F*ck!

[Indiana_Jones]

I got 25 when I needed 30 for my crappy spellingtest for the navy, now they won't take me as an officer,anyways to bitch or sneak your way in? :spudwhat:

I really really want it.

-Indy

[Blakamin]

how many questions... how hard was the test?

condolences dude....

[dangerous]

Ohhh... giant crap on the christmas tree man, sorry bout that can ya try again or is there a time period that ya have to wait till you do?

[SPORK]

Spelling test... Navy... Umm, ok...

Didn't think they needed anyone to spell :spudwhat:

[Indiana_Jones]

I can't sit it again, it was my 2nd time, got everything else officer level but the f*cking spelling, it's there's 46 questions and u need 30 for officer, but u have to be a walking dictionary and thusirous in one :(

-Indy

[spudchucka]

I can't sit it again, it was my 2nd time, got everything else officer level but the f*cking spelling, it's there's 46 questions and u need 30 for officer, but u have to be a walking dictionary and thusirous in one :(

-Indy
Thesaurus.

You could always go in as a pusser and work your way up through the ranks.

[Indiana_Jones]

Thesaurus.

You could always go in as a pusser and work your way up through the ranks.

that'll take too long, ahwell i'll just keep bitching at them :angry2:

-Indy

[SpankMe]

It ain't the end of the world mate. I got turned down twice for the Navy and I thank them everyday for doing so.

[Hitcher]

What format was this spelling test? Did an examiner call out the words and you had to write them down; or was there a list of words that you had to look at, decide whether or not they were spelt properly and, if they weren't, spell them properly?

Ooh, and what were the really hard ones?

[Indiana_Jones]

What format was this spelling test? Did an examiner call out the words and you had to write them down; or was there a list of words that you had to look at, decide whether or not they were spelt properly and, if they weren't, spell them properly?

Ooh, and what were the really hard ones?

can't remember of them I'm afraid lol

but it goes like this

DOCK - HAR......
USE - EMP

etc..

-Indy

[Blakamin]

What about army or air-force (and I use the "force" bit loosely, more like air-wannabe)

[Indiana_Jones]

What about army or air-force (and I use the "force" bit loosely, more like air-wannabe)

Well i did put apply as an navigator, though i don't know how far i'll go, with my eyes in all, but we'll see. I just want to be an officer, or an interesting job, which is pretty much officers :p

-Indy

[Blakamin]

eyesight will (well, it used to be) only stop you being a pilot...
made my 4 years in ATC a piss-off for me, coz thats what I wanted to be...

[jrandom]

Well, it'd be a bad look if our Navy officers couldn't spell 'thesaurus', now, wouldn't it?

Don't sweat it, Indy. Mebbe you're just not cut out for officerhood. *Someone* has to grease the pintles, and mop up after all the strapping young mustachio'd officers in tight white trousers have finished their 'combat exercises'.

You might even *enjoy* that last part, too...

[Indiana_Jones]

Well, it'd be a bad look if our Navy officers couldn't spell 'thesaurus', now, wouldn't it?

Don't sweat it, Indy. Mebbe you're just not cut out for officerhood. *Someone* has to grease the pintles, and mop up after all the strapping young mustachio'd officers in tight white trousers have finished their 'combat exercises'.

You might even *enjoy* that last part, too...

lol, yes very funny, but seriously, I have nothing else I want to do in life really, I'm a military nut, plus I want a ghetto blaster on deck with the "top gun anthem" booming out :banana:

-Indy

[MikeL]

can't remember of them I'm afraid lol

but it goes like this

DOCK - HAR......
USE - EMP

etc..

-Indy

Looks to me more like a vocabulary test than a spelling test. Can't see why navy officers would need to be able to spell, but it's probably useful to know a few technical terms like "harbour" and "starboard" and "rum" and "....
Better stop now...

[Indiana_Jones]

Looks to me more like a vocabulary test than a spelling test. Can't see why navy officers would need to be able to spell, but it's probably useful to know a few technical terms like "harbour" and "starboard" and "rum" and "....
Better stop now...

I know, I knew most of the words, I just didn't spell them right which is an utter c*nt :angry2: I'm really fucked off

-Indy

[Yokai]

I got 25 when I needed 30 for my crappy spellingtest for the navy, now they won't take me as an officer,anyways to bitch or sneak your way in? :spudwhat:

I really really want it.

-Indy

Yeah. there is. Go in as a gunnery rating. Gunnery ratings have the highest risk factor, but they also have the highest percentages that rise through the ranks. The thing is that the majority of gunnery guys are THICK... so you stand out if you are reasonably intelligent and if you can lead them, you'll make probsuble (midshipman / probationary sub lieutenant) pretty quickly...

I know it's harsh, but unless you are diagnosed dyslexic (do you know a good language therapist) then you're kinda stuffed without being able to spell correctly.

[Indiana_Jones]

Yeah. there is. Go in as a gunnery rating. Gunnery ratings have the highest risk factor, but they also have the highest percentages that rise through the ranks. The thing is that the majority of gunnery guys are THICK... so you stand out if you are reasonably intelligent and if you can lead them, you'll make probsuble (midshipman / probationary sub lieutenant) pretty quickly...

I know it's harsh, but unless you are diagnosed dyslexic (do you know a good language therapist) then you're kinda stuffed without being able to spell correctly.

wait, if i can get diagnosed as dyslexic, then i can get in? cause i think i kinda am

-Indy

[Yokai]

wait, if i can get diagnosed as dyslexic, then i can get in? cause i think i kinda am

-Indy

If you are diagnosed as dyslexic and the problem actually WAS spelling, then this is a mitigating factor. That said, it might not make a difference. But it WILL make a big difference in other areas....

[SuperDave]

Start your own navy? :banana:

[Motu]

Bugger the Navy - become an actor,a famous one...then you can be a sailor and fight in a war without getting hurt.Plus you can have as many motorcycles as you like and get the girls...hey,maybe even get to ride a bike in movies....

[Slingshot]

What does YMCA spell?:wari:

[Biff]

I applied and was accepted for officer/air crew training with the RAF.

Two days before I was meant to be sworn in I got pi$$ed and wrote off a car I was re-building in a fit of rage (bloody girlfriend kissed my mate, lucky for him I crashed on the way to his house after finding out), and had to be cut out by the fire service.

I was charged with no tax (rego?), no insurance (mandatory in the UK), no MOT (WOF), reckless driving, drink driving and possession of an offensive weapon (a knuckle duster). Needless to say that upon reporting this to the RAF recruiting officer on the morning of my swearing in, he looked me in the eye and said, "I don't think you're the kind of young man we'd like in the RAF".

I haven't looked back.

Chin up mate. Life deals some funny cards. You'll probably look back in 10 years time and thank the lord you didn't make it in. Quite possibly maybe anyway.

Did I really just tell you all that story? Fork, my missis doesn’t even know this!! Sshhhh, let’s keep it our secret eh?!

[StoneChucker]

I applied and was accepted for officer/air crew training with the RAF.

Two days before I was meant to be sworn in I got pi$$ed and wrote off a car I was re-building in a fit of rage (bloody girlfriend kissed my mate, lucky for him I crashed on the way to his house after finding out), and had to be cut out by the fire service.

I was charged with no tax (rego?), no insurance (mandatory in the UK), no MOT (WOF), reckless driving, drink driving and possession of an offensive weapon (a knuckle duster). Needless to say that upon reporting this to the RAF recruiting officer on the morning of my swearing in, he looked me in the eye and said, "I don't think you're the kind of young man we'd like in the RAF".

I haven't looked back.

Chin up mate. Life deals some funny cards. You'll probably look back in 10 years time and thank the lord you didn't make it in. Quite possibly maybe anyway.

Did I really just tell you all that story? Fork, my missis doesn’t even know this!! Sshhhh, let’s keep it our secret eh?!

Sounds to me like you got off lucky. Had you made it to your "friends" house, I think you may have been up for slightly different charges. And, give it a break already, I said I was sorry - OK? (she WAS fit though, and I'm only human)

[Sniper]

I got 25 when I needed 30 for my crappy spellingtest for the navy, now they won't take me as an officer,anyways to bitch or sneak your way in? :spudwhat:

I really really want it.

-Indy

I know how you feel mate. I failed my spelling test for officer in the Army. The best thing to do is put it behind you and either, try again or go in as (a) seaman.

I feel for ya mate, it is a big dissapointment when you find that out, never fear that, officer training sucks anyway

[Blakamin]

I feel for ya mate, it is a big dissapointment when you find that out, never fear that, officer training sucks anyway
yeah, farqed if I'd do it... bro-in-law was RSM of officer cadets at Royal Millitary Academy in Oz a few years back... drill, drill and more drill.... :brick:

[Sniper]

yeah, farqed if I'd do it... bro-in-law was RSM of officer cadets at Royal Millitary Academy in Oz a few years back... drill, drill and more drill.... :brick:

Yea seen it done, been drilled ("not like that" :yeah: ) But buggered if I could yell all day and then sleep at night.

[jrandom]

... I could yell all day and then sleep at night.

Coz you're an officer, and you're all right!

You wave big sticks, you skip and jump
You like to press wild flowers...

[Sniper]

Coz you're an officer, and you're all right!

You wave big sticks, you skip and jump
You like to press wild flowers...


Yep, "God" as they were aptly named were ALWAYS right, even when they got your name wrong. And there was sweet FA you could do about it

Sniper :banana:

[Slipstream]

I was turned down in an ops position, in the Navy, for being pregnant.

I had completed everything, just needed to sign the dotted line

In the two weeks after doing the tests and finding out I was accepted and "could you please come in to do some paper work", I found out I was pregnant with my first daughter.......

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I didn't go to the doctor's before signing on the dotted line????


I'm glad I'm not in the Navy now tho. I've heard that woman hardly ever get to go out to sea....

[Dr Bob]

wait, if i can get diagnosed as dyslexic, then i can get in? cause i think i kinda am

-Indy

Studying cognitive pschology and learning styles led me to believe that dyslexia is not a condition. The theory goes that left brain hemisphere dominance leads to sequential and linear thought, which is closely allied with western phonetic language. Whilst right brain hemisphere domininance is more allied with creative and holistic thought, which although good for 'messy' and spatial problems can get in the way of linear challenges like reading.

That said, the solution if you have been playing too many video games and have developed the spatial (or sometimes referred to as acoustic) reasoning, is to read more books. Read more and elevate your linear thought processes to the same level as your holistic processes and you will overall be better off. Dyslexia may be temporary ko.

[bungbung]

Yea seen it done, been drilled ("not like that" :yeah: ) But buggered .

. .
:shake:

[Biff]

Studying cognitive pschology and learning styles led me to believe that dyslexia is not a condition. The theory goes that left brain hemisphere dominance leads to sequential and linear thought, which is closely allied with western phonetic language. Whilst right brain hemisphere domininance is more allied with creative and holistic thought, which although good for 'messy' and spatial problems can get in the way of linear challenges like reading.

That said, the solution if you have been playing too many video games and have developed the spatial (or sometimes referred to as acoustic) reasoning, is to read more books. Read more and elevate your linear thought processes to the same level as your holistic processes and you will overall be better off. Dyslexia may be temporary ko.



Hmmmm - far be it for me to question a trained medical doc, if that is indeed what you are, but I can't help but think that you're dangerously generalising here. Particularly as dyslexia has been studied for decades and research clearly contradicts what you've just said.

While I agree that many a person that claims not to be able to read/write/spell correctly may simply spend/have spent too much time playing Porno Turtle Death Match on the Z Box, me thinks that your guilty of just a wee bit of over-simplification here.

[Dr Bob]

Hmmmm - far be it for me to question a trained medical doc, if that is indeed what you are, but I can't help but think that you're dangerously generalising here. Particularly as dyslexia has been studied for decades and research clearly contradicts what you've just said.

While I agree that many a person that claims not to be able to read/write/spell correctly may simply spend/have spent too much time playing Porno Turtle Death Match on the Z Box, me thinks that your guilty of just a wee bit of over-simplification here.

Not medical, but then again cognitive science is in the behavioural and social sciences not medical. And I would like to limit my description to mild cases. Sure there are medical causes, and since noone really understands how the brain works I would not like to generalise about anything (especially since I am not a positivist). However, the little that we do know (old russian experiments on mental patients (where they severed the subjects corpus collosum etc.) leads us to some understanding of difference between the two hemispheres. Since there is also a substantial amount of literature about learning styles (a great deal that is inconsistent and contradictory) I think that none of us would like to generalise about the brain. Especially as there are members of this forum that may astound the scientific community.

[Biff]

Especially as there are members of this forum that may astound the scientific community.

I am their personal manager - let's talk business.

[sAsLEX]

I'm glad I'm not in the Navy now tho. I've heard that woman hardly ever get to go out to sea....

quite untrue, they go as often as the blokes


p.s I cant spell for shite and I got in.

[Drunken Monkey]

Dude, tell 'em you're me, I aced the exams. Still, never passed final selection board, but it was probably the best thing they couldv'e done to a 16 y.o. kid like me. I think they made the right decision, although sadly it meant our family's naval tradition died with my grandad.