That was quite boring, I was expecting something more like a trebuchet...

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that's more like a slip and slide trebuchet

>> ^nock:

Wow. That's a really dangerous way to release the trebuchet. Good way to lose an eye...or a head.


And the house!

Wow. That's a really dangerous way to release the trebuchet. Good way to lose an eye...or a head.

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Trebuchets, Ballistas, Mangonels and Onagers are all catapults..

However, a trebuchet works by using the energy of a raised counterweight to throw the projectile. i.e. they're powered by gravity.

Tho, since the device in this ad gets its power from those springs on either side..

Its design is closer to a torsion catapult like a Mangonel or Onager.

Generically referred to as just "a catapult".

[cause the only real difference is: Onagers use a sling. Mangonels use a spoon or basket.]

Sorry for nerdin' out.. I used to be reeeally into that sorta stuff. = P

It's a type of catapult called a trebuchet.

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Toss-up between the human trebuchet maze game and the crickets and exercise ball, double shot.

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how does this not have a "trebuchet" tag?

You're right tofumar-Sending them to the Hague would be useless-But placing them in a large trebuchet and hurling them AT the Hague, may be more effective-My vision of the war crimes circus looks more like show trials in Orwell's 1984-Turn the UN building into housing for now-working, productive former welfare abusers....

meh...all is as it should be-

I dunno, kill is such a harsh word.....replace kill with "launch from trebuchet"

Okay, the Sift officially has a small obsession with trebuchets...

I hereby suggest we replace the *discard invocation with *trebuchet