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[hedgie]

Not a fan, myself, but I don't know how much of that is something with the browser itself, and how much of that is just total unfamiliarity.  I'd say even most Windows users I know tend of that thing you use to download Firefox with, and not much else.  They still have a way to go with standards-compliance and security, but it's nowhere as bad as in the IE6 days.

[Masterpiece]

you're all probably not using it on touch screen.

[osaka]

I use it on the X360 every now and again for shit that isn't serious. I just prefer other options.

And on that note, I wonder when is Opera Next finally going to implement tab stacks. Opera 12 has tab stacks and it's excellence.

[Thrillho]

you're all probably not using it on touch screen.

Nope.

Which coincidentally is why I hate Windows 8.

8.1 is a mild improvement. It has a start button!

[Masterpiece]

I know I'm speaking for myself probably, but Windows 8.x made me actually use the start menu again. It became obsolete for me in Win 7. Only used it in search, aka press Win button on keyboard and start typing, which still sorks with 8.x .

[Thrillho]

Well part of the issue here is that I have 7, which I like, at home anyway, and I have pinned the programmes I always use. At work, on the other hand...

[GarandMarine]

[Sorflakne]

Dammit, now I feel bad for IE...

8.1 is a mild improvement. It has a start button!

A button that takes you to the Metro screen is not worthy of being a start button.

StartIsBack forever! 

[LeeC]

Butters is truly part of the crew.

[jwhouk]

Wait a minute, on MY touch screen, I only have Chrome and Safari!

[Thrillho]

Dammit, now I feel bad for IE...

8.1 is a mild improvement. It has a start button!

A button that takes you to the Metro screen is not worthy of being a start button.

StartIsBack forever!

Metro screen may be shitty, but at least I can find it now!

[LeeC]

[Welu]

[LeeC]

[LTK]

looks like women WERE too hard to animate after all

[Sorflakne]

I didn't know it was even possible to jam a revolver.  Or jam one this badly.

[BeoPuppy]

I'm no expert but that seems bad for the one holding it.

[cesium133]

What I'm wondering is what person in their right mind tries to fire a weapon, the weapon jams, and then they pull the trigger seven more times.

[BeoPuppy]

[...] right mind [...]

Try again.

[LeeC]

how dogs react to levitating wiener

[GarandMarine]

I didn't know it was even possible to jam a revolver.  Or jam one this badly.

This is not a jam. This is a misfire called a "squib". Resulting from ammo with not enough powder or no powder at all. A hazard of loading one's own ammo, but factories make mistakes as well. A primer with no powder or an insufficient charge of powder will propel the round down the barrel, but it won't have enough to make it the whole way/over come the friction of the rifling. Thus the round getting stuck. If you don't notice the first you will notice the second because it will at the very least bulge or rupture the barrel and possibly result in catastrophic failure of the whole weapon.

None of this is evident in this weapon which would lead me to suggest it's faked. Probably as a novelty gift for a firearms instructor.

[Sorflakne]

Eh, could be fake, but there is some bulging under the second and third bullets from the left, where they impacted into the rounds in front of them.

[Kugai]

Harry Callahan would kick your ass for this.

[GarandMarine]

Oh. Stupid phone. Still miraculous that pistol didn't magically become a hand grenade.

[LTK]

This is not a jam. This is a misfire called a "squib". Resulting from ammo with not enough powder or no powder at all. A hazard of loading one's own ammo, but factories make mistakes as well. A primer with no powder or an insufficient charge of powder will propel the round down the barrel, but it won't have enough to make it the whole way/over come the friction of the rifling. Thus the round getting stuck. If you don't notice the first you will notice the second because it will at the very least bulge or rupture the barrel and possibly result in catastrophic failure of the whole weapon.

None of this is evident in this weapon which would lead me to suggest it's faked. Probably as a novelty gift for a firearms instructor.

I wondered if the usage of the term 'squib' in the Harry Potter books had any relation to this meaning. It probably does, as the term is an onomatopoia of a weak or failed explosion, and it's used in context other than firearms, like fireworks. Props to Rowling for inventing that use, it feels way more offensive than 'mudblood' given the connotation.

Now that I think about it, you could also use 'squib' as an astronomical term to refer to a brown dwarf.

[Blue Kitty]

My favorite edit so far

Kim Kardashian looks so much like a centaur in Paper Magazine, I figured I'd take it one step further.

[pwhodges]

None of this is evident in this weapon which would lead me to suggest it's faked. Probably as a novelty gift for a firearms instructor.

An army guy on another forum commented:

(I see a lot of pictures of barrels like this: where the bullets just stack up).

Usually, there are two ways this is discovered: when the gunowner realizes that there's no light coming out of the barrel/they try to swab the barrel...

...or the firearm explodes in their hands.

and

The Smith and Wesson .357 is an eight shot revolver. He fired all rounds that were in the cylinder.

Again, this is rare but not an uncommon error, and is usually discovered after the fact. It can be a result of stupidity, but depending on the circumstances, there would have been no way to determine that the barrel was clogged until either the gun exploded or it was determined after the fact.

[GarandMarine]

That guy's misinformed.

1. There are multiple ways to detect a squid round without a grenade going off in your hands or destroying your barrel first, you just have to pay attention. No rounds going down range for one. The reduced recoil and muzzle flash in particular are the first signs of a squib load. At the second shot you're going to start seeing no or minimal muzzle flash, and "back blast" of gasses.

2. The barrel notes that that is a .357 Magnum revolver by Smith and Wesson, that is not it's model. Smith and Wesson model numbers and  serial numbers are printed on the frame of the revolver under the arm. It could be a Smith and Wesson model 627 which is an 8 shot .357 Magnum revolver in that color, and he was probably thinking of the S&W model 327, but that barrel is the wrong color and configuration for that. 

[Grognard]

For the Teachers...
Ms Browning, Ms Horner: I still remember.

[hedgie]

Well-done.  Teachers don't get enough credit.

[Is it cold in here?]

I shouldn't make fun of typos. On the other hand I am now consumed by a desire to see a picture of a squid round.

[Stryc9Fuego]

Closest I can think of would be a Black Talon/Ranger Talon:

[RedWolf4]

I was just honestly thinking of a squid in a catapult.

[GarandMarine]

You could load a small squid in a shotgun shell easily enough. I doubt it would be super aerodynamic though.

[osaka]

Am I the only one who thinks that the teacher starts presenting himself as a pretentious asshole in that particular comic/poem? I wouldn't be proud of making kids feel great because they barely passed, it's a sign of having a greater standard than what you have taught.

[Neko_Ali]

Or very good for the squid.

[Welu]

Am I the only one who thinks that the teacher starts presenting himself as a pretentious asshole in that particular comic/poem? I wouldn't be proud of making kids feel great because they barely passed, it's a sign of having a greater standard than what you have taught.

Some children have to work insanely hard to barely pass, and a teacher that recognises that is a brilliant thing. Traditional schooling and testing really does not suit every child.

[osaka]

Maybe it's a distorted sight. See, I'm in the last year of my degree and I've cruised through everything (except for the informations systems and his incompetent professor. Also Software Engineering 101, which requires a group project I couldn't do and a level of attention to detail on the final exam that I need to work more on), so that's how it feels like to me.

And to be honest, every time I've seen someone happy because they barely passed before college it was from those people who consistently got hammered every saturday and didn't even care about anything, so that's another thing.

[Welu]

To add my personal experience I spent the last year of college in a depressed haze and was told I would have an extension on my work but then had a week to finished three months of work due to a lecturer fuck up. I'm fucking amazed I passed at all, nevermind my actual final percentage. You won't usually hear people talking about those kind of reasons for struggling in class.

College though isn't the same as primary/secondary school information retention style testing which I imagine is the specific thing being talked about in the comic.

[Metope]

 

[Pilchard123]

indeed.

You know the problem with that horse?

(click to show/hide)

It can't be tamed.

[Welu]

Any time a horse is mentioned the chip in my brain makes me post this:

[RedWolf4]

Y'know, I just realized what a catapult with squids for ammunition would be . . .

It'd be a Cuttlepult.

 

[Neko_Ali]

[BeoPuppy]

[GarandMarine]

[Blue Kitty]

[Masterpiece]

Posts like that ^ is why Kim Kardashian is still a thing.

[Kugai]

Worst luck

[LeeC]