Chicken!!!!
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From: Long ago and far away ......
Chicken!!!!
It is possible that this may have been mentioned on these forums before but I bring it back as the state of the Armed Forces seems to be full of it more than ever. I certainly remember having to deal with plenty of it from small-minded jobsworths who wouldn't know which end of a weapon (any weapon) not to point at one's self ....... never mind military ethos! Does this sound familiar? 
“Chicken!!!! refers to behaviour that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant ‘paying off of old scores’; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances. Chicken!!!! is so called – instead of horse- or bull- or elephant !!!! – because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.”
Extract from 'Wartime: Understanding and Behaviour in the Second World War' by Paul Fussell (Oxford University Press, 1989)
“Chicken!!!! refers to behaviour that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant ‘paying off of old scores’; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances. Chicken!!!! is so called – instead of horse- or bull- or elephant !!!! – because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.”
Extract from 'Wartime: Understanding and Behaviour in the Second World War' by Paul Fussell (Oxford University Press, 1989)
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With due concern that this is turning into one of the worst threads on Pprune...
No, "Mr Bernoulli to you, SIR"
Anyway, back to topic, I don't think the armed forces are unique with respect to irritating jobsworth
s who annoy the living out of every sensible person they come into contact with. They are just part of life and should be treated with the degree of importance they deserve.
No, "Mr Bernoulli to you, SIR"
Anyway, back to topic, I don't think the armed forces are unique with respect to irritating jobsworth
s who annoy the living out of every sensible person they come into contact with. They are just part of life and should be treated with the degree of importance they deserve.
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If you think the military is bad, then you need to cast an eye over the landscape of Corporate America 
...though from reading prune for a while, I believe you may actually be seeing some of it already
...though from reading prune for a while, I believe you may actually be seeing some of it already
