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Ciao! don't forget the Italian underware

HEYHEY!!! My bandaged mitts are saved! The mighty mug has arrived.... I know its a hard mug, but I'm in control I can stop anytime I want...

Happy Huff

Its still cupped scalded hands for me... Huffy B-(

...and the peolpe who make other people trek into jungles and swamps just to put a sticker on every bit of friut on the planet.

And The Rolling 'Sir Mick' Stones and their fawning media hacks, Its only Rock and Roll? I think not...


The scarey thing is the only people living the rock and roll lifestyle are some folky types!

'it's like punk never happened' as Georgie-boy would say.

Ranthuff

And... sports presenters, especaily whiney scottish ones, who think, or try to make, whatever lame peice of crap theyre talking about seem exciting

And..Whoever decided that sport needs to be tacked on to the end of each news item? percentage wise what amount of the population is interested in cricket or prematch tosh, christ they have about thrity stations on Sky for sport why invade the human channels?

and... why do the men who run the Scottish Executive and STV think we're interested in Football? see above rant,grrrrr

yes boys feck of ta the football on Saturday, discuss England's cricket prowess in the booozer,watch Sky Sports 304, but take the whingey presenters with you and get of my land, sorry, newsheadlines.

Just say No to sports

sportyHuff

++fire brigade 300. ambulance 700. police 8000. roughly. proving we drive better than the polis.++

yeah, but who sells more ice cream?

That should have read 'Tintin books' B-)

All of the above,and snippy shop assistant who look down their noses at customers, ( this is ispired by the story about Condolense Rice telling of some snippy shopgirl who works where), snippy shop assistants who look down their noses at Titin book buyers ( inspired by rotund wimmin in not so child freindly Thins/ottokars Childrens Book dept in Edinbra.

Oh, and people who park on pavements ( except italians who have a right to) so that other cars can travel even faster down narrow streets.
Saddo that I am, if I see a discarded parking ticket i pick it up and slap it on the next car I see parked on the pavement, hopefully it spoils someones day. B-)  

vvvvvery belated Hippy birdday old man

Huffsta

++Trouble is, the more I use it, the more I seem to be driving like an Italian.++

This thread has just invaded the Up against the wall thread....

You should try and put a whole packet of Refreshers in you mouth at once, sans wrappers...

 

Sorry about this, can't seem to link to the page,Here's the Tank techie bit:

Devastating weapon which uses no explosive will transform tank warfare
IAN BRUCE
THE United States has been working for almost three decades on a project to create a hyper-velocity supergun whose shells could be fired without chemical propellant or a high-explosive warhead.

It appeared to be in the realms of science fiction until Ronald Reagan pumped billions of dollars into the abortive Star Wars missile defence programme and financed the breakthrough into electro-magnetic technology.

The biggest barrier until recently was the size of the propulsion unit needed to hurl a solid projectile, at five times the speed of a Concorde jet, by harnessing and focusing the force from magnetised electrical coils along twin rails. Only a decade ago, the "rail gun" as it was then known needed a launcher the size of an articulated truck.

Quantum leaps in miniaturisation have now enabled a transatlantic consortium, headed by the Lockheed Martin corporation, to produce a weapon which could revolutionise tank warfare.

The electro-magnetic gun(EMG), to be tested at full power for the first time at Scotland's Dundrennan firing range, in theory, can propel a slug towards its target at between two and three miles a second. It can kill an enemy tank five miles away by sheer speed of its flight - estimated to be up to 7500mph - to wreak incredible damage , shattering ceramic plates, slicing through steel and melting carbon in the process.

The one unspoken element in the equation is the material for the slugs. Depleted uranium, the throwaway waste-product of the nuclear power industry, is used by every modern army in the world to make penetrator rods for its anti-tank shells. The DU-tipped rounds can defeat all armour at 1500 yards and most at twice that range.

The catch is that the impact, penetration and pyrotechnic effect of the DU throws out radioactive dust which can pollute the area downwind of the target, contaminate plants and water supplies and cause kidney damage and cancers in humans.

BAe Systems, the UK's biggest defence contractor, the Army and the MoD have pinned their hopes on successful tests leading to a revolution in armoured warfare.

Until now, the helicopter gunship was gradually displacing cumbersome armoured vehicles as the main killer on the modern battlefield. Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart Crawford, a defence consultant, said: "I would not be surprised to see this weapon deployed, by the US at least, before 2020."

Supergun test under fire over toxic fears

-Aug

  Supergun test under fire over toxic fears
Holyrood asked to block US trials in Kirkcudbright

IAN BRUCE

THE Scottish parliament is to be asked to block trials of a revolutionary new American "supergun" to be carried out in secrecy at a Scots firing range.

The Pentagon recently let slip that the only place in the world it could probably test it at full power was Kirkcudbright despite there being vast areas of test firing ranges in the US.

Local people fear they could become victims of a toxic aftermath. The concern is that radioactive depleted uranium will be involved with the weapon, which has been under secret tests in the US for almost 30 years.

An emergency motion for the restart of the parliamentary sitting on September 1 has called on Jack McConnell, the first minister, to apply pressure on the Ministry of Defence to suspend the planned trials at the Dundrennan firing range until safety issues can be addressed.

The motion has been tabled by Chris Ballance, of the Greens, and Angus Robertson, SNP foreign affairs spokesman, has also promised to raise the trials at Westminster in the first defence debate.

The fact the weapon was to be tested in Scotland only leaked out when it was mentioned by the Pentagon's leading military scientist, Mike Andrews, to delegates at a recent defence conference in Washington. He told them the system was ready, but had not yet been used at full power, adding: "Probably the only place in the world we can do that is Kirkcudbright."

The fact that secret US tests were to be carried out on Scottish soil has never been announced or admitted by the MoD, raising fears that there may be some hidden safety or environmental reason for not conducting them on the 25,000 square kilometres of firing ranges available to the US military in their own country.

Mrs Kathleen Glass, a leading campaigner on the local community council, said: "We have heard rumours, but no definite information on US gun tests. Someone should be telling us what's going on."

Alasdair Morgan, the SNP MSP for the south of Scotland, said: ''It's bizarre that Dundrennan should be chosen unless there's something to hide. It's not as if the US has a shortage of test sites. The MoD must come clean on this now."

The MoD failed to answer inquiries on the issue despite repeated calls to its policy unit over the last two days.

The tests are understood to involve firing an experimental electro-magnetic gun (EMG) which can launch a shell at 7500-mph and destroy a tank more than five miles away.

The EMG, also known as a "rail gun", has been under secret development by the US for almost 30 years, with the UK acting as a junior partner. The gun uses magnetic coils to create a pulse of energy which can hurl a projectile at more than five times the top speed of Concorde, or more than two miles per second.

BAe Systems, the UK's biggest defence company, is involved in its development.

The fear is that the slugs would have to be made of radioactive depleted uranium to survive and still remain solid enough to smash through the armour of a modern tank.

Residents near the Dundrennan range have already fought a long campaign against MoD test-firing of conventional DU tank rounds which are claimed to have created radioactive pollution in the Solway Firth. It is feared they can cause cancer.

The Ministry has conducted its own tests and given the area a clean bill of health, but only one of the 6900 DU rounds fired there since the 1980s has ever been recovered.

Devastating weapon which uses no explosive will transform tank warfare

-Aug 13th

 

Wod, yer a dream, I'll try this as soon as poss...


The Mighty Enoch (there's one fir the History buffs)

Wod, XP it is. I only tried going straight into the net into the website at the top of this thread
If i can take me time, phew!

I'm a luddite who takes a long time and have large hands...

(at least that what Mrs Huff claims she likes about me ;)

Capt Skank, HELP! as I only have a 90 sec before I get shut down, whats the best way into the firwall settings? via control panel?

sorry

Luddite Huff