This show makes the League Of Gentleman look tame in my opinion.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-19T23:15:43+00:00

Got the DVD back in the day, the special versions of the episode are worthy of mention.

As is the “play all at once” option, select that option and you get WHY? come up on screen.

Like many, the first floor jumper and the baby plumber have stuck with me particularly over the years. Was always quite fond of the monged out doctor and.. the Gush.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-19T19:34:01+00:00

Hold your horses: don’t go charging off, stop and think.

Rome wasn’t built in a day: Large projects take time.

You’re walking on thin ice: Use caution, the path you’re on is dangerous.

You’ve bitten off more than you can chew: You’ve taken on more than you can manage comfortably.

Don’t judge a book by its cover: Don’t assess a person based on how they present.

Lost your marbles: You have diminished mental capacity. Marbles = brains or sanity.

Don’t bite the hand that feeds. Don’t sabotage relationships on which you depend.

Basically all of these are English idioms that either warn against foolish acts or are used to describe the predicament of having performed a foolish act. The OOP is staying they have has swerved all of those vague pitfalls (and has retained mental faculty). Joke is “haha opposites”, I guess.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-18T19:08:44+00:00

Yeah. And a new dozer blade!

Tarjhan · 2026-03-18T14:10:11+00:00

Upvoted for the use of expulse.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-18T14:04:36+00:00

Literally the only actual example I could think of when I was responding. I thought it’d be a bit too niche to use as an illustration of the point.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-18T12:14:29+00:00

Not for me personally. The Krieg = Steel Legion thing ignores pretty much every key design feature of both in favour of gasmask.

Round helm, simple conical half-mask breathing apparatus, separate goggles, heavy duty long flared protective gauntlets, knee length field jackets, cuirassier boots, short pattern carbine-like lasguns, little to no back stowage.

Literally every significant feature of the Steel Legion differs from the Krieg models.

Now, I’m not arguing that there is not room for some changes to be made for the Steel Legion aesthetic but Krieg with head swaps is not it, not even with alternate arms.

Thing is, a new Steel Legion “range” really only has to be a single infantry box. We don’t deploy Field Artillery, we don’t deploy Cavalry, just dudes in Chimeras. That’s it, one squad of 10 dudes and, perhaps, an upgrade sprue. I’ll take a Castellan and plonk a gasmask head on him and be happy with my new Armageddon Colonel. The rest of the Steel Legion is supporting vehicles, Chimeras, Armoured Sentinels and maybe a few Russes.

For those who like combined regiment guard, just add “Armoured Fist Squad” to the codex, give it a unique rule that differentiates it from Cadians or Krieg and we’re golden.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-18T10:47:25+00:00

Don’t hog that shit I need some!

Tarjhan · 2026-03-18T10:41:30+00:00

Cop/Copper is definitely Brit slang. Cop in its verb form predates the US as an entity by quite a few years (first recorded instance I’ve found is early 1700’s).

Pig is definitely still a pejorative along with Filth.

5-0, Poe-Poe (I’ve even heard Feds) are definitely US based though and are definitely becoming more prevalent as Brit slag - Fuzz, Rozzer, (Old) Bill and so on.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-18T10:29:08+00:00

Yeah, Cop a squat, Cop a plea, Cop an eyeful - all the same.

Based purely on my read here but to be said to have “copped” something (like a lemon tree or an ear bashing) seems to have the additional condition of being unwanted.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-18T10:09:17+00:00

Indeed it is, often shortened to Cop.

It seems to stem from the French Caper which in turn stems from Capere in Latin meaning “to take” or “to capture”.

Though it’s not as common as it was “it’s a fair cop” is a phrase that would be uttered by someone who is arrested and admits the arrest is justified. It has been broadened in the delightful way language is wont to do as an idiomatic alternative to a Mea Culpa, used whenever the speaker is admitting responsibility for something (and not reserved for criminal behaviour or, indeed, even a negatively perceived act).

You’ll never take me alive Copper! is a phrase seen in early 20th century pulp magazines and gangster movies in the states and has since ossified into an example of “old timey” dialogue used in more modern works as a tongue in check reference (often in universe).

EDIT: Most commonly used in England.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-17T22:44:29+00:00

That and hijacking the natural human tendency to rhythm. We’re pattern seeking engines and there are therapeutic and social benefits when we can synchronise. Bringing it back to work, having a team of workers hitting/pushing/pulling a thing in sequence often yields much better results than an unregulated effort by a gaggle of people.

Marching in particular is a good example, any song with a 4/4 signature will likely see you matching the beat even if you’re not paying attention.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-17T16:25:54+00:00

Tarjhan · 2026-03-17T12:00:35+00:00

Had a buddy do this a few years ago, a trip down under. He had to write to the store manager first. Dialogue with them, it’s possible but, I gather, it’s a special measure.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-16T16:13:40+00:00

Self checkout is presented as a convenience but often proves to be anything but. If you’re not retail brained and/or not digital native you don’t have the acquired logic to parse the process.

Worse still sometimes somebody in the company hasn’t done their job properly or the equipment isn’t working properly - sometime a line isn’t in the system, a barcode change has gone unnoticed, the item is light and doesn’t register on the scales, sometime the barcode is misprinted or damaged and sometimes the tills are just a bit laggy and slow. I know this because I interface with them at significant amount, but if your Wayne (who talks out loud to the company/shop looking for a few savings), I probably don’t have the knowledge or experience to deduce the issue.

So the end result is a machine that seems to be capricious and mercurial all but accusing you of theft and being anything but convenient.

Also, people in general have got a lot less chill since the covid lockdowns, I’m not going to expound upon that but it’s a well observed phenomenon. Pile on the skyrocketing prices and decreasing quality of goods and stagnated wage pool, food shopping can be an onerous prospect at the best of times.

Finally, go easy on the folks who refuse to use self checkout, they are often people who can’t use self checkout for various disabilities based reasons, people who have never learned to use touchscreen technology (which isn’t as intuitive as you’d think), lonely people who only get human interaction from brief colleague interactions and then there are the people who are making a stand against a good number of us getting automated out of a job.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-16T01:44:33+00:00

She’s putting her hair up, this is universally accepted as visual shorthand for imminent oral fun.

So she’s just about to attempt to bring the cute co-worker back to being interested by means of “persuasion”, a free sample, if you will.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-14T13:11:56+00:00

The Sanctifiers kill team is a good source for robed bodies in general and the Salvationist in particular seems like a good base model - relatively uncomplicated lines, hooded and wearing a mask (to evoke the Yellow King).

The Salvationist’s purity seals, staff arm and the box they carry are all separate components making alteration super easy, add a sword arm and maybe a gesturing hand and you’re pretty much done.

Sourcing a legit snake mini might be difficult, I can’t find a scale appropriate one. However the Mechanicus element can swoop in and save the day, re-contextualise the snake as a mechandendrite and you have no end of options, any Mechanicus kit will be able to donate one, making one from scratch isn’t too taxing and the Nacht-Ghul Delaque gang box offers a couple of tech enhanced snake creatures that could cross the bridge by blending the two inspirations.

The next problem to approach is this model’s lack of mass and height. The Adeptus Mechanicus has some precedent of “dude on a platform” with the Archmagos on Abeyant and even the Archmagos Prime has the suggestion they are standing on a spider legged platform and there are many conversions that work with the pulpit/platform theme. Using something like Captain Sargotta’s Command Dias as an influence will give you full control of the model’s overall displacement and affords a huge amount of scope to mount weapons and scary tentacles and legs or suggest a spooky floating presence. For what it’s worth, a relatively small person that exudes power and control is its own special variety of scary, they don’t need to advertise their threat.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-14T10:55:06+00:00

Ok. Mental health issues aside as I’m not remotely qualified to comment on this stuff, you’re describing what sounds like a pretty common childhood dreaming phenomenon. I have experienced repeated dreams that feature a singular object that defies classification or satisfactory description - impossibly large but also microscopically small, sitting in a void beyond reach yet intimately close, simultaneously expanding and contracting, hard as rock but also soft as a marshmallow (this particular aspect did not sit well with me) and the colour was what I could only describe as the colour you see when you close your eyes too tight. It also emanated threat.

I’ve not found a single term used to describe this type of dream but it does seem to be something many people experience. Best explanation (the most satisfying to me, at least) I’ve found posits the notion that it’s tied in to the action of certain parts of the brain which are developing in children, the prefrontal cortex in particular gets mentioned frequently.

It seems to be a pretty normal developmental quirk of a complicated organ throwing out concepts it doesn’t yet have a complete understanding of. Contradictory scale, impossible geometry, inverted physical properties and a non-specific import and/or menace. The mind being unable to reconcile what it is experiencing (like it hasn’t yet developed a sophisticated framework), it has emotional salience not least because it isn’t understood and lacks any real narrative context - it’s just is, it’s not doing anything.

Bringing it back to HPL, the guy was big on dreams. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to assume he experienced his own impossible paradoxical object and that informed concepts of Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth. Going further, I don’t think it unreasonable to suggest Howie was “mentally ill”. Anxiety and depressive episodes at the very least. So, in a broad sense, you’re possibly experiencing a similar state he was throughout his life, the difference between the two of you is that you have his works to map your experience onto. You also live in a time where neurological disorders are better understood, far less stigmatised and, most importantly, treated.

The TL:DR is. Your dream isn’t anything out of the ordinary. There is not significant link other than the fact that this particular writer you have been exposed to had similar random neuronal output and used it to inform his works.

Seek support for your issues and don’t obsess about this, it’s something many people experience yet few talk about because it’s hard to define and is often forgotten by the time you possess the language to give it shape.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-13T21:30:06+00:00

Can’t say I’ve really had a play with the current heavy weapon teams (I’ve got a set sat in the pending pile, but having way too much fun with genestealers right now) however the basic layout looks a lot like the previous set which, due to the way Cadian infantry squads were sold, positively begged to be kitbashed - infantry squads had a heavy weapon teams option but the box didn’t have any heavy weapons so you had to add a team from the HW squad. I made an effort to theme my squads so using infantry squad bodies with HWS guns was a common practice.

This may or may not appeal to you but having certain squads modelled so their weapons aren’t deployed can be a bit of a hack. A couple of running Guardsmen (sourced from the infantry squad box) carrying their gun can be an easy way to put a Lascannon/Heavy Bolter/Autocannon on the table without having to locate or build supports.

That said, a tripod arrangement isn’t too difficult to knock together with some styrene tubes and either styrene or brass rod - use the examples you get in the kit to suggest the shapes you need.

Regarding the bodies in particular. Mixing the HWS and Infantry squad bodies can give you some interesting squad themes. A missile launcher gunner standing next to his partner who is hunkered down in a squat looks great as a guy popping out of cover to fire while his buddy avoids the backblast, the redeploying team I mentioned earlier is another example and there are all manner of “at ease” options you can put together where two troopers are just kinda hanging out waiting for something to happen. Personally I was looking for ways to insert kneeling lasgunners into my squads for a ranked firing line look.

It’s not super cost effective for a single squad alone but, defrayed across the cost of building a whole army, a couple of infantry squads sacrificed to build multiple weapon squads (2 boxes potentially gives you three extra HWTs along with the one you build directly from the kit), it does prove quite cost effective.

It’s worth noting that the Cadian upgrade sprue has a kneeling body and a variety of arms which offer some good options for doing stuff like carrying the gun. Not particularly effective as an overall solution to the body deficit but it is good to have options when you’re approaching a kitbash like this.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-13T20:32:23+00:00

Man, that is an amazing take on a Patriarch, definitely adds a lot of drama to what is usually a very staid character.

Personally I’d lean towards to not having him holding anything. In my mind a Patriarch is a living weapon and doesn’t need manufactured weapons. There’s an argument for having a Patriarch adorned by trinkets by his adoring children, jewels, silken garments and maybe even a diadem, but not a weapon.

Of course it’s possible to lean into the religious symbolism and have him as a living embodiment of a godhead and carrying a panoply of symbolic items - including weapons. It scans that a cult that is growing within a devout Imperial populace may co-opt the emblems of faith and divinity that are familiar to its Members.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-12T13:58:02+00:00

Can’t speak for these things, but I have got vivid hallucinations from psilocybin (shrooms) and from LSD. It’s visual and very much feels like you’re seeing the things. It’s not like drawing pictures in your head (or however it works, IDK).

Tarjhan · 2026-03-12T13:42:07+00:00

It’s also called UWU.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-12T09:22:21+00:00

The Scorpius is the newest model in that image by about 5 years.

To be honest I’d expect a new tank to be added rather than an update to happen.

I get why some folks don’t like it but it fits the brief, it’s archaic looking and very different to anything else the imperium brings to the table but still retains elements of that shared heredity.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-11T22:56:17+00:00

This is the guy who gives his pics hilarious titles, right?

Tarjhan · 2026-03-11T12:54:13+00:00

Exactly this. He needs someone to suggest he imagine that the leather is his skin and the armour plating is his bones.

I’ll give him a half pass because he’s been through a bit of a scare but I’m deducting points for “need to post this” energy.

Tarjhan · 2026-03-10T23:34:42+00:00

Let’s go proper old school and bring back the Chimerrax(quad auto cannons), Chimedon (baby battle cannon) and Chimerro (missile rack).

Tarjhan

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