"gernades and clips"

2005-12-19 18:31:38

#1

Krappyappy: 'twice cooked beef!'; +111|7123

/begin pointless rant

anyone else annoyed by people constantly calling rifle magazines 'clips?' clip, like a hair clip? or nail clips?

and people who say or type 'gernade' instead of 'grenade'... they sound like an eight year old.

/end pointless rant

that was shorter than i thought it would be...

2005-12-19 19:58:02

#2

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|7020|Riva, MD

I can understand why you hate the misspelling of grenade, but to get pissed off just because people say clip instead of magazine or cartridge is a little bit OCD-like. It is simply a box with ammo inside that you insert into a gun so you can kill people with the bullets inside, there is no need for long, technical (and in my opinion, a little bit hard to remember) names so no one uses them. Clip is just a much easier to use and more universal term.

Last edited by _j5689_ (2005-12-19 19:59:08)

2005-12-19 20:00:54

#3

mcminty: Moderating your content for the Australian Govt.; +879|7024|Sydney, Australia

Clip is just a much easier to use and more universal term.

I'd say more associated with handguns.

2005-12-19 20:05:39

#4

uk.solidsnake: Member; +3|7011|England, UK

I just call em' mags.

2005-12-19 20:13:27

#5

beeng: Get C4, here!; +66|7089

clip:

https://www.army.is/image.php?productid=248

magazine:

https://www.cheaperthandirt.com/ctd_images/product_images/86/25334.jpg

yes pistol magazines are still called magazines.

2005-12-19 20:18:16

#6

mcminty: Moderating your content for the Australian Govt.; +879|7024|Sydney, Australia

beeng wrote:
clip:
http://www.army.is/image.php?productid=248

magazine:
http://www.army-technology.com/contract … shot-5.jpg
http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/ctd_imag … /25334.jpg

yes pistol magazines are still called magazines.

I know, im just saying that people often call pistol magazines clips.

2005-12-19 20:25:42

#7

{HMS}_Sir_Del_Boy: Member; +69|7012|th3 unkn0wn

Krappyappy wrote:

/begin pointless rant

anyone else annoyed by people constantly calling rifle magazines 'clips?' clip, like a hair clip? or nail clips?

and people who say or type 'gernade' instead of 'grenade'... they sound like an eight year old.

/end pointless rant

that was shorter than i thought it would be...

Pointless question: Is that you in your sig pic?

2005-12-19 20:26:11

#8

Rapturesan: An African or European swallow?; +0|7030

So can we call them 'zines' or 'nades'?

2005-12-20 00:02:53

#9

Krappyappy: 'twice cooked beef!'; +111|7123

{HMS}_Sir_Del_Boy wrote:
Pointless question: Is that you in your sig pic?

yes.

2005-12-20 00:11:53

#10

THA: im a fucking .....well not now; +609|7073|AUS, Canberra

just to expand....they used clips to load guns faster in first and second world wars, as they loaded through the top of the action. they would hold the clip above it and just slide to bullets down off it into the magazine.

2005-12-20 00:16:31

#11

Krappyappy: 'twice cooked beef!'; +111|7123

they had magazines by ww1, and cloth ammo belts for the maxim... though clips were still used for rifles. clips were novel back in the 1860s when they hadn't figured out how best to load a gatling gun.

2005-12-20 00:34:09

#12

Rapturesan: An African or European swallow?; +0|7030

the_heart_attack wrote:
just to expand....they used clips to load guns faster in first and second world wars, as they loaded through the top of the action. they would hold the clip above it and just slide to bullets down off it into the magazine.

Weren't some clips (like in the garand) actually loaded into the gun and expelled out of it upon firing the last round?

2005-12-20 03:05:17

#13

OUROBOROS: Member; +0|7061

ammo thingies, explodymabobs, and boobsticks oh my!

let them say clips. easy way to tell how familiar they are to guns.
its just that saying clip feels faster then mag, because of the hard "p".

2005-12-20 04:03:10

#14

[QXJZ]Capt_Kefra: Alright, you're good to go!; +124|7031|Honolulu, HI

Yup, the M1 Garand expelled the empty clip along with the last bullet shell, a phenomenon notoriously known as the "Ping of Death". Also the Russian SKS rifle (whose clip is pictured above, it's the one with 10 rifle rounds) takes what is called a "stripper clip" which I believe remains within the rifle even after the last shot is fired.

I'm kind of a meticulous speller myself but I always assume that when someone misspells something in the BF2 chat it's because a) they're typing as fast as humanly possible to avoid getting shot/blown up; b) server lag causes letters to not show up when they're typed; or c) they really do think it's spelled "gernade". Oh well.

2005-12-20 10:22:06

#15

Tagmaestro: Member; +6|7008|New Jersey

[QXJZ]Capt_Kefra wrote:
[...]Also the Russian SKS rifle (whose clip is pictured above, it's the one with 10 rifle rounds) takes what is called a "stripper clip" which I believe remains within the rifle even after the last shot is fired.[...]

Incorrect. The user of a stripper clip slides the bullets from the clip into the gun and the metal piece is discarded.

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