Hey foreign guys...Yankee question

[rodp]

That's what you get for swimming in Darwin harbour with the crocs, sharks, box jellyfish, stonefish & sea snakes.

What, in a helicopter You'll be telling me next they have a submariner parachute regiment

[Frogman Ladue]

Hey, what's the deal with the hot water, the cold water, and the tank in the attic the pigeons shit in?

[Brooksy]

Was this Fawlty Towers?

[Frogman Ladue]

Something, something, something about, you're not supposed to drink the hot or cold water, and y'all haven't figured out to combine hot and cold water feeds to create "warm water".

[rodp]

Laugh ye not, but as a kid I remember the tin bath in front of the fire and the communal **** house across a cobbled and dirt yard with squares of newspaper stuck on a nail

Aye, 'twere a ard life in't slums of Black Country But at least I came out of it well educated and looking like a Greek God
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[Frogman Ladue]

I having a hard time, determining the use of a bloke saying from context.

Specifically the word "Quarry".

The NiteSite hit US Shot Show this year. All the local blogs are a buzz about it. I keep on seeing NS's factory advertisement.

https://www.youtube.com/v/BfN1Enbp25g?f ... n_US&rel=0

A line from the ad...

The Eagle is for the hunter who wants a product without limitations. Much like nature’s eagle, this NiteSite will spot and identify quarry so far away it almost seems unfair. It achieves this using five powerful infrared illuminators (invisible to people and animals) to literally illuminate the target area immediately in front of where the rifle scope is aiming, allowing clear target identification up to 500 metres (550 yards) away. The infrared image is then captured through the rifle scope by a compact digital camera unit attached to the scope’s eyepiece and then played back live to the hunter via the unit’s integral 3.5 inch LCD screen. A video out jack enables recording of all night hunting activities.

The term quarry is used multiple times, and not necessarily as a noun. What does quarry mean?

[some bloke]

Sorry about the boringly straight answer rather than an amusing one - I'll let Rodders supply that but this is the best answer I could come up with.

Fox or rabbits are the main UK legally allowed contenders that become our NV quarry.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/diction ... ish/quarry

[phoenix]

When a human hunts an animal, the animal is called the quarry species
When an animal hunts the same quarry species, it's called prey.

Cheers

Bruce

[Frogman Ladue]

Thanks. Where I'm from, it's a hole inna ground.

[phoenix]

It's a hole in the ground here as well, but we just like to confuse people by having two completely different meanings for the same word.
It's not as though there weren't enough words in the English language already!!
BTW it is actually the "official" word for prey in this country.
Most people who have a firearms certificate are happy when they have a condition on their certificate which states "Any other legal quarry"


Cheers

Bruce