Country getting close to anarchy??

SteveHants

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Livestock Farmer
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 ;-)

Yep - used to buy potassium nitrate for that very reason when I was working in a smokery. Bacon is grey unless you add it.
 

Swarfmonkey

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Location
Hampshire
Need a bit more than just a det to make ANFO go up. Need a booster as well (at which point i'll say no more on that particular subject). ANFO was one of the many improvised explosives we played with on a certain course back when I was in, and yes, what people have said about being able to level a house with what you can find under the kitchen sink is generally pretty accurate, thought you'll need a couple of items from your grocery cupboard as well if you want to do it in truly spectacular fashion.

Ye gods, I don't half miss blowing things up and getting paid to do it.
 

pycoed

Member
Most people in the uk don't make bombs
You must be a lot younger than me! (70) :D 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! :eek: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":)
 
You must be a lot younger than me! (70) :D 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! :eek: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":)
I wouldn't even know were to start in the bomb making progress
 
You must be a lot younger than me! (70) :D 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! :eek: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 then
 

DeeGee

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Location
North East Wales
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.)
 

JeepJeep

Member
Trade
We had a phase of the Nut & Bolts and the match heads
Hardly Bomb like but gave a cracking bang and a flash in the dark... Started getting bigger & bigger Nut and Bolts and carefully scraping the heads of loads and loads of matches... mate found some serious bolts that would take about 15 boxes od match heads.
 

Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
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.)

Have you found God @DeeGee ? Seem to be quoting more and more biblical stuff these days ...
 

glasshouse

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Location
lothians
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
How many people die per day in an average year?
 

Swarfmonkey

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Location
Hampshire
@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.
 

glasshouse

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Location
lothians
@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.
Was that when the phrase
No C**t Bothers
Was coined?
NCB
 

jh.

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Location
fife
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 .

Due to the virus , the government have told folk to find other ways to protest but they are still out in mass gatherings. It looks like they and the police are loosing control trying to softly softly the situation . If the police lose control and end up saying f**k this and going on strike themselves then it'll be wild especially in the states . Certainly not a job I'd like , be as well walking about with a bullseye on their backs .
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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