the UK. I shall therefore react to them completely differently when I hear them from...
  15. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Moving out is the last of their problems at the moment. Numbers are down - there is a marked inability to recruit young men, even in areas of high unemployment. Regimental Headquarters are being sold off. Recruiting offices are no longer run by the Forces but by a private, contracted-out...
  16. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Going back to the theme of trivial things that tick us off, I have one which might expose cultural (or maybe even linguistic) differences between Britain and America, but here goes anyway. It's incredibly irritating when older - or shall I say mature - people use age-inappropriate language to...
  17. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    Agree - and a disappointment because I liked the photos.
  19. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    Not much chance to wear WPs at the moment - the cooler evenings and mornings will enable them to come into their own again. Roll on Fall or autumn, depending which 'language' you speak.
  20. Ticklishchap

    RUGBY UNION!!

    I meant 'compulsory eccer ' (the school slang). Damn spelleck.
  21. Ticklishchap

    RUGBY UNION!!

    Compulsory 'eccer' as we called it could seem a waste of time (especially in the rain, etc.) but I can see the point of it years later.
  22. Ticklishchap

    WWII/old-fashioned military slang for passing gas.

    "Fart shame" is something you lose quickly at an all-male boarding school. Perhaps your grandfather had a similar education to mine.
  23. Ticklishchap

    WWII/old-fashioned military slang for passing gas.

    Yes, a brilliant scene. I remember that film well.

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