Skepdick wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 3:39 pm
What I am prepared to do is use any reasonable means necessary (up to and including lethal force) to prevent somebody from inflicting grievous bodily harm upon me. Such as poking my eye out; or stabbing me in the neck with a pencil.
You seem to regard the pencil as quite a formidable weapon, and I already have one, so why do I need a gun. If nothing else, it would be a far quieter way of filling my assailant full of lead.
Seems perfectly relevant to me. Maybe your prejudices are blocking your vision?
It seems my prejudices are causing me no end of trouble, doesn't it?
The pencil is mightier than the sword and fills em full of graphite.
Skepdick wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 3:39 pm
What I am prepared to do is use any reasonable means necessary (up to and including lethal force) to prevent somebody from inflicting grievous bodily harm upon me. Such as poking my eye out; or stabbing me in the neck with a pencil.
You seem to regard the pencil as quite a formidable weapon, and I already have one, so why do I need a gun. If nothing else, it would be a far quieter way of filling my assailant full of lead.
Maybe we should keep the sharpners away from you?
We don't want you wielding something far too dangerous for your age...
Skepdick wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 3:39 pm
What I am prepared to do is use any reasonable means necessary (up to and including lethal force) to prevent somebody from inflicting grievous bodily harm upon me. Such as poking my eye out; or stabbing me in the neck with a pencil.
You seem to regard the pencil as quite a formidable weapon, and I already have one, so why do I need a gun. If nothing else, it would be a far quieter way of filling my assailant full of lead.
Maybe we should keep the sharpners away from you?
We don't want you wielding something far too dangerous for your age...
Don't let me keep you, I know you're busy; all those nasty rapists queueing to see your wife aren't going to shoot themselves, are they?
Harbal wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 7:56 pm
Don't let me keep you, I know you're busy; all those nasty rapists queueing to see your wife aren't going to shoot themselves, are they?
The whole point of arming and training her was so I don't have to play bodyguard...
Maybe I'll add a pencil to her arsenal. Sharpened, of course - we like to live dangerously.
Harbal wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 7:56 pm
Don't let me keep you, I know you're busy; all those nasty rapists queueing to see your wife aren't going to shoot themselves, are they?
The whole point of arming and training her was so I don't have to play bodyguard...
Wars are unique with respect to their particular details, but from a larger perspective they are all the same. There’s meals that taste like canned dog food, heavy equipment to carry or wear, fatigue, inhospitable climate and terrain, boredom interrupted by sheer terror, separation from loved ones back home, going to sleep in fear of dying and coming to terms with the possibility of sudden death.
Wars are unique with respect to their particular details, but from a larger perspective they are all the same. There’s meals that taste like canned dog food, heavy equipment to carry or wear, fatigue, inhospitable climate and terrain, boredom interrupted by sheer terror, separation from loved ones back home, going to sleep in fear of dying and coming to terms with the possibility of sudden death.
commonsense wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 9:23 pm
Wars are unique with respect to their particular details, but from a larger perspective they are all the same. There’s meals that taste like canned dog food, heavy equipment to carry or wear, fatigue, inhospitable climate and terrain, boredom interrupted by sheer terror, separation from loved ones back home, going to sleep in fear of dying and coming to terms with the possibility of sudden death.
Wow.
I can't articulate what I have been put through, and am sure you would need pages of the above to account for yours.
Wars are unique with respect to their particular details, but from a larger perspective they are all the same. There’s meals that taste like canned dog food, heavy equipment to carry or wear, fatigue, inhospitable climate and terrain, boredom interrupted by sheer terror, separation from loved ones back home, going to sleep in fear of dying and coming to terms with the possibility of sudden death.
WIth respect, what about the sitting in front of a computer screen taking out targets with crones, type of war experience?
War never changes - excpet when it does.
Harbal wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 7:56 pm
Don't let me keep you, I know you're busy; all those nasty rapists queueing to see your wife aren't going to shoot themselves, are they?
The whole point of arming and training her was so I don't have to play bodyguard...
Yes, of course, I should have realised.
Yes, so he could wash his hands of responsibility.