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Offline _Schadenfreude_

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« on: June 01, 2004, 07:47:02 AM »
Apparently there's been a 45% decline in burglary in the UK in the last 10 years - imagine how much better it would have been if we'd all had guns!!!

http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2709203
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Offline lazs2

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« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2004, 08:05:25 AM »
burglary was going down before the gun ban but the rate was slowed after the ban.  muggings are up and...

more of your burglaries happen when you are home than ours in the states..  they just walk in and push your defensless wussy ass's around.

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« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2004, 08:11:19 AM »
Schadenfreude....what happened to you last Friday?  Ravs mentioned that you were keen but had some commitment and you couldn't make it.  Too bad, I would have liked to have met you.

Hi lazs.  :)
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« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2004, 08:23:42 AM »
hi curval... if you see him give him a wedgie for me.... and then take his wallet.

lazs
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« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2004, 09:22:47 AM »
Slight miscommunication there, Curv.

I was talking about expecting to see Shaden at the RAS lecture which he couldn't make cos of a work commitment. Didn't think he was coming to the friday booze up.

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Offline _Schadenfreude_

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« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2004, 09:24:39 AM »
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Schadenfreude....what happened to you last Friday?  Ravs mentioned that you were keen but had some commitment and you couldn't make it.  Too bad, I would have liked to have met you.

Hi lazs.  :)


I had been visiting a manufacturer down in Devon and my car's fuel pump died - I thought it was just a air blockage and cleared all the pipes - got it going but as a I pulled off the highway it died again - blech coasted into the dealer - took them a week to fix it so went down to fetch it over the long weekend.

Discovered I am now far too old to surf and the Atlantic is far too cold to surf in even if you aren't too old to surf.

Next time you're in town drop into the B&B I posted in Wimbledon - very nice and 3 min walk from the village - London is 20 mins away.
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« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2004, 10:08:33 AM »
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burglary was going down before the gun ban but the rate was slowed after the ban.  muggings are up and...

more of your burglaries happen when you are home than ours in the states..  they just walk in and push your defensless wussy ass's around.

lazs


a man who owns a cricket bat can never ever be termed "defenceless"
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Offline Curval

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« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2004, 10:11:58 AM »
Or a Nine Iron.:)
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Offline Lizking

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« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2004, 10:14:08 AM »
No, but he can be called a wussie....
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« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2004, 10:52:32 AM »
Oh I get it now... A firearm is some sort of noodle extension.
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« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2004, 12:22:54 PM »
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No, but he can be called a wussie....


only by uncivilized individuals who are beneath our contempt.....
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« Reply #11 on: June 01, 2004, 12:24:13 PM »
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Oh I get it now... A firearm is some sort of noodle extension.


mmm might be too literal - however I would go as far to say that some boys here have a very, very serious fetish....
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« Reply #12 on: June 01, 2004, 12:28:53 PM »
I think it's just silly. On one hand, we have the pro-gun types saying that the anti-gun types are living in fear of guns. On the other hand, we have the anti-gun types saying that the pro-gun types are just living in fear.

It's all rubbish, IMHO. If you wish to own firearms, the Constitution supports your right to do so. I just don't see why this gets spun as some sort of manhood issue (from either side). It's crap.
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« Reply #13 on: June 01, 2004, 12:29:21 PM »
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No, but he can be called a wussie....


Wow...I do believe you are calling me a wussie.

Right...that's it....Nine Irons at 20 paces at the next Con.

LOL.
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« Reply #14 on: June 01, 2004, 12:33:55 PM »
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Oh I get it now... A firearm is some sort of noodle extension.


That's where I keep mine! Makes crossing one's legs a bit of a chore, tho.
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