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Post by DocD83 on Mar 20, 2004 11:53:23 GMT -5
I'm only ninety some posts behind.
Anyway, I prefer tasers. Electricity is fun. As long as I'm on the subject I should say if any of you carry a stun gun don't count on it to do much unless it's around 650kV. The cheap 100kV models don't do anything to some people. (So my stun gun research a while back did have a point.)
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Post by FiveMileSmile on Mar 23, 2004 6:08:14 GMT -5
My beautiful thread...so totally off the rails its now part of the Trans-Canada expressway.
Ah well, at least I've incited some opinioned discussion, even it it has very little bearing on the actual thread title.
- Rich
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Post by DocD83 on Mar 23, 2004 9:45:27 GMT -5
Oh sorry....ummm....when will they use rubber bullets and tasers in pro wrestling? I'd watch that.
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Post by Hucklebubba on Mar 24, 2004 12:53:36 GMT -5
I've got a rather fond wrestling-related memory to get this thread back on track!
Way back during, or shortly after, the first Gulf War, a masked wrestler called The Patriot arrived on the scene. His signature move was the Patriot Missile, a sort of flying headbutt. But, what I remember most about The Patriot was that, during his rather brief tenure, he could not lose.
Is it still called propaganda when we do it, or does that only apply to other countries?
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Post by Landatauron on Mar 25, 2004 0:55:37 GMT -5
Oh sorry....ummm....when will they use rubber bullets and tasers in pro wrestling? I'd watch that. Kane used a car battery with some jumper cables on Shane McMahon. |
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Post by PoolMan on Mar 25, 2004 13:17:12 GMT -5
I'll leave it alone.
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Post by DocD83 on Mar 25, 2004 17:52:34 GMT -5
[rant] I think the term "propaganda" is entirely too overdefined. Just about everything is propaganda in some way, it seems. Recruitment ads can't come on in my house without my room mates yelling "PROPAGANDA!!!" at the screen. I guess it is propaganda, but really there are better ways to describe it. Like, maybe, the term "recruitment ad"? So I propose we only use "propaganda" for two things, focusing on the negative connotation: deliberately false statements to coerce the populace, and government-sponsored ads for the same purpose but containing few concrete facts (and thus cannot more aptly be called "news"). [/rant]
That doesn't seem like a very mobile weapon.
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Post by Hucklebubba on Mar 25, 2004 18:03:30 GMT -5
I don't really believe The Patriot was an example of propaganda, I think I just like the word itself. Especially when it's pronounced by someone with an entertaining accent. Like the Russian guy in Rambo III: "..ebsurd prohpagonda!" That doesn't seem like a very mobile weapon. I was wondering about that myself. Doesn't a car battery require the assistance of an actual car in order to be threatening? Or does it just need cables and a circuit? |
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Post by DocD83 on Mar 25, 2004 19:13:50 GMT -5
For the first zap or two it'll be just as effective without the car, I think. But then it'll die. I'm having visions of the solar powered electric chair from the Simpsons.
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Post by Al on Mar 25, 2004 21:35:10 GMT -5
Maybe it just hurts enough on it's own having jumper cables attached to you. I dunno, maybe not.
Al
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Post by dajaymann on Mar 26, 2004 12:22:45 GMT -5
[derailing back to the Propaganda issue]
Recruitment ads...I've never categorized as "Propaganda", they seem more like "Employment Advertisments" to me. Down here in the Sunny Florida Panhandle, there are lots of employment ads on the radio, and even a few on the local spots on cable. But I've never been struck by those US Army ads as propaganda, but more like a call to potential employees. I'm told they have a shortage or recruits anyway...and hey, if it works do it.
[/derailing back to the Propaganda issue]
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Post by PoolMan on Mar 26, 2004 14:58:04 GMT -5
<derailing back to zapping people with car batteries>
A standard car battery is only 12 volts (DC), but it's designed, under proper load and regeneration from the car's locomotion, to last an awful long time with a relatively high power output. Putting it directly across a nice, easy load (like, say, a dirty bag of water, or a human body, which is a dirty bag of water) it will expend a lot of its energy all at once.
This is why the first shock (or maybe two, depending on duration of the first one) will hurt like HELL. Successive shocks will hurt less and less. So if you're ever being tortured with a car battery, and you survive the initial blast, take heart! It gets easier! Unless they get another battery.
So who says science isn't fun?
I wonder how Rich will mourn his precious thread now?
</derailing back to zapping people with car batteries>
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Post by Al on Mar 27, 2004 0:19:31 GMT -5
(like, say, a dirty bag of water, or a human body, which is a dirty bag of water) Am I sensing a bit of HK-47 in there, meatbag? |
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Post by Shawn Michels on Mar 27, 2004 11:07:27 GMT -5
What the hell do u guys mean by wrestling is fake...give me 6 very good instances that proves it fake and i'll give u 50...its a challenge.  |
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Post by Shawn Micheals on Mar 27, 2004 11:33:54 GMT -5
I've been watching wrestling since i was a kid and now u guys want to tell me its all fake?? MEN have died in that ring, ive seen the thumbes of superheavyweights break...jus because it's somewat sequential doesn't mean its fake......... |
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