Gas up you Brits

jsesere wrote:Before the truckers go on strike.

For once we in Northern Ireland are laughing, different tanker drivers union, no strike threat here (Yet!)

Government, in order to avoid panic buying, they say "Fill up everything you can!" thereby creating panic buying! Duuuhhh! and these are the comedians who rule our lives!

Ivanhoe wrote:Government, in order to avoid panic buying, they say "Fill up everything you can!" thereby creating panic buying! Duuuhhh! and these are the comedians who rule our lives!

That is too funny......

Glad we're not the only ones!

nitroairplane wrote:

jsesere wrote:Before the truckers go on strike.

We will just fly Keith over

I'm on it!!!. I'll hook up a train of tank trailers that will span 1/8th the island. Super dave runnin front jammer and indra and Beez strapped up runnin rear guard.

PV Pilot wrote:

nitroairplane wrote:

jsesere wrote:Before the truckers go on strike.

We will just fly Keith over

I'm on it!!!. I'll hook up a train of tank trailers that will span 1/8th the island. Super dave runnin front jammer and indra and Beez strapped up runnin rear guard.

Strappin .50s and SMGs

Pirate blunderbusses,,loaded up with nuts and bolts, rocks and sticks, forks, whatever is close by and will jam in there.

Pawn stars had one on the show,,so cool!

PV Pilot wrote:Pirate blunderbusses,,loaded up with nuts and bolts, rocks and sticks, forks, whatever is close by and will jam in there.

Pawn stars had one on the show,,so cool!

I believe it was a "musketoon" lol I watch that too.

They have had both on there. The musketoon is long for musket rifle. A blunderbuss was a short barrel boarding party weapon with a trumpet style muzzle, once fired they used the thing as a club.

PV Pilot wrote:

nitroairplane wrote:

jsesere wrote:Before the truckers go on strike.

We will just fly Keith over

I'm on it!!!. I'll hook up a train of tank trailers that will span 1/8th the island. Super dave runnin front jammer and indra and Beez strapped up runnin rear guard.

Mercy sakes alive looks
Like John's up early getting motion lotion......

Motion Lotion?

You do know the topic is petrol right?

cribbs74 wrote:Motion Lotion?

You do know the topic is petrol right?

Well it is usually derived from
Crude oil so it is technically on topic.

nitroairplane wrote:

cribbs74 wrote:Motion Lotion?

You do know the topic is petrol right?

Well it is usually derived from
Crude oil so it is technically on topic.

I only have polite fuel..
And now I've an extra 40 litres rattling around in the
Boot.
Put a match near my car and it'll sound like a dog










WOOF

[quote="PV Pilot"]Pirate blunderbusses,,loaded up with nuts and bolts, rocks and sticks, forks, whatever is close by and will jam in there.

/quote]

OK, let's at least be technically accurate here! No Pirate, or anyone else, ever did that, it would have blown up in his face!
Blunderbusses were origionally intended for stagecoach guards, and had wide muzzles for three reasons, first, so that they could be reloaded while riding on a bouncing coach, second for the psychological effect on an opponent of having a 6" wide barrel pointed at him, and third to spread the shot REALLY wide at close range (You can't aim off a rattling coach) and, with luck you could get any three of them!
The odd person in extremis may have loaded with a handful of pebbles, but the normal load was buckshot-sized pellets.

Just call me Mister Pedantic!

No not the Gentlemen Sailors of Somalia..

John Goddard wrote:No not the Gentlemen Sailors of Somalia..

Nah they all got Kalashnikovs

[quote="Ivanhoe"]

PV Pilot wrote:Pirate blunderbusses,,loaded up with nuts and bolts, rocks and sticks, forks, whatever is close by and will jam in there.

/quote]

OK, let's at least be technically accurate here! No Pirate, or anyone else, ever did that, it would have blown up in his face!
Blunderbusses were origionally intended for stagecoach guards, and had wide muzzles for three reasons, first, so that they could be reloaded while riding on a bouncing coach, second for the psychological effect on an opponent of having a 6" wide barrel pointed at him, and third to spread the shot REALLY wide at close range (You can't aim off a rattling coach) and, with luck you could get any three of them!
The odd person in extremis may have loaded with a handful of pebbles, but the normal load was buckshot-sized pellets.

Just call me Mister Pedantic!

Ok, Mr KILLJOY!!,, no fuel for you then,

I'm not talking no whimpy 18th century stagecoatch gun, I'm talking late 16th early 17th style BlunderBess, with a more pronounced flaired muzzle. They did stick, iron slag, nails, lead shot, steel shot and all manners of small items in there, when they didnt have lead shot. Long before Billy the Kid rode around.

As a footnote the keith's ammo let me add nuts, bolts, spikes, screws and anything else that is handy.

I simply quote......

"The blunderbuss was an early form of shotgun, and served in similar roles. While fictional accounts often list the blunderbuss as being loaded with various scrap iron or rocks, this would result in damage to the bore of the gun; it was typically loaded with a number of lead balls smaller than the bore"

See also........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jh38eMoLPg&feature=player_detailpage

When someone is flashing a super sharp Cutlass sword at you, you grab what you can find.


OK, no Blunderbusse's. Sorry Indra and Beez, you guys get slingshot's.

Dave, you get the springer BB gun, and 1 BB,,make it count.


My ex father in law was sent to Lagos Nigeria to help start up a Reynolds Metals aluminum smelting plant. Him and his wife lived in a gated compound in quarters provided by the company and government. When they would venture into town outside the gates they had a armed escort,,who carried 1 bullet,,no joke.

Needless to say, they stayed around the provided compound store and inside the gates for the most of the 3 years they were there. He made some SERIOUS coin, but it was a tough hot slog.