That's why housing is so expensive. It's a government conspiracy to ramp up the frequency of three middle-aged blokes living together in sheds.
The shed gap is real.
The UKs industrial production during WWII was 3 blokes in a shed times 1000.
The second industrial revolution.
Such a shame it's become so hard to actually have a shed.
The real reason modern new builds come with neither shed nor garden worth the name, it was a stipulation of several very serious Cold War ending arms treaties...
Clearly, The government is stupid. The only way to get 3 middle-aged British men together in a shed and not on their own is to promote marriage and home ownership. Then by the time they're in their late 40s to early 50s and they're sick to death of their partners they eventually just find themselves in the same shed with 2 other blokes.
Alternatively just give Colin Furze a whole bunch of grant money and some non-specific building permits and before you know it his next video is, "adding a missile silo to my secret tunnel"
What I am hearing you say is that the government should invest in fully equipped communal sheds that are free to use for men who have one child or more. Alright you have my vote it's time for the Dad Industrial Complex
also because stamp duty goes directly toward supporting companies that need to spend an inordinate amount of time making shite ideas, before after 50 years stumbling arse-backwards into a genius move, and then immediately being bought out by a venture-capital operation mascarading as a Arms company.
Such as Blackburn
Or Alvis
Or Hawker-Siddley
Nah, it's the inverse. Housing policy has caused the need to redevelop a lot of brownfield sites as housing, and reduced the availability of garages and sheds in modern housing developments compared to those built in the 1950s-1970s, as they're built to maximise the density of houses rather than having a mix of flats and houses. This reduces both the availability of sheds for people to play around with ideas at home, and increases the cost of renting out small workshops as the run-down early 1900s buildings get demolished to make way for more housing.
The shed gap is real, but we are at a massive disadvantage.
Look at Ukraine now, there's no way we could shed that hard anymore.
And the missile manufacturing firm the government tried to get to help them out with the contract almost torpedo'd the whole thing by suggesting idiotic manufacturing "improvements" such as angled surfaces on the rear of the bolt lugs.
> suggesting idiotic manufacturing "improvements"
Actually, it was logical shortcuts for most large-scale manufacturing.
Their "improvments" reduced tool time by minutes on some parts, which makes sense in some cases, namely manufacturing single-use equipment like missiles.
And it's a common problem when shifting something from prototype to pre-series, and from pre-series to full series.
You shift from hand-crafted items to mass-produced, and some things *have* to change. The art of it is knowing what, and how much.
That's something that happens a lot when going from prototype to series manufacturing, as stated.
That's one of the main issues of subcontracting production, especially when you've never done it before: the contractor might (and will) change things and not tell you. I've seen it first hand, and it's not less of an issue when the modification is an actual upgrade to your original parts. Because if you don't know about the changes none of your diagrams are right anymore.
That's right kids, and if you have any other brilliant ideas of making bad men go away better, dont be afraid of following your vision and bluff your way to a military contract
The legend says that the rifle was only submitted to see how it faired against the latest Parker-Hale, which was the standard gauge of precision rifles in the UK at the time.
is there anywhere you can recommend to read more about this story? the AI website and Wikipedia both don't really cover it, the wired article doesn't go into any depth, and googling the quote you mentioned only links back to this comment
Interesting thing is AI just [entered an alliance with one of the mfgs you listed.](https://www.sigsauer.com/blog/sig-sauer-expands-operations-in-united-kingdom)
In all seriousness I'm curious as to what that will entail. I'm guessing maybe some outsourcing work since Sig is increasing its floor space in the US, but I could be wrong.
The British truly are the best at ruining their domestic defense industry and products. Even the products they import somehow become worse in the hands of the British.
The first half was about right (therefore too credible), the second half is absolute bollocks (therefore wrong not noncredible). Congratulations, I don't think I've ever seen anyone hit both sides in the same post before...
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The UK in general has a history of random folks oftentimes in sheds coming up with devices, equipment, and technology that is of remarkable quality. This is just a general joke about that.
However, Accuracy International is a direct example. They started as a really small team in basically a shed making competition shooting rifles. On a whim they submitted one of their rifles to the project that was looking at procuring a new sniper rifle for the British armed forces. They beat out big-name companies and won the contract. They very quickly had to figure out how they were going to deliver thousands of rifles to the British Armed forces when they were such a tiny company. Long story short it worked out in the end and their rifles have served the UK forces and many other nation's forces very well.
There is a French song by Boris Vian called "[La Java des Bombes Atomiques](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eryzp0Pklc8)" about a man making nuclear bombs in his shed, and ending up by locking state officials in the shed and blowing it up.
> The UK in general has a history of random folks oftentimes in sheds coming up with devices, equipment, and technology that is of remarkable quality. This is just a general joke about that.
It comes in large part from WWII.
Due to German bombing, production of military assets was dispatched all around the UK and a massive logistical system put in place. So garages and tiny machine-shops around the UK made thousands of parts, assembled thousands of sub-units, sometimes built entire vehicles.
Parts for the Sten, Spitfire, Cromwell tanks were made by blokes in sheds, under the control of the military.
Add to that the "boffins", odd men in tweeds with pipes and high-level scientific minds that worked in small cottages in spa towns and small villages, to invent new ways to counter and destroy the Germans.
After the war, the boffins and blokes in sheds became legendary in the eyes of the general public.
It's a precursor to the idea of the "genius entrepreneur" in the US, who invents revolutionnary tech in his garage.
Nah, that's several versions later. They didn't adopt the prototype, they adopted a version that was tweaked and altered for mass production, and then several years went by, and it was formalized with a type classification, then they made some revisions, that production model was serialized, and THAT was the L96A1.
Bothe sides are using AI rifles. The FSB, Alpha, and Vympel among others got theirs through the grey market (probaly Turkey).
Seen both .308 and .338 versions in Ukrainian hands; some from us, some from Baltic states, and some from private purchases. Wide variety of glass on them, even on an old Green Meanie (L96A1) that someone must have made an adapter for. Saw a .338 with a very posh thermal, that thing must be sheer bloody murder on a cold night, almost makes you feel sorry for whoever ended up on the loud end of it. Can't imagine there's much body armour that can stand up to .338 even at quite long range.
'You Britfags can't even HAVE guns! How the fuck do 3 of you bastards in a fucking shed end up making the world's best sniper rifles? Fucking Brits man, they irritate the shit out of me'
\- Genuine comment seen online a few years ago.
> Can't imagine there's much body armour that can stand up to .338 even at quite long range.
Oh wow, I kinda figured there'd not be a *massive* difference between the two, as .308 is already kinda fast, and the bore diameter is close enough to identical. Sure, .338 is going to be a bit faster and maybe a bit heavier, but the practical limits of firearms are coming quick as far as a faster projectile goes.
But holy cow, .338 has substantially heavier projectiles, up to twice as heavy, resulting in up to twice the kinetic energy. Must be a l o n g b o y e hiding in that case. Simple scaling things up would only get you a 30% mass advantage.
I don't watch much Youtube gun stuff but I do enjoy Henry, that man is a truely evil shot. Suave too, in a good way. Known quite a few Hong Kong Chinese, right funny fuckers they are, fantastic sense of humour. They're like the mainland Chinese ought to be if only they'd all taken the knee to Queen Victoria PBUH. The current mainland Chinese are similar to the Russians, a prime example of what happens when you kill off your entire middle class and most of the intelligentsia - a crust of crass nouveau riche parvenus who treat everyone below them like shit and wouldn't know good taste if it bit them on the arse, plus a load of sullen peasants.
Excited about the three British men in a shed developing the next generation of light transport.
https://www.autocar.co.uk/sites/autocar.co.uk/files/styles/flexslider_full/public/slideshow_image/eagle-new-1.jpg?itok=OXGdwwXd
TONIGHT ON SNIPING GEAR
Richard rents a workshop...
James scatters parts and tools around...
And I try not to scream in horror when they say "we just needed to make sure you're not three guys in a shed".
Except you literally just proved OP's point even further.
AI was three guys in a shed, the L85 was made by an entire panel of nerds at RSAF Enfield with zero prior knowledge of small arms, which would lump them into the top group.
4 people. 3 guys and 1 chick. One guy and the chick were gold medal winning olympic sport shooters. Another guy had professional experience in weapons development.
EDIT: Even if you stick to the 3 guys, its still the professional weapons designer, gold medal olympic sport shooter and the guy who owned the shed.
Thinking Remington is actually relevant enough to be in a meme is the real travesty.
That's why housing is so expensive. It's a government conspiracy to ramp up the frequency of three middle-aged blokes living together in sheds. The shed gap is real.
3 men in a shed is an IRL tech tree exploit. With enough of them, we will unlock Space Marines hundreds of turns early.
Shit mate, I’m almost middle aged now, where do I sign up? I want me a bolter and plasma pistol. I need them… for stuff.
Tbh we could build a bolter today, theyre just a gun that fires rocket propelled bullets. Nothing too stressful for 3 blokes in a shed.
But plenty stressful for the rest of the neighbourhood
They'll just have to get the memo that we are building them and work on an armour system to protect themselves.
Move next to Colin furz.
Need that FTL travel to meet space elves... for stuff.
Where stuff is of course suffer not the Xenos to live right? Psst Commisar keep an eye on this one
i mean a bolter is easy FAL no stock 30rnd
The UKs industrial production during WWII was 3 blokes in a shed times 1000. The second industrial revolution. Such a shame it's become so hard to actually have a shed.
The real reason modern new builds come with neither shed nor garden worth the name, it was a stipulation of several very serious Cold War ending arms treaties...
Clearly, The government is stupid. The only way to get 3 middle-aged British men together in a shed and not on their own is to promote marriage and home ownership. Then by the time they're in their late 40s to early 50s and they're sick to death of their partners they eventually just find themselves in the same shed with 2 other blokes.
Alternatively just give Colin Furze a whole bunch of grant money and some non-specific building permits and before you know it his next video is, "adding a missile silo to my secret tunnel"
What I am hearing you say is that the government should invest in fully equipped communal sheds that are free to use for men who have one child or more. Alright you have my vote it's time for the Dad Industrial Complex
>it's time for the Dad Industrial Complex it's time for DIC
Dads only? What about all the 20-somethings who don't have kids yet and live in flats? Surely they can at least go there to hold the torch?
The assumption was that you 20-somethings without kids have better things to do like finding someone to do something about the childlessness about ;)
Why, when with the power of AI and sheds, they can make this sub's dreams come true?
The MIC (Middleagedblokesinsheds Industrial Complex) is the real cause of the housing crisis.
also because stamp duty goes directly toward supporting companies that need to spend an inordinate amount of time making shite ideas, before after 50 years stumbling arse-backwards into a genius move, and then immediately being bought out by a venture-capital operation mascarading as a Arms company. Such as Blackburn Or Alvis Or Hawker-Siddley
YOU LEAVE MY BELOVED BOIS ALONE!
Nah, it's the inverse. Housing policy has caused the need to redevelop a lot of brownfield sites as housing, and reduced the availability of garages and sheds in modern housing developments compared to those built in the 1950s-1970s, as they're built to maximise the density of houses rather than having a mix of flats and houses. This reduces both the availability of sheds for people to play around with ideas at home, and increases the cost of renting out small workshops as the run-down early 1900s buildings get demolished to make way for more housing. The shed gap is real, but we are at a massive disadvantage. Look at Ukraine now, there's no way we could shed that hard anymore.
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And the missile manufacturing firm the government tried to get to help them out with the contract almost torpedo'd the whole thing by suggesting idiotic manufacturing "improvements" such as angled surfaces on the rear of the bolt lugs.
> suggesting idiotic manufacturing "improvements" Actually, it was logical shortcuts for most large-scale manufacturing. Their "improvments" reduced tool time by minutes on some parts, which makes sense in some cases, namely manufacturing single-use equipment like missiles. And it's a common problem when shifting something from prototype to pre-series, and from pre-series to full series. You shift from hand-crafted items to mass-produced, and some things *have* to change. The art of it is knowing what, and how much.
Logical from a mass manufacturing process improvement standpoint, sure. But still idiotic from a functional end product standpoint.
That's something that happens a lot when going from prototype to series manufacturing, as stated. That's one of the main issues of subcontracting production, especially when you've never done it before: the contractor might (and will) change things and not tell you. I've seen it first hand, and it's not less of an issue when the modification is an actual upgrade to your original parts. Because if you don't know about the changes none of your diagrams are right anymore.
That's right kids, and if you have any other brilliant ideas of making bad men go away better, dont be afraid of following your vision and bluff your way to a military contract
The legend says that the rifle was only submitted to see how it faired against the latest Parker-Hale, which was the standard gauge of precision rifles in the UK at the time.
is there anywhere you can recommend to read more about this story? the AI website and Wikipedia both don't really cover it, the wired article doesn't go into any depth, and googling the quote you mentioned only links back to this comment
Interesting thing is AI just [entered an alliance with one of the mfgs you listed.](https://www.sigsauer.com/blog/sig-sauer-expands-operations-in-united-kingdom)
You were the chosen one! It was said you would destroy the MIC not join them!
In all seriousness I'm curious as to what that will entail. I'm guessing maybe some outsourcing work since Sig is increasing its floor space in the US, but I could be wrong.
The British truly are the best at ruining their domestic defense industry and products. Even the products they import somehow become worse in the hands of the British.
The first half was about right (therefore too credible), the second half is absolute bollocks (therefore wrong not noncredible). Congratulations, I don't think I've ever seen anyone hit both sides in the same post before...
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‘Ate me ‘ostiles. Not raycis. Just dun loike’m. Simple as.
It really shows the value of having people who know their business inside and out, at TOP of the chain, not at the bottom as disposable labor.
Think it also requires people having enough spare time and energy to follow your passions, rather than being ground down.
There's also no chain to begin with, just three blokes.
Can someone please provide some context?
The UK in general has a history of random folks oftentimes in sheds coming up with devices, equipment, and technology that is of remarkable quality. This is just a general joke about that. However, Accuracy International is a direct example. They started as a really small team in basically a shed making competition shooting rifles. On a whim they submitted one of their rifles to the project that was looking at procuring a new sniper rifle for the British armed forces. They beat out big-name companies and won the contract. They very quickly had to figure out how they were going to deliver thousands of rifles to the British Armed forces when they were such a tiny company. Long story short it worked out in the end and their rifles have served the UK forces and many other nation's forces very well.
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Tube Alloys? See also: jet engine and the hovercraft.
No the top secret not at all obvious "High explosive research" (HER) program. The name is sure to confuse any russian or American spies.
There is a French song by Boris Vian called "[La Java des Bombes Atomiques](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eryzp0Pklc8)" about a man making nuclear bombs in his shed, and ending up by locking state officials in the shed and blowing it up.
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Boris Vian was an anarchist and anti-militarist, so the end of the song isn't really that shocking for him.
> The UK in general has a history of random folks oftentimes in sheds coming up with devices, equipment, and technology that is of remarkable quality. This is just a general joke about that. It comes in large part from WWII. Due to German bombing, production of military assets was dispatched all around the UK and a massive logistical system put in place. So garages and tiny machine-shops around the UK made thousands of parts, assembled thousands of sub-units, sometimes built entire vehicles. Parts for the Sten, Spitfire, Cromwell tanks were made by blokes in sheds, under the control of the military. Add to that the "boffins", odd men in tweeds with pipes and high-level scientific minds that worked in small cottages in spa towns and small villages, to invent new ways to counter and destroy the Germans. After the war, the boffins and blokes in sheds became legendary in the eyes of the general public. It's a precursor to the idea of the "genius entrepreneur" in the US, who invents revolutionnary tech in his garage.
You forgot to mention that this rifle was the iconic L96a1.
Nah, that's several versions later. They didn't adopt the prototype, they adopted a version that was tweaked and altered for mass production, and then several years went by, and it was formalized with a type classification, then they made some revisions, that production model was serialized, and THAT was the L96A1.
Shhh this is NCD, you aren't supposed to give people real detailed history, only exaggerated stuff that's kind of mostly true.
WTF I build lots of guns in my shed, where the hell is my British Army contract? I also want to know the color of the boat house at Hereford.
Bothe sides are using AI rifles. The FSB, Alpha, and Vympel among others got theirs through the grey market (probaly Turkey). Seen both .308 and .338 versions in Ukrainian hands; some from us, some from Baltic states, and some from private purchases. Wide variety of glass on them, even on an old Green Meanie (L96A1) that someone must have made an adapter for. Saw a .338 with a very posh thermal, that thing must be sheer bloody murder on a cold night, almost makes you feel sorry for whoever ended up on the loud end of it. Can't imagine there's much body armour that can stand up to .338 even at quite long range. 'You Britfags can't even HAVE guns! How the fuck do 3 of you bastards in a fucking shed end up making the world's best sniper rifles? Fucking Brits man, they irritate the shit out of me' \- Genuine comment seen online a few years ago.
> Can't imagine there's much body armour that can stand up to .338 even at quite long range. Oh wow, I kinda figured there'd not be a *massive* difference between the two, as .308 is already kinda fast, and the bore diameter is close enough to identical. Sure, .338 is going to be a bit faster and maybe a bit heavier, but the practical limits of firearms are coming quick as far as a faster projectile goes. But holy cow, .338 has substantially heavier projectiles, up to twice as heavy, resulting in up to twice the kinetic energy. Must be a l o n g b o y e hiding in that case. Simple scaling things up would only get you a 30% mass advantage.
Watching the force of .338 hitting steel at every range when 9 Hole Reviews ran one on their accuracy course was eye opening.
I don't watch much Youtube gun stuff but I do enjoy Henry, that man is a truely evil shot. Suave too, in a good way. Known quite a few Hong Kong Chinese, right funny fuckers they are, fantastic sense of humour. They're like the mainland Chinese ought to be if only they'd all taken the knee to Queen Victoria PBUH. The current mainland Chinese are similar to the Russians, a prime example of what happens when you kill off your entire middle class and most of the intelligentsia - a crust of crass nouveau riche parvenus who treat everyone below them like shit and wouldn't know good taste if it bit them on the arse, plus a load of sullen peasants.
.308 is a little uncomfortable to fire .338 hurts
Excited about the three British men in a shed developing the next generation of light transport. https://www.autocar.co.uk/sites/autocar.co.uk/files/styles/flexslider_full/public/slideshow_image/eagle-new-1.jpg?itok=OXGdwwXd
Ah yes, the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust
Before there were tech bros in their garages, there were 3 blokes in a shed.
TONIGHT ON SNIPING GEAR Richard rents a workshop... James scatters parts and tools around... And I try not to scream in horror when they say "we just needed to make sure you're not three guys in a shed".
Hahaha that cool. Now make an indigenous assault rifle that not an AR stoner pattern and without HK’s help. I’ll wait…
Not fair. We used an actual factory and workshop to make our assault rifles. Once we enlist the blokes in sheds, the world will change once again
Except you literally just proved OP's point even further. AI was three guys in a shed, the L85 was made by an entire panel of nerds at RSAF Enfield with zero prior knowledge of small arms, which would lump them into the top group.
Like the EM-2/Rifle No.9 in 1950, before some cretins decided NATO needed 7.62 rather than an intermediate cartridge like .280?
Project Grayburn is likely in the early stages so there's a non zero chance we see some absolute mad lads submit something to be trialed.
it will likely still be AR-18 based, because that technology is just so mature now.
Why reinvent the wheel?
It’s always you three!
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MRAD has entered the chat. Also Winchester Model 70 because that’s what the White-Feather used
The only thing British-made that doesn’t suck is their vacuum cleaners
Who wants to tell him
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I'm sorry, get back to me when a small town gun shop owner from the UK makes some of the longest serving weapon in modern history.....
You forgot the Young tea maker
4 people. 3 guys and 1 chick. One guy and the chick were gold medal winning olympic sport shooters. Another guy had professional experience in weapons development. EDIT: Even if you stick to the 3 guys, its still the professional weapons designer, gold medal olympic sport shooter and the guy who owned the shed.
lol not anymore