More said than seen
Back in the day when i was assisting on cadet survival courses, my kit consisted of whatever army clothing was going spare.
I had all the basics but after a particularly cold, wet and miserable course I was feeling the lack of extra kit and warmer items.
With most of my clothes in the drying room, I'm sitting on my bunk in just shirt and boots while someone has a rummage for spare dry clothing.
Someone at the other end of the dorm holds up a british army norwegian shirt and asks if its any use.
Colour sgt walks in just as im shouting back
'ooh yes please i'd love a norgie'

*cringes*



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(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sat 11 Dec 2010, 22:59, 14 replies)

hahahaa!

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 11 Dec 2010, 23:15, closed)

Phew
I realised that might not make sense if you didnt know army slang

It took ages to live that one down
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sat 11 Dec 2010, 23:29, closed)

i've got a green beret for a cousin
i'm used to the slang :)
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 11 Dec 2010, 23:50, closed)

I could never get the hang
of talking in initials though :(
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sun 12 Dec 2010, 0:28, closed)

i tend to just blank it out
and then i get the "are you listening to me?"
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 12 Dec 2010, 0:34, closed)

I don't know army slang
So I just read it as "an orgy", which sounded quite reasonable under the circumstances. You know, wanting to preserve body heat, and all that.

But, as it seems that I'm wrong, to save me having to UrbanDictionary it, what is a norgie?
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Sun 12 Dec 2010, 0:23, closed)

Norgie
is slang for the norwegian army shirt
although they are more fleecy inside than shirty :)
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sun 12 Dec 2010, 0:33, closed)

One of my co-irkers did a stint for Her Maj.
He tells fond tales of Chinese fighting suits and their usefulness when on Winter training exercises in the Brecon Beacons.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Sun 12 Dec 2010, 0:43, closed)

hee hee
Ive heard of that but more of how useless they were

I have a strange desire to own a ghillie suit, however beyond lurking in undergrowth and leaping out to startle ramblers I cant see me getting much practical use out of one
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sun 12 Dec 2010, 0:48, closed)

I was watching the movie shooter with my mam, there's a scene with a white ghilie suit for sniping in the snow. Despite explaining it was camoflauge, my mam still couldent understand why mark walberg was dressed as a yeti.
(Mong goose, Sun 12 Dec 2010, 1:05, closed)

Just tell her he's going searching for Luke, who didn't return to the Rebel base by dusk.

( flake has nothing against your right leg, Sun 12 Dec 2010, 1:06, closed)

ha ha
I did once bid on a job lot of ghillie suit material on ebay.
didnt win , but that was probably a blessing as i thought i would probably look like a mouldy yeti in it
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sun 12 Dec 2010, 1:14, closed)

Ghillie suit awesomeness
My son, aged 12 and a half, just made one.

Spent hours sewing jute, camo-coloured wool, etc onto a sweat shirt that he'd opened up the front (and sewn paracord tie-straps on to close). I have to say it looks freaking awesome. He's done the same to a balaclava. Now he's working on a cover for his airsoft weapon.

LHC - aiding and abetting childhood weapons play for a decade at least!
(Large Hardon Collider Bah Bloody Humbug, Sun 12 Dec 2010, 1:10, closed)

Aw
Thats quite adorable
albeit in a rather strange way
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sun 12 Dec 2010, 1:16, closed)