How to adjust to civvie street! Robbed from another forum I use but very funny! Things to consider whilst adjusting to Civvy street: 1. Speech: •Time should never begin with a zero or end in a hundred; it is not 0530 or 1400. It is 5:30am or 2 in the afternoon. •Words like "pit", and "PT" will get you weird looks; use bed, workout, get used to it. •"F**k" cannot be used to replace whatever word you can't think of right now. Try "um" instead and never use the words civpop or "Eclairs" to describe a group of people. •It's a phone, not a radio, conversations on a phone do not end in "Roger That" or "Out" 2. Style: •Do not put creases in your jeans. •Do not put creases on the front of your dress shirts. •Do not refer to your suits numerically; your best jacket and trousers are not your number 1's 3. Women: •Being divorced twice by the time you are 23 is not normal. Neither are 6 month marriages, even if it is your first. •Marrying a girl so that you can move out of the barracks does not make "financial sense". It makes you a retard. Personal accomplishments: •In the real world, being able to do lots of press-ups will not lead to automatic promotion or help your career in any way. •Most people will be slightly disturbed by you if you tell them about people you have killed or seen die. •How much pain you can take is not a personal accomplishment. 4. Drinking: •NATO is an organisation, not the way you want your tea made •In the real world, being drunk before 5pm will get you a written warning (or sacked), not a pat on the back from your boss. •Shouting "Naked Bar" at your works Christmas party will have no effect, and probably go down like a lead ballon. •That time you drank a bottle of Absinth and shat in your pals suitcase is not a conversation starter. •That time you went to the combat medics course and practiced giving vodka iv's will probably not impress a civilian. 5. Bodily functions: •Farting on your co-workers and then laughing hysterically while you walk away may be viewed as "unprofessional". •The size of the dump you took yesterday will not be funny regardless of how big it was, how much it burned, how much it smelled..... or how clear the photo is. •You can't make fun of someone for their disability, no matter how funny the ailment is. •VD will also not be funny. 6. The human body: •Most people will not want to hear about or see your balls. Odd as that may seem, it's true. •If your a**e is sore, don’t ask your colleague on the next desk if he can see what’s wrong with your chocolate starfish or ask if your teeth are clean. 7. Spending habits: •One day, you will have to pay for the things that keep you alive; heat, light, shelter, food, doctor, etc, etc •Buying a £30,000 car on a £16,000 a year salary is a really, really stupid idea. Millionaires weekend will not happen on a minimum wage. •Spending money on video games instead of on nappies makes you a tw@t. 8. Interacting with civilians: •Making fun of your neighbour to his face for being fat waster and sticking your nob in his ear will not make you popular in the neighbourhood. 9. Real jobs: •They really can fire you. On the flip side you really can quit. •Screaming at the people that work for you will not be normal. Remember they really can quit too. You can't tell your secretary to "follow it down" if she drops her pen. And taking naps at work will not be acceptable. •Sport is no longer part of your working week. Wednesday afternoons are for work, just like every other afternoon 10. The Law: •Your civvy boss, unlike your C/O, can't save you and probably won't. In fact most likely you will be fired about 5 minutes after he finds out you've been arrested. •Even McDonalds do background checks, and "conviction" isn't going to help you get the job •Fighting is not a normal thing and will get you really arrested and/or fired, not yelled at Monday on morning before being asked if you won. 11. General knowledge: •Pain is not weakness leaving the body. It's just pain. •They won't wear anything shiny that tells you they are more important then you are. Be polite. •You no longer have to go to the POL point; just go to the BP garage like everyone else
kin love it .........i refuse to follow it tho!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im an ex green jacket ..........it just wont work , do as your told or i'll fist you all over the yard still works ....even on cbt's
Looks like I'm fucked when I try and join the strawberry world.......I mean civvypop (Have a f%$ing word!) Dread trying to find a proper job..........at least I will see the sun even if it is cloudy, snowing and raining ohhhhh and this fresh air marlarky is nice!!
Hillarious. Funnily enough only yesterday me and a mucka had out hands in a lit toaster trying to find out who was hardest. (see pain..)
