[Kharon]

For mine, a highlight was the decorative lady doing the sign language for all the deaf pilots out there watching; I thought it a kind, considerate gesture; until I un-muted the feed.  Then the loud, gushing laugh, grating accent and brash words intruded.  The penny dropped ; not sign language but Testiculation, which as every fool in the market place knows is the art of talking Bollocks, with your hands.

Minnie Bannister picked up that the outfit was a repeat "'ere, we've seen that one before K" she mused, in that special tone women reserve for others of their kind, "must be her estimates uniform".   I didn't respond of course; far too busy looking for the mute button.  

MTF – probably, when we have had a second shufti.  

Shufti (another way of writing it, the one usually given in dictionaries) is Arabic. In that language it means “have you seen?”. It’s a bit of military slang, picked up by British servicemen formerly based in the Middle East. The first recorded examples in print are from the Second World War, suggesting that it may have originated among soldiers in the desert campaign. However, Eric Partridge says that it actually started life with Royal Air Force stations in that area about 1925, but that it had spread to the Army by 1930. This seems probable, to judge from the extent of its use in World War Two, and the number of compounds it spawned, none of which seem to have survived the end of the War. Among them, Partridge mentions shuftiscope, which had a number of senses, one of which he defines with ponderous delicacy as “an instrument used by doctors for research in cases of dysentery"

Toot toot.