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So in other words, gun ownership isn't meant to stop shooting rampages?

But you're the Good Gun With A Gun that's supposed to save everyone else. Are you saying that the gun lobby might be wrong to push that narrative?

To be fair, armed civilians have been shown to successfully intervene in mass shootings slightly more than 3% of the time - 5 out of 160 mass shootings studied between 2000 and 2013. For comparison, unarmed civilians successfully intervened in 21 out of 160 cases, law enforcement ended the...

I'm sure the grieving families will be comforted to know that their relatives died to protect the NRA's profit margins.

You obviously haven't seen the one where Jeremy Clarkson buys a cheap Malaysian car then smashes it with a sledgehammer because "it's a white good (ie a fridge, appliance, generic device)"

Wouldn't mind a slice of that.

If that's what helps you sleep I'd hate to imagine what gives you nightmares.

Yup

There are 5 basic tweaks that could improve that horrible Cats CGI immensely. 1) For fuck's sake, get rid of the human noses. You're doing CGI, put a fucking cat nose on there. Broad bump for a bridge and wide flat inverted triangle for the bottom. 2) Related: split cat lips. There's a reason...

That's kind of disappointing, I know a while back the idea was that he'd been made into one of the instructors at the Top Gun Academy having to train young hot-heads like himself, in the face of an age of diminishing air combat and the imminent replacement of fighter pilots entirely by drones...

The Cats movie trailer looks like weird deepfake PG furry porn.

Wrote the first decent poem I've written in years, to my younger sister's unborn child, who is due next month.

Taking care of my elderly parents is essentially my full-time job.

That is pretty much what they're saying.

I present possibly the worst music of all time. Imagine a musical instruments store on a busy Saturday afternoon with lots of people testing out all the instruments by playing different songs at once. Now imagine they're all different levels of drunk and at least 1/3 are having a stroke...

My Dad's 69th birthday today. Made a really nice batch of beef stir fry with mushrooms, green peppers, carrots, celery, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, snap peas. Also a chocolate cake from scratch, with cherry filling between the layers and on top, with whipped cream icing.

So I guess that cactus is gonna be run through the wash, eh?

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As of this morning, my Canon Pixma 5320 printer has decided it doesn't print text anymore. just the annoying graphics I literally tell it not to print.