(Forum War)-AyeCappy vs World

[Lana]

I don't really want to discuss real worlds politics here (I'm very happy to discuss Avonmoran politics, though!), but I think everyone needs to read this, and carefully and quietly think through if this may apply to them: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

I don’t know why exactly, but, this reminded me one American survey that I read about, many years ago, don’t know exactly where.
One group of participants in the survey were asked to answer one simple question: Why they drink instant coffee. The explanation was mostly the same: Because it tastes good.
The other group of participants were asked the similar, yet not the same question: Why their neighbors, or fellows, drink instant coffee. Their explanation was the similar too, but different than the previous one.
Most of responses were: Because they are lazy, they don’t want to spend much time to make coffee at all etc.
It’s about double standards… what we do is great, the others are simply lazy, silly, dangerous…etc. But, when and what we think about what the others do and why, that exactly represents our real thinking about things.
I am a coffee maniac and lazy one, tbh, but I don’t like to drink instant coffee.

[Grogggy]

I think this got a little far afield, but if we have to talk guns...

whomever said hammers kill more people than guns is a complete idiot. the point is that one whacko can get, what, 3 people with a hammer and that's if he's Maxwell Silver.

The first a-hole was way back--remember the guy w/ the AK who sprayed down McDonalds playground?

Like danik (shudder) I shoot, I own guns, I have a high NRA marksmanship rating. I used to even own an Ak-47.

The problem is even the common sense, basic starting points are blocked by a big industry with a lot of money and the NRA. This is how we get people on the terrorist watch list able to own guns.

Lets see what the guns nuts think--should I be able to own a .50 cal sniper rifle? Boy I'd love to have one:) They actually have a nice one at my local gun shop, flash supressor, tripod, sick scope. And how about the specialty explosive and armor piercing .50 cal rounds, can I have those?

I mean if you knew me, I bet some of the conservatives here would not like me to have that gun:) I have a clean record, good mentals--but come on, should every citizen have the right to enact "regime change?"

Sounds like anarchy to me...RFJ, JFK, MLK in like 12 month span, we able to withstand that kind of world again?

[Bmw]

i have to admit i would love that gun all we need is background checks and one's on insanity before anyone can own a gun then it might thin out the people who have them that carry them to school and shoot it up

[Grogggy]

exactly.

[Grogggy]

A song to lighten the mood:)

Seems almost quaint with today's firepower!

Mr. Saturday Night Special
Lynryd Sykyrd

Two feet they come a creepin'
Like a black cat do
And two bodies are layin' naked
A creeper think he got nothin' to lose
So he creeps into this house, yeah
And unlocks the door
And as a man's reaching for his trousers
Shoots him full of thirty-eight holes

Mr. Saturday night special
Got a barrel that's blue and cold
Ain't good for nothin'
But put a man six feet in a hole

Big Jim's been drinkin' whiskey
And playin' poker on a losin' night
And pretty soon ol' Jim starts a thinkin'
Somebody been cheatin' and lyin'
So Big Jim commence to fightin'
I wouldn't tell you no lie
Big Jim done pulled his pistol
Shot his friend right between the eyes

Mr. Saturday night special
Got a barrel that's blue and cold
Ain't good for nothin'
But put a man six feet in a hole

Oh, it's the Saturday night special, for twenty dollars you can buy yourself one too

Hand guns are made for killin'
They ain't no good for nothin' else
And if you like to drink your whiskey
You might even shoot yourself
So why don't we dump 'em people
To the bottom of the sea
Before some ol' fool come around here
Wanna shoot either you or me

Mr. Saturday night special
You got a barrel that's blue and cold
You ain't good for nothin'
But put a man six feet in a hole

Mr. the Saturday night special
And I'd like to tell you what you could do with it
And that's the end of the song

[Donald Trump]

I found this on the internet. I thought it was funny.

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What in Davy Jones’ locker did ye just bark at me, ye scurvy bilgerat? I’ll have ye know I be the meanest cutthroat on the seven seas, and I’ve led numerous raids on fishing villages, and raped over 300 wenches. I be trained in hit-and-run pillaging and be the deadliest with a pistol of all the captains on the high seas. Ye be nothing to me but another source o’ swag. I’ll have yer guts for garters and keel haul ye like never been done before, hear me true. You think ye can hide behind your newfangled computing device? Think twice on that, scallywag. As we parley I be contacting my secret network o’ pirates across the sea and yer port is being tracked right now so ye better prepare for the typhoon, weevil. The kind o’ monsoon that’ll wipe ye off the map. You’re sharkbait, fool. I can sail anywhere, in any waters, and can kill ye in o’er seven hundred ways, and that be just with me hook and fist. Not only do I be top o’ the line with a cutlass, but I have an entire pirate fleet at my beck and call and I’ll damned sure use it all to wipe yer arse off o’ the world, ye dog. If only ye had had the foresight to know what devilish wrath your jibe was about to incur, ye might have belayed the comment. But ye couldn’t, ye didn’t, and now ye’ll pay the ultimate toll, you buffoon. I’ll shit fury all over ye and ye’ll drown in the depths o’ it. You’re fish food now, lad.

[Grogggy]

Disco break!

Everyone shake their pirate booty!

[Mack]

i have to admit i would love that gun all we need is background checks and one's on insanity before anyone can own a gun then it might thin out the people who have them that carry them to school and shoot it up

After all, those people that are actually willing to kill people follow the laws... we already dont let "crazy people have guns, nor can felons own a gun.. maybe you should look sone stuff up.... there are a lot of things that cause more deaths per year than guns!

[Mack]

Has anyone ever suspected the idea that some of these shootings are staged to try and convince the general populace we need to abolish guns

[Most Lee Harmless]

Has anyone ever suspected the idea that some of these shootings are staged to try and convince the general populace we need to abolish guns

uhuh.. right... step away from the keyboard... close down that browser... you been spending too long on conspiracy.com... next thing you'll be telling us that 9/11 was really really staged by the Saudi's so folk would think the Israeli's conspired to blame it on the Iraqi's when in fact it was really done by the CIA as part of a plot to blame it on the Iranians but the auto-correct on their cell phone messed up the briefing and then when they found the real files left by 'accident' on the subway but nobody believed it could seriously have been done on a back-lot in Hollywood and the Towers are actually still there but are hidden by giant mirrors installed as part of a David Blaine stunt that was never televised due to an argument between the producer and the advertisers caused by some bad weed that had been contaminated as part of a DEA campaign to discredit medicinal marijuana.. and so on.. and so on...