Who has their own Military Service Medal

[junior]

It's a good military keyboard, looks as though it's seen action. It's a rarity in that the keys are actually in the right place....one of the perks of late night security duties is going round and swapping keys of senior officers that you know do the 2-finger typing thing....

HAHAHA ive never herd of that before.

I shall be doing that non stop now!!!

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

How on earth do you clean a keyboard??

Ive never cleaned it

'kin 'ell. Never got hold of a Banner catalogue? It's compulsory to order stuff from there that you will never use. Mini-keyboard vacuums, electric staplers and hole punches.....

Anyway, you don't clean it, you swap it with someone else's.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Hold it upside down and give it a good shake for starters!

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

btw, anyone serving in the emergency services got a medal on the Queen's Golden Jubilee.
Why, I don't know. But hey - it looks cool so who's arguing?

COOL? It's horrible. It's the wrong size, the wrong colour, and can't be cleaned because it tarnishes. Bloody waste of good mounting money.

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

HAHAHA ive never herd of that before.

I shall be doing that non stop now!!!

Oh the hours of fun. Even better when you find a PC logged in (try moving the mouse, many people disable the passworded screen saver). Set up autoforwarding on their email, and pop into Word. Tools - Autoreplace is what you are looking for. As a starter, try making "Officer" autoreplace with "Orifice" - takes them a good few documents to notice. Autoforwarding the email lets you see the responses from the people that they send documents to! Best done to a junior staff officer who works for someone loud, short-tempered and frightening!

 

[Bry Nylon]

COOL? It's horrible. It's the wrong size, the wrong colour, and can't be cleaned because it tarnishes. Bloody waste of good mounting money.

...I'm not gonna get a medal for anything else. Besides, I don't know where the actual medal is now. I can only find the colouerd ribbony bit that goes on your shirt. (Forgive me - I'm not a miltary person ...)

 

[Porky]

39-45 Star.
Italy Star.
Palestine G. S. Medal
Victory Medal.
I liked the Palestine Medal, as it had one's name engraved around the edge.

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Nice collection. My father in law has some weird African medal, but he's a bit hazy on it. I reckon he got it for flogging fuel to the Arabs. Made it to Corporal. Four times.

 

[brighton2win]

HAHAHA ive never herd of that before.

I shall be doing that non stop now!!!

M and N are the best keys to swap, people can never remember which way round they should be and get really confused

 

[Gully]

Change the B and F, imagine how odd it would be to receive an invitation to a Royal Garden Party at "Fuckingham Palace"

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Change the B and F, imagine how odd it would be to receive an invitation to a Royal Garden Party at "Fuckingham Palace"

that would be brilliant!

 

[Gully]

mind you the same swap could make us Frighton and Hove Alfion

 

[Lord Bracknell]

My old man was wounded on active service ... he broke his toe keeping wicket for a Royal Navy team, playing against the United States Navy in a match in San Francisco.

He constantly boasted about that.

Rather curiously, he never talked about the time his ship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean in 1942.

 

[Bry Nylon]

My old man was wounded on active service ... he broke his toe keeping wicket for a Royal Navy team, playing against the United States Navy in a match in San Francisco.

He constantly boasted about that.

Rather curiously, he never talked about the time his ship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean in 1942.

Jeez, I know yanks hate to lose, but that is just plain ridiculous!

 

[NMH]

My old man was wounded on active service ... he broke his toe keeping wicket for a Royal Navy team, playing against the United States Navy in a match in San Francisco.

He constantly boasted about that.

Rather curiously, he never talked about the time his ship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean in 1942.

It wasn't the 'Termigant' was it?

My Dad got torpedoed in the med too - had to beach it and shift all the ballast and men, put dobied canvasses over the 'ole and limp to a safe harbour.

Dodgy business.

 

[Charlies Shinpad]

All I have is a set of Dolphins from my time in the Submarine Service,but I wouldnt part with them for the world!!

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Jeez, I know yanks hate to lose, but that is just plain ridiculous!

boom boom.

a classic.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Who else on here has a Service Medal, I have the GSM Northern Ireland for 3 tours to Northern Ireland 1975, 1977 and 1979 and was only 22 on my last tour.

Three tours ..... in seventies...

Alas no ...I missed out on the 'GSM' Lebenon medal by a week, not that it would have been in any way deserved as I only 'flew' over lebanon a couple of times, the rest was spent on a RFA just off the coast. The most dangerous thing about the tour was the run's a shore in Cyprus, which were truly horrific

 

[Lord Bracknell]

It wasn't the 'Termigant' was it?

My Dad got torpedoed in the med too - had to beach it and shift all the ballast and men, put dobied canvasses over the 'ole and limp to a safe harbour.

Dodgy business.

Not the Termigant. HMS Nigeria.

 

[surrey jim]

I'm getting my driving licence soon.

Road rage on the A27, yeh.

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