Prince Myshkin

That was not the thing I disagreed with. It was your belief that it would do them good.

I like long necks. Not giraffe size, but basically not short.

I'm not sure clothing is allowed, for two reasons. 1. Everyone is limited in what they can wear, confined to current or past fashion and what they can afford. 2. With the thin spectrum available, anybody can dress any way they want, meaning they have control to be something they are not. The amount of people I've seen dressed a certain way to be cool, or fit in with a crowd who they do not fit in with is a huge amount. With characteristics you have no control over it at all. It is specifically you.

And this is why we are moving towards cars that drive themselves. It's unlikely in the future that we will be driving our own cars. We are getting safer and safer and the one thing that hasn't improved has been human error. But that is a bit of a straw argument anyway. It's like saying 'well, you can kill people with a hammer, so should we ban all hammers?'. Cars and hammers provide functions that are very different to guns, and it's very difficult to do more damage with a car or a hammer than it is with a gun. Do you not think that you may have a lot of homicides because they are entering an area where other people have guns? If they had a gun and you didn't, it'd likely be a safer situation for all involved. Not arming up and reporting it to the police doesn't guarantee they are caught, but it decreases the chances of somebody dying. I am not disagreeing with the fact that prohibition is not the best policy for drugs. There is massive long term evidence against it. Guns is a different matter, though, and there is massive long term evidence for it. Short term, not, but you have to think long term, because time moves forward and in the long run there will be more needless deaths. There are people in England with guns who carry out crime. They break the law and use guns to do this. They don't just walk around with a gun, though. Just because they are a minority with a gun, if anything it makes it harder for them to operate as they stand out like a sore thumb and if the police find any guns on anybody then it's likely been used for something dodgy. They have to keep things under wraps and not draw attention to themselves. Nations with strict gun control aren't anarchies, and America wouldn't be either. Do you know what the odds are that someone will want to break into your house to kill you, as a regular guy? If somebody is in there to steal from you then it is not fair to kill them. You possessing a gun is making the situation worse. Its increasing the danger on all sides, so if it's damage limitation you are after then I'd start by not having a gun. The societies are different because you have guns. In the long term you'd become similar to all the other non gun wielding countries. The only other countries that have them so prevalent, outside of hunting, tend to be pretty backwards in the Western worlds eyes. England had a love for weapons. We had a fucking empire. We went all around the world with our guns. But societies change. Homosexuality used to be illegal. Now the entire notion seems so foreign. There are generational shifts. We have veeeeeeeeeeeery low gun crime. You guys won't change for a long long time, but hopefully, bit by bit, you'll give them up. And there won't be a dictatorship straight after. There have been more violent nations in the past. People who exterminate sections of society. And even they didn't have guns outside of the military. I'm confused. You had a gun pulled on you, and you didn't have a gun. And both of the people got out alive. And the police officer thought that it didn't end well because you didn't shoot him? That's fucked up. I'm not convinced the drugs/guns comparison stands up.

I think it matters a hell of a lot more when you are younger and in such a large group of underdeveloped people. Then when you get more choice of who you surround yourself with, this becomes less of a problem. There are always those who push the macho side of things and you are bound to come across them at all ages, no matter how hard you try and avoid it. But yeah, the school years are fucking weird.

People who aren't likely to shoot someone can end up shooting people accidentally. People having guns doesn't seem to stop people breaking into people's homes, it merely means they take their own weaponry too. And that doesn't end well. I'm surprised you take this stance, considering the way I perceive your posts on getting rid of meaningless junk and how people fill their life with consumerist craps, and how that can be transferred to a stance away from something like 'if someone comes on my land then I should be able to shoot em up', which I wouldn't be surprised that you held given your views on this. It just seems a strange juxtaposition, alongside America being so religious and so sexualised at the same time. It's all extremes, even though it's the extremes that tend to be less healthy. I concede that you cannot completely control guns, but the situation in other countries where there is still organised crime but there is a ban on guns is far more preferable to the American situation, which is like something from the 1800's. If you didn't have a gun (and that's presuming you do), how much will your life actually change? If somebody threatens you with a gun then give them what they want. They've got a fucking gun. And who cares what they want? What are they seriously going to take from you? Report it to the police and hope that they can be caught. Perhaps part of the problem is the insurance system? I don't know, but if it's anything like the health care you've had in the past, it seems generally people get fucked over. Do you honestly believe that the British government gets away with more than the American government?

The French call it a hair on the tongue. I don't like that. edit: as in the phrase hair on the tongue, not lisps generally.

What would you have done with it? Sold it on? Could have made a lot of money on that I imagine. Are you allowed to sell those things on I wonder?

In the short term perhaps. Certainly not in the long term. Guns are very different to drugs, in which you have a good argument there. But with drugs, you aren't going to get everyone loading up on smack because their neighbour just injected. It stops being as much about personal choice when you're forced into an arms race. Damage limitation is the most important thing to go for, along with rehabilitation, and the studies show that in the long term a ban on guns is more beneficial to society. Organised criminals will always get their hands on them but it's rare that people get shot by organised criminals in countries without guns. The biggest danger to you isn't the organised criminals, it's the general public and those around you, such is the prevalence of guns in America. But yeah, you guys aren't gonna give up your guns, so we'll just watch the turmoil from afar and bite our lips, otherwise we'll be seen as insensitive or wanting to take away your freedoms. Actually, now is a good time for your country to have a gun debate, since it isn't international news right now. That's the time when the argument becomes about a specific event, or a debate on whether it is ok to discuss it at that time or not.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23691146

I did not see Pere Ubu getting on here. Good stuff. Saw them a few months ago. Still going.

Ooops, misjudged your age. Still though, whilst not too shocking, wowza.

CRESTS IS ENGAGED? How old do you have to be to get engaged? I guess anyone can get engaged, it's marriage that has age restrictions, but yeah that just freaked me out. Hope it all goes well.

Muscular thighs that aren't too big? You watch much rugby?

This is up with his other highlights of being disgusted at the prospect of his club signing a ladyboy.

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Wonderful contribution. Wonderful person.

Now I do. Thank you.

Christ.

Yeah, that's the one. Sorry!

What do you see as the negative aspects of the male gender and what it entails? I'm not asking you to justify yourself by the way, this is also open to others. I wanna see what people think are the downsides to being male. Because there are downsides to everything. Thats not to say it makes anything else aside from male any better.

http://grooveshark.com/#!/braddockboy Thanks Tash.

You're the angriest person on the board, so I'm not going to worry too much about what you think I should and shouldn't do.

1 hour until the listening part. Batman has discovered how to get Grooveshark working in Germany. In the meantime, to be able to chat on there you need to register an account. Promotional tweets are welcome, Tash ;)

Sigh.