Navy speak

[Colin Wood]

A term of advise I heard on a few ships where someone was summoned to the bridge to be logged, was to back slowly in with your trousers folded neatly over you left arm. Looks like this is what Mrs May has been doing with Brexit.

[dgolding]

Reference to the work chant 2-6. I believe it goes back to the days of the wooden navy ships. Guns crews were generally illiterate, and the different roles/positions on a gun crew were identified by numbers. So numbers 2 and 6 had the job of running the gun out, after reloading, by heaving on tackles attached either side of the gun port. Hence the chant " 2 6 Heave".

All the best to all
David

[Tony Taylor]

Don't forget 'sooji' buckets, cloths, or the act of soojying a bulkhead. I still speak of 'the deck' whether we are inside or out and if I am with friends at the club, still speak of 'a quick bevvy'. When people as what I did at sea, I tell them I was a 'bait-layer' , 'Tucker-F****r' or a 'Fitter and Turner'...we fit good food into a pot and turn it into s**t. I still use the term 'scran' sometimes, which I was told by an ex-RAN-cook, means 'S**t Cooked by the Royal Australian Navy'.


I hope they will help the dictionary along a little.

Our SCRAN was SH*T - before the Oz navy was invented -ha ha

[robpage]

I always thought it scran as a regional expression rather than he going one

[happy daze john in oz]

A term of advise I heard on a few ships where someone was summoned to the bridge to be logged, was to back slowly in with your trousers folded neatly over you left arm. Looks like this is what Mrs May has been doing with Brexit.

And exactly what is she doing with BREXIT, because from where we sit it would appear very little.

[robpage]

Although very much of topic Theresa May is it present in Austria having discussions with the Austrian and Czechoslovakian prime minister's the actual Parliament is now on summer recess until September the 4th