Rants, Raves and Opinions AKA "The Octagon"

[RogerOver]

And you are the genius who thinks he is going to win a political argument on the internet. Or maybe you are just trolling for kicks. Yeah, that's it.

And you're the genius that spends his life running down skanky chicks that want to sell their coochy and pretend you have lifelong friendships. Sure. Glad you found your place in life. Yeah. That's it.

Since I don't give a single fuck how you waste your time, you don't need to worry about how I waste mine slick. Now go stalk some 19 year old that's not smart enough to hide her personal info and share your findings with everyone else.

[BamBam]

Somehow a post in this off-topic thread prevents you from using that energy the way you like? Looks like you wasted some of that precious energy typing up that sentence.

And you are the genius who thinks he is going to win a political argument on the internet. Or maybe you are just trolling for kicks. Yeah, that's it.

[RogerOver]

I am here to put my energy into getting laid.

BAM.

Somehow a post in this off-topic thread prevents you from using that energy the way you like? Looks like you wasted some of that precious energy typing up that sentence.

[Chunks92]

Nevermind. I had a lot of negative to say on this post, but I decided to refrain and delete. To each they own. #MAGA24 or #Desantis24

Trump passed FOSTA when he partook in the hobby with Stormy making him a hypocrite, Desantis is anti hooker/hobby, both belong nowhere near a high ranking office. If anyone from the right wing belongs in any type of high ranking office, its Cawthorn from NC.

[BamBam]

Nevermind. I had a lot of negative to say on this post, but I decided to refrain and delete. To each they own. #MAGA24 or #Desantis24

I am here to put my energy into getting laid.

BAM.

[LetsGiveItATry]

Looks like that encouragement is working. LOL.

https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/...71319063711744

Hell of a week for Biden:

-528k July jobs added
-Unemployment at 3.5% (50-year low)
-Zawahiri killed
-CHIPS Act passes
-PACT Act passes
-Inflation Reduction Act deal
-Gas hits 50+ day low (median US price below $4/gal)
-Kansas protects abortion

And he oversaw it all with COVID.

And all without calling anyone names, dealing with China like a fucking adult, and generally kicking the GOP ass because they were too stupid to see what was happening on the bills they were voting for.

Oh...and Alex Jones? Looks like he had to pay at least $100 to all those fake crisis actors...

Jury Orders Alex Jones to Pay $45.2 Million in Sandy Hook Case - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/u...s-verdict.html

Pretty good week, all-in-all.

Nevermind. I had a lot of negative to say on this post, but I decided to refrain and delete. To each they own. #MAGA24 or #Desantis24

[RogerOver]

Looks like that encouragement is working. LOL.

https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/...71319063711744

Hell of a week for Biden:

-528k July jobs added
-Unemployment at 3.5% (50-year low)
-Zawahiri killed
-CHIPS Act passes
-PACT Act passes
-Inflation Reduction Act deal
-Gas hits 50+ day low (median US price below $4/gal)
-Kansas protects abortion

And he oversaw it all with COVID.

And all without calling anyone names, dealing with China like a fucking adult, and generally kicking the GOP ass because they were too stupid to see what was happening on the bills they were voting for.

Oh...and Alex Jones? Looks like he had to pay at least $100 to all those fake crisis actors...

Jury Orders Alex Jones to Pay $45.2 Million in Sandy Hook Case - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/u...s-verdict.html

Pretty good week, all-in-all.

[Kenal1]

Where I grew up, you never bought shells with rock salt in them. You opened some bird shells, removed the shot and replaced it with rock salt. IIRC, 12 gauge side-by-side was the most popular for this purpose. Yes, I have also had shot whiz overhead while caught in shenanigans. Times were different: my high school had its own rifle competition team and a range in the basement. To show how crazy I was, we used to open M-80's and put the powder in larger glass aspirin bottles that came with metal screw on caps. Poke a hole in the cap, stick an M-80 fuze through it and you had the functional equivalent of a stick of dynamite. It's a good thing none of those components are easily found today. Don't @ me and don't share your ideas of functional equivalents! We do NOT need the ATF poking around here.

BAM.

Don't forget about Silver Salutes--not quite as powerful as an M-80 but probably a bit more than a cherry bomb. I don't know how old you guys are but back in my high school days in the mid-late 1960's, there were a couple stores in Covington that sold all the stuff, secretly of course. One of them, I think, was name "Sam's" something-or-other and one was an old-time confectionary store.

Also, my uncle, who was a WWII vet, gave me an Army manual of some kind and it had all kinds of great info in it--how to break the enemy's neck in hand-to-hand combat and all kinds of crazy shit. For a teenage, it was cool as hell. It also had a recipe for making gunpowder which included sulfur, saltpeter (I think) and one other dark chemical--can't remember the name of it. I lived on the east side of town and there was an apothecary nearby that sold that stuff. So, naturally, my buddies and I made our own bombs and some of them were unreal. Ah, the good ol' days!

[RogerOver]

Yes, Bengalman I have taken a short cut through a farm once and got shot at with salt pellets from a shotgun! Back in the day when you could get shotgun shells with salt pellets, wish we still could! And another time hunting we migrated just off one farm onto another and had bullets fired just above our heads to let us know we weren't in oz anymore Toto. I wish I grew up in your tree hugging panacea.

Let me ask everyone, if you owned 10 acres of property and you were eating dinner on side patio and 200 people protesting showed up at your doorstep 1000 feet from the entrance to the property; would you be defensive or be like bengalman and say hey glad you could stop by. Keep in mind that at the time out of the tons of protests going on only a fraction of them remained peaceful per the media at that time.

If they were 10 acres away, why would I care? But to answer your question, I'd do the same thing I would do if they stood outside my residence. I'd watch the cameras, and keep my always ready to shoot firearm nearby. No brandishing or aiming necessary.

[Bullet454]

Where I grew up, you never bought shells with rock salt in'them. You opened some bird shells, removed the shot and replaced it with rock salt. IIRC, 12 gauge side-by-side was the most popular for this purpose. Yes, I have also had shot whiz overhead while caught in shenanigans. Times were different: my high school had its own riffle competition team and a range in the basement. To show how crazy I was, we used to open M-80's and put the powder in larger glass aspirin bottles that came with metal screw on caps. Poke a hole in the cap, stick an M-80 fuze through it and you had the functional equivalent of a stick of dynamite. It's a good thing none of those components are easily found today. Don't @ me and don't share your ideas of functional equivalents! We do NOT need the ATF poking around here.

BAM.

Yes we did the same with m-80's so much fun.

[BamBam]

The good ole days of getting shot with rock salt from a shotgun. I miss m-80's the most though.

Where I grew up, you never bought shells with rock salt in them. You opened some bird shells, removed the shot and replaced it with rock salt. IIRC, 12 gauge side-by-side was the most popular for this purpose. Yes, I have also had shot whiz overhead while caught in shenanigans. Times were different: my high school had its own rifle competition team and a range in the basement. To show how crazy I was, we used to open M-80's and put the powder in larger glass aspirin bottles that came with metal screw on caps. Poke a hole in the cap, stick an M-80 fuze through it and you had the functional equivalent of a stick of dynamite. It's a good thing none of those components are easily found today. Don't @ me and don't share your ideas of functional equivalents! We do NOT need the ATF poking around here.

BAM.

[Bullet454]

Yes, Bengalman I have taken a short cut through a farm once and got shot at with salt pellets from a shotgun! Back in the day when you could get shotgun shells with salt pellets, wish we still could! And another time hunting we migrated just off one farm onto another and had bullets fired just above our heads to let us know we weren't in oz anymore Toto. I wish I grew up in your tree hugging panacea.

Let me ask everyone, if you owned 10 acres of property and you were eating dinner on side patio and 200 people protesting showed up at your doorstep 1000 feet from the entrance to the property; would you be defensive or be like bengalman and say hey glad you could stop by. Keep in mind that at the time out of the tons of protests going on only a fraction of them remained peaceful per the media at that time.

The good ole days of getting shot with rock salt from a shotgun. I miss m-80's the most though.

[Twisted69]

Like nobody has ever taken a shortcut through private property before!

I guess they even let trailer trash like these two live in one. I would only expect to have a gun pointed at me if I were going through a trailer park. I guess all the money in the world still can't buy trailer trash a trash bag full of CLASS.

Yes, Bengalman I have taken a short cut through a farm once and got shot at with salt pellets from a shotgun! Back in the day when you could get shotgun shells with salt pellets, wish we still could! And another time hunting we migrated just off one farm onto another and had bullets fired just above our heads to let us know we weren't in oz anymore Toto. I wish I grew up in your tree hugging panacea.

Let me ask everyone, if you owned 10 acres of property and you were eating dinner on side patio and 200 people protesting showed up at your doorstep 1000 feet from the entrance to the property; would you be defensive or be like bengalman and say hey glad you could stop by. Keep in mind that at the time out of the tons of protests going on only a fraction of them remained peaceful per the media at that time.

[BengalMan]

Dnut, I totally respect you as a highly regarded senor member who has contributed a ton of info. At this moment I respectfully disagree with this post content.

First, after searching I found that the house this couple lives in was built for Anna Busch of the Anheiser Busch family, the streets were built privately and are maintained privately, hence the entire gated section is all private property. In other words walking on their street is trespassing!

Second, the court did not rule in the case, there was a misdemeanor plea agreement. They are both attorneys. They were pardoned by the governor several months later.

Third, which some may see as coincidence and others as a contributing part of the saga, the city prosecutor was just the first black elected to that office in 2019.

Fourth, the trespassers had charges dropped to not further escalate racial tensions because of the time frame of all the George Floyd protests.

I was going to add all the links but, what the hell it only took 5 minutes to find.

Like nobody has ever taken a shortcut through private property before!

I guess they even let trailer trash like these two live in one. I would only expect to have a gun pointed at me if I were going through a trailer park. I guess all the money in the world still can't buy trailer trash a trash bag full of CLASS.

[Twisted69]

The reason the court ruled the way that it did was, despite a large group of people walking past their house, there wasn't any proof that they or their property were in any danger. They (the couple) went out and brandished their weapons despite that no one was on their property, no was was destroying their property, no one was coming up to their door, and there was no evidence that they were in any danger. By all accounts people were just walking past them. They (the couple) pointed weapons at people who, by all evidence, were just walking past. Any threat that they perceived wasn't because of any overt action directed at them or their property. As the judge stated in his ruling, people walking past your house does not give you the right to threaten them.

Self-defense only applies if there is an imminent threat. There wasn't. They may say they felt threatened, but without that overt act directed at them, there was none. Thus, the court ruled, that they (the couple) were guilty.

Dnut, I totally respect you as a highly regarded senor member who has contributed a ton of info. At this moment I respectfully disagree with this post content.

First, after searching I found that the house this couple lives in was built for Anna Busch of the Anheiser Busch family, the streets were built privately and are maintained privately, hence the entire gated section is all private property. In other words walking on their street is trespassing!

Second, the court did not rule in the case, there was a misdemeanor plea agreement. They are both attorneys. They were pardoned by the governor several months later.

Third, which some may see as coincidence and others as a contributing part of the saga, the city prosecutor was just the first black elected to that office in 2019.

Fourth, the trespassers had charges dropped to not further escalate racial tensions because of the time frame of all the George Floyd protests.

I was going to add all the links but, what the hell it only took 5 minutes to find.