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leeds_manc
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Location: Manchester
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Tools the lot of em
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big_D
What's a life?
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Location: Bramsche
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Executive Producer No Agenda Show 246
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Amnesia10
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Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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_________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm
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Location: behind the sofa
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_________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
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Interesting - but I'm still not sold it's that simple. I'd like to know what happens when you've got an OS update of some description to apply.
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E. F. Benson
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:42 am
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Location: land of the free, Bexhill-on-Sea
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There's a guy called Tonymacx86 who writes a blog seems to know the ins and outs. He shares it all here http://www.tonymacx86.com/home.php
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm
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Man Flu does existScience says so, so it must be true.
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ProfessorF
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Cheers - I'm off work today with the man flu.
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Amnesia10
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Shouldn't that be in the Science is Awesome thread?  _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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One for any archers out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zGnxeSbb3gAlmost 3 arrows per second while jumping, falling and running backwards. All hitting moving targets. Also, 11 arrows fired before the first one hits the ground. He's been practising a long time. _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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Amnesia10
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It sort of makes the myths about the sky turning black from the numbers of arrows plausible. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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ProfessorF
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Cheers for the link - just pricing up his Mini Deluxe System, and we're at just over £900 at ebuyer.com... 
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jonbwfc
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 It's more than plausible, I've seen evidence of it, well, more or less. If you go to Thermopylae they have archeological digs where there's a layer of metal in the soil which is the remains of arrowheads. They must have almost literally plastered the ground with them. In any case, that was more because they had lots and lots of men all firing arrows in concert, rather than a few men firing lots of arrows. I like this technique and it has validity - I think particularly for horse archery, where you'd risk unbalancing yourself if you had to reach to a quiver for each shot. However he is sacrificing accuracy for rate of fire - the target he hits at 20m (did it say 65ft?) really isn't anything approaching man/beast sized (unless the beast is an elephant anyway). In a battle situation where you might be firing at a tight group of infantry advancing towards you, it'd certainly be deadly, because you don't really care where the arrow goes as long as it's in the big lump of men coming to stick a sword in you. As a technique for say hunting relatively mobile prey like deer, you'd have more chance of putting food on the table with a more conventional technique. It's a warfare technique, definitely.
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Amnesia10
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I would have imagined it would be lots of men firing lots of arrows. Don't forget that laws made archery training mandatory in England in the past. The chances are that this could have happened before. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Location: IoW
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Riccardo Patrese drives wife crazy in Civic Type-R I couldn't understand a word of it, but I thought her reaction was adorable.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIhGJyLR6TI
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