Recent content by buffnut453

I'm not entirely sure what point you're trying to make here. Laws will never stop people breaking them. Everyone breaks laws at some point in their lives; to suggest otherwise is a false categorization dichotomy between law-abiding and law-breaking people. In Iraq, you were part of a...

A shepherd told his sheep dog to go out and round up his sheep. Off trots the faithful Border Collie who, in a little while, returns with 40 sheep. “Hang on,” says the farmer, “I only had 36 sheep.” The dog replied “You told me to round them up!”

The event at Bondi Beach was a massive outlier for Australia. Comparing gun-related violence in Australia with that in the US, the former has far less per 100,000 of population (several thousand percent less). The data suggests that less stringent gun laws result in streets that are more...

Neither. He’s just preventing his eyes from being burned out by the ugliness of the aircraft.

One of my favourite quotes, albeit fictional, is from Sgt Buster Kilrain in the film 'Gettysburg."The thing is, you cannot judge a race. Any man who judges by the group is a pea-wit." The last part is particularly important for me. We like to label people by the colour of their skin, their...

Kinky!

The other issue is that the vessel isn't state-registered which means it is not protected by international maritime laws. I would LOVE to see similar action being taken by the US against Russia's ghost fleet...but I also fully expect my hopes to be unfulfilled.

Ok…enough Star Wars nonsense. Here’s the immortal Snoopy to restore some semblance of order.

Also, I’m not sure the white of the uniform is correct in that photo. Definitely lacks the Darth Hue that was present in the real uniforms.

Really should've been a snow trooper with the correct uniform...like this: I hate it when someone uses the wrong uniform in a joke. It really takes the edge off the humour. Your's Grinchily...with a heavy serving of Bah! HUMBUG!!! on the side! :)

If only… This is classic no-win double-speak. Europe gets criticized for doing things that the White House disagrees with but then is also criticized (incorrectly, IMHO) for not doing anything to end the war in Ukraine…when Europe was doing precisely what the White House wanted under previous...

Here we go again: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clydlwldkvko

Are those metric or imperial hen’s teeth?

It's Boeing's fault!

So Ukraine thinks it may have a new peace proposal on the table, with at least some European nations involved in helping shape it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4d27dx80no Sadly, I fear the last 2 paragraphs in the article provide the most likely result of all these diplomatic efforts.