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[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Usually they are mounted on boats, not fired as a team:

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That is an absolute cannon.

I could just see it now, BOOM and the boat goes shooting into the lake ass backwards.

[–] shalafi 2 points 11 months ago

LOL, I moved my kayak around with a 12-gauge.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

specifically, mounted on a punt

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Excuse me doctor, do you have anything which might treat my currently normal ability to hear sounds?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] Broken_Monitor 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] shalafi 2 points 11 months ago

I SO hoped it would be that scene.

So, what's the best war movie of all time and why is it Black Hawk Down?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

WHY IS EVERYONE ALL CAPS??

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

WE'RE ANGRY!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

BOOKS ARE BECKONING, YOU SAY?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

THEY SAID "ROOKS THE RECKONING!"

[–] snekerpimp 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Really good for graboids as well

[–] canthidium 8 points 11 months ago

"Broke into the wrong gul dern recroom, you big jerk"

I can't unhear the silly USA network censoring after having watched so many times.

[–] DeskP1loti 6 points 11 months ago

Also low-flying aircraft.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

These things would often decimate bird populations. They are not legal to use for hunting anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And somehow massive fishing nets still allowed.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear 1 points 11 months ago

Ducks don't lay a million eggs on one go.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

Plenty of fish in the sea

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Here's a song about what these guns accomplished.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

For the best, but I can't say I'm not morbidly curious as to what the result of one of these monsters would look like. A flurry of feathers and falling bird corpses, I would expect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

decimate bird populations

decimation then:

In the military of ancient Rome, decimation (from Latin decimatio 'removal of a tenth'[1]) was a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort.

and now:

The word decimation in English is often used to refer to an extreme reduction in the number of a population or force or an overall sense of destruction and ruin.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Muzzle loader? And is that a trigger with no guard?