ridgedog-blog:

Ever since last night I’ve been getting a lot of questions about my brass fingernails. First of all. NO, they are not prosthesis. i have them for a specific reason.

Here’s what they look like:

another view 

HERE’s is the reason:

I bite my nails all the time. constantly, idly, without thinking.

If you’re like me, and love giving back scratches, then having no nails is a problem:

Here’s how chose to fix this problem:

Shoot bullet, collect casing.

cut bullet.

The bullets have a taper inside. we will want the broader side of the taper to be outward on our nails, and the thinner side against the rear of the nail so there is no jutting up of material when they are glued on. Here’s what that taper looks like, one cylinder is flipped over to show how thick it is at the base:

clip, bend, and trim into a nail shape:

sand for a fine (BUT NOT CUTTING SHARP) edge on the front and smooth edges.

Glue with Krazy glue, it’s the best.

it’ll dry quick. NOW TRY BACK SCRATCHES. LOOK AT THIS DIFFERENCE.

Amazing. the nails will stay on for about a week at a time before working themselves loose, when that happens just scrape the glue off and reapply.

Unless you happen to have reached into the closet and snagged it on your shelves and broke the nail off on your pinky cuz holy god that hurt. reapply anyways.

Also these work as screwdrivers, knives and various other multi-tools at the tip of your finger, so that’s pretty rad. I don’t know how odd i should feel about having done this, but i must say; it’s handy as hell and really fun to have nails again.

OH, also you can shine them with “brasso” or something but screw that, I’ve tried that and they get mirror bright and really annoyingly shiny. not my thing.

That’s also really cool seeing that internal taper.

enrique262:

In all ships capable of operating with helicopters, you see these white lines painted over the flight decks and even flat surfaces, all of them serving an specific purpose, which are the following:

A square outline, which delimits the place of the flight deck in which no object can protrude from the surface.

A circle, many times with a spot at the center, serving as a target where the helicopter can land safety and with no risk of hitting anything, this is also the place where it can be refueled and rearmed.

The “line-up line”, which as its name implies is for the helicopter to align itself while on approach for landing, telling the pilot where its safe to do so.

Line-up lines may vary depending on the design of the ship, here we can see both parallel and perpendicular approaches in the first instance, or sideways approaches, single and dual, in the second and third, since these are dictated by the amount of obstacles that surround the flight deck.

VERTREP (VERTical REPlenisment) line, a series of T’s that shows the limit in which the center of the rotor hub of the helicopter’s rotor can go, in order to avoid any obstacle while hovering over the flight deck, it’s usually aligned with the very center of the landing spot, but sometimes is further back due to the presence of a mast or weapon.

A variant of the VERTREP is the red TOTO line, for use of heavier helicopters that have bigger rotors, when it’s present it also means said helicopter cannot land in the flight deck.

Many ships have decks in which helicopters cannot land, but can be used for vertically replenishment, here the square marks where the cargo can be unloaded, and the dotted line the approach pattern in the first case, the rotor hub center limit in the second (allowing for multiple approach patterns), and the third a corridor that lets the helicopter know how much space it has to maneuver. 

When ships can’t allow for VERTREP deliveries, there’s also this small X inside a circle, indicating a place in which a helicopter’s hoist can land or pick up things or personnel, usually there for emergency use only.

And the final symbol, the HIFR (Helicopter In Flight Refueling), a small H denoting a place equipped with a fuel hose that can be brought up by the helicopter’s hoist for hovering mid-air refueling, used in decks that can’t be used for landing. 

There are more or less universal symbols, although some navies give them slight variations, but the idea behind them is to show pilots what they can and cannot do while operating on any ship.

Translated by me, taken from here.

kasaron:

It is my belief that public servants should be paid well (to discourage seeking payment from less reputable means) and punished utterly viciously when they misbehave (to, again, discourage misbehavior).

Every politician should fear, every day, the risk of making a misdeed which will not only end their career but end their existence as a free person. 

allfrogsarefriends:

allfrogsarefriends:

there is something oddly satisfying about pairing meat with alcohol

these were two totally different responses to my post and yet they are both equally valid 

coffeeandspentbrass:

Here’s one you don’t see everyday.

tiltedwaifu:

😀 I needed to hear that today thank you!

Don’t let anyone tell you you aren’t cute, focus on your inner anime girl

uss-edsall:

You’re flying nine-thousand feet over a raging naval battle topped by a swirling furball of a dogfight, a hundred miles from land, and you’re leaking fuel copiously.

“Hump day,” you mutter.

fresnel149:

murdercore-powerfuneral:

Not enough super shotguns are over-unders and if the games industry doesn’t fix that I will have to get into amateur gamedev.

Safari double rifles are all side-by-side because the lessened angle required to fully open the action and expose both chambers speeds up reload time slightly, and every fraction of a second counts when being faced down with a charging lion.

I agree that O/U shotguns are aesthetically much prettier, but unfortunately SxS shotguns are objectively better.