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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 years ago

specifically, mounted on a punt

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago
[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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?

[–] JoShmoe@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

WHY IS EVERYONE ALL CAPS??

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago

WE'RE ANGRY!

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

BOOKS ARE BECKONING, YOU SAY?

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

THEY SAID "ROOKS THE RECKONING!"

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Really good for graboids as well

[–] canthidium@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years 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@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Also low-flying aircraft.

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And somehow massive fishing nets still allowed.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago

Plenty of fish in the sea

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Here's a song about what these guns accomplished.

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] 342345@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] reflex@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Stand-by for Titanfowl.

[–] LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 years ago

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