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This is a link post Generational stupidity
One of those stories that makes you wonder how these people survived long enough to breed.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 4 Dec 2023, 6:16, Reply)
This is a normal post Well if it weren't just a practice shell the fella in the article would have never been born in the first place.

(I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Mon 4 Dec 2023, 7:38, Reply)
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“tests showed it was live with a very small amount of charge”

The full version was designed to fuck up an entire ship. A practice version would be easily capable of fucking up an elderly gardener.

Practice shell or not, picking up ordnance from a firing range is pretty dumb, bashing said ordnance with garden tools knowing its origin spectacularly so.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 4 Dec 2023, 13:29, Reply)
This is a normal post Hmmm. They called it a "missile".
I don't know if anyone here has a strong opinion about whether a missile is always guided or can be a shell like this one.
 (dyllon nice beaver., Mon 4 Dec 2023, 14:44, Reply)
This is a normal post A guided missile is so called because it's a missile equipped with a system of guidance.
A missile is generally a self propelled projectile, but it can also be any object thrown or launched with intent to damage a target, e.g. a bullet or a chalkboard rubber.

I feel very strongly about maintaining this ambiguity.
 (I helped save b3ta! brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 4 Dec 2023, 19:23, Reply)
This is a normal post ^Anyone ambiguous about this strong opinion?
I'd appreciate it if the powers that be made all missiles guided by nature of being missiles so i could be very withering about the inappropriate usage to someone online.
"Oh i think you'll find a rock is very much NOT a mi...", i think nuance and there not actually being a right answer is hugely overrated.
 (dyllon nice beaver., Mon 4 Dec 2023, 21:43, Reply)
This is a normal post You are entitled to a little ambiguity too,
in that the act of aiming a throw/launch/fire/impulse/whatever is, in a sense, guiding that object to its target.
 (I helped save b3ta! brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 4 Dec 2023, 23:05, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm ambivalent about nuanced ambiguity.
On the other hand the effective meaning is really what the receiver takes it to be.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 4 Dec 2023, 23:09, Reply)
This is a normal post So you completely agree with me
I take it
 (dyllon nice beaver., Tue 5 Dec 2023, 9:09, Reply)
This is a normal post 'Missiles' are objects propelled through the air so it's fine.
A thrown stone is a missile.
 (Smegg Wallace The O.G. Q.R., Tue 5 Dec 2023, 13:16, Reply)