Older Aviators Require Assistance

[BootFlap]

It has become apparent over the last few weeks that some of the older generation of aviators are having difficulty with some of the phrases used by those younger Ppruners. BEagle especially needs help in translating 'yoof speak' into words he can understand. I offer a few examples below, but any assistance would be gratefully received. It is up to us to help those who have gone before us. Thanks Dudes!

Dude = Old Chap

Cool = Whizzer

Wizzo = Navigator

[Gainesy]

BonaJet = Leapin Heap.:)

[CBA_caption]

Showing my ineptitude, but have been waiting for the appropriate time to ask:

What exactly does IIRC mean?

CBA (hanging pruning head in shame)

[stiknruda]

If I recall correctly, IIRC means, if I recall correctly!

Stik

[BootFlap]

stiknruda

I say old boy, very well put! (= Nice one centurion.) This of course IMHO!

Boot

[SirToppamHat]

Not one I use, but:

WATPIKTCH = We Aim To Please, It Keeps The Cleaners Happy.

Some more:

FWIW = For What It's Worth
ATEOTD = At The End Of The Day
ISTM = It Seems To Me
IMO = In My Opinion
IMHO = In My Humble Opinion

It is interesting (OK not that interesting) that for those suffering ISS, there is lots of emphasis on getting rid of superfluous phrases to make writing more precise, quicker to read and easier to understand. ISS is several years ago for me, but the yoofs seem to use these phrases to do exactly that. You can ignore most of these abbreviations, and they do not make any significant difference to the meaning of the sentence.

Back to other modern 'words' used by Yoof. I have a 13-year old:

Grunt - I acknowledge that dinner is on the table, I will be down momentarily (if I can be bothered).
Eraher - I don't know.
Grunt - I am fully aware of the time, but am not yet ready to turn my light off and go to sleep; instead, I plan to continue in my current pursuit (PS2/TV/DVD/Gameboy/reading/listening to music etc ....)
GRUNT! - Father, would you mind terribly if I don't take you up on the kind offer of a haircut?
Hrrumff - Alright, on this ONE OCCASION I am prepared to forego my principles and agree to have a haircut/clean my teeth/take a shower/tidy my room/allow Mum to vacuum my room.
Don't Care - I am starving hungry, but refuse to lower my standards, thus giving the impression that I have an opinion about what I would like to eat.

This is a small selection of meanings, but unless he is in particularly good mood, covers almost his entire routine vocabulary; unfortunately I am unable to communicate the exact infexions used in the various forms of Grunt.

Regards

STH

[BOAC]

BTW: May I add, for Beagle's benefit, KOS?:p

[BEagle]

Having to de-crypt bona-mate speak at Wildenrath many years ago was hard enough, but 'kewl-yoof' (as I have been advised it is more correctly termed) speak is definitely a bit taxing at times.

For example:
'sdoin' me 'ed in = I am too dim for this task - or cannot be bothered even to try.

Notably, much of this oikish syntax appears to stem from down at heel inner city wastelands of the type so often featured in contemporary television programmes. When I was a lad, TV schools sitcoms were usually based upon imaginery public school life - such as 'Whacko', 'Billy Bunter' or 'Jennings and Darbyshire'. But such things were too patronising to the lower orders for the ranting socialists who took over TV programming shortly afterwards to accept - and they came up with things like 'Please, Sir' (how many kids would even say that nowadays?) - and the infamous Grine Jill.. Of which the less said, the better.

I saw a pair of children's TV presenters the other day. Good grief. I don't think I understood 50% of whatever it was they were saying. Memo to BBC: "Don't understand 'kewl-yoof speak'; please introduce subtitles for the educated"

Not saying we should go back to "Welcome to the first live television broadcast from Elexahndrah Pelless" - but the monsyllabic grunts mumbled by yoof of today surely need some guided correction?

[Jackonicko]

The battle has been lost. We now have a glottal-stopping, g, h and t -droppin' midlant/estuarine speaking grinning ape as PM, who inappropriately uses "like" and "right" (or rather righ'), who omits his tie and takes his jacket off whenever possible and who sounds less educated than the Downing Street domestic staff.....


'Kin Kun'.......

[BEagle]

Inne jus'! No wo' amin?

(BOAC? Better On A Camel?):p

[treadigraph]

Though it was "Bend Over Again Christine"... (Keeler for the yoof...)

I decided the battle had been lost when I heard one of the regular Today presenters use words such as "bling" and "diss" on the programme the other morning... I thought Diss was in Norfolk and bling was the noise phones make out east...

[BOAC]

You speak from PERSONAL experience......................? Hope you were first off the plane and got a good-looking one.KWIM?:D

[Razor61]

"please introduce subtitles for the educated"

Just a bit off topic but have you ever sat there watching Rab C Nesbitt and not understood a word that is said?

Thinking to myself, well, let's try the subtitles and i might be able to understand something.... They spell it as he says it and its even more bloody confoosin!

[Trumpet_trousers]

SAGA

..Senior Aviators Getting Assistance... :E

[airborne_artist]

RAF

.. Really Ancient Flyers ..

FAA

.. Fairly Ancient Avaitors ..

AAC

.. Ancient Aviators' Club .. :E :E

[Trumpet_trousers]

OAP

Older Aviation Person..:E :E :E

[BEagle]

Rab C Nesbitt is excusable - it is spoken in Jockistani, not in some 'kewl-yoof' patois.

[Malc]

PFO = "we have received applications from candidates more suitable for the position advertised so will not be continuing with your application. ":O

[BTDTGTTShirt]

BEagle - Better On A Camel:E
KOS - Knight Of the Squadron perhaps:ok:

[Vage Rot]

A controversial one:

A.S.C.O.T.
Another Sore C**t On Transport

:p :D :p

[Roghead]

Wait 'til you hear Rab C Nesbitt txt speak spoken. Now that really does "do your head in":confused:

[BEagle]

Marginally less understandable than the conversation which went on in a taxi from the Hilton Hawaiian Village to Hickam on one of my various visits there, I would guess.

The driver was speaking the local language over a CB radio in SSB mode; despite his shouting and yelling and much twiddling of the 'carify' knob, the replies were probably the closest to fluent Martian I've heard since the last time half-pint Pete (he of the open air Incirlik sleeping accommodation penchant) had a runaway!

Hilton Hawaiian village was quite nice, certainly better than any of the Outriggers. But not as nice as the Royal Hawaiian where they gave us complimentary beachside Mai-Tais still in our grobags because the rooms weren't ready. They kept coming until the rooms did!

[Lafyar Cokov]

..is 'Let Us Fondle (...uck) The Hostesses And Not Say Anything' still in common usage?

[Art Field]

Beags, beware, you are lapsing into KOS nostalgia mode again. However I have to admit a week on Waikiki Beach due to Lord Percy's caution was not all pain, what would Youf make of that?. I understand 'cool' is not so cool anymore. KOS by the way does not mean Tanker On Station.

[Zoom]

Recently heard some youngsters (from a top private school) describe a very attractive teenage girl as 'well dirty'. I believe that it means very attractive.

[teeteringhead]

Senior Aviators Getting Assistance... .. but I always thought SAGA meant:

Sex Annually, Generally August:rolleyes:

[BEagle]

Indeed, Arters... The sand we used to visit was rather more pleasant than the Great Sandtray which is all the poor sods get to visit these days! Being a KOS does at least mean that we can remember such fun!

One of the more amusing contemporary acronyms of the pulchritudinous quality, or otherwise, of the opposite sex is 'bobfoc'.

Body off Baywatch, Face off Crimewatch!

[portsmouth346]

Amazing what we can do INIT.

(in I.T.)

pompey.:O

[Head to Earth]

Here's a few from the New Oxford English Dictionary...


TESTICULATING - Waving your arms around and talking b*ll*cks.

BLAMESTORMING - Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

SEAGULL - A pilot who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

ASSMOSIS - The process by which people seem to get promoted by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.

SALMON DAY - The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.

MOUSE POTATO - The Ppruner’s answer to the couch potato.

SITCOMs - Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a "home business".

STRESS PUPPY - A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE - The fine art of whacking the cr*p out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

OHNOSECOND - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all')

BEER COAT - The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise at 3 in the morning.

JOHNNY-NO-STARS - A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The 'no-stars' comes from the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to show their level of training.

MONKEY BATH - A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: "Oo! Oo! Ho! Aa! Aa! Aa!".

MYSTERY BUS - The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while you're in the toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in.

BEER COMPASS - The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after booze cruise, even though you're too drunk to remember where you live, how you got here, and where you've come from.

:ok:

[Miles Magister]

Some good replies from BEagle here.

When I signed up I wanted to fly the Vertical Twin Jet so I listened to alot of "WIWOL" stories (When I Was On Lightnings). But I was rather abruptly told at Chivenor that I was not good enough so I learnt the old Maritime Adage that "Old age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill"

MM

[gravity victim]

Many of you will have KIPPERS at home:
"Kids In Parents' Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings"

[Vage Rot]

One that made me chuckle, especially as my eldest has just departed for Uni :-

Cash Termites - Kids!