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hi john welcome to the mad house

we get certified sectioned once a year here

:whistle:

Anyhow, welcome to the nut 'ouse. As you can see, the lunatics have DEFINATELY taken over the asylum :evil:

There are two generqal forms of sound moderator for firearms: Rubber gasket style, and the so-called "wipes and slides" style, which uses metal baffle plates. The latter is more robust and lasts a fair amount of time, the former is more efficient at first, but tends to fall apart after a few rounds.

Of course, the mechanism behind the moderation or silencing of the most famous of them all, the Welrod, is STILL on the secret list

Bingo. Thought I'd seen one years ago. NP8901 immediately after capture against overwhelming odds in the opening shots of the Falklands War. Spot the SMG the Argentinian is carrying.

From the F80 and CWP points of view, and from what we've heard about MO and W&P last year, they're both in similar states of disarray.

Allegedly, last year, several groups pre-booked spaces weren't, and it was a complete free-for-all in finding a proper space for Living History displays (there's confusion as to which event this was at, sorry about that), resulting in all manner of anger mismanagement.

That was the lack of icing on the cake as far as we were concerned: We already knew that we weren't going to W&P, as two years back F80 were stuffed right in the middle of the WW2 American area, not the British area. As a result, no-one could find the stand easily.

In addition, apparently the booking fees MO now charge are taking the bodily fluids writ large; from the CWP point of view, we understand that such fees may be necessary, but for amateur self-funded groups like re-enacting groups, there's a not-too fine line between reasonable fees and outrageous fees - especially in these financially hardening times: MO have allegedly crossed that line - word of mouth had it that MO were asking over £25 per attending member from Living History Groups wishing to book a space. I've not checked that, but it certainly rings true. To be fair, W&P were, when we last checked, free to pre-booked LH Groups. Never the less, the problematical organisation of those events means we won't be attending them anyhow.

We've therefore transferred our interest to the BB in Essex instead. It's miles better organised, too, and we (CWP) help in the running anyhow, so there's another bit of vested interest

Petard, own, hoist on his :evil:

Mr. Gatso, would you like to step forward for the next ****wit award? :police:

Cool Glad it helped

Lee - cool on both counts

OK... try this, nearest thing I can find... original photo extract at the top, SLIGHTLY modified (edges degraded slightly in image) DIN-style stencil TTF below.

Right click and save as for the font, here...

NCO i/c CWP'll be there on Thursday as well, Dave, I'll bring the beer

Lee - any joy on that other item yet?

Oooooo... the stencil one is gonna be... challenging... :evil: it's a cross between Stencil, Boston Traffic, and VAG Rounded! :nut: I'll see what I can come up with :idea:

Good site, known about it for a while (I occasionally use the APP-6 fonts) but there appears to be a lack of letter-based fonts, only the graphical symbol fonts he does. Did I miss something there?

Can you show us an example of the font you're looking for?

Are you SURE it's MS UI Gothic?

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1612

From the 70s and 80s onwards, you're looking at the Armstrong, a VERY heavy 500cc rotary single cylinder bike. From the mid 90s, the 450cc Harley trail bike. Marked RMP road-wise, RMP used Triumphs and a shedload of other makes over the years. Given the above, I very much doubt he'll have the proper licence to ride them for a few years yet, so I'd say you can stop sweating for a while

Aggressive driving is what you find Emergency Services doing... well, that and Road Rage Candidates, but they haven't had the proper driver training to be competent at it, the muppits :evil:

Hmm... going by ebay prices, it sounds about average, but then you DO have to add postage costs with most ebay auctions.

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/items/_W0QQ_nkwZhelmetQ20mk6QQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ

PMSL See you there, mate

NP mate You going down the Bunker Bash next month?

Congrats Have you figured out why the passengers are called SLAC yet? :evil:

10/10 :rofl:

All the best

(London Night Bus Driver)

"A FIFTY NOTE? For a two quid fare?! GERROFF!!!"

Blimey Roger, You really were at the back of the stores isssues!

Just shows how seriously they took 'The Army Welfare Service'! ....:cool2::coffee: (Only joking!)

Tell me about it :evil:

We even had to take special training with the London Regiment in order to qualify on the damn thing so that we (the five (4 + 1 Res) of us that were in the competition shooting team, I mean) could take part in Ex Cop Shoot '93, which was a month or so before we were due to receive the rifles!

I'm told the brass made it up to us after I left the company, mind. Apparently my old Coy were the first in the TA to get Wolf Landies after all the regs had received theirs :rofl:

I was issued one for my basic training in 1990, and kept it on issue until replaced by the GS Mk 6 in 1993.

If it helps any, my old RMP(v) Coy were amongst the first non-Infantry TA units in LonDist to re-equip with the L85A1, at which point we back squadded all our SMGs, LMGs, and the few SLRs we had for the attached cap badges, and that was, IIRC, in 1994.