percey99 said:This was the practise to keep the JUNIORS in line 1960s at GANGES Does anyone know when this terrible practise stopped , I was told the news of the world did an article on this and the Navy stopped this around 1968
Nutty said:percey99 said:This was the practise to keep the JUNIORS in line 1960s at GANGES Does anyone know when this terrible practise stopped , I was told the news of the world did an article on this and the Navy stopped this around 1968
Percy
May I enquire as to why you think this was a terrible practice?
Nutty
May I enquire as to why you think this was a terrible practice?
RoofRat said:May I enquire as to why you think this was a terrible practice?
I agree with Nutty. I think they should still be doing it to some of these feral thugs who roam our streets now. Prison is no punishment, and please don't get me started on rehabilitation of offenders. :evil:
Not many lads went back for a second dose of cuts.
RoofRat
Menace said:They bloody hurt I recieved six while at St Vincent, you were made to wear a pair of pussers blue shorts and the bent over the back of a chair. The Master-at- Arms then delivered them after the Commander had given him the ok. The stick used was about 4ft long and was about as thick as the buisness end of a snooker cue.
Menace said:They bloody hurt I recieved six while at St Vincent, you were made to wear a pair of pussers blue shorts and the bent over the back of a chair. The Master-at- Arms then delivered them after the Commander had given him the ok. The stick used was about 4ft long and was about as thick as the buisness end of a snooker cue.
Stav said:Same here Menace, although I can't remember the Joss or the Commander being there, just a rather "savage" RPO who did it.
I was turfed out of bed at 0200, chucked in a cell, weighed off, punished and at Collingwood by 1100, an hour after my year got there, and I didn't do it!
Draft night revenge gone wrong.