Imagine if the kid said……mommy the man touched me. The kid may be so “fear conditioned” that “touching” is nothing more than lifting her up.
Try sitting there on the mother’s porch trying to describe what “touching” went on. Wait for the cops and…good luck.
We are at the point where one has to weigh the life of the kid versus repercussions. Where that indecision can be a life and death.
I’m not happy with where we have come as a society. The tiny fraction of crazy has triggered overprotective parents into a frenzy of fear. Top it off with media horrid need for sensational headlines and we have reached……maybe I should walk away….not my problem.
i typed in huge lucid rant on this, and desided nehhh talk about political suicide lol.
the problems obvious, the answers not so obvious, bar a bit of a gandy protest thing… the only thing that made gandi’s stuff work was the no violence.(yu cant give a terorist anything, else they’ll all want one yet a politician throws a tantrum and gets even more)
can you imagine if the whole of washinton just sat there and said no? now we know in china they open fire on their students and holy men, but….can you imagine the cival war that would brake out if they started shooting thousands of peaceful sat down people?
you could make trump pay for the wall? ahh yeah…bankrupt again lol. sorry.(isnt he a lobbyist? like did he even get a vote or is it just a matter a sales and entertainment these days).
what can yu say ?i would buy more than one gun in america…just out of fear.
i’m not against any particular churchs or religion, without it we’d all be happily fighting in small tribes and dying shitty orable deaths.(oh we still do but yeh but no but)
but………………
pay no taxs and bugger yu kids? YOU STILL GIVE THEM MONEY FFS!
draw the line peeps. yu gotta get educated in the feild your sitting in.
edit…if you educated the underprivolidges they’d figure out whats going on? well they sussed any way, even the thickest cotton feild slave had a really good idia what was going on.
and back on track, if you need a semi auto to nip down to wall mart to buy more bullets? isnt there something up? lol. sorry but…yu know.
when you cant throw a dog a bone? ffs…you might get sued? hu?
the american bill of rights, i read it… fair do’s my interpretasion arnt going to be the same as some one who was born and bread to it but heres how i summerised.
1. its strawberry flavour, with a great advert, you buyy it from me.
2.is chocolate flavour, you buy from him (whome i also own)
3. if you dont like it then lets see who dares say so.
4. fight amongst yourself so ‘we’ can enjoy our wealth at your cost
5. hey be careful out there some starving citizen of a the democracy might pop a cap in your ass.
6. shut up and give me more.
7.shut up or i’ll pop a cap in your ass and give me more
8…yeahhh freedom of speech to say as your told.
UK version.
shut up and work more i need it so i can enjoy laughing at you.(i.e. even the united nations wont help because yu just havent got enough oil sorry…)
can anybody define why you cant even help some one in need yet?
fffffffffff.
edit in, just in case its seen that i’m am just taking the rip or beyond it, ermmm, the bill of rights if adhered to properly (and not perverted) does work.
religion if adhered to correctly…does work…
infact pick any nation of any time, the ethics of the idealisms actually worked for them in their own feild….
the corruption fubared it in every language and every history.
du dahhhh…dont give um the money? and dont sell um guns? ahh poo it’s to late.
I have two rules when talking to muggles about my lights:
1. Let them ask the questions. Info dumps are not fun for anyone, let alone about an, in their minds, “simple ‘make-the-dark-bright’ stick”.
2. If asked about how do you know so much about lights or why you have more than one torch on your person, never, NEVER say you’re an “enthusiast”. Instead tell them you’re a collector. It gives you way more leeway than you may think at first, believe me - everyone I said this to went “alright, cool” at most, no funny stares.
yu cant help cause people else where make it that way. it’s an answer…with why’s…no ones interested in sorting the problem are they? there’s more value in whining about.
so…we have to be very careful trying to help folks or just not bother. wow every body want’s a community like that.
I just say/summarise it as, “You want to light up what’s close-up, you want a wider beam. You want to spot owls in trees, you want a narrow beam. You just use the right tool for the job.”.
At that point, they should “get” that while you can use pliers to remove a nut, it’ll chew it up and it’s better to use The Right Tool, ie, a wrench. You could use the sharp end of a chisel to undo a screw, but it’s better to use a screwdriver.
So whatever you want to use the light for, that’s the light you pick. They’re not all the same.
(And then they go out and buy an Atomic Beam… :person_facepalming: )
But eventually the lightbulb over their head turns on, and they “get” it, why you have 20 different types of lights.
Same reason whenever anyone asks, “What’s the best light I should get?”, my first question is always, “What are you going to use it for?”.
One more point, whether you say you’re a “collector” or “enthusiast”, whatever, they’re still hung up on them being flashlights, and give you a look like you’ve got a foot-fetish or something weird like that.
Keep it to “using the right tool for the job” and why you have so many different tools, each of which has a specific function, and they (hopefully, but don’t count on it) won’t give you as weird a look.
I hope carpmon43 got the hint that what he wrote was the equivalent of gibberish… but also, being littered with political contention could send this topic to the dust bin.
6 or 7 years ago they had an entire isle dedicated for flashlights, it was like a candy store for those who didn’t buy online. Now days the flashlight section shares a card board stand at the far corner of the store.
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