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[laklak]

Look, I'm serious here. Mrs. Lak is over in The Country Formerly Known As Swaziland, and told me friends of ours who live out in the bush were attacked by a thief with a machete, husbandish got cut up a pretty good. The thief broke the sliding glass door on one side of their house, they heard and saw him and retreated to the bedroom and locked the (very heavy solid secure) door. He tried the door but couldn't break it, so he went around and broke the sliding glass door into the bedroom. The husbandish is an ex-game ranger who was trampled by an elephant and has a fucked up hand and leg and his wife is Mrs. Lak's best high school friend who married Mrs. Lak's Dad and then immediately divorced him after accusing him of domestic violence (nonsense) but they're now friends and...long story. The thief grabbed a few things and split, thankfully not doing something really nasty to Mrs. Lak's former best mate.

Anyway. When we go over there I won't have guns, real hard to get legally and if they caught you illegally it would be really expensive and you'd spend time in a Swazi jail. Not a life goal. So I'm thinking, that shield and spear? If our friend had that in his bedroom? He had some time, certainly enough to grab them from the wall and get behind the shield. I'm thinking corner, wifey behind me, shield edge on the floor and spear angled over the top. This is DOMBEYA! You could poke the shit out of the motherfucker before he got close enough to hurt you. Maybe a big knife / short sword (gladius?) if he gets past the assegai.

Here, with that response time? Fucker's walking into a wall of 12 gauge and I'm a hero on the local news. But no guns? I'm an old fuck and I need a force multiplier.

[Hermit]

So... you are willing to admit that guns are not the cause of the violence that kills so many?

Guns are not the cause of violence. They are the reason why so many are killed, though.

Well I think guns are a 'linear' factor in the equation, but the reason why so many are killed is something yet to be uncovered and addressed.

You're on drugs now, aren't you? The reason why so many are killed is crystal clear. Firearms make killing easy. I provided empirical evidence that more guns means more murder. Here it is again:

Your R2 is ridiculously low.

You would be crowing if the gradient were horizontal or sloping down. Also, I would then argue that the rate of privately owned firearms makes no difference to the murder rate, or Lott was right, respectively.

[Brian Peacock]

Look, I'm serious here. Mrs. Lak is over in The Country Formerly Known As Swaziland, and told me friends of ours who live out in the bush were attacked by a thief with a machete, husbandish got cut up a pretty good. The thief broke the sliding glass door on one side of their house, they heard and saw him and retreated to the bedroom and locked the (very heavy solid secure) door. He tried the door but couldn't break it, so he went around and broke the sliding glass door into the bedroom. The husbandish is an ex-game ranger who was trampled by an elephant and has a fucked up hand and leg and his wife is Mrs. Lak's best high school friend who married Mrs. Lak's Dad and then immediately divorced him after accusing him of domestic violence (nonsense) but they're now friends and...long story. The thief grabbed a few things and split, thankfully not doing something really nasty to Mrs. Lak's former best mate.

Anyway. When we go over there I won't have guns, real hard to get legally and if they caught you illegally it would be really expensive and you'd spend time in a Swazi jail. Not a life goal. So I'm thinking, that shield and spear? If our friend had that in his bedroom? He had some time, certainly enough to grab them from the wall and get behind the shield. I'm thinking corner, wifey behind me, shield edge on the floor and spear angled over the top. This is DOMBEYA! You could poke the shit out of the motherfucker before he got close enough to hurt you. Maybe a big knife / short sword (gladius?) if he gets past the assegai.

Here, with that response time? Fucker's walking into a wall of 12 gauge and I'm a hero on the local news. But no guns? I'm an old fuck and I need a force multiplier.

Couple of well placed heavy onyx knick-knacks could help too. Statue of the virgin with a heavy base, a couple of flat ashtrays with pointy edges. A cricket bat or a 5-iron. A big fuck off bitey dog.

[JimC]

C'mon, Brian, he's American! All he needs is a baseball bat!

[laklak]

I'm down as a motherfucker with the big fuck off bitey dogs. But there's a problem. We're not going to be there full time, and we can't move big fuck off bitey dogs back and forth across the Atlantic unless we win a big son of a bitch lottery and buy a 747. Mrs. Lak says the solution is "sell the boat". Lol. Like that's going to happen. Dumb bitch.

[laklak]

Eventually we'll have a few Boerboels:

Come at me, bro. That's a fucking dog, eh?

Imagine getting 3 or 4 as puppies. Raise them like your own kids, but unlike kids you will always be God. Train them in German. Hey Hermit - what's the German imperative for "Kill!"?

[laklak]

Here's a puppy. Awwwww my widdle babby.

[Brian Peacock]

Great Dane/German Shepherd cross.



Nobody'll come near you with a fricking wolf on the premises.

[Hermit]

Great Dane/German Shepherd cross.



Nobody'll come near you with a fricking wolf on the premises.

Can't see the photo. Link says "Unauthorized"

[Brian Peacock]

http://kotatanpakumuh.website/german-sh ... -for-sale/

[laklak]

Damn that's a big fucker. Here's another big fucker, Caucasian Shepherd. I'll bet Putin has a fucking dog sled team.

[Sean Hayden]

shepherds are the best dogs ever

I always wanted a boxer though. A playful dummy like me.

[laklak]

I really love dogs, they're far better company than humans. It's such a commitment, though. If you get a puppy you're looking at a minimum of 12-15 years, and could go 20. I'm way too old for puppies. My mate Steve adopts old, terminal dogs. Pays for vet bills and all that. They live maybe 2 years or so, but for those 2 years somebody takes care of them. Steve is a dude.

[Hermit]

I'm more the crazy cat man type. One dog and several cats have come and gone in previous years. Here's my present company:

Mayhem was eight weeks old when I became her servant.



She'll be 14 in about six weeks' time.


Tom kind of wandered in when the neighbour two doors down moved out and abandoned him about twelve years ago.



I don't know how old he is.


Officially Ginger lives across the road, but seems to get most of his food here at the Hermitage.



I don't know how old he is either, but I first saw him in 2005, and he looked well and truly all growed up then.


Chloe is the token mutt. She's a hand-me-down from my ex-partner's daughter to my ex-partner to me. She's about 10.

[Rum]

I really love dogs, they're far better company than humans. It's such a commitment, though. If you get a puppy you're looking at a minimum of 12-15 years, and could go 20. I'm way too old for puppies. My mate Steve adopts old, terminal dogs. Pays for vet bills and all that. They live maybe 2 years or so, but for those 2 years somebody takes care of them. Steve is a dude.

It’s an important condsideration. We got our two as puppies when I was approaching 60 and retirement was in the offing. I wanted them as a motivation to get out every morning and for all the years I’ve had them they’ve done exactly that. I doubt I’ve missed more than ten one hour plus walks in the morning since I’ve had them- and those due to bad weather. But the timing was also about their expected lifespan...and my fitness at age 75 if I’m still around to get out every day. I hope they go before I do.