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23rd July 2020, 12:47 AM
#21
Re: It never ends.
Bet it doesn’t show one with her hair on fire and her bosom blown to bits. JS.
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23rd July 2020, 06:26 AM
#22
Re: It never ends.
If I recall the term 'sailor' created a bit of a fuss with some in the 60's.
'Hello sailor' from some of the alternative gender persons would often see a normal guy do the 100 meters in record time, going the other way.
AS to seamen that too had different conotations back then, semen all over the place with that lot.
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23rd July 2020, 07:43 AM
#23
Re: It never ends.
Originally Posted by
Keith at Tregenna
“seafarer” ?
Not bad Keith, but seaman, as in AB, EDH, SOS,JOS Deck Boy usually meant those who worked on deck, and each department, deck, engine, catering were proud of their designations, it meant something to them, seafarer or sailor covers a multitude of jobs and may mean nothing to those not in the trade, but times change and rules are made by those who may not have any idea of tradition and the desire to get the initials further up the ladder, whether it be JOS to AB, or Greaser to Donkeyman. or Galley boy to Chief Cook etc etc, moving from 3rd Class to First Class doesn't have the same ring, but as said before I'm just an old F*rt who liked it the way it was, gave a young lad a sense of achievement to get those initials in his Discharge Book
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23rd July 2020, 08:13 AM
#24
Re: It never ends.
RE #1: Royal Canadian Navy to replace 'seaman' in rank titles.
Hence seafarers ?
Surely most the women are able bodied etc.
K.
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23rd July 2020, 08:32 AM
#25
Re: It never ends.
Originally Posted by
vic mcclymont
There is an advert on the TV for our armed forces, shows a coloured woman (no problem with that), shw walks through a galley of an RN ship, all women. She then watches an RAF VTOL aircraft, piloted by a woman.
There is not one man shown in the advert, brainwashing or what?
Vic
par for the course Vic, women are allowed to be sexist but not men
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23rd July 2020, 10:57 AM
#26
Re: It never ends.
Originally Posted by
Keith at Tregenna
RE
Surely most the women are able bodied etc.
K.
The ones in South America certainly were!
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23rd July 2020, 11:32 AM
#27
Re: It never ends.
#24... Ambi-dexterous as well Ivan. JS
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23rd July 2020, 07:21 PM
#28
Re: It never ends.
Ok if we are all going PC, what's the substitute for maiden voyage?
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23rd July 2020, 08:06 PM
#29
Re: It never ends.
Originally Posted by
vic mcclymont
Ok if we are all going PC, what's the substitute for maiden voyage?
Vic
The vessel is losing its cherry ?
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23rd July 2020, 09:58 PM
#30
Re: It never ends.
Originally Posted by
Malcolm Lawrence
So does this mean that ships can no longer be referred to as she and "tharr she blows" becomes "tharr them blows"
Found this interesting from last year:
April 25th, 2019
The Scottish Maritime Museum is to stop referring to ships and boats as “she” and instead adopt gender neutral terms after the word “she” was scratched from a number of signs in the museum.
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2...-goes-boating/
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