9:41
AM Mr. Green
9:42
AM Mr. Silver
Yup...pretty
amazing.
Unfortunately,
all I see is Dave Chapelle in his 'black KKK leader' character
shouting about his gun rights.
9:44
AM Mr. Green
LOL
9:54
AM Mr. Silver
"Commies!
Marxists! Nazis! They ALL want your GUNS! GUN
POWER! SECOND AMENDMENT! (BANG!!!)"
(voiceover)
"In all, he shot 3 people that day, though there were no serious
injuries."
Mr.
Silver
(left)
"I wonder which one of these foreign people contributed the most money to see
me."
(middle)
"Egypt is a city in the country of Africa."
(right)
"What does that red light on that box we're standing in front of
mean?"
10:33
AM Mr. Silver
(Bachmann)
“It’s a common enemy, and it’s an enemy called terrorism...(handed paper, reads)...or it was a corrupt government, a deposed dictator, another corrupt
government and another coup; none of which is terrorism, apparently. ...Anyway... So hey! Now that that's all settled, where can a gal
find a swinging party, grab a plate of pulled pork barbecue, and get a good stiff drink in downtown Egypt?"
Mr.
Silver
So
if this SOP dies on the 10th, does it leave a vacuum?
Maybe
I'll finish my re-write anyway...hehe.
9:20
AM Mr. Teal
Who
knows?
LOL
It
will be interesting.
9:23
AM Mr. Silver
Hope
it is...be nice to spread around but I'm not much for rumors, so
haven't said anything to anyone.
Especially
since nothing might happen.
9:24
AM Mr. Teal
Yeah.
I
got the word from a higher up though.
9:25
AM Mr. Silver
The maintenance guy?
9:25
AM Mr. Teal
LOL
9:25
AM Mr. Silver
Cleaning
crew? Shredding company?
Which
higher up?
I
MUST
KNOW!!!!
Mr.
Amethyst
Financially,
I got the green light for falconry from Mrs. Amethyst.
9:20
AM Mr. Amethyst
Strangely
enough, it looks like 40% of the raptor game is studying poo...
I’ll
be a poop gaser
gazer?
Don’t
know.
9:32
AM Mr. Silver
Poop
gasser is funnier.
9:32
AM Mr. Amethyst
lol
Mr.
Silver
So
falconry is basically a load of bird crap.
9:40
AM Mr. Amethyst
That’s
a lot of it, yeah. (bows)
lol
9:41
AM Mr. Silver
A
figurative and literal reality in one package.
10:28
AM Mr. Brown
Yeah,
the whole thing is a case of not starting a war, but policing a
policy that everybody agreed too. And apparently nobody but us that
signed it wants to police any of it.
LOL
I’m
guessing we always police the world mainly because we are a country
made up of people from multiple countries. All immigrants.
10:32
AM Mr. Silver
I
think it's a long lingering case of machismo, and small dark minds
hiding under big white cowboy hats.
10:32
AM Mr. Brown
LOL
We
are a military super power, so we are basically the world police.
“Hey
now! You broke a law of war! You're under arrest! You have the
right to be bombed! If you refuse that right, you will be bombed
anyway! You have the right to hand all your stuff over! If you
choose not to use that right, we will take it anyway!”
10:35
AM Mr. Silver
On
the other side of the coin, if there were emotionally mature people
running these governments, the world wouldn't need a goon with a tin badge.
10:36
AM Mr. Brown
Also,
everybody would abide by the damned agreements they signed.
I
mean, I believe if they would have just went and shot up those towns,
we would not have this problem right now.
10:40
AM Mr. Brown
Kind
of like how we won't use hollow point bullets or jagged knives in
war.
Trying
to make it a fair fight?
lol
Nobody
actually fights fair, though.
10:42
AM Mr. Blue
Having
rules for war is kind of silly.
10:43
AM Mr. Brown
It
is, but we have them.
We
beat the British by ignoring them.
LOL
(I
assume this is Mr. Brown believing the myth that the British didn't
train for and use guerrilla tactics, and the colonial military didn't
use line tactics, during the Revolutionary War. Also that George Washington
surprised and captured "The Redcoats" in their beds on Christmas morning. - Mr.
Silver)
11:21
AM Mr. Silver
Hollow
points would only be much good against the unarmored anyway,
nowadays.
I've
always been amused by those rules though...they go way back.
The
Pope tried to ban the use of crossbows, bows and slings...
...against
Christians...
“Grievous
wounds! Cruel!”
Like
an axe to the head was better.
11:29
AM Mr. Blue
Japan
banned all guns in the, what, 1600s?
They
managed to sustain a pretty credible honor system.
11:32
AM Mr. Silver
They're
Japanese...
But
as far a moral ban of missile weapons, one could argue that if you
have to get close enough to swing a melee weapon, you have to fully
register your opponent and decide to proceed.
Pack
of archers? “Eh...those are just targets over there.”
11:33
AM Mr. Blue
That's
the way it should be. If you want to kill someone you should have to
be close to them, look them in the eye, and risk losing.
Guns
are cowardly by comparison.
11:34
AM Mr. Silver
Then
there was the impaling/lodging factor of a missile that you don't get with most other
field weapons...a person could die from an otherwise minor wound.
11:44
AM Mr. Silver
And
a crossbow could be used effectively untrained too. Expensive, but
since it was easy to load, aim, and had a lot of power behind it, you could
slap it into the hands of a trustworthy fellow with 10 minutes of
basic instruction and you had a killing machine.
11:51
AM Mr. Silver
But
there is yet another factor I'm sure went into the ban, but I'm sure
they rationalized as something else...social class.
11:51
AM Mr. Blue
Whose?
11:51
AM Mr. Silver
Archers'.
11:51
AM Mr. Blue
Ahh.
11:51
AM Mr. Silver
Their
pay was basically what they could loot.
And
since they were poor you couldn't ransom them off for much to many people, so the incentive to let one live wasn't worth money to a heavy footsoldier or knight, and
who wants to feed and guard commoners?
So
archers would return the favor...
Very
easily...
Starting
at a long safe range...
“You nobles kill us as worthless? We kill you nobles as worth a lot.
Because, since we're commoners, we can't ransom a rich person off.
Why capture one then? A quick dagger through the eye slit, and we
have loot to divide.”
11:55
AM Mr. Blue
Knights
didn't actually go around in those big metal outfits did they? I
always thought those were either for show, prototypes, or for
practice.
11:56
AM Mr. Silver
There
were different types of armor.
Tilting
plate could get ridiculous, but field plate was the finest fighting
gear in the world.
It
was still heavy, of course, but expertly tailored. Armor screwed the
French at Agincourt.
Of
course the French also kept trying to charge into longbowman across a
mud field into set and waiting defenders.
11:58
AM Mr. Blue
So
they'd look ridiculous if they actually tried to move in those
jousting get ups.
11:58
AM Mr. Silver
The
Renaissance sport stuff, yes.
11:59
AM Mr. Brown
Well,
as heavy as a knight's armor was, they were also physically fit for
wearing it.
11:59
AM Mr. Blue
I still doubt they could move.
12:01
PM Mr. Silver
Oh
no...the high-end articulated field stuff was about 30-40lbs. You
can swim in it.
12:19
PM Mr. Blue
Ahh.
Mr.
Amethyst
Mr.
Brown.
I
learned today that the Red Tail Hawk is actually a buzzard.
There
ya go. Interesting tidbit for the day.
1:42
PM Mr. Brown
Birds
of prey are pretty similar. Just choice of food and hunting styles.
1:43
PM Mr. Amethyst
...
I
could argue about this for days.
But
I won't.
1:43
PM Mr. Silver
You
will...this is Mr. Brown.
1:47
PM Mr. Silver
Taking
up Hummbirdry, BTW...
1:47
PM Mr. Silver
Open
the matchbox...take off the tiny hood. Send it after small
bugs...
1:47
PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL,
Mr. Silver!
1:48
PM Mr. Amethyst
"I
do falconry"
"Oh
yeah? What kinda bird?"
"Hummingbird"
2:58
PM Mr. Amethyst
Mr.
Silver, you know about this kinda stuff, is Mr. Brown an evolutionary
leap into the future? Like, is he another species yet to be
identified?
2:59
PM Mr. Silver
Brownus
Katzenjammerus
3:00
PM Mr. Blue
He's
evolution in reverse.
3:00
PM Mr. Brown
How
do you know?
If
I’m ahead of you, how can you process anything I’m thinking or
saying?
3:01
PM Mr. Amethyst
"And
here we see the Brown in his natural habitat. Be sure not to stare,
as he will begin spewing random words and phrases and you'll be
arguing about going through the sun."
3:02
PM Mr. Brown
Well,
if you look at really smart people, they can lack common sense. Its almost as if using the brain for all that thinking and knowledge pushes stuff out.
3:03
PM Mr. Blue
That's
called autism.
3:05
PM Mr. Brown
I
may be a wee bit autistic.
LOL
3:05
PM Mr. Silver
There
was a line from Venture Brothers
“Honestly,
Hank, where do you pick that stuff up? I never see you read! It's
like he channels dead crazy people!”
3:05
PM Mr. Amethyst
That
was beautiful.
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