A tall, folically challenged dry man use to say...
AEOs are OK, but pound for pound I'd rather have another dairy cream sponge.
As for accidently transmitting "on air" rather than than the intercom (or vice versa)...everyone who was allowed an RSP probably did this at least once...and the resulting stories are plentiful and usually funny as ****.
It's all banter now. Another wise old AEO used to say...it will all be the same in a 100 years. And guess what...now it is all history, how right he was.
Well not quite...my pension is a sh1tload bigger because of the 14 weeks I spent conning the staff of IOT