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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 4th June 2020, 04:43 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 2,894
Posted By TX50
USB 5G bio-protection - only £800 for a pack of 3

5G Bioshield uses "holographic nano-layer technology".

Linky (http://5gbioshield.com)

"...provides protection for your home and family, thanks to the wearable holographic nano-layer...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 20th May 2020, 01:55 AM
Replies: 78
Views: 6,936
Posted By TX50
That's an 8,8 cm gun on your "uboot". Germans...

That's an 8,8 cm gun on your "uboot". Germans measured only rifle calibres in millimetres. If you can't be bothered to get even the correct nomenclature right then I just don't know... :rolleyes:
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2020, 08:16 AM
Replies: 2,119
Views: 118,249
Posted By TX50
A supermarket in Sweden is going in for some...

A supermarket in Sweden is going in for some "ethical price gouging" to deter hoarders:

40 kronor for one bottle of sanitizer; 1000 kronor each for more than one
...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2020, 05:14 AM
Replies: 2,119
Views: 118,249
Posted By TX50
Can't you borrow hardware from the office? I got...

Can't you borrow hardware from the office? I got two big monitors from the college I work at (I'm hoping they'll forget I have them once the apocalypse is over :rolleyes:).
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 18th March 2020, 07:33 AM
Replies: 2,119
Views: 118,249
Posted By TX50
Remember that if you are using a gun as a TP...

Remember that if you are using a gun as a TP substitute to always unload it first (or you might accidentally rip yourself a new one).
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 6th December 2019, 07:57 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 4,437
Posted By TX50
Maybe I'm just a pessimist but I mostly only read...

Maybe I'm just a pessimist but I mostly only read the 1, 2 and 3 star reviews anyway. I want to know the potential down side[s] of something I'm thinking of parting with my hard-earned for.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 13th November 2019, 05:18 PM
Replies: 165
Views: 7,954
Posted By TX50
How very 1930s American.

How very 1930s American.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 16th October 2019, 01:17 AM
Replies: 66
Views: 4,978
Posted By TX50
To stay or to go, he must have been on the horns...

To stay or to go, he must have been on the horns of a dilemma.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 23rd September 2019, 06:26 PM
Replies: 165
Views: 18,826
Posted By TX50
Don't know if that one's true but a similar...

Don't know if that one's true but a similar incident did happen in Afghanistan in 2001. A JTAC attached to a group of US special forces and Afghan security forces inadvertently called down a 2000lb...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 20th August 2019, 10:35 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 5,537
Posted By TX50
Samuel Pepys' diary for 20 October 1660: This...

Samuel Pepys' diary for 20 October 1660: This morning one came to me to advise with me where to make me a window into my cellar… and going down my cellar to look, I put my foot into a heap of turds,...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 24th July 2019, 10:29 AM
Replies: 48
Views: 2,792
Posted By TX50
What makes (sorry, made) the bridge "historic"?...

What makes (sorry, made) the bridge "historic"? Does just being a little bit old count as historic in USA land?
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 20th July 2019, 09:43 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 4,933
Posted By TX50
As for "iron chariots", if it has any...

As for "iron chariots", if it has any significance at all, I reckon it's just poetic license for "their chariots are sturdy and well balanced. Their horses are fast and well trained and brave and...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 19th July 2019, 09:52 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 2,341
Posted By TX50
Here is an online sim of the AGC that you can...

Here is an online sim of the AGC that you can play with:

http://svtsim.com/moonjs/agc.html

The AGC is also simulated in some video games (eg Reentry)
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 13th July 2019, 03:47 AM
Replies: 188
Views: 8,772
Posted By TX50
Nike are already gravely disrespecting the flag...

Nike are already gravely disrespecting the flag by printing it onto shoes.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 16th June 2019, 03:14 AM
Replies: 59
Views: 3,027
Posted By TX50
I've been around computers and tech support too...

I've been around computers and tech support too long. I didn't read "POS computer" as "Point of sale computer" but...something else much more disobliging. :D
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 13th June 2019, 11:29 AM
Replies: 61
Views: 6,125
Posted By TX50
A glitch in the Matrix?

A glitch in the Matrix?
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 9th June 2019, 12:30 PM
Replies: 304
Views: 18,436
Posted By TX50
You people on here can be such snarky buggers...

You people on here can be such snarky buggers sometimes. Where did I even imply that it "must be exactly the same"? Anyway, the wing form is in fact identical to the lightweight experimental XP-51...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 9th June 2019, 06:30 AM
Replies: 304
Views: 18,436
Posted By TX50
Looks like a North American P-51 :confused:

Looks like a North American P-51 :confused:
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 9th June 2019, 05:58 AM
Replies: 304
Views: 18,436
Posted By TX50
Yes, I can't count how many times I've seen...

Yes, I can't count how many times I've seen Focke-Wulf 190s (the same one every time, in fact) being shot down in the "Battle of Britain" or Churchill tanks "abandoned on the beach" at "Dunkirk". ...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 9th June 2019, 04:48 AM
Replies: 304
Views: 18,436
Posted By TX50
You can pretend to fly one of those in the...

You can pretend to fly one of those in the Ilyushin-2 Sturmovik game.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 9th June 2019, 04:36 AM
Replies: 304
Views: 18,436
Posted By TX50
Winkle Brown's very favourite aeroplane. I'm...

Winkle Brown's very favourite aeroplane.

I'm trying to recall the name of the 1920s Russian aeroplane that had its skin made of transparent acetate to make it "stealthy". :confused:

ETA:...
Forum: Computers and the Internet 6th June 2019, 12:35 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,587
Posted By TX50
For a pirate, Rackham draws nice pictures. :)

For a pirate, Rackham draws nice pictures. :)
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 2nd June 2019, 05:52 AM
Replies: 249
Views: 25,697
Posted By TX50
I am sick of these *&*$£"&* snakes on these...

I am sick of these *&*$£"&* snakes on these *&*$£"&* planes!
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 2nd June 2019, 05:27 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 2,266
Posted By TX50
Wear a helmet?

Wear a helmet?
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 1st June 2019, 07:11 AM
Replies: 49
Views: 2,488
Posted By TX50
The good old "We found your CV/resume online and...

The good old "We found your CV/resume online and wish to offer you the position of Financial Officer with our company" money laundering scam is still going around.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 1st June 2019, 07:08 AM
Replies: 49
Views: 2,488
Posted By TX50
Only now they call it "smishing" :)

Only now they call it "smishing" :)
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 11th May 2019, 04:24 AM
Replies: 91
Views: 5,080
Posted By TX50
Yes, I was doubtful about opening it but that...

Yes, I was doubtful about opening it but that swung it for me.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 6th May 2019, 04:36 AM
Replies: 693
Views: 75,391
Posted By TX50
Yes, you can. No matter how they cajole, wheedle...

Yes, you can. No matter how they cajole, wheedle or threaten (and they will), you should never say a word to the plod before you've talked to a solicitor.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 6th May 2019, 04:02 AM
Replies: 212
Views: 15,763
Posted By TX50
Back in the good old days (ie the cold war) the...

Back in the good old days (ie the cold war) the Russkies allegedly tried to use psychics to communicate with submarines. Bet that worked as well as training kamikaze whales would.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 6th May 2019, 03:59 AM
Replies: 212
Views: 15,763
Posted By TX50
Essex, not USS Essex. Huge difference. :thumbsup:

Essex, not USS Essex. Huge difference. :thumbsup:
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th May 2019, 09:11 AM
Replies: 204
Views: 9,834
Posted By TX50
Argh! Stop it! You just made me imagine a sexy...

Argh! Stop it! You just made me imagine a sexy Ena Sharples! :hypnotize
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 19th April 2019, 11:29 AM
Replies: 355
Views: 13,378
Posted By TX50
Isn't google translate wonderful?

Isn't google translate wonderful?
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th March 2019, 06:10 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 1,677
Posted By TX50
Don't you have a video of her where she actually...

Don't you have a video of her where she actually does something?

Oh, and that US Army red cap looked like a soup sandwich.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 13th January 2019, 11:01 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,330
Posted By TX50
I have this impression of him being chased down...

I have this impression of him being chased down the street by two dozen little squeakers in karate suits.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 2nd January 2019, 11:01 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 2,635
Posted By TX50
The American Veterinary Medicine Association...

The American Veterinary Medicine Association doesn't agree with you. This is from their latest (2013) guidelines on euthanising animals:

"Suggestions that finfish responses to pain merely...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 2nd January 2019, 06:49 AM
Replies: 182
Views: 8,973
Posted By TX50
That may well have been the hundredth time that...

That may well have been the hundredth time that week that he'd been "misgendered". The poor schmuck in the toy shop there might just have been the last straw.
Forum: Computers and the Internet 1st January 2019, 02:15 PM
Replies: 3,547
Views: 290,541
Posted By TX50
When I worked in tech support (ugh! <shudder>...

When I worked in tech support (ugh! <shudder> :boggled:) we used to have to use the English (NATO), the German, the Dutch and the French phonetic alphabets. Doesn't do at all to mix up your Charlies,...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 1st January 2019, 01:53 PM
Replies: 42
Views: 3,377
Posted By TX50
Just leave Greek to the Greeks. :)

Just leave Greek to the Greeks. :)
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 30th December 2018, 08:37 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 3,478
Posted By TX50
The Russians first thought up military...

The Russians first thought up military parachuting (or at least the idea of air dropping troops) in the 1930s. One of their first ideas was to roll the guys up in thick bundles of straw and canvas...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 30th December 2018, 08:08 AM
Replies: 231
Views: 13,465
Posted By TX50
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness...

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 28th November 2018, 11:47 AM
Replies: 267
Views: 10,162
Posted By TX50
You dimwits, the cause of this wasn't "racism" or...

You dimwits, the cause of this wasn't "racism" or "xenophobia", it was purely testosterone and booze. Guaranteed all participants were pissed as farts when this went down.

And what's this...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 9th November 2018, 03:42 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,001
Posted By TX50
It's obvious. J.S. Bach was an alien. :D

It's obvious. J.S. Bach was an alien. :D
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 6th November 2018, 07:21 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 2,474
Posted By TX50
Hans Joachim Marseille was reportedly similarly...

Hans Joachim Marseille was reportedly similarly amazing against manoeuvring aerial targets.
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 2nd November 2018, 07:26 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 2,474
Posted By TX50
The ivans were coming over a slope and he could...

The ivans were coming over a slope and he could shoot them in their bellies?

The whole thing is a shabby nazi lie - he just winged a couple of them and made the others flee?
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 2nd November 2018, 05:41 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 2,896
Posted By TX50
Digital archaeology.

Digital archaeology.
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 18th October 2018, 05:54 AM
Replies: 90
Views: 4,929
Posted By TX50
Since most of these come from graves, how do we...

Since most of these come from graves, how do we know they are even meant to be functioning battlefield articles? Might they not be symbolic - the Bronze age equivalent of "wall hangers" or ten...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th October 2018, 01:10 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,849
Posted By TX50
So you've seen lots of whale-a-pults have you? :D

So you've seen lots of whale-a-pults have you? :D
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th October 2018, 01:07 PM
Replies: 100
Views: 6,014
Posted By TX50
But can you do slow jazz hands? Why does the...

But can you do slow jazz hands? Why does the student union hate hecklers?
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 20th September 2018, 08:48 AM
Replies: 133
Views: 9,035
Posted By TX50
What about the Royal Regiment of Scotland? ...

What about the Royal Regiment of Scotland? :confused:
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 18th September 2018, 01:40 PM
Replies: 63
Views: 2,533
Posted By TX50
Call that a gun? I thought biker dudes all...

Call that a gun? I thought biker dudes all carried '87 Winchester shottys that they racked Terminator 2 style.
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