Darwin Award?

[rmgill]

Elon Musk raises funds for his Boring Company by selling 20000 not a flamethrowers, just in time for fire season.

http://www.newsweek.com/elon-musks-not-flamethrower-concerns-fire-prevention-expert-midst-wildfire-982489

 

Its getting increasingly hard to tell what is America today or a parody from The Onion.

 

[Panzermann]

The not-a-flamethrower is just a glorified propane torch actually. I guess you can roast some marshmellows with it or seal some tarboard.

 

 

 

Just buy a real one from surplus. And mix your own gelled petrol.

 

(in jursidictions where this is legal of course)

[Stuart Galbraith]

From my hot, slightly charred, hands!

[rmgill]

Fire is a tool. A useful tool. It's also dangerous. What's new?

What are they gonna ban that in the UK too?

Edited June 20, 2018 by rmgill

[Stuart Galbraith]

No Ryan, I think every home should have a flamethrower in it. Its perfectly ideal for home defence.

 

Edited June 20, 2018 by Stuart Galbraith

[rmgill]

You never know if you might need to ignite a rampaging wicker man ya know!

[Stuart Galbraith]

Or Zombies. Dont forget the zombies. its like 'Stand there green guy, whilst I hose you down'.

[Stuart Galbraith]

[Stuart Galbraith]

And one I entirely approve of, toasted Apple.

 

[DougRichards]

I noticed that my chickens were exceptionally bothered by Buzzard's flying over my back garden. Now logically there is no real reason why they should be. Nobody told them to be worried about Birds of Prey. Ultimately they did meet one fairly close up (he realized they were bigger than he thought, so ultimately them alone), but even before that, they were hiding from them by reverting to type, behaving as jungle fowl they once were and hiding under the hedge.

 

I noted that similarly meerkats at the local zoo were doing the same thing, both on the horizontal (actually looking through people or so it looked) and up at the sky. They hadnt a fear of a predator in a 50 miles, yet still they looked for one. So yes, I can entirely believe we are similarly programmed. And its long established we dont actually always see what we think, we see what we expect to see. Or sometimes, we see what we fear to see.

 

We should have stayed up in the trees, we were far better suited to them than all this civilization malarky IMHO.

 

At Sydney's Taronga Park zoo the Meerkats hide from passing airliners and news helicopters

[Stuart Galbraith]

As David Bowie might have said, Meerkat superior.

[NickM]

 

Someone who tried hard but did not qualify....

 

He should have been dragged through the vehicle window and mauled, just because he disrespected the creature outside.

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-18/south-africa-safari-tourist-pats-lion-through-car-window/9880118

 

A tourist has been criticised for patting a lion through the window of a safari jeep in South Africa.

Footage of the man's encounter with the lion has gone viral, with the clip viewed more than 500,000 times on YouTube.

The tourist can be seen reaching past his friend to stroke the animal through the window of the vehicle.

Photo: The moment a tourist pats the lion outside the vehicle. (Youtube: Wildlife Sightings)

 

But the tourists got the shock of their lives when the lion turned around to face them and let out a roar.

Clearly rattled by the experience, the tourists then hastily shut the window.

South African safari ranger Naas Smit told The Sun what the tourist did was "incredibly stupid".

"I just have to shake my head when I see people behaving like this and they deserve all they get," he said.

 

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and yes, the a-hole has a 'Biilabong' brand on his cap, which means he is probably of Oz, but the facial fuzz of one of Sam....

 

The lion's roar made my sack shrivel like a punctured balloon. If thats the effect i get through a PC screen, i take this guys gonads are now uselessly lodged beside his spleen.

 

AND that was just a 'snarl' not even a full blown roar!

[toysoldier]

Full blown roars are for the savannah audience, puny two-legs don't merit the effort.

[NickM]

Full blown roars are for the savannah audience, puny two-legs don't merit the effort.

 

So no respect for the hairless apes,eh?

[toysoldier]

 

Full blown roars are for the savannah audience, puny two-legs don't merit the effort.

 

So no respect for the hairless apes,eh?

 

We ourselves barely respect each other, so why would those magnificent creatures?

[NickM]

 

 

Full blown roars are for the savannah audience, puny two-legs don't merit the effort.

 

So no respect for the hairless apes,eh?

 

We ourselves barely respect each other, so why would those magnificent creatures?

 

Well we are, to quote the kilrathi, 'pathetic descendants of monkeys'

[Ssnake]

Pathetic maybe. But with laser guns.

[NickM]

Pathetic maybe. But with laser guns.

But we fly like the apes that we arrrrrre!

[Murph]

Poachers trying to kill Rhinos get eaten by lions. How droll, how rich, they never expected to become lion poop... http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/05/poachers-south-african-rhinos/

[Panzermann]

Poachers trying to kill Rhinos get eaten by lions. How droll, how rich, they never expected to become lion poop... http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/05/poachers-south-african-rhinos/

 

Nature takes revenge. Good on the lions. Sadly this does happen too rarely.

 

 

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Pathetic maybe. But with laser guns.

But we fly like the apes that we arrrrrre!

 

 

Makes me wonder who has better 3D thinking. Cats or humans?

[toysoldier]

 

Poachers trying to kill Rhinos get eaten by lions. How droll, how rich, they never expected to become lion poop... http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/05/poachers-south-african-rhinos/

 

Nature takes revenge. Good on the lions. Sadly this does happen too rarely.

 

 

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Pathetic maybe. But with laser guns.

But we fly like the apes that we arrrrrre!

 

 

Makes me wonder who has better 3D thinking. Cats or humans?

 

Supposedly some predators, big cats included, have so much visual acuity that the prey uses that against them, by messing with them. Hawks are blinded by huge flocks of swallows taking to flight, lions don't know which way the zebra stripes are going, etc... the Red Queen races in a full circle sometime.

[Murph]

But it is good that poachers get eaten occasionally.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Sometimes the smart animal wins. Nice work Felix.

[Chris Werb]

 

When knives, screwdrivers, carpentry tools, etc are banned, people will resort to blunt instruments. After that, poisoning. There will always be a way.

Or as with the UK's gangs, bottles of acid splashed in someone's face.

If we just let them have semi auto pistols and AR15s things would be so much better. Said no sane person, ever.

[rmgill]

Quite right, you wouldn't want anyone to be able to defend themselves. In fact, laws to the precise opposite are what I keep seeing on BRITISH media about British cases. Even if you're a judge.

 

Seriously. It's this simple.

1. People should be able to defend themselves.

2. Put violent criminals in prison. KEEP them there if they show any signs of recidivism.

3. If you deal with the violent offenders you won't HAVE substantial crime with those pistols and AR-15s or anything else. Again, look at the US's rural regions. Violent crime is very low there. See also Switzerland.

 

The fact that you have acid and knife attacks is due to the fact that the criminal actors which are the actual problem aren't being dealt with.

Edited July 7, 2018 by rmgill