quade 4 #2 June 30, 2012 How wide is a basketball court? Let's see what she can actually hit at 90 meters.quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
format 1 #3 June 30, 2012 Just another day, there was a really nice, crazy Londoner person passing through my city. Among other things, I've noticed a strange gesture while he was describing encounters with French football fans. It looked like 'I'm watching you', 2 fingers gesture. He explained to me that it's going way back from 100 year anglo-french war where the English had long bows and were extra fast in redeploying them. So the gesture is very offensive to French, I guess Englishmen were efficient. A girl in the video gave me idea how bad it can be, regardless of precision. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zep 0 #4 June 30, 2012 Burn her at the stake, last thing is another Joan of Arc wannabee. Gone fishing Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #5 June 30, 2012 Pretty smooth, lots of practice, obviously. I wish I could tell how accurate her shots were. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #6 June 30, 2012 Quote Pretty smooth, lots of practice, obviously. I wish I could tell how accurate her shots were. Skip forward to the last half of the video and they show some views with the target. They are apparently blunt-tip arrows, and she's shooting at a fabric sheet, so you can see the movement of the sheet when the arrows hit it. It looks like they're all dead on, near a white dot she's using for an aiming point. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #7 June 30, 2012 QuoteJust another day, there was a really nice, crazy Londoner person passing through my city. Among other things, I've noticed a strange gesture while he was describing encounters with French football fans. It looked like 'I'm watching you', 2 fingers gesture. He explained to me that it's going way back from where the English had long bows and were extra fast in redeploying them. So the gesture is very offensive to French, I guess Englishmen were efficient. The 'Car Talk' show (on NPR) with Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers have a feature called the 'Puzzler', and one of their "Puzzler's" was about the battle of Agincourt. The French, who were overwhelmingly favored to win the battle, threatened to cut a certain body part off of all captured English soldiers so that they could never fight again. The English won in a major upset and waved the body part in question at the French in defiance. The 'puzzler' was: What was this body part? This is the answer submitted by a listener: Dear Click and Clack; Thank you for the Agincourt 'Puzzler', which clears up some profound questions of etymology, folklore and emotional symbolism. The body part which the French proposed to cut off of the English after defeating them was, of course, the middle finger, without which it is impossible to draw the renowned English longbow. This famous weapon was made of the native English yew tree, and so the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking yew". Thus, when the victorious English waved their middle fingers at the defeated French, they said, "See, we can still pluck yew! PLUCK YEW!" Over the years some 'folk etymologies' have grown up around this symbolic gesture. Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say (like "pleasant mother pheasant plucker", which is who you had to go to for the feathers used on the arrows), the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative 'f', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute are mistakenly thought to have something to do with an intimate encounter. It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird". Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
format 1 #8 June 30, 2012 Great stuff to learn. Thank you Rich Ser.What goes around, comes later. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #9 June 30, 2012 Possibly true, although there are other stories about it that seem just as plausible. Truth on that one is probably lost to history.quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
format 1 #10 June 30, 2012 Quote Let's see what she can actually hit at 90 meters. Gotta tell you, blunt arrow tips or icecreams this lady ain't joking aroundWhat goes around, comes later. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DougH 270 #11 June 30, 2012 Impressive, and she has this cute dork thing going on."The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldwomanc6 60 #12 June 30, 2012 I want to BE her. So far, the only thing we have in common is red hair That was cool! lisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #13 June 30, 2012 Quote Impressive, and she has this cute dork thing going on. And she is a redhead!"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #14 July 1, 2012 Quote Quote Impressive, and she has this cute dork thing going on. And she is a redhead! Yeah I noticed that too!! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1969912 0 #15 July 1, 2012 Stolen from comments on another forum: "That said, I've always had the impression the red hair was natures warning, kind of like the bright colors on a poison dart frog...... " "Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ." -NickDG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldwomanc6 60 #16 July 1, 2012 Quote Stolen from comments on another forum: "That said, I've always had the impression the red hair was natures warning, kind of like the bright colors on a poison dart frog...... " If we ever meet, don't forget that! lisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #17 July 1, 2012 Quote Stolen from comments on another forum: "That said, I've always had the impression the red hair was natures warning, kind of like the bright colors on a poison dart frog...... " Yup...and I for one, am like a moth to flame! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #18 July 1, 2012 QuotePossibly true, although there are other stories about it that seem just as plausible. Truth on that one is probably lost to history. Oh, I wasn't putting it out here as something that's true, but rather as just an amusing piece of creative writing that fit the topic. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
