Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

[The Kid]

Ahh yes, that Of course.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

That's a party with class!

Hahaha

Light your hair on fire and be somebody!

We were a little disappointed in the results, but again, it was the first time we tried this on water. In previous years we carried out the auto de fe in the bonfire.
I'll guarantee better success at the end of this year.

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Perhaps this isn't the best place for me to look for some paternal/masculine influence in my life?

Probably not , all you'll find around here is worn out testosterone scattered about.
Look, there's some slouched over the bar.

[prendrelemick]

More petrol required I think, and rockets - plenty of rockets!

[Paulclem]

Great pics Gil. I agree - more rockets. It looks like a cold day. Did you get hit with the arctic blast recently?

My brothers and I are having a curry in Sheffield at the weekend Mick. We've been anticipating it virtually since we came up to Huddersfield. The trouble is, we're having difficulty finding one open in the afternoon. We may need to settle for a pub curry - which will be ok I'm sure.

[prendrelemick]

Sounds good paul, Hope you, the quiet one and the chatty one have a great time.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Great pics Gil. I agree - more rockets. It looks like a cold day. Did you get hit with the arctic blast recently?

My brothers and I are having a curry in Sheffield at the weekend Mick....

We were hit with the tail of the "polar vortex", however it was nothing as compared to the northern states.
Yes rockets!, I believe both of you are on to something there.

[Sancho]

How about White Phosphorus? That'd give floaty-lake man some pizzazz. You could name him Willie Pete. Hmmm, what are the fuzing options? Hmmm, gonna need some type of mechanical delay on an implosive projectile to detonate William Peter. Wait! How about a home-made Piezoelectric shell fired at him from a twelve gauge? That'd be pretty cool.

[prendrelemick]

I like the projectile idea - it gives a nod to the Viking way - mourners throwing their flaming torches onto the funeral bark as it drifts up the fjord. Or was that a Kirk Douglas/Tony Curtis film?

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

... Wait! How about a home-made Piezoelectric shell fired at him from a twelve gauge? That'd be pretty cool.

This activity takes place in East Texas, whereby life and intelligence takes on a less sophisticated approach. I'm afraid that piezo business would go over our heads higher than a Loblolly pine.

I like the projectile idea - it gives a nod to the Viking way - mourners throwing their flaming torches onto the funeral bark as it drifts up the fjord. Or was that a Kirk Douglas/Tony Curtis film?

I should clarify we do use projectiles to ignite the effigy in the form of "Roman Candles", but I am intrigued by this type of rocket:






This was 2012's effigy -note the Roman Candle fire ball streaks:

[The Atheist]

How about White Phosphorus? That'd give floaty-lake man some pizzazz. You could name him Willie Pete. Hmmm, what are the fuzing options? Hmmm, gonna need some type of mechanical delay on an implosive projectile to detonate William Peter. Wait! How about a home-made Piezoelectric shell fired at him from a twelve gauge? That'd be pretty cool.

You're a very bad man!

I like that in a bloke.

I like the projectile idea - it gives a nod to the Viking way - mourners throwing their flaming torches onto the funeral bark as it drifts up the fjord. Or was that a Kirk Douglas/Tony Curtis film?

Yes, that was Vikings, although other cultures burnt the boats as well. For Vikings, see also, Mare of Steel:

I should clarify we do use projectiles to ignite the effigy in the form of "Roman Candles", but I am intrigued by this type of rocket:

I do a bit of rocketry, but re-usable rockets with engines. They look amazing at night, and you can units that will go up to a mile high.

They're a little on the expensive side, but if you want to make a splash, try one. Just accept that a night launch means you're going to lose the rocket - they parachute back down.

[Paulclem]

Perhaps one of the space shuttles will be available cheap.

We had a great time in Sheffield. It's a nice city full of stone buildings. The pubs were good though all the curry houses didn't open until 5.30. I also tried a strawberry and lime cider. Very nice and a pure strawberry flavour.

[The Atheist]

Perhaps one of the space shuttles will be available cheap.

They're cheap enough, but hell to move.

We had a great time in Sheffield. It's a nice city full of stone buildings. The pubs were good though all the curry houses didn't open until 5.30. I also tried a strawberry and lime cider. Very nice and a pure strawberry flavour.

Off to find some of that immediately.

[Sancho]

Okay, I'm thinking a homemade, shotgun delivered, piezoelectric fuze, designed to cook off Willie Pete the floaty-lake man may be a little ambitious for the typical home pyromaniac. So how about a fertilizer-bomb* floaty-lake man? We could call him F-Bomb man. All we'd need is a couple of sacks of ammonium nitrate, a couple of jerrycans of diesel fuel, and maybe a few M-80s with an extra long fuzes. Oh yeah, and a cigarette lighter. Then if everything goes as planned, the people standing on shore, watching F-Bomb man detonate, will start dropping the F-Bomb left and right: "Holy F! Did you see that F-ing F-Bomb man blow up? That was fan F-ing tastic. I'm going to go home right now and build my own F-ing F-Bomb man, uh, just as soon as this F-ing ringing my ears goes away." And so on and so forth.


*Literary tie in: In Ed Abbey's novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, the Gang's plan was to drain Lake Powell and reclaim Glen Canyon by blowing the Glen Canyon dam with a fertilizer bomb. They were going to load a houseboat with ammonium nitrate and diesel fuel and then drive it up the Colorado River and anchor it at the base of the dam. Then it was going to be party-time, ecoterrorist-style.

Paul, a year or so ago I had the chance to eat at a wonderful restaurant in the "Curry Mile" section of Manchester.

[Sancho]

Atheist, we're getting reports of seismic activity out there in your neck of the woods. Please tell me you guys aren't working on the F-bomb. We don't want to get into a cold-war style F-bomb race, do we?

Seriously, did you feel the shake?

[Paulclem]

Paul, a year or so ago I had the chance to eat at a wonderful restaurant in the "Curry Mile" section of Manchester.

I've heard of it but not had the pleasure yet. The brothers and I may take a trip up there yet. There's a similar phenomenon in Birmingham called the Balti belt.