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

[jdw100]

pocketspring said:

jdw100 said:

I’d be watching my back if it had been me posting negative comments.

I know, from experience, that these organisations attract a lot of ex-SAS members to their ranks.

Since becoming just an ordinary MOP these guys realise they miss the excitement and adrenaline of working with a team cut from similar cloth: hence they join the sort of organisations you lot like to mock.

Don’t ask me how I know this, let me just sort of imply that I’m ex-SAS then I can deny it with a wry smile and a chuckle. So don’t ask.

Any questions? Please.

I have a question...

Were you on the balcony?

Well before my time.

I did meet some of the heroes from that day though. The way they coned off one of the access roads…wow!

Textbook SOP placement.

[jdw100]

LunarOne said:

SAS? I'm pretty sure the A goes before the two Esses.

Don’t sass ‘The SASS’, as people in the know pronounce ‘The SAS’.

Can’t tell you how I know this of course, so let’s just leave it there. Although I will bring this up again at every opportunity down the pub.

[wolfracesonic]

pocketspring said:

jdw100 said:

I’d be watching my back if it had been me posting negative comments.

I know, from experience, that these organisations attract a lot of ex-SAS members to their ranks.

Since becoming just an ordinary MOP these guys realise they miss the excitement and adrenaline of working with a team cut from similar cloth: hence they join the sort of organisations you lot like to mock.

Don’t ask me how I know this, let me just sort of imply that I’m ex-SAS then I can deny it with a wry smile and a chuckle. So don’t ask.

Any questions? Please.

I have a question...

Were you on the balcony?

Yes he was! He played a cracking Juliet as well…

[stemll]

jdw100 said:

Don’t sass ‘The SASS’, as people in the know pronounce ‘The SAS’.

Can’t tell you how I know this of course, so let’s just leave it there. Although I will bring this up again at every opportunity down the pub.

Is this where someone has to ask about the boathouse doors?

[pavarotti1980]

Peter Faulding has resurfaced with his fellow Thunderbirds after a request from the family of missing boy. Hopefully Leicestershire Police keep him on a short lead away from the press.

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-...

[anonymous-user]

pavarotti1980 said:

Peter Faulding has resurfaced with his fellow Thunderbirds after a request from the family of missing boy. Hopefully Leicestershire Police keep him on a short lead away from the press.

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-...

I truly deeply hope I'm wrong but can't but feel this is a damage limitation exercise and they probably went to the family rather than the other way around.

[100SRV]

I suppose they'd have to be "Joint" Civil Aid Corps otherwise they'd be





CAC

[hidetheelephants]

A trestle table with weak lemon drink; was this fiasco organised by walts?

[Bonefish Blues]

Phew, someone's been hitting the squash pretty hard, I can tell you.

[Spare tyre]

hidetheelephants said:

A trestle table with weak lemon drink; was this fiasco organised by walts?

Looks like a code brown call came in, no time to finish the flask

[The Gauge]

The very Simon Quinlank with his flask of weak lemon drink..

[Bobupndown]

Are uniform and stickers to attach to one's 4x4 supplied with membership to this elite band of fine fellows?

[jdw100]

hidetheelephants said:

A trestle table with weak lemon drink; was this fiasco organised by walts?

Expertly laid out to account for arm length/reach of each member..

Easy to ‘grab and go’ when speeding to launch vehicles to head to MAJOR EVENT.

Seconds count when a trestle table is looking a bit wobbly at a church fete!

The layout of drinks in the photo is, I believe, pattern Omega 9-7-5.

Textbook.

[r3g]

One of my neighbours who has a reputation for running the car registrations of everyone in the surrounding streets through the online vehicle roadworthiness checkers has got himself a black BMW 5 series estate on a 2014 plate. He's recently changed the standard 14 plate to an embossed private plate and stuck on a police badge decal on the boot and permanently has a brand new hi-viz bomber jacket laid on the parcel shelf . He has nothing whatsoever to do with the police in an official capacity and works as a gate security guard at a clothing retailer RDC.

I would think that the police badge decal would attract a pull by the real plod, and possibly an offence of impersonation. I feel a bit sorry for him tbh, what a saddo.

[Scabutz]

r3g said:

One of my neighbours who has a reputation for running the car registrations of everyone in the surrounding streets through the online vehicle roadworthiness checkers has got himself a black BMW 5 series estate on a 2014 plate. He's recently changed the standard 14 plate to an embossed private plate and stuck on a police badge decal on the boot and permanently has a brand new hi-viz bomber jacket laid on the parcel shelf . He has nothing whatsoever to do with the police in an official capacity and works as a gate security guard at a clothing retailer RDC.

I would think that the police badge decal would attract a pull by the real plod, and possibly an offence of impersonation. I feel a bit sorry for him tbh, what a saddo.

I thought the game was to put a black rat sticker as a nod to the traffic police that you were one of them and to not pull you. Or is that an urban myth. Either way he sounds like your run of the mill Walt

[Southerner]

r3g said:

One of my neighbours who has a reputation for running the car registrations of everyone in the surrounding streets through the online vehicle roadworthiness checkers has got himself a black BMW 5 series estate on a 2014 plate. He's recently changed the standard 14 plate to an embossed private plate and stuck on a police badge decal on the boot and permanently has a brand new hi-viz bomber jacket laid on the parcel shelf . He has nothing whatsoever to do with the police in an official capacity and works as a gate security guard at a clothing retailer RDC.

I would think that the police badge decal would attract a pull by the real plod, and possibly an offence of impersonation. I feel a bit sorry for him tbh, what a saddo.

What an utter, utter tosspot.

[GasEngineer]

Southerner said:

r3g said:

One of my neighbours who has a reputation for running the car registrations of everyone in the surrounding streets through the online vehicle roadworthiness checkers has got himself a black BMW 5 series estate on a 2014 plate. He's recently changed the standard 14 plate to an embossed private plate and stuck on a police badge decal on the boot and permanently has a brand new hi-viz bomber jacket laid on the parcel shelf . He has nothing whatsoever to do with the police in an official capacity and works as a gate security guard at a clothing retailer RDC.

I would think that the police badge decal would attract a pull by the real plod, and possibly an offence of impersonation. I feel a bit sorry for him tbh, what a saddo.

What an utter, utter tosspot.

Now you mention it, I've noticed hi-viz jackets on parcel shelves. What is the idea behind it?

[Drumroll]

GasEngineer said:

Now you mention it, I've noticed hi-viz jackets on parcel shelves. What is the idea behind it?

You put it there when your boot is so full of "life saving equipment" (weak lemonade) there is no where else to put it.

[wildoliver]

r3g said:

One of my neighbours who has a reputation for running the car registrations of everyone in the surrounding streets through the online vehicle roadworthiness checkers has got himself a black BMW 5 series estate on a 2014 plate. He's recently changed the standard 14 plate to an embossed private plate and stuck on a police badge decal on the boot and permanently has a brand new hi-viz bomber jacket laid on the parcel shelf . He has nothing whatsoever to do with the police in an official capacity and works as a gate security guard at a clothing retailer RDC.

I would think that the police badge decal would attract a pull by the real plod, and possibly an offence of impersonation. I feel a bit sorry for him tbh, what a saddo.

Would be a crying shame if a bit of black tape found it's way on to his plate changing a letter....... The police might notice it before him!

[LunarOne]

wildoliver said:

r3g said:

One of my neighbours who has a reputation for running the car registrations of everyone in the surrounding streets through the online vehicle roadworthiness checkers has got himself a black BMW 5 series estate on a 2014 plate. He's recently changed the standard 14 plate to an embossed private plate and stuck on a police badge decal on the boot and permanently has a brand new hi-viz bomber jacket laid on the parcel shelf . He has nothing whatsoever to do with the police in an official capacity and works as a gate security guard at a clothing retailer RDC.

I would think that the police badge decal would attract a pull by the real plod, and possibly an offence of impersonation. I feel a bit sorry for him tbh, what a saddo.

Would be a crying shame if a bit of black tape found it's way on to his plate changing a letter....... The police might notice it before him!

I had that happen to me on this car. My colleagues thought it would be amusing to add a T with black electrical tape to my rear plate at work, and because I parked back end against a wall I never noticed. No idea how long it was there before I got pulled over. Luckily the police saw the funny side and took no action!