#871
mrs h wrote:
Posted on Fri, 15 August 2008 at 12:10
#872
hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:
Ha, I was bringing a copy home to show you :)
Posted on Fri, 15 August 2008 at 13:44
#873
Misanthropologist (d) wrote:
Is the smallest lobster like The Littlest Hobo?
Who IS the smallest lobster? And just how many fathers are in your family, anyway?…
Posted on Fri, 15 August 2008 at 16:30
#874
mrs h wrote:
@Hooch - well you still should :)
@d - I’m pretty sure there have been fathers in our family all the way back to the beginning …
Posted on Fri, 15 August 2008 at 19:23
#875
mrs h wrote:
Posted on Fri, 5 September 2008 at 20:28
#876
mrs h wrote:
Posted on Fri, 5 September 2008 at 20:30
#877
CS (Colin S) wrote:
Same woman? :D
Women… they really are daft!
Posted on Fri, 5 September 2008 at 20:45
#878
mrs h wrote:
Well if you define daft as NOT blowing each others brains out then you might have a point :p
Posted on Sat, 6 September 2008 at 21:08
#879
Misanthropologist (d) wrote:
Well, if you define ‘NOT blowing each other’s brains out’ as ‘leaving dangerous weaponry around in places where children can easily pick them up’, then yes, I think that is daft. ;)
Posted on Sun, 7 September 2008 at 12:38
#880
mrs h wrote:
I’m pretty sure that is the definition of the Ordnance Corps :p
Posted on Mon, 8 September 2008 at 17:31
#881
Misanthropologist (d) wrote:
Sure you’re not thinking of the Keystone Corps?
Posted on Mon, 8 September 2008 at 17:51
#882
mrs h wrote:
lol - Sarah and Daisy had tea with us the other night and we were talking about the fact that Sarah’s lodger is moving to Banbury. Daisy piped up ” Where is Banbury? Is it Darn Sarf?” :D
Posted on Mon, 8 September 2008 at 17:54
#883
Misanthropologist (d) wrote:
Lol, bless. *grumbles* :mad:
Posted on Mon, 8 September 2008 at 17:55
#884
hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:
Today we were in a taxi and she ‘piped up’ “Oh bollocks, I forgot to flush the chain”. I nearly died.
In the news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7596808.stm
This all sounds very impressive but watch the video - am I missing something about the cleverness of bees?
Posted on Mon, 8 September 2008 at 19:58
#885
Misanthropologist (d) wrote:
hoochalobster wrote:
Don’t worry, she can flush it when she gets back. :)
Erm… That video just seems to be a loop of the same section of tape. :s
Posted on Mon, 8 September 2008 at 20:22
Last edited by Teethgrinder on Sat, 25 October 2008 at 13:06 (Corrected use of quotes)
#886
hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:
On second viewing, I realised that. The first time I thought it was just showing a bee repeatedly falling for the same thing, which is the exact opposite of what the article claimed would happen.
Posted on Mon, 8 September 2008 at 20:55
#887
Misanthropologist (d) wrote:
So the article actually shows: Bees - smart. Hooch - not so much. :p
Posted on Tue, 9 September 2008 at 09:56
#888
Dennis wrote:
Posted on Tue, 23 September 2008 at 10:04
#889
Alan wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7630969.stm
Bloody hell, what’s going on in Finland? 2 school shootings in a year. Sometimes makes you think this sort of thing shouldn’t be covered in the media as it seems to give nut-jobs the idea to go on a kill crazy rampage… “I’ll show those Colombine shooters what anger really is!” etc. Bad stuff.
Posted on Tue, 23 September 2008 at 13:22
#890
mr self destruct wrote:
it’s weird how they have such high gun ownership in Finland (highest in the world behind the US and Yemen)…until that last shooting I didn’t even know guns were so easy to own anywhere in Europe.
Posted on Tue, 23 September 2008 at 20:15
#891
kossu (Petri Koskiniemi) wrote:
Finland isn´t “funland anymore”:( There are weirdos in our country too who think that America is a country which look up to and follow the sick things which comes from there. I was also angry when I was young and I´m still a bit (I´m geting old and used to this system:)) but I could never imagine go out and shoot innocent people. I also owned three shotguns when I was young, got them from my grandpapa; he wanted me to become a hunter but that wasn´t my thing at all, I never even went to get the license either. Hunting animals isn´t my thing, I don´t get kicks from that thing and I don´t understand people who gets…
But anyway a sad day again in our tiny little country, hope the sun will shine today after all that shit yesterday. And the news wil be full of that thing whole week…
Posted on Wed, 24 September 2008 at 04:42
#892
MarkoJii (Ukko Perkele) wrote:
Yesterday was sad day. Less than year ago the same thing happened by a copycat now in Kauhajoki. I think that Finland is now paying the depression years in the mid-nineties. Mentally ill people don’t get the cure they are supposed to do. I cannot understand this at all.
mr self destruct, what do you mean by saying that “it is so easy to own a gun in Finland?”. People who wants to own a gun must have a police permit and they investige why you want to own a gun. Plus to my knowledge, if you want to own a handgun, you have to belong to a shooting club. How this is in another countries?
I think that the people who are saying that Finns need guns to hunt are wrong. Guess that the reason comes from the recent history (WWII and winterwar with russians) and that we have a long border with them. That is why we want also to keep the landmines. That is my opinion, don’t know the official-opinion.
Posted on Wed, 24 September 2008 at 06:26
#893
mr self destruct wrote:
^ I was just assuming, as Finland apparently has the third highest gun ownership in the world, it must be quite easy to get one.
Posted on Wed, 24 September 2008 at 07:14
#894
mr self destruct wrote:
Apparently you can buy a gun at 15 in Finland, and handguns can be used away from shooting ranges…which I’m sure is a more “liberal” policy than in other European countries.
Posted on Wed, 24 September 2008 at 07:29
#895
kossu (Petri Koskiniemi) wrote:
You´re right Marko!
Permisson, what permission? Didn´t have any permission when I was young. My grandpapa had and he gave me the shotguns; he was in the both war´s back then in finnish history and it was “normal” for him to have guns at home to protect us from the “russians”.
There are sickos in this world, too many!
Posted on Wed, 24 September 2008 at 07:34 in reply to an earlier post
Last edited by Teethgrinder on Sat, 25 October 2008 at 13:07 (Corrected use of quotes)
#896
MarkoJii (Ukko Perkele) wrote:
I was looking thru some websites about those gun ownership ratings and at http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/sas/publications/year_b_pdf/ … kpiles.pdf I see that Finland is number 28 of civillian firearm holdings, but Finland is number 3 in capita GDP to civillian gun ownership in 76 countries. I don’t understand what that “capita GDP” is, but as there is only 5.3 Finns, it looks like there is 2.9 million guns…
I read from the newspaper that the killer was threatened with gun-in-the-face by someone in the summer and the threathener (?) went to the court but this fella who killed 10 didn’t came to the hearing. Police has also said that in his home there was letter saying that he has been planning this killing since 2002. It’s quite disturbing as someone must have noticed that there was something seriously wrong with his mental health.
Posted on Wed, 24 September 2008 at 07:54
#897
mr self destruct wrote:
The police even interviewed him the day before the shootings
Posted on Wed, 24 September 2008 at 07:59
#898
MarkoJii (Ukko Perkele) wrote:
That makes it even sadder, as the police didn’t think it was nessesery to withdrawn his six months trial gun permit or even take his gun away. Police had seen his videos in youtube and was questioning him on because of them. I bet the that the police who was doing that don’t feel great…
Posted on Wed, 24 September 2008 at 08:03
#899
kossu (Petri Koskiniemi) wrote:
Guess that cop will be the scapegoat of this tragedy, hope he´ll survive, mentally and fysically. I bet/guess he had his reasons why he didn´t cancel that sicko´s permit, who knows…
Posted on Wed, 24 September 2008 at 11:47
#900
Misanthropologist (d) wrote:
Posted on Thu, 2 October 2008 at 14:58
