lets find a hat for carl

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Originally Posted by MickR

My hats don't say anything. They're just a hats. You blokes with talking hats might want to take a visit with your shrinks. :)


Mick

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Guess it depends on whether it is saying, go on go on steal that kiddies sweets, or isn't the world beautiful lets try and cheer everyone up.

Yeah, but you can't trust 'em not to turn on ya. One minute they're saying brighten up someone's day and the next they're sayin' punch that nerds lights out...That's of course, if they spoke at all, and I'm not saying they do...'cause they don't! ;)


Mick

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Originally Posted by MickR

Hat badge is of WW1 era and the bash is absolute crap...:p



No, they were normal and you were uptight...:) :p You can tell by the photo with the arms crossed...That or you were just sulky that day. :D


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I agree about the bash of the hat, it's very rounded. You're right, I was uptight. It IS obvious I still am, isn't it?

So the bash is the crown?

My thoughts on akubras.
1 people who come over on holiday and buy one and wear it while on holiday generally look silly.
2 people who come over on holiday and buy one and wear it at home after the holiday look sillier, unless they are somewhere really hot and sunny.
3 akubras have to look like they have been around the block or they usually look silly.
4 wearing an akubra around town often looks silly, unless it is a country town, or unless it is a battered one, and you have appropriate clothes on with it.
I have often been tempted by an akubra, but I know I would end up looking like an Englishman at work who was known as the idiot with the massive hat. If he didnt have the hat, he would have been known as the idiot. he would wear it indoors even when it was still dark outside.
If I could find a really old, battered, holey one then I would definately wear it.

If you dont agree then don't take offence, I am often wrong.

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Originally Posted by edhewitt

Is one of the tatts a southern cross? Seems every Aussie who has tatts has one, hope I don't have to have one after I do my citizenship, or do you mean that you have 6 dragon tattoos? I have been considering another tatt for about 6 years but have not got around to it. cindy seems to be trying to knock your confidence, what with the gay boots, and too old comments, reckon the time has come for a mid life crisis to prove how young and virile you are.....
I don't imagine my hairline won't change, perhaps it is and I haven't noticed because I look at it most days, always said I would shave my head if I go too bald, but I am a bit concerned that it will look like a potato.

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Oh for goodness sakes no, it's not a Southern Cross! That just says "I'm a white supremist who wants to bash [insert race]". And no, not six dragon tattoos. Some Polynesian tribal stuff on my arm (it looks like a cross between a road and a snake) A Chrysanthemum on my upper inner arm (that one HURT) a sun on my left bicep (I like that one), barbed wire turning into birds on my wrist and a hand on my hand. They're pretty bad. They look like prison tattoos. If I didn't dress up a bit at work I'm not sure they'd let me out at night...

(I really should have had second thoughts about the hand, but you live and learn and make mistakes; why cover them up?)

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So the bash is the crown?

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Yea, the bash is the crown. Well, it's the crown 'bashed'. So, a virgin Akubra Australian Army Slouch Hat made of rabbit hair starts like with a rounded shape; like a bowler hat. You need to stand in front of the recruit in your incredibly intricately starched and ironed uniform and JAM the hat down on to the recruit's pimply shaved head. He'll wince but won't dare move. You'll do this until you find one that fits. After processing 20 or so you get to be a pretty good judge of it.

You then line them all up outside, with all their uniform and goodies in their mattress cover, scream at them to put the general issue gear laden mattress cover over their shoulders like Father F'ing Christmas, and march them off to the lines to scream at them some more.

Part of that evening's bizarre ceremony will be screaming at the recruits to get their F'ing hats and bring them to the SAL (Showers And Latrine) block NOW. They'll (the hats, not the recruits) will be placed into two baths filled with hot water and metholated spirits; as much of the metho as we Instructors 'judged' was needed.

The following afternoon we would remove the hats and force them over a wooden carved mould of a slouch hat, moulding them to shape, and then place them on the marble window ledges opposite the showers, where they would dry.

On the second night we'd scream at the recruits to line up in the hallway so we could fix the chin strap and adjust the hats; "Hallway 32"; we could almost whisper those words as we patrolled the hallway and they'd scream it out and dash into the hall and stand rigid.

Control.

There are few jobs in life where you have such mindless control of 48 humans...

I tell you what, though, there's nothing like seeing 48 guys so proud at getting to wear an Australian Army Slouch hat, even if it is only day 3 and they know nothing.

Sorry, I've got your thread completely off track, you were talking hats...?

The young recruit is silly - 'e thinks o' suicide.
‘Es lost 'is gutter-devil; 'e 'asn't got 'is pride;
But day by day they kicks 'im, which 'elps 'im on a bit,
Till 'e finds 'isself one mornin' with a full an' proper kit.

Gettin' clear o’ dirtiness, gettin' done with mess,
Gettin' shut o' doin' things rather-more-or-less

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My thoughts on akubras.
1 people who come over on holiday and buy one and wear it while on holiday generally look silly.
2 people who come over on holiday and buy one and wear it at home after the holiday look sillier, unless they are somewhere really hot and sunny.
3 akubras have to look like they have been around the block or they usually look silly.
4 wearing an akubra around town often looks silly, unless it is a country town, or unless it is a battered one, and you have appropriate clothes on with it.
I have often been tempted by an akubra, but I know I would end up looking like an Englishman at work who was known as the idiot with the massive hat. If he didnt have the hat, he would have been known as the idiot. he would wear it indoors even when it was still dark outside.
If I could find a really old, battered, holey one then I would definately wear it.

If you dont agree then don't take offence, I am often wrong.

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I could find you one very easily mate! And my own personal farm wear hat is slightly less holey, but definitely more gungy and mouldering. Sadly no pics of that one. I'll have to take one sometime. It'll put you off yer breakfast. :)


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I could find you one very easily mate! And my own personal farm wear hat is slightly less holey, but definitely more gungy and mouldering. Sadly no pics of that one. I'll have to take one sometime. It'll put you off yer breakfast. :)


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The one on the right looks a bit new.
The farm hat sounds like my sort of thing. I loosely use my wife as a guide for good hats, if she hates it then its about right.

I guess all of the tattoos mean something. I would be worried if you had tears tattooed on your face.
I have a sunflower on my right shoulder and a green man face on my left upper arm.