November Challenge - dressing up!

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Right. It's that time of year when we all have lots of spare time (ha), and the ideal way of filling up those long winter evenings (presuming that Zooey Deschanel can't make it over for tea) is with a BeeX Challenge!

This month's challenge (because if this goes well there may be more) is to hie thyself along to your nearest army surplus store. They aren't all quite like that shop in Falling Down (mainly as we're not allowed to buy guns - phooey), but they are admittedly often a little odd and run by bizarre middle aged men who know far more about the sort of buttons used on 1940s officers' jackets than any normal human being should be able to retain.

Once you have found your nearest army surplus store, and plucked up the courage to open the door, the Challenge Part 1 is to obtain an item of ex-army/navy/air force accoutrement which is about as inappropriate for you as possible. Or is COMPLETELY AWESOMES, depending on your point of view.

Challenge Part 2 is to take a photo of yourself wearing said item of attire in a crowded place.

Special Challenge Points will be awarded to anyone who gets a photo of themself wearing their militaria with an actual member of the Armed Forces. Holding hands is optional.

If thre isn't an arm surplus near you, anything similar will do.

Go!

Closing date is... ooh, three weeks' time. There will then be a poll. There may be a prize.

Unless there's fuck all interest in this, in which case I'll buy myself something to cheer me up.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6604

Man, the nearest Army Surplus Store to my office is MILES away. Maybe I can get one of those fake Beefeater outfits they sell to tourists and stand next to a real Beefeater, as I'm not that far from the Tower of London.

Shin · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:06

Same for us here-no way we can do this sorry

GazChap · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:08

I have a huge selection of accoutrements obtained from my nearest army surplus store, from when I used to indulge in a spot of airsofting.

Unfortunately it never seems to look inappropriate on me. For example:

I may be persuaded to wear that outfit (sans MP5, obv.) in a crowded place

//edit: Shin, there's an army surplus store in the Market Hall.

Shin · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:09

*Puts hands over face* Oh, Gaz

That hat looks like you should be on a bowling green actually

myp · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:09

Everything looks awesome on me, so I'm out.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

For "inappropriate", then, read "inappropriate or TEH AWESOMES".

myp · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:11

And I'm back in the game!

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:11

Quote:

about as inappropriate for you as possible

If I get caught in Confederate uniform I'll probably be shot.

(Am very tempted to wear my fab union greatcoat around Oxford though)

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8655

GazChap wrote:

I have a huge selection of accoutrements obtained from my nearest army surplus store, from when I used to indulge in a spot of airsofting.

Unfortunately it never seems to look inappropriate on me. For example:

I may be persuaded to wear that outfit (sans MP5, obv.) in a crowded place

//edit: Shin, there's an army surplus store in the Market Hall.

Probably best I saw this photo of you after I got in a car with you.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Bonus points for looking like Walter.

Shin · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:16

GazChap wrote:

//edit: Shin, there's an army surplus store in the Market Hall.

Oh, nonononon! Have you SEEN the people in there?! I'll ask the lady that runs the Market Hall to nab me some stuff so I can play dress-up but I aint going near that guy that runs it! He's a fricking maniac!!

If you go in and do it I will aswell, that way I can push you into him and then run if things go bad

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Braving the freaks is half the Challenge, Shinster!

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16626

GazChap wrote:

That picture looks terrifyingly like one that should accompany a story about kill crazy gun rampage, the eyes, everything.

Shin · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:22

There better be a damned good prize I'm telling you for this if that guy chases me or something! I'll probably wet my pants

I have to live with that Mark...I keep a knife under my pillow in case things get carazee!
It looks like one of those dating DVD's actually

'Hi...um...well, I'm not sure where to start really.
I'm Gaz and I love long walks, relaxing by the fireside, playing chess, duckies, rabbits and anything cute-I'd love to meet up some time...oh...I may have a mild tendency to shoot people I don't like-Bye x'

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

markg wrote:

GazChap wrote:

That picture looks terrifyingly like one that should accompany a story about kill crazy gun rampage, the eyes, everything.

I'm sure I've seen that guy on YouTube.

GazChap · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:25

markg wrote:

GazChap wrote:

That picture looks terrifyingly like one that should accompany a story about kill crazy gun rampage, the eyes, everything.

That's the look I was going for.

My brother, since seeing that picture, often refers to me as Michael Ryan.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 13:54

Mr Chris, is this competition purely to fill your men in uniform wank bank?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 13:56

I'm cracking one off over GazChap's face as I type this with one hand.

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 13:58

Mr Chris wrote:

Right. It's that time of year when we all have lots of spare time (ha), and the ideal way of filling up those long winter evenings (presuming that Zooey Deschanel can't make it over for tea) is with a BeeX Challenge!

This month's challenge (because if this goes well there may be more) is to hie thyself along to your nearest army surplus store. They aren't all quite like that shop in Falling Down (mainly as we're not allowed to buy guns - phooey), but they are admittedly often a little odd and run by bizarre middle aged men who know far more about the sort of buttons used on 1940s officers' jackets than any normal human being should be able to retain.

Once you have found your nearest army surplus store, and plucked up the courage to open the door, the Challenge Part 1 is to obtain an item of ex-army/navy/air force accoutrement which is about as inappropriate for you as possible. Or is COMPLETELY AWESOMES, depending on your point of view.

Challenge Part 2 is to take a photo of yourself wearing said item of attire in a crowded place.

Special Challenge Points will be awarded to anyone who gets a photo of themself wearing their militaria with an actual member of the Armed Forces. Holding hands is optional.

If thre isn't an arm surplus near you, anything similar will do.

Go!

Closing date is... ooh, three weeks' time. There will then be a poll. There may be a prize.

Unless there's fuck all interest in this, in which case I'll buy myself something to cheer me up.

I could win this easily by plugging in my external drive and rooting through my pictures to find a shot of me with the Army bods from Bad Lads Army - I did all the stills for both series and I'm sitting here in a pair of Combat 98 army pants as I write this, which were given to me by a commando!

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 13:59

*Pats RAF GreatCoat*

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26025

Gazchap, yesterday.

I shall not be partaking, only as if I am going to buy clothes, they're gonna have to be ones that look nice

myp · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 14:25

Mimi wrote:

I shall not be partaking, only as if I am going to buy clothes, they're gonna have to be ones that look nice

Mr Chris wrote:

For "inappropriate", then, read "inappropriate or TEH AWESOMES".

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26025

Do they have sailors uniforms?

myp · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 14:27

That'd be the Navy surplus store, you berk.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26025

I don't know ?:|

I have never ben to one. I don't know if I have ever seen one.

I want a sailors hat, though. They're cute.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 14:32

There was one in Brentford last time I was there. Get ye sen along.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

When I was a boy scout, the troop leader decided that we should have some Sea Scouts, of which I was one. The idea never really went anywhere, and there were a total of two of us ever. I had to wear one of these:

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 14:35

I bet he loved you two the most though.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Well of course.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26025

myoptika wrote:

There was one in Brentford last time I was there. Get ye sen along.

Ah, I could have got some army clothes and met Sonic all in one day if I had just gone to Brentford today!

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

I can't believe the subheading to this isn't "War's never been so much fun".

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6604

A google search for "army surplus dressing up" found this :

Anyone who takes a pic of themselves like this instantly gets my vote.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 14:43

Mimi wrote:

myoptika wrote:

There was one in Brentford last time I was there. Get ye sen along.

Ah, I could have got some army clothes and met Sonic all in one day if I had just gone to Brentford today!

That's your fault for being so lazy you can't be arsed to walk to the end of the road.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Aww.

Someone deleted a post here that I had a really good response to

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 14:52

Kissy Kissy G-Unit Fix

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26025

the horrorz!

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

myp · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 14:54

Dimrill will be all over that.

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 14:56

Didn't realise CG had branched out into army surplus:

http://www.atthefront.com/rants.htm

Quote:

We WERE nicer for years. But eventually we came to spending about 70% of our phone time with meatheads who wanted to shoot the shit, were lonely, wanted some "army stuff", or wanted to babble for hours about their uncle Bud who was building a Panther Ausf. G from beer cans. The latest imbecile (Monday) was upset because he put his helmet in the microwave to bake the paint...and bad things happened. I'm not making this up. (That's one reason we don't give directions on painting helmets. Misinterpretations and fires...it sounds like a joke, but it's not.)
The terse language has reduced the idiot phone calls (and by extension increased our efficiency of filling orders) by a large percentage. Our job is to provide the best stuff possible as efficiently as possible. It would be nice if we had time to be a comfort line for the lonely, a historical reference and restoration info hotline and a depressed re-enactor counseling center

GazChap · **Posted:** Fri Nov 21, 2008 15:08

Zardoz wrote:

Kissy Kissy G-Unit Fix

Beaten to my own Photoshop. Curses!

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38642

Zardoz wrote:

Kissy Kissy G-Unit Fix

Oh god, I got a twitch. :spew:

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Squirt wrote:

A google search for "army surplus dressing up" found this :

Anyone who takes a pic of themselves like this instantly gets my vote.

CHALLENGE AMENDED!

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2008 11:56

Torygraph wrote:

Police quiz University Challenge contestant over RAF jacket

A student who appeared on University Challenge sporting a mohican haircut and RAF-style jacket was spoken to by police after complaints from viewers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/3521443/Police-quiz-University-Challenge-contestant-over-RAF-jacket.html

Yes, because the distinction between 'orders' and 'quiz questions' is very fine.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Craster wrote:

When I was a boy scout, the troop leader decided that we should have some Sea Scouts, of which I was one. The idea never really went anywhere, and there were a total of two of us ever. I had to wear one of these:

And then years later, you turned out gay for badgers. Coincidence? I think not.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Uh, no. Lady badgers only, thanks - do you think I'm some kind of sicko?

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:16

The above is funnier when you remember that what members of the youth wing of the St John's Ambulance are/were called...

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2008 13:10

Kern wrote:

Torygraph wrote:

Police quiz University Challenge contestant over RAF jacket

A student who appeared on University Challenge sporting a mohican haircut and RAF-style jacket was spoken to by police after complaints from viewers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/3521443/Police-quiz-University-Challenge-contestant-over-RAF-jacket.html

Yes, because the distinction between 'orders' and 'quiz questions' is very fine.

There goes the stripping industry then.

Someone said that to me, the other month when I was wearing my RAF coat. I laughed at him.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2008 13:28

MaliA wrote:

There goes the stripping industry then.

Yes, they'll be forced to remove them. Arf.

Quote:

Someone said that to me, the other month when I was wearing my RAF coat. I laughed at him.

I think there's a serious misunderstanding of the law here (it smacks of sad miserable git calling Ofcom - as if we care), but I'm buggered if I know where to start. And I don't think the council's censorware would let me access ARRSE.

Also - filthy tab wearing corporal's stripes? Ha!

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2008 13:31

Kern wrote:

MaliA wrote:

There goes the stripping industry then.

Yes, they'll be forced to remove them. Arf.

Heh.. 897 bananas

Kern wrote:

Quote:

Someone said that to me, the other month when I was wearing my RAF coat. I laughed at him.

I think there's a serious misunderstanding of the law here (it smacks of sad miserable git calling Ofcom - as if we care), but I'm buggered if I know where to start. And I don't think the council's censorware would let me access ARRSE.

Also - filthy tab wearing corporal's stripes? Ha!

One would assume (and hope) that the actual offence would be to say "Hello, I'm Group Captain MaliA" to someone and then carry on the charade having both actors behaving as they would if such a relationship were genuine.

But I doubt that this is the case. i would look, but I've got OAPA to cock about with today.

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