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When you fire a live cartridge, the cartridge case expands till it hits the chamber walls, and then since it can't go any further it stops and the pressure pushes the bullet down the barrel. When you eject the case from the chamber there is at least some drag on the sides of the chamber because of the expanded cartridge case. But if you are shooting a blank, do you have that same expansion in the chamber and the same drag on the chamber walls? Only time I have ever shot blanks was in a 22 starter pistol. But I was thinking in a full size pistol - 45 Colt or thereabouts.

It's not the way (DAMMIT otto WEIGHT) I was thinking about. A trailer, for a car anyway, has a solid rod going from the cargo area to the car and then some kind of a hitch ball for the end of the rod to attach to I assume there's something similar on a motorcycle?? But these dragging things behind you like just married - they're not on a solid rod attached to the bike. They're on ropes or chains or cables or something like that just going every which way. I remember as a young stupid teenager, riding my bicycle and pulling somebody on a skateboard. When I turned the corner the rope didn't make that 90° corner, it angled off and got tangled up in the back wheel, and me and the skateboard guy ended up sliding down the street on a little bare skin. I have some lovely road rash scars from that incident. If the motorcycle is going down the road at 40 miles an hour, no the stuff being dragged cannot catch up. But if the bike slows down, there are no brakes on the stuff being dragged, and it will continue down the road at 40 miles an hour, and it will catch up with the bike. Been there, done that. Anyone that has ever been towed anywhere in a car, by a tow strap, has been there and done that. If you're in the trailing car you have to pay attention and be ready to brake. That stuff being pulled behind the bike ain't got no brakes.

You can tie things to the back of a car and drag them down the road. They do that, or they used to do that, when you got married. But a car is very stable, with a wheel on all four corners. Do you suppose you could drag something behind a motorcycle - I'm not talking full(PULL otto you moron) a trailer, but actually tying something to the back of the bike and pulling it along the ground - you could drag something behind the motorcycle and it wouldn't get tangled up in the bike wheel somehow and wreck the bike? The newlywed couple is riding off on a motorcycle with stuff dragging behind it on chains in the TV show. And while I'm fully aware you can do anything at all in television I just wondered if that might cause problems in real life. Anyone ever tried? Any experience?

I fired one of them once. Well, actually five times. I've noticed, over the years, that pistol recoil all the way up to 44 Magnum I feel in my wrists. But when I got a 454 I shot an entire box - 20 rounds - and the next day I had tennis elbow in my left elbow. The recoil of that thing was not in my wrists. It was in my elbows. But when Mark the physical terrorist let me shoot his big effing revolver - Remington factory ammo, 405 jacketed soft point. Not killer powerful - it's designed to be safe in a trapdoor. But when I shot that cylinder-full, my arms were going back up over my head. All the recoil was going into my shoulders. And my arms were pivoting on my shoulder joints. It was very funky. Not a scary thing. I have no raging desire to shoot it again, but it was controllable.

I just saw a comedy skit. The guy is trying to come in the country. The immigration / customs / whatever the hell her job is woman asked "business or pleasure?" And he would not give her a straight answer. That was the joke in the comedy skit. But it made me wonder. They can refuse to let you in the country, right? Just tell you to turn your butt around and get back on a plane and go somewhere else?

I didn't see the title over on YouTube where I grabbed this from. But yeah, I'm kinda thinking this is AI.

I've seen this clip a few times now. Both the whole clip, and this thumbnail version stuck inside another video with a woman's face on top. So we got this shaved headed woman - I think it's a woman - barking in the soldier's face. And he brings up a can of pepper spray and sprays her. It just seems like, it's close as they are, he's going to get all kinds of bounce back. Spraying himself. Yes/no?

Something seemed to be missing. They fill the big drum full of scrap tires. They close the drum. They light a fire underneath it. They rotate the drum. Out of the drum comes ground rubber. Which they put into 50 lb sacks. When the drum has no more ground rubber they open it up and pull out the steel wires left over from the steel building tires. They set up a frame and put a great big sack up. Now they take all the 50 lb sacks of ground rubber and dump them into the great big sack. And suddenly they have oil. Reminds me of the underpants gnomes on South Park. Step one steal underpants. Step 3 make profit. What's step two - no one knows. Step one is still underpants and step three is make profit. Step one grind up the rubber into dust. Step 3, fuel oil. But what the hell is step 2?

Just because she's old don't mean you got to trade her in on something new and fancy.

Every Sunday evening this man goes to the Chinese restaurant for supper. Gets the same waiter every time. No matter what he orders - beef chow mein, kung pao chicken, sweet and sour pork - he always adds, "and a side order of flied lice". One of those self-panicers. The waiter was not amused, and every week he got more and more annoyed. So he practiced and he practiced and he practiced. Then one Sunday he was ready. When the man ordered his chicken chow mein with a side order of flied lice, the waiter slowly and carefully replied, "That is FRIED RICE. You plick."

Pewter melts at 340 to 450, so that's possibility.