FishFright
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Ah the Tao of Dogtanian - it's not the use of a musket that's important, it's grasping the whole concept of musketness that's built in the structure of heaven and earth.
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Ah the Tao of Dogtanian - it's not the use of a musket that's important, it's grasping the whole concept of musketness that's built in the structure of heaven and earth.
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Ratchet Cat
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Why do people in disaster movies never use an emergency toothbrush?
They all seem to have really good teeth.🤔
They all seem to have really good teeth.🤔
Alex321
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Muskets weren't much use away from the battlefield.
It took close to a minute to reload, a minimum of 30 seconds if you were very good and in eth rhythm of loading and firing - I use one regularly with the Sealed Knot, and can just about load in 30 seconds, but that is without the actual ball (obviously we only fire blanks).
And then if it is a matchlock, you would not normally be carrying around lit match, so you have to get that lit before you can fire.
A musket is also quite heavy, and doesn't normally have any means of carrying other than in the hand, so you wouldn't usually even have it with you around town.
Whereas of course the sword only takes a second or two to draw.
mistyoptic
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better still, draw it with a pen. After all, the pen is mightier than the sword
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Yellow Fang
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The musket is not a very accurate weapon. You just point it in the general direction and hope it hits someone. It seems strange that the kings best and most skilful soldiers would be dedicated to use this weapon on the battlefield.
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Yellow Fang
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Adam and Eve - why were they bothered about being naked? They must have been used to seeing each other naked. God made their bodies himself, and there was no-one else around.
Jameshow
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A sign of shame? we alone out of all the animals feel exposed if naked and it's a breach of the peace as one naked rambler found out many a time .
Alex321
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Indeed. The musket only replaced the longbow because it was cheaper and required virtually no training or exercise to use.
In range, accuracy and speed of fire, it was an inferior weapon. But on the battlefield, it was still better than swords because it had range. And because infantry then fought in large blocks, it didn't have to be particularly accurate.
Mad Doug Biker
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Who cares? Just sit back and enjoy!
Dogtanian And The Muskahounds theme from the '80s' 😍
View: https://youtu.be/9arTKy8Os8g
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gavroche
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Who invented knitting and stopped using animal skins for clothing?
Mad Doug Biker
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And the '80s' cartoon theme - It even has a description at 1.45 onwards.
Also there is the line
'They drink their beer and say they're fathful to their King!'
Surely a line you'd never get away with now?'
We may not have learned very much, but some of our cartoons as kids did try to teach a little bit of history:
View: https://youtu.be/P-xO72s5EBY
Mad Doug Biker
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The Musketeers/Muskahounds, in'nit?
classic33
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Historian Richard Rutt conservatively suggests knitting originated in Egypt.
However....
Rudolf Pfister, an independent researcher, discovered some fragments of knitted fabric in Eastern Syria.
matticus
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Why don't Grenadiers carry grenades?
(The guards or thetrucks - sorry, "cars" .)
(The guards or the
