RMweb Premium BSW01 Posted August 23, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 23, 2022 One of my old drinking buddies who was just over 5ft was nick named Stumps! 5 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
br2975 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 1 hour ago, Northmoor said: Oh and it was joy to walk through what the Germans nicknamed "The Flying Porcupine", one of my real favourites, the Sunderland. Not easy to photograph in the hangar, but my daughter managed to capture this looking through to the tail turret: . Went inside the Sunderland owned by Kermit Weeks, and preserved in 'almost airworthy condition' at Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, Florida. . I was surprised at how cramped it was, and how 'compact' the passenger accomodation was. 4 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post br2975 Posted August 23, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 23, 2022 Worked with a Police Constable who was very short (no height restrictions anymore). . His nickname was 'laptop' as he was a small PC. 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted August 24, 2022 Share Posted August 24, 2022 2 hours ago, BSW01 said: The same lad wasn't very good at spelling either. For years he went round with a jacket that said 'Hells Angles' on the back! Bit like the agnostic dyslexic insomniac who lay awake all night wondering if there really is a dog. 1 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted August 24, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 24, 2022 Everyone where I worked was called Burt unless they had nick names like R. swipe, Si Attica, Sweaty (sock) Sully (Turkish) Mutt and Jeff (Two Deaf Blokes) etc. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted August 24, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 24, 2022 2 hours ago, Sasquatch said: Everyone where I worked was called Burt ..... Everyone where Bear worked was called Buddy - cos' I could never remember their bluddy names... Thinking about it, to a modern HR Dept. there's about 457 sackable offences in the last page of TNM alone. 2 6 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted August 24, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 24, 2022 There was a Peewee at Knottingley known as Junction 33. That's the Knottingley turn off the M62. Another was known as TC, she thought it was a great nickname. Then one day she found out it meant Two Chairs. Jamie 1 1 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pH Posted August 24, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 24, 2022 55 minutes ago, polybear said: Thinking about it, to a modern HR Dept. there's about 457 sackable offences in the last page of TNM alone. One place I worked had a list of “gross moral turpitude” offences which could result in instant dismissal. I remember a discussion in our 6 person office about how many we reckoned could be committed simultaneously and how that might be accomplished. 2 1 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted August 24, 2022 Share Posted August 24, 2022 To briefly return to the subject of nicknames, it’s almost as though there is a convention that has to be adhered to when bestowing nicknames. The ones that I remember are: short person = “lofty” tall person = “shorty”, “tiny” or “titch” anyone with “White” as a surname = “Snowy” or “Chalky” fat person = “Bunter” I am sure that there are many others. Some of which are willingly embraced by the nominees who refer to themselves by that nickname and others which are only used in the third person when that person is not present. 5 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted August 24, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 24, 2022 The guy that started our bike club is 'Pedro'. When he started work they asked what his name was (Andre), decided that was a cr@p name, and re-named him. 40 years later he's still known as Pedro by all and sundry. He is, what they say, a bit of a 'character'. And then some. 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted August 24, 2022 Share Posted August 24, 2022 10 minutes ago, pH said: One place I worked had a list of “gross moral turpitude” offences which could result in instant dismissal…. Oooh! Do tell! I’d love to know what they considered “gross moral turpitude“ so that I can a) avoid it or b) embrace it if appropriate…. (Of course to be utterly and totally cynical, one could argue that many of the offences considered in the USA as being of “gross moral turpitude” would be considered as enjoyable hobbies elsewhere, if not National Pastimes 🤣😵) 10 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted August 24, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 24, 2022 Or a chap known as Gobi because he is a cultural desert. He's actually a mate of mine and knows why he is called that but doesn't mind. Dave 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted August 24, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 24, 2022 I think the fact that someone actually sat down and thought up the term 'gross moral turpitude' speaks volumes about their world view. Dave 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Compound2632 Posted August 24, 2022 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted August 24, 2022 58 minutes ago, pH said: “gross moral turpitude” My mental image there is, I'm afraid, of nothing more exciting than a large bottle of white spirit. 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted August 24, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 24, 2022 9 hours ago, br2975 said: Went inside the Sunderland owned by Kermit Weeks, and preserved in 'almost airworthy condition' at Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, Florida. . I was surprised at how cramped it was, and how 'compact' the passenger accomodation was That’s because it’s a Short Sunderland. 1 1 2 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 24, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 24, 2022 10 hours ago, br2975 said: . Went inside the Sunderland owned by Kermit Weeks, and preserved in 'almost airworthy condition' at Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, Florida. . I was surprised at how cramped it was, and how 'compact' the passenger accomodation was. 46 minutes ago, BoD said: That’s because it’s a Short Sunderland. The Sunderland was quite roomy compared to some military aircraft conversions. I wouldn't like to fly a long journey in a Lancastrian for example. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted August 24, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 24, 2022 Every time my Eurostar flashes across the Medway I look towards Rochester and think of Shorts and the flying boats tested on that stretch of river. A road called Shorts Way commemorates the past. 11 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted August 24, 2022 Share Posted August 24, 2022 12 hours ago, BSW01 said: When I worked in the steel works, back in the 80'. we had a young apprentice who, shall we say, wasn't the sharpest tool in the box. We gave him the nick named bungalow ............. Because he had nowt upstairs! We had a driver who again wasn't the most intelligent we called him Sprout because he wasn't intelligent enough to be a cabbage 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted August 24, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 24, 2022 14 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: I have just read in the Daily Express that an unexploded ordinance device has been found on Walcott beach. Do the pig thick people that claim to be professional journalists really think the The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch has finally washed up on our shores? It's ORDNANCE! Ooooh I might have had a little tizzy there. So sorry I knows that beach, We's close enough to hear the bang... 8 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 24, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 24, 2022 (edited) 5 minutes ago, TheQ said: I knows that beach, We's close enough to hear the bang... Wasn't it used for bombing practice up until a few years ago? Edited August 24, 2022 by PhilJ W 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted August 24, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 24, 2022 (edited) That's a bit further round, like 50 miles to the left, off the coast of Holbeach near the west coast of Norfolk, Walcott is on the East Coast. though a couple of miles up the road from Walcott at Mundesley , is a memorial to the mine, and other ordnance clearance teams. http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Norfolk/NorfolkCoastalMineClearance.html Edited August 24, 2022 by TheQ 7 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 24, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 24, 2022 Batchelor pad? 1 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted August 24, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 24, 2022 28 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: Batchelor pad? A bit cluttered for my liking! 2 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted August 24, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 24, 2022 And in the wrong place, over here there'd be a stack of cans alongside the chair. 2 2 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 24, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 24, 2022 48 minutes ago, TheQ said: And in the wrong place, over here there'd be a stack of cans alongside the chair. At least his chair is appropriately equipped. 5 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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