Crossbow. They look like fun.
I'd be no good at weaponry though :D
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 20 May 2010, 9:47, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Crossbows are quite fun

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 20 May 2010, 9:49, Reply)

I'd go all Battle Royale on everyone's shit.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 20 May 2010, 9:51, Reply)

BANZAI !!!!!!!11

( girlinthehole, Thu 20 May 2010, 9:54, Reply)

Ew
I'm not into scat, thanks though.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:00, Reply)

Crossbows are one of the most entertaining forms of armament
'morning, Lampers. How'd it go yesterday?
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:03, Reply)

arghahahhahahaghgh.
I hope I passed, is all I'm thinking. It was pretty damn dreadful.

But today I am seeing an old friend and going to an art exhibition with birds and guitars and then I'm going out dancing. Should be good.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:05, Reply)

Nothing you can do about it now, anyway, eh?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:07, Reply)

I may email Ismene and cry through the internet

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:09, Reply)

Quite.
After years of panicking myself ragged I eventually reached the attitude of, "sod it, I've done as much work as I think can be reasonably expected, and if that's not good enough for them then they can fuck off and hang the consequences. ROOOARRR!"

Erm...basically my point is, you've tried your best, now the best thing to do is forget about it and clear your head. Any more of the buggers this week?
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:10, Reply)

Nope, none til the 1st.
I am doing glorious nothing until Monday. Then probably doing glorious nothing until the 31st.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:16, Reply)

a few weeks back my mrs sat her structural engineering chartership exam
it was 7 hours long, the pass rate is about 40% because it's so hard. She doesn't find out the result till August.

Just trying to help put things in perspective ;-)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:19, Reply)

7 hours?!
That's torturous! Hope she passes :)
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:20, Reply)

I suspect she will
from what she has said I think she did pretty well.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:21, Reply)

cor blimey
I'm resigning myself to the fact I'm not going to do well. Before I got ill I'd never got less than 60% in an exam, and mostly for ones that counted I'd do well. It's odd to come here and know I can get less than half marks yet still pass...

Wish your mrs best of luck with passing.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:21, Reply)

uni marking is a bit weird compared to the stuff that goes before
I usually managed to get just under 40 for one module, but did well enough in the others that they'd bump the marks up to a pass.

I will do. I just hope that when she passes that her company has recovered enough to be able to give her the whopping great payrise she deserves.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:26, Reply)

"tragedy strikes as woman shoots self in face with own crossbow at duel"

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:04, Reply)

That probably is what will happen.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:05, Reply)

I'm now imagining a Tom and Jerry-style moment
akin to one of the characters looking down the barrel of the gun that inexplicably failed to fire and having it explode in their face, except obviously substituting Lampito and a large, ornate crossbow...
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:13, Reply)

Crossbows are bad-ass.
The two things I've read where they feature (Battle Royale and another book that's kind of a spoiler), they've been pretty horrible.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:15, Reply)

Slow to load, though.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:16, Reply)

Depends on the crossbow
But slower than, say, a bow. Or a gun.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:17, Reply)

Yeah, and unless you get it through the eye or into the brain they don't kill quickly
The other book describes how the guy stockpiles bolts and shoots all the people while they're trapped, and they slowly bleed to death, apart from the lucky few who are hit in something major...
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 20 May 2010, 10:20, Reply)