Title: Every day is a school day.
Post by: vzzbux on 22 May, 2011, 08:16:59 AM
Post by: vzzbux on 22 May, 2011, 08:16:59 AM
So what new thing have you learnt today?
I never knew that the Americans used the pump action shot gun with fixed bayonet in the trenches of WWI.
What made me laugh is that the Germans considered this to be a murderous weapon and tried to get them banned under international law in warfare. Yet they condoned the use of mustard gas. A much less violent weapon of warfare.
V
I never knew that the Americans used the pump action shot gun with fixed bayonet in the trenches of WWI.
What made me laugh is that the Germans considered this to be a murderous weapon and tried to get them banned under international law in warfare. Yet they condoned the use of mustard gas. A much less violent weapon of warfare.
V
Title: Re: Every day is a school day.
Post by: John Caliber on 22 May, 2011, 09:52:55 AM
Post by: John Caliber on 22 May, 2011, 09:52:55 AM
Mustard gas eventually did for my mother's uncle Bernard, who returned from the Trenches a broken man, with respitory and gastrointestinal disease and PTSD. He lived alone in a shack on the quiet moors for the rest of his life.
Title: Re: Every day is a school day.
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 22 May, 2011, 11:43:33 AM
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 22 May, 2011, 11:43:33 AM
That's why there's a shotgun in that WW1 PC blastin' FPS 'Necrovision.'
http://static2.videogamer.com/videogamer/images/pc/necrovision/screens/necrovision_7.jpg
http://static2.videogamer.com/videogamer/images/pc/necrovision/screens/necrovision_7.jpg
Title: Re: Every day is a school day.
Post by: Bat King on 22 May, 2011, 04:41:46 PM
Post by: Bat King on 22 May, 2011, 04:41:46 PM
Quote from: John Caliber on 22 May, 2011, 09:52:55 AM
Mustard gas eventually did for my mother's uncle Bernard, who returned from the Trenches a broken man, with respitory and gastrointestinal disease and PTSD. He lived alone in a shack on the quiet moors for the rest of his life.
Got my Great Grandfather too.. he survived gassing at the Somme but the lung rot set in.
Sad coincidence.
Title: Re: Every day is a school day.
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 22 May, 2011, 10:59:16 PM
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 22 May, 2011, 10:59:16 PM
On a cheerier note, today I learned how to set up new profile on Windows 7 in order to stop desktop icons mysteriously vanishing.
I also learned that this problem is a "feature" (not a bug, no not that) of Windows 7.
I also learned that moving all the settings from an old bugged profile to a new one takes an age - 30 minutes for iTunes alone.
I also learned that my one year old's sickness and diahoerra has nothing to do with teething but is, in fact, an easily communicated stomach bug. Great!
I also learned that this problem is a "feature" (not a bug, no not that) of Windows 7.
I also learned that moving all the settings from an old bugged profile to a new one takes an age - 30 minutes for iTunes alone.
I also learned that my one year old's sickness and diahoerra has nothing to do with teething but is, in fact, an easily communicated stomach bug. Great!