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**ugly** · 08-02-2012, 16:16

Isnt corpuscular shit eating?

**Showmi_York-Hunt** · 08-02-2012, 16:18

Originally Posted by OldSnowy

but for use in crepuscular conditions - a word I've never forgotten, and which I try to bring into conversation even now to show how edumacated I am.

I take a very dim use of the word myself

**ugly** · 08-02-2012, 16:18

Sorry thats coprophagia

**AlienFTM** · 10-02-2012, 13:34

Originally Posted by ugly

Sorry thats coprophagia

And you know this because ... ?

Guy walks along, stops, foot hovering. Looks down, sees a brown pile.

"That looks like shit."

He gets to his knees and sniffs. "Smells like shit."

Sticks his finger in. "Feels like shit."

Licks his finger. "Tastes like shit."

"Must be shit. Glad I didn't step in it."

I'll get me coat.

**ugly** · 10-02-2012, 14:04

Originally Posted by AlienFTM

And you know this because ... ?

Guy walks along, stops, foot hovering. Looks down, sees a brown pile.

"That looks like shit."

He gets to his knees and sniffs. "Smells like shit."

Sticks his finger in. "Feels like shit."

Licks his finger. "Tastes like shit."

"Must be shit. Glad I didn't step in it."

I'll get me coat.

No the young ones and Vivian says I bet that poo tastes like poo, and he was right!

**rgjbloke** · 10-02-2012, 14:30

I used a SUIT sight. They were issued quite widely in 1RGJ in the seventies. I like them and so did most of the Riflemen who had them. We used them as the situation demanded which was most of the time, but nobody ever said, "where's your SUIT sight?" if somebody wasn't using theirs. Grown up Soldiers and all that!

I never saw one fall completely off in fact I thought they were quite robust pieces of kit. I saw an SLR get accidentally knocked really hard one day and the SUIT sight became dislodged from the mount on the slide cover. If he had shot at someone at 12 o clock, he would have hit somebody else at 10 o clock. He just unclipped it and put it back on again. I dunno if them falling off the SLR was a later problem as the kit got older.

Never had a problem with zeroing either but that might be explained by the fact that we usually zero'd our weapons as often as we could. Of course if you had knocked the weapon and were worried about the zero, you would go and have a word and get on the drain pipe range.

To put the SUIT sight into perspective, it was like giving every Soldier a set of binoculars because all it really was, was half of a X4 binocular on top of your SLR. It was a good bit of kit and it worked well in helping you see things, especially if you were shooting at them.

**ugly** · 10-02-2012, 14:34

I spent a few hours searching for lost ones in NI and the Falklands!
Thankfully none were mine but you still muck in dont you!

**rgjbloke** · 10-02-2012, 14:37

Originally Posted by ugly

I spent a few hours searching for lost ones in NI and the Falklands!
Thankfully none were mine but you still muck in dont you!

You would think given where it is on the weapon, they would notice quite quickly that it wasn't there!

**ugly** · 10-02-2012, 14:47

you would think that wouldnt you!

**rickshaw-major** · 10-02-2012, 15:10

Whilst on the subject of sights - at the time (mid to late '70's and early '80's) there was also a tenedancy for some to purchase the single point sight. The grown ups didn't like it though.