Does it bother you?

During the war in Iraq, with all the embedded reporters, we heard frequently about that new weapon in the TOE, the 60 cal machinegun. Of course it was really an M-60 MG. What the heck, I've heard tv reporters site semi-auto revolvers, call pump shotguns "automatic" and of course Ruger 10/22's are assault rifles. I'm not particularly offended but if I'm reading a novel or non-fiction and the author makes a glaring mistake in nomenclature or identity, I usually close the book and scratch that author from my list. The other day I was reading a book and the author commented about this especially powerful pistol called the Browning Hi-power, ended that reading session. Must have been some sort of new magnum of which I was unfamiliar.
 
Alpo said:
And a revolver is a pistol...
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True...but not all pistols are revolvers.

DR505 said:
It is spaghetti SAUCE. Not GRAVY!
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According to "The Sopranos" it is gravy. However, in my home, gravy is a milk and flour based concoction that is served over chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, and biscuits...never, ever spaghetti.
 
OLDNAVYMCPO said:
...if I'm reading a novel or non-fiction and the author makes a glaring mistake in nomenclature or identity, I usually close the book and scratch that author from my list.
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Don't get within a thousand meters of a spy novel by Margaret Truman Daniel, Master Chief. Yes, that Margaret Truman.

To her, any handgun, including those that were obviously autoloaders, was a "revolver". And there were all-plastic "revolvers" that were completely invisible to metal detectors or X-rays. She didn't say if they fired all-plastic ammo, but she certainly would have referred to cartridges as bullets.

Her books were written many years ago, but even then most editors were ignorant about weapons.
 
When interacting with so many people from all over the Country you have to accept little differences or mistakes. I do sometimes remind people that Auto-loaders use MAGAZINES and not CLIPS, and I usually do put in the decimal point before a caliber number but as long as people get the gist that's the important thing here. I often edit my posts to correct a spelling or grammar error that inadvertently slips bye but usually do not correct other Posters. Most of my mistakes are the result of poor typing skills or when I get too lazy to wear my reading glasses while posting.

There have been a few posts (lately) that I've seen where in I have no idea at all what the OP is asking or stating. Unless I'm truly interested in the subject I just move on. Many times confusing or poorly worded posts remain unanswered and I wonder if the OP's even know why.
 
My problem is when someone says "Nagant" when referring to a firearm. Are they talking about the hangun or the long gun?

Mosin = Long gun
Nagant = Handgun
Nagant =/= Long gun
 
1morethan8 said:
"SODA, POP or SODA-POP fine don't call an orange soda a Coke."

But, that's one way us Rebs can spot a Yankee!:D
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Huh...that's funny...lived in New York State my whole life...nobody up here calls an orange soda a Coke...

Maybe you've just got some wanna-be Yankees. :D
 
BobC357 said:
If someone says they're shooting a 22, I know what they mean. If they say, "I went out to shoot my .22 today.", the sentence now has two periods and while grammatically correct, is awkward.
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A decimal point and a period are not the same. The sentence still only has one period, in my opinion.

Nobody talks like that anyway.
 
G-Mac said:
Huh...that's funny...lived in New York State my whole life...nobody up here calls an orange soda a Coke...

Maybe you've just got some wanna-be Yankees. :D
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That's my point... "Coke" has become a general name for soft drinks.. southerners never say "soda" or "pop"!
Most soft drinks are made in the South.. so we can call'em what ever we want to!:D
 
chief38 said:
When interacting with so many people from all over the Country you have to accept little differences or mistakes. I do sometimes remind people that Auto-loaders use MAGAZINES and not CLIPS ... I often edit my posts to correct a spelling or grammar error that inadvertently slips bye
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What about my Mosin? Okay bolt action but it has an internal magazine that can be loaded from clips. Or the clips that I use to load the magazines for my AR? If the distinction is not material to the conversation then I let it slide.

I often find that somehow when I post in these forums, especially late at night from my handheld device that I need to correct spelling and grammar that somehow slipped by while I was typing the original post.

I have noticed on Castle that they nearly always call out the caliber based on the wounds. I suppose with enough experience you might be able to say large or small caliber or high or low speed/power maybe but are you sure it was a 9mm and not a .380 auto? And in one episode all the spent cases where on the concrete floor right next to the blood stains where they believe the shooting occurred. I don't know what type of firearm would eject brass cases onto a hard floor such that all the cases would end up within a couple inches of each other.
 
Krell1 said:
Yeah!!!!!!

And it's PIZZA, not tomato pie![/QUOTe

In Italian it's not pizza it's said "Au beats" not pizza. Real home made Italian au beats doesn't have a hard crispy bottom. It's a soft bottom bread dough. A tad hard but not crispy. This is the way it's been handed down.

Real Italian home cooked sausage, peppers, onions has no tomato sauce. The grinder, hogie, sub, served with no tomato sauce. Sauce and cheese is optional. But the flavors and taste with no sauce comes through even more. Using fresh made real Italian sausage with the fennel seed and seasonings is awesome too.
Why hide the awesome pork and seasonings under tomato sauce?

There's real homeland Italian cooking and there's Americanized Italian cooking.

My mother would season chop meat with black pepper, garlic salt, parsley, wet bread that was hard broken up, egg, Parma cheese. Then add raisins. Make meatballs and fry them in 100% virgin olive oil.

My misses makes the same meatballs but bakes them. I like either one the raisins makes the meat in the meatballs sweeter.

My misses cans her own fresh tomato sauce from the way it was done in the old world. Now it's mainly a holiday treat or a special occasion. She also makes her own fresh homemade pasta too. The sauce is started by frying Italian sausage in olive oil in the bottom of a sauce pan, adding fresh garlic. When the sausage is cooked its removed and a can of tomato paste is added to the oil and garlic. The tomato paste soaks up the sausage and oil/garlic flavors. Now you add the fresh homemade canned tomatoes and sausage and meatballs. Season with oregano and basil and let simmer very low covered.
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soFlaNative said:
Gravy has meat, sauce does not. Courtesy of my Italian wife.
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Well, when I make spaghetti, I brown ground sirloin, and then add Ragu Extra Chunky Mushroom sauce and canned mushrooms (yes, we like mushrooms) to it...so, I guess I make gravy for the spaghetti.

When I make biscuits and gravy, I make the cream gravy (brown some flour in bacon drippings, stir in milk and heat until thick) and then I add cooked ground sausage. So, is that gravy? If I don't add the sausage, we still call it gravy. :)
 
The thing that bothers me the most is when people call hot dog chili "sauce".

When I first started working where I do now we had a cookout for some kind of safety meeting and some of us newer guys had to go to the store to get stuff to fix hamburgers and hotdogs. One of the older guys told me to get the hotdog sauce. So I go into the grocery store thinking they will be some kind of condiment called hotdog sauce. I of course don't find anything of the such. So I go to where the canned chili is and get some of that.

We get back to the shop and the guy asked me if I remembered the hotdog sauce as he was going through the grocery bags. I told him I couldn't find any. About that time he pulls out a can of chili and says you got the hotdog sauce right here! And I was like you mean the chili?

I was 22 years old at the time and had never once heard hotdog chili called sauce. I literally didn't know what he was talking about when he had told me to be sure and get the hotdog sauce.
 
GKC said:
Well, when I make spaghetti, I brown ground sirloin, and then add Ragu Extra Chunky Mushroom sauce and canned mushrooms (yes, we like mushrooms) to it...so, I guess I make gravy for the spaghetti.

When I make biscuits and gravy, I make the cream gravy (brown some flour in bacon drippings, stir in milk and heat until thick) and then I add cooked ground sausage. So, is that gravy? If I don't add the sausage, we still call it gravy. :)
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I believe bacon drippings is meat.
 
Gravy has flour in it. Or, if you're really weird, corn starch. I've never seen either of them in a spaghetti sauce recipe.
 
Particularly if it is on my thread, and I can understand it, I am grateful for the reply no matter what their method of describing the ammunition or type of firearm. Thank y'all. Houston Rick
 
Na, it don't bother me none. What gripes me is all the anti gunners who can't get their nomenclature right. If you are going to complain about something, at least know what it is called. But us guys, we all know what we mean, right? I's going out and shoot my 556 now.
 
My problem is when someone says "Nagant" when referring to a firearm. Are they talking about the hangun or the long gun?

Mosin = Long gun
Nagant = Handgun
Nagant =/= Long gun

Quoted from an above post.




Nagant??? I thought that's who my henpecked uncle was married to.
 
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