Go Back   Shipping History > Shipping Discussion > Mess Deck

virtual crazy gang, part II

Post Reply
 
Thread Tools
  #6526  
Old 24th September 2020, 07:26
Engine Serang Northern Ireland Engine Serang is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Dublin,but I'd rather be in Stavanger.
Posts: 2,922
A popular Second Engineer is an oxymoron, and an unpopular one is a right bastard.
Reply With Quote
  #6527  
Old 24th September 2020, 12:25
Tmac1720's Avatar
Tmac1720 Northern Ireland Tmac1720 is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Newtownabbey
Posts: 1,263
Images: 15
Quote:
Originally Posted by Engine Serang View Post
A popular Second Engineer is an oxymoron, and an unpopular one is a right bastard.
Never a truer word spoken

Trust me I have met more than enough of them to last me a lifetime
__________________
Oul scabby knuckles

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried

Anything God didn't create was made by engineers.

I try so hard to make things idiot proof but they keep making better idiots
Reply With Quote
  #6528  
Old 24th September 2020, 13:03
Varley's Avatar
Varley Isle of Man Varley is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Isle of Man, G.B.
Posts: 2,404
All things are relative despite comparisons being odious. You must also remember that all Chiefs were at one time or another Seconds (unless used to fighting with bow and arrow) and it is very difficult to claim legitimacy once your birth certificate has been so roundly condemned as a forgery. Even Harpic was a decent chap except for his habit of locking the Chief out of fort knox and having paint blisteringly obnoxious and frequent farts.
__________________
David V
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right
It is the duty of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan
Reply With Quote
  #6529  
Old 24th September 2020, 13:25
Engine Serang Northern Ireland Engine Serang is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Dublin,but I'd rather be in Stavanger.
Posts: 2,922
When I was Second, the worst 6 months of my life, no one; No One; ever got into Fort Knox. No exceptions. The Master was given a cursory peek during weekly rounds.
When I was Chief I would no more have looked into Fort Knox than I would have looked into the Seconds underwear drawer.
Sacrosanctity will be preserved.
Reply With Quote
  #6530  
Old 24th September 2020, 15:35
Varley's Avatar
Varley Isle of Man Varley is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Isle of Man, G.B.
Posts: 2,404
So the fort-knox thing comes with the job (Harpic would even collect tools the Chief was using and lock them up) but you don't mention flatulence in that sixmonth. Is there something you are keeping from us?
__________________
David V
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right
It is the duty of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan
Reply With Quote
  #6531  
Old 24th September 2020, 16:47
Engine Serang Northern Ireland Engine Serang is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Dublin,but I'd rather be in Stavanger.
Posts: 2,922
Why in the name of all that is holy was the Chief using tools.
The only tool I used was a Montblanc, a bit like Seamus Heaney.
Reply With Quote
  #6532  
Old 24th September 2020, 17:57
Varley's Avatar
Varley Isle of Man Varley is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Isle of Man, G.B.
Posts: 2,404
He needed something to attach a wire to things that weren't working ("Come, you will help me with this hydraulic pump", "But it has no wires attached to it Chief",.........,"Satisfied now? Cop hold of your end"!

I had no idea the French had done 'un homage Rushmore' to Irish men of letters. But then, thinking of Wolfe Tone, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Partisan French bastards.
__________________
David V
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right
It is the duty of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan
Reply With Quote
  #6533  
Old 25th September 2020, 08:52
Engine Serang Northern Ireland Engine Serang is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Dublin,but I'd rather be in Stavanger.
Posts: 2,922
Quote:
Originally Posted by Varley View Post
Partisan French bastards.
Partisan and quite ungrateful. They never really forgave the Americans for liberating them in 1944. An oul brass statue of a tart in New York harbour was all the thanks they got.
But a good white Bordeaux is still nice.
Reply With Quote
  #6534  
Old 25th September 2020, 15:39
Tmac1720's Avatar
Tmac1720 Northern Ireland Tmac1720 is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Newtownabbey
Posts: 1,263
Images: 15
I can recall an incident between President De Gaulle and President Eisenhower when De Gaulle insisted his intention was to remove all foreign soldiers from French soil. Eisenhower quietly asked " does that include all those buried there who fought to make France free"

I don't how true this is, if at all but it sure sounds right to me.
__________________
Oul scabby knuckles

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried

Anything God didn't create was made by engineers.

I try so hard to make things idiot proof but they keep making better idiots
Reply With Quote
  #6535  
Old 1st October 2020, 11:36
billyboy's Avatar
billyboy Philippines billyboy is online now
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Philippines
Posts: 2,110
Images: 22
Like the veteran visiting France. he was scolded for not having his passport ready. he said I didnt have to show it last time I came. No bloody Frenchmen around to show it to.
__________________
"Imagination is more important than knowledge". A. Einstein.
Reply With Quote
  #6536  
Old 1st October 2020, 12:16
Varley's Avatar
Varley Isle of Man Varley is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Isle of Man, G.B.
Posts: 2,404
Does that mean we're bound for frogland? I suppose we could stock up on smelly cheese and cop a look at the bust of Sheamus Heaney they have carved into a mountain (with a pen, so E-S asks us to believe).

(Don't let the Chief Plastico take on any of their beer. It is quite repellant even if not effective against Krauts).
__________________
David V
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right
It is the duty of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan
Reply With Quote
  #6537  
Old 1st October 2020, 16:46
Engine Serang Northern Ireland Engine Serang is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Dublin,but I'd rather be in Stavanger.
Posts: 2,922
Bollix Mr V, Bollix (Excuse my French) Kronenbourg 1664 is more than acceptable and their wine can be purchased in all good merchants.
I believe there is a clause in the Geneva Convention which forbids people with beards from eating smelly or runny cheese. And washing it down with real ale.
After a good luncheon I often enjoy a Dairylea Triangle, yum.
Reply With Quote
  #6538  
Old 1st October 2020, 17:06
Tmac1720's Avatar
Tmac1720 Northern Ireland Tmac1720 is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Newtownabbey
Posts: 1,263
Images: 15
Quote:
Originally Posted by Engine Serang View Post
After a good luncheon I often enjoy a Dairylea Triangle, yum.
Philest.....Phillie....Psylis... Amateur, nothing like a good mouthful of a Stinking Bishop fair makes the eyes water and the teeth curl up and all washed down with a foaming pint of the black stuff (can we say that now in these politically correct times?)
__________________
Oul scabby knuckles

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried

Anything God didn't create was made by engineers.

I try so hard to make things idiot proof but they keep making better idiots
Reply With Quote
  #6539  
Old 1st October 2020, 17:13
Farmer John's Avatar
Farmer John Farmer John is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: UK
Posts: 1,506
Ooh, I we go to La Belly France, can we stop at Marseilles for a good old Boiledbaseball?
__________________
Buvez toujours, mourrez jamais.
Rabelais
Reply With Quote
  #6540  
Old 1st October 2020, 18:46
Malcolm G's Avatar
Malcolm G Malcolm G is online now
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Poole
Posts: 1,552
Images: 6
Gosh a booze cruise, used to love a good booze cruise, as opposed to a boozy cruise which tends to cost more.

Mention of the French beer brings it all back, sometimes literally.

Ah yes, the true Brits loading cases and cases of the stuff on the hypermarket trolley and trundling it back to the ship. Usually getting the trolley wheels stuck in the crane tracks, at which point the French beer does what it does best - washes down the French quay.
__________________
The Mad Landsman
Reply With Quote
  #6541  
Old 2nd October 2020, 09:14
billyboy's Avatar
billyboy Philippines billyboy is online now
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Philippines
Posts: 2,110
Images: 22
passed a stationary coach in the roadside one day, foam everywhere, thought there had been a fire. turns out the floor of his boot gave up under the weight of all the beer he had in it. Boulogne that was about a mile from the hypermarket.
__________________
"Imagination is more important than knowledge". A. Einstein.
Reply With Quote
  #6542  
Old 2nd October 2020, 11:28
Varley's Avatar
Varley Isle of Man Varley is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Isle of Man, G.B.
Posts: 2,404
What a noble act to try and infiltrate good British Ale to Les hypermarches de Boulogne. But why use a French bus, presumably bottom rotted due to previous cargoes leaking their own (or more properly Alsatian) bottled emetico-quayswab.

Any mention of Dairylea in relation to cheese on SH should condemn the mentioner to watch Triangle episodes until he comes to his senses.

(And as for boiled bass soup put that one further down than best Alsatian quayswab. If it must be Marseilles then let it be Ricard!)
__________________
David V
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right
It is the duty of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan
Reply With Quote
  #6543  
Old 2nd October 2020, 13:06
Engine Serang Northern Ireland Engine Serang is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Dublin,but I'd rather be in Stavanger.
Posts: 2,922
Ricard gets my vote.
If I want a bowl of soup I'll have good N.I. shin beef broth not a bowl of fish eyes and guts. And smelling like the ladies in Dubarrys bar.
Reply With Quote
  #6544  
Old 7th October 2020, 09:08
billyboy's Avatar
billyboy Philippines billyboy is online now
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Philippines
Posts: 2,110
Images: 22
had some strange experiences on Pernod in France. soon learned not to drink water the following morning.
__________________
"Imagination is more important than knowledge". A. Einstein.
Reply With Quote
  #6545  
Old 7th October 2020, 11:10
Varley's Avatar
Varley Isle of Man Varley is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Isle of Man, G.B.
Posts: 2,404
Perhaps why the 'aperitif de pays' is un petit pastis de Ricard. Mind you it is a place full of French people so even the teetotal have strange experiences. When still age-barred from normal beverages Ma never let us drink anything but Evian and had the chambermaids (again when age-barred from detailing them otherwise) douse the rooms with 'flit' before we went up the petite colline de bois.

I will have to see if the ladies of enemy occupied Hibernia can emulate your soup with beef bones. In the days when the butcher delivered the bones with the joint I did try several times to make something appetising in the way of soup, but entirely without success.

Ham stock is the only thing I bother with now and have a decent pea and ham on the go now (I am waiting to hear if it meets with Hibernian approval, the gammon which was its making certainly did - entirely baked, with roast-a-bag instead of boiling).

(Turkey the same as beef. Ma could turn out a decent soup after Christmas had wrung all else out of the bird but my attempts were woeful so I no longer bother. My curry of Yule, however, is very fine indeed and lasts until well in to January).
__________________
David V
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right
It is the duty of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan
Reply With Quote
  #6546  
Old 8th October 2020, 08:19
Engine Serang Northern Ireland Engine Serang is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Dublin,but I'd rather be in Stavanger.
Posts: 2,922
Ending up with flavoursome stock is usually a hit and miss affair with everything other than ham leftovers. A good pea and ham or lentil and ham soup is a delight and a meal in itself and if more mothers cooked it their children would be better nourished and have less sniffles and flu's.
Hogmanay Curry is pushing the salmonella envelope a wee bit and I, if I may, suggest a smaller turkey , a big hen or a festive invitation to Aunt Marjorie and Uncle Sammy, whose appetite is legendary.
Reply With Quote
  #6547  
Old 8th October 2020, 10:42
Tim Gibbs's Avatar
Tim Gibbs United Kingdom Tim Gibbs is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: Bideford, North Devon
Posts: 121
In 1966 was on a in ship Genoa. Don't think they had seen Brits for quite a while and they made us very welcome with lots of Martini which, not being very sophisticated, we tried to drink like beer. Any slight sophistication soon turned to extreme intoxication
__________________
Only fight the battles you stand a reasonable chance of winning
Reply With Quote
  #6548  
Old 8th October 2020, 11:30
Varley's Avatar
Varley Isle of Man Varley is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Isle of Man, G.B.
Posts: 2,404
More Burn's than Hogmanay.

(I'm glad it's not just me with other stocks. I did not hear a verdict on the soup yet although M'Lady was round looking for mustard seed last evening being in the middle of curry making. There is a hint that she will entertain with it. My hint was more one of a plea not to be left out!)

Uncle Bruv was the one. Always a good trencherman he would keep the family waiting until seconds or thirds had been meticulously chewed with false teeth. On one of his last he whipped through the meal faster than any of us. My brother, never backward in the forwarding department, asked him how come. In a voice clearly affected by missing the denture (he had had them all out at 21 as was the fashion) "After many years I've found I can eat much better with just my gums".

Genoa and Martini? We seem to be navigating closer and closer to the Irish visitors, Creme de Menthe and il Papa on a shouldered chair. Doesn't that show on the ECDIS as a joke to be avoided on account of it being an ancient monument?
__________________
David V
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right
It is the duty of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan
Reply With Quote
  #6549  
Old 15th October 2020, 11:13
billyboy's Avatar
billyboy Philippines billyboy is online now
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Philippines
Posts: 2,110
Images: 22
Yawn been busy in my little hobby workshop in Number 2 hold. Whats been happening up here Steward?
Who's driving?
Some bloke who dont the date keeps shouting May day on 2182. Now he's changed it to Pan Pan....must be a cook then eh!
__________________
"Imagination is more important than knowledge". A. Einstein.
Reply With Quote
  #6550  
Old 16th October 2020, 10:54
Varley's Avatar
Varley Isle of Man Varley is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Isle of Man, G.B.
Posts: 2,404
Well things must be getting better. When he gets to "securité" just make sure its not something we might bump-into, not notice because the little boy has gone to put his finger in a dyke or scrape along the top of.

You haven't filched a soldering iron for your workshop have you? I have one you can borrow but the missing one was 21st birthday present.
__________________
David V
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right
It is the duty of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan
Reply With Quote
Post Reply

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 12:18.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.