Almost as crazy as moaning about whether Scott can be a first name or not...Scot Dutchy wrote:Anyway Scot is not my first name. I dont know what you are moaning at. It is my tag not my name. I was a Scot and now I am a Nederlander and have been for 45 years. Moaning about tags???? Crazy.
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Great Scott! This thread has gone to the dogs!
(probably yappy little Highland terriers...)
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Until you spell words like they were spelt in Shakespearian times, or before, your assertion can be safely ignored.Scot Dutchy wrote:Americans cant spell anything right can they.Hermit wrote:Let's just turn to facts for a change.Scot Dutchy wrote:Scott is a surname btw. Only to the illiterate is it a first name.Hermit wrote:I'm with you, bro. "Scot" is an abominable contraction. Two letters are missing. No, they are not "c" nor "h". They are "r" and "e".pErvinalia wrote:I'll tell you what spelling annoys me - Scott with a single t.(Link)Popularity of the name Scott for Boys
First Year in the Top 1000: 1880 (earliest year for which we have data)
Last Year in the Top 1000: 2006 (latest year for which we have data)
Average Age: 47.75
Highest Percentage: 1.820% in 1971
Best Rank: #10 (in 1971)
Represented in the Top 1000 names in: 127 of 127 years (100.00%)
Also, Scott Joplin says you're a racist for denying his existence, and there are well over a thousand people whose first name is Scott who are known well enough to be individually mentioned, complete with occupation, date of birth and usually with photo on this internet list.
Meanwhile you better get used to change. There's more to come.
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For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
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Did the United States Government Ban Lawn Dart Sales After a Child's Death?
A 1988 decision about a backyard game has been used to highlight ongoing political inaction around guns after mass shootings.
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US does not allow study of gun violence
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... ate-217022
because NRA knows it can only be solved banning guns.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... ate-217022
because NRA knows it can only be solved banning guns.
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The point about automobile deaths is a good one.Tero wrote:US does not allow study of gun violence
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... ate-217022
because NRA knows it can only be solved banning guns.
You have to pass a vision exam to drive a car, but not to use a gun in the US.In the 1960s, Congress saw that young people were being killed on our highways at unacceptably high rates and appropriated $200 million annually for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to conduct research that led to safer cars, safer roads and safer drivers. This research has saved more than 350,000 lives, according to NHTSA—and none of this involved confiscating automobiles. It would not take much to restart the CDC’s gun-related research efforts, and such research could yield results that are every bit as impressive.
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That could be a good thing, unless you are shooting into a crowd.You have to pass a vision exam to drive a car, but not to use a gun in the US.
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
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Or you're the mythical "good guy with a gun," or worried about someone coming into your house. Kind of want to see what you're shooting at then.Tero wrote:That could be a good thing, unless you are shooting into a crowd.You have to pass a vision exam to drive a car, but not to use a gun in the US.
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The good guy with a gun: http://abcnews.go.com/US/okla-woman-sho ... d=15285605
One can say that the balance of risks and harms do not favor allowing good guys to have guns, because more harm comes than good. But the notion that it's a "myth" that good people save lives through the use of guns is false. It is also counterproductive, because if you want gun control, trying to foist it on people through the use of a false narrative is not going to work. It only helps to show your opponents that you're not honest.
One can say that the balance of risks and harms do not favor allowing good guys to have guns, because more harm comes than good. But the notion that it's a "myth" that good people save lives through the use of guns is false. It is also counterproductive, because if you want gun control, trying to foist it on people through the use of a false narrative is not going to work. It only helps to show your opponents that you're not honest.
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The blind guy with a gun: http://abcnews.go.com/US/father-fatally ... d=48414190
Careful, he might shoot your strawman next.
Careful, he might shoot your strawman next.
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Back in the day, I fucking loved shooting, whether it be targets, rabbits, foxes, in fact anything introduced to Oz over the last 200 years. Technically, that includes white people...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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The first-fleeters arrived 230 years ago, so...JimC wrote:Back in the day, I fucking loved shooting, whether it be targets, rabbits, foxes, in fact anything introduced to Oz over the last 200 years. Technically, that includes white people...
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Has anything been introduced into Oz that has actually worked. Animals I mean. Are those toads still a big problem in Queensland? Slimy big bastards. The only way to kill them is to put them in the deep freeze apparently.JimC wrote:Back in the day, I fucking loved shooting, whether it be targets, rabbits, foxes, in fact anything introduced to Oz over the last 200 years. Technically, that includes white people...
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They're a massive problem.
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"Socialized medicine is just exactly as morally defensible as gassing and cooking Jews" - Seth. Yes, he really did say that..
"Seth you are a boon to this community" - Cunt.
"I am seriously thinking of going on a spree killing" - Svartalf.
"The Western world is fucking awesome because of mostly white men" - DaveDodo007.
"Socialized medicine is just exactly as morally defensible as gassing and cooking Jews" - Seth. Yes, he really did say that..
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No solution found yet? They are really gruesome.pErvinalia wrote:They're a massive problem.
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