
Gritty 1970s realism of Mr Small and his pals.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:39, Reply)

That would be have been a nice dissertation relief about 5 years ago.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:44, Reply)

I know I'm not around these parts much at the moment, I do lurk occasionally when work permits. Term is over so more time :)
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 15:54, Reply)

Now they all know who to blame for me sticking around
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 16:06, Reply)

Wow,I'm amazed I have had the flaming pitchforks after me ;)
Glad you've stuck around - I'm rather fond of the song videos.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 17:03, Reply)

"One feels he would be just as horrified as Nietzsche himself was by the anti-Semitism of Wagner."
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:56, Reply)

If those were live rounds, surely he's be flung back against that wall, and may or may not explode.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:40, Reply)

It is just being hit by a tray with a little round like that.
It would fucking smart though.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:43, Reply)

In the movies they get knocked over, and you think your hero is dead
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 15:13, Reply)

7.62. As in 7.62mm. .762 suggests you're using inches, which would mean a 1.9cm calibre round (like something you'd fire from an aircraft), which would DEFINITELY hurt.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 15:09, Reply)

The old NATO was 7.62×51mm, and the current standard NATO round is 5.56×45mm
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 15:19, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu0LJtbWBTg&feature=player_detailpage#t=27s
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 16:40, Reply)

wouldn't you agree colour sergeant?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGlSJgDsvTM&t=12m32s
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 18:34, Reply)

My bad - NATO use 7.62 for Chain guns and GPMG, but not for any assault rifle I can think of?
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 15:20, Reply)

I was having a wee reminisce about these and wondering if they were still mass-produced or available on Ebay. Turns out Ebay is your best bet, but I don't remember this one and wonder how it got through the "should we, shouldn't we" decision making process at Trend Corporation.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:32, Reply)

Reminded me, Alien Sex Fiend once put a single out called 'Smells like shit' with a scratch-n-sniff label
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:37, Reply)

Before the day governments regulated what chemicals you could expose a kid to.
If you took a "Happy birthday" one and a "Hot stuff pizza one" and placed them under your tongue you tripped your tits off.*
may contain fibs
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:39, Reply)

Amazing that anyone survived this crash and also that the rescue people went in whilst the motor was still going mental.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:07, Reply)

And I can't believe people were standing in the plane of the still-spinning and very mangled rotor blades. Common sense appears to be in short supply.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:17, Reply)

There are only so many smart people in the world, and we need them to keep the nuclear reactors from cooking and the LHC spinning.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:22, Reply)

But you'd think that with so many other threats to their safety in that environment their lives they'd want to keep away from the spinny blades of death.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:30, Reply)

Perish the thought though, eh?
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:33, Reply)

Evil Andies squad are not team players.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:41, Reply)

No point having a squad full of lemmings.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 16:27, Reply)

without standing around like lemons next to the spinny blades of death.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 16:26, Reply)

You either wait for it to run out of fuel or swamp it with foam.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:55, Reply)

has a big red button you can thump. Not really practical on aircraft though :/
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:58, Reply)

Most aircraft though will have at least two methods to shut down the engines, the normal engine master switches and some bloody great red fire handles. Usually those fire handles are either mechanically connected to fuel valves, or wired in such a manner that a break in electrical continuity closes the valves.
This doesn't always work though, see the Qantas A380 incident at Changi for example...
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 16:56, Reply)

How about sticking a potato up its exhaust?
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 15:52, Reply)

Not sure if these people would want their full name and rank published.
[ninja edit]
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:24, Reply)

must.. resist... pointing... out.... mistakes... in that last sentence. Gaaaaah /gasp
edit: damn, ninja'ed, now (once again) I look like a raving weirdo
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:27, Reply)

and got a better mobile signal on the far side of the Hindu Kush than he did in his living-room in Swindon.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:58, Reply)

A lovely bit of Radiophonic Workshop goodness that some of you may recognise.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:41, Reply)

Makes me smile.
EDIT - And now I've worked out where I've heard the last couple of bars before!
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:17, Reply)

Came across this on amazon and then read the comment.......and the comments to the comment......true or fake buyer?
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:32, Reply)

Winding up 100s of watches might be a bit of a bore
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:34, Reply)

One of my design jobs is watches.
Each pocket rotates.
An automatic movement with a counterweight winder will run itself flat in a few days of non motion.
If you have a collection of these then you store them in a cabinate like this one so as to keep them wound.
[edit]
There is a practical reason for not letting a mechanical run down too.
You can't set some within a few hours of midnight because the extra tension caused by the date wheel turning is enough to break the workings.
Moon phase dials need to be set at certain times of the year to be accurate.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:36, Reply)

thank you Amadeus and Rob as it now makes sense as to why you would want it to hold more than one watch. Still a bit steep though!
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:41, Reply)

A single watch winder can be got for around 20 quid.
4 watches under a hundred in a nice finish.
6 seems to be a lot more expensive for some reason though.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:44, Reply)

Just keep it in my bathroom window when not wearing it.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:48, Reply)

Apparently: www.b3ta.com/questions/crapgadgets/post1374533
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:38, Reply)

it would be useful for a man with no arms...
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:53, Reply)

'Ave you got the time on yer, cock?
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:00, Reply)

This also made me laugh:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18735228
'Domain names are the words humans use, such as bbc.co.uk, for websites.'
Must have been a reptilian intern.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:23, Reply)

Some clever lad has trawled through Youtube and stitched together the 'better' quality clips of the Stone Roses concert to give a full gig of reasonable quality.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:02, Reply)

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/stone-roses-heaton-park-atmosphere-/130724495825?pt=UK_Music_Music_Memorabilia_LE&hash=item1e6fc981d1
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:10, Reply)

if Friday night was anything to go by.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:13, Reply)

than 75000 devoted fans a night singing along to your songs
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:40, Reply)

His voice is shot although he's never really been able to sing.
I prefer the stuff he did on his own.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:08, Reply)

It's like watching your teacher dance at the school disco..embarrassing & pathetic.
Go back to the grave, monkey dads.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:31, Reply)

Let alone ones that can sell 225000 tickets. No-one wants to see that.
You idiot.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:40, Reply)

i was there on the sat night! pretty incredible atmosphere!
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 18:25, Reply)

Sorry. Anyway, it's a twitter feed from a Times journalist tweeting from the Magistrates Court appearance of John Terry regarding alleged racist abuse.
Unintentionally quite funny. It all goes a bit Derek and Clive when discussing what was actually said.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 12:35, Reply)

There has to be an application to the judge who then has to allow it, and if using a phone it is supposed to have all it's other functions turned off, although I know this isn't possible.
*waves from the Crown Court*
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 12:53, Reply)

( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 12:52, Reply)

Is there one out there who is just, well, 'alright'?
Or better still, normal?
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:04, Reply)

Robbie Savage is surprisingly nice in person (in my experience), despite looking like a complete wazzock.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:11, Reply)

But then he has ridiculous hair and drives a white lamborghini
www1.pictures.fp.zimbio.com/Robbie+Savage+Out+Wilmslow+UK+Lamborghini+-4yGdwQGRMFl.jpg
I always assumed Paul Scholes might be alright. Seems quite a humble person contrasted with his remarkable ability.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:18, Reply)

then he meant and built a hospital out of his own wodge in his home village, just to prove me wrong
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:23, Reply)

Ferdinand now asked to show the court what a "shagging gesture" looks like
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:49, Reply)

isn't it? It's like two schoolkids in the headmaster's office: 'Yeah, sir, but he said such and such about my Mum....'
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:53, Reply)

For clarity, "shagging gesture" demonstrated by Ferdinand in court was fist clenched, right arm across midriff, arm pumped to and fro
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:59, Reply)

It forces the rat to confront its preferred host, the cat.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 12:42, Reply)

In case you heard the rumblings from the LHC last week, and the subsequent rush to explain what on Earth it means, we thought we would put together a little video to explain what a Higgs Boson really is...
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 11:52, Reply)

...a very nicely done explanation - good analogy with the clapping.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 12:13, Reply)

My tiny mind just can't handle the numbers and apparently counter intuitive logic involving quantum physics.
So the higgs particle is made up of other particles that have no mass but has a mass of 125keV and creates a field that gives mass to some particles but not to all particles.
Good effort in trying to explain it but my brain just rejects that.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 12:37, Reply)

The Higgs boson doesn't create the Higgs field. The field has been there all along. The field is not created by any particle. The Higgs boson interacts with the Higgs field, so if we can find the boson then we can infer the existance of the field. Other particles also interact with the field. It is the field which confers mass on particles, not the boson as so many mainstream media outlets keep repeating.
( , Tue 10 Jul 2012, 3:44, Reply)

I love science but only have a very basic knowledge of it and this explains things in a way I wouldn't have understood in technical terms.
*Click*
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:28, Reply)

I think I actually learnt something then.
I wish you'd been my teacher at school etc.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:50, Reply)

And the animation is superb! I like happy particles.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 18:17, Reply)

I see!
( , Fri 13 Jul 2012, 19:33, Reply)

Don't say his name too loudly or he'll appear...
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 12:26, Reply)

That knife would shatter the first time you parried with it.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:10, Reply)

Can't you count? 3 times he said!!
*searches for rosary beads*
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:13, Reply)

...you can turn any knife-sized piece of metal into an Awesome Knife
...if you have a furnace, anvil, hammer and other miscellaneous knife making equipment...?
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:51, Reply)

why not "FBI cracks criminal internet gang?"
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 11:02, Reply)

*pppfffttt*
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 11:05, Reply)

A discussion happened many years ago at work as to whether a car should be referred to when written as 'an MG' or 'a MG' - apparently the latter is correct (I lost the argument - still seems wrong to me)
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 11:12, Reply)

"FBI fix broken internet, provides handy website to test if you are effected".
How the HELL did you get an anti american story out of that?!
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:26, Reply)

From the Collins Dictionary of English Usage:-
"Where the indefinate article is followed by an abbrieviation in the form of letters, the form follows the sound of the letter rather than the word it represents"
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 11:32, Reply)

( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 13:46, Reply)

Thing is, though, the gang was cracked in the past. This story is related, but it's not the same. So the headline "Thousands face internet loss as FBI shuts off servers" I took to be a fairly neutral one, on the grounds that thousands do face internet loss, because the FBI is shutting down servers.
If there's bias there, it's not in the headline. It's in the reality.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 12:04, Reply)

but this whole article seems strangely written to me. does anything other than humans use the internet?
'Domain names are the words humans use, such as bbc.co.uk, for websites.'
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 11:26, Reply)

I think that title describes the link quite succinctly.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 10:24, Reply)

Plenty of swords, blood and kilts to be had here.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 8:17, Reply)

Loved the animation and timing, spot on!
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 8:39, Reply)

someone said "You should this post to link board"
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 2:42, Reply)

they mean https://menshn.com/chat/entrepreneur ----->
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 10:26, Reply)

But you didn't listen to them.
I think it was me.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 3:46, Reply)

Perhaps you need to find another avenue to show your work?
Or perhaps I just dont care any more...
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 4:03, Reply)

but repetitive and a one trick pony. Perhaps we should redirect his furry vore self over to the kind folks at e621.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 6:13, Reply)

Edit: Got home and had a look, I thought I couldn't be freaked out by anything on the net anymore but that is right up there. 'Shudders'
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 6:31, Reply)

( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 12:30, Reply)

This is OK as far as it goes, but they lack the depth, richness of tone and "oomph" of proper Northern brass.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 8:33, Reply)

Hackney is one of those places, where if you were born there, you are unlucky, if you moved there, you are a wanker
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 10:26, Reply)

Used to be a quiet area with good mob connections and all the cheap fruit and veg you could want from drug fronts.
Now it's "Trendy" and the place has gone to shit.
( , Mon 9 Jul 2012, 14:44, Reply)
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