TMI
- Elliott Bay or Amazon
- Tushy or Tuchus
- Dan Savage or Charles Mudede
- Punch Buggy or Slug Bug
- No legs and a million dollars or A million legs and no dollars
9:21 PM yesterday
Backyard Bombardier commented on SL Letter of the Day: Did You Think I Was Going To Tell You Not To Come Out? (PLUS: Help Free Kate!).
Backyard Bombardier commented on SL Letter of the Day: Did You Think I Was Going To Tell You Not To Come Out? (PLUS: Help Free Kate!).
@armyguy26, @MameSnidely:
Masterful concern trolling.
Masterful concern trolling.
5:19 PM yesterday
Backyard Bombardier commented on SL Letter of the Day: Did You Think I Was Going To Tell You Not To Come Out? (PLUS: Help Free Kate!).
Backyard Bombardier commented on SL Letter of the Day: Did You Think I Was Going To Tell You Not To Come Out? (PLUS: Help Free Kate!).
How many 18-year-old boys have faced similar charges?
2:43 PM yesterday
Backyard Bombardier commented on America's Epidemic of Toddler-on-Toddler Gun Violence Continues.
Backyard Bombardier commented on America's Epidemic of Toddler-on-Toddler Gun Violence Continues.
@34: Let me help you out with your English there, fuckstick: "Suicidal" does not mean the same thing as "committed suicide".
For example, your mother feels suicidal every time she goes down to the basement to do the laundry and passes by the open doorway to your fetid bedroom, catching a glimpse of you furiously masturbating as you sit in your own stink trolling the Internet. But as she has not yet successfully committed suicide, she must live with the shame of having birthed you for yet another day.
For example, your mother feels suicidal every time she goes down to the basement to do the laundry and passes by the open doorway to your fetid bedroom, catching a glimpse of you furiously masturbating as you sit in your own stink trolling the Internet. But as she has not yet successfully committed suicide, she must live with the shame of having birthed you for yet another day.
1:03 PM yesterday
Backyard Bombardier commented on America's Epidemic of Toddler-on-Toddler Gun Violence Continues.
Backyard Bombardier commented on America's Epidemic of Toddler-on-Toddler Gun Violence Continues.
@31: Not like it blew up in that kid's face though, amirite?
For fuck's sake. This is what the gun-humpers are reduced to: "Your anecdote about the dangers that gun ownership pose to the ones you love is TOTALLY invalidated because the toddler who SHOT HIMSELF IN THE FACE survived!"
For fuck's sake. This is what the gun-humpers are reduced to: "Your anecdote about the dangers that gun ownership pose to the ones you love is TOTALLY invalidated because the toddler who SHOT HIMSELF IN THE FACE survived!"
12:06 PM yesterday
Backyard Bombardier commented on New Gun Enthusiast....
Too bad for you. You'd be much, much safer:
Firearms death rates per 100,000 population
Sweden (2010 data)
Total 1.47
Homicide 0.19
Suicide 1.20
Unintentional 0.06
Undetermined 0.01
USA (2010 data)
Total 9.80
Homicide 3.20
Suicide 6.30
Unintentional 0.20
Undetermined 0.10
Backyard Bombardier commented on New Gun Enthusiast....
But, in case you hadn't noticed, this isn't Sweden.
Too bad for you. You'd be much, much safer:
Firearms death rates per 100,000 population
Sweden (2010 data)
Total 1.47
Homicide 0.19
Suicide 1.20
Unintentional 0.06
Undetermined 0.01
USA (2010 data)
Total 9.80
Homicide 3.20
Suicide 6.30
Unintentional 0.20
Undetermined 0.10
May 18
Backyard Bombardier commented on The Saturday Morning News.
Backyard Bombardier commented on The Saturday Morning News.
Re @9 and @10, I think a pertinent question would be, how many 18-year-old boys in the same school or district have faced similar charges, and have been expelled, for having sex with their 15-year-old girlfriends?
My guess would be somewhere between zero and none.
My guess would be somewhere between zero and none.
May 16
Backyard Bombardier commented on Occupy Offshoot Blockades Home to Save South Park Man From Eviction.
Backyard Bombardier commented on Occupy Offshoot Blockades Home to Save South Park Man From Eviction.
@10: It's pretty clear how underwater mortgages lead to defaults and foreclosures. If someone loses their job and can't afford their mortgage anymore, one option is to sell the house, pay off the mortgage with the proceeds, and downsize to a rental that they can afford. Being underwater makes that whole "pay off the mortgage" step a little tricky. Not to mention being in a depressed housing market.
May 15
Backyard Bombardier commented on We Can Do It!.
Backyard Bombardier commented on We Can Do It!.
@26: I am happy for you that our culture provides ample opportunities to see men that you find hot and want to have sex with.
I am equally lucky. I find this woman hot and I want to have sex with her:
http://www.darkknightnews.com/wp-content…
As a straight man, I can see images like that all day. I didn't even have to Google "sexy catwoman" to find that one - just the character name alone brings up plenty of wank-fodder for any red-blooded man.
And then I try to imagine walking through life in a culture saturated with images like that of my own gender. Where that was the pop cultural default for men. Where I felt every day that I was being measured against that sexual ideal.
It isn't a comfortable feeling.
I am equally lucky. I find this woman hot and I want to have sex with her:
http://www.darkknightnews.com/wp-content…
As a straight man, I can see images like that all day. I didn't even have to Google "sexy catwoman" to find that one - just the character name alone brings up plenty of wank-fodder for any red-blooded man.
And then I try to imagine walking through life in a culture saturated with images like that of my own gender. Where that was the pop cultural default for men. Where I felt every day that I was being measured against that sexual ideal.
It isn't a comfortable feeling.
May 15
Backyard Bombardier commented on We Can Do It!.
Backyard Bombardier commented on We Can Do It!.
@17, 19. 20.22:
So, you've noticed homoeroticism in comic book art. Congratulations. Do you not see that this is qualitatively different from the sexist objectification of women in comic book art?
As @21 notes, sexualized men are most often portrayed as virile and powerful. The women are not. And for the most part, the imagery of both men and women is designed to appeal sexually to men - either gay or straight.
I am not a woman, but most women I know would not look at the examples you provided as exemplary of what they find sexually attractive in a man.
So, you've noticed homoeroticism in comic book art. Congratulations. Do you not see that this is qualitatively different from the sexist objectification of women in comic book art?
As @21 notes, sexualized men are most often portrayed as virile and powerful. The women are not. And for the most part, the imagery of both men and women is designed to appeal sexually to men - either gay or straight.
I am not a woman, but most women I know would not look at the examples you provided as exemplary of what they find sexually attractive in a man.
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It's all down to the semi-automatic/burst/automatic firing distinction.
Semi-automatic weapons are self-reloading and fire once per trigger pull. Automatic weapons fire continuously while the trigger is pulled. There is no such thing as "semi-automatic burst" firing - if the gun fires more than once when you hold down the trigger, then it is automatic. The burst mode on an automatic weapon simply limits the number of bullets fired on a single trigger pull.
The civilian model AR-15 only fires in semi-automatic mode. Unless it has some after-market modifications, it is one trigger pull, one shot. If an "assault weapon" is one capable of burst or fully automatic fire, the civilian AR-15 does not qualify.
Military versions of the AR-15 - the M-16, C-7, etc., would qualify under your definition as they are capable of burst and automatic fire. The AK-47 also qualifies as it has semi-automatic and automatic firing modes.