Woldan

Following up on my previous post purely for entertaining purposes a completely nonsensical but fun video of Cold Steel knife manufacturer testing their version of the German Grosses Messer on various objects.

The situation is comparable with the movie Waterworld (With Kevin Costner). Just with...fog instead of water. Uuhm, yeah.

I just had to take a pic of todays sunset. Haha, those poor bastards down in the fog, they haven't seen the sun in weeks.

Pfff, making fun of a mans ear problems is a sign of insecurity! And just for your information, according to my doc my ears are so good I could hear protozoa fart and single molecules colliding if it weren't for all the side noise.

I just hope she has a MG42 with a thousand rounds and spare barrels mounted on her scooter to carve a path to the cash register. Otherwise its going to take her a looong time to get home if the stores there are as crowded as here.

I was thinking about pouring blackpowder into my ear channel and light it up but your idea is so much better! Next time my ear clogs up thats what I'm going to do. Yeah, trying to remove it mechanically always ended in disaster, I'll never do that again, thats for sure. Well, fortunately my doc was still working so he flushed it with an ear cleaning device, he said I have the worst ear infection he has ever seen and gave me antibiotics, ear drops, more antibiotics and painkillers. The strange thing is it does not hurt even a little bit, which is kind of worrying because it is supposed to hurt really bad. Then again my sense of pain has always been kind of dull.

The AK might have a different rate of fire than the AR, but unless you hear a single one go off full auto close by it could just be a couple of friendly soldiers shooting single shots rapidly, not to mention it gets even harder in the thick of combat. And forget identifying rifles past 200 meters or more where sounds echo and the loudest sound is the bullets supersonic ''crack'' when passing by. Its like the famous ''Pling'' of the Garand - myth, where German soldiers supposedly could hear the ejected clip of the Garand hit the ground making a ''Pling'' so they left cover and shot at the US soldiers whenever they heard it. Yeah right. Then you have better ears than me and anyone I know and should make big bucks in TV shows telling apart guns from their muzzle reports. Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling you a liar, I just have no idea how you do that. Whenever I shoot guns they just make BOOOM, some are a little louder depending on their caliber and barrel length, but thats pretty much it, with and without earplugs. How is the sound generated? When leaving the muzzle high velocity gas which propelled the projectile through the barrel smashes into the air and is decelerated instantly. That creates the BOOM, the projectile going supersonic adds a CRACK to the sound which sounds like a whip. A sound surpressor can capture the gas and slow it down more gently thus greatly muffling the shot. The supersonic crack however stays. There may be minor sound intensity differences between cartridges because of different powder charge weights and barrel lengths but differences between the cartridges of assault rifles are so minor I say its impossible to tell them apart just by muzzle report. There ARE firearms that can clearly be told apart from regular rifles, from my experience: * Shotguns * Big cartridges like .338Lapua and .50BMG * Pistols * Muzzleloaders

Oh great, blood is running out of my ear. Now my day is officially ruined.

I call BS on that one, I spend hours on shooting ranges each week and all the rifles that are fired there all sound alike. They all go BOOOM and thats it, no matter what cartridge is used. The only distinctive difference in muzzle report in long guns is between a shotgun and a rifle, the shotgun makes a sharper, higher sound. While the usual rifle goes ''BOOOM'', the shotgun makes a short ''POW''! Thats probably because much faster powder is used in a shotgun, pistol powder and flakes while the rifle cartridge is filled with slow burning stick and ball powder. I've shot rifles and shotguns without ear protection and I can tell them apart. While the muzzle report of a rifle is manageable a shotgun is outright painful and makes my ears ring for an hour. And about Americans using the weapons of fallen enemies, I've heard many reports of soldiers in A-Stan using captured AK's and Dragunovs. Mercenaries also prefer to use the AK and the FN-FAL over the AR.

I just realized that Kirstie Alley used to pretty damn hot in the 80's. Man, aging just sucks. Though its pretty hard to find a good pic of her.

Your eustacean tube could have swelled up. Just go to sleep. You'll probably be fine. Nah, my ear was itching so I tried to clean it with a q-tip, unfortunately I pushed whatever was itching right onto my eardrum. Now I'm deaf as can be on one ear.

My left ear clogged up and now I can't hear a damn thing......perfect timing. Q-tips, warm water, nothing seems to work.

As if murderous fools didn't have a million other ways to kill a bunch of people.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the single most evil sounding thing nowadays: Private gun ownership. A right that used to be one of the most natural things in the world, a symbol of freedom, owning a tool for self defense and hunting is now associated with crime, mental disability and school killing sprees. Now thats one 180 if I ever saw one, huh?

I post this pics as tribute to Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the iconic Avtomat Kalashnikova (And many other weapon systems), who passed away today at the age of 94. He was a pretty cool person. RIP Mr. Kalashnikov!

Today I totally ruined my exercise. I was doing 140 kg shoulder shrugs when I suddenly had to think of a stupid but very funny NSFW joke I heard ages ago, I burst into laughter, lost my concentration and strength and almost dropped the barbell on my feet. I tried to continue the rest of my exercise but the harder I tried to concentrate the more completely inappropriate nonsensical jokes popped into my head at the worst times, like shoulder pressing heavy dumbbells above my head. Man, that was weird. I'm afraid I'm slowly going insane.

This thread needs more Grosse Messer:

......and does not even know how to hold a rifle correctly.

Well, I returned to Watchers Keep (BG2, ToB) and squished those blasted demons like the annoying bugs they were, and with my new tactic I totally steamrolled them to death. Keldorns dispel magic proved extremely useful to remove their protection spells several times, mass invisibility and the two summoned Mordekainens swords did a great job to protect my squishy companions. When Keldorn removed the demons protections I engaged them in meele combat, then my mage casted time stop to lay waste with 4x Abi Dalzims Horrid Wilting + prismatic ray which killed the hive mother and the pretty dangerous demon-snake-thingy. While the main enemy spellcaster was taking a dirtnap and the other mage was being busy with getting my summoned Devas sword in his face the remaining demon warriors got hacked to death by Korgan, Valygar, two summoned skeleton warriors and my hasted berserking character who did consistent 29 damage + level drain (Blackrazor and Angurvadal) per hit on anything that still dared to crawl around. That felt good.

Fixed. (I think I should mention here that I liked Bob Ross and watched a ton of his amazing painting shows on TV. Great guy, RIP Bob! )

Sounds just like a description of the average Friday afternoon mall visitor.

Went to the mall to buy the final christmas present, it was so crowded with slow moving meat obstacles it wasn't funny anymore. It felt like trying to walk through one of those giant modern chicken farms, filled with giant chicken.

Louis de Funès was a cool bro though. 3 bullets stuck in the barrel? I don't even..... Is the barrel still sound or did it bulge somewhere?