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//They loose that round// So the electric shock causes loss of smooth muscle control? |
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//Then everybody laughs and makes buttsex jokes.// Unless it is played in a prison shower and the some of the players don't know that they are involved in the game... |
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In the '60's it was possible to purchase a toy called the "Clockwork Bomb". This used a clockwork rundown timer and was loaded with a strip of toy pistol caps to produce a rather unsatisfactory bang. |
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Unfortunately, our efforts to upgrade the device to be a little more realistic were slightly more successful than we had anticipated. |
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Well, if the link is anything to go by, we needn't worry too
much about invading Chinese. |
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I'm curious about the physics of their "throw yourself on the
ground" manoeuver. They seem to assume that by jumping
into the air, you will somehow reach the ground sooner. |
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The essence of the manouver is to displace yourself both vertically and horizontally away from the point of detonation, and present the smallest possible angular aspect to any fragments. |
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Consider a hole in the ground of diameter 1 m and depth 1m. |
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Now, stop looking at that hole and come over here to look at this hole, which is 0.5m diameter and 0.5m deep. |
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Have you done peering aimlessly into holes ? GOOD: Now, look at this diagram. |
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Fragments ejected by a device in the bottom of the hole will leave in a conical path constrained by the walls. So to avoid injury, it is best to move not only down, but away. |
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Ah, but if your enemy is going to all the trouble to put the
grenade in the hole, why not simply make the hole deeper, or
narrower, or somewhere else entirely? |
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Because some enemies don't play fair. You dig a nice deep hole, and put a sign by it reading "LIVE GRENADES IN HERE PLEASE" and what do they do ? Fling them around all over the place. |
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No mention of the slippery dimension that the word soap begs. A special nano-coating? |
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Or maybe something like a water wiggl(y|er)? Effectively a
passive annular switl*? |
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*I have just discovered that you should be careful to avoid
confusing that word with "Switle" (which appears to be a
wet mess adapter for dry-only vacuum cleaners) and
"Swittle" (which appears to be some sort of invoicing
platform). |
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^ Can have a link to a dictionary that has a 'switle' entry , please |
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Well that's definite, isn't it. So a word that doesn't mean or means to much. |
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"Don't Drop the Cat" which is played with a life size
cat doll equipped with automatic claws on a timer. |
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When the timer goes off, claws deploy with
authentic scratch/grappling action and the cat
becomes impossible to drop. |
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Or, "Drop the Gecko", a ball that times out and turns it's surface adhesion on, leaving someone stuck. Person with no gecko release points left, loses. This could even be a passing game where two people are stuck. Might even get up there with bottle spinning. |
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