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Discussion in 'General' started by TheMusician, 28 Oct 2009.

  1. DeanSUNIAIU

    DeanSUNIAIU Modder

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    It's not for me to judge, no homo.
     
  2. fix-the-spade

    fix-the-spade Multimodder

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    My neighbours used to have chickens and they were positively charming. Quiet, calm, made my cat **** a brick when I left the kitchen door open and they wondered in to say hello. Plus it's weirdly nice to get up to go to work in the morning and be greeted by a line of chickens on the garden wall wanting petting before they'll let you leave.
     
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  3. bawjaws

    bawjaws Multimodder

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    It's a real shame, because YouTube "journalism" just doesn't do it for me whatsoever. And not to get all "old man yells at clouds" here, but the general state of tech journalism is absolutely bloody dismal (and I think to a large extent that could be extended to most forms of journalism actually).

    Keep up the good work @Gareth Halfacree . There will always be a market for proper journalism.
     
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  4. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    It's just branding @Gareth Halfacree , just advertise your services under
    ChatGarethPT or ChatGPT if you want to shorten it.
     
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  5. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    You mean just regurgitating a press release verbatim isn't journalism?
     
  6. perplekks45

    perplekks45 LIKE AN ANIMAL!

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    No, no, that is best case these days. Most of them quote word for word, and still get it wrong.
     
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  7. Midlight

    Midlight Minimodder

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    Just been informed I am at risk of redundancy. Our current team of 4 will be going down to 1.
    Whatever happens it's going to be crap, the 4 of us get along really well. We're getting fobbed of with the usual platitudes of 'nothing has been decided yet' and 'possibility of redeployment in the wider group'.
    Just been approved for a mortgage too.
     
  8. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    And the 1 still employed will have the workload of all 4 of you.
     
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  9. Midlight

    Midlight Minimodder

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    Of course. Though we are already doing the work of 6-7 people between us so, that is some fun maths.
     
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  10. Flibblebot

    Flibblebot Smile with me

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    Car failed its MOT, spectactularly. Probably about a grand's worth of fixes. Time to go car hunting...and to find out how much I'd get for one of my kidneys :idea:
     
  11. Pete J

    Pete J Employed scum

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    The trick is to have a really big gun.
     
  12. Almightyrastus

    Almightyrastus On the jazz.

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  13. Bloody_Pete

    Bloody_Pete Technophile

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    Getting sodding covid! It was like a really bad cold at this stage, but still really not what I needed!
     
  14. Arboreal

    Arboreal Keeper of the Electric Currants

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    A 2 Bore you say? I'll have do take a look at that video.
    I only watched the Slowmo Guys with a 4 Bore last week and that was beastly...

    They have 2 more big recoil rifles on the go, not sure if those are out yet. Seems a good Collab with Kentucky Ballistics
     
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  15. Almightyrastus

    Almightyrastus On the jazz.

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    Yeah, I have been watching those. Looking forward to their video on the 950 JDJ. The 2 bore in the Armouries video is not strictly 2 bore, being that it is closer in bore diameter to the 4 bore that Kentucky Ballistics is using, but he does explain all that. It is a beautiful rifle though, not sure that I'd be too up for shouldering it though....
     
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  16. Byron C

    Byron C I was told there would be cheesecake…?

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    Is that Jonathan Ferguson, the Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history?

    :lol:

    I'm glad someone mentioned Kentucky Ballistics & The Slow Mo Guys :happy:. Some absolutely insane firearms featured on those channels recently...

    Scott is much less "in character" when he's on a Slow Mo Guys video, it's a nice change. When it's a video for his own channel he's a hell of a lot more... "extra" and "American", it's hard to watch sometimes.
     
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  17. Arboreal

    Arboreal Keeper of the Electric Currants

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    It certainly is the excellent Jonathan Ferguson there.

    Interesting to hear about Scott from KB, I've not watched his channel and did think he was more manageable on Slo mo than I was expecting.
    So my initial prejudice would have been right had I lookedcat KB first.
     
  18. mrlongbeard

    mrlongbeard Multimodder

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    Go and find the video where a .50BMG slap round exploded on him, he's a lucky SOB to be alive. And to be frank after that I think I'd ham up my Youtube personality to 11

    edit, here it is
     
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  19. Almightyrastus

    Almightyrastus On the jazz.

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    I generally skip the first few mins of the KB videos as well as the last few. His shooting stuff is great fun though.
     
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  20. fix-the-spade

    fix-the-spade Multimodder

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    IIRC didn't the ammunition turn out to be fake and massively over pressure? Or did they never truly get to the bottom of it.
     

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