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by arthwollipot
Mon Feb 13, 2023 4:15 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: guns 2
Replies: 137
Views: 27656

Re: guns 2

Seriously. The ones with the y-shaped handle and the elastic? Yeah, totally banned. Kids made them anyway. The kind of kids who enjoyed bullying me.

Peashooters I don't know. But you can do a lot more damage with a slung shot than you can a shot pea.
by arthwollipot
Mon Feb 13, 2023 1:04 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Feelgood story of the day
Replies: 33
Views: 15342

Re: Feelgood story of the day

And legalise pot.
by arthwollipot
Mon Feb 13, 2023 12:44 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Hey stanky!
Replies: 12
Views: 1828

Re: Hey stanky!

I'm actually okay with most of the mod decisions made at ISF. Having done a stint there as a mod myself, I know first-hand what a difficult and thankless job it is. There are judgement calls to be made, and some people will always disagree with them. Some calls are good, and some calls aren't. It's ...
by arthwollipot
Mon Feb 13, 2023 12:13 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Weather
Replies: 358
Views: 109797

Re: Weather

by arthwollipot
Mon Feb 13, 2023 12:04 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: guns 2
Replies: 137
Views: 27656

Re: guns 2

Slingshots have been illegal here since I was a kid.
by arthwollipot
Sun Feb 12, 2023 11:59 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global
Replies: 71
Views: 14181

Re: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global

Fuck yes. A lot of dead people, and I see Turkey appealing for help. I'd be keen to help, on the stipulation Erdogan stops being a cunt and they stop bombing Kurdish villages. And stay the fuck out of Greece's face. I do not agree with imposing conditions on the provision of humanitarian aid. Help ...
by arthwollipot
Sun Feb 12, 2023 11:57 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Religion, of course
Replies: 23
Views: 4921

Re: Religion, of course

If it was rational behaviour we'd all be fine. It is rational, given a core set of base assumptions. It's possible to derive rational conclusions from false premises. The conclusions are wrong, but they are rational. Just because it is wrong doesn't mean that it is not rational. In this case, of co...
by arthwollipot
Sun Feb 12, 2023 11:49 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Planet America
Replies: 913
Views: 322692

Re: Planet America

Pomerantz, who joined the Manhattan district attorney’s office in early 2021, revealed that lawyers “discussed whether Trump had been spewing bullshit for so many years about so many things that he could no longer process the difference between bullshit and reality,” according to The Beast. "N...
by arthwollipot
Fri Feb 03, 2023 5:55 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: guns 2
Replies: 137
Views: 27656

Re: guns 2

Of course it did. Meanwhile in Australia ... Australia’s gun laws still don’t meet standards agreed 27 years ago: Gun Control Australia Gun Control Australia says more needs to be done to tighten the nation’s firearms laws after state and territory leaders agreed to explore options to create a natio...
by arthwollipot
Fri Feb 03, 2023 1:07 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: guns 2
Replies: 137
Views: 27656

Re: guns 2

grayman wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:26 amRemember when members of Congress used to wear a U.S flag pin on their lapel?
Remember when Republicans absolutely lost their shit when someone didn't?