[…] Uncle is speechless. I’m surprised you can’t find at least one person in a newsroom that knows the bullet gets fired out of the cartridge when it’s shot. To me, this ought to be common knowledge. I think it is common knowledge. I’m having to seriously consider the possibility that reporters are just not very well educated people. […]
I’m pretty sure it is… I think the angle makes it look a little fat. For a second, it looked to me like a .224 Weatherby (which would have really been amusing)—I thought it had curved shoulder-to-neck and body-to-shoulder junctions. But, nope… I think it’s the angle and the focus on the short depth of field in the picture.
Snowflakes in Hell » Blog Archive » Clueless Reporters Says:
August 15th, 2007 at 10:23 am
[…] Uncle is speechless. I’m surprised you can’t find at least one person in a newsroom that knows the bullet gets fired out of the cartridge when it’s shot. To me, this ought to be common knowledge. I think it is common knowledge. I’m having to seriously consider the possibility that reporters are just not very well educated people. […]
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Not well educated? I’m of the opinion that reporters are rivaled only by politicians as being the biggest morons (and liars) on the planet.
August 15th, 2007 at 9:42 am
Is that even our stuff? Cases look a bit fat for 5.56.
August 15th, 2007 at 10:03 am
That’s hysterical.
Yet strangely unsettling.
August 15th, 2007 at 10:23 am
[…] Uncle is speechless. I’m surprised you can’t find at least one person in a newsroom that knows the bullet gets fired out of the cartridge when it’s shot. To me, this ought to be common knowledge. I think it is common knowledge. I’m having to seriously consider the possibility that reporters are just not very well educated people. […]
August 15th, 2007 at 10:39 am
I’m pretty sure it is… I think the angle makes it look a little fat. For a second, it looked to me like a .224 Weatherby (which would have really been amusing)—I thought it had curved shoulder-to-neck and body-to-shoulder junctions. But, nope… I think it’s the angle and the focus on the short depth of field in the picture.
August 15th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
You throw those things hard enough you can put an eye out.
August 15th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Snowflakes in Hell » Blog Archive » Clueless Reporters Says:
August 15th, 2007 at 10:23 am
[…] Uncle is speechless. I’m surprised you can’t find at least one person in a newsroom that knows the bullet gets fired out of the cartridge when it’s shot. To me, this ought to be common knowledge. I think it is common knowledge. I’m having to seriously consider the possibility that reporters are just not very well educated people. […]
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Not well educated? I’m of the opinion that reporters are rivaled only by politicians as being the biggest morons (and liars) on the planet.
August 16th, 2007 at 11:31 am
I’m thinking “slingshot.”