I'd like to suggest - and hope - BEagle that your appreciation for what we all did is actually universal and your tales are purely banter. Like others have said, some suited the Nimrod's unique role, stresses and team-led ways of working whereas for others the system helped them find a better place. There was certainly no tolerance for the type of you talk you repeated in the early-2000s era.
Going back to the topic, does helping someone else drop their weapon count?