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Glad to brighten up someone's dayLove your post, nearly drowned in my tea laughing!
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I think there a great idea. I'm buying a set as a Joke stocking filler for my daughter.Glad to brighten up someone's day
I think there a great idea. I'm buying a set as a Joke stocking filler for my daughter.
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Ah them were the days Jim ladYou'll have us in a tin tub by the fire next
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I refer you back to the Monty Python sketchI remember it well, I was lucky, three other kids bathed in my water
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Yup, we've 'discovered' baby wipes too. Forget the tin tub in front of the fireno need for all that palaver Jim
a couple of baby wipes is so much easier.. and uses no water (so I have read)
When I was in the RN (many moons ago) we used to call your lot 'Pongoes", as in wherever the Army goes the pong goes. Having said that I had to visit a GP once and she told me that I had dry skin and how often did I shower. When I told her she said three times a week was enough. Hmm!Whilst serving in Northern Ireland, we only had the opportunity to shower once every five weeks. The consensus was that, (in South Armagh), lives were saved because we smelt like sheep. The pong of fresh soap and clean bodies travels a long way with the breeze.
On saying that, nothing more refreshing then a nice shower at the start, or end even, of a warm day. But, as TB rightly says, washing the body's natural oils away too often is a mistake.
Funny, we used to call you lot 'barrel boys'. That's because a 'shower' of other sailors always found your bung-hole........When I was in the RN (many moons ago) we used to call your lot 'Pongoes", as in wherever the Army goes the pong goes. Having said that I had to visit a GP once and she told me that I had dry skin and how often did I shower. When I told her she said three times a week was enough. Hmm!
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Ah, those were the days!Funny, we used to call you lot 'barrel boys'. That's because a 'shower' of other sailors always found your bung-hole........
They certainly were, vicar.Ah, those were the days!
Would it make a difference? ?I'm not sure if I should share this but here goes. We do shower regularly but decided to take two flannels in the van for the occasions when the water is low and we can't risk a shower. I bought two nice ones but realised too late that it was a mistake to get them the same colour as one was for face and the other one was for the 'other end'. The occasion finally came when we were running low on water and wanted a good wash (or a 'personal wash' as Ruth Jones so eloquently called it in Gavin and Stacey). Shirl pointed out that we wouldn't know which was which so I painstakingly embroidered the letter F on one of them. Fast forward several months to the next time water was a bit low and out came the aforesaid flannels. That's when we couldn't remember whether F stood for Face of Fanny.
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When I was in the RN (many moons ago) we used to call your lot 'Pongoes", as in wherever the Army goes the pong goes. Having said that I had to visit a GP once and she told me that I had dry skin and how often did I shower. When I told her she said three times a week was enough. Hmm!
Funny, we used to call you lot 'barrel boys'. That's because a 'shower' of other sailors always found your bung-hole........
Ah, those were the days!
They certainly were, vicar.
Oi!Brother was 24 years Navy. Me I'm 29 years army and going strong
I used to say join the Army, feel a man....join the Navy, feel a new man every day
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The inventors of 'the submariners dhoby'...lots of foo foo, usually Johnson & Johnsons talc. Occasionally did it on minesweepers. No excuse in a MH now though, although the baby wipes can do a half decent job!I remember when I joined the RN, I had up to then just taken the weekly bath, they quickly taught me to reverse the procedure and to bathe/shower 6 days a week and on the 7th just a flannel wash, to let the skin recover(?).
I also remember on board a diesel/electric submarine, playing wargames, where the whole crew went 8 weeks without washing, let alone showering. When we surfaced to fully recharge the batteries, we were allowed into the conning tower in groups to have a cigarette, on re-entering the 'Boat' the smell was so bad that everyone of us vomited into the bucket that had been placed at the bottom of the ladder.
This as you can imagine this really improved the 'atmosphere'.