jkf
1mo ago
the man who committed the only successful assassination of a POTUS in the twentieth century.
Czolgosz seethes in lack-of-infamy...
I think Scotland writ large (the parts of it containing Scottish people, anyways) has been best avoided by the upper crust on this basis for hundreds of years, though?
jkf
1mo ago
Some of the older tiktok ones are interesting:
https://tiktok.com/@alidumana1/video/7190441685413809414
"UK 🐈 money" apparently...
jkf
1mo ago
Also if I'm not mistaken, when one is invading a country one desires the bridges in territory that one has not yet conquered to be intact -- not that Russia is probably planning another trans-Dnieper adventure anytime soon, but I'm sure there a war-plan for it somewhere that would be made a lot easier by having some non-blown-up bridges available to supply whatever beachhead they might like to establish.
Fair enough I guess -- I can say that this is not a UK usage that has transmitted to Canada anyways.
Maybe the right term now will be "Assault Ax"?
jkf
1mo ago
This just in:
Now we can reveal the man being threatened is a family man who has been living in the UK for four years – and who was accompanied by his wife on the way to the shops when the incident occurred.
Far from being fresh off a cross-channel small inflatable, as implied by Robinson and Musk, Fatos Ali Dumana, 21, says he came to Britain legally from Bulgaria he and his wife have an eight-month-old baby.
Fatos Ali Dumana -- very Bulgarian, much European ethnicity.
@Quantumfreakonomics @hydroacetylene -- just in case you were wondering.
jkf
1mo ago
Belt knives of any size are legal in Canada as well -- I don't know that it's come up, but I doubt there's any law about toting around an ax, either. For that matter, carrying a rifle around is typically not specifically outlawed here, although it tends to cause more trouble than it's worth in urban areas.
There's a semi famous case where some busybody Very Concerned Citizen daubed in a kid riding the bus home from target shooting because they noticed him trying to hide his .22 wrapped up in a jacket or somesuch. Extensive prosecution resulted in a conviction for carrying a concealed weapon -- the ruling as I recall claims that there would have been no violation if he'd carried it openly. (although I imagine the system would have tried pretty hard to generate something in that case)
Is Canada OK? I think it's not bad.
jkf
1mo ago
OK -- I'm curious your opinion of the UK's blade bans then, actually -- ID to buy kitchen utensils, yea or nay?
Because that's pretty much already at the cartoonish authoritarianism that libertarians would have put at the bottom of the slippery slope 20-odd years ago -- if you think that's fine, is there any line you'd draw on state power?
jkf
1mo ago
To not do so seems irresponsible to me - what are they going to do with that axe? Break into someone's house? Threaten someone? Hurt themselves?
Do you actually think that's what was up? And anyways brings us back to MYOB -- if you actually truly believe that this girl is extremely dangerous, engaging with her and filming her is the last thing you should be doing, no?
jkf
1mo ago
Really? You interact with hundreds of people holding much more dangerous weapons than that ax in their hand(s) everytime you drive somewhere -- does that specific girl really seem like a threat to you?
jkf
1mo ago
Do you think the difference in the damage a 12 year old and an adult could potentially do with an axe is really so significant?
Yes, it is extremely significant -- that guy is twice her weight, 1.5-2 feet taller (with corresponding reach advantage), and probably three times as strong. Taking an ax from that girl is literally candy from a baby.
I do it equally on a 12 year old, because they still have the strength to kill many members of society.
See my previous comment; ftge.
So it's not important enough for the police, but it's also somehow important enough to initiate a violent confrontation over?
Not what I said; I don't think it's important at all, but you should deal with it yourself if it bothers you so much. Cops in the UK have no guns either; what magic are they going to wield that makes it feasible for them to deal with this Very Serious Threat that you yourself do not possess?
jkf
1mo ago
Everybody be all libertarian 'till the tweens start a'yellin' I guess -- fuck this gay earth.
(you too @hydroacetylene)
ED: comment applies to you too, not fuck you too, lol
jkf
1mo ago
That's kind of what I mean -- isn't it a common pattern for people from shithole countries to anchor in second tier EU ones prior to heading somewhere nicer?
jkf
1mo ago
So it’s not a police matter, but also regular civilians are not supposed to intervene or even film? This is a recipe for utter chaos and disorder.
You will be surprised to learn that chaos did not reign in the years prior to widespread filming of public activities -- I guess if the guy wanted to take her toys away himself I'd be OK with that, but would recommend just ignoring her. Going to the cops is just weak -- do you record speeders with a dashcam and call them in?
jkf
1mo ago
- What makes you think that? They seem to be mostly running away in the video.
- So what? A twelve year old yelling at people is not a police matter, even if she has a hatchet.
jkf
1mo ago
Have you met Bulgarians? Been there? I'm one for two, so while I'll grant that there's probably a range of appearances I stongly suspect that either these two or their parents (or both) were not originally from Bulgaria.
jkf
1mo ago
More time needed on ethnoguesser 'dawg' -- since you like wikipedia so much:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Lazarki_from_Gabra.jpg
jkf
1mo ago
jkf
1mo ago
Anyways, you know what else is not normal? Following 12 yo girls around the park taping them with your camera in order to report them to the police.
Even allowing your hypothesis that the girls are l.h.c. (likely) and had the weapons to impress their friends (rather than fend off rapists) -- how about just, like -- leave them alone?
I guess the current parlance would be "don't be a Karen" (particularly when you're in somebody else's country) -- but I prefer good old MYOB for pithyness and broad applicability to all of life's struggles.
jkf
1mo ago
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/003/125/092/9a1.jpg
"Bulgarian man" in the same sense as the "Swedish men" who are always doing grenade attacks and such.
(or the "Welsh man" involved in the actual knife violence in Southport for that matter)
Look on the bright side; the bar for badassery is now so low that normal dad-behaviour makes you practically Chuck Norris!
(FTGE)
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