Mrs Bloggs 'At Home' Etiquette/Protocols
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Come on EV....I'm positively panting to read your response to Old Duffer. Five days plus should be enough, even for a non military person. I need to know where I've been going wrong for so many years and why my aircrew mates are such social incompetants.
Ref Ian16th's link concerning the drinking of beer, if that method were to be introduced at "At Home" functions there is the possibility that beer drinking would become more popular on such occasions.
Ref Ian16th's link concerning the drinking of beer, if that method were to be introduced at "At Home" functions there is the possibility that beer drinking would become more popular on such occasions.
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I was so I went but am still none the wiser Perhaps you are somehow confusing return match with return key, as both are noticably lacking?
Most of the last 15 Posts have gone completely over my head.
Can someone reassure me that I have not taken too much of a mind bending substance and that I will, eventually, get better.
Old Duffer (confused and disoriented)
Can someone reassure me that I have not taken too much of a mind bending substance and that I will, eventually, get better.
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Quote: You CANNOT allow an old Met. man to kill this thread off ..........
Worst case of pointless thread disruption in a long time.
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Old Duffer, I must also have taken what ever it was you took. I too am rather confused.
I do recall imbibing a couple of Glenlivets but that's all.....................I think!
I do recall imbibing a couple of Glenlivets but that's all.....................I think!
Below the Glidepath - not correcting
O-D and for those of us not keeping up...
Where we are is EV imparted his views on the function and Social gatherings in general that drew some response from O-D and others, including a reference to "MM" in a post by NRU74. It seems that Langleybaston thought this was a reference to "Old Met Man" and off we went, 90 degrees to track.
To get back on track, we await some response to O-D's riposte to EV about clubs and socialising in general.
I would add that having had the pleasure to belong to numerous Messes, it is the one thing about being out that I still miss. There's something reassuring about having a "structured" place of entertainment where most members have a common or at least shared interest. This extends neatly to "at home" functions where the rules as such simply ensure the evening is not some anarchic vomit-fest but a pleasant social interlude. If you really can't stand the thought of polite company, you can always reply-
Where we are is EV imparted his views on the function and Social gatherings in general that drew some response from O-D and others, including a reference to "MM" in a post by NRU74. It seems that Langleybaston thought this was a reference to "Old Met Man" and off we went, 90 degrees to track.
To get back on track, we await some response to O-D's riposte to EV about clubs and socialising in general.
I would add that having had the pleasure to belong to numerous Messes, it is the one thing about being out that I still miss. There's something reassuring about having a "structured" place of entertainment where most members have a common or at least shared interest. This extends neatly to "at home" functions where the rules as such simply ensure the evening is not some anarchic vomit-fest but a pleasant social interlude. If you really can't stand the thought of polite company, you can always reply-
"Frogmilla and I will be unable to attend the evening of the 7th due to a prior Badger-baiting appointment with our drug dealer,
Regards,
Sqn Ldr X"
Regards,
Sqn Ldr X"
including a reference to "MM" in a post by NRU74. It seems that Langleybaston thought this was a reference to "Old Met Man" and off we went, 90 degrees to track.
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Six years later....
From Dec 2010:
If musclemech is still PPRuNe-ing, may we enquire how the grand daughter is looking these days?
I hope that I managed to keep the light blue end up, such that I might get invited back next year... when the grand-daughter will be that little bit older....
Have just spent a delightful couple of hours, seven years on, enjoying this thread, surely one of PPRune's finest, the peevish contributions of Thomas Coupling and EV notwithstanding. MM, where are you? I'm in desperate need of an update on rural Hampshire ex-service social mores (for which I await a German translation).
Was it really that long ago?
One nice custom which we have kept going in Metman's civvy street is calling on brand new neighbours with a pot plant or a bottle and offering help if required.
Then bugger off smartish, really smartish, and see what transpires.
We were thus decently treated on all of the overseas patches where our wanderings at Her Majesty's behest took us.
One nice custom which we have kept going in Metman's civvy street is calling on brand new neighbours with a pot plant or a bottle and offering help if required.
Then bugger off smartish, really smartish, and see what transpires.
We were thus decently treated on all of the overseas patches where our wanderings at Her Majesty's behest took us.
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MMs final post was his after action report amp. We might deduce that Mrs MM met Miss Blue Eyes with predictable results.
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I am inclined to agree with you that MM has left Mrs MM and moved out of the area ( thrown out more likely ) with said granddaughter and is persona non grata in the whole of Hampshire.
PS I have an O Level in Latin by the way.
I am inclined to agree with you that MM has left Mrs MM and moved out of the area ( thrown out more likely ) with said granddaughter and is persona non grata in the whole of Hampshire.
PS I have an O Level in Latin by the way.
On my last tour, some 24 years ago, a fellow wg cdr's wife often appeared at the door in an apron and yellow marigolds (not JUST them you understand) - closest I came to a social blunder was nearly addressing her as "Hyacinth", and Mrs W could barely suppress a giggle as she knew how close I had come to doing that.
Wander00, that reminds me of the 'breakfast' scene in McVicar, when Roger Daltrey is served* by Georgina Hale - who is wearing nothing but an apron....
*In more than one way....
*In more than one way....
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I reckon that it went to MM's head moving into this idyllic village in Hants crammed to the gunnels with retired Senior Officers and him coming from the ranks and not doing Latin at his " Secondary Modern " and that his background as what BEAGLE would no doubt describe as an OIK came to light after he absconded with perhaps Mrs Bloggs or some other loose woman who was taken in by his charm long cultivated to hide his somewhat dubious background
Funny, mention of cards - just went to check something in my old log book, and there sellotaped to the front of it was the last extant card of "Mr I Wanderoo RAF". "Cards" had certainly gone out of fashion when I rejoined in 1980