A crash course in UK versus USA

The following is the transcript of an ACTUAL radio conversation that took place in October 1995, between a US Navy ship off the coast of England, and some British authority.

The transcript was released by the MoD.

BRITS: 
Please divert your course 15 degrees to the 
South, to avoid a collision.

AMERICANS: 
Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees 
to the North, to avoid a collision.

BRITS: 
Negative. You will have to divert your course 
15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.

AMERICANS: 
This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say 
again, divert YOUR course.

BRITS: 
Negative. I say again. You will have to divert 
your course.

AMERICANS: 
THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN. 
THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED 
STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED 
BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS, AND 
NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT 
YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH. 
THAT'S 15 DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER 
MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE 
THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.

BRITS: 
We are a lighthouse. 
Fuck off and divert your course.

wasn't this proven to be an urban myth?

Originally posted by Hibster wasn't this proven to be an urban myth?

maybe it is,but its still funny!! :D

you're not wrong there.

it's funny cos it could so easily be true

hey, we dont put our smartest people in the armed forces.

Originally posted by Grigori Rasputin that's right...we stick them in this place!!!!

I did once read the same story but with Canadians in place of Brits...So I'm sure it is an urban myth.

Though perhaps its significant that while the other nationality is interchangable, the US side isn't!

very plausible

Originally posted by Grigori Rasputin what...none of my fellow Amerikaners found this one amusing???I like it!!!

I did find this quite amusing.

Originally posted by Grigori Rasputin what...none of my fellow Amerikaners found this one amusing???I like it!!!

oh, i found it very amusing!

Originally posted by ShugZV©
Just how much fun are we gonna have in American Donnie Boy?:D

You have no idea!

Ya gotta love those pommie bastards.

Operation British Freedom is coming...oh hell yeah, Tony Blair's harboring weapons of mass destruction (Elton John's song catalogue), and the current regime is in need of a change....of regimes

GO USA! GO USA! SCREW THE BRITS, WE'RE COMING AND WE AIN'T GOING! :violent2:

That joke is unpatriotic, you all should be ashamed

:D

Originally posted by ShugZV©
Just how much fun are we gonna have in American Donnie Boy?:D

Oh dear.........:(

it's very funny

Originally posted by Taboo # 7 Operation British Freedom is coming...oh hell yeah, Tony Blair's harboring weapons of mass destruction (Elton John's song catalogue), and the current regime is in need of a change....of regimesGO USA! GO USA! SCREW THE BRITS, WE'RE COMING AND WE AIN'T GOING! :violent2:That joke is unpatriotic, you all should be ashamed :D

Are you sure it's just Elton John's song catalogue? I thought the UK came out with the most destructive weapon in 1997? Called the Spice Girls' debut album, I think.

Unlike in the UK or USA, here in Australia (I'm kiwi but i live here, and there are thirty thousand of us moving here every year, we are going to take over australia, trust me, i was the first of many) we had no updates on australian SAS troops in Iraq because our defence force "does not report on military actions" which is a complete load of shite. At least no Aussies were killed (except a journalist in Kurdish Iraq).

Unlike in the UK or USA, here in Australia (I'm kiwi but i live here, and there are thirty thousand of us moving here every year, we are going to take over australia, trust me, i was the first of many) we had no updates on australian SAS troops in Iraq because our defence force "does not report on military actions" which is a complete load of shite. At least no Aussies were killed (except a journalist in Kurdish Iraq).

Didn't i post this some time ago ??? (see if u can find it Ricardo - Mikey McDermott replied :) )

probably, there have been a number of repeated threads recently - x men2 & memento have been discussed on at least two threads each...

Originally posted by Martin Davies Unlike in the UK or USA, here in Australia (I'm kiwi but i live here, and there are thirty thousand of us moving here every year, we are going to take over australia, trust me, i was the first of many) we had no updates on australian SAS troops in Iraq because our defence force "does not report on military actions" which is a complete load of shite. At least no Aussies were killed (except a journalist in Kurdish Iraq).

martin - is your avatar a cry for 'elp?