Slinger's Day - The Complete Series [DVD]

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The rest of the cast are utterly inept, the trying-too-hard assistant manager, dim lad-about-town, Bruce’s ex-loves, all making appearances in London’s smallest and most over-staffed supermarket. Many examples have been found including a collection of about 80 sling-bullets from the siege of Perusia in Etruria from 41 BC, to be found in the museum of modern Perugia. Although fragile, the construction is clear: it is made of bast fibre (almost certainly flax) twine; the cords are braided in a 10-strand elliptical sennit and the cradle seems to have been woven from the same lengths of twine used to form the cords.

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The children were not allowed to have their food by their mothers till they had first struck it with their sling. Rather like a televisual version of the 4-minute warning, the Thames TV indent heralds the imminent destruction of everything we hold dear.Depending on the design of the sling, either the middle finger or the wrist is placed through a loop on the end of one cord, and a tab at the end of the other cord is placed between the thumb and forefinger. In Australia, the woomera has the same mechanical dynamics as the sling, transducing rotational movement into linear projection, although it is not known whether this was an independent invention or not.

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They were able, says Xenophon, to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones. This makes the knot easier to hold, and the extra weight allows the loose end of a discharged sling to be recovered with a flick of the wrist. Consistent with this, it has been noted that defences are generally narrow where the natural slope is steep, and wider where the slope is more gradual. There is surely enough material in a sit-com about a supermarket to appeal to the masses, with universally recognisable characters and situations that would fit perfectly into ITV’s prime-time schedule. Unarmoured and equipped only with a sling, five smooth rocks, and his staff, David defeats the champion Goliath with a well-aimed shot to the head.Similarly, the Finns made use of sling-launched Molotov cocktails in the Winter War against Soviet tanks. It is to Bruce Forsyth’s immense credit that he chose to do his dying onscreen rather than off-camera. It is generally suited for heavier missiles and siege situations as staff slings can achieve very steep trajectories for slinging over obstacles such as castle walls.

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As a weapon, the sling had several advantages; a sling bullet lobbed in a high trajectory can achieve ranges in excess of 400m (1,300ft). Modern slings are begun by plaiting the cord for the finger loop in the centre of a double-length set of cords. Staff slings were in use well into the age of gunpowder as grenade launchers, and were used in ship-to-ship combat to throw incendiaries. The release cord will be held between finger and thumb to be released at just the right moment, and may have a complex braid to add bulk to the end. The sling is mentioned in the Bible, which provides what is believed to be the oldest textual reference to a sling in the Book of Judges, 20:16.Such sling-bullets come in a number of shapes including an ellipsoidal form closely resembling an acorn; this could be the origin of the Latin word for a leaden sling-bullet: glandes plumbeae (literally 'leaden acorns') or simply glandes (meaning 'acorns', singular glans). Thucydides mentions the Acarnanians and Livy refers to the inhabitants of three Greek cities on the northern coast of the Peloponnesus as expert slingers. In recent years 'slingfests' have been held in Wyoming, USA, in September 2007 and in Staffordshire, England, in June 2008. In addition, leaden sling-bullets are small and difficult to see in flight; their concentrated impact is also a better armour-piercer and better able to penetrate a body.

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SLINGERS is a fun and unique venue for anyone looking for something new to try – from corporate clients looking for a great venue for a team night out to hen and stag dos looking to start their evenings off with a bang! If we were to seek out a ground zero point at which the ITV sit-com gave up the ghost and simply stopped trying, then Slinger’s Day, made between 1986 and 1987, might be as good a place to start as any. Ancient art shows slingers holding staff slings by one end, with the pocket behind them, and using both hands to throw the staves forward over their heads. It is proposed that Iron Age hill forts of Europe were designed to maximize the effective defence by slingers. But he accepted the challenge, despite also hosting his own Friday night game show, Play Your Cards Right.Traditional slinging is still practiced as it always has been in the Balearic Islands, [ citation needed] and competitions and leagues are common. Livy mentions the most famous of ancient skillful slingers: the people of the Balearic Islands, who often worked as mercenaries.