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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 08:59
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"Well young man ... Her Majesty might need to spend more on your training to become a pilot than she can really afford"
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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 09:03
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"Young man, you would be lucky to find the Aircraft let alone fly it"

Said to me by the Med Branch Officer, as he crushed my dreams of flying.

Still made me laugh.
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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 09:17
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W*nking makes you blind

Stuck on the ceiling of the dental section at RAF Odiham in the 70's where they used to gas you.
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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 09:22
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"Well I have a degree in geography"

The argument put forward by an officer on the sighting of an OP out in the field, (we had to move it after he left.)
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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 09:39
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"Watch this."

...heard shortly before a number of aeronautical accidents.
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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 10:25
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Clear left, oh, right one!
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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 10:29
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"Moley, you've got eyes like a ****house rat...."

Recounted this some years later, to be met with the reply:

"Better than having eyes like a ratarsed ****...!"
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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 10:50
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Sir, If I call you a tw*t will I be in trouble?


Yes!


Sir, If I 'think' it, will I be in trouble?


Well, I guess not!


In that case Sir, I think you are a tw*t!

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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 13:37
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The general consensus in the leadership community was that he would suffer performance shortfalls which would even inhibit an attempt to facilitate alcoholic beverage actualisation even at venues at the products would normally be manufactured.

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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 13:39
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"That was a great speech, Mr President - every thinking american will vote for you!"

"Nowhere near enough - I need a majority..."
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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 13:42
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God said “div D = ρ, div B = 0, curl E = - ðB/ðt, curl H = J + ðD/ðt,”

And there was light...

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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 13:45
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A diplomat is a man who can persuade his wife she would look fat in a mink coat

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place (for the Truthers out there...)

"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world."
(Mary Shafer, Flight Dynamics, NASA Dryden)

“A thing of beauty is a job forever”
(Unofficial motto of all Cosmetic Surgeons).

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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 13:46
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A philosopher is defined as a blind man in an unlit cellar at midnight searching for a black cat that isn’t there.

A theologian is identical in all respects save that he believes he has found the cat.

A lawyer, naturally, would smuggle the cat under his coat in order to brandish it theatrically when it best serves his purpose.

A scientist would accept the non-existence of the cat but be at pains to point out that its non-existence could only ever be assumed; never proven.

An engineer would briefly search for a cat and then employ his time more productively by constructing a superior cat replacement from the materials available in the cellar.

A soldier would shoot the cat to protect the liberty of the mouse, unless he was American in which case he would conduct a shock and awe campaign to win the heart and mind of the cat and (in the process) accidentally shoot the mouse.

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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 13:57
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Student pilot course report:

"Pressing the engine start button precipitates a series of events over which Bloggs has little control".
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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 14:02
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Virtually everything in "What goes up must come down" by David Gunson. It's on YouTube, very funny after-dinner speech by an ATC.
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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 14:08
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CV I once read

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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 18:39
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In a training report : "I was never sure if he suffered from narcolepsy"
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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 20:06
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"I see no reason why men should follow this officer; except perhaps out of idle curiosity"
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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 21:31
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From a flying report, "I was impressed by this mans averageness".

The many put downs for the newbie.....

"When I joined, Centurion was rank, not a tank".
"I was in Baghdad when you were in you dads bag".
"Pontius was going through aircrew selection".
"We didn't have numbers, we all knew each other".
"Where are you from? What's your mothers name? Just working out where I was posted 18 years ago!".
"How many hours? No, not your night hours, your total.......oh, sorry that was your total".
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Old 23rd Jun 2016, 21:31
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A lot of similes here!

2 of my favourites, not covered yet..

As much use as a one legged man at an arse kicking contest

as sharp as a marble
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