A's, oh, my, god.From my experience the main offenders were in the 17-20 year old age bracket and usually had cam cream behind their ears on a Friday night at A's. Oh the shame...
Probably for the same reason a chocolate bar is called a gumpy and a hill is called a yama.So, you army types... Why is a softdrink known as a "Goffer"?
I'm quite interested in this sort of job specific slang. When i was an apprentice on the railways we had a couple of terms of our own:Probably for the same reason a chocolate bar is called a gumpy and a hill is called a yama.
In all seriousness, there may be some truth in that......and a hootchie the people making these names must have been on acid.
A lot of those terms are directly from British Millitary slang, which is no problem as far as I'm concerened seeing as thats where most of our military history is from!Johnny if you want to urn your memory around the block until its dead...http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Australian_military_slang
Persons On Garrison Operations.
Basically, it was a term coined for people in the army who never really leave the base when on operations. Then it became people who aren't in combat roles. IT has since developed into a term for any type of soldier not in an infantry unit. Now it has become anyone who is or was never a paratrooper. But as far as I'm concerned, it's a fitting label for anyone who was never an assault pioneer in an airbourne unit..., no, wait, it means anyone who is not me.
Haha, highlighted just for you, Johnny. Got to love the pogs.I don't know if I invented this phrase or heard it and claimed it as my own; "There is a fine line between a hard c*nt and a dumb c*nt".
Currently serving with the workshop of a cavalry combat team in the middle of Iraq.Sorry, it's actually POGO as it stands for Persons On Garrison Operations.
ya pogo!