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Post by lazybones on Apr 27, 2021 13:31:08 GMT
I'd get the world's stoutest man to stand in goal. Whenever one of my players got the ball the rest of the team would be drilled to link hands around him and they would walk the ball to the opposite net.
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Post by lazybones on Apr 27, 2021 13:44:33 GMT
I like David Squires's strips quite a lot. Sometimes I understand a reference and I feel that perhaps I have a real affinity with him. Sometimes, though ... in fact quite a lot of the time ... I find myself thinking that the strip is an essentially non-humorous piece of writing, illustrated by humorous pictures.
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 27, 2021 13:49:02 GMT
I think the supporters have gone too far in football. I'd love to buy a club and not let supporters in. I'd remove all the stands. My biggest spend would not be on players but on lawyers - employed to tease out loopholes in the competition rules. You'd just love this season. No fans, all lawyers. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 27, 2021 13:49:44 GMT
Keeping the stands is a good idea though. It means much less far to run to collect the ball if you kick it out of play.
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 27, 2021 14:53:19 GMT
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Post by Shenguin on Apr 27, 2021 14:57:18 GMT
Sex (gren)aid
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Post by gongfarmer on Apr 27, 2021 14:58:07 GMT
That article misses the fundamental question of whether this was a British Mills bomb design, or the German potato-masher stick grenade.
That could make a world of difference.
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 27, 2021 15:05:47 GMT
That article misses the fundamental question of whether this was a British Mills bomb design, or the German potato-masher stick grenade. That could make a world of difference. Nothing from the Allied side? Gongfamer: "No, that sort of thing wouldn't interest me at all." |
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Post by amipal on Apr 27, 2021 15:09:20 GMT
That article misses the fundamental question of whether this was a British Mills bomb design, or the German potato-masher stick grenade. That could make a world of difference. I absolutely refuse to believe that the Guardian - the Guardian! - would get a defence-related article wrong. |
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Post by scamander on Apr 27, 2021 15:09:27 GMT
I like David Squires's strips quite a lot. Sometimes I understand a reference and I feel that perhaps I have a real affinity with him. Sometimes, though ... in fact quite a lot of the time ... I find myself thinking that the strip is an essentially non-humorous piece of writing, illustrated by humorous pictures. Some of his stuff is brilliant. But I prefer it when he leaves the politics out. There's plenty of space for that elsewhere. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Apr 27, 2021 15:09:28 GMT
This report fails to mention that one bomb disposal expert had to delete his search history.
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Post by Shenguin on Apr 27, 2021 15:10:37 GMT
That article misses the fundamental question of whether this was a British Mills bomb design, or the German potato-masher stick grenade. That could make a world of difference. Nothing from the Allied side? Gongfamer: "No, that sort of thing wouldn't interest me at all." My history is a bit rusty, but I was given to understand that the British were on the Allied side, and they made the Mills Bomb, the classic "pineapple" grooved hand grenade. I'm sure your knowledge is better than mine though. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Apr 27, 2021 15:14:11 GMT
That article misses the fundamental question of whether this was a British Mills bomb design, or the German potato-masher stick grenade. That could make a world of difference. Nothing from the Allied side? Gongfamer: "No, that sort of thing wouldn't interest me at all." The US always came late. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 27, 2021 15:18:57 GMT
Nothing from the Allied side? Gongfamer: "No, that sort of thing wouldn't interest me at all." My history is a bit rusty, but I was given to understand that the British were on the Allied side, and they made the Mills Bomb, the classic "pineapple" grooved hand grenade. I'm sure your knowledge is better than mine though. It's a Father Ted quote. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 27, 2021 15:21:01 GMT
I'm not so much angry with Shenguin as disappointed.
And absolutely fucking furious.
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 27, 2021 15:22:40 GMT
Ok so Father Ted finished 23 years ago.
Maybe Shenguin was too young to watch it.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Apr 27, 2021 15:26:27 GMT
I managed to cobble together a nice looking Chicken Madras for dinner, most of it whilst holding an angry one year old.
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Post by Shenguin on Apr 27, 2021 15:27:27 GMT
I'm not so much angry with Shenguin as disappointed. And absolutely fucking furious. Yeah, I didn't recognise the quote, so like whatevs Grandad. |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Apr 27, 2021 15:35:26 GMT
So what, could you actually mash potatoes with this German grenade?
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Post by crankcaller on Apr 27, 2021 15:44:11 GMT
You could peel the spuds first with their bayonets as well.
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Post by amipal on Apr 27, 2021 15:48:00 GMT
So what, could you actually mash potatoes with this German grenade? The Stielhandgranate had a wooden handle, which Allied troops thought resembled a kitchen utensil. Saying that, the actual explosive potential of the “stick grenade” wasn’t great - plenty of tales of German soldiers running through the explosion from their own grenade. Sort of a forerunner to a flash-bang. |
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Post by Shenguin on Apr 27, 2021 15:50:31 GMT
Not King Edwards, you traitors.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Apr 27, 2021 16:01:39 GMT
This is why the Germans won the peace even though they lost the war - innovating in the kitchen utensil market is a much more sustainable business plan than occupying Belgium.
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 27, 2021 16:23:47 GMT
Great Beers
Moules frites
Chocolate
Child abuse
Lace
Jacques Brel
Belgium would be a pretty good country to invade.
Not too unwieldy.
You could always pop to France if you fancied some wine.
Plus I reckon take a big flick knife and you'd beat the Belgian army.
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Post by Felice Landry on Apr 27, 2021 16:24:03 GMT
I do have a Bosch fridge/freezer and hand blender*, so you are correct.
*which looks a bit like a German hand grenade from the wars.
<edit>the fridge and blender are separate items.
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