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I bet you didn't know that this thread would have a part 2

IamMetaldave

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mrsoundie

seamus wrote: »

I don't know if it's come up on this thread before, but you can quickly check if an AA or AAA battery is good or bad by dropping it arse-first from about a foot onto a solid surface.

Dead batteries bounce, good batteries don't.

I showed my OH this morning and her mind was blown.

I read up on the physics behind this fadó fadó but I've completely forgotten why it works now.

Quietly runs to get a car battery to test this out!

jimgoose

Evade wrote: »

A lot of the bigger animals wouldn't be stopped quick enough, if at all, by that calibre.

I know, but like most people I'm too weedy to fire a Ma Deuce from the hip.

Evade

jimgoose wrote: »

Are people stone mad or what?? I wouldn't take on any of those without an M4 carbine and a couple of hundred feet of distance! :pac:

A lot of the bigger animals wouldn't be stopped quick enough, if at all, by that calibre.

EDIT: To expand on this a bit. It is illegal in a lot of places to hunt anything bigger than a very small deer or fox with that calibre because it takes far too long to kill something and it's considered cruel. Which is kind of the reason it was adopted for military use. In conventional army vs army warfare it is thought to be more effective to wound the enemy soldiers and have them tie up medical resources and personnel that to kill them outright.

jimgoose

Are people stone mad or what?? I wouldn't take on any of those without an M4 carbine and a couple of hundred feet of distance! :pac:

Sleepy

With a good knife you'd stand a decent chance against a croc... even better odds if you had some some rope to hand as well. Completely unarmed? I just can't see it. They're cold-blooded predators that are used to lying in wait for their prey. You're not going to be able to punch one to death while holding it's mouth closed

ohnonotgmail

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

9% vs a croc ?

It's a killing machine that hasn't changed much in the last 80 million years.

Big things like platyoposaurus and prionosuchus had a very, very similar design 270 million years ago. Long before dinosaurs or grass or flowers.

depends where the fight takes place. If it is in the water your chances are slim but if it entirely on land you might be ok. If you can avoid them biting you and get on top of them it is relatively easy to keep their mouths closed. you then poke their eyes out and then kill them at your leisure. Not that I have thought about this a lot.

Capt'n Midnight

seamus wrote: »

I don't know if it's come up on this thread before, but you can quickly check if an AA or AAA battery is good or bad by dropping it arse-first from about a foot onto a solid surface.

Dead batteries bounce, good batteries don't.

I showed my OH this morning and her mind was blown.

I read up on the physics behind this fadó fadó but I've completely forgotten why it works now.

That's gas.

Gas pressure build up, doesn't work for all battery chemistries.

Capt'n Midnight

lmimmfn wrote: »

Its the 8% could beat an Elephant that gets me, lol

9% vs a croc ?

It's a killing machine that hasn't changed much in the last 80 million years.

Big things like platyoposaurus and prionosuchus had a very, very similar design 270 million years ago. Long before dinosaurs or grass or flowers.

seamus

I don't know if it's come up on this thread before, but you can quickly check if an AA or AAA battery is good or bad by dropping it arse-first from about a foot onto a solid surface.

Dead batteries bounce, good batteries don't.

I showed my OH this morning and her mind was blown.

I read up on the physics behind this fadó fadó but I've completely forgotten why it works now.

New Home

Evade wrote: »

Americans wouldn't need to fight bears as often if they didn't have a constitutional right to keep (and) bear arms.

Bare arms? Not in winter, surely!

Evade

Americans wouldn't need to fight bears as often if they didn't have a constitutional right to keep (and) bear arms.

Mollyb60

When Mt St Helens erupted in May 1980, a photographer called Robert Landsberg was too close to survive the eruption so he took as many photos as he could of the eruption then lay down on his camera to protect it and waited to die. The camera was found intact and the photos developed. Incredible.

https://petapixel.com/2011/09/07/photographer-died-protecting-his-film-during-the-1980-mt-st-helens-eruption/

New Home

Unarmed? Perhaps, it you don't count their guns (cue above-mentioned American kissing his biceps).
Unharmed? Nuh-uh. Not even a little bit.

Capt'n Midnight

Cordell wrote: »

That is because they will bring a large caliber gun to a claws fight.

The poll was for unarmed Americans so there's not even that excuse.

secondrowgal

Stolen from Stingy thread:

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=117187605#post117187605

Back when people used code words to save on the number of words used in telegram messages.

In 1887 a wool dealer named Frank Primrose send a coded telegraph message to his agent saying he had purchased 500,000 pounds of wool. "I Have Bought" was the code word BAY. The fumble-fingered telegrapher accidentally sent the words BUY, which means (surprise surprise) "buy". Morse for "A" is dot-dash, while "U" is dot-dot-dash. Very easy to make a mistake. The agent got the incorrect message and duly purchased 500,000 pounds of wool. Primrose lost $20,000 (about $270,000 in 2010 dollars).

He sued the telegraph company, but unfortunately he had failed to pay the two cents extra for the message to be verified.

So the court awarded him a refund of $1.15, the cost of the message.

lmimmfn

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

source https://today.yougov.com/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2021/05/13/lions-and-tigers-and-bears-what-animal-would-win-f

Its the 8% could beat an Elephant that gets me, lol

Cordell

That is because they will bring a large caliber gun to a claws fight.

Capt'n Midnight

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Now I want to see a person compared to the average bear!

source https://today.yougov.com/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2021/05/13/lions-and-tigers-and-bears-what-animal-would-win-f

ILoveYourVibes

woah

BonnieSituation

New Home wrote: »

Now I want to see a person compared to the average bear!

New Home

KevRossi

joujoujou wrote: »

Some Eurozone countries still allow using pre-euro stamps! :eek:

Recent ebay purchase came from France with quite a big amount of stamps affixed:

Quick research and the green one is quite recent, worth 1 Euro, while blue ones were issued in early nineties, worth 3.2 French Francs each. 1 Euro equals 6.55957 FRF. Postage paid - 3.9 EUR.

Some shops in France still give their customers receipts with both FRF and EUR on them. Same applies to utility bills.

Kind of fitting that the stamps were used to send a package to Roscommon.

We Rossies like doing things the traditional way.

New Home

BonnieSituation wrote: »

How would you still have a stock of FRF stamps after 19 years. Madness.

Bottom of the junk drawer in granny's house.

BonnieSituation

joujoujou wrote: »

Some Eurozone countries still allow using pre-euro stamps! :eek:

Recent ebay purchase came from France with quite a big amount of stamps affixed:

Quick research and the green one is quite recent, worth 1 Euro, while blue ones were issued in early nineties, worth 3.2 French Francs each. 1 Euro equals 6.55957 FRF. Postage paid - 3.9 EUR.

Some shops in France still give their customers receipts with both FRF and EUR on them. Same applies to utility bills.

How would you still have a stock of FRF stamps after 19 years. Madness.

joujoujou

Some Eurozone countries still allow using pre-euro stamps! :eek:

Recent ebay purchase came from France with quite a big amount of stamps affixed:

Quick research and the green one is quite recent, worth 1 Euro, while blue ones were issued in early nineties, worth 3.2 French Francs each. 1 Euro equals 6.55957 FRF. Postage paid - 3.9 EUR.

Some shops in France still give their customers receipts with both FRF and EUR on them. Same applies to utility bills.

BonnieSituation

its_steve116 wrote: »

Turtles can breathe through their behinds.

You were reading RTÉ today weren't ya?

https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2021/0515/1221831-animals-oxygen-study/

its_steve116

Turtles can breathe through their behinds.

Gloomtastic!

Marino Crescent in Clontarf, is Dublin's only Georgian crescent. It was built as a spite wall to block Lord Charlemont's view of the sea.

Bram Stoker lived in No. 15 at one time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marino_Crescent

Capt'n Midnight

The designers of the spacesuits for landing on the moon went to the New York Metropolitan Museum to see if there was a precedent. They were referred to the Tower of London,

The space suits used on the Moon by NASA were in part based on the tournament armour made for Henry VIII to use at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520.

KevRossi

Ireland's largest folly is actually a spite fence in Belvedere House near Mullingar.

http://www.belvedere-house.ie/Explore/Belvedere,Follies/

The Jealous Wall
The Jealous Wall was built c. 1760 as a result of a quarrel between Robert Rochfort and another brother George, the owner of nearby Rochfort House (subsequently re-named Tudenham House), now, alas a melancholy ruin. The Wall was built between the two houses as an artificial ruin of an abbey so as to exclude from Robert’s view the sight of his brother’s residence of which he was jealous. It is believed that the Earl went to enormous expense in constructing the ruin, to the extent of hiring the services of a celebrated Italian Architect Barrodotte to superintend its erection.

The Wall is in the form of a large gothic ruin built in stone with a central wall, Three pointed windows high up, and five smaller round headed windows above them. Two square wings project at either end of the wall which stands some 20 metres high.

The Jealous Wall still stands today, and is said to be the largest purposely built ruin of its kind in Ireland