Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: bluesteve on March 05, 2004, 11:35:31 pm
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any ex-bootnecks out there!
they seem to be everywhere else i go, and did you ever imagine doing this while you was in the corps?
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yep i am.
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you' d be surprised to hear that i am too!
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sorry lads not geting this what is a boot Neck ???
andy
dorset
fed memebr
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got to be a army thing
infantry soldier P.haps
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ex royal marines, bootneck is an alternative.
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i was close ;)
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crap hats the lot of ya
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can you all remember filling the sink with boiling hot water dipping ya berry into it and then shapeing it up that takes me back a few years i can tell ya
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as time goes on i get more sentimental about it.
Must be a sign of impending mid life crisis,
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24400053 SIR COME ON LADS I NO YOUR ALL OUT THERE COME ON AND SIGN IN
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do you ever wish you had no bills ,no family to look after etc etc etc.... all your cooking done for you, always somewhere to sleep, travelling the world loads of money when back in uk, oh i wish those days had never ended!
Anyone else feel the same?
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24878094 . I hate the numbers game, Looks like I'm making the brews up to now. How do you have yours.....nato? ::)
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feel the same feel the same jeysus mary and joseph i tink you said it all
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Hi ex- Matelot here! (Kilik Stoker) Mean anything to anyone? As for the fines I know what you mean, I was out of pocket in the end up! But hey what a life!
Willy
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24596684 Royal corps of Signals. out in 84
Paddy
from your number I reckon you must have joined up mid 70s (maybe 76?)
am I close?
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hey jolly jack, you re not from Gus by any chance?
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spot on wylie may 11 1976
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I joined up Nov 79
Trained in sunny Catterick then Aldershot :)
Oh Happy days
were you like me? came out to make your fortune ??? :)
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EX matelot also kilik tas rate,1978 / 1988, now washing glass in sunny Spain, beats standing on the gangway all night for peanuts thats for sure.
Mikey Y
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cattrick hey anzio qebeck alamain ;) ;)
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hey jolly jack, you re not from Gus by any chance?
Don't live in Guz now but used to, also Pompey, but finised my time off in Guz then moved. I could see the Dock Yard from my bedroom window. TOO Close! But I really like Guz just too far from everything else.
Hi also to Mikey Y, yes mate I bet you don't miss QM's duties. Is there much work in Spain for WC's?
I'm only out a couple of years but found it difficult to settle and hated the rat race. People take themselves too seriously and get upset over nothing. I'm only starting out in WC'n but it pays better than my trade (Spark) and I love the freedom of work fitting around my life instead of the other way around. Don't want to go on too much in case I get kicked off for making this site sound like Friends Reunited!
Take care Willy
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willy
ex saltash road, keyham, just down the road from the Royal Naval (or Navy) arms. have nt been on a run ashore in gus for years, maybe if i go back back it might spoil the good memorys.
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Hi SW, oh yes the Keyham, start off in there after scran. But I'm not going down the strip as I'm duty tomorrow, Where have you heard that before? Then its a taxi, stop at the cash point followed by the Twigs, Jesters and Blondes,wake up beside some "Queen" in the morning not knowing what part of town your in, hoping against all odds you weren't able to perform and that no one you know saw you leaving with her,saying never again! I bet you have a few old T-shirts with that on it!
And what about the Avondale? Its got topless barmaids now! 9 Pinters! I seen it on the TV not so long ago.
Ahaa the memories are flooding back.
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Where is Guz?
Darren
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Helles
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oh yes ! ;D
sounds very very familiar,aah the good old days.
Avondale topless barmaids, whats going on?i hope its not harrys wife though. Its certainly gone up market then. I wonder if the Carousel is still open i ve pulled some right Mooses in there, buts its a cheap night if you live 200 yards away! :P
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If you mean Harry the old bloke who owned it I think it said he died last year, as far as going up market, well you obviously didn't see the barmaids! I didn't realise women could get brewers drop! When they were reaching the pints over the bar it looked like a puppy having a drink!
Now the CAR-OU-SEL theres a night spot no one should miss the experience of. That used to be part of your "ones" task book. It wasn't as much "Grab a Granny" as the granny's grabing the young lads. They were the type of women even your Dad warned you about. Oh yes many a Sunday morning I walked back to Drake wondering if it had really happened. Mind you them having teeth they could take out had its up side! I'll leave you with that thought, bet you can't get that image out of your head all day!
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Where is Guz?
Darren
Darren is that a "bite"? you'll be asking me where Liegh Park is next!
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Yes there are loads here. Tosh, Stu mac etc. Wonder where all the original posters are now!!
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Yes there are loads here. Tosh, Stu mac etc. Wonder where all the original posters are now!!
matt has his own forum now, it's great too.
google- matts cleaning forums ;)
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Yes there are loads here. Tosh, Stu mac etc. Wonder where all the original posters are now!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOO I wasn't they were marines all queer buggers ;D
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Yep, 6 1/2 yrs, royal welch fusiliers.
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Yep, 6 1/2 yrs, royal welch fusiliers.
One thing I always wondered was why they spelt Welsh like someone whose semi illiterate? There's got to be a reason for it? Was it something to do with the Regimental Sheep or something?
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Yep, 6 1/2 yrs, royal welch fusiliers.
One thing I always wondered was why they spelt Welsh like someone whose semi illiterate? There's got to be a reason for it? Was it something to do with the Regimental Sheep or something?
Founded in 1689, they are one of the oldest regiments in the regular army, hence the archaic spelling of the word Welch instead of Welsh.
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Yep, 6 1/2 yrs, royal welch fusiliers.
One thing I always wondered was why they spelt Welsh like someone whose semi illiterate? There's got to be a reason for it? Was it something to do with the Regimental Sheep or something?
Founded in 1689, they are one of the oldest regiments in the regular army, hence the archaic spelling of the word Welch instead of Welsh.
not near old enough, 1633 first of foot The Royal Scots ;D I was in 15 years
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The BFG used to be an assassin for MasterCard & Visa dose the make him a boot neck.
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The BFG used to be an assassin for MasterCard & Visa dose the make him a boot neck.
Does he like dancing with men and getting naked in bars?
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Pull up a sand bag and swing the light, I'll tell you a story ;D Back in 74........................ ::)
;D ;D ;D
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Pull up a sand bag and swing the light, I'll tell you a story ;D Back in 74........................ ::)
;D ;D ;D
Is that when you joined up, Cozy? Was that when it was the Royal Waggoners and A Jobs were 'remove clatty hair from horses bottom', and stuff like that?
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PMSL, yeah. I joined as a junior soldier in the Royal Armoured Corps at Bovington Dorset in Sept 74 aged 16. They sent us out in Chietain tanks for a 10 day exercise, 4 men to a tank. That was hell. :o Then after 6 months got out and 18 months later joined the real Army. Did 9 years and loved most of it.
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i was in the TA does that count as a bootneck royal welsh ???
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i was in the TA does that count as a bootneck royal welsh ???
No, mate. STABS don't even rate near the Catering Corps, which incidentally has the toughest course in the British army.
Not one of them has passed it yet.
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PMSL, yeah. I joined as a junior soldier in the Royal Armoured Corps at Bovington Dorset in Sept 74 aged 16. They sent us out in Chietain tanks for a 10 day exercise, 4 men to a tank. That was hell. :o Then after 6 months got out and 18 months later joined the real Army. Did 9 years and loved most of it.
I was five years old when you first joined up, BTW, you old SWEAT!
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I was 3 ;D and no stabs don't cut it
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am upset now not being a ex-bootneck :(
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am upset now not being a ex-bootneck :(
I wouldn't be bootneck is slang for royal marines ;D so I certainly am not an ex bootneck ;)
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i went to join the R.M but told to short am 5.2 to join you got to be at least 5.4 so join TA I WAS GLAD couldn't do the 30 mile hike ;)