Looks kinda' familiar...

guess I shoulda' ended my post with a ©

Oooops, maybe I should have read all the pages!! :\

Climbing the ladder back to my box now!

Not a problem, Great minds think alike!

A Bluntie is....
 

....someone who feels the need to discuss how blunt others are on a website.

Here bloody here!!

Oooooohhh......somebody's tired:)

I think someone meant hear, hear! :E

Either that, or Number2 has a disobedient sheepdog.

Labrador cross actually! ISS was wasted on me!!

Hmmm - suggest you take a look at Bomber and Fighter Command histories from WW2; try telling a sgt or FS Lancaster pilot over Berlin that he was 'unwilling to accept responsibility', or the sgt or FS acting as a flt cdr in the Battle of Britain, because he had more experience than the officers...

Snapper.

Good point, well made.

Was in the company of a one star once (FJP) who stated to all present:

'SNCO's have never flown fighters and nor shall they whilst I am in the RAF'.

:ugh: :ugh: :ugh: :ugh:

'SNCO's have never flown fighters and nor shall they whilst I am in the RAF'.

I thought Ginger Lacy was a Sgt, for one? And wasn't Pattle as well? I'm sur e there were others. Sound like BellEnds one star was a bit of a kn*b.

There were plenty of NCO fighter jocks in WWII

Not sure they were allowed pipes & labradors though.

This happened today.

A draw in my officer is stuck. I e-mailed the Warrant Officers gofa to see if it could be sorted.
He sent an e-mail, copied to supply, stating that the whole cabinet needs replacing, there are no funds that he is aware of and the last time he asked supply they said it could take months.

No problem, it's only a poxy draw.

One hour later I get a phone call from the civilian supply manager. He is fuming at the provocative and hurtful comments made by this NCO casting doubt on the willingness and professionalism of his staff. He even thinks some of the comments may warrant, wait for it, legal advice. His barrack warden is threatening redress of said NCO. I told him his reaction is baffling and OTT. This was followed up by a 6 paragraph e-mail from manager detailing his woes and demanding that said NCO produces a written and verbal apology to all his staff.
As things stand now, some 4 hours later, it is still escalating.

I don't normally get involved in Blunty V Sharp end debates but this kind of mind numbing sh*t, along with JPA et al is really making me question where we are headed. God forbid these ars*holes ever have to deal with a real problem.

The really sad thing is this so called manager will probably get his apology, because 'we' are sh*t scared of upsetting the civilians, which will only encourage him to become an even bigger f*ckwit than he is now.

Incredible.

Wow - an officer with a draw in him/her - what ever next! :eek: . Bet this never happened when supply was run by uniformed blunties!

Wyler

For what it's worth, I have been in the position of being asked to apologise to a particularly useless, pathetic, oxygen stealing civvy, even though my boss had fully backed me up. I flatly refused to apologise on principle, w@nkers!

S_H

For some I have met, file storage would be well above their capabilities...

Wyler.

I bet your rugger shirt, jeans and trainer wearing, thin skinned "supply manager" can spell drawer, though.

G B Z

And use the appropriate punctuation and grammar! I love irony.

Simple,

Blunties are those officers who love wearing their two's and feel the need to cut around wearing a stable belt and Oxpat shoes with annoying metal tipped heals! whats wrong with painted DMS?

CofG

Why Oxfords? Because an officer shouldn't be seen dead in Airmen's DMS shoes. Would you ever wear rubber soled 'el-cheapo' shoes in civies? On second thoughts, perhaps you do!

It's funny but I spent around 10 years as a radio/radar tech variously on Jags, Vulcans and Tornados and in all that time I don't think I ever heard any aircrew refer to us aircraft techs (or other ground trades, for that matter) as "blunties". Is this a fairly recently introduced term or am I suffering selective memory loss? BTW, by recently I mean introduced after 1987 (God, was it really that long ago I left?:uhoh:).

Re. the remark above somewhere about each group liking to lord it over some other group - yes, we were just as guilty in disparagingly referring to any non-aircraft ground trades as "shinies" - something to do with the effect on the seat of their pants of too long spent sitting at a desk. Oh yes, and the airframes and engines techs (the "real" aircraft engineers) referred to us as "fairies" (and probably still do).

Ahh Oxford shoes with segs on, the bane of fuel hazard areas across the RAF.

Bluntie's
 

Do Navigators still exist, I remember that we used to think of them as living ballast. If they do,do they qualify as honorary blunties? After all, sitting in the back pressing switches must be rather like doing the same thing in an ATC tower, or indeed, tent. After all, no worries about an RPG coming through the side at 15,000 ft, what?

( Now, THAT will get things going!!)

Regards

F.O. Kite ( Retd)

Deliverance - Good to hear from you, thought this would be right up your alley!

Bluntie = non-aircrew (RAF), that simple.....iaw Aircrew Dictionary

For those non-aircrew who think they aren't blunt - "doth protest too much methinks!"

:E

Hope to see more constructive posts like this one! :ok:

Blunt and proud, we are. D'you want us to save you drop of beer for when (and if) you get back from being shot at?

Get stuck in lads, we're all thinking about you down here on the ground, aren't we? Eh? My round again? Bloody hell... :ok:

A 58 year old expat engineer. I think we may have found THE definitive definition of blunt.