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Saw this on a visit to a shipwreck museum in the UK. Do Argos stock it?
Jun 30, 2023 5:20 PM
Rverence
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Saw this on a visit to a shipwreck museum in the UK. Do Argos stock it?
gorillaClutch
American alarm clock
TheSpanishIndian
I want one.
Varnna
Check your insurance first
RadioSilenceDW
@op Hull maritime?
Rverence
St Austell in Cornwall
SiameseCandle
We use these still in America. What does the rest of the world use to wake up?
gheorghiumihai77
Roosters?
TeddyMoment
UMEL53DHB
Very handy on a ship
PerpetualFollower
Sorry I'm late. It was too cloudy and/or my house burned down.
anjeleyezjr
You can load a cannon without a shot or ball, yanno. Won't necessarily fire anything, just be loud.
UnrulyRaven
A cannon with gunpowder still fires burning powder. That's why blanks can kill you.
KillerTofu69
"You've gotta be up by 6 if you want to make it on the boat, make sure you load your alarm clock..."
PoweredByPotato
Heh…touch hole
TheCaptain00
You stick your wick in there.
JT1984
Actually, if you just put gunpowder and no ball in there, I don't feature a whole lot going that wrong.
LarsDahl
Probably not good on a rainy day.
VictusVonGuyver
NoNameFred
"Loud enough to Dead the Wake…"
Hellstorm99
Always keep your touch hole clean
Kegmoisking
If I’m late for work, you’ll know why.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
C141Clay
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Want
Rattavong
Showed this to my wife who laughed a little and then said “why didn’t they call it a sun gun?” #missed_opportunity #sarcasticwife
Pulsecode
Because "Gun dial" is a better joke #hashtags
yakboy
I'd be fucked, I have to get up before the sun.
DocBeeblebrox
Make one the size of the Dardanelles Gun, then we'll talk about what can go wrong (and right!)
TheGodEmperorOfChaos
Yo grandma's old alarm clock
Ghlargh
When you need thousands of people to wake up at the exact same time.
gheorghiumihai77
Banana for scale bro, c'mon.
triggrhaapi
Make one the size of Big Babylon and then we'll talk.
TheTelerion
This might give a hint as to what caused this particular shipwreck
runtu
Real life TIM
TheOriginalAmberRose
Now I want one
AchyBreakyArthritickyKnees
Gees, these villains really do come up with the most convoluted ways to kill James Bond, Batman et al. Just stab them or something already, sheesh!
VibratingNipples
as long it doesn't any bullets in it
Freak0zoid
This was in an assassins creed game. The one with the French Revolution. Side quest in a death investigation in a park I believe.
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
There's a largish one still in use in Sweden.
Kittensandyarns
And my cat rubs against it during the night so it accidentally turns and aims at me. Well, "accidentally"....
apLundell
If he moves it, it's not going to work anyway.
Pwnzistor
Well you don't load it with actual projectile
Rips4w
"Let my bowl sink below 3/4 full, will ya?"
zafner
Come on, man, I don't load my alarm clock *now*. You can bet your ass if it had a cannon I wouldn't load it for sure
darkhalfbreed
Also it goes off half and hour late
IDontLoveJesusButDoItAnyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHccClTAdzc
Horus175
You saw this at a shipwreck museum? IDK how useful this would be on a ship seeing as how they tend to move and whatnot.
Danack
"IDK how useful this would be on a ship" - then presumably your question is "how would this be useful on a ship?", right?
Danack
One way would be to use in harbour, to have an alarm clock for when the ship should sail on the tide.
Krauterhosen
Your joke wasn't lost in me boss. Had a good chuckle
ogabai
I could see where it might come in handy on a ship; what I don't get is what use it would be on a shipwreck.
Ghlargh
A larger version could be very useful to create more material for that museum though.
tr26
Good point! How would they ensure it was properly aligned at the right time of day?
Ghlargh
I was thinking you put the gun on the dock and set it to the time when your next exhibit is supposed to dock for cargo.
tr26
Ah, good thinking. However, as I explained to that other commenter, We're talking about shipwrecks, so it's SHIP go, not CAR go.
AGiantSlor
That's probably why it wrecked. No one woke up to hit the brakes!!
tr26
If only they had a boom on that mast, they coulda heard it instead
SpoilsburyToastMan
ComManDerBG
It was wrecked because several crewmember were mysteriously shot. No one solved the murders.
tr26
Were they mysteriously shot with a small projectile at the same time of day?
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
Probably a maritime museum, rather than strictly a shipwreck museum. These were used to signal that it was noon, in ports and parks and large estates.
Rverence
Well I went there and it was a shipwreck museum, each exhibit showed what was brought up from different wrecks. It showed how good brass was at surviving the sea, ie why lot of the exhibits were brass based.
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
Neat, cargo then?
Rverence
Yes and no - munitions from warships, WW2 and back to the age of flintlocks. Metallic cargo was copper, zinc, lead and a cheeky bit of silver.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
Maybe it was cargo?
tr26
No, ship go. This was at a shipwreck museum, not a carwreck museum.
ficklemission
This whole thing is dad joke central
SherMattLockSmith
Ships go places and sailors do things on land, they don't spend all of their voyage on the ship. Lots of time in ports getting restocked, or trading, time spent at the destination, etc.
tr26
How boring!
abrazenfool
No, those are miners
tr26
Good point. Miners usually can’t get jobs on ships due to age concerns.
abrazenfool
Also, miners are no longer minors (TVM- child workplace laws!)
SpoilsburyToastMan