Uckers Dictionary
oldbeefer - we were obliged to change that term to "Chesty Yik" for obvious reasons of political correctness!
You're probably right, Roland Pulfrew - quite a lot was lost back then. Also a lot of people censored their posts and deleted their threads when an anti-PPRuNe identity investigation campaign was tried by a certain wanquerre who would have made the Stasi blush.....
You're probably right, Roland Pulfrew - quite a lot was lost back then. Also a lot of people censored their posts and deleted their threads when an anti-PPRuNe identity investigation campaign was tried by a certain wanquerre who would have made the Stasi blush.....
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Great stuff, but...Good ol' PPRuNe threadcreep!
Siffing on donks and throbbing on knobs is just the stuff I want, but what the hell do they mean??? Explanations too, please!
Siffing on donks and throbbing on knobs is just the stuff I want, but what the hell do they mean??? Explanations too, please!
Ah - I'm afaid it's a language more secret than that used by freemasons!
You can only learn it by being initiated into the black arts of extreme Uckers- and to do that you must join the military!
You can only learn it by being initiated into the black arts of extreme Uckers- and to do that you must join the military!
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Ah, Mexis.
Alot of people still talk about it, but it doesnt seem to get played much these days on dets, I think its dying out, less and less people know the rules. Maybe we should start another thread on Mexis rules.
"Arse" tends to get played a fair bit nowadays, now theres a great cardgame.
Used to play Uckers alot when i was a fairy groundy. Theres a board in the CXX crewroom but it doesnt get played very often, funny old thing when were not in the gulf we dont seem to want to sit around at work too long.
Alot of people still talk about it, but it doesnt seem to get played much these days on dets, I think its dying out, less and less people know the rules. Maybe we should start another thread on Mexis rules.
"Arse" tends to get played a fair bit nowadays, now theres a great cardgame.
Used to play Uckers alot when i was a fairy groundy. Theres a board in the CXX crewroom but it doesnt get played very often, funny old thing when were not in the gulf we dont seem to want to sit around at work too long.
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Ta Beagle. I was in the military, where else would I have learned Uckers? It was so long ago that I've forgotten most of these terms hence this post.
Perhaps I should have played more and studied less and just got myself chopped. nfff nfff
Perhaps I should have played more and studied less and just got myself chopped. nfff nfff
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Ahh Uckers, got introduced to that as a mere lad by my cousin (Bucc mate who spent his last tours at Lossie) and since joining haven't seen that much of it. Belixa's comments may not be that far from the truth - "it doesnt get played very often, funny old thing when were not in the gulf we dont seem to want to sit around at work too long"
Can't have morale in the modern Air Farce now can we!
Can't have morale in the modern Air Farce now can we!
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We used to play in between sim slots, at lunch and during the very rare slot off, in the Instructor's crew room at CATCS, RAF Shawbury in the mid-90s. I came back from 3 years overseas and during a brief visit there in 2000 I was horrified to find out that interest in the game had allbut died.
Apparently the execs did not like the chaps and chapesses playing and it looked too bad for your career if you weren't spending 24 hours doing work, secondary duties and a bit more work followed by more secondary duties. Glad I escaped with good blobbing memories when I did.
All work and no play makes Johnny Instructor dull !!! *(Although some might say did they need any help)
Apparently the execs did not like the chaps and chapesses playing and it looked too bad for your career if you weren't spending 24 hours doing work, secondary duties and a bit more work followed by more secondary duties. Glad I escaped with good blobbing memories when I did.
All work and no play makes Johnny Instructor dull !!! *(Although some might say did they need any help)
Years ago in the wilds of the Iranian desert 175 miles east of Bandar Abbas....in a gulag known as Papa Charlie....I arrived to a place with tents and one block building and no heat. Lots of spirit and spirits however. My first night I was introduced to this game call Uckers...such a polite parlor game it is too...being a US Army Warrant Officer pilot....some natural traits required for that neatly fit into the Uckers thing. The CP then extant, a former British Army Major....thought himself an Uckers player of some rank. First game on my own with him as an opponent....whipped him like I owned him....to the extent he flung the board, bits, dice, and beer bottles halfway to Bandar Abbas...questioned my parentage, birthright, and was downright rude about being whupped. I guess my sniggering about his being such a good loser did not help any! 
Years later...introduced the game to Somalia....having an alcohol ravaged brain....needed some help on the layout of the board....thus we got onto the Brown and Root Sat Phone...called Toys-R-Us in Houston, Texas and got a store manager to pull a parchessi board out of a game and tell us the layout. The fun part was getting him to believe we were in Somalia and were serious about it. On the third call he finally decided he was not hallucinating or something and helped us out.
Years later...introduced the game to Somalia....having an alcohol ravaged brain....needed some help on the layout of the board....thus we got onto the Brown and Root Sat Phone...called Toys-R-Us in Houston, Texas and got a store manager to pull a parchessi board out of a game and tell us the layout. The fun part was getting him to believe we were in Somalia and were serious about it. On the third call he finally decided he was not hallucinating or something and helped us out.
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Uckers - morale, immoral or immortal?
A sad post fron rej and a couple of others. The army may march on its stomach, but the rest of the military march round their Uckers board. Or at least they did. With a game in progress in the crew-room, or wherever else - the strangest place I've 'specticipated' was in the Coffee Shop of a 5 Star hotel in Singers - the whole squadron, port or starboard watch or whatever is involved.
And that's the whole point of Uckers; it reinforces the comradely spirit and contributes to good morale. If Uckers has all but disappeared, no wonder you've turned into such a bunch of whingers...
And that's the whole point of Uckers; it reinforces the comradely spirit and contributes to good morale. If Uckers has all but disappeared, no wonder you've turned into such a bunch of whingers...
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Half way through my first tour (on HMS Illustrious) during one quiet summer leave I made an Uckers board for the Wardroom. CAG colours throughout with pieces to match.
Funny old thing, the IPS was made of clear perspex painted on the underside. 1st attempt had me paint the squares on as they would appear so I was really p*ssed when I turned the board over when the paint was dry to find it back to front - d'oh
Anyway, swiftly made another and had it on board in time for our next deployment, which helped while away the time somewhat. Most of my recollections involve prooner Paul Mckeksdown continually winning when I played him (he was a Uckers master). Happy days.
Wonder if it is still there, we used to stow it next to the piano in the games box. It was still there in 01 when I was last on the ship, just wondered about it now.
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Funny old thing, the IPS was made of clear perspex painted on the underside. 1st attempt had me paint the squares on as they would appear so I was really p*ssed when I turned the board over when the paint was dry to find it back to front - d'oh
Anyway, swiftly made another and had it on board in time for our next deployment, which helped while away the time somewhat. Most of my recollections involve prooner Paul Mckeksdown continually winning when I played him (he was a Uckers master). Happy days.
Wonder if it is still there, we used to stow it next to the piano in the games box. It was still there in 01 when I was last on the ship, just wondered about it now.
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Crewroom, what's a crewroom? I remember them about 15 years ago - but empty rooms with the odd person furtively having a quick coffee seemed to have replaced them by the time I banged out of the Mil.
People sitting around playing Uckers these days would soon be VSLJ'd by some Flt Cdr or have their professional integrity questioned in a "Haven't you got any work to do" manner.
Blacksheep - you don't know the half of it, chum....
People sitting around playing Uckers these days would soon be VSLJ'd by some Flt Cdr or have their professional integrity questioned in a "Haven't you got any work to do" manner.
Blacksheep - you don't know the half of it, chum....
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Not so Beagle. It was long ago recognised that the "crewroom" was an integral part of a Naval Air Squadron and was fundamental in the training of young aircrew. Its where the old n bold guys spin their dits of daring do. In our crewroom we have a bar football game...champion !!!
Clearly the transverse ambulatory folk have something to learn from the Senior Service!
Mind you, you probably wouldn't have commissioned some of the d*ckheads I suffered under.....
Mind you, you probably wouldn't have commissioned some of the d*ckheads I suffered under.....
BEagle....did we share some units at some time? I thought you were a Crab....did not guess you were a Dogface?
Or do the many services have more in common than we care to admit?
Or do the many services have more in common than we care to admit?
I most certainly was a 'Crab' - not a 'Hoo-ah!'
But I'm not beyond saying that my successors have a lot to learn from Nelson's lot in some areas!
But I'm not beyond saying that my successors have a lot to learn from Nelson's lot in some areas!
I remember a game being played in the crewroom of the premier maritime sqn at ISK back in the 80s. Started around 1000 and was still going strong when I had to leave for the sim (1300) so I handed over to another co-pilot. Returned from the sim at 1600 to find same game still going (playing for hacks as BEagle says adds a much better dimension) to find only one of the original players still in the game
Sad to see the tradition dying out - it really was a good team building morale inducing sport!
Sad to see the tradition dying out - it really was a good team building morale inducing sport!
On a ULAS black flag day when the Queen's Thundermunks were grounded by lashing rain and low cloud, we held an epic Uckers game which lasted for around the same length of time as the one to which Roland refers.....
Winners and losers were still in a merry frame of mind hours later - excellent for morale and team building!
An ex-Kipper fleet Wg Cdr and I were the only 2 on our MER course at Arthur Scargill International in the early '80s; one day he decided that we would take on the AFT studes at Uckers..... But the staff QFIs had other thoughts and sniffily handed out a quiz to the studes including such pointless questions as how fast the trees at Auckland airport grow. (It was in the Planning Doc!).
What a bunch of fun-detecting old miseries. Particularly the one to whom I was allocated - we nicknamed him 'Uncle Chuckles'.
Winners and losers were still in a merry frame of mind hours later - excellent for morale and team building!
An ex-Kipper fleet Wg Cdr and I were the only 2 on our MER course at Arthur Scargill International in the early '80s; one day he decided that we would take on the AFT studes at Uckers..... But the staff QFIs had other thoughts and sniffily handed out a quiz to the studes including such pointless questions as how fast the trees at Auckland airport grow. (It was in the Planning Doc!).
What a bunch of fun-detecting old miseries. Particularly the one to whom I was allocated - we nicknamed him 'Uncle Chuckles'.
