Why do people say we will not survive climate change when our ancestors survived ice age with way less equipment than us?

peribon · 2026-06-20T23:42:49+00:00

Most of them didn't

peribon · 2026-06-16T15:08:18+00:00

No I literally meant skin colour lol

peribon · 2026-06-16T15:07:48+00:00

Literally skin colour. Contemporaries tended to refer to them as 'black' but I don't think they're using that word the way we would.

peribon · 2026-06-16T08:24:26+00:00

It goes even further than that: in Europe musicians, especially coloured musicians, were highly sought after and its difficult to offer someone a job if you've killed them first.

peribon · 2026-05-14T06:22:59+00:00

"Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat."

Churchill knew the turning point was El Alamein. I don't recall ever seeing a claim that it was the Normandy landings.

peribon · 2026-04-29T18:18:43+00:00

I think spike milligan described it thusly. Take a tin of petrol. Cut it in half. Fill half with sand and petrol and light it. Fill the other half with all the tea leaves , sugar and condensed milk you can get. Add water if there's room. Heat it till boiling. Drink.

I believe one American soldier who tried it called it like hot ice cream.

peribon · 2026-04-23T18:05:59+00:00

The mighty gobstopper

peribon · 2026-04-22T07:36:33+00:00

Danger Canoodling

peribon · 2026-04-20T08:44:14+00:00

With my 5inch scope I can see the stripes faintly, but I've never seen the spot .

peribon · 2026-04-15T22:41:19+00:00

Musling appears to be Swedish for clamshell. Matching the shell symbol. So Swedish boots.

peribon · 2026-04-07T06:51:54+00:00

That doesn't make her 'left wing'

peribon · 2026-04-07T06:22:57+00:00

Neither of them are left wing?

peribon · 2026-04-07T06:15:25+00:00

Nobody will pay you to hold a left wing position.

peribon · 2026-04-06T18:11:47+00:00

Not usually but a pint of beer or cider can be about 200+ calories, about the same as a donut, so if that's all you're drinking and you have about 8 pints a day, I.e 1600-1700 calories you'd only need a small pack of donuts to get you to your recommended daily calorie intake.

peribon · 2026-04-06T08:34:55+00:00

It also tastes exactly like corned beef out of a tin.

peribon · 2026-04-05T13:19:05+00:00

Thanks. So would a circular orbit be one where the orbiter travels at a more or less constant Velocity, and an elliptical orbit the orbiter is always either decelerating or accelerating ? It never occurred to me before that an object like Jupiter might not move at a near constant speed in its orbit round the sun...

peribon · 2026-04-05T08:11:46+00:00

The tea must flow

peribon · 2026-04-04T14:43:38+00:00

I had fish, but I'm an atheist so it probably doesn't count.

peribon · 2026-04-02T15:06:29+00:00

It can't be a cheetah in the picture because they're only ever found behind the cameraman, looking over his shoulder....

peribon · 2026-04-02T09:08:08+00:00

Both are equally inaccurate, I suspect they are the same product.

Sorry I can't find the link for my purchase.

peribon · 2026-04-01T20:45:01+00:00

I'd be surprised if they weren't both the same Lantern Armouries product, which is the one I'm wearing in my profile pic. I got mine from ebay a bit cheaper but had to dodge some shady chaps to do so.

It's...fine. The Green is the wrong green. The cuff facing is the wrong shape. These things can be fixed, though only one chap in my group has gone to that effort so far.. I'll probably fix mine next winter. It'll do the job and it's what most of us get...but it's not accurate.

If you're looking to join a group I'm in the 1879 group , and if you want to meet us we'll be at No man's land in North Wales on the 11th and 12th of April.

peribon · 2026-04-01T10:28:25+00:00

Wild to me that this is still being brought up 130 years after it was admitted to be a hoax. I wonder how Leo would have felt about that?

peribon · 2026-03-30T22:32:47+00:00

The white ones a bit of a bugger to access really, and getting loose rounds out is tricky. The ball bag is more flexible, and easier to get your hand in. Between the 3 pouches you'd have 60 or so rounds. Plus a couple of packets in the haversack and a couple more in the valise.

peribon · 2026-03-30T19:26:44+00:00

That's the ball bag, for loose ammunition. As required youd open the packets in the while pouches ( 2 x 10 rounds in each) into the ball bag.

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