The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread ΛΕ

[Takhisis]

OK… what do you need such a club for?

 

[Cutlass]

What don't I need such a club for?

 

[Takhisis]

…

I asked first.

 

[Cutlass]

Everyone needs a stealth club...

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Baseline metal detectors use magnetic fields. That's why gold doesn't set them off. You can carry most anything through them as long as it isn't high in iron. For the purpose at hand a piece of PVC pipe, cap, pour in lead pellets to taste, fill with epoxy (shake to make sure it gets worked in around the lead) and let harden. Cap other end to provide better grip; may even want to slice a few rings off a coupler and slide them on with some blue glue, but that makes it a lot less stealthy. If it's just a scrap of PVC pipe laying in the bed of the truck or tucked in a milk crate with some other plumbing scraps it can pass unremarked as long as no one picks it up.

 

[Gori the Grey]

OK… what do you need such a club for?

He would seem, from his own description, to need it for some kind of assault with batteries:

I want it hollow to contain batteries, and still have enough heft to pummel with

 

[cardgame]

I bet someone makes hollow blackjacks with just the business end solidly filled in, to provide more angular momentum.

 

[CKS]

When I was a kid, my dad got this book that had a lot of advice on how to take advantage of other people without getting into lots of trouble. It suggested a big flashlight with 8 or 10 D-cells in a single line as the ideal club that pretends not to be a club. I think it even recommended brands and suppliers, though 40 or so years later, that has all left my brain. The advice didn't seem like the kind my dad would ever take; I've always wondered why he had the book.

 

[Takhisis]

He would seem, from his own description, to need it for some kind of assault with batteries:

You've reminded me that I haven't had a torte in quite some time.

 

[The_J]

Somehow I have the feeling that Tim might be talking from XP...

 

[brennan]

You can definitely detect gold with a metal detector. They work via induction, which means any conductor (and by extension any metal) is game - and gold is a good conductor (this is how treasure hunters find their loot).

Anything ferromagnetic - iron, nickel etc - will induce a much stronger magnetic field. It may be that at airports they have the detection threshold turned up to only flag up ferromagnetic materials.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

You can definitely detect gold with a metal detector. They work via induction, which means any conductor (and by extension any metal) is game - and gold is a good conductor (this is how treasure hunters find their loot).

Anything ferromagnetic - iron, nickel etc - will induce a much stronger magnetic field. It may be that at airports they have the detection threshold turned up to only flag up ferromagnetic materials.

This is accurate but a bit understated. If you dial the sensitivity up to the point that minor pieces of jewelry are affecting the magnetic fields you are probably going to be tripping false positives all the time just because people are dirty and most dirt has iron in it.

 

[rah]

It has always seemed to me that the busier the airport the lower they set it.
I almost always forget to take off my watch. At busy airports, it never seems to set it off. But at less busy ones it always does.

 

[MaryKB]

I'm not sure about tone, but to me it seems like we're really talking about helping someone commit a crime? I mean I'm guessing it's just for fun, right, but something still makes me feel just a little uneasy about asking for help to smuggle a weapon past security when you say you have an intention to commit assault, or am I the only one?

And airport security makes absolutely no sense to me, I don't know what they're expecting I might be hiding in my sandals or how many times they've seen death by toothpaste.

 

[rah]

All it took was one explosive pair of gym shoes to make the entire country paranoid. Tooth paste and other explosive concoctions has always been the bigger danger in my opinion. The shoe thing still makes me laugh. Especially the sandals example.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

All it took was one explosive pair of gym shoes to make the entire country paranoid. Tooth paste and other explosive concoctions has always been the bigger danger in my opinion. The shoe thing still makes me laugh. Especially the sandals example.

Were there really explosive gym shoes? I thought it was just some clown that tried to light his ordinary shoe on fire and had people thinking it was a bomb.

"You THINK this is an ordinary shoelace, but it is REALLY a fuse! Now get me some %^$#$% peanuts!!!"

 

[Birdjaguar]

Were there really explosive gym shoes? I thought it was just some clown that tried to light his ordinary shoe on fire and had people thinking it was a bomb.

"You THINK this is an ordinary shoelace, but it is REALLY a fuse! Now get me some %^$#$% peanuts!!!"

Are you sure he was flying Southwest?

 

[shadowplay]

So... is a burger with a runny fried egg on it really an Australian thing, or is it 'Australian' the way a bloomin' onion is?

 

[Takhisis]

Somehow I have the feeling that Tim might be talking from XP...

He has gone to gaol and vocally refused the monicker of ‘white-collar criminal’.

So... is a burger with a runny fried egg on it really an Australian thing, or is it 'Australian' the way a bloomin' onion is?

Based on today's lunch, I'd say that putting a runny fried egg on any sort of sandwich is not privy to Australia.

 

[bernie14]

What is gaol?