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happyhippy posted:Your great great great great great great great great grand parents need to massacre a farmer town to get a proper one. I wonder if the queen can just make up titles "You are now the 'Dongleby of Pongleby.'"
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ThomasPaine posted:Or would they be designed to be fired specifically by mobile infantry? You fire it from the back of a land rover and then hoof it in the opposite direction? Nah, you fire it then hide in a trench or behind a hill. Teeny tiny weapons like that are the only ones where radiation effects are a serious concern compared to blast and heat because the blast is so small - as long as you avoid the burst of neutrons from the detonation (and the gamma rays they cause anything they hit to emit) then skeddadle you'll be fine.
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Noxville posted:https://twitter.com/hoffman_noa/status/1481558294640668675?s=21 Wish I'd known about this, I had nothing much on today and would have loved one of those goody bags.
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bessantj posted:I wonder if the queen can just make up titles "You are now the 'Dongleby of Pongleby.'" I mean I'm sure there's a whole bunch of 'royal rules of titles' going back ages, but honestly, who's going to stop her? Like anything that isn't putting someone in the house of lords, or you know has an actual real world significance. Made up title to begin with so I'm sure people would hmm and err. but end of the day, it's a title and it's the queen.
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Noxville posted:https://twitter.com/hoffman_noa/status/1481558294640668675?s=21 Trying to make a new centrist party after Corbyn, when even during Corbyn those things died on their arse almost instantly, is such a bizarre move. Anyway, here's Boris dancing like a peacock with no rhythm. https://twitter.com/Direthoughts/status/1481671366868934664
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Z the IVth posted:I did some reading about these once. The blast radius is about a mile? Launched from a recoilless rifle, range of 2km (1.25 miles). Not used due to it's inherent inaccuracy..... yeah, good luck with that.
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jiggerypokery posted:Still calling him the "Duke of York" though apparently. If you've ever played Crusader Kings, you'll know that you can change the royal succession and your kids will get pissed off, but revoke a duchy and you're looking at a war.
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Guavanaut posted:12th Grader Kings Crusader Kids was right there.
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Trip report: just ate four curries, two nans, a vegetable paratha, and pakora. This is me now.
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keep punching joe posted:Trip report: just ate four curries, two nans, a vegetable paratha, and pakora. This is me now. You got this to look forward to: 
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dr_rat posted:I mean I'm sure there's a whole bunch of 'royal rules of titles' going back ages, but honestly, who's going to stop her? I bet there are plenty of people that would faint because it would be beyond decorum.
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keep punching joe posted:Trip report: just ate four curries, two nans, a vegetable paratha, and pakora. This is me now. Isn't that like 4000 calories just from the bread?
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Apparently York is saying it doesn't want him to be the Duke of it anymore.
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bessantj posted:I wonder if the queen can just make up titles "You are now the 'Dongleby of Pongleby.'" Worked for her youngest son: quote:On his marriage in 1999, the prince was ennobled in keeping with tradition; however he was the first prince since the Tudors to be created an earl rather than a duke (while reserving the rank of duke for the future). The Sunday Telegraph reported that he was drawn to the Earldom of Wessex after watching the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, in which a character with that title is played by Colin Firth. Prior to that there hadn’t been an Earl of Wessex (or indeed a Wessex) for a thousand years.
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Scikar posted:Isn't the Davy Crocket the one where if fired, the chances of the operator surviving were not particularly great? Trying to work out whether to imagine they meant ordering others to use them, or a Strangelove thing. Given that he described them as being "good ol' boys from Texas" types, I have a pretty good idea which side of the Dr. Strangelove line they were on. Apparently the advice from the instructor was basically "be on a high hill or cliff overlooking your target, so you have gravity on your side. Walk away, cool guys don't look at explosions." Everyone clapped. Hideo Kojima toom extensive notes.
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Z the IVth posted:I did some reading about these once. The blast radius is about a mile? Technically I believe this is also true of the mills bomb, they are intended to be used from behind an object, with a mills bomb this can conceivably be just about anything thicker than plywood, with a nuclear weapon you should probably at least find a decent berm. Or a tank, that woud probably work. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Jan 13, 2022 |
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Guavanaut posted:The Marquis of Pitcairn Now now, let's not tarnish the good fame of the pitcairners and their ancestors.
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We should also use their full name of the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno (PHDO) Islands.
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Guavanaut posted:We should also use their full name of the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno (PHDO) Islands. Pitcairn; English Dominion Overseas.
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fuctifino posted:On the subject of old leaking and rusty nuclear deterrents, the MOD still hasn't done anything about the nuclear submarine graveyard in Plymouth. Some have been sat there since 1991, and at least 9 of them still have fuel. When they "cleaned up" the old nuclear sub stuff at the Chatham Dockyard site the "low level" waste just buried in a pile next to Asda near to the old railway line. Apparently there's enough radiation on St Mary's Island that the people who live in the new houses there have been told not to grow any edibles in their gardens.
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Soylent Yellow posted:Pitcairn; English Dominion Overseas. 
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/FT/status/1480939293380071427 This remake trend has to stop, the original was just fine until the last level which was full of invisible bombs that kill you
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Aidan_702 posted:Very lol https://twitter.com/IamHappyToast/status/1469674243529003011
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WhatEvil posted:Isn't that like 4000 calories just from the bread? It was tapas size portions and split with my partner, but still a mighty amount for a wee guy.
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ThomasPaine posted:Or would they be designed to be fired specifically by mobile infantry? You fire it from the back of a land rover and then hoof it in the opposite direction? Actually they were famously fired from a helicopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LzVIWiiHEw
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namesake posted:Actually they were famously fired from a helicopter: As I said, ThomasPaine posted:All I know about the Davy Crockett I learned from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
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Answers Me posted:Worked for her youngest son: Wessex always seems a completely sensible and underused subdivision of England so I think this was a good thing
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UKMT: A second party has hit the Johnson I swear this is all cummings being mad about being fired.
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the Davy Crockett was a dumb idea and a sign of the insane normilisation of tactical nuclear weapons but the stuff about it's firing range making it kill its operators was made up. Wikipedia says the blast yield was 20 tonnes of tnt and rads were down to 0.01 rads by 0.25 km from the center of blast what safety mechanisms it had i don't know so i guess if it missfires or is very inaccurate it could hit the crew?
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