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Bit of artificial grass - if you like that sort of thing
peds replied to forestboy1978's topic in Landscaping
F*ck me, I've just had a bloody brilliant idea! I'm walking the dog along a beach at the moment, and it just came to me... we dig up all the sand, sell it to the Arabs, and replace the whole beach with coarse grit sandpaper... zero upkeep, no hoovering stray sand out of the car, no pesky crabs or oystercatchers or other suspicious wildlife, just homogeneous, predictable 40# sandpaper... I'll be a millionaire! Edit ...if only we could do something about those bloody trees though... papier mache? -
Bit of artificial grass - if you like that sort of thing
peds replied to forestboy1978's topic in Landscaping
I bet they can't park either. -
I bet it's not real smoke and mirrors though, probably just steam and a really well-polished sheet of stainless steel.
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You're right, it is time to hide behind semantics. I bet the Japanese fella didn't even technically have a chef's knife. It was probably a santuko or a deba.
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Here's the thing... I imagine it is significantly easier, and possibly slightly-less certain to result in your own death, to try and overpower an attacker armed with a knife, than it would be if he were armed with an assault rifle, even if the only defensive weapon you have available is, say, one of those plastic chairs with the metal legs that every single classroom across the world has. I'm not saying I'd be particularly eager to jump in, but I think there'd be more spring in my step if I was in a knife-chair fight and not a gun-chair fight. The fact that he was overpowered by a number of staff members relatively quickly before it turned into an hour-long execution spree, suggests that it is easier to stop nutcases from murdering children when they only have knives, and not assault rifles. I dunno, maybe I'm wrong.
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The young fella at Uvalde showed up with a pair of rifles and 1800 rounds. He must have thought it was a bit heavy though, and either dropped or lost 900 of them before going inside. Still, at least he didn't have a third rifle too, or someone could have gotten seriously hurt!
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Yeah, he seemed pretty determined to do some damage. I wonder what his score would have been with a pair of assault rifles and 1800 rounds.
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I'd rather my local mental case be armed with a bread knife than an assault rifle, personally.
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Bit of artificial grass - if you like that sort of thing
peds replied to forestboy1978's topic in Landscaping
A mossy lawn is a thousand times comfier than a monoculture lawn, and anyone who disagrees is shit at parallel parking. -
The Wikipedia page for the shooting is a pretty wild read already, and I can only see more content being added over the coming days. Robb Elementary School shooting - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG
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Ah come on now, I'm sure we can find some other excuse.
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1.93ish in Ireland. Good thing I've not been driving much lately, I've saved a fortune.
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Probably those violent computer games and that weird book by Margaret Atwood. We should just ban all subversive books, games, and films.
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- Uvalde officer, trained for the exact situation as little as two months hence
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Wrong thread, Stere. This is the news thread, not the business as usual thread. Edit Pretty graph, though. Floral.
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Bit of artificial grass - if you like that sort of thing
peds replied to forestboy1978's topic in Landscaping
Do they know what the effects of microplastic pollution are specifically on male fertility and sperm motility, and are they still happy to have the young lad playing on it, driving his trucks up and down it, tearing up countless thousands of airborn microplastic particles and breathing them all in, lodging deep within his lungs? Did they know about that? -
Bit of artificial grass - if you like that sort of thing
peds replied to forestboy1978's topic in Landscaping
Looks absolutely hideous and you aught to be ashamed of yourself. -
But by golly, what a stupid rule!
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That's beautiful. Great stuff.
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Man, I got a bit of a lift when I saw your name pop up there, I thought someone was about to say something sensible. Hope you are well.
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Cutting trees with a axe and a crosscut saw
peds replied to Guns the tree climber's topic in Rigging and roping
I had to do a bit of work with a rusty auld bowsaw a few weeks ago. Shitty blade, definitely needs replacing, but still... I bloody love chainsaws. -
Ahhh, I can't hear the word deglove without recoiling. Grisly stuff. I can't imagine the relief you must have felt after that episode. Well I just got home, 2.5hr drive from the hospital, in an automatic though so no big deal. Now to feed the chickens, water the plants, and wrestle the cats. Life goes on.
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Yep, sliced open front and back, Sunday and Tuesday, to wash it all out. No, luck had nothing to do with it, the only thing that saved the hand was timely and skillful surgical intervention. It would have been lucky if the antibiotics alone did the trick. Anyway, nothing is certain yet, until the cuts have healed and the course of meds is complete.
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Noble, focused, slightly-psychopathic gaze on them there. Handsome animal.
