In article <qfydna4ntdz_OP__nZ2dnUU7-UfNnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>,
Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid.?> on Fri, 22 Apr 2022 at
13:53:42 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>Richard Robinson wrote:
>
>> Tuck 'em inside a pair of british army N.I. issue boots, with the extra
>> height, lace 'em up right, and you could go down to your knees in
>> squishy ground for a good few seconds and still come up with dry feet.
>>
>> I miss the army & navy shops. Where's a chap supposed to buy a decent
>> army and navy these days, eh ?
>
>like everything else, online?
>
><https://army-shop.co.uk/product/northern-ireland-patrol-boots-dms>
>
>I guess not many squadies wear size 6?

Cadets kit?

Lady squadies?
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Tease'n'Seize said:
> Richard Robinson wrote:
>
>> Tuck 'em inside a pair of british army N.I. issue boots, with the extra
>> height, lace 'em up right, and you could go down to your knees in
>> squishy ground for a good few seconds and still come up with dry feet.
>>
>> I miss the army & navy shops. Where's a chap supposed to buy a decent
>> army and navy these days, eh ?
>
> like everything else, online?
>
><https://army-shop.co.uk/product/northern-ireland-patrol-boots-dms>

The ones I had were Basic Boots with extra stuff stitched on above,
looked like an afterthought.

> I guess not many squadies wear size 6?

Or 8 ?

I have a friend who proudly sports a photo of her uniformed daughter
being awarded an MBE for Services To Gender Awareness Within The Armed
Forces, if that helps ? (I think that was the phrase, couldn't swear
that Qvirefvgl wasn't involved as well). [chorus: "It will be, Oscar, it
will be"]

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"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

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Richard Robinson wrote:

> Tease'n'Seize said:
>
>> I guess not many squadies wear size 6?
>
> Or 8 ?

"no stock"

The only military clothing I ever had was an RAF great coat, v. long and with a
brass buckle that must have weighed 'alf a pound, it certainly clanged into
lampposts heavily a time or two, thankfully it avoided doing the same to parked cars

On 22-Apr-22 14:17, Richard Robinson wrote:

> an MBE for Services To Gender Awareness Within The Armed
> Forces,

I suppose having an imposing bosom might raise awareness, but I'm sure
that wasn't the reason for this particular award.

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Sam Plusnet

Sam Plusnet said:
> On 22-Apr-22 14:17, Richard Robinson wrote:
>
>> an MBE for Services To Gender Awareness Within The Armed
>> Forces,
>
> I suppose having an imposing bosom might raise awareness, but I'm sure
> that wasn't the reason for this particular award.

Are you volunteering as an example of what not to do ?

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

Richard Robinson said:
> Sam Plusnet said:
>> On 22-Apr-22 14:17, Richard Robinson wrote:
>>
>>> an MBE for Services To Gender Awareness Within The Armed
>>> Forces,
>>
>> I suppose having an imposing bosom might raise awareness, but I'm sure
>> that wasn't the reason for this particular award.
>
> Are you volunteering as an example of what not to do ?

A bit abrupt, maybe. But, yes, to respond to the issue with "body parts!"
would probably be seen as to-be-discouraged.

(And, let's not go making assumptions. Maybe it's more important not
to giggle at their willies, who knows ?)

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

On 21/04/2022 09:48, Peter wrote:
> RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote in
> news:t3pud7$hdm$1@dont-email.me:
>
>> I useter do fancy things in my yoof: In Romford Market I once ohled a
>> longth of rather handsome heavy silk curting material and took it to
>> Burton's along with a nantique weskit, the cut of which I liked, and
>> had something similar but biggerer tailored, but with the difference
>> that holes were left where the buttons should - would be, so I could
>> hfr a set of very handsome grey slightly concave nacre ones with a
>> faux gold crossed threading in the miggle, the stems of which had a
>> nole at the end and were secured with an ickle clip behind the
>> material.
>
> SWMBO made a weskit out of similar material for a brother-in-law some years
> ago, though in that case she cut the fabric into diamonds then stitched the
> diamonds together - gave a sort of cut-glass effect. When various nephews
> saw it they wanted likewise. Kept her happy and occupied for quite a while,
> and the weskits still appear at family gatherings a decade or so later.

Birmingham Rag Market used to have a stall which sold cloth with cartoon
designs (Bugs Bunny, Pink Panther, etc), and SWMBO 2 made me a number of
shirts out of it.

Then, when I moved in with SWMBO 3, SWMBO 2 cut all the shirts up, which
was a shame.

On 22-Apr-22 20:13, Richard Robinson wrote:
> Sam Plusnet said:
>> On 22-Apr-22 14:17, Richard Robinson wrote:
>>
>>> an MBE for Services To Gender Awareness Within The Armed
>>> Forces,
>>
>> I suppose having an imposing bosom might raise awareness, but I'm sure
>> that wasn't the reason for this particular award.
>
> Are you volunteering as an example of what not to do ?

An imposing bosom usually makes me aware of the owner's gender.
I can't see why it shouldn't work amongst our fighting men and women.

--
Sam Plusnet

In article <ECY8K.2436$JaS8.638@fx47.iad>, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com>
on Sat, 23 Apr 2022 at 20:40:20 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
wrote
>On 22-Apr-22 20:13, Richard Robinson wrote:
>> Sam Plusnet said:
>>> On 22-Apr-22 14:17, Richard Robinson wrote:
>>>
>>>> an MBE for Services To Gender Awareness Within The Armed
>>>> Forces,
>>>
>>> I suppose having an imposing bosom might raise awareness, but I'm sure
>>> that wasn't the reason for this particular award.
>>
>> Are you volunteering as an example of what not to do ?
>
>An imposing bosom usually makes me aware of the owner's gender.
>I can't see why it shouldn't work amongst our fighting men and women.
>
Somewhere or other I have seen a picture of jug ears talking to an
officer in the military. She has a big smile on her face and jug ears
hand looks as it is just about to hold a handfull.
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On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 08:17:11 -0500
Richard Robinson <richardR@privacy.net> wrote:

> I have a friend who proudly sports a photo of her uniformed daughter
> being awarded an MBE for Services To Gender Awareness Within The Armed
> Forces, if that helps ?

Somewhere along the line I must have become confused. I gooved that
the aim was that gender (along with age, race, religion, and a bunch of
other things) was something that was supposed to be ignored (except where
it really matters) and therefore something that most of the time people
shouldn't make efforts to be aware of it but rather make efforts to ignore
it.

--
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Ahem A Rivet's Shot said:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 08:17:11 -0500
> Richard Robinson <richardR@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>> I have a friend who proudly sports a photo of her uniformed daughter
>> being awarded an MBE for Services To Gender Awareness Within The Armed
>> Forces, if that helps ?
>
> Somewhere along the line I must have become confused. I gooved that
> the aim was that gender (along with age, race, religion, and a bunch of
> other things) was something that was supposed to be ignored (except where
> it really matters) and therefore something that most of the time people
> shouldn't make efforts to be aware of it but rather make efforts to ignore
> it.

I'm not orvat cnvq to explain it ...

But, womens' right to bear arms on behalf of the UK is a fairly new
concept, in termms of the history of armies. You'd expect the need for
a certain amount of explicit rethinking ?

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 05:25:25 -0500
Richard Robinson <richardR@privacy.net> wrote:

> Ahem A Rivet's Shot said:
> > On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 08:17:11 -0500
> > Richard Robinson <richardR@privacy.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I have a friend who proudly sports a photo of her uniformed daughter
> >> being awarded an MBE for Services To Gender Awareness Within The Armed
> >> Forces, if that helps ?
> >
> > Somewhere along the line I must have become confused. I gooved
> > that the aim was that gender (along with age, race, religion, and a
> > bunch of other things) was something that was supposed to be ignored
> > (except where it really matters) and therefore something that most of
> > the time people shouldn't make efforts to be aware of it but rather
> > make efforts to ignore it.
>
> I'm not orvat cnvq to explain it ...
>
> But, womens' right to bear arms on behalf of the UK is a fairly new
> concept, in termms of the history of armies. You'd expect the need for
> a certain amount of explicit rethinking ?

In advance preferably along with training etc. followed by a
certain amount of adjustment and correction for the things not anticipated
and careful monitoring of gradual taking on. Hasn't all that already
happened ?

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/