Noticed some of you are not to sure of RM Slang. So here are a few you will find yourselves using on a regular basis.
Bootneck. A Royal Marine.
Gash. Rubbish.
Gash hand. A Mne who has no specific job, as in a General Duties Marine with no Trade.
Gash Bin. A place to deposit gash.
Threaders. Pissed off.
Harry Threaders. Really pissed off!
Dripping. A favourite Bootneck Passtime. Moaning about life and it's meaning.
Drip Sess. A chance for a mass drip from everyone.
Goffer. To A. Hit someone, B. a large wave, C. a soft drink.
Goffer Waller. A person selling Soft Drinks.
Chins. The chin is flicked by the fingers of one hand, meaning hard luck, suffer, I don't care!
My Heart Pumps Purple Piss! I don't care about your problems.
Gronk. An ugly female.
Trapping. Trying to pull a female member of the human race.
Gronk Trapping. A competion to see who can trap the ugliest woman.
Foo foo Dust. Talcum Powder.
Scran. Food.
Aden Sippers. Being very frugal with your drinking water as in not downing it all in one go.
Runashore. A night out on the town.
Oppo. Your mate/Runashore Oppo.
Pusser. The Navy/Marines
Proffing. Obtaining an item without paying, Getting a bit of good luck for a change.
There a loads more so I will leave other members who have served or are serving to add to the list. If you want to then go to http://www.jackspeak.com/
Rick Jolly the author was a Surgeon Commander in the Navy who served with the Corp before during and after the Falklands. Know him personally. Once he asked me to run off some headed notepaper for him when I was at Portmouth Dockyards Printshop. Agreed at once just so long as he paid! Whilst preparing his note paper for printing I noticed that amongst all the letters after his name one was CP. CP? I thought, what the hells that then?
Belled Rick, "Sir what the flying fecks CP mean?" I asked him. His reply had me in tears. "C*nt Plumber" (Rick was a Gynagologist as well as being a Naval Surgeon) so take it as read he's a belting bloke in all ways!
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No its scran - even i know that!kanedaRMC wrote:isnt it Scram not scran for food?
Sorry i notice little thing like this because im a loooserr
Also, check out http://www.onceamarinealwaysamarine.co.uk
Go to 'Royal Marines' and then to 'Jargon' - enjoy!
Also, read some of the accounts from Op Telic in there. One of them i actually remember watching on t.v on Sky News, filmed on a night vision cam. The commandos had got onto a roof on the other side of the street where they shot into a building and some gas containers exploaded.
I remember the order to open fire was: "SHOOT THE B*STERDS!!"
And that was that. Unfortunately, they hit some gas containers that they were unaware of inside the building and some of their 'oppos' suffered some burns. Looked bloody painful!
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"First with your head and then with your heart. Don't stop."
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Well i think the human rights activists will let that one just slide in a war eyChrisbrum wrote:I remember back when I was in the cadets i gave a fire control order that went something along those lines - got a right bollocking for it too!
Sometimes those idiots dont know their arseholes from their earholes - right bunch of t*ats most of the time.
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"First with your head and then with your heart. Don't stop."
"First with your head and then with your heart. Don't stop."
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Thats exactly what the Cpl said, KFS and brimmers.
Thats exactly what the Cpl said, KFS and brimmers.
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Oh dear! Never mind! He must have been a Sprogg then with know real idea about how to talk total gibberish like wot we did innit then but!digitalfreefall wrote:Artist RE: editing my post.
Thats exactly what the Cpl said, KFS and brimmers.
Fecking told you all I was OWD! But not as Owd as Chas an Owdun.......kinnell! they are that OWD they knew Hannah Snell when she was a sprogg!!!
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Don't get clever sunshine. I have a zero tolerance for smartarses who try it on. Was the same in the Corp......OK?kanedaRMC wrote:Okay...lol power trip mate?Artist wrote:Nay Wucking Forries. Sorted.kanedaRMC wrote:where did i use text speak? :S apart from "tld" which is a spelling typo error sorry
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Im not sure if anyone else has picked up on this but arent alot of the marine slangs just working class speak? I certainly know of and have always spoken many of the marine words like: Scran,ace,bite,bimble,crack,mankey,sprog,wrap.....
Are these possibly derived from certain working class areas and then incorporated into the marines by people who use these words joining up,or maybe its a case of royals speech rubbing off on others back home?
Are these possibly derived from certain working class areas and then incorporated into the marines by people who use these words joining up,or maybe its a case of royals speech rubbing off on others back home?
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour'
