This is precisely why we have a nanny state

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I'm all for freedom of speech and expression, but whoever wrote this is a fucking idiot.  This is exactly the sort of crap that will get content censored and mind controlled, and gives other content creators a bad name.

The video game industry also takes enough mindless criticism from digital luddites who can't separate fantasy from reality and are too busy pushing a preformulated discussion towards a predetermined conclusion.  We don't need this as something for the antis and zealots to point to after the next school shooting.

Actual conversation from this morning

Waiting in line at Australia Post to collect a couple of parcels...

Australia Post Droid: Wow, you're lucky this one didn't get sent back, it's been waiting so long.

Me: I beg your pardon??  It's been here 5 days, and it's very much you who are lucky it hasn't been.

APD: (rather taken aback) What do you mean?

Me: I mean that it took your "organisation" 5 days to shift a parcel the size of a deck of cards from Gosford to Melbourne for starters.  Your postie then tried to deliver it at 2:45 on a Monday afternoon, while I was perhaps unsurprisingly at work.  Your "organisation" then only opens business hours, while everyone is, again, at work.  Because obviously it's out of the question that you should stay open for late night trading on a Thursday like everyone else in the entire shopping centre is obligated to do by then tenancy agreement, whether they like it or not, or whether it costs them money to do so.  So a Saturday morning is, in fact, the first time I could possibly collect my mail, and so yes, I expect you to hold it for me for that long, and as such, I'm very much not the one who is lucky it hasn't been sent back.

APD:  Um... have you considered our parcel locker service?

Me:  Indeed I have.  Has your organisation considered actually building one here?  Of course not.  The nearest one is conveniently about 10km away, and in any case, would my second parcel be deliverable to there?  Considering it was shipped from an international location and had to be signed for?

APD:  Um... no, I suppose not.

Me:  Good, so to summarise - we've established that your "organisation"'s performance is poor, that your responsiveness to your customer's needs is lousy, that you don't offer a usable or realistic alternative, and that I, as the customer, aren't being held accountable for those shortcomings, yes?

APD:  Um...

Me:  Excellent.  Unfortunately, I'll see you next time.

And it started out so normally

Did we all see the news from last week about the chef who killed his wife and then cooked and ate the body in an attempt to dispose of it?

That's pretty innovative, but let's rephrase that one to provide some context for "normality", shall we?

Did we all see the news from last week about the former male prostitute who killed and tried to eat his post-op transgender ex-hooker "wife"?

Ah, that makes far more sense.

The kicker - the dude in question was buried yesterday.  The music at the funeral was largely Queen, and featured "Killer Queen", "Another One Bites The Dust" and "Don't Stop Me Now".

Seriously, I'm dying here...

Die in a fire, spammer

I like this guy very much

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/bergerons-restaurant-in-louisiana-offers-a-discount-to-customers-carrying-a-gun/story-fn93ypt9-1227076931606

There should be more of this, and Australia needs concealed carry laws.

In my observation, it's amazing how polite your potential thug becomes when he realises that he's not able to be an effective bully, because the intended victim has the ability to fight back effectively.

Legal, licensed, law abiding firearms owners are not a problem.  They are an asset to the community.

NFH Bunnings

Went to fletch some new arrows this morning for a comp tomorrow.  Got through four of the roughest looking arrows I can recall making for some time before I had a good look at the ‘slosh’ in the bottle and decided the cyanoacrylate had started to polymerise, which makes it near on impossible to get a consistent bead of glue.  Go for the spare bottle in the cupboard, only to discover that I *am* using the spare bottle.  Bugger.

 

Go for a drive up to Bunnings for Loctite Pro cyano, a litre of acetone for cleaning and degreasing, and (on instruction) a large bag of Dog Rocks to stop the hounds killing the lawn.

 

Local Bunnings Keysborough has cyano, but only ½ litre acetone as they couldn’t be bothered to order any of the 1 litre bottles.  NFH as it’s $9.50 as opposed to $10.50 for the litre, and I am a bit morally opposed to paying 90% of the price for 50% of the product.  I took the time to inquire as to whether it was normally stocked and was assured it was, although I did comment that the thick layer of dust in the hole assigned for the product suggested that I was being lied to, and not terribly well.  I abandon the purchase when I discover they don’t sell the large bag of dog rocks (5 rocks for $20) but instead want $10 for *one* rock.

 

Go across the road to Masters.  I don’t like Masters much.  The store layout is weird, their stock line seems to deliberately contrast with that of Bunnings, and I’ve not had much luck with them so far.  They had acetone in the desired quantity for the appropriate price, but don’t stock Loctite glues at all.  WTF?  Not willing to try some dodgy Selleys brand, no idea what’s in the stuff.

 

Drive to Bunnings Dandenong.  These characters don’t stock Loctite Pro cyano at all.  They stock every other product that Loctite make, but not the Pro stuff, which is pure glue with no fillers and retardants.  Despite knowing it’s a waste of time even drawing breath, I ask the pimple face aisle zombie in a Bunnings apron if they have any, on the grounds that I would have thought that the Bunnings Mk 1 Mod 0 stock selection would be pretty much identical from location to location.  Whether this is indeed the case or not I have no idea, as pimple face gave an excellent demonstration of precisely why minimum wage laws exist.

 

Drive to Bunnings Springvale.  Oh joy, we have both the desired glue and acetone.  Still only stock Dog Rocks in 1 piece bags, but by this stage I’ve had it and bow to the inevitable.  Although I must say that the Dog Rocks people use a bag that is way too big, because two rocks fit into one just fine.

 

So I’m shooting tomorrow with my old practice arrows, because between general cretinry on the part of corporate business and going to the movies tonight, I am not staying up until midnight fletching.

 

NFH.

Rules Of The Air

1. Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory.

2. If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger. If you pull the stick back, they get smaller. That is, unless you keep pulling the stick all the way back, then they get bigger again.

3. Flying isn't dangerous. Crashing is what’s dangerous.

4. It’s always better to be down here wishing you were up there than up there wishing you were down here.

5. The ONLY time you have too much fuel is when you’re on fire.

6. The propeller is just a big fan in front of the plane used to keep the pilot cool. When it stops, you can actually watch the pilot start sweating.

7. When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No one has ever collided with the sky.

8. A ‘good’ landing is one from which you can walk away. A ‘great’ landing is one after which they can use the plane again.

9. Learn from the mistakes of others. You won’t live long enough to make all of them yourself.

10. You know you've landed with the wheels up if it takes full power to taxi to the ramp.

11. The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. Large angle of arrival, small probability of survival and vice versa.

12. Never let an aircraft take you somewhere your brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.

13. Stay out of clouds. The silver lining everyone keeps talking about might be another airplane going in the opposite direction. Reliable sources also report that mountains have been known to hide out in clouds.

14. Always try to keep the number of landings you make equal to the number of takeoffs you've made.

15. There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.

16. You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck.

17. Helicopters can’t fly; they’re just so ugly the earth repels them.

18. If all you can see out of the window is ground that’s going round and round and all you can hear is commotion coming from the passenger compartment, things are not at all as they should be.

19. In the ongoing battle between objects made of aluminium going hundreds of miles per hour and the ground going zero miles per hour, the ground has yet to lose.

20. Good judgement comes from experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement.

21. It’s always a good idea to keep the pointy end going forward as much as possible.

22. Keep looking around. There’s always something you've missed.

23. Remember, gravity is not just a good idea. It’s the law. And it’s not subject to repeal.

24.The three most useless things to a pilot are the altitude above you, runway behind you, and a tenth of a second ago.