They are fluent in English,and would listen in to the conversations of using the wire and pulling the fuses,and be waiting down the road for the coffee money payment.This was in the 90`s.
toby1234abc:
They are fluent in English,and would listen in to the conversations of using the wire and pulling the fuses,and be waiting down the road for the coffee money payment.This was in the 90`s.
Nurse, Nurse!!!
toby1234abc:
They are fluent in English
Really?
I’ve never yet found a fluent English speaking Gendarme. 
wyatt_erp:
I’ve never yet found a fluent English speaking Gendarme.
This is so French. If you try to speak with them in English, they will speak to you in French to remind you in which country you are. But if you start with French, you “passed their test”, and then they switch to English because (at least in my case) their English is usually much better than my French 
The last one I met spoke fluent Polish, as the ignorant driver soon found out to his cost when he called him a stupid French bast… (in Polish)
GBPub:
The last one I met spoke fluent Polish, as the ignorant driver soon found out to his cost when he called him a stupid French bast… (in Polish)
Haha 
I’ve been trough that many times, still lot of people in UK thinks that since I am Polish, I can’t speak English. I really love their faces when I answer to what they say
toby1234abc:
They are fluent in English,and would listen in to the conversations of using the wire and pulling the fuses,and be waiting down the road for the coffee money payment.This was in the 90`s.
Except that English CBs run on FM frequency and French ones run on AM frequency, sorry Tobes, but that is a load of bollox 
newmercman:
toby1234abc:
They are fluent in English,and would listen in to the conversations of using the wire and pulling the fuses,and be waiting down the road for the coffee money payment.This was in the 90`s.Except that English CBs run on FM frequency and French ones run on AM frequency, sorry Tobes, but that is a load of bollox
AFAIK the modern ones run on the same vawe, just channels are allocated differently. But it’s not a problem to buy one that can talk on both European and British channels, in fact I used one in the past.
Was it the infamous pinnochio riding side saddle with his son 
I’ve even got a CB that’ll do every CB channel there is.
It’s got FM, AM, Upper Side Band, Lower Side Band and is tuneable to any frequency within its very wide range.
Simon:
I’ve even got a CB that’ll do every CB channel there is.
It’s got FM, AM, Upper Side Band, Lower Side Band and is tuneable to any frequency within its very wide range.
Ooh keep that one under your hat, there will be even more MMTM stories coming out.
I must have talked to dozens of blokes from the UK while they were sat on top of Mont Blanc in the 80’s
They all had 17’ firesticks or twin truckers and a million watt burner
Simon:
I’ve even got a CB that’ll do every CB channel there is.
It’s got FM, AM, Upper Side Band, Lower Side Band and is tuneable to any frequency within its very wide range.
Same here, very useful if ya speak a da lingo
newmercman:
toby1234abc:
They are fluent in English,and would listen in to the conversations of using the wire and pulling the fuses,and be waiting down the road for the coffee money payment.This was in the 90`s.Except that English CBs run on FM frequency and French ones run on AM frequency, sorry Tobes, but that is a load of bollox
mostly all on FM now NMM just different frequency allocations
I used to use a CB, but all mine ever seemed to pick up was bull ■■■ all the time so I gave up on it, back in the day there used to be a few people who could talk sense on the thing, but those days are long gone now, if the condoms are daft enough to believe anything they happen to over hear then more fool them, because they will be a bit disapointed when they pull over that SAS man who has just one hit it from Newcastle to Milan and is on his way back up only to find he is the wrong side of 18 stone with a belly the size of a pregnant hippo and the longest shift he has done in the months worth of records he is carrying is the one from Calais to Macon!!!
I got a cb from Bristol truck stop,that could pick up anything,i once heard a converstation between two American truck drivers,while i was in Lisbon,Portugal,i was told it was possible due to bouncing off the clouds,or some technical word for it.
The American truckers were from the deep south of the Usa,judging from their accents.
newmercman:
toby1234abc:
They are fluent in English,and would listen in to the conversations of using the wire and pulling the fuses,and be waiting down the road for the coffee money payment.This was in the 90`s.Except that English CBs run on FM frequency and French ones run on AM frequency, sorry Tobes, but that is a load of bollox
im glad you said it mark
toby1234abc:
This was in the 90`s.
You’re improving Toby, you’re only 20 years behind the times now.
Stan
keith the thief:
newmercman:
toby1234abc:
They are fluent in English,and would listen in to the conversations of using the wire and pulling the fuses,and be waiting down the road for the coffee money payment.This was in the 90`s.Except that English CBs run on FM frequency and French ones run on AM frequency, sorry Tobes, but that is a load of bollox
im glad you said it mark
although CB in the UK is supposed to be FM. most use AM. it’s the way it has always been.
what makes me laugh, is some of the drivers on the ferry say things like “i only switch it on if i see one of my mates, no point having it on, there’s no one on it nowadays”.
if everyone does that, then there will be even less people using the on it.
limeyphil:
although CB in the UK is supposed to be FM. most use AM. it’s the way it has always been.
what makes me laugh, is some of the drivers on the ferry say things like “i only switch it on if i see one of my mates, no point having it on, there’s no one on it nowadays”.
if everyone does that, then there will be even less people using the on it.
I agree phil, whats the point of the thing if its switched off 
I suppose having a CB in, is justification for the decorative twin-trucker twigs 
The other one you hear a lot is, “I only switch it on when I reach a tailback, to find out what’s happening”.
Here’s some news [zb]-fer-brains. If it had been switched on earlier, you could well have avoided the tailback all together, because you’d have heard other breakers warning you several miles down the road. Or at least have heard the breakers sitting in the jam moaning about it and nipped off at the last junction before it.