Random Thoughts Thread

[A Horse With No Name]

Surly bikes are made in Taiwan, which makes me think harder about getting one, just checked. 

Edited 8 hours ago by A Horse With No Name

[A Horse With No Name]

Things rapidly going to Shhh Hhhhhhh eye teeeee after our current government actions. 

 

We are doing this tomorrow, should be good. We plan to do about 6-7 hours, maybe sixty miles or so total. 

[A Horse With No Name]

Lots of exploring I want to do. 

 

More on little Miami...

 

[G. David Felt]

19 minutes ago, A Horse With No Name said:

Things rapidly going to Shhh Hhhhhhh eye teeeee after our current government actions. 

 

Here at seatac they are saying arrive 3-4hrs before your flight due to TSA delays.

[A Horse With No Name]

1 hour ago, G. David Felt said:

Here at seatac they are saying arrive 3-4hrs before your flight due to TSA delays.

Good thing I have a pickup truck with a decent sized fuel tank. 

Not flying anywhere for awhile. 

[Robert Hall]

Done flying for the year...a flight to Denver, a flight to Colorado Springs via Chicago Midway, and two flights to DFW and back were the sum total of my flights this year.   Next vacay will be likely a road trip in Spring.  

Thinking of driving down to Beaufort, SC, Savannah and Tybee Island w/ a visit to Macon to see the Allman Brother Band 'Big House Museum'... 

Edited 3 hours ago by Robert Hall

[A Horse With No Name]

10 minutes ago, Robert Hall said:

Done flying for the year...a flight to Denver, a flight to Colorado Springs via Chicago Midway, and two flights to DFW and back were the sum total of my flights this year.   Next vacay will be likely a road trip in Spring.  

Thinking of driving down to Beaufort, SC, Savannah and Tybee Island w/ a visit to Macon to see the Allman Brother Band 'Big House Museum'... 

That sounds epic. 

[A Horse With No Name]

More economic winning. 

[oldshurst442]

On 10/8/2025 at 9:46 AM, ccap41 said:

I tried having a civil conversation about what we can or should do about gun violence. I asked for your opinion. You opinion was "go look at what other countries are doing". I'm not looking up ~195 countries' policies on gun control. 

Like usual...civil was on the suface, dig deeper and I saw through your whole charade as that is what you always do...

Anyway...

Gun safety is not some sort of secret phoquing code to decipher.   

1. The phoquing USofA is NOT the ONLY phoquing country in the world that its citizens are armed...

2. The phoquing USofA is NOT the ONLY phoquing country in the world that its a RIGHT for its citizens to be armed.

3. Once all of you phoque-tards understand that you are NOT special in the world, you will understand many things.

4. the REASON why I told you to google other nations is for you to understand that OTHER nations have STANDARD and LOGICAL gun safety practices and storage in laws etc...   Restrictions...

5. You WILL realize that ALL you discussed with @A Horse With No Name and @G. David Felt  right after you made this silly post, is that ALL countries have variations of what you guys discussed.   As law...  But people in  those countries also follow THEIR own brain logic too... 

6. The ONLY MAJOR difference in the US and MOST of the rest of the world is that US citizens have access, unbelievable, unfettered access to "military style" weaponry. 

7. If you would have bothered JUST to google ONLY Canada, you would QUICKLY realize that MOST of the world's country's citizens do NOT have access to AR-15s and they certainly do NOT buy those types of weapons at a Walmart or buy a Ford F150 and get a free AR15 deals from a dealership in South Carolina...

8. I could have suggested to restrict "military style" weapons, but THAT is not the phoquing problem the US has with guns.

9. Rural America is NOT the ONLY phoquing rural area in the world where people have guns and could be quite protective of their property.

10. I even made it a PHOQUING point NOT to go to rural Greece in think that 20% of Greeks own guns because you WILL be shot in rural Greece too. 

11. Maybe if you as a dumb phoquing American let go of your shytty American pride, you would realize, even if Im a tad rude, blunt and overbearing, that MY message is loud and PHOQUING clear.

12. THAT message is that too many PHOQUING Americans are too selfish, too stupid to handle guns even if they own a shyte ton of them, too irresponsible even if there WOULD be rules and regs, nobody follows them anyway.

13. THAT is why I said PHOQUE the laws and what laws dictate.

14. Like I said, most Americans lack sympathy and empathy and seriuosly dont have ANY regard for human life and THAT nis why gun violence is sooooo prevalent in your phoquing society.

15. THAT is why I said pseudo-intellectuals say that the US is born from violence. But I also said Greece was ALSO born from violence.  Athena is not only a Goddess of wisdom but she is also a Goddess of military war strategy.   Greeks do not kill each other every other week-end in public shootings...

16. The problem that NEEDS to be addressed is a problem that Americans need to look in the phoquing mirror and change the phoquing person they see in the phoquing mirror.

17. the ATTITUDE towards nonchalance of gun ownership and human deaths NEED to be changed within YOUR society.

18. I asked YOU what the PHOQUE YOU will do to HELP your fellow American to change his shytty ways...

 

IS THAT CEAR ENOUGH FOR YOU???!!!

As you could see...I am NOT insufferable... I actually care.  It may not look like it. You laughed at that last time I said it. I use vulgar language to WAKE YOU THE PHOQUE UP!!!    But your countrymen/women and everybody in between NEEDS to change their attitude towards violence and human deaths.   

Canadians do not like when other Canadians shoot and kill others.  Not only do our laws reflect that, but deep in OUR souls, we do NOT shoot ourselves.  Toronto is US/Canada's 4th largest region.  Multi-cultural. Blacks, Whites, Asians, Latinos, Euros of all kinds, Middle-Easterners of all kinds...    We live together PEACEFULLY.  Not a lot of gun violence. We feel safe in the streets of Toronto even during the witching hours of the night.   BECAUSE Canadians have RESPECT for human lives...   American cities and there are public shootings every other week-end...

Take this how you phoquing wish.  

But do NOT insult my intelligence by saying you asked a civil question. 

You did not...

Read what I re-wrote again in this post, its just a repeat of what I said previously.  Practically word for word.  And THAt is how you know I am sincere in my words as I have NOT changed my position one bit! 

Or do not read it. I do not care. But MY opinion of the matter of gun safety is is EXACTLY what I wrote! 

Truth hurts of what I wrote.   But it is what it is. 

 

 

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by oldshurst442

[ccap41]

In honor of olds being a complete POS, I'm definitely going to go out and buy a "military style" gun with my Freedom Bucks. 

[oldshurst442]

@ccap41

A little anecdote.

You remember the Motor Trend forums?

There was a discussion about guns...

I have a pump action .22 rifle.   I have (LR .22s) where on the box it says the projectiles are dangerous within 2 miles. 

 

1. I got laughed at by several posters 

a) because .22  (bigger is better) 

b) that a .22 could not kill anything beyond several hundred yards let alone 2 miles.

 I had to go through several posts to let that have it.

I told those guys the same I told you just now...  (Americans are too stupid, too selfish, too arrogant...etc,...)

 Why?

I told them that I did not say, the box did not say that a .22 will kill within 2 miles... 

I said, the box says...

that the projectile is DANGEROUS within 2 miles. 

The 3-4 posters that were laughing at me realized their error.  But this one individual, probably a far right Trumpster today, told me that the company that makes the bullets HAD to put it that way, mark it as dangerous) so they do not get sued...

Like I said, the problems of gun ownership and gun possession and gun acquisition in the US is all that relates to US gun culture is childish, irresponsible,  too laisser faire, too cavalier. Not enough education to the people on how to handle guns.   

Too many Americans lack sympathy and empathy about gun deaths. 

Too many Americans believe in shytty tin foil conspiracies.  

Too much fear and loathing in the US. 

Change THAT culture and gun violence will probably subside. 

 

(Did you catch it the first time I mentioned dangerous?)  ( I bet you didnt...) 

 

3 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

In honor of olds being a complete POS, I'm definitely going to go out and buy a "military style" gun with my Freedom Bucks. 

Read what I wrote before you casually shoot your shtty mouth... 

Its not MY country that has gun violence on a daily basis.

You are quite the cocky little shyte...

Buy a military style gun if wanna.  better know how to use it. You WILL be killed with your own gun if you dont know how to use it...

Or one of your own family members...might accidentaly shoot themselves with it.  

Like I said...read before you shoot off your shytty mouth. 

[oldshurst442]

You could smack your head all you want @ccap41

Try a wall or your kitchen countertop actually...

What I said does NOT change the fact that Americans are child-like morons. Too stupid,  too proud to see the forest from the trees.  I understand my words are harsh...but I aint lyin'.  

Smack your head on this post as well.  It might actually put sone sense into you. The more you smack it...