no shooting within 50feet of a road with a white line on it, unless that road is on private land and you’ve got the land owners permission… tis the law i believe?

Only if doing so causes a nuisance. If it doesn’t cause a nuisance, it’s all good. IIRC

And of course we’re talking shotguns here, FAC weapons are more strictly controlled (due to the multi-mile lethality range as opposed to the shotguns c. 70 yards with a trailing wind).

PC World? Aren’t they the company that ‘just came across’ child porn on Gary Glitter’s PC hard drive (i.e. they’ve openly admitted to looking at stuff on your hard drive, could be personal stuff, could be bills/receipts, could be addresses, could be family photos etc).

No salt until after it’s cooked. Salt draws the moisture out, you want to keep the moisture IN by quickly searing both sides and all edges first. IMHO of course. Worcestershire sauce if one so fancies, or a decent English mustard.

trained in the ancient art of bukkake

So now I’m confused, I thought we’d settled on no sauce!

I think those model numbers were used during WWII

M2 – Stuart light tank
M3 – Lee (Grant in UK service)
M4 – Sherman
M5 – Stuart (again, uprated M2)
M6 – heavy tank never really went into mass production
M7 – Priest SPG
M8 – howitzer on an M2/M5 chassis
M9 – prototype only
M10 – tank destroyer, Achilles in British service

I was being facetious, the Abrams is an M1, there is no M11.

The projectiles fired from the M11 Abrams tank leave the barrel moving at over 1500m/s.

What happened to the M2-M10? :wink:

Ah yes, 8-speed XT cassettes, bloody awful things, only really good for scrap, although now you don’t need it could I have it for the bike parts sculpture I’m making? Obviously I’ll pay the postage. :D

That skid is A:awesomely cute, and B: summing up my life!

Why were you riding down the steps and having your picture taken.
Just a silly stunt hoping to offend people?

Unlike your post naturally.

Can’t you download for free from a MS sponsored site and just buy the license off Amazon as with some other MS software?

Expenses??? 8O

I count myself lucky to get a response.

It is an absolute right of passage to own a brand new quality penknife and then to promptly cut yourself whilst testing its sharpness, due to the quality of blade it should not be that painful and in fact ideally you dont immediatly notice until THE RIVER OF BLOOD that follows and that you vainly try to mop up in an attempt to hide the fact that you cut yourself within 30 second of being alone with it…. not that i know anyone who has done this

One of my sons stuck a scalpel (used for Airfix kit modeling) in his hand at a young age. Thought he’d better keep quiet and go to the bathroom to stem the bleeding. It’s only when I went fo a pee some time later and saw the blood everywhere that I knew something was wrong!

I have a step-neice you managed to stab herself in the leg whilst whittling.

Our youngest got this when he was 11.

I once borrowed someone’s bike and within minutes, trying to impress the g/f with a smart skid on the grass, went straight over the bars. Gave witnesses a good laugh.

It does seem ludicrously unsafe to have the front brake lever different to motorbikes. Some people chime in with, ‘Well I’ve driven LHD cars with no problem’..well yes, because they still have the pedals in exactly the same order.

Not read the whole thread, so apologies if someone has done this already, but we have the opposite problem. I’m a medicating Bipolar sufferer, and one medication side-effect is it reduces libido, and of course when I was a raging Bipolar I was sex mad, so the poor missus knows what she’s missing.

Sometimes I actually find the whole sex thing a bit ‘been there done it’. Ditto porn. I’d happily chop my tackle off and be done with it.

Damn, only just noticed the button! How unobservant am I? 8O

Mark, can we have a like/dislike button for each post?

Being very good or correct rarely (if ever) coincides with being most popular.

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

Oswald wasn’t going to go quietly. He said he was innocent and was just a patsy.

He said he was innocent??? Well now you tell me! Well that’s him off the hook then. :roll:

Lots of people in the street below who pointed up at him at the depository window shouting ‘there’s the shooter’ (or words to that effect) disagree. Sure, they could be mistaken, but coupled with all the other evidence.

What a goody two shoes toe-the-line rhetoric.

That’s not what I’ve been called by some posters on the religion threads where I’ve pointed the exact same thing out! :lol: You obviously haven’t chanced across my postings much, I don’t DO toeing the line. :wink:

How can I go about checking providence?

He has the WHOLE V5, and the car is at the registered address or no deal, as per the Police and DVLA advice. If he doesn’t have them, he’s most likely a dealer trading illegally.

I had our local ‘friendly family’ business replace a part with a part which was itself faulty. The failure wasn’t found however until much more work was done, and I’d gone to the Main Dealer with the car still faulty. They replace the ‘new’ part and I delivered a letter by hand to the local garage telling them we expected a full refund for all works (and quoted the law), and that we didn’t blame him and expected he would recover his costs from his supplier. They paid promptly.

Jack Ruby? That whole thing’s still pretty suspicious, hey?

I’ve heard Ruby was a small time wannabe who hung around the cops trying to get himself some influence, he loved JFK with a passion, and thought he could become a hero by shooting Oswald. In my limited experience of people that doesn’t sound implausible.

what about a car engine on a busy road?

Continuous noise, you can track it.

Not sure that is just the PC view you have said there tbh but I would like to politely withdraw from debating this with you on this thread and lets leave the thread be.

To be clear I tend to agree with you on the issue in general but you state it in too extreme a manner

Thumbs up smiley were one available.

really tucker what is the politically correct view on genital mutilation out of interest?

The PC is view is it’s only mutilation on girls, on boys it’s ‘circumcision’ which is fine, because to say otherwise would be ‘racist’ against believers of Abrahamic faiths.

The HMG (Higher Moral Ground) is of course that genital mutilation of legally unable to consent children is abhorrent regardless of their sex. If they want to chop bits off their genitals when they are old enough to consent, good for them, the debate is not about the ‘benefits of circumcision’.

The absolute best thing about that letter is that the majority of people who read it will naturally assume it’s the work of someone trying to stir up racial hatred (which of course is a criminal offense).

And just to note, ‘race’ is being used here in its modern form, to denote a group of people who are ‘different’, even if that difference is one they chose, e.g. various religious groups, ‘travellers’, presumably pedophiles, etc.

This is what happens when you combine thick people and political correctness.

In my opinion, impossible not to have one without the other.

Send your child along as demanded, but ensure that they wear a colander on their head all day as accords with your families strict pastafarian beliefs.

:lol:

Usually tracking is measured in minutes, 3.5mm is a lot for tracking to be out.

Tracking can be measured angularly or by distance. 3.175mm (1/8th inch) per side toe in or out isn’t excessive (depending on vehicle). On MX-5s at the front, some people like 3.2mm toe out, others 3.2mm toe -in, per side!

No bullets travelled in anything other than a straight line (until they hit something that deflected them), that’s another film myth. People most probably heard gunshots from the grassy knoll because of the way sound travels and is reflected off buildings. It’s very hard if not impossible for a human ear to find the direction of a gunshot in a built up area.

And as for key witness statements being contradictory, well, doh, yeah. It’s a very well known and very very well documented failing of humans. Indeed, one famous experiment had a University/College class taken down the bar/pub for lunch were a murder was staged. When questioned afterwards the majority of students identified the wrong perpetrator.

As with everything else in life, and as I’ve said before in this thread (and others), if there is no concrete peer reviewed court admissible evidence to support something, you can safely dismiss it.

I’d say they’re a bit young for the heaviness of it all, but only you know your kids. Trenches and ramparts etc, fine, but cemeteries no.

The French call their paper clips “Les Trombones”…

Theatrical mice use paperclips as fake trombones when staging Gilbert & Sullivan musicals. They can’t use real ones because it’s a little-known fact that mice can’t actually purse their lips, so they can only play percussion and string instruments.

Forget wheels sizes, fork oil viscosity, geartrain parts compatibility, and ghetto tubeless tips, THIS is why I love STW! :lol:

Don’t open the oven door, shave, over exert yourself, or move to somewhere warm from somewhere cold whilst wearing them. Very hard to see anything when they are completely steamed up. :wink:

Lee Harvey Oswald was just a patsy and couldn’t have made that shot

He was an ex. Marine, the US Marines have one of the highest marksmanship standards in the US, having to qualify at ranges way beyond those normally used in the military. He was also ranked very highly for his shooting ability. In addition, he was shooting one of histories fasting reloading bolt-action rifles over short range at a very slow moving target. I’m quiet confident all my kids could have pulled of those shots with that rifle.

Do not take details from the film JFK as factual. When the film was released Oliver Stone was universally slated for its inaccuracy, to which he responded ‘Hey it’s only a bit of light entertainment’ (or something like that).

Cycle on pavements. If roads are deemed that unsafe that any pedestrian walking on them should FACE oncoming traffic, there’s absolutely no way a cyclist who is less able to quickly jump out of harms can be safe cycling on them.

Although it should perhaps be noted that impeding traffic can be an offense.

I had a cuddly toy golliwog as a kid. It’s name was Gollie.

Me too. My mum has a huge Golly collection including probably everything Golly related that Robertson sold and some Noddy first editions. In my limited experience the people that find Gollies offensive are the same ones that call people ‘coconuts’ because although they have black skin, they act like a white person. I don’t think you can get any more racist than that, I always thought people acted like people regardless of their skin colour.

Rachel – short history of road tax and its historical demise in favour of vehicle excise duty.

Bad idea, Rachel will then get someone informing her that actually it’s still road tax (colloquialism). It’s a tax we pay to use the roads, just like alcohol tax is a tax we pay to purchase alcohol, ditto tobacco tax , incidentally also both colloquialisms. And of course I don’t think anyone actually thinks alcohol tax is spent on alcohol, or tobacco tax on tobacco, just as road tax isn’t spent on roads.

Now, cars that are never used on the road (race and closed course rally cars) don’t need road tax, forever ending the silly notion that road tax is an emissions tax, despite what the government try and have us believe.

I’m still blown away whenever I watch the opening beach landing scene of Saving Private Ryan. Actually gives me a chill to imagine having to walk into that hail of machine gun fire.

Especially those magic bullets that keep traveling at wounding speeds underwater! Bullets shot from air into water rapidly decelerate within just a few feet. In fact, when your being shot at in the water the military SOP is to dive, because just a small amount of water is enough to save you. At the angles involved in film, the bullets likely wouldn’t have even entered the water but would have ricocheted off the surface. Great opening scene, but ruined for me.

Sanyo Eneloops are the best rechargeable batteries you can get. Not the cheapest though.

I don’t know if that’s 100% true. What I DO know is that there are very few batteries manufacturers in the world, with most batteries being re-branded. Sanyo ARE a manufacturer. I’ve used Eneloops since they came out in both AA and AAA and, coupled with a decent charger (in our case a La Crosse BL-700) and couldn’t be any happier. OK, that’s a lie, I could be happier, but there are no Swedish triplets that live locally.

Discounting suits (more than one item), probably my tailored Irvine Flying Jacket. With pockets (sorry, yes I know, sacrilege, I’m a peasant!). Can’t remember how much I paid.