Just received these from "Patches n Pins" and I'm very pleased with the work. Just need some fatigues now

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"I saw Avatar last weekend, it was so awesome, I wish the whole world was in 3D"

I've always found it funny that you guys call textile patches "badges", whereas we refer to badges as a metal symbolic shield of authority. When did we split this meaning?

There seems to have been a split when the word 'Patch' took on a special meaning in certain groups.

In the Biker world, you only wear a Patch if you're a member of a club (MC, MCC, Brotherhood, FrontPatch, SidePatch, PartyPatch). Otherwise it's referred to as a 'Sew On Badge'. Oddly enough, no-one actually calls them Patches - They're "Colours".

I've heard this being used by some other groups in society.
Some military groups call them Patches, but refer to the obtaining of them as being 'Badged'!!


English is just a plain weird language!!

Don't care about the meaning, i know what you're on about, good stuff. whats the thing in the top middle though? name tape?

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A little hint: The patches and that object aren't in the same relative scale. (Unless the patches are 40ft across ....)

Its a 1:72 APC, just put it in for fun.

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"I saw Avatar last weekend, it was so awesome, I wish the whole world was in 3D"

LOL i feel dumb, alright i see. Cheers for clearing that up.

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When the Boy Scouts started having "merit badges"?

I have several of Patches 'n Pins... patches ( ) and think they are outstanding considering they are embroidered- however I wish they would make a correct Victory By Wings patch. The one they sell is the standard commercially available patch. The correct patch has a black border, as well as the individual stars having black borders. The screen accurate patch is larger as well.


Kevin

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I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me! WHY DIDN'T YOU BELIEVE ME!?!

I think it's just another case where someone makes a patch slightly wrong, someone else copies it and changes it slightly... gradually the 'wrong' version becomes accepted as 'correct' because nobody has bothered to check what the originals looked like. How else do you explain the blue delta patches?

I must admit I cringe whenever I see those 'pale border' VBWs, because correct ones have been made, years ago. (I should know, I made them!)

But at least they have the delta correct.

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Mike

"We're not heroes - we're from Finchley"

I see no merit badges on this Boy Scout...




Unlike this guy;

Its funny, I've always called them badges because that's what we call them in the Scouts... I didn't know there were that many merit badges

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"I saw Avatar last weekend, it was so awesome, I wish the whole world was in 3D"

I'm sure he's got the "Badge Forgery" badge.

Is that the 40 year old virgin when he was young?

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A12/TQ1.0.22137E1
PVT. Schmaus, Christopher J.
2nd Batt 6th Regt
USS Tahoma

I wonder if any of the those badges are a "Sewing Merit" badge?


Mike

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There is nothing more impressive than a bloody big Alien wiggling on the end of a sharp stick!

I have badge envy.


Kevin

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I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me! WHY DIDN'T YOU BELIEVE ME!?!

Nah. That's the 40-Year-Old-Virgin when he was 39.

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CPL Conley, D. A06/TQ2.0.72147E1



"To err is human; to forgive, divine... Neither of which is Marine Corps policy."
"In Onoraigh Ar Marbh" ~ We Honor Our Fallen

I thought we agreed guys.... If i showed you my scouts badge collection, it would be in private!

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Listen, my avatar is relevant to Aliens ....... it's a Chestburster!!!!

Badges? We....

Oh, forget it.

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"Awww, someone tell me that's a boot!

It's a boot!"

III drops

Badgers?????

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Listen, my avatar is relevant to Aliens ....... it's a Chestburster!!!!