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Vegas Bitches!!!

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  1. Toley Fart

    Toley Fart not606's best fighter

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    Is Fahrenheit that really annoying scale that people use to make it sound hotter than it actually is?
     
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  2. GroveRanger

    GroveRanger Well-Known Member

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    That's the one. We use Centigrade for winter "It was minus 2 degrees last night!" and Fahrenheit for summer "expecting it to be in the high 80's next week!"

    Aren't we a funny lot? Well, not everyone.

    I like Mon.
     
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  3. monacoger

    monacoger POTY 2021

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    Think it is Celsius these days mate. And for a bonus point, what temperature is Celsius and Fahrenheit the same?



    Yes, you are correct, -40 <ok>
     
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  4. Mick O'Toon

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    What's that in SI units, asking for a friend?
     
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  5. monacoger

    monacoger POTY 2021

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    Roughly 233 Kelvin, you simpleton ****.


    Did you even go to school? Asking for me.
     
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  6. Mind The Duck

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    Scorchin
    Roastin
    Clammy
    Nippy
    Cauld
    Baltic

    All the measurement required
     
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  7. monacoger

    monacoger POTY 2021

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    Fix the thermostat in your bedsit ffs <doh>



    ****in' yaaaaaaaaassssssss <party>
     
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  8. GroveRanger

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    Similarly we have many ways to describe rain

    Drizzle
    Misty
    Shower
    Cats & Dogs
    Bucketing/P*ssing down
    Stair rods
    Deluge
    A bit soft

    During my sojourn in Las Vegas it was pelters along with thunder and lightning on one of the days. Driving in the Mojave and the skyline was dark grey ahead with spectacular forked lightening strikes. Best free show by far! The dessert sucked it up like a sponge.
     
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  9. Mick O'Toon

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    *Lashing
     
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  10. GroveRanger

    GroveRanger Well-Known Member

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    Here's what I got to shoot in Vegas

    Glock pistol

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    Heckler & Koch sub-machine gun

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    Colt M4 assault rifle

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    M249 Squad Automatic Weapon machine gun

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    And finally this beast, the Barrett .50 sniper rifle

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    Being a pacifist it was slightly odd that I went for this as an activity but I had the best time! The kick off the sniper rifle was unreal and if you are at the business end it is goodnight Vienna, that thing is a beast.

    I was surprisingly accurate but the scopes were very effective which helps but the Glock & the H&K were all manually sited and I still did well.

    Absolutely recommend doing this if you ever get the chance.
     
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  11. Mick O'Toon

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    Is that not a bit insensitive in Vegas at the mo?Asking for Mon.
     
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  12. GroveRanger

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    Funny enough when I was going on-line to book it and typed in "Shooting in Las Vegas" there was a lot of stuff about that concert massacre. Not sure if you can still book the room at the Mandalay Bay where he went all Lee Harvey Oswald on the crowd.

    I have a new appreciation for guns having fired off a few. How on earth anyone is going to tackle gun crime in the States is beyond me, they are NEVER going to give up their weapons. Guy I chatted to said his wife would take her pistol to the cinema just in case it got "sketchy" ffs!
     
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  13. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    I love guns me
     
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  14. GroveRanger

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    I watched some programme or other about the SAS a while ago and an ex-squaddie was talking about how his unit was sent in on a search & rescue somewhere in Africa (Congo? Um Bongo?) and the "rebels" would come running out with AK47 blasting away but he said the recoil on those things is mighty fierce resulting in the guns rising on each shot. the army training was two shots at a time and he'd just sit there while the chap blasted away and once the gun was rising he'd fire of two rounds dead centre, end of.

    Rather than going full-auto with the ones in Vegas I was sticking to grouping two or three shots and it vastly improved the accuracy.
     
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  15. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    It would. The reason the British army used the SLR for so long is that our Generals did not trust us to not use automatic fire, makes sense, the best disciplined army on the planet could not be trusted to go Tonto when given weapons that actually fired auto.

    Interesting fact, the yanks in Vietnam fired approx 100,000 rounds for each casualty. That's what you call fire discipline, just spray bullets around until you hit something.
     
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  16. GroveRanger

    GroveRanger Well-Known Member

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    Sounds like me at Paintball!
     
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  17. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    You'd have gone down a storm in The Nam.
     
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  18. GroveRanger

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    Don't talk to me about Nam, I've been to Nam man. Twickernam!
     
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  19. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    me too, Far nham
     
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  20. Ciaran

    Ciaran Going for 55

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    The Barrett .50 sniper rifle was the IRAs choice of weapon at the border. Two mile perfect range or something. A proper window maker.
     
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