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Trainee PornStar
Jul 20, 2006

I'm just an inbetweener
regarding the 'drone chat'

Has anyone got any idea what 'military measures had been put in place' actually means?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46654797


*edit*
ABARTH 595.. a snorty little motor :)
https://www.abarthcars.co.uk/abarth-595

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Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4
Just post six guys with powerful, accurate guns and shoot the drone like what the heck

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4
*entire major airport shuts down for 48 hours because R/C plane is annoying*

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

Trainee PornStar posted:

regarding the 'drone chat'

Has anyone got any idea what 'military measures had been put in place' actually means?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46654797


*edit*
ABARTH 595.. a snorty little motor :)
https://www.abarthcars.co.uk/abarth-595

massive extendable butterfly nets, with everyone running around and bumping into each other like s 1970s live action comedy show

Submarine Sandpaper
May 27, 2007


Jel Shaker posted:

massive extendable butterfly nets, with everyone running around and bumping into each other like s 1970s live action comedy show

coworker told me nippon has drones that drop nets on other drones.

tarbrush
Feb 7, 2011

ALL ABOARD THE SCOTLAND HYPE TRAIN!

CHOO CHOO

Glenn Quebec posted:

Just post six guys with powerful, accurate guns and shoot the drone like what the heck

If you miss with a high powered rifle at that angle there's something like a 2.4 km zone where the bullet can come down.

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

sexpig by night posted:

so are people just paranoid and seeing things or is there really a robot swarm hassling them 24/7

the rich are a little on-edge about drones being used against them someday

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

Agean90 posted:

hahaha how the gently caress are drones real just get a shotgun hahaha just use some buckshot

personally I recommend birdshot and if you buy steel shot you don't even have to worry about environmental impact

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Former DILF posted:

personally I recommend birdshot and if you buy steel shot you don't even have to worry about environmental impact

It works for protecting puckins, so it should work against drones as well

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4

tarbrush posted:

If you miss with a high powered rifle at that angle there's something like a 2.4 km zone where the bullet can come down.

If people can shoot hostage takers and not miss/harm the hostage I'm sure you guys can shoot a drone

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

robot scarecrow

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

Glenn Quebec posted:

If people can shoot hostage takers and not miss/harm the hostage I'm sure you guys can shoot a drone

just get a marine, every one a sharpshooter

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

oh wait its britain sorry, you cant have our marines. every one a sharpshooter

Muscle Wizard
Jul 28, 2011

by sebmojo

Glenn Quebec posted:

If people can shoot hostage takers and not miss/harm the hostage I'm sure you guys can shoot a drone

shooting at a target flying above you is considerably more sketchy than some dude at ground level. on the other hand, hunter s thompson seems fine in this clip so why not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHeSC_Ws5Ic

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

School Nickname posted:

Assuming the Republic wants them. I don't want to have to pay a shitload extra tax for the pleasure of being bombed out by Loyalists, or want to deal with the Deep South of the British Isles any more than I have to.

Having honest to god Protestant terrorists again will be really fun to rub in the face of the religious right in the states whenever they start shrieking about Muslims.

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Muscle Wizard posted:

shooting at a target flying above you is considerably more sketchy than some dude at ground level. on the other hand, hunter s thompson seems fine in this clip so why not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHeSC_Ws5Ic

Trap shooting is literally all about shooting a flying target lolol the Brits have an entire parlimentsry chamber filled with old Noble fucks just sitting around at least one of them hunts ducks just drag them out to shoot it lmao

Obliterati
Nov 13, 2012

Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.
Thunderdome is forever.

Agean90 posted:

Trap shooting is literally all about shooting a flying target lolol the Brits have an entire parlimentsry chamber filled with old Noble fucks just sitting around at least one of them hunts ducks just drag them out to shoot it lmao

They created an entire servant class and radically altered several environments solely to ensure the birds fly in a straight line on demand, so I wouldn't get your hopes up unless Jeeves is there to hold their coats

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4
I'm just lolling at the entirety of Britain unable to stop a rogue drone

Muscle Wizard
Jul 28, 2011

by sebmojo

Agean90 posted:

Trap shooting is literally all about shooting a flying target lolol the Brits have an entire parlimentsry chamber filled with old Noble fucks just sitting around at least one of them hunts ducks just drag them out to shoot it lmao

tell me why birdshot has so many tiny pellets again

ynohtna
Feb 16, 2007

backwoods compatible
Illegal Hen

Glenn Quebec posted:

I'm just lolling at the entirety of Britain unable to stop a rogue drone

"Not today motherfucker!"

*stabs upwards*

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

Muscle Wizard posted:

tell me why birdshot has so many tiny pellets again

kill two birds with one load

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

School Nickname posted:

Assuming the Republic wants them. I don't want to have to pay a shitload extra tax for the pleasure of being bombed out by Loyalists, or want to deal with the Deep South of the British Isles any more than I have to.

RoI polling on the question of "Would you support reunification if it meant you had to pay more in tax" gets something like 30%, people in the Republic are not exactly yearning to be reunited with the north.


Glenn Quebec posted:

Just post six guys with powerful, accurate guns and shoot the drone like what the heck

drones are surprisingly difficult to shoot down, they're fast moving and it's hard to estimate how far away they are which is critical for aiming at a distance. it's bad enough that militaries have been developing dedicated anti-drone weaponry

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь

Glenn Quebec posted:

I'm just lolling at the entirety of Britain unable to stop a rogue drone

All of America couldn't stop a couple of passenger planes so

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь
:shrug:

BULBASAUR
Apr 6, 2009




Soiled Meat
who would win

2 drones vs

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Marxist-Jezzinist posted:

All of America couldn't stop a couple of passenger planes so

:thunk:

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Muscle Wizard posted:

tell me why birdshot has so many tiny pellets again

to hit small flying objects op

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


's why it's called bird shot

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Just tell the toffs that foxes can fly now you’ll have 50 beagles down at Gatwick in no time and the things gotta land to recharge at some point.

Lobster God
Nov 5, 2008

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Just tell the toffs that foxes can fly now you’ll have 50 beagles down at Gatwick in no time and the things gotta land to recharge at some point.

Starting a committee to examine the surface to air capabilities of beagles.

Bryter
Nov 6, 2011

but since we are small we may-
uh, we may be the losers

Marxist-Jezzinist posted:

All of America couldn't stop a couple of passenger planes so

lol

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь
Sorry, too soon

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Drone swarm the rich

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Hey we stopped 1 of 4 that ain't bad!!

Bryter
Nov 6, 2011

but since we are small we may-
uh, we may be the losers
actually it was a field that stopped the fourth plane

MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese

Agean90 posted:

's why it's called bird shot

now let me tell you about buck shot

do you want to know the secret

Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

School Nickname posted:

Assuming the Republic wants them. I don't want to have to pay a shitload extra tax for the pleasure of being bombed out by Loyalists, or want to deal with the Deep South of the British Isles any more than I have to.

As someone nominally Unionist, I'm finding myself more in favour of re-unification than remaining part of a post-Brexit UK. NI gets a fuckton of "peace and reconciliation" funding from the EU that would offset any tax burden that Ireland has to carry. Hell, it would probably get even more funding in the future just to stick another dagger into the UK for being dumb enough to Brexit.

Loyalist terrorism is a spent force. Even at the height of the Troubles they were mostly just rival criminal gangs intimidating the gently caress out of their communities. Without the British state surreptitiously arming them and providing intelligence, they're lame ducks.

Yeah, NI is the Deep South of the UK. That's a side effect of the conflict. Anyone with half a brain gets the gently caress out of NI once they reach college age and never looks back. The only people left are olds and sectarian scumbags. That's how you get the DUP.

Ireland used to have a similar brain drain until the government made a concerted effort to stop young people leaving the country. It went from a backwater EU country dominated by Catholic doctrine to one of the most progressive members of the EU in the span of a single generation.

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

Elevator Screamer posted:

As someone nominally Unionist, I'm finding myself more in favour of re-unification than remaining part of a post-Brexit UK. NI gets a fuckton of "peace and reconciliation" funding from the EU that would offset any tax burden that Ireland has to carry. Hell, it would probably get even more funding in the future just to stick another dagger into the UK for being dumb enough to Brexit.

Loyalist terrorism is a spent force. Even at the height of the Troubles they were mostly just rival criminal gangs intimidating the gently caress out of their communities. Without the British state surreptitiously arming them and providing intelligence, they're lame ducks.

Yeah, NI is the Deep South of the UK. That's a side effect of the conflict. Anyone with half a brain gets the gently caress out of NI once they reach college age and never looks back. The only people left are olds and sectarian scumbags. That's how you get the DUP.

Ireland used to have a similar brain drain until the government made a concerted effort to stop young people leaving the country. It went from a backwater EU country dominated by Catholic doctrine to one of the most progressive members of the EU in the span of a single generation.

It's not like I want to r-reunify with you or anything, baka!!!

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


MikeCrotch posted:

now let me tell you about buck shot

do you want to know the secret

it's made bigger

to kill bucks you see

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Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Marxist-Jezzinist posted:

All of America couldn't stop a couple of passenger planes so

they can so long as its an iranian airline

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