The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXXI

[Takhisis]

I watched a documentary on this tank battle I think, it was pretty boring and one sided. Most boring tank battle ever

That's why he was condecorated. Would you rather have an exciting battle and lose half your men and matériel?

 

[warpus]

That's why he was condecorated. Would you rather have an exciting battle and lose half your men and matériel?

I wasn't commenting on that, I was commenting on the fact that there are people out there who are calling that a "great" tank battle...

The documentary I was watching was calling it one of the top 10 tank battles ever, or some nonsense like that. Yeah okay, and I have the world's greatest reproductive organ

 

[Synobun]

Yeah okay, and I have the world's greatest reproductive organ

I believe it.

 

[cardgame]

pics or it didn't happen

 

[Flying Pig]

I wasn't commenting on that, I was commenting on the fact that there are people out there who are calling that a "great" tank battle...

The documentary I was watching was calling it one of the top 10 tank battles ever, or some nonsense like that. Yeah okay, and I have the world's greatest reproductive organ

There's something a bit perverse in rating a battle by its level of 'excitement'. You need to remember what's underneath the thrilling explosions and jets of flame.

 

[Mouthwash]

We're Western consumers, let us be.

 

[warpus]

Alright guys, I ordered a duvet cover and it arrived last night. I have some problems with it though. Let me know if this is normal.

So.. there doesn't appear to be any way to "open" the cover and slip the duvet inside. I can tell that there is an inside, but it seems inaccessible. I've gone all the way around the whole edge/perimeter, and I've only found one potential access point. There is a zipper.. but.. it doesn't seem to have a thing for you to pull on to unzip it. I looked at it like 50 times. I was a bit tired, this was right before bed, and I had been drinking.. a bit. So I wasn't drunk or anything. I put the whole thing up to the light so I could see through it.. and.. yeah. I don't get it.

So yeah. There's a zipper.. and.. no way to unzip it. I looked to see if the zipper puller thingy is maybe stuck in a nook somewhere, but it's nowhere to be seen. The only places it seems for it to be possible to hide in are the two ends of the zipper. When I move my hands over those parts, it seems clear that nothing's hiding there.

I looked at that thing like a moron for 15 minutes, looked for another way to get inside, and.. nothing. I couldn't figure it out so I threw the thing on the ground and went to sleep.

Is there something about duvet covers I'm missing? Am I just a bedsheet moron? What's going on here?

 

[Synobun]

Probably a factory defect. Switch it, son. Or go get a zipper attached to it.

 

[warpus]

I didn't want to accept this.. but I guess it's the only reasonable explanation.

What is that zippy pully thingy called anyway? So I can explain to them what is missing.

 

[Synobun]

I didn't want to accept this.. but I guess it's the only reasonable explanation.

What is that zippy pully thingy called anyway? So I can explain to them what is missing.

The "slider". I guess if they're confused, you can say that the cover has the zipper teeth but not the slider so you have no way of accessing the inside or utilizing the product as intended. That should be clear enough that even if they have no idea what the hell a slider is, they can discern it's the "pully thingy".

 

[warpus]

Slider/pully thingy, got it.

I bought this on amazon.ca, has anyone ever received a faulty product like this? What's the procedure for getting a replacement? Seems like I have to ship this back to them, but.. do they send me money for shipping or credit me via my CC or does this depend on the company? Or amazon's policies? Hopefully they can ship me a replacement before I even send this useless thing back. I guess they'll probably want proof that what I'm saying is true? Do I take photos? I know that amazon heavily favours the buyer in such disputes, but where do I begin?

 

[Takhisis]

I wasn't commenting on that, I was commenting on the fact that there are people out there who are calling that a "great" tank battle...

Well, right there is the greatness of it. One side completely outmanoeuvres the other, doing it so well that they don't lose a single tank.

Battles aren't meant to be the same as football matches where a 5-3 is ‘better’ than a 3-0 for a neutral spectator.

 

[warpus]

Well, right there is the greatness of it. One side completely outmanoeuvres the other, doing it so well that they don't lose a single tank.

It's not so impressive when the side that was able to do that had a whole crapload more tanks, all of them decades more advanced than the opposition's.

I can completely outmaneuver a baby and knock it out without breaking a sweat. It doesn't make it "The greatest wrestling match in human history"

 

[Lohrenswald]

Iraq's tanks IIRC in order to like rotate "the tower" thay had to turn a crank

 

[Synobun]

I can completely outmaneuver a baby and knock it out without breaking a sweat. It doesn't make it "The greatest wrestling match in human history"

Can you outmaneuver 160 babies, though?

 

[Lohrenswald]

even with his eyes closed

 

[Takhisis]

What if they are toddlers rather than mere crawlers?

 

[warpus]

What if they are toddlers rather than mere crawlers?

Not that I would ever consider doing this, unless the future of humanity depended on it, but I think I could easily take on 200 5 year olds

 

[The_J]

This sounds like a good story line (partial) for a horror B-movie.

 

[Mouthwash]

Has anyone here used Rosetta Stone? What level of fluency can you expect after completing three levels (which is where most of their languages end)? I can't find that in any review.