Am I bad for smiling and rejoicing at the idea of Brits having an aneurysm everytime their gun control calls don't work in the US of A?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19925409

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nhb1d

Xela

As my grandpa used to say, "I thought we fought two goddamn wars so we didn't have to listen to those Limey bastards."

We gave tehm the tie in 1812, what more do they want?

No, we won't give New Orleans back either.

Not all Brits suffer aneurysms every time the subject comes up. Current TV ran a program called Tim Shaw on Guns that's a bit of a hoot. Tim initially is in fear of guns but falls in love with them during his time Stateside.

Legitimate observations. I have no answers. I will not disarm.

Yeah, British requests for folks in this geographic area to disarm don't tend to go well for them.

I blame several centuries of Home Rule there vs almost 400 years of us fending for ourselves.

OldScratch wrote:Not all Brits suffer aneurysms every time the subject comes up. Current TV ran a program called Tim Shaw on Guns that's a bit of a hoot. Tim initially is in fear of guns but falls in love with them during his time Stateside.

Good to know.

Darn shame I missed that video. I tried a quick search and didn't find it.

Please share if you come up with it on your end.

Thanks,

Xela

ErikO wrote:Yeah, British requests for folks in this geographic area to disarm don't tend to go well for them.

I blame several centuries of Home Rule there vs almost 400 years of us fending for ourselves.

Down here, we still fly flags down suggesting what you can do.

atxgunguy wrote:

ErikO wrote:Yeah, British requests for folks in this geographic area to disarm don't tend to go well for them.

I blame several centuries of Home Rule there vs almost 400 years of us fending for ourselves.

Down here, we still fly flags down here suggesting what you can do.

If we ever move to TX, that flag will be right beneath Old Glory for sure.

Why not fly it in MO?

Xela wrote:

OldScratch wrote:Not all Brits suffer aneurysms every time the subject comes up. Current TV ran a program called Tim Shaw on Guns that's a bit of a hoot. Tim initially is in fear of guns but falls in love with them during his time Stateside.

Good to know.

Darn shame I missed that video. I tried a quick search and didn't find it.

Please share if you come up with it on your end.

Thanks,

Xela

I found this on their site, but I can't figure out how to access the full episode...
http://current.com/groups/videos/926645 ... n-guns.htm

That's probably because the BBC is supported by people who play their television licence fees mate, and being a yank you don't qualify.

SO, find a free proxy in the UK or something like privatetunnel.com which has a free 100mb trial, and uses a vpn to make you look like a proper limey to BBC's servers, and you can probably get the content.

I pulled the show off a torrent. It's a 500 mb .avi file. I zipped it up for Xela but don't know if he has it or not yet via PipeBytes. I'm happy to share it via something like DropBox.

OldScratch wrote:I pulled the show off a torrent. It's a 500 mb .avi file. I zipped it up for Xela but don't know if he has it or not yet via PipeBytes. I'm happy to share it via something like DropBox.

I tried the link you provided earlier OldScratch, put it failed. I got a message saying the transfer was cancelled by other party (?). Don't know what that means.

Thanks for trying anyway.

Xela

OldScratch wrote:I pulled the show off a torrent. It's a 500 mb .avi file. I zipped it up for Xela but don't know if he has it or not yet via PipeBytes. I'm happy to share it via something like DropBox.

I understand part of what you said, but it appears to be of a dialect I'm not familiar with... I'm not terribly computer savvy.

I'm trying to work something else out for now. Hopefully this upload to File Dropper works and it can be shared from there. 500 mb's of data (about 1 CD worth) doesn't move as quickly as you might think.

Here's a link to FileDropper:

http://www.filedropper.com/timshawonguns

This thing's a 500 mb .zip file containing the .avi (movie) file that will play in Media Player. It was a 2-hour upload so it will be awhile coming down. Also 500 mb is half a GB, be aware of that if you've got a bandwidth cap such as on mobile broadband accounts.

atxgunguy wrote:

whitey wrote:Why not fly it in MO?

Because the Todd Akin crowd thinks its an ultrasound probe

bigmike0301 wrote:

atxgunguy wrote:

whitey wrote:Why not fly it in MO?

Because the Todd Akin crowd thinks its an ultrasound probe

Ouch.

bigmike0301 wrote:

atxgunguy wrote:

whitey wrote:Why not fly it in MO?

Because the Todd Akin crowd thinks its an ultrasound probe

QFT...

OldScratch wrote:Here's a link to FileDropper:

http://www.filedropper.com/timshawonguns

This thing's a 500 mb .zip file containing the .avi (movie) file that will play in Media Player. It was a 2-hour upload so it will be awhile coming down. Also 500 mb is half a GB, be aware of that if you've got a bandwidth cap such as on mobile broadband accounts.

Now I'm getting that the file is corrupted. What I do get in data is only about 150 kb that transfer. Maybe it's my internet service.

I think you're gone above and beyond sir. I do appreciate your efforts.

It's not like I HAVE to watch the clip

Xela

Try it again, if you haven't already. I tested it last night and again just now. First attempt it was a rather short download and it was indeed corrupted. It pulled all 500 mb down just now and it's playing.

Then again, there could be some kind of cap or filter on your internet service. It's hard to say from here.

Police use Taser on blind man whose stick was mistaken for samurai sword.

It's good to see that the UK police are in good company with their fellow brothers/sisters of the NYPD and other knee-jerk American LEOs.

Via the intertubes, we watch a lot of British cop shows. Here's our takeaway.

British people are rarely cheerful. Mostly they are nasty to one another. They really hate coppers and always are shitty and combative with the poor investigators.

They have been using sharp edged pointy thingee's to slice, stab, and otherwise torture each other for thousands of years, with an unusual glee that seems to come from that kind of up close and personal activity.

Also they use bottles, belts, rocks, poison and GUNS. From the venerable Webley to a Colt Python. (Cracker)
The bad guys have any firearm they want.

15 - 20 years ago the British Police didn't carry firearms, Now they wear body armor and carry firearms.
The Aussie's are actually cheerful according to their telly and the Canadians are well, Canadian.

On a side note - in 1989 -1990 you could get an M-16 in Moskva, (Moskow) Soviet Union. You just had to know the right criminals.

I get all my info about UK criminals/law enforcement from Guy Richie and Simon Pegg movies.

What cops look like:



What crooks look like: