North America and RGBrock1 snowed under

[A Lutra Continua]

Top of the forearm is the giveaway, but ta muchly anyway.

[Rwy in Sight]

The M1 was the very first arm I did guard duty with and it looked wrong in the picture. Later on more meaningless duties (guarding some tens of bullets) we used a Heckler & Koch G3 7.62mm rifle.The M1 was really nice. Looking at the picture in the snow I marvel how more efficient is a professional army with almost an exclusive aim to be an army - not to run stupid menial jobs for the higher ups (sorry thread drift from my service with a NATO Air Force.

I am surprised nobody used the term of TOP of xxx feet of global warming.

[Chuks]

Try "Climate Change" instead. It makes a better fit with what is happening. First we had the "hottest year on record," and now we have "record snow-falls," when both are real, undeniable events. What they mean, well, you tell me!

Poor old Lutra there .... The M14 used some design elements of the M1 so that it might be easy to confuse the two, but we are still going to pick on him for having done that. Anoraks are like that, aren't we?

I trained on the M14, classical marksmanship training for a war fought in the style of World War II, learning to shoot from standing, sitting, and prone positions, including using the sling, aiming at targets from not so very close up to very far off indeed, all in plain sight. There was none of that nasty "walk down a jungle path firing at pop-up targets" that we really needed to learn for Viet Nam. I fired Expert, bought a very nice little tin badge, went to Viet Nam and was handed an M16 that was completely different in every regard to that M14 I had just spent weeks learning to shoot. Thanks so very much, Uncle Sam!

When the big day finally came that we were allowed to go to a range and sight in our new toys, we were issued twenty (20) rounds each, ten for sighting-in, and ten for target practice, because of "a shortage of ammunition." Captain "Putzi" Weeg showed up then with his M16 and burned through about 800 rounds on full-automatic, two whole bandoliers, just for fun. Sigh ....

[A Lutra Continua]

Yup, know what you mean. Did basic and COIN training with R1/FAL/SLR, got to the bush and a couple of weeks later we got issued the R4/Galil. At least we spent a few days on the range getting a feel for the beastie before being sent out again.

[Pinky the pilot]

Just bringing this back up to the top again. rgbrock1; You finished digging yourself out yet?

How's it all going now?

[rgbrock1]

Just bringing this back up to the top again. rgbrock1; You finished digging yourself out yet?

How's it all going now?

Hardy-hardy-har-har, pinky, ****. (It's been snowing, on and off but more on than off, since Sunday.)

[Slasher]

****

Well If RGB can say it....**** too!

[rgbrock1]

****

Well If RGB can say it....**** too!

For some odd reason, my friend, the word "****" is obscured with little computer-generated thingies but the word **** is not. One of life's many enigmas.

Edited to add: oops, I guess it is NOW!!!!! Oh well.

[Slasher]

No if you want to write **** or **** it won't work.

Haven'**** yet mate?

[500N]

Will someone in Canada please send a huge dump of snow down onto RGB

He likes it so much.

[admin]

For some odd reason, my friend, the word "*f*ck*" is obscured with little computer-generated thingies but the word f*cking is not. One of life's many enigmas.

Not an enigma at all. Used to be any word with f u c k was automatically changed having been set up by me to do so. The someone got all uppity because they couldn't write Scunthorpe in the "Where on Earth" topic, so I had to change it. Why anyone would want to invoke Scunthorpe here I do not know, but ...... There's no accounting for taste.

Alison

[Boac]

You can only tolerate so many enemas, RG

[Pinky the pilot]

Will someone in Canada please send a huge dump of snow down onto RGB

He likes it so much.

Oohhh 500N; I fear that you've done it now. Reckon that rgbrock1 will say that 'them's fightin' words!'

Think it might be time for that move south rgb!

[rgbrock1]

Will someone in Canada please send a huge dump of snow down onto RGB

He likes it so much.

Oohhh 500N; I fear that you've done it now. Reckon that rgbrock1 will say that 'them's fightin' words!'

Think it might be time for that move south rgb!

G'day mate! Unfortunately the location where I'd love to move to - Pawleys Island South Carolina - will have a heavy-duty taste of winter as well this weekend into early next week.
Seems Dushan, and all those from O' Canada, have decided to unleash not just snow on our unsuspecting heads but a dose of the "polar vortex."

The temps these parts this weekend read like this:

Today: Sunny but -4C (there were some snow showers around this morning)
Tonight: -13C
Friday: -3C
Friday night: -9C
Saturday: -11C
Saturday night: -23C (the "polar vortex descends)
Sunday: -24C
Sunday night: -30C

etc, etc, etc. <insert crying/whining smiley here>

BOAC: I didn't see your remark. Really, I didn't.

[wings folded]

For some odd reason, my friend, the word "*f*ck*" is obscured with little computer-generated thingies but the word f*cking is not. One of life's many enigmas.

Not an enigma at all. Used to be any word with f u c k was automatically changed having been set up by me to do so. The someone got all uppity because they couldn't write Scunthorpe in the "Where on Earth" topic, so I had to change it. Why anyone would want to invoke Scunthorpe here I do not know, but ...... There's no accounting for taste.

Alison

There's not much accounting for Scunthorpe

[wings folded]

I remember, RGB, waiting for the elevated train from Evanston to Chicago, (the"El?") when the doom broadcasters had announced minus 35 with chill effect. The girl next to me had her poney tail snap off as somebody brushed against it.
She was pissed (in an American sense). It was 7 in the morning after all, so not pissed in a British sense.

But that was nothing compared with two things that stick in my memory.

A clear day in Moscow with an OAT of minus 50, no wind chill to speak of. A bit nippy. But quite fresh.

But that was nothing compared with walking from Water Street onto Wall Street, to find I was head into an airstream direct from Canada, at more knots than I cared for, and not enough degrees.

I think I learned what cold means from that.

[rgbrock1]

I remember, RGB, waiting for the elevated train from Evanston to Chicago, (the"El?") when the doom broadcasters had announced minus 35 with chill effect. The girl next to me had her poney tail snap off as somebody brushed against it.
She was pissed (in an American sense). It was 7 in the morning after all, so not pissed in a British sense.

But that was nothing compared with two things that stick in my memory.

A clear day in Moscow with an OAT of minus 50, no wind chill to speak of. A bit nippy. But quite fresh.

But that was nothing compared with walking from Water Street onto Wall Street, to find I was head into an airstream direct from Canada, at more knots than I cared for, and not enough degrees.

I think I learned what cold means from that.

Manhattan tends to channel winds through the labyrinth of buildings and associate canyons!

I learned what cold is in two separate places. 1. Alaska. Cold weather training with Uncle Sugar's Army. 2. Colorado. Uncle Sugar's Army again but with the 4th Infantry Division. January 1981 -45F/-55F wind chill during a field exercise. Even staying in the Arctic Type II sleeping bag did no good.

[Slasher]

Spare a thought for the ice river truckers up in Yellowknife.

Two days ago it was -31C with snow and freezing bloody rain in 20kt winds.

Sh!t that's a hard way to earn a buck, even if its IS good money.

I'll stick to the tropics and near tropics.

[rgbrock1]

Spare a thought for the ice river truckers up in Yellowknife.

Two days ago it was -31C with snow and freezing bloody rain in 20kt winds.

Sh!t that's a hard way to earn a buck, even if its IS good money.

I'll stick to the tropics and near tropics.

Ah yes, Yellowknife, Nothwest Territories, Canada: where men are men and women are frozen solid.

[500N]

Ah yes, Yellowknife, Nothwest Territories, Canada: where men are men and women are frozen solid.

So you can still practice what goes on up there (a dead root , anywhere else by going to a morgue then