Rant of the day

I think someone has way too much time on their hands …..

 

I got bored by the time the fourth one started…. this is how I lace mine.

 

I guess about as far up my legs as they would on yours

 

Just had to submit to an NC inspection to reregister the bike by the end of the month. I have dual residency and try to keep my vehicles registered in FL- They provide 2 year registrations and require no annual inspections, plus vets with my rating get massive fee discounts in FLDMV. Problem was I don't actually have my title because the bike's financed. I won't get the title until I'm paid off so I can't flip the papers until then. I waited in line for an hour on MON to learn this then had to cut my FL trip short to get inspected back in NC before the end of the month.

Fuck a bunch of government.

 

Worthless P.O.S.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-59832244

 

I genuinely would be interested to know of jailing this chap for 5 years (aren't people out after 50%?) willake any difference to the fact the drugs are available, being sold, or to him selling them in the future?

Is any, actual, discernable difference made?

 

I suspect it creates a small vacuum that a lot of eager, but lower positioned POS’s are all too happy to jostle position for…

 

Look at this/these pieces of shit....
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/outrage-captain-tom-memorial-sprayed-22600056

 

I'll say it again...someone's gonna "flip" and these scum (and others in general) is going to come to harm as the community tries to wrestle control back, as law and order, judicial system etc clearly fail.

I walk my dog around a local recreation ground. Myself and others have done little picks ... yet, with a clean slate, it's not long before the bottles and general shite is wafting around again...

I'm happy to clear it once. I'm happy to even clear it twice....but three times? Is it reasonable to remove a digit with a pair of pliers of some n'er-do-well each time they then litter? I'm not suggesting we do...but what? What can we do? Since when has it become ok to drop litter?

Have you pulled up at a controlled junction joining a motorway? The rubbish on the side is disgusting...

This isn't from "the 70s". It's fresh rubbish. Costa cups. Face masks. McD packaging. This isn't dropped by kids in a park. This is dropped by people who drive cars...adults.

Actions without consequences...it's why we are where we are.

So. That's the problem.

What's the solution?

 

Snipers.

 

You have to get enough people to show their dissatisfaction to the political trend setters, so that the slimy, brown extrusions feel that it’s a strong enough band-wagon to help carry them into office.
Look what happened when an angry autistic kid refused to go to school… but people are more and more apathetic and so less good ideas raised in places like “political clinics” make the headlines, so activists are resorting back to suffragette-style shock tactics to try and get their voices/opinions heard - glueing themselves to busy roads and the like…

 

Whilst not fixing the actual problem, in my community there is an army of litter pickers that volunteer, giving their time to go around and pick up the litter.
Unfortunately the fines/punishment for littering is no deterent and the police are to busy with other crimes to police the problem. Not sure other than saying something when you see people littering. Of course this brings it's own problems......

I recently seen a young woman throw a cigarette packet our of her car in a Tesco car park. I went across and said I think you have dropped something from your car, she blushed and picked it up. I went into the shop and when I came back out the car had gone, and yes the cigarette packet was in the place where the car had been. People just don't have any social responsibility, familiar theme across many things across society.

 

I agree with you @Wessa , people just don't give a shite...



We have had litter picks "round by the shops", but within a few weeks, its full of rubbish again...so another volunteer litter pick. Personally, I am not going to do anymore there as I feel like a dick, a schmuck, like I'm being had...

I am all for helping, and am certainly all for helping those that can't help themselves - at the very least to "get up to par"; but if very specific local communities continue to literally shit on their own doorstep; I don't think it should then be up to the good will of others to tidy up after them.

I will, but only if there is consequences for their continued messing...

I too said to a big burly chap that he seemed to have dropped his take-away detritus under his car - I saw...but perhaps he didn't realise. He sucked his teeth and told me it wasn't his, and to fu#k-off.... I mean, these people can vote...and are allowed to have children ffs!

I am too much of a coward, but seriously, one day someone's gonna flip...

 

Not sure it is being a coward. It is unfortunate that there is a high probability that they could be drunk, on drugs or just thugs carrying a weapon.

 

My typical concealed carry is a CZ 2075 in the winter with IWB holster. I go with a 10 round starter mag and a 15 round back up. It's a bit of a brick so sometimes I just go with a S&W Model 60 loaded with .38 +P instead of .357 with an extra speed-loader for quick runs to the store. I can just hang it on my belt line and don't even need a holster. In the summer months when I'm dressed down I got a little pocket roscoe chambered in .22 MAG because the way I see it any hole you put in someone that they weren't born with is going to give them a really bad day, and it also blows out a tennis ball-sized flash for effect. I use special purpose ammo here that's designed to penetrate clothing before it expands. At 3m .22 MAG will dome somebody proper and can potentially travel straight through a human torso.

As an added bonus, NC is a "Stand Your Ground" state. You have no duty to retreat in the face of a deadly threat. A few months ago some 20-something yr old gal zapped a mugger on the first day that she got her carry permit… in broad daylight, right by the downtown bus station, surrounded by witnesses. She wasn't charged and was quickly released after a brief questioning.

And yes I'm rubbing it in.

 

Not rubbing anything in here. I would not want the gun laws changed here. The last thing I want to do is go out carrying a gun.

 

With certain rights(it's a right here, not a privilege) comes responsibility, and in the case of bearing arms- maturity and restraint. If you can't balance those attributes, being an armed individual definitely isn't for you. Moreover, bad guys seem to have a sort of sixth sense and can size someone up as either a soft or hard target. When you're carrying many tend to put off an air of "hard target." That certainly wasn't the case with our girl over by the bus station, but like I said- she was new to the arena… and her assailant learned the hard way not to fuck with someone responsibly exercising their rights. If a 20-something yr old female urbanite can do it, anyone in their right mind can.

 

You guys in the good ol' US of A must be used to this and would consider what you've just described as normal, the right to carry arms and all that. But it makes me feel slightly sick. We are so fortunate not to have gone down the same route. I know we have problems with knife crime and to a much lesser extent, gun crime, but I hope we never feel it's acceptable hand out guns to pretty much everybody.

 

We don't either, and we don't "hand out guns to pretty much anybody." You have to go through a background check that's run through the ATF. And any enhanced weapons possession requires additional checks and hefty fees.

So despite what the BBC crackpipe feeds you, it's not at all easy to purchase a firearm in the US.