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Explain the meme thread
June 23, 2019, 05:34 PM
flashguyExplain the meme thread
Is this
the other side of this
?
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth June 23, 2019, 05:38 PM
ArtieSNot your typical "Have it your way, the customer is always right, have a nice day" kind of marketing bullshit.
Either the owner/operator is a serious sociopath, or this is reverse/perverse marketing of the finest kind, designed to appeal to a particular (SigForumesque) customer.
Simple, straightforward, no bullshit taken or given.
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June 23, 2019, 05:49 PM
sigfreundDo we really believe someone has a business like that selling one item—grilled cheese sandwiches—and for $1.00?
If it is true, then I would wish him all the good fortune possible.
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ArtieSRaw cost of goods: under $.30/ea.
Gross margin: +70%.
If there's a market with sufficient volume, I'd do that all day long.
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
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June 23, 2019, 06:00 PM
TexasScrubquote:
Originally posted by flashguy:
Is this
the other side of this
?
flashguy
Probably not, one has single axle and the other has two. Brothers, perhaps.
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He looked like an accountant or a serial-killer type. Definitely one of the service industries.
June 23, 2019, 06:15 PM
Ironbuttquote:
Originally posted by TexasScrub:
quote:
Originally posted by flashguy:
Is this
the other side of this
?
flashguy
Probably not, one has single axle and the other has two. Brothers, perhaps.
On the building behind the lower trailer there's a partial sign that I assume says "trailers." These trailers both appear brand spanking new, so they're probably just an advertisement for a business that sells trailers, or specifically, food trailers.
Maybe?
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June 23, 2019, 06:36 PM
sigfreundquote:
Originally posted by TexasScrub:
Probably not, one has single axle and the other has two.
Good catch.
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P220 Smudgequote:
Originally posted by sigfreund:
Do we really believe someone has a business like that selling one item—grilled cheese sandwiches—and for $1.00?
If it is true, then I would wish him all the good fortune possible.
I had a friend that used to take his family to some of the bigger music festivals and pay for the whole thing by spending whatever time they weren’t seeing the acts they really wanted to see by making and selling dollar grilled cheese sandwiches. As Artie notes, the profit margin can be insane, and if you set up in a good location, like, say at a music festival with all kinds of inebriated folk milling about, you can make good money. Nobody cares that it’s the cheapest white bread and American cheese you could find. They got a grilled cheese sandwich for a buck. They leave happy and feeling like they got the best deal ever and you doubled your money at worst.
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June 23, 2019, 07:19 PM
senza nome
June 23, 2019, 07:22 PM
MikeinNCThat’s a APDS round for a tank’s main gun. It is a spike that discards the blue sabot when it leaves the barrel...at extreme speed. It will kill anything it hits and is designed to kill other armored tanks....
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senza nomequote:
Originally posted by MikeinNC:
That’s a APDS round for a tank’s main gun. It is a spike that discards the blue sabot when it leaves the barrel...at extreme speed. It will kill anything it hits and is designed to kill other armored tanks....
So how does it make a grid square disappear?
June 23, 2019, 07:29 PM
sigfreundquote:
Originally posted by MikeinNC:
That’s a APDS round for a tank’s main gun. It is a spike that discards the blue sabot when it leaves the barrel...at extreme speed. It will kill anything it hits and is designed to kill other armored tanks....
Yes.
Almost as precise and selective as a sniper's bullet, and not intended or suitable for area damage.
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tatortoddquote:
Originally posted by senza nome:
quote:
Originally posted by MikeinNC:
That’s a APDS round for a tank’s main gun. It is a spike that discards the blue sabot when it leaves the barrel...at extreme speed. It will kill anything it hits and is designed to kill other armored tanks....
So how does it make a grid square disappear?
It doesn't. It's a kinetic energy projectile that punches through armor without explosives. The most famous would be the depleted uranium rounds from our Abrams tanks that punched through T-55 and T-72 tanks in Desert Storm.
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MikeinNCquote:
So how does it make a grid square disappear?
It doesn’t, but you don’t wanna get hit by one
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Hound Dogquote:
Originally posted by MikeinNC:
quote:
So how does it make a grid square disappear?
It doesn’t, but you don’t wanna get hit by one
A better photo would have been of a high explosive round. Sabot rounds like that kill via kinetic energy. I don't think they even explode.
It's a cool concept but I know too much to really enjoy it.
A better photo still would have been 155mm rounds for a Paladin self propelled artillery gun. . .
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June 23, 2019, 08:39 PM
RightwireClearly created by someone who has no idea what the soldier is holding, other than it's big and scary looking
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flashguy
I like the meme, but who are they?
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth July 01, 2019, 09:59 PM
MikeinNCIt’s Tom hardy from his show, Taboo....takes place during the reign of the East India Company, he returns from Africa when his dad dies, and he is bequeathed the family business.
Great outfits, great historical firearms and the like
He plays a really good bad guy...
He was in Peaky Blinders as Alfie Solomon’s. Also played Bane in one of the Batman movies.
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flashguyThanks. Never heard of him or the show. Must be on broadcast TV.
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