[Biggest event ever?]

21 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

Always look at the vocation and education of “those in the know”. Their opinions usually track with what they know or what they have been taught to know. 

As somebody once said, "It's not what don't you know that gets you in trouble, it's what you know that ain't so."

[Which is more annoying to read?]

8 hours ago, Creeker, SASS #43022 said:

Only Fans?

I didn't think anyone knew about that.

Well, we didn't know that you are on it, until NOW.

[The BBC]

18 minutes ago, Alpo said:

A TV series here in the states they do about 24 episodes a year.

Unfortunately that's no longer the case for many series. The major networks, (ABC, NBC, CBS, and sometimes CW) still do that for their more popular shows, but one that's not so popular, or is a newer show, might only get 12 episodes. Maybe stretched to 18 IF they think it might be going somewhere. But smaller networks seem to usually only have 10 episodes a season. Sometimes they might do 2 "seasons" a year, but that's rarer. 

Back in the '60s, most series had first run episodes in the mid 30s. 

[Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes]

15 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

'Specially if the twenty have submachineguns and the one dude has a pistol.  Just watch almost any episode of NCIS....  

The submachine gun guys are required to fire from the hip, with full magazine bursts, while the Good Guys use their sights and make center mass or head shots, unless the bad guy needs to survive long enough to either reveal vital information to stop the Threat, or just to Troll them.   

[Biggest event ever?]

1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

everyone seems to use them for everything but scratching their butts.

There's an app for that.

[What movie made you really want a specific firearm?]

My friend Mark and I were watching "Magnum Force" in the theater. When David Soul first pulled his Colt Python, I leaned over to Mark and said, "I want one of those!" He just smiled, because he already had a Model 29 from "Dirty Harry", and a Walther P-38 from "The Man from Uncle".

Have you been watching Hickok45? He asked the same question about a week ago.

  

 

[The stuff one wonders]

Coming from you, this is not surprising in the least. But I do the same thing. There was a recent thread on fireflies, the first thing I thought was, 

[Which is more annoying to read?]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

Also, to those of you with perfect typing and writing skills and have no issues with Otto or spell check or whatever. It’s easy to think you’re perfect if you don’t know what you’re doing wrong.

 

13 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

I’ll be the first to admit that I rely heavily on the edit function, here and elsewhere, and I am more than thankful for it!  (and I STILL get stuff boluxed up as often as not)

I'm hardly claiming to be an English Writing student. But many of the errors listed should not be happening to those of even moderate intelligence or education. And I'm with Blackwater. If you look, you'll find MANY of my posts have been edited, usually because I hit "Submit Reply" too quickly, and THEN see where I screwed something up. 

[Which is more annoying to read?]

2 minutes ago, Camille Eonich SASS # 48444 said:

My keyboard sucks. 

I have the same problem. My fingers are too big for the keys. BUT, since my computer has "Spell Check" I see a problem when it happens and can correct it. 

[Which is more annoying to read?]

3 minutes ago, Stump Water said:

II always get beat down because:

- Boomer

- Internet, get over it

- Smart phones and tiny keyboards

 

Ok.  Y'all stick with your excuses for being bad at the English language.

 

On another note... I see a lot of complaining about "otto" here.  Dude never bothers me.  I'm on an actual computer.  Google "turn off spelling suggestions android".

I was going to to just hit the "like" heart, but wanted to agree so much more than that would show. I have the same disdain for the excuses, and the same non-issue with "otto", and for the same reason. 

(Flame suit on). 

[That was good]

I have a really hard time because recipes seem to usually start with, "Take a clean dish..." 

[Which is more annoying to read?]

17 minutes ago, bgavin said:

Loose when the intent is lose

Agreed. Misspelled words like that annoy me for more than punctuation. Advice and advise, to, too, and two, whether and weather, etc. I'm hardly a spelling nazi, but sometimes it's just plain bad usage.

[Have you ever bought a firearm, "just because"? No practical value?]

I recently picked up an old High Standard Sentinel. 9 shot .22, DA. I just got that wild hair, saw it on Gunbroker and had to have it. It looked like crap in the pictures, but it turned out that somebody had wrapped it in clear packaging tape, and underneath that it was in very good shape for a gun made maybe in the 80s, if not earlier. 

[Gun Phases - Not sure what else to call it]

I do. Sometimes I'll shoot my .45s, other times .38s. A couple weeks ago I paired a .22 with a .44. 

[would you make change for someone you don't know?]

31 minutes ago, Alpo said:

"Hey, can you break a hundred?" And when I pull out my wallet they pull out their gun. I be paranoid.

I'm not paranoid. He pulls his gun, I pull mine.

[Is there such a thing as a helicopter muffler?]

2 hours ago, Alpo said:

Watching a TV show last night. A SEAL team is invading a haji compound in Afghanistan. And we are watching it back at the base on satellite imagery.

 

One of the SEALs sneaks up behind one of the guards and jumps him and stabs him. Because the guard is standing there looking outward, expecting possible incoming attackers, and was not expecting to be jumped from behind.

 

And that's fine. Except the SEAL team got into the compound by helicopter.

The Helo got them OVER the compound. Then they BEAMED in. The problem with the satellite imagery is that it doesn't read the Transporter Effect. The Heisenberg Compensator blocks it.

[What the Mare's Leg should have been.]

9 minutes ago, Capt. James H. Callahan said:

The mainmost thing I always wondered about the mare's leg is............why?

JHC

Because it was different. Why would most of us want to at least try one? Because it's different.

[Does any other country have bulk sausage?]

16 minutes ago, ShadowCatcher said:

In Scotland we get this:  

In Scotland you get THIS:

HAGGIS!

[Is there such a thing as a helicopter muffler?]

The sound of the engine is actually the least contributing factor in the noise. Most of it is the blades beating the air into submission. Even if the engine were completely silent, the "Wop Wop Wop" of the blades would give it away. 

Now if the rest of the compound were having a loud PARTY...

[What the Mare's Leg should have been.]

Interesting and well done project. My question has to do with your original idea, a Mare's Leg in .45-70. How does it shoot with .45-70? And how many does it hold?

[Ruger's New CEO]

2 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:

The entire article is about Ruger making money for the shareholders, maintaining efficiency and striving for market share. How about concentrating on making good, reliable guns that don't have to be returned for repair on brand new guns...people like buying good, reliable guns.

Hopefully, the new guy will let them know that concentrating on making good, reliable guns that don't have to be returned for repair on brand new guns WILL be making money for the shareholders, maintaining efficiency and striving for market share.

[Part of my “Grail Gun” quest is complete. Do you have guns you have always wanted?]

2 hours ago, bgavin said:

Mr Spock once said, “Sometimes the wanting is better than the having”

But you'll never know, until you HAVE.

[Ruger's New CEO]

2 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Guns are nonessential purchases?

See the "Holy Grail" thread.

[Part of my “Grail Gun” quest is complete. Do you have guns you have always wanted?]

7 hours ago, bgavin said:

I have every one that I need.
The "want" list won't be filled.

But it's the "want" that keeps us going.

[request an opinion on UPS tracking email]

3 minutes ago, Alpo said:

However, I am fairly certain that today is not Sunday, and today is not Monday, and today is not a day earlier.

 

But my brass is here.

Just this once, take YES for an answer, and move on.