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Previously on "It's the fireworks party thread !!! Woo-hoo!"
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Originally posted by CheeseSlice View PostIs that a UFO in the bottom right of that photo?
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Originally posted by d000hg View Post
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Meanwhile in Pulham St. Mary, Norfolk, they are having a 'Nonfire'.
A burning fiery bonfire - Telegraph
So much safer
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostI thought a ballista was a one or two man weapon that fired heavy darts. Then I saw this monster.
Timber frame made up of scavenged railway sleepers and other bits with the long spring from the suspension of an old lorry strapped across the front of it. It took three of us to load the thing - One on each end of the spring pushing back, the third pulling on the rope to get it over the firing hook. We used it to fire lengths of re-bar. How we didn't kill or maim ourselves in the process remains a mystery.
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Originally posted by DaveB View PostNone of them were as good as the leaf-spring ballista though
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Originally posted by Alf W View PostIndeed. One of these in a glass milk bottle made a passable grenade. Alternatively one could be put in the open end of some cowhormn handle bars followed by a handfull of fine gravel and a grass plug to make a rudimentary blunderbuss. Don't start me on cow pat landmines.
Kids today have no idea how to make their own fun.
The same tube + a suitably sized marble produced a passable (though inaccurate) musket.
Non of them were as good as the leaf-spring ballista though
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For those of you attending out-of-town firework parties tonight
Please remember to fill your car up with fuel before you go...
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Originally posted by OrangeHopper View PostOne of the above pictures of bangers reminds of when I was a wee teenager. My school, in Folkestone, used to do a yearly "French" trip to Calais and we would take the opportunity to stock up on French baggers. 10s of times better that the weak UK variants. Thankfully our coach was never stopped by customs. French bangers in enclosed spaces!
Kids today have no idea how to make their own fun.
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Originally posted by OrangeHopper View PostOne of the above pictures of bangers reminds of when I was a wee teenager. My school, in Folkestone, used to do a yearly "French" trip to Calais and we would take the opportunity to stock up on French baggers. 10s of times better that the weak UK variants. Thankfully our coach was never stopped by customs. French bangers in enclosed spaces!
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