Madness

[ColinEssex]

I must have missed those posts. Could you reference them - ?

No need for the hyphen before the question mark.

Col

 

[redneckgeek]

New York, Dallas, Chicago, Georgia, Florida, Los Angeles etc. etc. etc.

Col

There's a difference between wasteland and wilderness.

 

[redneckgeek]

Are you directing the "sun don't shine" comment to me or Brian?

Actually, it's "sun doesn't shine" the word "don't" is not used in that context - technically it means "do not", so the phrase "sun do not shine" is incorrect grammar (yet again)

Col

Actually, the proper usage - at least in the good ol' U.S. of A. - is "where the sun don't shine". It may not be correct, but we don't bother teaching grammar or spelling in school anymore. We're doing important stuff like "social" studies.

 

[ColinEssex]

Actually, the proper usage - at least in the good ol' U.S. of A. - is "where the sun don't shine".

Actually, it's still incorrect, but you'd expect nothing else from the USA.

However, we will continue our efforts to educate you so that if you should visit the UK you may have some idea on how to conduct yourselves.

Or say you're Canadian and you'll just about get away with it. Don't wear the Hawaiian shirt, shorts and a baseball cap though.

If you wish to continue using incorrect grammar then go to Australia, it's the norm down there too. We gave up teaching Aussies correct English because no-one really cares about Oz - it's so far away and doesn't really matter.

Col

 

[ColinEssex]

There's a difference between wasteland and wilderness.

Yes, all that open countryside that goes on for hundreds of miles is a total wasteland.

Col

 

[Brianwarnock]

Out walking in the Peak District yesterday, was I glad that I didn't have to have a gun plastered to my hip, I'll stab any wild critters that attack with my walking poles, and since its apparently difficult to hit anything with a handgun they are probably more use.

I also doubt the effectiveness of a handgun against a charging bear so why carry one, of course I'm assuming the weapon mentioned is a handgun since it was plastered to the hip.

Brian

 

[KenHigg]

...I also doubt the effectiveness of a handgun against a charging bear ...

That's why you should always deal in cash only -

 

[Brianwarnock]

That's why you should always deal in cash only -

LOL

Brian

 

[statsman]

In North America, more animals are killed by autos than by guns. "Road Kill" is a major source of revenue in some areas. Seems the dead carcus is ground up and used in animal feed.
When you phone the local police to inform them you hit a deer or some other animal (a police report is required for the insurance claim) they call the collectors. The collector makes some money on the carcus and the police get the mess cleaned up.

 

[KenHigg]

In North America, more animals are killed by autos than by guns.

Not by me - I'll even sacrifice my trk to dodge a squirrel

(See - I am green )

 

[Rich]

Not by me - I'll even sacrifice my trk to dodge a squirrel

(See - I am green )

What about the deer you hit on the way home?

 

[KenHigg]

What about the deer you hit on the way home?

How did you know he was on his way home?

 

[Rich]

How did you know he was on his way home?

I got it from the horses mouth

 

[Rabbie]

I got it from the horses mouth

So the horse was a witness?

 

[thisisntwally]

In what is a new experiance for me, I find myself reluctantly on the side of my southern friends.

First, in what will no doubt be cast as a prime example of American Savagery, we average 37,500 gun sales a day. That's 136,875,000 guns a year, which over a couple (prolly not two hundred odd, but more than 20?) years really adds up. The notion of gun control in the US seems a tad far fetched.

Secondly, lets address the barbaric practice of hunting. Whenever I'm tempted to scorn the harbinger of fresh (and delicioius) deersteaks, or possum, or whatever, for their brutal killing of some poor little animal, I like to pause and consider the plight of the factory farmed animals. Cow's skinned alive, salmon fed ground up salmon, or beakless chickens fed through tubes. Compared to the alternative, I think I might consider taking the bullet to the brain, were I en route to being eaten.

Moving on to DC's specific hand-gun ex-ban. If people are keeping guns in their home for 'self-defense' (which they are), I'd rather they had a pistol than a high-powered rifle, firing rounds that will travel several city blocks before lodging itself in my poor grandmother.

While the banning of guns could be effective in an already disarmed population, in a place like the US, it only serves to keep legal weapons out of the hands of responsible citizens.

I'm not going to touch on the second issue discussed, regarding the militia, as it seems self evident, and I'm at work.

 

[redneckgeek]

Out walking in the Peak District yesterday, was I glad that I didn't have to have a gun plastered to my hip, I'll stab any wild critters that attack with my walking poles, and since its apparently difficult to hit anything with a handgun they are probably more use.

I also doubt the effectiveness of a handgun against a charging bear so why carry one, of course I'm assuming the weapon mentioned is a handgun since it was plastered to the hip.

Brian

I think I'll take my chance with a handgun over a walking stick, but to each his own.

 

[redneckgeek]

First, in what will no doubt be cast as a prime example of American Savagery, we average 37,500 gun sales a day. That's 136,875,000 guns a year, which over a couple (prolly not two hundred odd, but more than 20?) years really adds up. The notion of gun control in the US seems a tad far fetched.

Your yearly number is off by a factor of 10. Seemed like to big a number to me. But even the 37,500/day seems high. Where'd you see that stat?

 

[redneckgeek]

So the horse was a witness?

Not any more... I just shot him

 

[KenHigg]

I think I'll take my chance with a handgun over a walking stick, but to each his own.

Well.... He's probably being spooked and scared by little bugs and spiders so a stick is probably appropriate.

'Or dear Hazel, look a spider - hurry, give me my stick and I'll defend us both - !!!'

 

[Brianwarnock]

I think I'll take my chance with a handgun over a walking stick, but to each his own.

Walking stick! walking stick! who mentioned a walking stick? A walking stick has a rubber covered end a walking pole a sharp metal one, nonetheless you do realise the comment was tongue in cheek? no! oh typical yank.

Brian