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Postby Vetalia » Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:29 pm

At least he didn't eat the finger. If the MoveOn guy was a goon, on the other hand...
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Postby KaIashnikov » Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:30 pm

When I'm an old geezer in a few decades... , I'm going to keep a 150 year old M1911 on my person so I can blow any whipper snapper away. By then all those damn kids will be crazy city slickers with cheap plastic chinese knifes.

They will fear the Colt.



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Postby Vetalia » Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:35 pm

KaIashnikov wrote:When I'm an old geezer in a few decades... , I'm going to keep a 150 year old M1911 on my person so I can blow any whipper snapper away. By then all those damn kids will be crazy city slickers with cheap plastic chinese knifes.

They will fear the Colt.


An old man using a gun with a manufacturer's name that can also mean a young horse.

Personally, I'm just going to tote around a M91/30 Mosin-Nagant. I'll be able to pick the little bastards off up to 2500 meters away...they'll be able to hear that over the sound of their hep-hop music.
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Postby Mad hatters in jeans » Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:37 pm

terrifying old militant guys are terrifying

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Postby Ifreann » Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:38 pm

KaIashnikov wrote:When I'm an old geezer in a few decades... , I'm going to keep a 150 year old M1911 on my person so I can blow any whipper snapper away. By then all those damn kids will be crazy city slickers with cheap plastic chinese knifes.

They will fear the Colt.

They won't fear shit, they'll laugh at the old man whose arthritis is so bad he could hit the broad side of a barn with his relic hand cannon.
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Postby KaIashnikov » Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:43 pm

Ifreann wrote:
KaIashnikov wrote:When I'm an old geezer in a few decades... , I'm going to keep a 150 year old M1911 on my person so I can blow any whipper snapper away. By then all those damn kids will be crazy city slickers with cheap plastic chinese knifes.

They will fear the Colt.

They won't fear shit, they'll laugh at the old man whose arthritis is so bad he could hit the broad side of a barn with his relic hand cannon.


Marines don't miss.

I've seen men strickened with arthritis, pick up an M1 just as agile as he did 50 years ago.

But i don't know why your talking, You'll have a walker too! Or dead...
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Postby Ifreann » Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:46 pm

KaIashnikov wrote:
Ifreann wrote:
KaIashnikov wrote:When I'm an old geezer in a few decades... , I'm going to keep a 150 year old M1911 on my person so I can blow any whipper snapper away. By then all those damn kids will be crazy city slickers with cheap plastic chinese knifes.

They will fear the Colt.

They won't fear shit, they'll laugh at the old man whose arthritis is so bad he could hit the broad side of a barn with his relic hand cannon.


Marines don't miss.

Of course they do. The Marine Corps doesn't have firing ranges for shits and giggles, it has them for training and practice.

I've seen men strickened with arthritis, pick up an M1 just as agile as he did 50 years ago.

And I'm sure your anecdotes will scare off far more children than an old gun in weak, shaking hands aimed with failing eyes.

But i don't know why your talking, You'll have a walker too! Or dead...

I plan to live forever as a machine. I plan to have weaponry far more bad ass than guns. Frickin' lasers and shit.
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Postby KaIashnikov » Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:55 pm

Ifreann wrote:I plan to live forever as a machine. I plan to have weaponry far more bad ass than guns. Frickin' lasers and shit.


No tin-can man can possibly with stand a .45 bullet to the Face!
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Postby Grave_n_idle » Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:56 pm

You-Gi-Owe wrote:http://startribune.com/lifestyle/health/56931757.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUec7PaP3E77K_Oc:D3aDhUiacyKUnciatkEP7DhUr

I heard about this on the radio. From one witness account, the guy who found the finger tip, it seemed like the MoveOn.Org guy came accross the street and singled out the senior citizen (not any of the other younger and healthier anti-health-care-insurance protesters). Stories are also mixed on who may have thrown the first punch, but biting off a geezer's finger tip? I mean doesn't biting usually come into play when you're really desperate?

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According to this:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2 ... rator.html

The guy got bitten because he was actually in the act of punching someone in the face (for calling him an idiot).


I'm finding it hard to fault someone who bites someone... who sticks their hand in that other persons mouth as an act of violence.
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Postby New Kereptica » Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:58 pm

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Ifreann wrote:I plan to live forever as a machine. I plan to have weaponry far more bad ass than guns. Frickin' lasers and shit.


No tin-can man can possibly with stand a .45 bullet to the Face!


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Postby Ifreann » Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:59 pm

KaIashnikov wrote:
Ifreann wrote:I plan to live forever as a machine. I plan to have weaponry far more bad ass than guns. Frickin' lasers and shit.


No tin-can man can possibly with stand a .45 bullet to the Face!

Then I will have many faces! Each more ridiculous than the last!
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Postby KaIashnikov » Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:20 pm

Ifreann wrote:
KaIashnikov wrote:
Ifreann wrote:I plan to live forever as a machine. I plan to have weaponry far more bad ass than guns. Frickin' lasers and shit.


No tin-can man can possibly with stand a .45 bullet to the Face!

Then I will have many faces! Each more ridiculous than the last!


I've said it once and I will say it again,

No damn whipper snapper city slicken tin can man from mars will ever have their way with me!
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Postby Ryadn » Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:26 pm

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Cannot think of a name wrote:According to the article, he wasn't even a protester, just some dude who wanted to know what the hubub was. He wouldn't even say whether he was for or against the health care reform. There is a 'reel missing' element to how he ends up in a scuffle where his finger gets bitten, though.


Didn't even read the article. Screw him anyway, old men suck.

except your grandad.

and 'several others', basically he hates old people he hasn't met yet.


Who doesn't? Old people are jerks. Strangers are jerks. Old strangers are the worst.
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Postby KaIashnikov » Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:28 pm

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Who doesn't? Old people are jerks. Strangers are jerks. Old strangers are the worst.


Old people are the most wise people you'll ever meet. Learn while you can.
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Postby New Kereptica » Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:33 pm

KaIashnikov wrote:
Ryadn wrote:
Who doesn't? Old people are jerks. Strangers are jerks. Old strangers are the worst.


Old people are the most wise people you'll ever meet. Learn while you can.


I've met people on both sides of the wisdom gradient. Their age is generally not tied to their wisdom.
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Postby NERVUN » Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:42 pm

Ya know... according to the news article, no one knows who the guy was, so how DOES our OP know it was a MoveOn.Org member?
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Postby You-Gi-Owe » Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:22 pm

NERVUN wrote:Ya know... according to the news article, no one knows who the guy was, so how DOES our OP know it was a MoveOn.Org member?

Apparently, the guy was at the MoveOn.Org rally, on the MoveOn.Org side of the street, chanting with the MoveOn.Org pro-health-care-insurance-reform demonstrators, before witnesses saw him come across the street. He may or may not be an "official" MoveOn.Org member, but he was with them and championing their beliefs regarding HCIR, so I believe it's fair to call him, as I did in the topic title, a "MoveOn.Org Protester".
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Postby NERVUN » Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:39 pm

Question withdrawn as the LA Times now confirms this. And given that they, unlike YGO, are not in the habit of making stuff up, I'll rest content.
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Postby New Mitanni » Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:19 pm

Srork wrote:I'd probably feel sorry for this old man, except I hate most old men, with the exception of my grandfather and quite a few others. And honestly, the whole, "I'm an old, Cold War-era raised dude who hates everything that even mentions Socialism" stereotype doesn't exactly make me want to care that he lost his finger.

In fact, screw him.


I look forward to the day when you are his age and some worthless young punk does the same to you. :roll:

And people who blather on about how much they hate people who favor individual freedom and thus oppose socialism make me want to say, "In fact, screw them."
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Postby Tech-gnosis » Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:46 pm

New Mitanni wrote:
Srork wrote:I'd probably feel sorry for this old man, except I hate most old men, with the exception of my grandfather and quite a few others. And honestly, the whole, "I'm an old, Cold War-era raised dude who hates everything that even mentions Socialism" stereotype doesn't exactly make me want to care that he lost his finger.

In fact, screw him.


I look forward to the day when you are his age and some worthless young punk does the same to you. :roll:

And people who blather on about how much they hate people who favor individual freedom and thus oppose socialism make me want to say, "In fact, screw them."


One assumes that if Srork's fingertip was bitten off when he was punching a young punk Srork was asking for it.

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Postby Srork » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:00 pm

I look forward to the day when you are his age and some worthless young punk does the same to you. :roll:

And people who blather on about how much they hate people who favor individual freedom and thus oppose socialism make me want to say, "In fact, screw them."


You read my post about that. But you didn't read the posts below about me saying I was being sarcastic?

I would make a crack about you being as intelligent as your signature, but really, I don't care for Obama. I mean, honestly, 'Better Jack then Barack?' You must have come up with that all by yourself.

Calling the kid who bit off the dude's finger a 'worthless, young, punk' also further displays your intelligence. You don't know a thing about him.

Your QQs sustain me.

EDIT : Lol. According to the LATimes article, the guy's supposedly not even a teenager,

Authorities said they are looking for a white male in his late 40s or 50s who was last seen wearing black shorts and a black shirt.


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Postby Cherrieys » Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:11 am

When people get old, they have either sent to a nursing home or forced to live in senior homes and given the excuse as their professional care and comfort and company.
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