Things that have bothered you for a long time.

[mudsticks]

The concept of 'overbalancing'

ie falling over..

Shouldn't it be called underbalancing ??

 

[mudsticks]

Tell you what, if you can point me in the direction of a area in the UK or elsewhere that is covered entirely in gravel, I'll change my mind.
I await in anticipation.
If we're gonna start naming bikes according to the surface they are ridden on, then we need...
Mud bikes.
Sand bikes.
Snow bikes.
Tarmac bikes.
Etc etc.

Chesil Beach..

It's on the Dorset coast

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Why is a near miss not a near hit?

 

[swee'pea99]

Why is a near miss not a near hit?

Reminds me of one of mine - commentators saying they were 'denied by the woodwork'. As if the post suddenly shifted in to thwart them.

 

[Yellow Fang]

German soldiers in WW2 films: why are they all such crappy shots? Was there something wrong with their machine guns, like their being made of banana shaped tubing?

 

[Salty seadog]

Why can't people be honest with their advert descriptions & if they have made an honest mistake then admit to it & offer a solution rather than continue denying it.

Are these the Tory Brexit ads?

I feel the same.

 

[classic33]

German soldiers in WW2 films: why are they all such crappy shots? Was there something wrong with their machine guns, like their being made of banana shaped tubing?

The manufacturing quality wasn't that high, resulting in smaller ammuntion being used. This left the barrel without the spin induced stabilization from the rifling. Thus affecting the accuracy.

 

[youngoldbloke]

'Smart' motorways

 

[Andy in Germany]

German soldiers in WW2 films: why are they all such crappy shots? Was there something wrong with their machine guns, like their being made of banana shaped tubing?

It's to show the 'superiority' of the British.

Unfortunately the belief in this idea seems to persist.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Are these the Tory Brexit ads?

No

 

[Mugshot]

Are these the Tory Brexit ads?

I feel the same.

Just Brexit in general I would imagine, right from the off.

 

[Yellow Fang]

The manufacturing quality wasn't that high, resulting in smaller ammuntion being used. This left the barrel without the spin induced stabilization from the rifling. Thus affecting the accuracy.

Is that true? I've read books in which British servicemen picked up German guns because they thought they were better than their own; almost certainly the case if they were equipped with the Sten.

 

[Yellow Fang]

It's to show the 'superiority' of the British.

Unfortunately the belief in this idea seems to persist.

I noticed it mostly in American films. In British war films the operation was successfully completed but at a very high price.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Doesn't matter what the film/TV is, the baddies as per whomever is creating the film/TV are always horrific shots, where the hero's are always superb shots.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Since when did computers start speaking in the plural? This morning my laptop gave me the following message:

"There's a problem with this drive: We are trying to fix it for you"

What is going on? Is this the Royal "We"? Are the machines now considering themselves to be our rightful rulers? Or is it so that while one of "Them" fixes the problem, the other can keep watching me?