🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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woman-dicks and pseudo-scrotums
I think my older brother had this prog-rock gatefold sleeve double album
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Answer: sometimes, yes.
Exactly. Instead of (or above) giving a tip to the owner of the bar/restaurant you let them put a drink on your bill.
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Job description: sewer unclogger
http://i.imgur.com/698ivCS.jpg
Filed under: Motivation to keep learning
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Trying to run to Bermuda using a big floating bubble.
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I think I would shave first.
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That looks super fun though...
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yeah I'd probably spend more time chilling out in my floating bubble than running.
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http://i.imgur.com/F0zEDOK.gif
Darwin award level bad idea.
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We have a bridge near us that goes under water once or twice a year and each time we see cars stuck there. It's normally some family saloon that's unsuited to fording fast flowing water.
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I've crossed a flooded stretch of some 40 m / 130 ft which was slightly deeper than expected. At some point we had water coming over the bonnet / hood.
We were very lucky the engine didn't stall that day. The car had to go inside a kiln later.
My mom was driving. At some point later in our trip she asked: "what's that sound?" and I looked back and saw water splashing in the space in front of the back seats.
Did I mention it was a Ford Fiesta?
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It's normally some family saloon that's unsuited to fording fast flowing water.
Most vehicles are unsuited to fording fast-flowing water if it is deep enough; once it gets a bit of depth, water can exert tremendous force. In short, you're OK as long as the engine doesn't stall and the tyres keep traction, but lose power or even one tyre's worth of grip and you're in deep trouble (both literally and metaphorically) because your ability to get out is at risk/gone.
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I've crossed a flooded stretch of some 40 m / 130 ft which was <i>slightly</i> deeper than expected. At some point we had water coming over the bonnet / hood.
We were very lucky the engine didn't stall that day. The car had to go inside a <abbr title=""car oven"">kiln</abbr> later.
My mom was driving. At some point later in our trip she asked: "what's that sound?" and I looked back and saw water splashing in the space in front of the back seats.
Did I mention it was a Ford Fiesta?
Had a similar issue with an area in Rhode Island that floods often, but rarely deep. Of course, the one time that it was deep was the time that i tried to go through it...
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What did he think was going to happen? He was already stopped, he couldn't have walked his bike the 20 feet?
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Trying to fire a .500 S&W Magnum one-handed:
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At least he learned a lesson without an apparent serious injury.
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Good thing it was a revolver, the possibilities for that going wrong would have grown if it had been semi-auto...
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I can't imagine how.
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It's normally some family saloon that's unsuited to fording fast flowing water.
I am unaware of any mobile saloons, let alone any that are suited to fording even a trickle of water.
Edit: Upon investigation, it appears that Brits call a sedan a saloon. Which is weird, since everyone knows that a saloon is a bar.
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@Intercourse said:
Good thing it was a revolver, the possibilities for that going wrong would have grown if it had been semi-auto...
is that revolver double action or single action? if double action and has a sufficiently low trigger weight then could be very much like a semi-auto.
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What did he think was going to happen? He was already stopped, he couldn't have walked his bike the 20 feet?
He thought he was gonna blast through. He didn't expect the water would turn his wheel aside and send him to his death.
Yeah, he should have probably stretched a rope and slowly walked over. Live and learn, right? ... oh.
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I think you're confusing semi-auto with auto. And most modern revolvers support a double-action firing mode where all you have to do is pull the trigger to fire again, you don't have to cock it, so it isn't really that much different from a semi-auto pistol.
Also, pedantically, I don't believe anyone makes a pistol, semi-auto or auto, that fires a caliber that powerful, so it's kind of a moot point.
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Double action trigger pulls are sufficiently heavy that it would be highly unlikely he would fire off another shot.
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unlikely, yes. but it is possible.
This is why my gun instructor refuses to let anyone he is instructing to have more than one (1) bullet in the gun. he doesn't care if you have to reload after every shot, if he's in the booth with you you are going to have at most one bullet in the gun.
I agree with him on that score, even more so if he's training someone entirely unfamiliar with firearms (me, unless we are talking counter strike)
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I think you're confusing semi-auto with auto
I think you are confusing me with someone who does not have a pretty large working knowledge of firearms. I am fully aware of the difference between semi and full auto.
And most modern revolvers support a double-action firing mode where all you have to do is pull the trigger to fire again, you don't have to cock it, so it isn't really that much different from a semi-auto pistol.
The trigger pull on double action is a hell of a lot heavier as you have to overcome the weight of the hammer. Huge difference.
Also, pedantically, I don't believe anyone makes a pistol, semi-auto or auto, that fires a caliber that powerful, so it's kind of a moot point.
Oh really?
http://www.magnumresearch.com/Firearms/Magnum-Research-Desert-Eagle-50-AE-Burnt-Bronze.asp
50 Action Express is a pretty heavy duty round and in a semi-auto pistol.
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I am unaware of any mobile saloons, let alone any that are suited to fording even a trickle of water.
Edit: Upon investigation, it appears that Brits call a sedan a saloon. Which is weird, since everyone knows that a saloon is a bar.
Don't try to get a cab over there, then...
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@Intercourse said:
50 Action Express is a pretty heavy duty round and in a semi-auto pistol.
The .500 S&W Magnum is nearly twice as powerful as the .50 AE.
My only point on the semi-auto thing was he'd have to pull the trigger again during the recoil for the implied accident to occur. I don't think that's likely on either a revolver or a semi-auto, but could easily happen on an auto like the accident with the girl firing an Uzi.
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“The CDC, an agency whose primary mission was to prevent malaria and then other dangerous communicable diseases, is now spending a lot of time, energy and money worrying about how much salt you put on your steaks, how close you stand to second-hand smoke and how often you do calisthenics.”
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“We let our guard down a little bit,” said Abbigail Tumpey, a CDC spokeswoman, referring to the country’s health-care systems. “We as a health-care system have to make sure not to let our guard down and be vigilant that patients with Ebola could show up at any U.S. health-care facility. . . . Now that we’ve seen this happen, we know now that we need to do more to make people feel prepared.”Maybe this should be in the evil ideas thread, but meh...
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Do we have an Obamacare thread?
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Wow, so much fail. Holding it off-hand, leaning back, I bet he was limp-wristing, and worst of all, his asshole friends didn't tell him about any of that.
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dkf:
Giving someone that young a weapon where they're not able to deal with the recoil and which can fire again very rapidly…Except that semi-auto doesn't mean that. One trigger pull, one bullet. Once it left his hand, it was essentially inert.
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Wow, so much fail. Holding it off-hand, leaning back, I bet he was limp-wristing, and worst of all, his asshole friends didn't tell him about any of that.
At least he had safety glasses. A cocking hammer through the eyeball would not have felt good.
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Except that semi-auto doesn't mean that.
But if it had been semi-auto, why would have gone so far out of control? The only scenario which makes any sort of sense in terms of what the reported facts were involves a small automatic, such as an Uzi. Semi-autos would be easier to control, as they don't give as large an impulse from the shot before requiring further manual action, as are larger guns (and that's part of the point of a larger gun such as a rifle: to give better control).
Or the kid deliberately sought the death of her instructor and everyone is in denial about that. That's technically possible (if unlikely, and not a scenario I wish to contemplate in depth).
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Or the kid deliberately sought the death of her instructor and everyone is in denial about that. That's technically possible (if unlikely, and not a scenario I wish to contemplate in depth).
Have you seen the video?
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But if it had been semi-auto, why would have gone so far out of control? The only scenario which makes any sort of sense in terms of what the reported facts were involves a small automatic, such as an Uzi. Semi-autos would be easier to control
I think we're conflating two things here.
In a semiauto, as soon as you let go of the trigger the gun stops firing--that generally means, the girl who killed the instructor wouldn't have, because as soon as she finished pulling the trigger, the gun was functionally inert. The worst that was likely to happen was the gun hitting the instructor in the head or something. Could be painful; if it happened just right it could theoretically put an eye out.
But I was still talking about the video above, with the guy with the revolver. As soon as he pulled the trigger, the gun was done firing. Semi-auto pistol or revolver, again, the gun became inert.
The reason the instructor died in the other situation is because when you hold down the trigger, bullets keep coming out, and your reflexes tend to keep your finger squeezed. Like I said: in a non-automatic weapon, even if you have the trigger held back after that first bullet fires, nothing else happens. You have to release pressure a certain amount for the trigger group to reset.
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http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/the-most-amazing-headphones-in-the-world/3844
As it really belongs here.
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Our toddler once performed a beautifully elegant demonstration of Newton's Third Law of Motion when he threw a tennis ball and fell straight over backwards.
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Our toddler once performed a beautifully elegant demonstration of Newton's Third Law of Motion
toddlers are great because they literally are learning to handle physics like gravity, action/reaction, friction, ...
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toddlers are great because they literally are learning to handle physics like gravity, action/reaction, friction, ...
Cats too. I'm sure by now you've seen the gifs of cats tearing around corners so fast they Tokyo drift.
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I'm sure by now you've seen the gifs of cats tearing around corners so fast they Tokyo drift.
And their weird sides-ways jump when they think the laser pointer dot is counter attacking.
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toddlers are great because they literally are learning to handle physics like gravity, action/reaction, friction, ...
QFCorrectUseOf“Literally”.
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I'm sure by now you've seen the gifs of cats tearing around corners so fast they Tokyo drift.
I had a cat that deliberately did that, running around a corner underneath a dresser. One day she miscalculated and went head-first into the wall. Pretty entertaining.
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Have you seen the video?
I think it's obvious from his post that he hasn't seen the video.
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In a semiauto, as soon as you let go of the trigger the gun stops firing
You don't really know guns, do you? With a semi-auto, as soon as a single round is fired, the gun stops firing. This is true regardless of how long you hold down the trigger.
With a full-auto, it keeps firing until you let go of he trigger.
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But if it had been semi-auto, why would have gone so far out of control? The only scenario which makes any sort of sense in terms of what the reported facts were involves a small automatic, such as an Uzi. Semi-autos would be easier to control, as they don't give as large an impulse from the shot before requiring further manual action, as are larger guns (and that's part of the point of a larger gun such as a rifle: to give better control).
Or the kid deliberately sought the death of her instructor and everyone is in denial about that. That's technically possible (if unlikely, and not a scenario I wish to contemplate in depth).
If you watch the video from the uzi incident, you see the girl fire off one shot in semi-auto mode. Then the instructor tells her they are going to try full auto mode, and she starts shooting. The publicly available videos cut just as the gun starts rising.
Based on the video footage, and comments from the range owner, I believe the accident was a combination of factors:
- That girl had no prior gun experience.
- One shot with the uzi in semi-auto mode was not enough to prepare her for full-auto mode.
- The instructor did not did not follow the range's established safety protocol. His right hand was supposed to be ready to push the gun away in just such a situation. Instead, his left hand was below her elbow (supposedly ready to grab her arm), and his right hand was on her back.
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You don't really know guns, do you?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH. Yes, I wrote the wrong thing here. I meant "as soon as you pull the trigger." The rest of my sentence should have made that clear. The trigger group resets on release, though, not when your finger hits the rear end of travel. That's why holding the trigger down in full auto keeps firing.