One event handler should be enough for anyone. (with detailed pants discussion)
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Oh. I had it the wrong way around the whole time. Turns out the joke's on me.
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The correct British word is "undertrousers", for reasons which should be clear enough.
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Turns out the joke's on me.
Hopefully the pants are, too. If not, I don't want to know about it.
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Hopefully the pants are, too. If not, I don't want to know about it.
My colleagues are also happy I am wearing them.
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You guys decided to misapply the word. We American's's's's' are doing it right
Pantaloons comes from the Italian Pantalone, via French pantalon. Trousers is a good British Isles word, from Irish triús and Gaelic triubhas
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By metric weenies, and xiB weenies, too!
I tried to be a long scale weenie, but my flamewar baits never work :(
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I tried to be a long scale weenie, but my flamewar baits never work :(
Not even with that crowbar? Must try harder, I feel.
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Not even with that crowbar?
possibly because of that crowbar? i know i do not want to be anywhere near the arc of that thing.
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It's at least 5% more accurate than it was before, therefore at least correcting something. Just because it's not the correction you hoped it would be does not invalidate the fact that it is a legitimate correction.
Oh, we can troll... Tony Blair. Nuff said.
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Typical Scotsman argle bargle.
Aye, tho' I be from south of yonder border. But I'm at least as argumentative as a Scotsman when it comes to arguing about bashing the English.
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This is why I don't normally talk to you Frenchies.
How dare you, sir! *slaps boomzilla across the face with a white glove*
I expect to see you at dawn on the field of honour, sir.
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I expect to see you at dawn on the field of honour, sir.
-sigh- i'll prepare the field for combat. will you be wanting the swords or the dueling pistols?
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-sigh- i'll prepare the field for combat. will you be wanting the swords or the dueling pistols?
One of each... whatever sword boomzilla wants to use and whatever pistol happens to be in my armoury.
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uhh...... wouldn't that be a violation of the Code Duello?
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uhh...... wouldn't that be a violation of the Code Duello?
At least this isn't a duel with Edward "Snugglecakes" Van Helgen where we do this with banjos.
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I think you mixed the pictures up.
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I think you mixed the pictures up.
did i?
whatever sword boomzilla wants to use and whatever pistol happens to be in my armoury.
I think @boomzilla is quite happy with his sword, and that gun did happen to be in your armoury.
or would you like a different gun?
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You didn't find the .50 Desert Eagle.
Nerf guns that are painted to look steampunky are cool.
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You didn't find the .50 Desert Eagle.
oh that one..... ummm.... i sent it out for cleaning.... yes cleaning. that's where it is and why it is not at this moment in your armoury.
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HTFY
People who use Deagles in a non-ironic don't deserve the hipsterification of "poseur".
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I come from a country where regular people don't get to play with the shiny toys, you're presuming I would actually know about pointing and shooting things.
I mean, I've actually fired a gun once (and I wasn't even in my own continent at the time)
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I come from a country where regular people don't get to play with the shiny toys
Yes, I know, I was picking on you a little. Next time just say "a Glock" or something. Or if you had known that rusty thing was a 1911, say "I'll take the 1911, but how about a functional one?" You can't go wrong with a 1911.
Don't ask for a Taurus Judge.
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you're presuming I would actually know about pointing and shooting things.
Snort. If you can point your finger at something, you can point a gun at it. If you can twitch your finger, you can shoot a gun. They're not complex (for the purpose of this discussion).
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One of the things I fired was actually a 1911. The other was a Ruger, and I was offered the chance to play with an AR-15 but I was too chicken.
I'll be fine in the event of a zombie apocalypse, I was getting headshots from 25ft.
And yes, I know you were being mean but that's the territory here Which is why I went with the Deagle instead of a Glock or similar. Because Brits can troll, we just are very selective about it.
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I buttumed Deagles were good. The closest I've had to experience with one is in Hitman 2 where it was a good weapon for non stealth runs
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The only thing I've ever fired was a bow and arrow. And that in the firing range; they don't allow those on the street either.
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I've probably fired more guns than the average Brit: a shotgun and a rifle. I've also hunted rabbits with air rifles
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I buttumed Deagles were good.
Deagles (the .50s, that is; they make a 1911 that's probably cromulent) have a (probably earned) rep as a bit of a poseur's weapon: overpriced for what they are: a .50 cal handgun is silly. It might be effective, but it's still the kind of thing you'd expect to find a florid gangster in a bad movie to use.
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One of the things I fired was actually a 1911.
The fact that they haven't really come up with a superior replacement for the 1911 in over a hundred years tells you a lot. (Sure, there's modern designs that are just as good, but nothing so much better as to obviously obsolete it.)
I was offered the chance to play with an AR-15 but I was too chicken.
I felt kind of the same way when I got my first 12-gauge, and I went years before I actually shot it, but the interesting thing about a properly-designed gun is that if you use it the right way, it's not a big deal. That mainly means knowing how to hold it so it doesn't kick your or fly out of your hands.
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The only thing I've ever fired was a bow and arrow. And that in the firing range;
Same here...and I'm not even all that good at it.
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a .50 cal handgun is silly. It might be effective, but it's still the kind of thing you'd expect to find a florid gangster in a bad movie to use.
I don't have first hand experience, but the explanation is usually something along the lines of smaller capacity magazines, harder to group shots due to the kick and too heavy to lug around.
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Could be. People like to talk about stopping power, but when a gun store employee talked to me about it once, he said that 9mm or .45 might make bigger holes, but if you shoot someone with a .22 18 times or however many fit in that particular pistol that we had been talking about, that also tends to be effective.
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Can't find exactly what I was looking for, but I remember a study done about stopping a violent person and how many shots it took by caliber. IIRC, .45s had a definite advantage, though even then, it often took more than one.
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Generally speaking, unless you get really lucky with shot placement, you're probably not going to stop someone with one shot with a handgun caliber, or so I've heard. I've seen a handful of police gunfight videos where someone started shooting a cop without (much) warning, and usually even after getting shot a few times, the perpetrator can still keep moving for several seconds. From that limited "experience", it seems to me like what stops you is cumulative blood loss, and no particular handgun bullet is big enough to let out that much more blood from one or two holes.
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From that limited "experience", it seems to me like what stops you is cumulative blood loss, and no particular handgun bullet is big enough to let out that much more blood from one or two holes.
Yeah. Two things: first is shock at being shot. Someone all crazy going after cops probably isn't going to fall for that one. The other is sufficient bodily damage, which may include blood loss, but also things like broken bones or joints or muscles, which are probably faster than the blood loss, unless you get an artery.
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Or if you had known that rusty thing was a 1911
i'll be honest, it was the first result on GIS for "rusty gun" that was < 1MB i have NFC what kind of gun it is.
i like the one i found for @boomzilla though. i might have to get me one of those.
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i have NFC what kind of gun it is.
Looks like a 1911 to me. It might not be, but they're fairly distinctively-shaped.
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Looks like a 1911 to me. It might not be, but they're fairly distinctively-shaped.
not a gun nerdette. the only thing i knw for sure is which end the bullet comes out.
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not a gun nerdette. the only thing i knw for sure is which end the bullet comes out.
Gah! It's, like, super famous. And was made so (at least partly) because Filipinos were just too damn hard to kill with a .38.