F252 = Fizzer. Why?

[TheHogwartsBEngO]

Why is a charge sheet called a fizzer?

answers on a postcard please....

one for Balderdash and Piffle perhaps?

 

[Almost_done]

A guess

A guess

plink, plink = clink = fizz?

 

[TheHogwartsBEngO]

plink, plink = clink = fizz?

is that a reference to Alka Selza? I have found diaries relating to WWI that refer to a charge sheet as a fizzer - I think (but cant be certain) the term fizzer pre-dates Alka Selza.

Have you any evidence?

 

[Stax]

Believe it may be because when you went in front of the "old man" you got "a rocket up your ar5e" (as in fuse fizzing) Might be wrong, who knows?

 

[rest have risen above me]

Sorry to open an old thread again but was asked this question by one of the younger members of the airforce and struggled to answer it ...help?

 

[FOMz]

Because you can't say 'do that again and I'll charge you', You have to just charge the;, so you get round it by saying I'll have you on a fizzer, it means fcuk all but everyone knows what it means!

A nice little warning.

 

[he_who_dares_rodney]

I was always led to believe it was to do with the old style comedy fizzing bomb

Charge = Explosives = trail of fizzing gunpowder / fuse

Regarde mon braves

 

[rest have risen above me]

I like that one HWDR
DT_Xtremez_26:

 

[Jack Jarvis]

I always thought it was because F252 looks a bit like FZZZ... so "yer on a fizzer" equates to being charged.

 

[Rikster]

I was always led to believe it was to do with the old style comedy fizzing bomb

Charge = Explosives = trail of fizzing gunpowder / fuse

Regarde mon braves

I agree. I thought it was obvious..............a charge being explosives.........fizzer..........not a mystery, unless I have been thinking wrong for years........don't answer that!

 

[Norman the Storeman]

I always thought it was because F252 looks a bit like FZZZ... so "yer on a fizzer" equates to being charged.

I was told this was the reason too. Because in Stax's days there were no pre-printed forms, you had to fill them in by hand, form number too. Hence someone with scruffy writing would write F252 & it would look like FZZZ.

 

[gemarriott]

I was told this was the reason too. Because in Stax's days there were no pre-printed forms, you had to fill them in by hand, form number too. Hence someone with scruffy writing would write F252 & it would look like FZZZ.

to some moron with a txt spk mentality that might make some sense but to anyone with a modicum of intelligence it seems like bolloxDT_Xtremez_42:

fight club anyone?

 

[Rikster]

to some moron with a txt spk mentality that might make some sense but to anyone with a modicum of intelligence it seems like bolloxDT_Xtremez_42:

fight club anyone?

Here here, in the "old" days people could write properly anyway.

 

[rest have risen above me]

to some moron with a txt spk mentality that might make some sense but to anyone with a modicum of intelligence it seems like bolloxDT_Xtremez_42:

fight club anyone?

It may be true as only thick trades ever used them clever trades like TG1+2 used RAF form back of the hangar....lol

In fact wasn't there a special charge for clever people "Tech Charge"?

PS .....before this lowers to the depths thankyou for your answers.

 

[Ex-Bay]

I was always led to believe it was to do with the old style comedy fizzing bomb

Charge = Explosives = trail of fizzing gunpowder / fuse

Regarde mon braves

mes braves ??

 

[superstacker]

I thought it had something to do with enforced PT being a punishment?

Physical training, IE being rushed around doing gash jobs, Bad Lads army springs to mind...

 

[morse1001]

I was told this was the reason too. Because in Stax's days there were no pre-printed forms, you had to fill them in by hand, form number too. Hence someone with scruffy writing would write F252 & it would look like FZZZ.

The expression "Fizzer" is an old army saying carried over from the RFC. it refers to a old fashion grenade, which had a long fuse.

We used to refer to a rocket as a charge!