Americans help translate: FUBAR

What does FUBAR stand for? What does it mean?

They use the word in Saving private Ryan and in Full Metal Jacket.

TELL ME WHAT IT MEANS OR I'LL GO CRAZY!!!!

[gchappel]

Slang is wonderful!
FUBAR = Fu#&ed up beyond all recognition.
Just came back from Scotland, couldn't understand the slang there either
Gary

THANK YOU!!!!


Man it annoyed me not to know what it meant.

[azasadny]

BTW, BOHICA stands for "bend over, here it comes again", which is another popular military acronym...

[fintstone]

By the way..What did you think of Private Ryan? War is hell, is it not?

[azasadny]

As we used to say in Desert Storm, "this isn't hell, but you can see it from here and feel the flames". Overall, a pretty horrible experience! My grandfather fought in WWII and told my "Private Ryan" was a very accurate portrayal of that war, so I watched it and we talked about our "war experiences" for the first time in our lives. A great way to share experiences and learn more about each other. My grandfather is a wonderful man and we won't have him with us too much longer, so we spend alot of time together.

[350HP930]

Lets not forget SNAFU.

[MBAtarga]

There's also "F ****D Up Beyond Any Repair"

[azasadny]

How about "SAWAG" (scientifically assisted wild a** guess)?

[nostatic]

and SOP - standard operating procedure

[speeder]

And DINKWAD. "Dual income/no kids/with a dog.

I always thought that FUBAR was "beyond all repair' , but same meaning anyways. I thought that "Saving Private Ryan" was brilliant, (particularly Tom Hanks' performance), and I also read and heard first hand that the Normandy invasion scene was very true to reality. Of course it was choreographed by people who were actually there. And it wouldn't matter how long ago it happened, that is not the kind of thing that anyone forgets.

God bless those vets who saved the world and built most of the world as we know it. Happy Memorial Day!

[cstreit]

...another one you'll hear that is also military spawned is SNAFU.

"Situation Normal, All F$%#d Up"

[Eric Coffey]

Will all you JAFO's STFU

[Drago]

Originally posted by Eric Coffey
Will all you JAFO's STFU

Give it up Eric!

[Eric Coffey]

JAFO = "Just Another F**king Observer

[Don 944 LA]

Yeah, I always liked BOHICA..

I made up one when I was in the Navy and had it on the underside of my ships baseball cap .. GTFO .. Get The F*** Out..
Came in handy during those " Re-enlistment questions".

to this day I use FUBAR all the time
( FUBA Repair )

we used to " Float Test " things too.
something didn't work anymore and it was FUBAR, then we would float test it ( throw over the side of the ship ) so that we could get a new one.

[Icemaster]

Originally posted by azasadny
How about "SAWAG" (scientifically assisted wild a** guess)?

Always shortened that to "SWAG" - leave out assisted and change to scientific.

When we establish timelines for rollout or deployment projects, we always add in the PITA factor - "Pain in the a$$"

Finance and accounting guys do the same thing when figuring the budget. Sometimes that's all we can agree on.

[djmcmath]

Scientific, my arse. Sh---. There's nothing scientific about most of those guesses.

I always liked IHTFP -- I Hate This ****** Place, originally. Of course, senior-types disapproved of this expression, so we started saying "I have truly found paradise," or "I hope there's a ****** parade," or "I have to ****** pee."

The other one I really liked was SLJO -- you see, there's on Junior Officer on the boat who's more junior than all the other junior officers. Any spiffy little job that needs to happen ("Hey, I need a volunteer to sort, index, and file this 1000lb cabinet full of paper!") gets delegated down to the SLJO, one way or another. Unfortunately, you can't put "Special Little Jobs Officer" on your evals, though you can usually use the toilet paper that's given to commemorate your inauguration in the billet.

Ah, the good ol' days....


Dan

[Don 944 LA]

Originally posted by djmcmath
Scientific, my arse. Sh---. There's nothing scientific about most of those guesses.

I always liked IHTFP -- I Hate This ****** Place, originally. Of course, senior-types disapproved of this expression, so we started saying "I have truly found paradise," or "I hope there's a ****** parade," or "I have to ****** pee."

The other one I really liked was SLJO -- you see, there's on Junior Officer on the boat who's more junior than all the other junior officers. Any spiffy little job that needs to happen ("Hey, I need a volunteer to sort, index, and file this 1000lb cabinet full of paper!") gets delegated down to the SLJO, one way or another. Unfortunately, you can't put "Special Little Jobs Officer" on your evals, though you can usually use the toilet paper that's given to commemorate your inauguration in the billet.

Ah, the good ol' days....


Dan

We just called em Bull Ensigns

Originally posted by fintstone
By the way..What did you think of Private Ryan? War is hell, is it not?

I think it's one of the best movies I've ever seen. The scene at Omaha Beach is the best part of the movie. It shows how war is like. It makes all the little insignificant problems of our everyday life seem so unimportant.

The scene is so well made with so many small details standing out in an overall chaos. I can only imagine how I would feel and react if I was in a situation like that.

Yes war is hell.