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?
That was really good, Nobby ! Ta ! :-bd
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)
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.
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.
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Anybody got a link to "Not the Nine o'Clock News'" Laid in Wales?
Nice one. Course the entire country is a failure....
EVERYONE HATES THE WELSH< EVEN THEMSELVES !!!!
IanS
Quote from: fsn on 05 March 2016, 02:48:17 PM
There were three parts; the "failed" one came first. Thereafter "Made from whales", and finally a catalogue of female Cambrian monikers "Laid in Wales."
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While we have a different spelling (I know - bl**dy Yanks) - this is a product of Wales right?
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.
Wales was no more a country before the Romans arrived than any of the other constituent parts of GB.
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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.
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? :)
can only find made from whales
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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".
For those following this, popty ping is Welsh for microwave - literally oven that goes ping.
Quote from: fsn on 05 March 2016, 08:14:45 PM
One of Britain's great regiments was the "Royal Welch Fusiliers".
Quite so and precisely how we say it here!
Oh - and butterscotch too. Oh - wait Scotch tape! And...and "Welch Rabbit"
... and Scotch Rabbit, come to that, which is a variant on Welch Rabbit (or possibly vice versa).
Scotch broth, Scotch mist, Scotch pancakes, Scotch egg, and best of all Raquel Welch.
Well I for one am going to pop a pouch of Welch Rabbit in the popty ping, hop over and toast a scotch pancake in the hot-rod box, cover everything with butterscotch sauce and then wash it all down with three fingers of Irish Mist. Shoot! - wait - no - no - Irish Mist is fine. Ta!
Just so long as you don't weich on the deal.
I did hear (on the radio) fairly recently of a lass, that attempted to make Welsh rarebit, quickly, by putting the bread and cheese in a toaster.....The toaster caught fire....She posted this on Faceache (?).....That she'd done something akin to a 'Techno'.....Effectively, extracting the urine against herself.....And the trolling she received was just appalling.
Yeah.....Fair enough......Basically a really daft thing to do......But we all come up with 'good ideas' that in retrospect are, basically, mind numbingly stupid.... Especially, yours truly. :-[
Now.....I don't DO Facebook.....Mrs T does....Mostly equine welfare sites......And some of those get SO heated and nasty to the point of really evil threats, police involvement and arrests.
I've advised Mrs T to be very careful of the so called 'social media'...So she doesn't get involved with total 'nutters'....
That's why I love this forum......It never gets really out of hand.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 06 March 2016, 12:04:47 PM
I've advised Mrs T to be very careful of the so called 'social media'...So she doesn't get involved with total 'nutters'....
But she is marriedto you.
YEs very friendly bunch around here!
And you would be hard put to tell the "nutters" from the rest of the forum membership! ;D
But they're NICE, friendly 'nutters'. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
And I've got a lot of time for them...Because they're really special. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: petercooman on 06 March 2016, 12:35:07 PM
But she is marriedto you.
I think you will find that's called "care in the community" :D
Being a pinko liberal atheist who's prone to being forthright in his view online I have to admit to being pleasantly surprised at the reaction of of most of those I "debate" with.
Apart from being regularly warned that I will burn in hell by religious American right-wingers (I know that's a stereotype but it is also my experience) I can't say I've had anything I'd class as a threat.
On FB I limit things to Friends which keeps things pretty civil.
I've never really experienced on-line unpleasantness, but that's probably because I only regularly go on five fora - all wargaming and none of them TMP.
From Techno's non-existent Facebook page:
Sunday
Status - bleeding slightly from shaving cuts. Will just walk around today.
07:45 OMG! I was in bed, right, and Mrs Techo say, she says, 'right, Techno-Bach, time you was out this bed and doing something useful. There's lovely!' and I was 'oh no! Like that's against human rights or something and I should be able to sleep until I like don't want to' and she was 'well, if you don't get up now, you'll have to get your own breakfast' and this is against the Geneva convention or something?
08:20 *selfie with horse* It's like really cold and like wet out here and I have to fly on the like horse thing, and that like cool, but I may like fall off?
09:30 *selfie of foot* Like can you see where the horse like totally stepped on my foot? I may have like concussion or something.
10:29 *gratuitous trout pout selfie in bathroom*
11:15 Like it's Sunday but like I have to do work like feeding sheep and that like against God or something? Is there really someone I can complain to?
11:33 So not working. Saw that film If last night where Caligula takes over a place or something and wears one of them really cool jackets with the wool collars that are like really cool in black and white and he shoots like loads of people with a machine gun called Brenda or something.
OIK !!!!!!! (Gratuitous use of exclamation marks, there !!!!!! ) :D
Cheers - Phil
There wuz a ting bout !!!!!!! causing bad spellin on Today yesday - didna get all of't as wuz crossing Scoth border control at time. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IanS
Let's eat Mrs McTavish!!!
Yes, she'd like that.