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Off Topic Chat. (MOD NOTE post# 3949 and post#5279)

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  • 22-04-2017 1:28pm
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    *** Update to thread rules in post 3949. Read before posting.
    SEE MOD NOTE post #5279 https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=117522413&postcount=5279 POSTED 26 Jun '21


    ***



    From time to time we all have a topic we want to discuss and are not sure where to ask/discuss it. While Boards.ie has a multitude of forums for pretty much every thing you would want to talk about sometimes it's nice to discuss it in your own forum with the people you regularly talk to.

    As such the Mods have created this Off Topic Thread.

    The premise is simple. If you have something that is not shooting related or tentatively related then post it here. The same forum rules apply and any topics that are illegal or prohibited on the main forum or the site are also prohibited here. It's also not a "work around" for the toher forums. IOW if you have a specific shooting related query or item to sell then use the main forum or for sale section.

    This thread will be for general chat, shooting the breeze, and just a way to have a non specific, or specific, chat about anything you want among those you are used to talking to.

    Have at it.
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭gunny123


    "Dangerous","Unsafe", :rolleyes:





  • Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭ezra_


    gunny123 wrote: »
    "Dangerous","Unsafe", :rolleyes:




    I'm very surprised Courtlough supported that video. It's a slap in the face, I think, for people who have spent time teaching safe and responsible firearms practice.

    Also, anyone noticed how they were loading break action shotguns for the first bird, but they ended up shooting semis?


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,943 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Keep saying it,and from experiance..Stay well away from media unless you have alot of say in whats going to be produced...

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,189 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Dunno, I think with a couple more sessions they would be hooked.
    Its just that they are a product of their environment, and of the peer group they associate with.
    Its obvious by their comments that they have been programmed with a fairly left wing liberal leaning agenda.


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,038 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Its obvious by their comments that they have been programmed with a fairly left wing liberal leaning agenda.
    .../sigh.

    So I'm a lefty pinko anarcho-commie feminazi tree-hugging hippie geeky nerdish liberal*. And I'm pretty right-wing compared to most of the people I knew from target shooting growing up.

    Left, right, center, over, under, doesn't really matter, most people who get into the sport have no problem with the sport and lots grow to love it (some people for some reason, tend to prefer other stupid things like cars or members of their preferred gender or jobs and mortgages or whatever).

    The problem here is that Facts is a comedy channel. Not an education channel. And more people laugh at the jokes on that video than would laugh at better-informed jokes. Or at least they thought so. It's a commercial decision, not a political one.




    *did I forget anyone? :D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,189 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Sparks wrote: »
    .../sigh.

    So I'm a lefty pinko anarcho-commie feminazi tree-hugging hippie geeky nerdish liberal*.



    *did I forget anyone? :D
    Fr
    Yep!
    You've left out the lentil loving, neck beard pulling, Clisare watching, beanie wearing, LSE graduate, Junker quoting, self affected, D6 flatlanders, Corbonistas gladhanders ,Triple A campaigners, shades at night, I'm so vainer, Social Studies up in Trinners, don't admit to lovin mammies dinners, Cubanistas-tiochioch ar la, always vote Finiann McGrath, 600 points, dontcha know, 60k or its no go, youth of today. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭gunny123


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Keep saying it,and from experiance..Stay well away from media unless you have alot of say in whats going to be produced...

    The problem is now, cheap very good quality cameras and youtube/vimeo/snapchat/instagram/bookface have made everyone media.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭gunny123


    I posted this video before but i don't think it appeared here, so i'll try again.



  • Registered Users Posts: 40,038 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Yep!
    You've left out the lentil loving, neck beard pulling, Clisare watching, beanie wearing, LSE graduate, Junker quoting, self affected, D6 flatlanders, Corbonistas gladhanders ,Triple A campaigners, shades at night, I'm so vainer, Social Studies up in Trinners, don't admit to lovin mammies dinners, Cubanistas-tiochioch ar la, always vote Finiann McGrath, 600 points, dontcha know, 60k or its no go, youth of today. :D
    Ah ****e, I forgot the Corbonista! Dammit! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,943 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Also the skinny jeans wearing,lumber jack shirt and beard wearing lumber jack look,but has never used an axe or chainsaw or cut so much as a twig in their lives,double soya,ethnically grown fair tarde,double decaffinated ,extra foamy, Crushed avacado on toast sanger eating,Starbucks living Gaelic Hikayu writing,high nelly riding,majoring in gender studies,[or any other field with study tacked onto it] Fuk Trump and America[but I'm going there on my J1 visa] preaching, creature of multiple genders but really identifies as a cat! person.

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,943 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    gunny123 wrote: »
    The problem is now, cheap very good quality cameras and youtube/vimeo/snapchat/instagram/bookface have made everyone media.

    Unfortuneatly so.People had to until the advent of the camera phone and youtube and FB,had to keep all this ****e in their heads!:p

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Registered Users Posts: 40,038 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Also the skinny jeans wearing,lumber jack shirt and beard wearing lumber jack look,but has never used an axe or chainsaw or cut so much as a twig in their lives
    /me looks at his lumberjack shirts

    No, I think I'm okay there...

    IMG_1291a.jpg

    :D
    ethnically grown fair tarde
    That'll do me :) They actually enforce standards in the FairTrade label system, so you know you're getting coffee instead of 20% dehydrated cat**** :D
    Crushed avacado on toast sanger eating
    Nothing wrong with poor people food! (No, seriously, that's what poor people used for butter in that part of the world; avacados didn't need refrigeration, which poor people couldn't afford; hence, avacado toast (or bread or whatever you had to spread it on).

    Now that marmite stuff... no. Just... no.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭gunny123


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Also the skinny jeans wearing,lumber jack shirt and beard wearing lumber jack look,but has never used an axe or chainsaw or cut so much as a twig in their lives,double soya,ethnically grown fair tarde,double decaffinated ,extra foamy, Crushed avacado on toast sanger eating,Starbucks living Gaelic Hikayu writing,high nelly riding,majoring in gender studies,[or any other field with study tacked onto it] Fuk Trump and America[but I'm going there on my J1 visa] preaching, creature of multiple genders but really identifies as a cat! person.


    There was an excellent programme on bbc4 the other night on hipsters, all trying to be different and managing to turn out the same. It turns out they have colonised a sizeable chunk of the east end of London. They are trying hard to be some working class throw back, but i don't think the old residents of hackney or whitechapel were vegan's with degree's from oxford selling coffee for £12 a cup. Its official, the worlds gone daft.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭gunny123


    Sparks wrote: »
    /me looks at his lumberjack shirts

    No, I think I'm okay there...

    IMG_1291a.jpg

    :D


    That'll do me :) They actually enforce standards in the FairTrade label system, so you know you're getting coffee instead of 20% dehydrated cat**** :D


    Nothing wrong with poor people food! (No, seriously, that's what poor people used for butter in that part of the world; avacados didn't need refrigeration, which poor people couldn't afford; hence, avacado toast (or bread or whatever you had to spread it on).

    Now that marmite stuff... no. Just... no.

    PFFT, Amateur, thats far too clean a workspace to be used. I knew an old cabinet maker, long dead, his workshop was a tip, but his work was lovely.


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,038 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    They are trying hard to be some working class throw back, but i don't think the old residents of hackney or whitechapel were vegan's with degree's from oxford selling coffee for £12 a cup. Its official, the worlds gone daft.
    Well. It's more that they want to see craftsmanship and artisan stuff come back, but these days there's no more manufacturing so they bring that into the service industry and you wind up getting things like really really good coffee --compared to the mass-produced crap you used to get 20 years ago-- but with the relative pricetags you used to get from handmade furniture and the like.

    Thing is, we got used to the massproduced prices so we see handmade prices on consumables and it's jarring.
    "That coffee cost over a fiver! When I was a lad, coffee in the hamilton cafe cost 1.50!"
    "Yes, but it tasted so god-awful that the standing joke was that it was just recycled from the hamilton toilets".



    I'm still gonna take the piss about those beards though :D Feck me, when did looking like Gerry Adams come back into style? :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,038 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    gunny123 wrote: »
    PFFT, Amateur, thats far too clean a workspace to be used.
    You'll note I'm not panning to the left, where all the shavings land :D
    Plus, I'd just finished shellacing the bookshelf. Shellac's lovely but you have to tidy up before you start or every piece of dust and crap around will stick to the surface and you'd be there forever with the steel wool knocking back the coat until you pretty much didn't have anything left on the wood :D
    I knew an old cabinet maker, long dead, his workshop was a tip, but his work was lovely.
    Oh, I'm nowhere near that kind of level. I putter, it does me to clear my head out occasionally. And it makes family presents a lot easier to sort out - that was a fathers' day gift for example.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,943 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Unless it involves,axes,chainsaws and wedges and cutting wood and stacking it into neat piles of firewood,I'm hopeless with wood or doing creative stuff with it.To my fammlies eternal shame,as my grandfather and father,my uncles and cousin were and are purveyors of fine veneers.:p
    Am more attracted to welding or black smithing or steel work for some reason and thinking of a career change to maybe knife making or black smithing.

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Registered Users Posts: 40,038 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    knife making or black smithing.

    Both very hipster these days :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭gunny123


    Now were are yapping about wood. I was given a very nice sidelock shotgun, made in dublin. The locks were bent though along their length. It turns out some spanner had decided to "refinish" the stock, had sanded the bejesus out of the head of the stock and left the locks sitting proud of the wood.

    To compensate, they simply overtightened the screws holding the locks together. This obviously caused issues with the mechanics of the lockwork and further butchering was done. The metal work is sorted out, but the locks stick out the side of the stock about 2mm either side.

    I will get it restocked sometime i am in better funds, but for a temporary fix i was going to glue 2mm walnut veneer either side and reshape it. It will not be brilliant, but will at least allow the locks to sit in the correct place and the wood will keep the dirt out.

    Where to get veneer though ? I remember in dublin as a young fella all around capel street had places that seemed to supply the woodworking trade.

    Answers on a postcard please. Where to buy a small amount of walnut veneer.


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,038 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    Hmmm. Online really is your best bet I'd think; you might find small bits in http://www.woodworkers.ie/ or http://www.thecarpentrystore.com/, but somewhere like http://www.thewoodveneerhub.co.uk/ is going to be more convenient and have a wider range.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭gunny123




  • Registered Users Posts: 14,943 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    gunny123 wrote: »
    Answers on a postcard please. Where to buy a small amount of walnut veneer.

    PM incoming;)

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,943 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    gunny123 wrote: »

    Bloody expensive for a gardner..Hope at least he did the weeding and mowed the lawns properly for that!:pac:

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,855 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


    gunny123 wrote: »

    Answers on a postcard please. Where to buy a small amount of walnut veneer.

    What size pieces do you need , I can cut you some off a plank


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,943 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Limerick well prepared to take on Islamic jihadists!!:D:D:D:D:D:D
    [We all thought they were here for the knife fighting courses:D]

    https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/irish-examiner/20170624/281930247985637

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭gunny123


    Its ok i was given an old broken gunstock and the colour is close to my own. So its just a matter of cutting out the wood i need and gluing it to my own stock. I know someone into woodwork, so may ask him to do it for me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭gunny123


    The hippy-dippys and drippy liberals are in melt down over kids being allowed to use training firearms on a police indoor range in the west midlands in England. I predict Owen Jones walking out of an interview in disgust over it.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-force-accused-glamorising-guns-10689635

    http://news.sky.com/story/police-criticised-for-letting-schoolchildren-use-toy-guns-on-firing-range-10928420

    742b3982220e6cfc557a4815814a56875e5f5c97ac9a3388fd9e8e240394db95_3987824.jpg?20170627085906


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,943 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Meantime in the Middle East.......Parents dont have that problem of their kids learning how to use guns.

    http://thefederalistpapers.integratedmarket.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/imageedit_2755_3864845994.jpg

    We are turely in deep trouble...

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭gunny123




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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,943 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Would you ever feel relaxed and at ease taking one of those works of art out into the hunting field?? I wouldn't..The thought of one ding or scratch on a 30k plus gun would give me palpitations.

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



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