@Scribus will have an opinion..........Not the place to bring that up.
@Scribus will have an opinion..........Not the place to bring that up.
Potassium nitrate - used in bacon production I think. Gunpowder is a mixture of that, sulphur and carbon
General rule of thumb is that the cupboard under the kitchen sink contains enough to destroy the kitchen ;-)
You must be a lot younger than me! (70) When I was a lad we were ALWAYS making bombs & fuses to ensure that bangers has a longer "getaway" time once you lit the paper!Most people in the uk don't make bombs
I wouldn't even know were to start in the bomb making progressYou must be a lot younger than me! (70) When I was a lad we were ALWAYS making bombs & fuses to ensure that bangers has a longer "getaway" time once you lit the paper!
in 1961, Shooting Times had an article describing how to dig flight ponds quickly by using ANFO - gave all the correct proportions & suggested you asked your local quarry or mine for a few detonators to commence affairs.
We used to "obtain" detonators from sheds alongside the railway lines after our home supplies were exhausted - our coalhouse had half dozen detonators "saved" from grandad's mine & most of my mates had similar resources available.
I have a close friend who built a rocket with sugar-based propellent stuffed into a scaffold pipe. They launched it from a tip near home & it went so high that it disappeared! sh!t scared they all ran home & laid low, but thankfully no homes or people were harmed. Shades of "My rockets go up, but where they come down, is not my concern said Werner von Braun"
Slightly before my time but as a lad there was a lot of talk about blowing tree stumps, I guess explosives were much easier obtained back thenYou must be a lot younger than me! (70) When I was a lad we were ALWAYS making bombs & fuses to ensure that bangers has a longer "getaway" time once you lit the paper!
in 1961, Shooting Times had an article describing how to dig flight ponds quickly by using ANFO - gave all the correct proportions & suggested you asked your local quarry or mine for a few detonators to commence affairs.
We used to "obtain" detonators from sheds alongside the railway lines after our home supplies were exhausted - our coalhouse had half dozen detonators "saved" from grandad's mine & most of my mates had similar resources available.
I have a close friend who built a rocket with sugar-based propellent stuffed into a scaffold pipe. They launched it from a tip near home & it went so high that it disappeared! sh!t scared they all ran home & laid low, but thankfully no homes or people were harmed. Shades of "My rockets go up, but where they come down, is not my concern said Werner von Braun"
We had an explosive craze at school when the farm boys started taking in strings of crow bangers. It started with individual bangers stuck in the brickwork and progressed to launching a rocket shaped projectile ("The Armour-dildo") into orbit from a launch pad down on the river bank.We had one banger merrily fizzing away in the wall when the school chaplain came to say hello, He was standing about 2 feet from it but thanks to divine intervention, the fuse went out.
In the end they decided to act and called the whole school in for a bollocking, making it clear that if there were any more explosions, some of us would be fired off the premises. There was a final hoorah, though, as on the last day, with dad's encouragement, we thought it would be a nice idea to take some strings and put them down the drain gratings to remind the live-in teachers of our passing.
Another lad used to go on Army cadet trips to Penhale or wherever, and spend his spare time dismantling the trip flares and pyrotechnics, which he brought back to school and laid out in the grounds.
May your sins be forgiven before you meet your maker Red Fred! Or surely shalt thy face eternal damnation, for truly it is written that ‘vengeance is mine saith the Lord!’.
(That is your real ‘Maker’ Fred, not your bomb maker.)
What was the truth?Yup. Then 6 years later he was back in. If the truth about the fuel crisis of the winter of '47/'48 had got out a vote of no confidence in Attlee's government would have seen Labour booted out, with Churchill most likely to win the GE that would have taken place after a VNC.
How many people die per day in an average year?When less than 100 were dying p/day the likes of tesco wanted us to sign up to home delivery, now 500+ p/day are dying they want us to consider shopping in-store so home deliveries can cope with demand! I wouldnt worry about gun crime atm, cocaine consumption will have dropped through the floor with pubs and nightclubs shut
Was that when the phrase@glasshouse
The truth is that the Labour government of the time bore the majority of responsibility for the fuel crisis, mostly stemming from Shinwell allowing the NUM to get away with bullsh!itting over coal extraction rates. He'd been warned about it in the autumn and did nothing about it. Needless to say he blamed everyone but himself and the NUM. A lot of employers ended up shutting down due to the rolling blackouts he instituted, with the result that 4 million ended up on the dole.
Shinwell himself was an interesting character to say they least, and a monumental hypocrite. He was all for nationalising UK industry but he didn't like it when other states did the same to British assets in their countries. When he was Minister of Defence (a job he was given having been booted out of the role of Minister of Fuel and Power) he wanted to send troops in to protect British assets that the Iranian government was nationalising.
4 million unemployed, high taxes, rolling blackouts, many not being able to get enough coal to heat their houses, rationing. Not a combination that made for a happy population.
!2 weeks lockdown and cabin fever is/has reached blow-off time.Is this thread coming true?
Riots on the streets, people throwing statues into rivers.
Illegal Raves, with 4-5000 people. Destroying police cars and public property.
Its getting out of control!
Haven't read all replies but it does all make me wonder if this is us all heading down a very dark road .Is this thread coming true?
Riots on the streets, people throwing statues into rivers.
Illegal Raves, with 4-5000 people. Destroying police cars and public property.
Its getting out of control!
95% of criminals are thick as.The number of times such people have been discovered after being stopped for having lights out, expired tax/no MOT is astounding.
Like you say, if one was to undertake such lucrative and naughty things surely one would seek to attract as little attention as possible.