Misfits, Dad's Army Types et al...
Discussion
Vaud said:
ChemicalChaos said:
We're on deployment this weekend, helping to construct, marshal and then break down a major event
CC, I love much of your postings and you (clearly) have a thick skin, but at times you really don't help yourself. 
No one really speaks like that, unless very sad and/or wants to get a bit of mickey taking on here.
Normal people:
"Hello mate what you up to this weekend?"
"Hi, I'm helping out at a concert. We're going down early to put out all the chairs, help the organisers during the day and then help put everything away at the end'
"Sounds fun, good for you!"
Walt version :
"Plans this weekend?"
"Our unit are deploying at sun up, travelling in close convoy to a major event. We will split into teams of operators and construct the event then provide security throughout the day. Once the event is complete we will run a break down and deploy back to base. Over"
"Hmmmm okay, you're a bit of a loon. Bye!"
I'm sure the old CC doesn't talk like that in real life......right CC?
Over.
ThunderGuts said:
CC quite thoughtfully took over mono-optic-visual-on-comms-device duty while I was at a brown level deployment this morning, taking the dog to the park.
'Dog'.....civilans eh??It's a mobile 4x4 canine rescue assistance unit.
Dog!
I bet yours doesn't even have the appropriate and approved hi viz canine jacket with multi-tool tactical pocket or collar mounted winch grease dispenser.....
jdw100 said:
ThunderGuts said:
CC quite thoughtfully took over mono-optic-visual-on-comms-device duty while I was at a brown level deployment this morning, taking the dog to the park.
'Dog'.....civilans eh??It's a mobile 4x4 canine rescue assistance unit.
Dog!
I bet yours doesn't even have the appropriate and approved hi viz canine jacket with multi-tool tactical pocket or collar mounted winch grease dispenser.....
ThunderGuts said:
This is how we arrived at the park....
I take it all back. Impressed!But I like to think you are suspended from a boom on the back of an old land rover just out of shot...
Trundling down the street to the park with light bar flashing and you and faithful hound just dangling off the back.
ThunderGuts said:
CC quite thoughtfully took over mono-optic-visual-on-comms-device duty while I was at a brown level deployment this morning, taking the dog to the park.
I went on brown level deployment with the dog earlier - unfortunately the situation deteriorated into a code yellow. That just means I have to undertake another brown level later, I hate these routine operations,
And CC - To be honest what you are doing sounds decent enough stuff, and I have enjoyed volunteering doing that sort of stuff before. Bit of working with your hands, spending time with your mates, It's good. It's helpful'. You could even argue it's giving something back. It's all good.
But I don't think I'd ever call it a deployment. And hear is the rub really, it's this cod military chit chat - which I honestly don't get.
To be honest if you just said 'we like using a bit of military patter, because well, we enjoy it and it's fun'. That is in itself fine as well - in my opinion anyway.
It's the pretence that it is necessary. You say 'deployed' to an event. It's like saying someone deployed me to Waitrose. Grammatically it's fine, it's just not the common vernacular - why use a military thing when vernacular phrase (have gone to, were sent to, attended etc) would do perfectly clearly and well.
If you all said 'we talk like this, because we quite like it' - that would actually be fine, It's this odd insistance that it's the only way you can possibly be understood that baffles me.
At the end of the day little girls grow up into women and little boys grow up into large little boys. We all like playing army as much as the next man really (and if you are helping people out, like you are, even better)- it's the pretence it is deadly, deadly serious that seems a bit perculiar.
Rickyy said:
What are the legalities of a civilian vehicle using 'wig wag' headlight flashers on the public road?
Local garage owner has them fitted to his Discovery and was using them in conjunction with his amber strobe bar on the roof. The task? Towing a small hatchback.
iirc illegal unless it's Blue light user or HETO and HETO had to have a specific additional piece of secondary legislation to add them to the listLocal garage owner has them fitted to his Discovery and was using them in conjunction with his amber strobe bar on the roof. The task? Towing a small hatchback.
mph1977 said:
Rickyy said:
What are the legalities of a civilian vehicle using 'wig wag' headlight flashers on the public road?
Local garage owner has them fitted to his Discovery and was using them in conjunction with his amber strobe bar on the roof. The task? Towing a small hatchback.
iirc illegal unless it's Blue light user or HETO and HETO had to have a specific additional piece of secondary legislation to add them to the listLocal garage owner has them fitted to his Discovery and was using them in conjunction with his amber strobe bar on the roof. The task? Towing a small hatchback.
Wired to the full beam too, they were f
king blinding!Rickyy said:
So it's unlikely a garage owner in a small town in Wales is allowed them fitted to his 13 year old Discovery?
Wired to the full beam too, they were fking blinding!
can;t see the legal cause to fit them Wired to the full beam too, they were f
king blinding!and yes wig-wags are wired to the main beams
unfortuantely there is a whole world of walters and other idiots in the murky recesses of being ' emergency equipment suppliers' often of cheap none E marked tat sourced from the developing world
So have I finally got tothe bottom of the 4X4 Emergency Response piss take? I wasn't sure of the origin,but thought of it a couple of weeks ago when I was out for a walk in the Peak District and saw this...
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Sorry for the poor quality pictures.
It is a Skoda Yeti towing the sort of trailer people who don't like bonfires use to take their hedge trimmings to the tip, with a flashing yellow light. On a clear summer's day.
The man driving it was wearing a hi-viz jacket and a sort of wide brimmed hat like a cricket umpire but wth a Gortex kind of look.
He drove up, emptied a bin into his trailer and drove off again.
Poor bugger probably probably has to have that stuff for some bizarre health and safety reason, but it did look funny.
My all time favourite was when mobile phones started getting cheap but were still a bit of a novelty. A 4X4 Emergency Response type in our village used to carry 2 around in the cutlery holder out of a dishwasher.
|http://thumbsnap.com/Mbn5Sz1G[/url]|http://thumbsnap.com/WVipGkNK[/url]Sorry for the poor quality pictures.
It is a Skoda Yeti towing the sort of trailer people who don't like bonfires use to take their hedge trimmings to the tip, with a flashing yellow light. On a clear summer's day.
The man driving it was wearing a hi-viz jacket and a sort of wide brimmed hat like a cricket umpire but wth a Gortex kind of look.
He drove up, emptied a bin into his trailer and drove off again.
Poor bugger probably probably has to have that stuff for some bizarre health and safety reason, but it did look funny.
My all time favourite was when mobile phones started getting cheap but were still a bit of a novelty. A 4X4 Emergency Response type in our village used to carry 2 around in the cutlery holder out of a dishwasher.
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