# Christmas is going to be rubbish, cheer me up! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 22, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-going-to-be-rubbish-cheer-me-up/644805 "2012-12-22T02:07:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Corporal\_Nobbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Corporal\_Nobbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporal_Nobbs)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-going-to-be-rubbish-cheer-me-up/644805/1 "2012-12-22T02:07:20Z")
By telling me how you will have a worse day (lighthearted thread, so you know, no death, politics, or illness) I am on a ship coming back from the Gulf, heading home to blighty. The Sun is shining, the World didnt end yesterday, however soon I will wish it had for RFA Fort Rosalie is running out of booze. The crew bar has five crates of lager. Wine and spirits are dwindling, and there is no chance of a re-supply till we get back to Britain in January. So the proud sailors of the RFA will add one more plaudit to our battle honours ‘A sober Christmas, at sea!’ Think of us… ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-going-to-be-rubbish-cheer-me-up/644805/2 "2012-12-22T02:11:43Z")
Isn’t this when some enterprising NCO is supposed to figure out how to make a still? ---
**Author:** ![Corporal\_Nobbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Corporal\_Nobbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporal_Nobbs)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-going-to-be-rubbish-cheer-me-up/644805/3 "2012-12-22T02:19:03Z")
We would have to find an enterprising NCO and something to distill first ☹ We will know the end times have come when we find ourselves staring at the bottle of gin and getting ready to drink it neat (We are out of mixers too). ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-going-to-be-rubbish-cheer-me-up/644805/4 "2012-12-22T06:55:31Z")
Grab the 'taters and “squeeze!” (Mmmm, vodka.) ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-going-to-be-rubbish-cheer-me-up/644805/5 "2012-12-22T07:46:12Z")
If you hear anyone mentioning the onion club, don’t get in the barrel. :eek:😃 ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-going-to-be-rubbish-cheer-me-up/644805/6 "2012-12-22T10:27:11Z")
Keelhaul the Supply Officer for some festive entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-going-to-be-rubbish-cheer-me-up/644805/7 "2012-12-22T12:10:17Z")
mI’m working on a boat in the gulf of Mexico where no booze is allowed whatsoever. This is the 2nd year now where I’ve been out working on the boat on Christmas day, and I’m going to miss new year’s as well. And there’s not even any work to be done so I’m really just a seat-warmer, which is kind of sad because at least if there was work to do I wouldn’t be able to be sad and lonely (preoccupied, you know). Anyhow, keep your chin up and have a good day! ---
**Author:** ![Corporal\_Nobbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Corporal\_Nobbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporal_Nobbs)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-going-to-be-rubbish-cheer-me-up/644805/8 "2012-12-22T13:11:35Z")
Dont ye mention the supply officer! I know its not too bad I’m working, but not hard etc but sweet jebus i wish there was more booze! I dread the day they make our ships dry! ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-going-to-be-rubbish-cheer-me-up/644805/9 "2012-12-22T13:41:27Z")
> [@Corporal\_Nobbs](#): > > … for RFA Fort Rosalie is running out of booze…\…I dread the day they make our ships dry! So much for naval tradition… “Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.” - Winston Churchill ---
**Author:** ![Corporal\_Nobbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Corporal\_Nobbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporal_Nobbs)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-going-to-be-rubbish-cheer-me-up/644805/10 "2012-12-22T14:05:59Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > So much for naval tradition… > > “Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.” > > - Winston Churchill Well if you are offering rum… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-going-to-be-rubbish-cheer-me-up/644805/11 "2012-12-22T14:36:39Z")
I would gladly send you a case of the stuff but your address keeps changing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-going-to-be-rubbish-cheer-me-up/644805/12 "2012-12-22T15:02:04Z")
What, you can’t ship it? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-is-going-to-be-rubbish-cheer-me-up/644805/13 "2012-12-22T21:23:09Z")
Any chance the ship could sustain a groin injury and have to pull into the nearest port long enough for somebody to slip off to the local BevMo and pick up a pallet of booze?