Your experience trying to help muggles.....

WalkIntoTheLight · 2019-03-15T09:44:07.000Z

[quote=Spartan]

WalkIntoTheLight:

Spartan:

I’d just offer to call a tow truck… if I had a mobile phone, which I don’t. So, I guess I’d just honk and laugh and drive on.

I’m not sure that some of those tow truck drivers are trustworthy. The instructions to my wife is to keep her phone in her hands, make sure the folding knife blade is full lock and wait for me. If 4 or 5 cars stop, then it’s safe to come out.

Okay, if we’re at the point where a good samaritan is at risk of getting knifed for his troubles, I’m not even going to slow down.

carpmon43 · 2019-03-15T12:56:43.000Z

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?

yeh i’m deluded.

carpmon43 · 2019-03-15T13:20:52.000Z

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.

teacher · 2019-03-15T14:06:53.000Z

RobertB · 2019-03-15T14:14:45.000Z

holy crap… google translator doesn’t work with that last rant… lol

Lightbringer · 2019-03-15T15:03:10.000Z

lampliter · 2019-03-15T15:28:01.000Z

I’d be willin’ to trade my Cometa fer 1 o them Q8’s.
What Lightbringer said.

KawiBoy1428 · 2019-03-15T16:51:50.000Z

I think he’s doing the shuffle…http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/medshow/thorazine.html

Jack_Kellar · 2019-03-15T17:09:43.000Z

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.

carpmon43 · 2019-03-15T17:07:00.000Z

yup… lol

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.

teacher · 2019-03-15T17:08:08.000Z

I think you nailed it KB.

Lightbringer · 2019-03-15T17:32:08.000Z

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?”.

Lightbringer · 2019-03-15T17:38:05.000Z

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.

xevious · 2019-03-15T17:42:12.000Z

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.

STOP IT NOW.

Spartan · 2019-03-15T18:45:27.000Z

I created another thread where there appears to be a lot of heavy drinking and posting….

flightless22 · 2019-03-15T19:36:26.000Z

xevious:

I don’t know…

Couldn’t get past “I was in Home Depot. Obviously passing by the flashlight section is a religious thing.”

The HOME DEPOT flashlight section? :disappointed:

I was in Home Depot last month and while wandering through various isles I suddenly realized I was in front of some basic LED flashlights. Yeah, the flashlight section. Knowing what we all know here, I didn’t see anything inspiring. The only light from above was a super cold warehouse LED light fixture. :innocent:

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.

Jack_Kellar · 2019-03-15T19:36:50.000Z

Lightbringer:

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.

Maybe for you, Bringer. Using the word ‘collector’ has never earned me an odd look thus far. (If that changes, I’ll keep you posted )

teacher · 2019-03-15T19:40:17.000Z

Spartan:

I created another thread where there appears to be a lot of heavy drinking and posting….

I think a couple posts went far beyond “heavy drinking”…

Lightbringer · 2019-03-15T20:29:02.000Z

Jack Kellar:

Lightbringer:

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.

Maybe for you, Bringer. Using the word ‘collector’ has never earned me an odd look thus far. (If that changes, I’ll keep you posted )

Mmmm, that’s “Light” or “Mr Bringer”, just not “Bringer”. Urg… :smiling_imp:

I’ve said “collector” before, got The Look™, and had to add, “Hey, some people collect Hummels…”.

carpmon43 · 2019-03-15T21:15:49.000Z

xevious:

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.

STOP IT NOW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9t-slLl30E

yup no problem….