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DC Tom

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  1. It's a good thing Soledad can get by on her looks...
  2. That's my new goal in life: to get AOC to rant about busting school children.
  3. Might be the breast thing on tonight...
  4. At first glance, I thought it said "Fat Chrysler Executives."
  5. When they got rid of propellers. When semi-monocoque construction and cantilevered wings started being used, there started being enough volume and strength in the wings to think about mounting machine guns/cannon there. Mostly, it was up to national preference, and where the guns would fit - Germany and the Soviet Union preferred centrally mounted armament, but tended to build more compact planes with less room in the wings. The US and Britain preferred wing-mounted - both countries built some massive planes that could mount heavy gun armament in the wing leading edges. Italy and Japan often went for a mix - light machine guns through the propeller arc and cannon in the wing, or such. Those weren't hard and fast rules, though (the P-39 was a compact US plane with a big-ass gun firing through the propeller hub, for example.) More rules of thumb. And it all became moot with the advent of turbojets.
  6. Misaligned gun, high-g maneuver, round misfires/cooks off somehow. It happens. I remember reading a story from Adolf Galland, about his ground crew working on the synchronization of his machine guns firing through the propeller. He took the plane up, fired a few rounds, got some really bright flashes and thought "Man, my ground crew really did a great job!" When he landed and shut down, only then did he notice that each propeller blade had a big chunks shot out of it - his crew screwed up the synchronization, and he almost shot himself down.
  7. I won't read it. I already know what it says. [/Average Democrat]
  8. What the *****? Did you just ***** up "Double dumbass pork chop on you?"
  9. Oh, okay. You're just being even stupider than usual.
  10. Not that I believe it, because this is CNN...but Cissna and Mitnick going would be a very big deal.
  11. What the hell, it's a slow day... When did she go beyond the law? Which actions, and which laws?
  12. Quoted so others can enjoy the irony.
  13. Not really. She wasn't remarkable, but she was basically competent.
  14. I know of someone who named her child "Menage a Trois" because she...uh...could only narrow down the father to one of two men. Moral of the story: don't get too creative with baby names.
  15. Before my nephew was born, my sister and brother-in-law were considering the name "Hoagy Carmichael." To which I said "Why don't you just name him 'Please beat me up and take my lunch money' instead?" (My second observation was "If you're naming him after a sandwich, why not just name him 'Philly Cheesesteak?'") Not that I'm saying "Caspian" is a bad name...just that parents should consider whether or not the name they choose places an undue burden on the child growing up with that name.
  16. @4merper4mer
  17. I'm sorry, Charlize, but I'm taken. You'll just have to move on.
  18. And you know what the above, and all the other Biden memes don't show? Toxic masculinity. That's why Democrats don't see why it should be a big deal. It's more toxic femininity, which they're fine with.
  19. I found another one of @Deranged Rhino
  20. At some point, I just get sick of the noise.
  21. Yep. Almost exactly a year ago. It's not that I'm a genius (although I am). It's that progressives are so simple-mindedly stupid that it's easy to predict the results of their policies.
  22. I believe it was in this very thread when I replied to a picture of one of those bins with "Hey, look, free knives!"
  23. Yes...and how'd that go?
  24. Will you just ***** off already?
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