The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XX

[Farm Boy]

Does anyone here have any experience in archery? I signed up for a club today at university. Is it hard to learn the techniques, is it 'easy to learn, hard to master?'

It's easy to learn how not to butcher your offhand wrist with the string. It's easy to make the arrow go in fundamentally the correct direction. The rest depends on your hand-eye coordination and eyesight acuity.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Instantaneous? It got started before Prohibition and wasn't finished until GW Bush was president.

But the biggest shift came after the civil rights movement. It's not even a complete shift either; many southern states still trend Democrat at the local and state level. The national level, OTOH...

Cheers. I'll chalk that up as a victory for me.

Yeah, you were essentially correct. Johnson really tackled civil rights and the jim crowe laws in a comprehensive way that no president before or since have really done, IMO. He also talked about it all the time.

 

[Cutlass]

I said relatively didn't I? I never said relative to what

Geology?

 

[salty mud]

It's easy to learn how not to butcher your offhand wrist with the string. It's easy to make the arrow go in fundamentally the correct direction. The rest depends on your hand-eye coordination and eyesight acuity.

Is any upper body strength required? How hard are bows to drawback?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

regular bows and long bows, very.

compound bows, not so much

 

[Farm Boy]

Is any upper body strength required? How hard are bows to drawback?

regular bows and long bows, very.

compound bows, not so much

Hobbs is right. A regular bow gets harder to pull the farther back you pull the string, and holding it taut while you aim is a challenge if you are shooting anything other than a starter/children's/women's bow. The quality of your shot before you build up muscles through repetition may be determined not by how well you can aim, but how long it takes you to line up your shot before you have to let it go. Aren't there some nifty articles about how professional longbowmen in the middle ages had warped bones and spurs? That would take a lot a lot of drawing very heavy bows though.

A compound bow is really cool. It front-loads much of the effort required to pull it back into a specific point so the raw total force to draw it all the way back(assuming an equal strength shot) is condensed, once you get it all the way back you can aim for quite a while since it's easy to hold those fully drawn. Pulleys are neat! Those can get kinda spendy though, so really not so much worth it unless you really enjoy your new hobby.

 

[Quackers]

I'm presently involved in a slightly drunken argument with my Dad who is claiming that Lyndon Johnson's quote referencing "The dignity of man" refers to black Americans being given the right to vote in presidential elections in the 1960's. He claims this was not the case in all states up to this point.

Garbage says I.

Any help? Sources would be great. Not so much with the quote but with the suffrage issue.

out of all the drunken conversations it got to that

 

[Rashiminos]

Is any upper body strength required? How hard are bows to drawback?

If you haven't developed your upper arm strength with any seriousness, it's hard to hold the bow (compound bows aside) in a drawn position when aiming.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

out of all the drunken conversations it got to that

We can't all rant about busts while drunk, now can we?

Err, we can, but not about the kind I meant anyway.

 

[_random_]

I've had trouble with compounds before, but I'm an exceptionally weak dude. It honestly depends on a lot of different factors.

 

[Quackers]

We can't all rant about busts while drunk, now can we?

Err, we can, but not about the kind I meant anyway.

the chuchill bust is admittedly, close to my heart, i will never surrender

 

[Farm Boy]

I've had trouble with compounds before, but I'm an exceptionally weak dude. It honestly depends on a lot of different factors.

If you like this a lot, it could help with that.

20-30 minutes of free weights at night while watching television would speed things up some, but that gets to be a lot of time. There's a reason I don't do it anymore!

 

[hobbsyoyo]

the chuchill bust is admittedly, close to my heart, i will never surrender

Nor should you!

 

[madviking]

I would rather join a rifle club.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Has anyone else, while gaming, forgotten about the existence of the fourth wall and found themselves screaming at the monitor?

 

[Cutlass]

Has anyone else, while gaming, forgotten about the existence of the fourth wall and found themselves screaming at the monitor?

At least half the people. Probably.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

What are the minimum age requirements for serving in various US government political positions? Is there a uniform minimum age, or do different positions have different minimums?

 

[Cutlass]

Other than the offices of President(35), Senator(30), and Representative(25), it's not defined.

 

[Rashiminos]

Has anyone else, while gaming, forgotten about the existence of the fourth wall and found themselves screaming at the monitor?

I'm not much of a thespian whilst diverting..

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Other than the offices of President(35), Senator(30), and Representative(25), it's not defined.

In that case, if a man got the Presidency at 35 or 36, would his hair be completely grey before his first term is over, even if his hair had no grey at all when he was initially elected? It's a stressful job after all...