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Bates posted:Elite IED disposal team in action How the gently caress is he even spotting these?
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Nickiepoo posted:How the gently caress is he even spotting these? What part of "Elite IED disposal team in action" are you not getting?
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Nov 22, 2016 12:22
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flosofl posted:What part of "Elite IED disposal team in action" are you not getting? Seeing a wizard at work means I shouldn't ask how the magic is done? Okay. Also it was more a statement of awe than an actual question but never mind.
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Nov 22, 2016 12:37
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Nickiepoo posted:Seeing a wizard at work means I shouldn't ask how the magic is done? Okay. I know, I was being an early morning smart-rear end. I have no idea and I'm also trying to determine how his pants can contain his huge brass balls. He's just swinging a pickaxe and stomping around like he's daring those things to go off. Which they better not, or it'll just piss him off.
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Nov 22, 2016 13:11
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flosofl posted:I know, I was being an early morning smart-rear end. Yeah, I remember reading an account from a Gulf War commander that he'd always assign hoodrats as spotters in convoys because a lifetime of having to watch your back gives you a sixth sense of when poo poo ain't right. But this guy is pulling bombs out of the ground with a goddamn pickaxe and I can't even begin to understand how a person gets to that point in their life.
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Nov 22, 2016 13:46
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Nov 22, 2016 13:59
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flosofl posted:I know, I was being an early morning smart-rear end. Most of them are set to go off by remote. But the terrorists might make one to go off when touched so brass ones there.
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Nov 22, 2016 14:17
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TheLightPurges posted:Most of them are set to go off by remote. But the terrorists might make one to go off when touched so brass ones there. It doesn't really matter what the trigger mechanism is. Bombs, especially of the homemade variety, are usually not the sort of thing you want to put a pickaxe into.
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Nov 22, 2016 14:23
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Hate to burst anyone's bubble, but on Reddit when that was posted someone from an actual IED disposal team said that was faked or staged. It isn't on or by a road, so why would IEDs be there? Also, apparently there are other vibration triggers that would/could go off if the bomb maker put them in that would prevent that sort of disarming.
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Nov 22, 2016 14:31
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New Leaf posted:Hate to burst anyone's bubble, but on Reddit when that was posted someone from an actual IED disposal team said that was faked or staged. It isn't on or by a road, so why would IEDs be there? Also, apparently there are other vibration triggers that would/could go off if the bomb maker put them in that would prevent that sort of disarming. It's easier to post on the internet than it is to be an EOD tech.
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Nov 23, 2016 00:04
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I have watched this video multiple times and really wish I could show it to the insanely japan-obsessed weeaboo I knew back in my Uni days so I could savour his rage over this blatant lie about glorious nippon steel. The scene after this where they show how a german longsword doesn't have the same issue cleaving through the blade makes it even better. Soul Reaver has a new favorite as of 00:19 on Nov 23, 2016 |
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Nov 23, 2016 00:15
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that's quite the dog and pony show
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Nov 23, 2016 01:01
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LOCUST FART HELL posted:that's quite the dog and pony show *sigh* 
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Nov 23, 2016 02:24
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Nov 23, 2016 02:26
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I made this for my LP of Super Star Trek because it was weirdly difficult for me to find GIFs of exploding stars. Feel free to prove me wrong about their scarcity!
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Nov 23, 2016 03:00
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Decrepus posted:Reticulating spine I just wanted you to know that at least one person got your joke, and I appreciate it.
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Nov 23, 2016 03:29
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Isn't that level of hypermobility in one's legs really bad for you?
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Nov 23, 2016 03:29
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oh god when her legs go backwards and i swear her hips are going to just fly right out of the sockets
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Somfin posted:I'd be pissed off if I was being deliberately fed bugs, regardless of previous transgressions against god and man. I don't understand the Snowpiercer hate. Hard to find good dystopian sci fi based on trains.
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Nov 23, 2016 09:54
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Soul Reaver posted:I have watched this video multiple times and really wish I could show it to the insanely japan-obsessed weeaboo I knew back in my Uni days so I could savour his rage over this blatant lie about glorious nippon steel. I worked at the company that produced this video and assisted a big part of the shoot. It was a whole hour TV special about Samurai culture. We had a few days shooting some "fight sequences" in the woods. Just some laughably bad jumping around with some "experts" that brought their own, very expensive, clothing and swords. You should have seen those guys! Biting their nails every time something came close to the swords like they'd break apart on sight. And rightly so: Every piece of gear looked like it had been brought out into a warzone after the shoot even though we barely used their stuff. Simply pulling it out of the sheath was enough to scratch those pieces of poo poo to the point where they looked like they had been used for years. They sued us and won. No more Samurai episodes after that...
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Nov 23, 2016 11:30
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Decrepus posted:Reticulating spine I understood that reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKrxGH8K1bE Bluemillion has a new favorite as of 13:35 on Nov 23, 2016 |
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Nov 23, 2016 13:24
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sigma 6 posted:I don't understand the Snowpiercer hate. Hard to find good dystopian sci fi based on trains. Thomas The Tank Engine: Aftermath
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Nov 23, 2016 13:36
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Nov 23, 2016 13:50
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AlexF posted:They sued us and won. No more Samurai episodes after that... So they actually pulled off a Boomerjinks?
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Nov 23, 2016 14:27
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iirc Japanese iron was both in limited supply and of poor quality so their swords were a bit of a 'doing the best with what we've got' situation rather than the best thing ever as weebs would have you believe.
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Nov 23, 2016 14:34
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Nickiepoo posted:iirc Japanese iron was both in limited supply and of poor quality so their swords were a bit of a 'doing the best with what we've got' situation rather than the best thing ever as weebs would have you believe. Yarp - hence why folding was an absolute must and different tempering on the edge and back of the sword permitted a hard edge while leaving the spine supple enough to not shatter on first contact with...anything.
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Nov 23, 2016 14:38
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New Leaf posted:Hate to burst anyone's bubble, but on Reddit when that was posted someone from an actual IED disposal team said that was faked or staged. It isn't on or by a road, so why would IEDs be there? Also, apparently there are other vibration triggers that would/could go off if the bomb maker put them in that would prevent that sort of disarming. Idk, they're often placed in the path of patrols and not every single patrol is right next to or on a road. TheLightPurges posted:Most of them are set to go off by remote. This one looks like it's attached to a pressure plate. There are a bunch of different types of switches for setting off IEDs and it's very regional for which is most prevalent.
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Nov 23, 2016 16:30
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Soul Reaver posted:I have watched this video multiple times and really wish I could show it to the insanely japan-obsessed weeaboo I knew back in my Uni days so I could savour his rage over this blatant lie about glorious nippon steel. It's from a German show so they obviously fixed the results to make their own swords look better. 
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the miracle of life
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wasnt the katana designed to be a fairly agile weapon? Something you could draw quickly? While the european longsword was a weapon you wanted to use against heavily armored motherfuckers and stab em in the face in fact, in these tests the katana wins in most tests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDkoj932YFo Zzulu has a new favorite as of 19:14 on Nov 23, 2016 |
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Nov 23, 2016 19:10
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I think swords were designed in their time and place specifically to kill people in that time and place and to do it well, so comparing them directly is apples and oranges.
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Nov 23, 2016 19:22
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Zzulu posted:wasnt the katana designed to be a fairly agile weapon? Something you could draw quickly? While the european longsword was a weapon you wanted to use against heavily armored motherfuckers and stab em in the face They're not that dramatically different in usage. The longsword's usually a bit longer and most varieties are somewhat stabbier, the katana cuts somewhat better due to the curvature, but they have similar dimensions and are usually both about the same fairly light weight of ~1-1.5 kg. Both of them were more commonly worn as sidearms, a backup in case the primary weapon (usually a bow or polearm of some sort) became unavailable. Neither of them was particularly good against armoured targets. Both weapons have seen a significant amount of development over a long period of time and were used in distinctly different contexts, so comparing them directly is fairly pointless. Many of those youtube tests along the lines of "how well can it cut a freestanding tomato" or "how good is it at hitting a bolted-down piece of steel" are basically functionally meaningless.
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Perestroika posted:They're not that dramatically different in usage. The longsword's usually a bit longer and most varieties are somewhat stabbier, the katana cuts somewhat better due to the curvature, but they have similar dimensions and are usually both about the same fairly light weight of ~1-1.5 kg. Both of them were more commonly worn as sidearms, a backup in case the primary weapon (usually a bow or polearm of some sort) became unavailable. Neither of them was particularly good against armoured targets. The History channel would kindly ask that you refrain from destroying their entire line up of shows.
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