The Isolated Blurt Thread XXI: Killswitch Edition

[Lyricalli]

Do you buy used shoes?

I like to think of them as pre-warmed.

 

[Bacigalupo]

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[PeteHulbert37]

http://crasstalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/winning_the_internet_Winning_the_Internet-s625x325-28070.jpg

 

[thør]

Do it for mom!

 

[thør]

I still cannot find my hiking boots. I do not like my breathable Merrells. Slippery and hard. Leather and real rubber are much kinder.

I live in Merrill Moab Ventilators, most all seasons.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

I was having Southeast envy, because they have lovely weather that is not too cold, or too hot. I think that I would rather put up with a cold nose, cold toes, and cold breasts, than having to swim home.


When I was a child, it seemed as if the Southeast was always underwater.
Until the Tennessee dam project came along.

 

[Bacigalupo]

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[gotsnowgotslush]

*looks at pic*


eeeeeeeeeeee! What have you done!?

In other news, Boston temps are cold enough to wear boots. yay!

 

[Aglaopheme]

The fellas wanted to mess with me so they were jamming Dio, Journey and Randy Newman on the way to the show. Rat bastards!

 

[phantom4533]

I am at work. I suppose I should actually do some.

But ... coffee.

 

[Wings]

Jesus Christ. The picture that shows how some students are learning how to barricade themselves in a classroom, throw heavy objects at a gunman, and how to break out the windows to leap made me sick to my stomach.

I need to move. I need to go somewhere else where teaching our kids how to barricade themselves in the classroom to evade a gunman is more important than reforming gun laws.

 

[chillywilly2]

Jesus Christ. The picture that shows how some students are learning how to barricade themselves in a classroom, throw heavy objects at a gunman, and how to break out the windows to leap made me sick to my stomach.

I need to move. I need to go somewhere else where teaching our kids how to barricade themselves in the classroom to evade a gunman is more important than reforming gun laws.

So, just what gun laws would you reform and what would you reform them to?

 

[Wings]

So, just what gun laws would you reform and what would you reform them to?

In my perfect world I'd get rid of them all.

In reality I'd settle for a process like getting your driver's license.

 

[chillywilly2]

In my perfect world I'd get rid of them all.

In reality I'd settle for a process like getting your driver's license.

OK, kinda like what we have here already...the license part...not the getting rid of them...and it seems to work pretty well.
Take a safety course, background check and a professional type(teacher, lawyer, cop, engineer) as a sponsor. Then you can purchase

Cept there are soooo many guns out there already it would take years to be effective.

I know, wrong thread

 

[phantom4533]

With the system we have in place we've about as much chance of reforming gun laws as we have banning religions.

But changing the system has to start at the local level. You can't keep sending the same people back to Washington and expect change.

 

[Wings]

Thank you guys for having a sane conversation.

 

[trysail]

In my perfect world I'd get rid of them all.

In reality I'd settle for a process like getting your driver's license.

Now all you have to do is write a law and get it passed by two committees (one comprised of 100 people, the other comprised of 435 people).

You should try it sometime.

It's not as easy as you think.



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[cleaver]

Jesus Christ. The picture that shows how some students are learning how to barricade themselves in a classroom, throw heavy objects at a gunman, and how to break out the windows to leap made me sick to my stomach.

I need to move. I need to go somewhere else where teaching our kids how to barricade themselves in the classroom to evade a gunman is more important than reforming gun laws.

ask your parents/grandparents
about "duck and cover" at their schools
and the bomb shelter old man kragan built down the street in his back yard...

the damned near useless mass protection regimens
they went through to "protect themselves"
from the nukes....

actually worked... (hunh?)

just as these new anti gunman/terrorist attack protection processes may work...
though, teaching our young ones these survival tactics against
potential mass shooters will be more valuable to them
in any likely scenario than "duck and cover" ever was...

this mass awareness about the horrid excesses of gun use
through teaching these survival methods in schools
will energize and ingrain the issue into our kids
in ways that will eventuall y effect the "control"
that is desired - but not currently politically viable...

just as the 50's nuke fright
led to small steps in the 60's
larger steps in the 70's
and the wholesale retirements /dismantling of national arsenals
by the 90's

the nukes are'nt gone, but a more rational control on them
has ensued
the guns as well will not be gone, but in time, a more rational control on them
will be crafted by those being directly effected
by the specters of these "new" horrors...

our seemingly entrenched elected officials
cannot react as effectively as the eventual
generational dialog will...

you wanna do it all in one stroke?
sounds great over donuts and coffee...

but the issues involved have to be generationally digested and addressed...

that's just how it works...
you can change laws...
but the minds and guts take longer...

 

[pointless]

apparently that wasn't a creepy redirect from some evil random. instead it was just a creepy redirect from the dickheads who i pay to let me get on the internet. fucking cunts.

 

[trysail]

I hate this time of year (well, that's not completely true— I hate winter even more [except when I'm skiing] ).


It's impossible to figure out what clothes to keep readily available. One day, a pair of shorts and a tee shirt are just the ticket— the next, blue jeans, a flannel shirt and a jacket.


One set can't go into storage and the other has to come out. I end up needing simultaneous access to ALL my clothes.





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[pointless]

flannel shorts sound uncomfortable.

 

[Fuckette]

shorts are ugly

 

[DesEsseintes]

shorts are ugly

Footer bags are for small boys, beaches, and sport. I assume Mr Trysail is planning on using them for cycling, but it is distressing to see grown men wear them in towns, as leisure wear.

The same thing applies doubly for trainers, of course. If God had meant us to wear trainers he would not have invented the Oxford.

 

[Lancecastor]

Jesus Christ. The picture that shows how some students are learning how to barricade themselves in a classroom, throw heavy objects at a gunman, and how to break out the windows to leap made me sick to my stomach.

I need to move. I need to go somewhere else where teaching our kids how to barricade themselves in the classroom to evade a gunman is more important than reforming gun laws.

I honestly don't understand why anyone would want to live in the USA.

 

[silver gurl]

Washing walls and windows makes for a fun day. Said no one ever.