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

[Scabutz]

LeadFarmer said:

flashbang said:

Never was so much owed by so many to so few.

Never did so few feel owed so much by so many.

fking millennials

[jdw100]

Mock all you like.

Just know that ordinary citizens like you and I can sleep safe, because they watch over us.

One eye always open, unwavering, unflinching, always winching, weak lemon squash drinking…

[Gecko1978]

jdw100 said:

Mock all you like.

Just know that ordinary citizens like you and I can sleep safe, because they watch over us.

One eye always open, unwavering, unflinching, always winching, weak lemon squash drinking…

MrMinion watching over me....a man who has a fetish for the armed forces air rifles and air softs, comments on profiles of nurses and women with mental health issues.....yeah him watching over me brings up visions of waking up to an intruder in my room about to commit a hammer attack

[RizzoTheRat]

CoolHands said:

It’s when he gets he defibrillator out you need to worry

Slightly off topic but I had quick play with a modern AED (gotta get the acronyms in when replying on this thread!) on a first aid course, and I'm very impressed with how simple and safe they are. You just have to put the pads on (following a nice simple drawing on the box), press the button, and the machine does the rest, monitoring the heartrate and delivering a shock when it deems it necessary. If he can safely flip a burger, I reckon he could safely operate an AED.

[Indecision]

jdw100 said:

Mock all you like.

Just know that ordinary citizens like you and I can sleep safe, because they watch over us.

One eye always open, unwavering, unflinching, always winching, weak lemon squash drinking…

MOPs (Members of the Public) surely?!

[Red9zero]

Gecko1978 said:

MrMinion watching over me....a man who has a fetish for the armed forces air rifles and air softs, comments on profiles of nurses and women with mental health issues.....yeah him watching over me brings up visions of waking up to an intruder in my room about to commit a hammer attack

I think I'd prefer waking up to the McMedic. At least you'd get a bacon roll meal before he attacked you with an axe

[anonymous-user]

I need 500mls of strawberry milkshake, STAT!

[Flibble]

jdw100 said:

Mock all you like.

Just know that ordinary citizens like you and I can sleep safe, because they watch over us.

One eye always open, unwavering, unflinching, always winching, weak lemon squash drinking…

They have neither the time nor the inclination to explain themselves to men who rise and sleep under the blanket of the very freedom that they provide and then question the manner in which they provides it.

[Gary29]

Why do they always own a winch though?

[jdw100]

Indecision said:

jdw100 said:

Mock all you like.

Just know that ordinary citizens like you and I can sleep safe, because they watch over us.

One eye always open, unwavering, unflinching, always winching, weak lemon squash drinking…

MOPs (Members of the Public) surely?!

Yeah, that would have been better.

Used the wrong terminology.

I’ll take off my leather stetson and hang my head in shame for a few minutes.

[46and2]

RizzoTheRat said:

Slightly off topic but I had quick play with a modern AED (gotta get the acronyms in when replying on this thread!) on a first aid course, and I'm very impressed with how simple and safe they are. You just have to put the pads on (following a nice simple drawing on the box), press the button, and the machine does the rest, monitoring the heartrate and delivering a shock when it deems it necessary. If he can safely flip a burger, I reckon he could safely operate an AED.

Pretty sure that every first aid course in work that I've been on, has been taken by a walt.

Edited by 46and2 on Thursday 5th August 12:45

[Psycho Warren]

If a walt actually did a real first aid course that would be worrying.

They would do the first aid course then think they can do a tracheostomy with a biro or open heart surgery on the street.......

[wildoliver]

Gary29 said:

Why do they always own a winch though?

I have no idea.

We have a 4x4. It gets used for everything from carting dogs around, us down to the Alps for skiing in comfort, a bit of offroading ranging from dragging trailers up muddy hillsides to the odd bit of green roading to see bits of the countryside I normally wouldn't. It even pulled a customer's car out of a canal after he got confused and thought it was a speedboat.

But I have never ever felt the need for a winch. Which to be honest upsets me. I like upgrading things, I look at the metal bumpers, snorkels and winches and think oooooh I want that. Then realise if I ever got the thing deep enough in a river to need a snorkel I'd be the one needing the snorkel, if I ever hit anything hard enough to need the metal bumper it would likely just push back and bend the shell and if I ever got stuck enough to need the winch given how good it is in mud and off road I'd probably need a helicopter lift not a winch.

[RizzoTheRat]

46and2 said:

Pretty sure that every first aid course in work that I've been on, has been taken by a walt.

That's actually a bit worrying depending on thier level of actual skill to thier level of waltiness. I did one some years ago run by a para-medic, rather than a paramedic...ie a a medic with the parachute regiment. At least that's what he said, now you've got me wondering

[Zetec-S]

RizzoTheRat said:

CoolHands said:

It’s when he gets he defibrillator out you need to worry

Slightly off topic but I had quick play with a modern AED (gotta get the acronyms in when replying on this thread!) on a first aid course, and I'm very impressed with how simple and safe they are. You just have to put the pads on (following a nice simple drawing on the box), press the button, and the machine does the rest, monitoring the heartrate and delivering a shock when it deems it necessary. If he can safely flip a burger, I reckon he could safely operate an AED.

Well he can certainly eat them.

[bobtail4x4]

wildoliver said:

Gary29 said:

Why do they always own a winch though?

I have no idea.

We have a 4x4. It gets used for everything from carting dogs around, us down to the Alps for skiing in comfort, a bit of offroading ranging from dragging trailers up muddy hillsides to the odd bit of green roading to see bits of the countryside I normally wouldn't. It even pulled a customer's car out of a canal after he got confused and thought it was a speedboat.

But I have never ever felt the need for a winch. Which to be honest upsets me. I like upgrading things, I look at the metal bumpers, snorkels and winches and think oooooh I want that. Then realise if I ever got the thing deep enough in a river to need a snorkel I'd be the one needing the snorkel, if I ever hit anything hard enough to need the metal bumper it would likely just push back and bend the shell and if I ever got stuck enough to need the winch given how good it is in mud and off road I'd probably need a helicopter lift not a winch.

had a winch on the disco for years, only once used to pull myself out, and that was rather than churn the ground up driving out,
used it for moving trees sheds and other peoples stuck cars several times,
I dont miss it.

[Octoposse]

Gary29 said:

Why do they always own a winch though?

I get genuinely uneasy when I see even the averagely inept using a winch. The capacity for dismemberment and decapitation is apparently unrecognised!

[Don1]

I had a winch on my green laner and farm work truck, 'Bob' (a bobtail range rover). I used it twice - once to rescue myself due to stupidity and the other time to remove a fallen tree from my river (with a hand saw), when the chainsaw broke. Glory days.

[Paul Dishman]

Mr Minion is ready for action

https://twitter.com/mrminion999/status/14233374237...

Is "Medic" a restricted title?

[Gecko1978]

Paul Dishman said:

Mr Minion is ready for action

https://twitter.com/mrminion999/status/14233374237...

Is "Medic" a restricted title?

I believe Paramedic is but not Medic. Also the stickers he shows on cars he doesn't own....mental health but as it's in his head he is in reality harmless