Misfits, Dad's Army Types et al...

[omgus]

R8Steve said:

Justayellowbadge said:

Shakermaker said:

My colleague has just shown me the event management details for an event he is volunteering at over the weekend. 8 pages of instructions. Everyone has a radio, and there are special code words for particular occurences to prevent crowd panic. "Mr A is in the hospitality area" means "there's a fire in the hospitality area" and "Mr B is in the north toilet block" means "suspect package in the toilet block". And they have given everyone the Command, Sub Command "POC" designation (Point of Contact)

All well intentioned, but just quite amusing to read on paper

The 'Mr Goodfellow' calls are industry wide too.

Yep, these ones make sense although the 'walts' may take great pleasure in knowing this when the public doesn't.

Others that I've seen are calls for Mr Daily, Mrs Carol, Call 100, Mr Sands or requests for a time check.

Anything that doesn't create mass panic is a good thing so these are a lot better than the alternatives.

I spend a fair bit of time on radios at work and have had some interesting conversations over the years, some are simply to stupid to imagine but you can get the idea from the following examples:

"Control this is Delta-4, can you arrange relief please i need to leave site."
"What? Why?"
"Control, i have just sharted myself"

"Control, what is the code for a fire? Over."
"That would be agile falcon Delta-4, why? Over."
"Agile falcon in main reception, send help. ARRRRGGGGGHHHH!"

"Control to Bravo-4 over"
"Go ahead Control"
"I am tracking two dodgy looking intruders at the south fence-line can you investigate? Over."
"That would be us Control. Over"
"Received and understood, over"


BAsically the walts who get to work with radios all the time are even worse as a general rule, luckily i mostly work on my own now so now more

[Shakermaker]

omgus said:

I spend a fair bit of time on radios at work and have had some interesting conversations over the years, some are simply to stupid to imagine but you can get the idea from the following examples:

"Control this is Delta-4, can you arrange relief please i need to leave site."
"What? Why?"
"Control, i have just sharted myself"

"Control, what is the code for a fire? Over."
"That would be agile falcon Delta-4, why? Over."
"Agile falcon in main reception, send help. ARRRRGGGGGHHHH!"

"Control to Bravo-4 over"
"Go ahead Control"
"I am tracking two dodgy looking intruders at the south fence-line can you investigate? Over."
"That would be us Control. Over"
"Received and understood, over"


BAsically the walts who get to work with radios all the time are even worse as a general rule, luckily i mostly work on my own now so now more

Best one I ever heard at work was over the all-channels, by a staff member forgetting that they were on open channel, and that our job involves looking after members of the public. Usual practice if you wanted to get hold of someone was quite simple, call them on the radio and it would most likely be to locate a wheelchair or something else etc. But often people start forgetting this. And one day, Janet, a woman with a particular grumpy demeanour about most things, is sat with me in the break room which Rich, a kindly older chap, has just tidied up. "Janet to Rich, Janet to Rich." "Go ahead Janet" "Did you throw my F***ING Weetabix in the bin?" "Erm, I'm just with some customers at the moment Janet... I'll call you back".

[Shakermaker]

Vaud said:

Shakermaker said:

My colleague has just shown me the event management details for an event he is volunteering at over the weekend. 8 pages of instructions. Everyone has a radio, and there are special code words for particular occurences to prevent crowd panic. "Mr A is in the hospitality area" means "there's a fire in the hospitality area" and "Mr B is in the north toilet block" means "suspect package in the toilet block". And they have given everyone the Command, Sub Command "POC" designation (Point of Contact)

All well intentioned, but just quite amusing to read on paper

Please, please scan it in, redact and share...

Unable to comply, colleague has been redeployed to an alternate location.

[DMN]

Shakermaker said:

My colleague has just shown me the event management details for an event he is volunteering at over the weekend. 8 pages of instructions. Everyone has a radio, and there are special code words for particular occurences to prevent crowd panic. "Mr A is in the hospitality area" means "there's a fire in the hospitality area" and "Mr B is in the north toilet block" means "suspect package in the toilet block". And they have given everyone the Command, Sub Command "POC" designation (Point of Contact)

All well intentioned, but just quite amusing to read on paper

Well I hope the Village fete goes off without mishap.

[Digga]

DMN said:

Shakermaker said:

My colleague has just shown me the event management details for an event he is volunteering at over the weekend. 8 pages of instructions. Everyone has a radio, and there are special code words for particular occurences to prevent crowd panic. "Mr A is in the hospitality area" means "there's a fire in the hospitality area" and "Mr B is in the north toilet block" means "suspect package in the toilet block". And they have given everyone the Command, Sub Command "POC" designation (Point of Contact)

All well intentioned, but just quite amusing to read on paper

Well I hope the Village fete goes off without mishap.

Personally, I think it would be better if they replaced "Mr A" and "Mr B" with "No. 1" and "No. 2" respectively.

[Rovinghawk]

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"romanus eus domus? Romans they go the house?"

[\Cleese]

[wolfracesonic]

Romanus eunt domus, surely?

[Vaud]

Shakermaker said:

Unable to comply, colleague has been redeployed to an alternate location.

Nominal target relocated to Tango Bravo, copy and understood.

[mph1977]

Justayellowbadge said:

Shakermaker said:

My colleague has just shown me the event management details for an event he is volunteering at over the weekend. 8 pages of instructions. Everyone has a radio, and there are special code words for particular occurences to prevent crowd panic. "Mr A is in the hospitality area" means "there's a fire in the hospitality area" and "Mr B is in the north toilet block" means "suspect package in the toilet block". And they have given everyone the Command, Sub Command "POC" designation (Point of Contact)

All well intentioned, but just quite amusing to read on paper

That's pretty much standard across events and exhibitions, though.

You get a lot more volunteers now - the Olympics helped with that , leading to a group called 'Showmakers' that are involved in a lot of events and they do end up on radio. It makes sense they follow the same radio etiquette as everyone else.

The 'Mr Goodfellow' calls are industry wide too.

i'd agree with the above


also most event radio nets are painful to listen to if you've ever been taught proper ( emergency services, Amateur, military or marine ) VP operation, where listening to a net that is beign run on a 'different' flavour of VP just takes a while to tune into the nuances.

[Shakermaker]

mph1977 said:

Justayellowbadge said:

Shakermaker said:

My colleague has just shown me the event management details for an event he is volunteering at over the weekend. 8 pages of instructions. Everyone has a radio, and there are special code words for particular occurences to prevent crowd panic. "Mr A is in the hospitality area" means "there's a fire in the hospitality area" and "Mr B is in the north toilet block" means "suspect package in the toilet block". And they have given everyone the Command, Sub Command "POC" designation (Point of Contact)

All well intentioned, but just quite amusing to read on paper

That's pretty much standard across events and exhibitions, though.

You get a lot more volunteers now - the Olympics helped with that , leading to a group called 'Showmakers' that are involved in a lot of events and they do end up on radio. It makes sense they follow the same radio etiquette as everyone else.

The 'Mr Goodfellow' calls are industry wide too.

i'd agree with the above


also most event radio nets are painful to listen to if you've ever been taught proper ( emergency services, Amateur, military or marine ) VP operation, where listening to a net that is beign run on a 'different' flavour of VP just takes a while to tune into the nuances.

I get that. its just amusing. As someone has mentioned, its probably the kind of thing a Walt type will love to use.

[Justayellowbadge]

Shakermaker said:

I get that. its just amusing. As someone has mentioned, its probably the kind of thing a Walt type will love to use.

Next time I spend all day standing in the pouring rain, copping vile abuse from entitled members of the public who think they can ignore an approved tombola I'll remember your kind words.


Next time I spend a school fete sober, sleeping with one eye on the Victoria Sponge queue , I'll remember your kind words.

[DMN]

Just a yellow badge?

Sorry not time served enough to run a three-legged race, let alone a tombola. Come back when your a green badge with your sowing and campfire badges.

[Digga]

DMN said:

Just a yellow badge?

Sorry not time served enough to run a three-legged race, let alone a tombola. Come back when your a green badge with your sowing and campfire badges.

Sowing badge one is a dilemma. Surely that should be the first badge, to better enable you to asses the risks of sewing all our other various badges on?

Digga
BSC (Bronze Swimming Certificate)

[Justayellowbadge]

Digga said:

Sowing badge one is a dilemma. Surely that should be the first badge, to better enable you to asses the risks of sewing all our other various badges on?

Digga
BSC (Bronze Swimming Certificate)

Without correct training, you rip what you sew.

[Shakermaker]

I have now been reminded of a thread I saw on another forum I use, where the topic was "What is your EDC? (Every Day Carry)

And it was, as the question tried to suggest, a list of what you carry with you every day as "essential" stuff. Thinking back now, I am sure I probably just said keys/wallet/phone but the list of stuff some people carried with them all day, proper walt-y. Multi tools, spare cable ties, tape, torches, spare batteries, knives... stepping out of the front door to go anywhere this was apparently entirely normal for them.

[Vaud]

Shakermaker said:

I have now been reminded of a thread I saw on another forum I use, where the topic was "What is your EDC? (Every Day Carry)

And it was, as the question tried to suggest, a list of what you carry with you every day as "essential" stuff. Thinking back now, I am sure I probably just said keys/wallet/phone but the list of stuff some people carried with them all day, proper walt-y. Multi tools, spare cable ties, tape, torches, spare batteries, knives... stepping out of the front door to go anywhere this was apparently entirely normal for them.

If I had a manual / practical job instead of pushing emails around, then I suspect a multitool would be very useful...

[Shakermaker]

Vaud said:

If I had a manual / practical job instead of pushing emails around, then I suspect a multitool would be very useful...

But could you survive popping to Tesco without it?

[Vaud]

Shakermaker said:

But could you survive popping to Tesco without it?

Yup, because I'm normal. I might take one if I owned, say, a TVR or anything that was Italian.

[Disastrous]

Shakermaker said:

Vaud said:

If I had a manual / practical job instead of pushing emails around, then I suspect a multitool would be very useful...

But could you survive popping to Tesco without it?

In fairness, I keep a leatherman squirt on my key ring and a Swiss Army knife is usually in a jacket pocket.

I work in video production and I'm forever cutting tape, opening boxes, tightening things etc etc. I could well survive a trip to Tesco without them but it would seem weird to specifically discard them when they just live in my pockets anyway...

[Cfnteabag]

Was heading back down the A34 earlier and spotted a white bmw 5 series estate travelling at about 60 in the inside lane, red and yellow battenburg on the boot, yellow and blue checks on the side and a clear light bar. I checked my speed and saw I was doing 70 and had nothing to worry about so headed passed. As I did I glanced over and spotted that instead of Police it said Motorola Systems on the boot.

What the hell was it? It looked like a police car up until you could read the writing on the back. I was in my wifes car so the dashcam may have caught it.