UXB.Another BBC non event?

[normalbloke]

Can somebody explain what inert means?Or am I missing something?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/...

[Magog]

They should probably make it a bit clearer that it was 'found', as opposed to one of the exhibits. I'd expect the Imperial War Museum to be full of 'unexploded bombs'. The standard of journalism in this country is shocking. But you didn't need me to tell you that.

[MacGee]

inert is short for inertia meaning full of energy or highly volatile/explosive....so nothing to worry about !

[Kermit power]

I think you're being a little harsh. The BBC does have a remit to cover local as well as national news. OK, for the majority of us, the Cambridgeshire local news section of the BBC News website isn't going to be in our bookmarks list, but they do still need to cover dull little events like this!

[Established 1984]

MacGee said:

inert is short for inertia meaning full of energy or highly volatile/explosive....so nothing to worry about !

No, it means something that is not chemically reative. i.e. (from GCSE science) A nobal gas is inert.

[Kaelic]

Inert in bomb type terms means it was filled with concrete instead of having high explosives and fuses in the bomb.


RAF used to lob (and still do) concrete bombs at targets to practice.

[MacGee]

Established 1984 said:

MacGee said:

inert is short for inertia meaning full of energy or highly volatile/explosive....so nothing to worry about !

No, it means something that is not chemically reative. i.e. (from GCSE science) A nobal gas is inert.

REALLLLLLLLY !!!!

[Invisible man]

Kaelic said:

Inert in bomb type terms means it was filled with concrete instead of having high explosives and fuses in the bomb.


RAF used to lob (and still do) concrete bombs at targets to practice.

what he said, designed to weigh, look and feel like the real thing for practice

[Simpo Two]

Established 1984 said:

MacGee said:

inert is short for inertia meaning full of energy or highly volatile/explosive....so nothing to worry about !

No, it means something that is not chemically reative. i.e. (from GCSE science) A nobal gas is inert.

You were doing well but screwed up on 'noble'




(how can anybody think that inert means inertia?)

[paintman]

MacGee said:

inert is short for inertia meaning full of energy or highly volatile/explosive

Utter nonsense.

[MacGee]

INDEED.....but made you respond......
I think I do know difference b/n inert/ia.....just taking mick...

[Established 1984]

Simpo Two said:

Established 1984 said:

MacGee said:

inert is short for inertia meaning full of energy or highly volatile/explosive....so nothing to worry about !

No, it means something that is not chemically reative. i.e. (from GCSE science) A nobal gas is inert.

You were doing well but screwed up on 'noble'

Balls. I always was better with numbers than words.

Edit: to corrected quotes

Edited by Established 1984 on Thursday 26th March 15:18

[Landlord]

Established 1984 said:

MacGee said:

inert is short for inertia meaning full of energy or highly volatile/explosive....so nothing to worry about !

No, it means something that is not chemically reative. i.e. (from GCSE science) A nobal gas is inert.

I think you'll find, in this context, inert is a port mantau. That is, a contraction of two words to make another... namely;

Intended and Hurt -> this bomb is intended to 'urt -> inert

QED.

Most bombs were inert during the war. Some were inuckyouup, too.

[Landlord]

MacGee said:

INDEED.....but made you respond......
I think I do know difference b/n inert/ia.....just taking mick...

If it helps, I knew you were joking.

[MacGee]

just what I was thinking but am too illegible to right it .....