Gun Culture

Friday, December 23, 2005

Mystery Fan

Considering the blog title and subject of many of the entries it’s surprising how little negative feedback I get (not an invitation!).
So it was kind of someone to send me the following

Oh my. You think a simple disclaimer like ‘I couldn’t possibly condone that’
will allow you to escape an incitement charge? Tone and context do matter you fool. Oh and nice, non biased website with informed enlightened opinion.
Can you tell how much I support you?
It’s just as well that you’re gonna die young from smoking and drinking.
(Wonder how I knew you did both of those? Guess you’ll find out soon
enough.)
don’t have an ND now..

Referring to this post regarding the LACS freepost address.  Why they didn’t chose to add it to the comments on the post I don’t know, and it was good of them to send it from a spoof email address too.
A couple of minor corrections:
Inviting people to take advantage of LACS’ Freepost system isn’t even slightly illegal, so no ‘incitment charge’ possible.  Sorry.
Whilst I like a drink I don’t smoke, so close but quite literally no cigar.
Thanks for dropping by.

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

What is the internet for?

Ever wondered what the internet is for?
This fellow has the answer.
(you might not want to click this at work, needs sound)

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Fuel Tax Cuts or Investment in Public Transport?

Wierdy Beardies Friends of the Earth are running a Poll, the question being:

If the Government could do just one of the following. Which would you prefer?

Fuel tax cuts

or

Public transport investment

Currently running at 60:40 in favour of fuel tax cuts.  Not the response they were hoping for I’m sure.  Make sure you have your say won’t you!

Cameron & Blair

In the election of Cameron I think we have finally seen the death of any pretence that the Conservative Party is any such thing.  Davis made a show of being conservative but we can be sure his actions would not be so, Cameron however looks and sounds like a centrist toss wank.
Ever a good read, Sean Gabb reminds us in his Free Life Commentary of the following passage of Orwell’s Animal Farm.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which

Disgraceful Behaviour

Just received the following in my inbox:

Go for it!!
Happy Christmas and happy hunting!!

LEAGUE AGAINST CRUEL SPORTS.
The League Against Cruel Sports have launched an Emergency appeal to raise money for their Hunt Crimewatch Programme.

They state that they require much need funds to buy video cameras, handheld global positioning systems, walkie talkies etc, etc to monitor Hunting activity.

However they have made a fatal error.

Donations can be sent to a FREEPOST address.

This means that for each envelope they receive they will have to pick up the charge from Royal Mail.

So to make your Christmas a little better would you please send an empty envelope or Christmas Card to:

League Against Cruel Sports,
Freepost SE 5087,
London.
SE1 1BR.

I couldn’t possibly condone such behaviour!

Of course if you were to chose to send them a Christmas message I can recommend We’re Going On from the Countryside Alliance shop.
Be sure to tell them how much you support their work won’t you?

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Xbox 360

Yup, I’ve got one.  Only 28 machines delivered to the Game store where I pre-ordered mine and I was number 15 on the list.  Get in.
First impressions are that it is a handsome devil, much better than the black breeze block of the original.  The new controller felt all tiny in my big farmer’s hands, but now I’m used to it and it feels natural - going back to the original controller makes it seem like holding a great big wheel of cheese.  Why would I go back to the original?  Top fave Live play game Battlefield 2 is not backwards compatible, a strange move you might think given it’s popularity.  However a glance over the horizon shows that a 360 version of the game is coming next year, don’t want to harm sales of that now do we?  Stupid because I’d buy the souped up version anyway.  What a noisy beast the new box is, all those cooling fans make themselves heard alright.  OK if your ‘box is to sit next to the TV across the room but I have mine set up on my PC desk, slightly tiresome but the sound system soon drowns it out.
How does it perform?  Like you’d expect a next gen console is the short answer.  Call Of Duty 2 is a visual treat and great gameplay, but the Live play stinks - very disappointing.  Probably down to a rush to get the game out for launch, past experience suggests Activision will not issue a fix for this sadly.  Initial impressions of Perfect Dark Zero suggest that this is shit.

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Plod tells you what crimbo presents to buy

John over at The England Project tells us about GMP top woodentop’s call for a ban on parents buying toy guns for their offspring at Crimbo.  I seem to remember telling John of a similar incident which occured in the Cumbria region back in the days of Frontrank.  Just like this instance part of the justification was because armed woodentops can’t tell the difference between replica guns and the real thing.  At this point I am contractually obliged to mention Harry Stanley, shot by armed plod for carrying a table leg in a plastic bag.  It is clear that Stanley was shot because the plod were pumped up and had been told that Stanley was an Irishman with a shotgun (this was in the IRA period), one of the officers even just started shooting because his colleague did.  Given that plod don’t know a table leg from a gun I think we perhaps should be worried about police training/procedures but not what toys we give nippers.  Another example of (senior) police trying to set the political agenda.

This reminds me of my niece who won a prize on a fairground stall.  She didn’t want any of the girly toys, oh no - she wanted the toy gun!  A passable facsimilie of a 1911 as it goes, certainly enough to fool the SAS wannabies in the ARVs.  You go girl!  She’s only about 5 BTW.