Ouch!

[Skweeky]

Do they still do that?

And that thing you pass under the boat when you pass the equator? Do they still do that too?

[Proper Bo]

[Biggles]

Do they still do that?

And that thing you pass under the boat when you pass the equator? Do they still do that too?

The Neptune thing is still hot to trot but keel hauling is considered a bit strict by modern standards.

[Skweeky]

What happens these days if there's a mutiny for some reason?
You should know, having worked for the Navy and that

[Biggles]

What happens these days if there's a mutiny for some reason?
You should know, having worked for the Navy and that

They would stll take a dim view of it but I think it would just be jail followed by a dis-honourable discharge.

I believe they never actually revoked the flogging rules but they don't do that anymore either (well only for fun by all accounts ) I am sure I read somewhere that hanging is still on the statutes for eating one of the Queen's swans.

[Skweeky]

There's also something about being allowed to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow un a Monday night somewhere in England

[Biggles]

There's also something about being allowed to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow un a Monday night somewhere in England

It was generally considered the only night they would be sober enough to have a crack at it.

[Skweeky]

And any sturdy Scotsman could withstand one of them gay English arrows anyway

[thewizeard]

Ouch!

From now on I'm staying right here with yous lot. It's safer

It's not, you know

No one goes swimming in the seas above the Scottish border, thats why we allowed Hadrian to build his wall ...the seas at those latitudes are just too b***** cold..

[JPaul]

I recall taking the ex Mrs Biggles up the Orkney

Congratulations auld fella, I knew you had it in you. Or her, as the case may be.