Utter B*****ks
 

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To me, the beard is the bigger crime

People have beards, people in the RAF have beards, get over it.

some people have different opinions to you, get over it

Is that an old RAF tradition, the matter of laying one's nuts on the bar?

If he'd made the case that he'd decided to 'transition' and had laid them on the bar to cut them off, this would be front page of the RAF News with rainbow flags and Wigston shaking his hand.

If he'd have done that, the thread title would be "Sheared Bollocks!"

My opinions are different from.

There was a tradition called “ball walking” that involved popping your nuts out of your flying suit and rubbing them on a mate’s hand whilst they chatted in the bar until they noticed. Many a look of utter disgust being made back! :cool:

Of course, that kind of bawdy humour is no longer acceptable…

Langley
 

Not very often I find myself agreeing with your comments, but..................

I was taught as a child that things were..........

Different from........

Similar to..........

Not a lot of aviation content in that, but I am bored this evening which is why I am PPRuning.............

Mods - feel free to remove!!

I never saw it happen.

In my 35 years of aircrew time, I never came across such a vile so-called 'tradition'....

I must be getting old.........

I find myself agreeing with BEagle as well........

I never heard of that so called "tradition" either, and I operated in a different part of the RAF world from BEagle

Must be time to have my cocoa and go to bed.............

What about the burning of piano's? Very strange. What next? Books???

I should add that I wasn’t exactly a fan either. Certainly not a practitioner - my own family jewels are far too precious! But I have seen all sorts of testicular japes in the past amongst Armed Forces personnel. Some on things like TLP and other exercises with other nations too. Some involving Bootnecks with no clothes on.

Maybe you just led a quiet life as a trucky back at your hotel :E It’s even in the Urban Dictionary: https://www.urbandictionary.com/defi...ball%20walking

Really? I never saw anything of the like either in fast-jet, training or AAR worlds.

Yup, really. I spent a looong time in the FJ world and also other types. Never a trucky though - shiney, gas pumpers nor tac - so maybe it missed LYE and BZN. To be honest, I saw far worse in my College Rugby Club days than what I ever saw in the Forces (so far).

LimaJuliet
 

I don't know which part of the FJ world you spent so much time in LJ, but I spent all of my time (after training) in fast jets of various types, plus a couple of exchange tours flying fast jets - and I never saw a single example of what is being suggested...........

Either I was simply not observant enough - or they never happened.

I am still with BEagle on this...............

Yep. Sprouts-out flyers were a regular occurrence at Finingley OMess Bar in the early 90s. Wouldn’t happen now though, what with Finingley being HMP….;)

Nothing remotely like that in my 12 years in the RAF, V force, 11 group and training command. What utter nonsense's.
Bloody pathetic.

I’m with L-J, saw it numerous times, but never practiced it myself.