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  1. yeah there is alot of people that go during that weekend but nice to see all the different quads

    Good point, and you get to examine them closely at parade speeds.

    If I were riding Labor Day weekend, I'd go to Perry....never crowded there, and if it is go find a trail off the main ones.

  2. Liability my ass. It is the petting zoo. A small child attraction. So my next question is why such a small doorway.

    Your fight is more than likely with the underwriter, who will determine such things. You can make a big stink, and yell at people, but mostly they're folks who have ZERO interest in keeping your kiddo away from cute animals.

    It sucks, but it sounds like they're trying to be nice about it.

  3. Devil's Advocate: I'm sure it's not done maliciously, but fear of accident/litigation.

    Not that it makes it right, but the fun-police exist nowadays because everyone's terrified or their underwriter commands a bunch of bullshit "what ifs" that ruin every experience.

    I'd complain, don't get me wrong...make them think about what this policy really does...but it's likely not some meanie at the petting zoo who gets off on hurting handicapped kids.

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  4. Except for doing triples on an MX track, my bike has truly done everything I've ever wanted - touring, commuting, 2-up, twisties, gravel, back roads, cruising. I've done a track day on it, and rode it on a goat path in lower New Mexico to the top of a mountain, you name it.

    It has no "soul", because as everyone knows the Japanese don't have soul, but it does everything I ask without much fuss...and about 1/4 the cost of its competitors.

  5. Has zero to do with my personal views as to whether guns have a legitimate place in a civilized society... which I believe they don't.

    Switzerland, perhaps the most civilized nation on earth. Awash with military arms in every household. A long, rich and deep cultural tradition of shooting and the shooting sports. A gun culture there before other nations even had arms for their militaries. Shooting day at the ranges are like community picnics. One of the lowest violent crime rates of any industrialized nation, gun crimes are extremely rare.

    Public buildings are almost all unguarded, politicians almost never use armed guards or security, gun ownership is lax and laws restricting types of firearms in most cantons don't exist. The overwhelming majority of Swiss guns are that of military design or origin.

    One of the safest, most peaceful nations on the planet, and has been for 400 years.

    And the colored girls go do do do do do do do do.

    I'll give up educating you, when you start regurgitating something rational.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1566715.stm

  6. Perhaps if Mr. Magley finds a girl

    I thought that was a serious post till you got this part.

    On your mentioning of this....

    I would guess that the Clutter family felt that same peace in Garden City, Kansas on 15 November, 1959.

    Yeah, I'd bet Christopher Newsom was in a zen like state while a gang raped and tortured him and his girlfriend, before his inevitable death when he was shot in the head, and then set on fire....he probably congratulated himself on being civilized and letting his elbows do the talking. He was probably a pussy who was too scared to fight off 4 young black men, and a woman, too.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom

    I mean, heck it's not like a CCW holder has ever stopped a carjacking (I won't bother googling all the instances). If he had a gun, and things went badly, he might have been.....uh......shot or tortured?

    Anyway, stuff like this only happens to other people. People with underdeveloped elbows. We shouldn't even think about it, or prepare, because preparation equals murder practice.

    Having a gun means you live in fear. Just as having a fire extinguisher means you live in fear. Just as having health insurance means you're a hypochondriac. Just as...

    Well, we can deflate the boy all day can't we?

    It's like hitting a punching bag. Pow.

  7. You "think" it's irrelevant, but that doesn't make it irrelevant..

    Yes, it is irrelevant. Superglue was invented as a medicinal skin bonding agent. If you glue two popsickle sticks together, it's not being used for its design. The origins don't matter.

    The first weapons were rocks, sticks, and fists. Yet, none of those things are weapons until you make them weapons.

    Guns were also weapons, but you are entirely free to use them for pleasure, target shooting, and this does not make them weapons anymore just as using a stick for a cane doesn't mean it's still weapon because ancient man developed the spear.

    I can make a fake gun out of wood, and rob a bank with it. What is it? A piece of wood, or a weapon? My hands decide that.

    Humans make tools into tools, or weapons, only the person decides that, not you.

    We've been over this.

    You could use a stick of dynamite as a birthday candle, you could use c4 as modeling clay, you could use an atomic warhead as a driveway marker, none of that has any impact on what they were designed to do..blow shit up.

    We've been over this too. Design doesn't affect use. Nuclear power was derived from a weapons program. Does that mean nuclear reactors powering homes are actually destroying homes?

    How many times does the obvious need to beat you over the fucking head until your retarded, backwards, fucked up little brain grasps this?

    Guns are only weapons when you use them as weapons. Olympic target rifles are only weapons if someone steals one and shoots somebody with it. Until then they are precision instruments of competition, as they were DESIGNED TO BE.

    And, a rock is still a rock until someone clubs you over the head with it.

    You are emotionalizing guns because you fear them, because you have a deep neuroses about them.

    And, we've been over that before. But, like many people with developmental disabilities, repetition and refusal marks your psychotic outbursts.

    I guess if you say something to yourself a lot, even if it's a lie, it has a soothing affect.

    You are perhaps the dumbest scholar in the history of humanity. So, that's a small achievement.

  8. Don't forget you can use them to aerate your lawn. And my glock has perforated more paper than killed people.... well at least I think? I did leave it at home today so there is no telling what it will do when I'm not watching it.

    Are you relying on elbows today for safety? I never leave home without mine. I go sleeveless a lot so that thugs see my elbows, they know I be representin.

    Sometimes, I point a little elbow their way. Yeah, you want some of this? Didn't think so.

    Gotta think like a scholar.

  9. So which are you? Elderly, handicapped, or a diminutive woman? All 3?

    I'm a 42 year old man with a family, and my prime obligation is to see that they're safe, provided for, and remain so. If that means I bear the burden of all kinds of decisions that are distasteful to you, so be it. My primary job is to come home safe every night. I don't have any illusions that I'm a match for a 200lb hardened criminal, or his two friends. I'm NOT a warrior, don't pretend to be (like blowhards with elbows), and I cannot punch my way to safety when it matters....nor should I expect my wife to, or my daughter. Life isn't like hollywood, dipshit, real violence is brutal and unexpected, and good guys don't give flying roundhouses to thugs. The thugs are usually a physical match for you, or they don't even try.

    My wife, btw, is 4'11" and weighs 98lbs. My daughter is even smaller. Should they have to contend with a grown man? You seem to only think this is about men. Do they have to live in a world where stronger, more aggressive men can have their way with them unimpeded? You certainly argue that they do. I work more comfortably away from home knowing both my wife and daughter could protect themselves against intruders....because even if I relied on fists, if I'm not there it's a moot point.

    I realize, deep down, you don't give a fuck about my family's safety, btw, this is all about you and your goofy childlike views on guns. Thankfully, none of my household has to live in your fucked up world.

    I suspect you are actually none of those, and you're just afraid you are inept...

    Agreed, I am inept at physically overcoming anything and everything that could want to kill me for the contents of my wallet. I'm quite sure I'm not a physical match for a guy half my age who's hopped up on meth. I'm not inept at shooting, however. Until light sabers and force fields gain wide acceptance, I'll choose the best, most efficient tool for bringing my attacker or attackers to a stop and keeping him there.

    It's okay, I have no say over whether you should carry a gun, wear ballistic gear, carry a snakebite antivenom kit, or have a subscription to life alert...it's not up to me...

    But you want it to be up to you, and that's why you won't fucking shut up. You feel your ignorant, utopian ideas are superior to real life. Because you're scared, and emotional, and immature.

    The only thing I find utterly absurd is your refusal to accept that 3 of those things are designed to save lives and one of them is specifically designed to take lives...

    Design doesn't matter, we've been over this before. Your mental retardation is not allowing you to get past that the design of something is irrelevant to what it's used for.

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