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This is a link post batman vs joker ( rap battle )

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:18, Reply)
This is a normal post you call that rap? YOU CALL THAT RAP?
No flow, no lyricism, no beat or rhythm.
AND NO FRICKIN GUNMAN
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Shit rap, the bane of my life.
*runs*
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:30, Reply)
This is a normal post It's not even shit rap.
Take one of these
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WHe5fxS3dA&feature=related

And two of these
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6e9G-ump3Y
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtwT492YDvg
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:36, Reply)
This is a normal post those were the days.
how was your salad?
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:42, Reply)
This is a normal post and not much rhyming either

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 18:58, Reply)
This is a normal post these written-rap battle things remind me of american wrestling,
i still find them funny tho.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:35, Reply)
This is a normal post i like this one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssIKmiRXxGY tis real freestyling. has some really very clever darkness.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 17:21, Reply)
This is a normal post it might just be the camera angle
but.. the jokers arms are LOOOOOOOONG...
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:40, Reply)
This is a normal post gteat idea
have posted it to someone who could do it better :D

(no offense, but no battler should pause for thought)
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 17:20, Reply)
This is a link post The Olympian - This is a funny, topical and pretty twisted cartoon about the Olympshits
An alternative view of the 2012 Olympics where a fat beer swilling bloke is forced to compete for his country after team GB were all wiped out
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:09, Reply)
This is a normal post
Reminds me of Monkey Dust.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 15:04, Reply)
This is a link post The G4S official song.
Awful.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:58, Reply)
This is a normal post It sounds like something Trey Parker would write for a pisstake

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:08, Reply)
This is a normal post Spot on!
Reminds me of this - www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK4gv11PTI8
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:20, Reply)
This is a normal post Haha, that's the one! :-)

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:21, Reply)
This is a normal post ear-AIDS.
:(
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:14, Reply)
This is a normal post ah yeah
I saw them play last year..not bad at all.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:56, Reply)
This is a normal post Wel
Gel

"I missed them and I'm jealous"
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:01, Reply)
This is a link post No Pepsi T-Shirts allowed at the thing thats going on in London?
This is starting to piss me off so I am now going one of these and wear it for the next two months.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0052IVSGU/ref=asc_df_B0052IVSGU8843718/?tag=googlecouk06-21&creative=22134&creativeASIN=B0052IVSGU&linkCode=asn

There should be a Firefox plugin for censoring anything to do with the Olympics.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:45, Reply)
This is a normal post you're not allowed to say "London"
this is the Brand Police, you're under arrest
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:51, Reply)
This is a normal post hey here's an idea though,
a bunch of people could go in wearing plain red, white and blue t-shirts, and sit in pepsi-logo formation.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:55, Reply)
This is a normal post Or all in purple
for a classic CDC
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:11, Reply)
This is a normal post or we could all just get our knobs out! yeah!

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 14:49, Reply)
This is a normal post I was thinking this morning,
I wish we'd clocked a year or two back that this is what would happen when it started. We could have started up a website/business where businesses up and down the country could donate a pound to us, and then we use it all to sponsor the games, then indemnifying everyone who had donated (including all late submissions) to use "summer", "olympics", "london", etc etc because then everyone would be "sponsors" by proxy.

Two fingers at establishment.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:59, Reply)
This is a normal post Same thing happens at world cup games.

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:01, Reply)
This is a normal post
I am going to the England v Ukraine in September, I don't have a clue who sponsors football so I hope my superman t-shirt will be OK.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 14:42, Reply)
This is a normal post Lipsmackin' Sebastian Cola.

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:09, Reply)
This is a normal post I read this as "Lipsmacking lesbian cola"

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:11, Reply)
This is a normal post Stick it to the man, yeah!
Wear that T-Shirt, that'll show them, advertising for another corporate bunch of twats and their legal sugar drug drinks, unless you fucking work for Pepsi of course?
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 14:12, Reply)
This is a normal post oh come on, get with it
Pepsi are the underdog here, so we must all get behind Pepsi, until Pepsi are on top, then we mercilessly tear them down.

It's our way.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 14:51, Reply)
This is a normal post or the harway

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 18:38, Reply)
This is a normal post or better yet
wear an in-your-face t-shirt with coca-cola logo, but instead of it saying 'coca-cola' it says something like 'cocaine' or something else that's in-your-face, but it will be written in the same font as coca-cola and yeah... deal with that london
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 15:38, Reply)
This is a normal post well of course, after all A LOCOG
is GO COLA backwards
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 18:37, Reply)
This is a link post Iceberg wave, a bit close

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:44, Reply)
This is a normal post Holly Fuck

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 14:17, Reply)
This is a normal post Ivy Cunt

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 15:49, Reply)
This is a normal post Mistletoe Minge

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:13, Reply)
This is a normal post Wow
wow
wow

Are you alright?

wow
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 21:05, Reply)
This is a link post A film about how gadgets work I made this!

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:35, Reply)
This is a normal post You should have included a vibrator full of miniature Micheal J. Foxes...

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:40, Reply)
This is a normal post :/

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:41, Reply)
This is a normal post actual lol

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 18:34, Reply)
This is a normal post But how does the torch work?
(Excellent stuff as ever.)
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:47, Reply)
This is a normal post Hehe
I like your style
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:54, Reply)
This is a normal post A tiny man inside
with another, smaller torch
(, Fri 27 Jul 2012, 21:44, Reply)
This is a normal post I love that.

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:00, Reply)
This is a normal post Marvelous as always sir
But a bit head spinny... Where does it end, is it just little guys all the way down?

Ahhhhggg, Brain melt!
Clicky
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:30, Reply)
This is a normal post The Higgs Boson Stuff Had me Thinking Similar Things
So now we have proof of that tiny particles are made up of smaller ones...... are these smaller ones made up of even smaller ones? Does it go on forever as we get better technology to see them?

Aaaarrgh!
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:40, Reply)
This is a normal post I've just shown this to my kid, it's blown his mind.
He's now going round the house with a magnifine glass looking for little men who make our appliances work.

Top stuff.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:36, Reply)
This is a normal post Mission Accomplished
I hope as their parent you'll tell them how they really work :)
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:41, Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah of coarse,
Keep looking , He's in there somewhere !
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:43, Reply)
This is a normal post ha
excellent stuff
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:05, Reply)
This is a link post Robot Repair - How To Play 180 Instruments.
Promo for a company who do music for advertising etc.

May not be for everyone but i thought some musicians here my enjoy looking at all the different instruments.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:32, Reply)
This is a normal post needs more contrabass trombone

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:48, Reply)
This is a normal post To my shame I own (or have owned)
almost all the instruments up to the 30s mark.
...and then it got a bit boring-guitaristy, so I stopped watching.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:06, Reply)
This is a normal post Lovely stuff. *Clicks*
Always good to see a hammer dulcimer. Some amazing sounds there.
Not sure about the occasional evil doll though.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 18:43, Reply)
This is a link post 8 Amazing Drowned Buildings
Buildings of different purposes, rising out of lakes and rivers, submerged in gallons of water - the places where people once lived and worked, a homes to weeds and fishes now. These buildings were flooded and drowned by men's own doing, in their hurry to change nature's path for dams and reservoirs. Churches, monasteries, palaces and fortresses are usually occur as partly-submerged structures, which are popular among photographers and tourists.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:47, Reply)
This is a normal post 6/8 are churches
so it was a good idea
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:55, Reply)
This is a normal post yawn

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:57, Reply)
This is a normal post ^this^

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:05, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm guessing there were villages around those churches once.
Either the church was on higher ground so as to be the only bit left showing or people are superstitious about knocking down a church.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:10, Reply)
This is a normal post I don't know which is more idolatrous,
thinking that a church is God's house, or that destroying one is some kind of social progress.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:15, Reply)
This is a normal post Yeeeahhh - drown those cunty churches!
Reminds me of the end of Castle of Cagliostro
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:58, Reply)
This is a normal post
Fuck off spammer.
(No interaction on here except for 15 links, all with a Green/nature theme. Political spammer)
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:10, Reply)
This is a normal post Profile for Bole982:
a member for 3 months and 3 days
has posted 0 messages on the main board
has posted 0 messages on the talk board
has posted 15 messages on the links board
(including 15 links)
has posted 0 stories and 0 replies on question of the week



WHO ARE YOU??? Why do you post without participating? Are you a spambot building a reputation before going postal on us?
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:12, Reply)
This is a normal post
He's some activist or Greenpeace type, I reckon. Every post is about nature, how bad man is being to the environment and so on.

FOUND HIM

Wasn't difficult. He is Bosko Mastilovic. He runs the blog that he often links to.

This is his email:
[email protected]
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:14, Reply)
This is a normal post I - I hardly know, sir, just at present -
at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:16, Reply)
This is a normal post ...mainly into gingham & taffeta creations.
Am I right?
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:36, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm afraid I don't know these people
Are they your trendy catwalk designer friends?
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:40, Reply)
This is a normal post
I'm mildly confused at the spate of current 'outing' of people on B3ta in this way. This is the links board, so presumably it's ok to post links on the links board ? Isn't that the point of it ?

Don't bother bringing my stats up, it'll say something like "has been lurking for years, infrequently likes something, posts fuck all."
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:24, Reply)
This is a normal post
The people we don't want are the people who simply use b3ta to promote their product/website/commercial thing without getting involved. Some people pop on here just because when they come to promote their thing, b3ta is just another site on their long list of places to spam.

B3ta is supposed to be a community of people who love the web and the creativity on it. People who also like nob jokes. People who sometimes make their own stuff and share it because they frequent here.

If we don't act like total bastards to the spamcunts, you just end up with a site full of the same people spamming the same things. I don't want to visit the site and have a list of coke adverts, agenda driven blogs, and people screaming "SHARE THIS CLICK LIKE!". My facebook is getting bad enough for that. This isn't a place for people to just promote stuff.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:31, Reply)
This is a normal post Greetings.
The problem here is that we're not being linked to his site because we might find it interesting, but to drive up his site traffic and therefore his ad revenue.

I don't care if you only post once in ten years, as long as you're not doing it solely for your own benefit.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:44, Reply)
This is a normal post We just want to feel loved :-(
These people just pop up and ram it in without so much as a courtesy lick.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:54, Reply)
This is a normal post message board nazis with hard ons for rulesinnit

(, Sat 21 Jul 2012, 8:18, Reply)
This is a normal post DISGUSTING
Absolutely DISGUSTING.

I look at a link posted like this and it makes me think THERE IS NO MOD.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:17, Reply)
This is a normal post
I love you and I want your babies. This post was so good that I'm now pregnant...

..and I'm a MAN.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:19, Reply)
This is a normal post *prouds*
It's not an unheard of phenomenon. Tabby says he's a man, but he's been made pregnant at least three times by many people around here.

He never quite gets his figure back afterwards, though :-(
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:34, Reply)
This is a normal post Terrible (unprovoked) internet bullying right there.

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:48, Reply)
This is a normal post Unprovoked indeed!
I was going to say a nice thing, that you look better a "bit" curvy, but I don't think I will now.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:51, Reply)
This is a normal post Spamcunt etc
But it does make me want to take a canoe out...
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:32, Reply)
This is a normal post Someone fuck this spambot with a big rusty length of pipe

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:00, Reply)
This is a normal post SPAAAAM
and no mention of...

fantasticjournal.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/village-that-died-for-derbyshire.html

bugger all left of it now :/
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:20, Reply)
This is a normal post I'll see your Ladybower and raise you a Hallsands
www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/southwest/series1/hallsands.shtml
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 14:03, Reply)
This is a normal post SPAMCUNT

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:21, Reply)
This is a normal post hello

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:16, Reply)
This is a link post Nicely placed advert at top of page

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:05, Reply)
This is a normal post Ouch.

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:10, Reply)
This is a normal post wossit say?
Adblocker has hidden it.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:11, Reply)
This is a normal post SHOTGUN DEMO! SPONSORED BY GUNS!
Yee Hawww etc.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:14, Reply)
This is a normal post JERBS FER HONEST MERKINS!

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:15, Reply)
This is a normal post DAI DOOK ARR GURNS!

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:28, Reply)
This is a normal post :-D

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:33, Reply)
This is a link post I present to you todays earworm.
Mr Scruff - Shanty Town
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:50, Reply)
This is a normal post Ahh, much better :-)
Things are getting _way_ too serious down there...
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:04, Reply)
This is a normal post i started to make a video for that lastyear
and lost all the files when my hard drive died :(
top silly stuff tune..whale feesh!
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:05, Reply)
This is a normal post i love this! havent heard it for yeeeears!

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:25, Reply)
This is a link post Behind the scenes of ING's Direct Fables ad.
Wonderful work done in traditional style by Prague based puppeteers.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:23, Reply)
This is a normal post yay for puppets
I love these ads, they nearly make you forget what wankers bankers are.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:13, Reply)
This is a normal post The puppets and sets themselves are really lovely...
But the adverts just come off as a bit stupid, really. Still, I do admire puppetry! Much more involved and impressive than CGI and such.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:16, Reply)
This is a link post Down with this sort of thing!
Have a look at the spelling of the guy's sign...

Do you think it's a reference to Fern from this morning?
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:09, Reply)
This is a normal post Hahahahaha
Can't believe I didn't spot that. I endorse this man's position.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:11, Reply)
This is a normal post You don't need a degree in linguistics to wank off a cows tits.

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:12, Reply)
This is a normal post Now there's
a motto for life. I may start using it in those situations where I'm losing an argument and need to confuse my opponent.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:18, Reply)
This is a normal post Nope.
But if your going too make a sign, is it really two much effort to check the speling?
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:54, Reply)
This is a normal post Being a Teutonic chappie you may not be aware of a certain U.K celeb
blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/passtheremote/2009/03/fern-britton-pulls-out-of-soap.html

The sign may have been an attempt at humour.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:24, Reply)
This is a normal post :-)

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh you fucker

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:48, Reply)
This is a normal post One of my mates had a bit of a rant on facebook
about the state of the country (strikes, olympics cocks ups, corporationy stuff etc) and kept going on about 'briton' should be better than this, 'briton' used to be great etc...

He's a bit of a sun reader, and he's dyslexic, so as much as i like to poke fun at his spelling and grammar, i try to resist, because he takes offence.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:34, Reply)
This is a normal post that's not right
he shouldn't take a fence
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:27, Reply)
This is a normal post shed it, you :-)

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:33, Reply)
This is a normal post On last night's news
They said it wasn't a misspelling, it was a reference to Stephen Britton from Farmers for Action. However, on the BBC's website they're spelling his name Britten.

Of course, it could be deliberate. Misspell 'Britain', picture gets posted everywhere, lots of free publicity.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:10, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh, I see what you mean
Because the sign was spelt wrongly for his name as well, I didn't pick up on the potential pun.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 14:08, Reply)
This is a link post 10 Shot Dead At Batman Film Premiere
"A masked gunman shot dead 10 people and wounded 30 to 40 others at a premiere showing of the new Batman movie in Denver."
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:38, Reply)
This is a normal post Live audio
from the police dealing with this

tunein.com/radio/Aurora-Police-and-Fire-s145268/
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Shooter is still on the loose.

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:47, Reply)
This is a normal post Unusual for it to be 2 people involved.
Gun toting nutters tend to be solo unless there's a shared purpose.
Anyone calling terrorist yet?
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:49, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm more inclined to think
that it's Rush Limbaugh listeners.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:56, Reply)
This is a normal post Too much "God Bless America" ?

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:57, Reply)
This is a normal post terrorists would probably just keep shooting until they were shot themselves, rather than making an effort to escape
apparently one person's been arrested
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:58, Reply)
This is a normal post Not necessarily, there was that pair of snipers a while back.
Took a while to catch them
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:08, Reply)
This is a normal post Not necessarily.
The IRA, Eta, and so on never went in for that kind of tactic.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:09, Reply)
This is a normal post I suppose
I was thinking more Columbine/Mumbai
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:12, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh, for sure.
But you're mistaking a certain kind of terrorist with terrorists in specie; historically, most terrorists have been fairly rational actors.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:18, Reply)
This is a normal post Didn't they kill themselves in Columbine?
Mumbai they kept going as long as they could moving form building to building IIRC.

Terrorism is a tool not a personality trait anyway.
Create the desired change through installing fear in the target population.
The French were rather good at this in WW2.

Bush and blair tried it with "Shock and Awe" but it doesn't work so well where the scared populous cannot affect the desired change. Terrorism works better against democracies.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:26, Reply)
This is a normal post I am pretty
sure, given what has come out so far that the shooters will be ex military back from Iraq/Afghan tours diagnosed with PTSD.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:44, Reply)
This is a normal post The French were good at it in the 1790s, too.
The government adopted terror as official policy.

"Terror without virtue is monstrous; virtue without terror is useless."
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:18, Reply)
This is a normal post Didn't Robespierre say that?
And that's where we get the phrase "Reign of terror" I seem to remember
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:31, Reply)
This is a normal post Yup.
And yup.

The Jacobins explicitly described their style of government as terrorist.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:43, Reply)
This is a normal post Well I can't remember but wasn't Columbine more than one?
But you're right it seems odd to think these people may have a social life with equally nutty people. Tragic really.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:52, Reply)
This is a normal post I look forward to this afternoon when Coxxy explains
that this is actually MORE likely to happen in countries whose population aren't all carrying guns. NRA forever!!
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:50, Reply)
This is a normal post Quite
Everyone knows if everyone was armed this sort of thing would seldom happen

And yet it does, with alarming frequency. I suppose if everyone went around in life armed with a sub-machine gun on their person..

But that is a vision of a society even more mental than the utterly mental reality of society they already have

Molon labe
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:17, Reply)
This is a normal post "molon" innit?
Those poor, poor people though. I often think 'how many innocents must die before the pro-gun lobby admit there's a problem?' & then remember that that would require them to completely alter their worldview.
[edit] Well, that ninjaedit makes me look more of an arse.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:23, Reply)
This is a normal post It's Rob's fault
I pasted from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molon_labe and b3ta decided to correct the spelling for me

But yes, when will they learn a nation armed to the teeth is a frequent accident waiting to happen when people flip out and go a bit mental, and the scenario many of them would like; gun-belts and such, would be even more hellish than the madness they already have.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:48, Reply)
This is a normal post Can we make this the serious bit of the thread?
Was asking a yank friend of mine few years back about gun control and he explained that because you have so many guns in the system banning them would achieve a massively armed criminal population and defenseless civilian one.

In other to have the power to disarm the U.S and keep it disarmed would demand one of two things.
A complete cultural shift away from gun ownership affecting not only civilians but criminals.
Or a hugely powerful police state.

The gun genies well and truly out of the bottle there I think.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:20, Reply)
This is a normal post Reckon that that's a fair point, actually.

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:28, Reply)
This is a normal post We could start a rumour
that GUN originally stood for Gay Uniformed Nazi, and let nature take its course.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:29, Reply)
This is a normal post Hmmm.....I think you need to seriously rethink
your opinion of right-wing nutjobs.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:34, Reply)
This is a normal post Hmm, you're right, they'd probably be quite proud...
(I couldn't work out how to get a commie implication in to the acronym)
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:35, Reply)
This is a normal post Which reminds me....
...I loved your recent outfit, MrOli.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:41, Reply)
This is a normal post Did you indeed?
You should have come over, offered me a drink. I might have kept those adorable little shoes on for you.

Urgh.

You'll keep, Tabby, you'll keep...
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:44, Reply)
This is a normal post I did wonder this the other day,
gunpowder was presumably invented before guns, so what does the word "gun" actually mean? Why isn't it called "bangpowder" or something?
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:47, Reply)
This is a normal post That name was already taken
by Rohypnol
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:49, Reply)
This is a normal post Looks like it might have originally been imaginatively called "black powder"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:51, Reply)
This is a normal post it says known as "black powder" since the late 19th century
apparently the word "gun" originally referred to any projectile-hurling weapon
www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=gun
and we got it from the Chinese who had already invented guns as well, which I didn't know.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:58, Reply)
This is a normal post Ah, it's simple then
We tell them guns are Chinese and therefore unpatriotic - job done :-)
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:01, Reply)
This is a normal post if guns were chinesed only the chinese would have guns

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:02, Reply)
This is a normal post Gun control in the UK
A friend of mine who works in a gun store (UK - rural area) was telling me that following the Dunblane massacre the knee jerk reaction to gun control actually made the situation worse.

Don't get me wrong it wasn't that all regulation was bad and we should all be armed - just that once guns are out there it's bloody hard to make changes.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:33, Reply)
This is a normal post Maybe,
but it has happened. There was little-to-no gun control in the UK until the start of the 20th century.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:48, Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah
A slightly scary mate of my dads when I was growing up had a lot of guns. Did he get rid of them all when the legislation banning handguns came in after Dunblane? Did he fuck. I haven't seen him since he got banned from the local pub for flashing a .357 Magnum. The sort of people who generally want to own guns are the sort of people you don't really want to have them, and the sort who are very unlikely to agree to give them up.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:25, Reply)
This is a normal post you wouldnt have to ban all guns outright immediately.
You could phase in gun control over a number of years - introduce licenses, prohibit sale to sections of the populace, ban the sale of automatic weapons, draconian sentences for gun runners etc.

That said, long term policy making is not a strength of the American political system. Or the British one for that matter.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:36, Reply)
This is a normal post Don't all those controls already exist?
At least in certain states.

You need a license
I'm pretty sure full automatic is illegal (though you can buy conversion kits)
And a quick google search for the penalty for smuggling guns is 20 years and $1million dollars.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:44, Reply)
This is a normal post in some states, yes, in others no.
Mandatory gun licences are certainly not country wide.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:14, Reply)
This is a normal post but it's illegally owned guns that are the problem.
making them any more illegal isn't going to make them disappear.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:50, Reply)
This is a normal post Trouble is, guns last for a very long time
they don't often need replacing.

All this would do would create a trade in illegal weapons where there currently doesn't need to be much, so make gangsters wealthier and gangs more violent, just like any kind of prohibition has over the years.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:54, Reply)
This is a normal post exactly.

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:01, Reply)
This is a normal post so mass murderers never go on the rampage with legally held weapons?

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:08, Reply)
This is a normal post I don't have the statistics for that,
but I suspect gangland killings and armed robberies are by far the bigger problem.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:12, Reply)
This is a normal post take this guy, for instance,
he's killed 15 people and it's got on the news and it's shocked everybody.

US-wide there are on average about 35 deaths by shooting a day.
(12,632 in 2007 according to Wikipedia)
EDIT: homicides only, not including accidents or suicide
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:17, Reply)
This is a normal post Assuming that most gangland killings and armed robberies are carried out with illegal weapons?

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:25, Reply)
This is a normal post see if you can find out
www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/163496.pdf
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:30, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm not entirely sure what your point is.
That it's easy to obtain a gun illegally in America?

Yes, I agree.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:08, Reply)
This is a normal post my point is that probably most crime is committed with illegally acquired guns.
I can't prove it, but it seems likely to me. Why bother complying with the law to get a gun if you're only going to break the law with it anyway, and it's that easy?

Secondly, it doesn't really matter that much how the criminal gangs got the guns, if gun ownership were made totally illegal, they would still have the guns. Only law-abiding citizens would hand their guns in.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:12, Reply)
This is a normal post my exhaustive scholarly research watching episodes of CSI bears this out
legally bought guns would be much easier to trace through ballistic examinaion, so only stupid criminals would buy one through normal channels.

Obviously this doesn't stop crimes of passion, but as I've commented elsewhere, I doubt the lack of a firearm would stop someone who really wants to kill someone.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:48, Reply)
This is a normal post the law should really concentrate on solving the kind of problems that happen all the time,
not the occasional one-offs that get in the news.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:57, Reply)
This is a normal post international statistics here
www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvinco.html

I think the Michael Moore film Bowling for Columbine cites these numbers, and the weak correlation internationally with gun crime statistics to gun ownership percentages.

His thesis ends up being that its not gun ownership that is the problem, but a culture of fear, in particular racial fear.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:31, Reply)
This is a normal post also here
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

what's interesting is that while Northern Ireland has a higher gun homicide rate, the US has a far higher suicide/accident rate.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:34, Reply)
This is a normal post That is one of the sloppiest use of statistics i've ever seen.

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:45, Reply)
This is a normal post by me or by wikipedia?

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:54, Reply)
This is a normal post It's a sloppy page of statistics crowbared together.
It's comparing figures from random 1 year samples over the course of 2 decades from surveys with different types of data sets.

There's a column for self defence yet not filled in.
Either nobody shot in self defence in the various years it was made or the author thought up the lists before reading data.

The U.S data is from 2004-2006 yet it says 1 year.

There's more holes to poke in it but I can't be bothered.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:08, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm not about to write an academic paper on it,
it's surely good enough a rough guide for a casual internet debate.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:17, Reply)
This is a normal post Quite right.
It wouldn't be an Internet debate if the opinions were informed and useful ! ;-)
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:23, Reply)
This is a normal post Not really. Why use a flawed set of figures as a basis for a discussion?
Especially where there's many other source options that are current.
www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_gun_vio_hom_hom_wit_fir-crime-gun-violence-homicides-firearms

Fill yer boots.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:28, Reply)
This is a normal post great.
It cites Wikipedia as its source.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:33, Reply)
This is a normal post Did you look at the source page?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence

Lunch now, you can have the last word on this i've got salad to eat.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:40, Reply)
This is a normal post Have you noticed that always having the last word
seems far more important to her than consistency or actual informed, intelligent argument?
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:58, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm more surprised at your lack of comment about me eating salad.

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:04, Reply)
This is a normal post ?
do you have a certain reputation then sir?
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:53, Reply)
This is a normal post Why my good man I have the reputation for being a fat ginger Cornishman.
Despite being just over fourteen and a half stone and just a little bit of ginger in my beard.
I am however Cornish.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 14:07, Reply)
This is a normal post on this one i'm not seeing the gun ownership %age
I'm trying to have a look at getting a good graph together, but on my limited version of excel I'm not about to label the scatter points properly.
Unfortunately the GunCite table also mixes years for the different countries statistics, so its not the best source. However, the general thrust is still interesting: while the USA has both the highest gun ownership and gun homicide rates, the next 6 down the list by ownership (in descending order: Norway, Canada, Switzerland, Finland, France and New Zealand) all have over 20% gun ownership and less that 1 gun homicide per 100,000 population, with no particular relationship between the two datasets.
Its worth noting that this is not an exhaustive list, many violent countries do not have statistics available on gun ownership, but perhaps that's to the good as it means we are comparing countries with governments stable enough to collect such data.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:03, Reply)
This is a normal post no I mentioned that list
because it has total gun deaths broken down into homicides, suicides and accidents.

I was surprised to see N.I. higher than the U.S. because I was sure it was the opposite, but it's because the total gun deaths is higher in the U.S.

Also curious is the suicide rate in Switzerland... I wonder if gun ownership correlates to suicide by shooting. Not that I'm saying gun ownership causes suicides, but I guess if you've got one it seems like an obvious way to do it.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:09, Reply)
This is a normal post well that is the interesting point isn't it? its not that you need a gun to kill someone or yourself
the South Africa statistic is intersting, in that it has a very high total homicide rate, 2/3rds of which are non-firearm.

Were I of the homicidal inclination, I'd have a wealth of creative options: bare hands, a kicking on the floor, kitchen knife, rock/brick/pool ball in a sock, garden tools, heavy household ornaments, the whole content of my tool box (except perhaps the tape measure), rat poison, and several plants growing in my garden including deadly nightshade, hemlock and in a few weeks the classic fly agaric mushroom.

Personally I'm of the opinion that prohibition is a sticking plaster measure at the best of times, we have to look to the cause of murder, not the tool used. Why are people angry enough to kill?
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:21, Reply)
This is a normal post absolutely,
often it's just a PR exercise so that the politicians can be seen to be doing something. After Dunblane, for instance, who got penalised? Legitimate gun sports clubs. They didn't do anything whatsoever to address the actual cause of the incident.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Australia radically changed its firearms laws following a mass shooting in Tasmania in 1996 (The Port Arthur Massacre)
The below link is to a paper recently done by the Australian Institute of Criminology:

www.aic.gov.au/documents/7/D/5/%7B7D52BA73-81EC-42F7-8246-468FB222FB4B%7Drpp116.pdf

By suddenly restricting ownership of large swathes of previously legitimately held firearms, you end with a 'grey market' - I quote:
"The grey market consists of all long-arms that were not registered, or surrendered as required during the gun buybacks, following the National Firearms Agreement (1996). Grey market firearms are not owned, used or
conveyed for criminal purposes but may end up in the illicit market."
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 15:05, Reply)
This is a normal post Bloody hell.
Didn't this happen when the last one was released with somebody dressed as the Joker?
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:50, Reply)
This is a normal post That rings a bell - I'm pretty sure it was in a Scandinavian country though.

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:03, Reply)
This is a normal post I seem to remember it happening closer to the release.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/13/police-shoot-man-dressed-as-joker

Perhaps I'm wrong.
Wearing a gas mask, you wonder if this nutter isn't dressed as the new villain.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:09, Reply)
This is a normal post Holy gun control, Batman!

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:51, Reply)
This is a normal post Commie!

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:09, Reply)
This is a normal post KAPOW!
You can still use your fists comrade



oh look, I've dropped my pencil
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:20, Reply)
This is a normal post *bums*

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:45, Reply)
This is a normal post MItt Romney
finally lost the plot?
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:13, Reply)
This is a normal post
did anyone lose both their parents?
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:26, Reply)
This is a normal post HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:32, Reply)
This is a normal post You are a BAD person
But that made me laugh, so I guess I am too.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:35, Reply)
This is a normal post Guiltylols

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:48, Reply)
This is a normal post Brilliant.
I've just spat ramen noodles over my keyboard, you swine.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:03, Reply)
This is a normal post Oof!

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:18, Reply)
This is a normal post You utter shit.
The whole office is looking at me now.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:24, Reply)
This is a normal post Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:28, Reply)
This is a normal post Holy fucking hell
*click*
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:38, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh no
I know this is a comedy website, but sometimes bad taste can go a little far...

b3ta.com/questions/tantrums/post1678840
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:34, Reply)
This is a normal post It'd be better if it was funny.
Selcouth's post above fits the bill.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:52, Reply)
This is a normal post Proof, if any were needed, that Batman movies cause violent behaviour.
They should be banned at once.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:58, Reply)
This is a normal post
Best 3D experience ever.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:16, Reply)
This is a link post Start Friday with lots of words on impending doom
Based on current increases, we've got 16 years before we've raised the temperature by 2 degrees. Which is enough to decimate the oceans and turn the weather apocalyptic.

I thought we'd have 50 years, mind you that was 10 years ago. Oh well, probably best to start enrolling in survival courses
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:24, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm really not worried about myself
because I'll be even more of a doddery old fart than I am, and apocalyptic weather is as good a way to go as any. But, having seen the staggering speed of change in my lifetime I cannot genuinely imagine what the world will be like when my children are in their late teens.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:42, Reply)
This is a normal post it's OK
I'm on it
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:45, Reply)
This is a normal post It'll take a sea level rise of between 20m and 30m metres to affect me.
I'll wait until 20 then sell it as a waterfront for mega profits.

flood.firetree.net/
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:48, Reply)
This is a normal post Never a good idea to get all your doom and gloom from one article in one magazine though.

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:50, Reply)
This is a normal post Fuck the polar bears

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:28, Reply)
This is a normal post we'll still have women

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:31, Reply)
This is a normal post Fuck everything below sea level
and then some
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:55, Reply)
This is a link post Bloke makes extraordinary Crystal Radios
I'm sure he doesn't know the first thing about Steam Punk, but that's what he's made. He must have a shed.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 8:52, Reply)
This is a normal post Lovely
I like the Jules Verne and H.G Wells ones the best.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:01, Reply)
This is a normal post I really want a workshop...
There's nothing as lovely as freshly worked brass.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:10, Reply)
This is a normal post As long as she washes.

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:24, Reply)
This is a link post GaC

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 6:54, Reply)
This is a normal post Not enough wankers playing the guitar to a stupid baby.

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 7:55, Reply)
This is a normal post What a cunt!

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 8:05, Reply)
This is a normal post Haha
Supplies!
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 8:17, Reply)
This is a normal post Absolutely golden :D

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 8:54, Reply)
This is a normal post No. I think you'll find
that geese are ace.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:44, Reply)
This is a normal post Geese are the avian equivalent of those people who stand behind news reporters being "humorous".
Swans are ace.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:10, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh god, will you and I ever agree on ANYTHING?
Swans are cunts. End of.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:26, Reply)
This is a normal post I'll admit geese taste better.

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:33, Reply)
This is a normal post You fucking monster

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:14, Reply)
This is a normal post How do you know the nickname I gave my penis?

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:21, Reply)
This is a normal post I agree. There's a swan where I live called "Mr. ASBO"
It's a fucking cunt... although it does attack all the poncey Cambridge rowing cunts, so it kind of evens out.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:27, Reply)
This is a normal post I used to live in Cambdrige. Is it me or has it gotten more "Fighty" since the mid 90's?
Parkside used to be right quiet and you could happily stroll home stoned as a troll without incident.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 13:42, Reply)
This is a normal post GaC
Fed one some seeds before, The fucker chased me until I dropped the bag
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:58, Reply)
This is a normal post Haha!
It must be ace being a Goose; "Hmm, I wonder what they're up to? I think I'll go over there and fuck their shit up..."
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:59, Reply)
This is a normal post Ha! Yes!
A lifetime of following your peers in a straight line must really drive some of them batshit
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 12:39, Reply)
This is a normal post
Why was the camera pointing into the distance, as if it knew what was coming, instead of at the apparent subject of the scene?

/cynical
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 15:25, Reply)
This is a link post Is Bradley Wiggins a B3tan?
Saw this and thought "But....where's his croissant?"
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 5:37, Reply)
This is a normal post In the post-stage press conference Wiggins was asked what he thinks about people who point fingers at Team Sky and hint that he is doping.
“I say they’re just fucking wankers. I cannot be doing with people like that.

It justifies their own bone-idleness because they can’t ever imagine applying themselves to do anything in their lives.

It’s easy for them to sit under a pseudonym on Twitter and write that sort of shit, rather than get off their arses in their own lives and apply themselves and work hard at something and achieve something. And that’s ultimately it. Cunts.”
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 5:59, Reply)
This is a normal post Given
that Lance Armstrong will be striped of his tour wins and will be doing jail time some time in the future, he'd want to be keeping his mouth shut.

Lance did have good taste tho

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6B21JtgZsk&feature=related
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 6:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Is that tru-fax 100%?

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 7:40, Reply)
This is a normal post 100%
Being following this issue for some time now
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 8:25, Reply)
This is a normal post Cycling is, and always has been, the most inherently crooked sport
everyone cheats, and everyone is in on it
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 8:08, Reply)
This is a normal post More than dog racing?

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:20, Reply)
This is a normal post Wiggins was cycling round Harrow and the same time I was learning how to drive round there.
I see his success thanks to me not mowing him down.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 8:32, Reply)
This is a normal post Ah. Minds and all that...

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:41, Reply)
This is a normal post Not pictured,
squirrel under the table, gobbing him off.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:37, Reply)
This is a normal post He surely is a B3tan:
He can express himself in a way that is shall we say... virile....He's seen as stylish, slightly eccentric, gentlemanly, outspoken, and humorous.
(, Sun 22 Jul 2012, 2:12, Reply)
This is a link post I Feel All Daily Mail

It's political correctness gone mad!

Race horse is forced to change it's name.

Cheers
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 2:41, Reply)
This is a normal post Be fucked.
This is out of control. Time to release the hounds.
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 6:16, Reply)
This is a normal post Bloody chinks.

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 6:58, Reply)
This is a normal post Should have been called "Blackman's Filly"

(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:55, Reply)
This is a normal post Hahaha
Racialolist
(, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:19, Reply)

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