Gash / T & B, you're both correct to a point, but there are some instances which readily translate across all boundaries.viz:
Scene: Crewroom down in Salalah back in mid 70's. (Bit of a ruckus going on between The Oman & South Yemen don'tcha know!). Ex-pat Strikey pilot sitting down, legs crossed and outstretched, fiddling with his 9mm pistol.
Now we all know that pilots & a/c guns is OK, but pilots and hand-guns is a big No No. (Leave that to the army chappies).
Anyhow, matey accidentally discharges his weapon. The bullet enters his left thigh then ricochets into right thigh back into left shin into right leg exiting at the ankle. Carted off to Station Hospital where the docs patch him up.
Later that day his mates come to see him carrying copious quantities of piss & bubbly. One of the guys says,
"Jeez Ace, you were lucky you didn't shoot your bollox off!", to which our steely-eyed aviator replies,
"Well if I had've done, I would've kept on firing!!"