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Offline GScholz

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Re: Private Ryan Scene
« Reply #45 on: June 24, 2012, 11:26:39 AM »
A comment directed at my person rather than the discussion at hand is a personal attack regardless of whether it is based in fact or nor. I could make many observations about your person, but they would be personal attacks and irrelevant to the discussion. I would however politely suggest that in the future you should refrain from trying to pedantically correct the spelling of an international online encyclopedia.
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Re: Private Ryan Scene
« Reply #46 on: June 24, 2012, 11:38:51 AM »
Fuze? Fuse? Who cares - were not here to graduate with an english major
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Re: Private Ryan Scene
« Reply #47 on: June 24, 2012, 12:19:05 PM »
Exactly  :aok
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Re: Private Ryan Scene
« Reply #48 on: June 24, 2012, 02:24:46 PM »
Fuse, fuze who the eff cares. I can't tell. All I know was that when I was trained on the 60mm mortar in the Irish army. We were told you could do that.

But I hate to think of the situation where it's needed. :O

But the big no no was to drop another mortar shell into the tube when the first one misfired. Just after we finished training, somebody did just that and blew themselves up.  :eek: As a result there was a moratorium on mortar firing and I never got to fire a live mortar.

We were not happy with those poor dead guys. Soldiers can be so brutal.
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Re: Private Ryan Scene
« Reply #49 on: June 25, 2012, 11:06:49 AM »
I dated a British gal for a while. Got sick of having my "Countryfied Grammar" criticized every day. Some Europeans are so Uppity about English, as if we have to say/spell it their way or is wrong. We speak American English, not British, get over yourselves already....you're just not that special.  :neener: :ahand
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Re: Private Ryan Scene
« Reply #50 on: June 25, 2012, 11:10:23 AM »
Quote from: cpxxx on June 24, 2012, 02:24:46 PM
Fuse, fuze who the eff cares. I can't tell. All I know was that when I was trained on the 60mm mortar in the Irish army. We were told you could do that.

But I hate to think of the situation where it's needed. :O

But the big no no was to drop another mortar shell into the tube when the first one misfired. Just after we finished training, somebody did just that and blew themselves up.  :eek: As a result there was a moratorium on mortar firing and I never got to fire a live mortar.

We were not happy with those poor dead guys. Soldiers can be so brutal.

Ouch! That's the same reason you don't load pointed bullets into a tube feed magazine in a big magnum rifle. Couldn't they make flat tip or soft tip motors?  :huh
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Re: Private Ryan Scene
« Reply #51 on: June 25, 2012, 11:19:45 AM »
No doubt they could and maybe there is. But the mortar is like any military weapon. You can kill yourself just as easily as you can kill the enemy, more easily in fact. Like pulling the pin on a grenade and dropping it at your feet or throwing the pin. I actually saw that almost happen once. Luckily it was a drill grenade. But he got yelled at just the same.
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Re: Private Ryan Scene
« Reply #52 on: June 25, 2012, 12:12:32 PM »
Quote from: W7LPNRICK on June 25, 2012, 11:06:49 AM
I dated a British gal for a while. Got sick of having my "Countryfied Grammar" criticized every day. Some Europeans are so Uppity about English, as if we have to say/spell it their way or is wrong. We speak American English, not British, get over yourselves already....you're just not that special.  :neener: :ahand

I believe Widewing speaks American English. Why he wants to correct something written in British standard English, I don't know.
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Re: Private Ryan Scene
« Reply #53 on: June 25, 2012, 05:21:17 PM »
Quote from: 100Coogn on June 24, 2012, 12:55:20 AM
I am confuzed...  :huh

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Point is mute, you're talking about American English vs. Britanian on an American Forum.

Scholz, what flys better in Norway:
-A lead baloon.
-A french national interupting a conversation in Dutch, on a Norde's forum, with steadfast persistance on the use of proper gramatical German for the entirety of the forum conversation.

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Re: Private Ryan Scene
« Reply #54 on: June 25, 2012, 06:42:37 PM »
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Re: Private Ryan Scene
« Reply #55 on: June 25, 2012, 10:29:08 PM »
Why does every thread need people swinging their E-d!ck$ around?

Face it - the little ones you have in real life will not be made up for by being "God of the Forum".

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Quote from: hitech on January 25, 2012, 04:01:23 PM
Like, ya know, when that thing that makes you move, it has pistons and things, When your thingamajigy is providing power, you do not hear other peoples thingamajig when they are providing power.

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Re: Private Ryan Scene
« Reply #56 on: June 26, 2012, 12:39:40 AM »
Quote from: BreakingBad on June 25, 2012, 06:42:37 PM
Moot

Might be mute too...I don't hear anything... :rofl
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Re: Private Ryan Scene
« Reply #57 on: June 26, 2012, 12:44:46 AM »
Sorry to interrupt another fine argument, but I was just wondering why the OP wanted to know this, is it to confirm the authenticity of the move or did he find a crate of mortar rounds but no mortar?
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Re: Private Ryan Scene
« Reply #58 on: June 26, 2012, 06:02:09 AM »
Quote from: Babalonian on June 25, 2012, 05:21:17 PM
Scholz, what flys better in Norway:
-A lead baloon.
-A french national interupting a conversation in Dutch, on a Norde's forum, with steadfast persistance on the use of proper gramatical German for the entirety of the forum conversation.

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I don't know. In which category would you place this:

Quote from: Widewing on June 23, 2012, 07:00:51 PM
In that Wiki piece.... It's a Fuze, not a Fuse.

Is Widewing the French, Dutch or Norde? You see there is only one person in this thread insisting on spelling something a certain way.
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Re: Private Ryan Scene
« Reply #59 on: June 26, 2012, 09:39:58 AM »
Quote from: GScholz on June 26, 2012, 06:02:09 AM
I don't know. In which category would you place this:

Is Widewing the French, Dutch or Norde? You see there is only one person in this thread insisting on spelling something a certain way.
All you need to know is that Skyrim is for the Nords....
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Quote from: hitech on January 25, 2012, 04:01:23 PM
Like, ya know, when that thing that makes you move, it has pistons and things, When your thingamajigy is providing power, you do not hear other peoples thingamajig when they are providing power.

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