WTF??!!!? - The 'What The F*ck' Thread

New Home · 09-06-2021 12:35am

Oh, honey...

Mellor · 09-06-2021 6:27am

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

to be fair if you haven't copped it by the third sign the others are not going to make any difference.

If they only had it at the first exit, then everyone from the second to last exit won't see it. Similar if it was only on the last one there people before that won't see it.

So needs to be one opposite each exit for existing drivers. And on each exit to let drivers coming up the road to know they aren't entrances.
A better layout would be better. But don't think it's really WTF material.

New Home · 09-06-2021 1:50pm

K.Flyer · 09-06-2021 7:47pm

Not sure if this has been posted here before..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci-q2JnZ068

Capt'n Midnight · 09-06-2021 10:24pm

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-sugar-mill-worker-86-fatally-shoots-boss-after-he-n1269743

Capt'n Midnight · 09-06-2021 11:32pm

New Home · 10-06-2021 12:37am

Contents: "All ofs"...

New Home · 10-06-2021 12:50am

Vertical Take-Off Of A Boeing 787 Dreamliner (I hope nobody's air sick...)

Mellor · 10-06-2021 3:32am

New Home wrote: »

FYI a Punt was a type of boat. These guns were mounted on the boat for firing, not the shoulder.

GreeBo · 10-06-2021 11:21am

Its always important to aim a punt gun correctly, you dont want to hit one of the other planets.

Yester · 10-06-2021 1:26pm

In the 1920s ducks were the size of horses.

10-06-2021 1:36pm

Those things could wipe out an entire flock with a few shots!

Edit: fire one shot from a small gun to get them airbourne then blast the flock with the Punt.

Boardnashea · 10-06-2021 1:41pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Those things could wipe out an entire flock with a few shots!

I understand that is what they were supposed to do. A wide spread of pellets to take down as many as possible in a flock sitting on the water.
It would probably move the boat back a metre or two as well! I wouldn't fancy being on either end of one of them.

josip · 10-06-2021 1:42pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Those things could wipe out an entire flock with a few shots!

1 shot.
Good luck getting the flock to hang around while you muzzle reload

Although they used to have 'fleets' of punts, so 'shots' were possible.

10-06-2021 1:51pm

josip wrote: »

1 shot.
Good luck getting the flock to hang around while you muzzle reload
Although they used to have 'fleets' of punts, so 'shots' were possible.

Yeah, that's what I meant, several Punts aimed at the flock.

GreeBo · 10-06-2021 2:50pm

josip wrote: »

1 shot.
Good luck getting the flock to hang around while you muzzle reload
Although they used to have 'fleets' of punts, so 'shots' were possible.

#crossfire:eek:

Mellor · 10-06-2021 3:32pm

R.

Boardnashea wrote: »

It would probably move the boat back a metre or two as well! I wouldn't fancy being on either end of one of them.

It would move the boat a little bit, but inches not
metres. The boat and gun are far heavier that the shot, plus drag from the water opposes the sudden movement.

berettaman · 11-06-2021 5:35pm

It was traditional in Wexford harbour for many years. The making of the shot is a craft in itself.
The boat would definitely move backwards with the recoil.
The elderly man that I spoke to stated that the most he ever got was 14 with a single shot. (Flocks could be dozens to hundreds).
Families were fed with the ducks or some sold to butchers and funds used to feed/clothe families. Different times.

peasant · 11-06-2021 6:25pm

11-06-2021 6:34pm

berettaman wrote: »

It was traditional in Wexford harbour for many years. The making of the shot is a craft in itself.
The boat would definitely move backwards with the recoil.
The elderly man that I spoke to stated that the most he ever got was 14 with a single shot. (Flocks could be dozens to hundreds).
Families were fed with the ducks or some sold to butchers and funds used to feed/clothe families. Different times.

In the US, they were the gun of choice when it came to shooting passenger pigeons. The birds went from the most common to extinct in about a century.

Dufflecoat Fanny · 11-06-2021 9:44pm

New Home wrote: »

My uncle still has one on his mantle he got from an old english landowner. His style of using it was to rest it against an incline over a landing pond. He never had any cartridges for it but it was made in birr as far as i know.