Mildly amusing thread disruption.........from people who know it all but know fk all.
A few years ago I worked for the MoD. Part of the job involved attending NATO meetings attended by various representatives from each member country's equivalent of the Royal Navy. During less frosty times in our relationship with Russia, representatives from their navy also sometimes attended. At one such meeting I was sitting next to a very grizzly and battle hardened Russian submarine captain whose grasp of English wasn't brilliant. The meetings were generally conducted in English without any translators. The general mood was pretty chummy and there was a fair bit of laughing and general pi55 take amongst the 20 or so other submarine captains around a huge conference table. As things progressed, the Russian was clearly getting more and more agitated thinking everyone was taking the pi55 out of him and having jokes at his expense which they thought he wouldn't understand.
Eventually he hit boiling point, stood up, banged both his fists on the table and shouted at the top of his voice...
"YOU GUYS THINK I KNOW FCUK NOTHING........ (pause for dramatic effect) .........BUT I KNOW FCUK ALL"
After about 5 seconds of stunned silence, the entire room erupted into laughter which went on for about 5 minutes. Grown men were crying everywhere. Eventually someone with pidgin Russian was able to explain to him what he had said, at which point the Cold War ended for the second time and he lightened up. Needless to say an enormous amount of vodka was then downed that night in the bar.