Recent content by Grimey

You’d have to line up for shit forever though….

There’ll always be wing nuts, Don. BC politics can be nonsensical, albeit never boring. We spent the 90s with the commies running the place, yet sent the fascists (Reform) to Ottawa. Try and square that circle. Lorne was very gracious in his acceptance speech. Eby looked like he was...

Did Op Apollo on ALG with no helairdet. Six months with flying stations counted on one hand was glorious.

If you’re familiar with the area, gridlock happens way before that. Latoria , Metchosin and Happy Valley roads are a mess.

In ten years or so, there’ll be more people who made that jump than there were hooligans on the balcony.

Same in most of the 280 mess decks. The FCU drain pans invariably drained up hill, were blocked with decades worth of crud, or both. My HUR 6 mess rack was usually drenched in any sea state above dead calm. 🤬

Ah, re fandom, the internet was in its infancy back then, or shitty bandwidth. Our second thought was it was some play word that Gerry and Sylvia used in the sack. We were matelots, after all 😀.

Long ago on some mid-Pacific middle watch, the topic of the Thunderbirds came up, as it invariably did. The question for the night was, what did F.A.B. stand for? We settled on Fuckin’ A, Bubba!

Just don’t drop it in the mud.

The result of fifty plus years of the education system (and HS guidance counsellors in particular) pushing Uni as the be all-end all and trades (or god forbid - the CAF) being something you did if you were thick. I doubt this view has substantially changed.

In Aden, my old man had a preference for RN Wessex rather than Crab Wessex. Something about them actually showing up.

It’s not always the lifer thrice married types either. I had a young guy who had half his pay check going to crap he’d bought at the CANEX on their payment plan, only to hock it in downtown Victoria for drug and booze money.

How’s your new guy working out? He seemed a good catch.

A long-held senior NWO desire to destroy the ‘Stoker Mafia’. . . Well, there’s likely a lot more to it than that since the short-sighted training material purge affected more than Mar Eng, but that’s the general consensus of my conspiracy theory peers who saw it all happen.

I was a Lorne Scots cadet. Does that count?