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Another excellent read. With my corporate office background I never really thought about the personal interactions on ships. This article should be mandatory reading for anyone in a supervisory position.

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“People still take the piss out of each other at work! “ . Yes, very true and sadly in decline in this day and age. My best mate (now dead) was physically enormous but such was our friendship that whenever we rang each other I’d always greet him with “ how are you fat c’nt ?”

A fine article.

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I think only Glaswegians and Australians use the C word in the same way. Basically, to mean, everyone and anyone. 😁

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Tbh, I use it very sparingly... only to that bloke who btw swore like a trooper and to whom it was a term of endearment... which as you say, probably only Ozzie’s and denizens of the British Isles would understand. In all other cases , me calling someone else a “c” is an epithet of the highest order :)

As an aside, I especially think people form strong friendships when they have experienced adversity together eg freezing one’s balls off being on picquet duty all night In foxhole with a bunch of blokes.

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100%. The kids call it 'Trauma-Bonding' these days. As if trauma is only a bad thing.

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TOFS - love it, they are so effective - talking about stuff that's happened onboard, to the guys involved, really powerful. Especially when it is not finger pointing, but is just discussuon and self analysis of what went wrong, how to do it better next time, how to protect themselves and their friends. It's a shame of course that it is so much more effective after the event, but people learn lessons and I know they deal with future tasks better because of it. Great stuff Scott.

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