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Ratius wrote:Dont most OT topics end up in a pissing contest? If its not on an individual level, its a state level, if not state, country, if not country, religion, if not religion race and if not race, who drank the most last night.
It was me, I had 15 pints of Guinness with Night Nurse chasers and half a bottle of Frost Jack.
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Avatar 720 wrote: You see, to Auston, everyone is a Death Star; there's only one way you can take it and that's through a small gap at the back.
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
Lux_Lucis wrote:
British bobbies don't carry guns, apart from Armed Response Teams and the like. I would suggest the reason that a police officer is less likely to get attacked is more because he's (or she's) a police officer, with all the cultural stuff that entails
IIRC Bobbys have actually had the option of carrying a gun for more than a century now. Many choose not to, but the boot still has all the standard things you'd find in an American patrol car, including the occasional shot gun.
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Lux_Lucis wrote: British bobbies don't carry guns, apart from Armed Response Teams and the like. I would suggest the reason that a police officer is less likely to get attacked is more because he's (or she's) a police officer, with all the cultural stuff that entails
IIRC Bobbys have actually had the option of carrying a gun for more than a century now. Many choose not to, but the boot still has all the standard things you'd find in an American patrol car, including the occasional shot gun.
Not unless they are a trained firearms officer, which the majority are not. An officer carrying a firearm, be it on his person or in his car, who is not trained and authorised to do so would be out of the force faster than you could blink and most likely be prosecuted for carrying an illegal firearm.
The only force that has it's standard officers routinely equipped with firearms is the Northern Ireland police force, most likely because there's still the threat from extremist factions within the population (IRA splinter factions etc.) and some pretty nasty gangs in some areas of big cities like Belfast.
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1) You cannot win. 2) You cannot break even. 3) You cannot stop playing the game.
Colonel Flagg wrote:You think you're real smart. But you're not smart; you're dumb. Very dumb. But you've met your match in me.
The problem with relying on knives for self-defense is that guns have a much longer range.
The problem with relying on guns for self-defense is that you may miss.
So, you really need a weapon that has a solid range, and won't miss. That's why I always carry around a nuclear weapon. You'll want, at a bare minimum, 100 kilotons, but I recommend about 6 megatons to be really sure.
Grakmar wrote:The problem with relying on knives for self-defense is that guns have a much longer range.
The problem with relying on guns for self-defense is that you may miss.
So, you really need a weapon that has a solid range, and won't miss. That's why I always carry around a nuclear weapon. You'll want, at a bare minimum, 100 kilotons, but I recommend about 6 megatons to be really sure.
That kid who's making them is just doing it to show off to his cod kiddie friends.
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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Grakmar wrote:The problem with relying on knives for self-defense is that guns have a much longer range.
The problem with relying on guns for self-defense is that you may miss.
So, you really need a weapon that has a solid range, and won't miss. That's why I always carry around a nuclear weapon. You'll want, at a bare minimum, 100 kilotons, but I recommend about 6 megatons to be really sure.
Havent you played COD...these suck.
Avatar 720 wrote: You see, to Auston, everyone is a Death Star; there's only one way you can take it and that's through a small gap at the back.
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
Alabama 12 year old, codename "Confederate T3rr0r" adapts the same technology and level of sophistication of the "Can of Snakes gag" to handheld weaponry. Unimpressed commentator on wargaming forum remarks, "Yeah, sure, spring loaded knife seems like it might be nice for pissing people off and would probably annoy local law enforcement. Maybe."
Yeah Auston is right, I was on level 23 of Nazi zombies spamming the button rapidly near an item box as 40 Nazi's piled up the stairs hot on my ass.
I then swapped my sweet but ammoless pack a punched colt commando for a fething Balistic knife, and didn't manage to kill a one.
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We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels.
"Alabama 12 year old, codename "Confederate T3rr0r""
Wait, seriously? What.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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Melissia wrote:"Alabama 12 year old, codename "Confederate T3rr0r""
Wait, seriously? What.
You didn't hear his voice? I did it lasted 4 1/2 seconds after I realized he wasn't just a child but a Southern child before I closed it in disgust. 4-8 years from now he will be posting his fully automatic 10/22 on Youtube.
Avatar 720 wrote: You see, to Auston, everyone is a Death Star; there's only one way you can take it and that's through a small gap at the back.
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
Melissia wrote:"Alabama 12 year old, codename "Confederate T3rr0r""
Wait, seriously? What.
Sorry, incorporating the kind of name I anticipated he went by when pretending to be a toughguy on CoD and extrapolating other elements based upon the youtube comments I read.
As a Briton I could never sink to using a Crossbow. Longbows for life!
...I think in a post technology apoc future you'd slam a spring leaf on a 2x4 before you seasoned a yew stick.
He's British. They're required by law to already have a bow and arrow, and to practice it.
British Law wrote:STATUTES made in the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster on Wednesday the Fourth Day of February, in the Third Year of the Reign of King HENRY VIII. [...]
CAP. III An Act concerning Shooting in Long Bows.
"ALL Sorts of Men under the Age of Forty Years shall have Bows and Arrows, and use Shooting; certain Persons excepted", &c. Unlawful Games "shall not be used."
Melissia wrote:"Alabama 12 year old, codename "Confederate T3rr0r""
Wait, seriously? What.
You didn't hear his voice? I did it lasted 4 1/2 seconds after I realized he wasn't just a child but a Southern child before I closed it in disgust. 4-8 years from now he will be posting his fully automatic 10/22 on Youtube.
Oh no, I know the alabama 12 year old part, I was just weirded out by the codename.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
Melissia wrote:"Alabama 12 year old, codename "Confederate T3rr0r""
Wait, seriously? What.
You didn't hear his voice? I did it lasted 4 1/2 seconds after I realized he wasn't just a child but a Southern child before I closed it in disgust. 4-8 years from now he will be posting his fully automatic 10/22 on Youtube.
Oh no, I know the alabama 12 year old part, I was just weirded out by the codename.
but would you REALLY be surprised?
Avatar 720 wrote: You see, to Auston, everyone is a Death Star; there's only one way you can take it and that's through a small gap at the back.
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
A Town Called Malus wrote:People need to remember that the ultimate weapon for self defence is a half brick inna sock. If you can't find half a brick then any similarly weighted object will do.
