Driving in the snow

Keith Barrow

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

Make sure all weapons are on "SAFE" (gotta think of the non-combatants).

Wait, weapons have a safe mode? What do they do? Taunt your would-be assailant?

Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]

NormDroid

An simple RPG or JAVELIN in top attack mode, should be a suitable countermeasure to your "so called" armaments.

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Indivara

Like this[^] Scare the s*** out of them with no other injuries.

Lost User

Nagy Vilmos wrote:

You didn't listen to your mum!

Too right, she still thinks you should unplug everything electrical when you go out to avoid fires, and tidy up before you go on holiday in case you get burgled.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

realJSOP

Most do, and on the others, it depends on who you ask. On my guns: 1911A1 pistol - yes, a physical thumb safety, a grip safety, and a half-cock safety AR-15 rifles - yes a physical thumb safety on the lower receiver - once the safety is flipped to FIRE, the weapon is hot. CZ-452 .22 rifle - yes, a physical thumb safety (on the bolt itself) Henry H001T .22 rifle - yes, a half-cock safety Springfield XD40 pistol - yes, a grip safety and a two-stage trigger safety - just grip it, and rip it (unsafe in my view) Of those guns, the only one I where keep a round in the chamber, and the pistol cocked is the 1911. I consider it to be the most safe in that condition. The XD40 I don't want to leave laying around in a condition-1 state because anybody could come along and accidentally fire off one or more shots unless they're familiar with the "round in the chamber" indicators on the pistol (there are two, and they're very subtle). When I pick up that pistol, I drop the magazine, and rack the slide just to make sure it's unloaded. I don't keep the .22 loaded, and the AR's all have a loaded magazine in them, but they don't have a round chambered. It only takes half a second to charge the weapon, so I don't see a need to keep them in condition-1 (besides, I my 1911 is my primary self-defense weapon).

.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Indivara

You are forgetting these[^] ;)

Indivara

I've always wondered why you've got two heads. Are you a memberless group? (and I didn't mean it in that sense :) )

realJSOP

Not too many people would think to bring an RPG in an urban assault setting, espeically if they're just looking for food. That, and I don't know of anyone that can legally own a RPG (not that some folks wouldn't have them). Further, it would probably be more likely used to gain entrance to a structure as opposed to a defensive weapon inside said structure.

.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001

Haakon S

Nagy Vilmos wrote:

Jokes apart, we have a set of winter tyres that will go on the car this week

Studs or no studs?

Nagy Vilmos

No studs. Wehn it's really shyte, I'll add the chains.

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Haakon S

Nagy Vilmos wrote:

No studs. Wehn it's really shyte, I'll add the chains.

Good strategy. Environmentally correct. I don't have studded tyres myself, and I have no chains. But the salting of wet, icy roads is very efficient here. On dry snow/ice you don't need studs.

MikoTheTerrible

ChrisElston wrote:

I get hypnotised by the snow coming at the windscreen and then flying over the top of it.

I always found that if you drove while it's snowing and you focused too much on the snow coming down towards the windshield that it looked as if you were jumping into warp speed or something! At which point you can no longer look away from the stars snow flying by your spaceship car. :omg:

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Lost User

You just described exactly my problem.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Mark_Wallace

MikoTheTerrible wrote:

At which point you can no longer look away from the stars snow flying by your spaceship car.

... And go where no car has gone before!

They've been up other trees, maybe, but not that one.

Lost User

There are normal men on the internet?

Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]

Lost User

Duck to avoid the full auto custard pie fire. :laugh:

Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]

Gary Wheeler

"Not as clumsy or random as a blaster; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age."

Software Zen: delete this;

Dan Neely

There are, but they're about as rare as women on the internet who aren't actually creepy guys lying about their gender and trying to troll... *ducks and runs*

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