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Re: The useless information thread
@First_Warrior, if you look at the total number of days off from Bob_Luken's image, it still amounts to three months off. Speaking from the perspective of school maintenance and facilities upgrades, many building and construction projects are completed during the summer months that cannot be done while school is in session, because they would disrupt classes to a degree unfavorable to a good learning environment.
Re: you can't make this stuff up
Re: The useless information thread
Seems like a miss use of school funding in the USA to let the buildings stay unused for three months.
Re: The useless information thread
In Australia, the school year ends in December.
Somewhere down a random internet rabbit hole, I learned that fact, and they go to school all year, four semesters with 2 week breaks in between, then a six-week break before the new school year starts.
Edit: I was aware that their seasons are opposite from ours, but my actual curiosity is how their school terms and breaks are broken up throughout the year. I like their schedule.
Re: Show me your firearms
One thing I like on my flint rifles beside their feel on the shoulder is the set trigger. The rifle can be fired with the from trigger alone or the rear trigger can be pulled to move the front trigger into the "set position. When the front tigger is set it becomes a hair trigger. Great for offhand shooting. Morgan's Riflemen in the Revolutionary War were shooting British officers off their horses a 200 yards with long rifles.
Re: Stupid **** that pops into my head
I wonder why they call it an Elevator when an Up&Downer seems more appropriate.
Re: Hows your Weather?
6" of snow so far, with another 4" this afternoon. At least it's happening on a Saturday when more people can stay home and off the roads.
Re: Resurrecting the Joke Thread
We had a woman who fit that description at one of the places that I worked. She was the nicest person but took a lot of guff about her weigh and passed too soon. I was a pall bearer at her funeral.