For Techno (I think)

[fsn]

Can't find it, but do I remember Techno asking about the difference between sandpaper and a handkerchief? ... a nail file and a buzz saw? ... a chopping board and the back of his hand? ... no? Well did he ask about this? 

[Techno]

That was really good, Nobby ! Ta !

Though I still have problems accepting the size of the actual bullets, for some reason. (My rubbish perception, AGAIN.)
If I measure the 'proper size' onto a scrap of paper.....My reaction each time is, "No, that's too fat...Can't be right."......Though it obviously is correct.

Maybe the bullets look smaller when they've still got a pointy end ?
The ones in one of the little sections in the video 'look right' against the chap's hand.

Odd !

Cheers - Phil (And I know what the difference is between a chopping board and the back of my hand. The chopping board doesn't leak red stuff)

[Steve J]

My late Mother had some shell casings that her Father brought back (stole I think) from a gunnery range in Wales. There is a 2pdr which really is tiny; a 25pdr which is huge and the casing alone, sans propellant, is damned heavy and lastly a 76mm one which again is suprisingly large and heavy. How they managed the latter one in the cramped confines of a turret is beyond me.

[fsn]

News Flash...        News Flash...         News Flash...         News Flash...  Dragons to be reintroduced to Wales after an absence of more than a 1000 years. Local conservation groups say they are pleased by the move that will put a large predator back into the food chain. There have been concerns shown by the farming community due to the risk of predation to livestock but the Welsh assembly say they are willing to pay compensation to farmers who can prove loss, the other danger with the dragons eating habits of taking virgins is not thought to be a problem as they went extinct in Wales may years ago anyway.

[FierceKitty]

Anybody got a link to "Not the Nine o'Clock News'" Laid in Wales?

[fsn]

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Nice one. Course the entire country is a failure....

EVERYONE HATES THE WELSH< EVEN THEMSELVES !!!!

IanS

[FierceKitty]

There were three parts; the "failed" one came first. Thereafter "Made from whales", and finally a catalogue of female Cambrian monikers "Laid in Wales."

[d_Guy]

While we have a different spelling (I know - bl**dy Yanks) - this is a product of Wales right?

[Leman]

What happened in  Wales, Ian? Were you molested by a sheep when you were a youngster? Incidentally, talking of failed Wales, it IS the only country in mainland Britain that still exists from before the Romans.

[Ithoriel]

Wales was no more a country before the Romans arrived than any of the other constituent parts of GB.

[Leman]

Which spoke Welsh, which they don't now. Except of course Wales. Whereas most of the English can't even understand Shakespeare, let alone King Alfred.

[Ithoriel]

Welsh diverges from it's common ancestor (P-Celtic or British) sometime in the 6th century AD but, like English, went through a number of modifications in the intervening 1500 years or so. It continues to evolve. Popty ping anyone?

[petercooman]

can only find made from whales

[fsn]

While we have a different spelling (I know - bl**dy Yanks) - this is a product of Wales right?

"Welch" is one of those archaic alternate spellings. One of Britain's great regiments was the "Royal Welch Fusiliers".

It's like "Scotch", a now disused (apart from the ignorant, the bellicose and those who appreciate fine whisky) form of "Scottish".