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Wed Jan 29, 2014 5:35 am

Labtecpower wrote:I still use flint shards when cutting very small details into tape :roll:
While your compatriots stand in front of tanks to show their confidence in the brakes...

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Crayzjy Dutsch :roll: :D
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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LOLOLOL I can't stop laughing at this!

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hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:06 pm

And here I was wondering why the page was stretched :D

Anyone else watch that boring excuse of a super bowl?
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In spite of the fact that I am now on the North American continent, the only item about the Super Bowl which caught my eye was this.
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:14 pm

Testing my welders 400w flashlight today :D

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Also no idea if I ever posted this on here... Damascus forging video my welder did when we were forging at my shop over a month ago... Needless to say alcohol was involved :D

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hehe, Finns have the most fun :)

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hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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It snowed...
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Sat Feb 08, 2014 3:12 pm

In all my years that's the 1st 9 pack I've ever seen... :bigsmurf:
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jrrdw wrote:In all my years that's the 1st 9 pack I've ever seen... :bigsmurf:
He clearly drank the first three before coming up with the idea :D

On an unrelated current affairs note:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26098935
On Saturday Bengt Holst, scientific director at the Danish zoo, defended Marius's destruction, saying his genes were already well represented among giraffes at the zoo.

He told the BBC it was a responsible practice on the part of zoos to manage their animal populations to ensure they remained healthy.

He could not understand the fuss over Marius, pointing out that, for instance, 700-800 deer are killed every year at a deer park north of Copenhagen to control their numbers.

The zoo planned to dissect the animal after it was killed, before feeding it to the tigers and other carnivores.

"It would be absolutely foolish to throw away a few hundred kilos of meat," Mr Holst said according to the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. "Some is used for research and the rest for food."
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Animal rights campaigners have described the move as barbaric and have accused the zoo of being unethical.
Sanctimonious sentimentalist twats.

I wonder if saying that makes me some sort of sociopath who cannot empathize with another living being, or a well adjusted person with a functional ability to reason.

edit: The story has been updated, it seems reason has trumped emotion.
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JSR wrote:He clearly drank the first three before coming up with the idea :mrgreen:
Shhhhhh that's a secret! :twisted:
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Sun Feb 09, 2014 7:16 pm

I made a lightsaber!

3W RGB led, old maglite D-cell host and some lathed parts :D

Me lathing the parts
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Still needs a better light diffuser, right now the blade is 1" clear PVC pipe and the diffuser is a foggy piece of plastic sheet i found inside of a laptop LCD screen

3W RGB led has a 3 position switch, so blue and green mods. Runs from 2x 18650 batteries in parallel, should give me around 13 hours of run time before needing a recharge :D

EDIT: Some stupid drunken typos...
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My first though was "who would need a lightsabre" followed immediately by "of course... Jake!"

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BBC article wrote:The researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, North Carolina, looked at patients who had had a stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA), also known as a mini-stroke.

Quality of life is calculated using a formula that assesses mobility, self-care, everyday activities, depression/anxiety and pain.

At three months, women were more likely than men to report problems with mobility, pain and discomfort, anxiety and depression, but the difference was greatest in those aged over 75.
I would have thought that last line could be applied in general :D

Also, a fascinating development of the aerial gunship during the Vietnam war era:

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Wed Feb 12, 2014 10:33 am

This is just brilliant. A polite f*** you to the knee-jerk ban everything brigade:

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hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Wed Feb 12, 2014 6:43 pm

I has a new shirt!
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Thu Feb 13, 2014 6:20 pm

hate to break it to you but the awesome blacksmith that was on your left shoulder seems to have flown away!

:D :D :D
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