And not just in the bull ring.

Carols being sung (badly) in the atrium of my office. Also Mulled wine smell is so strong that we're getting pissed on the 2nd floor just smelling it :S

If there were a tales of win with a tinge of disappointment, this would be in it. Bought and have received the following t shirt. Absolutely love it. But can anyone spot the mistake?

http://m.teefury.com/galleryDetail.php? ... 26page%3D2

I look on it as a discussion point.

Edit: whoops, that didn't work, here's a picky of it as I'm wearing it.

10:04?

Maybe my link did work then. Tales of fail on me! Yes, you've got it.

Just been watching some of the stuff about the NRA press conference in the NRA that got disrupted and one of the NRA members has just said (and this is an absolute quote)



There is no failboat big enough.

The Mayan Apocalypse attempt to kill me. I am still alive!!

I was more concerned (although not particularly surprised) that their solution to school shootings was more guns to put in the hands of police/security personnel to be stationed in every school in the country.

I was a bit alarmed at that too. America - the place where the solution to gun crime is more guns!

Yes it is bizarre but then they are completely unreasonable and so distort the debate entirely.

Love it. Can we all just issue them with paperweights instead?


Anyone else notice how delightfully dated their attempts were to blame the media?
No, I hadn't either this site pointed it out to me: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/12/wayne-lapierre-nra-press-conference-riddled-humiliating-outdated-cultural-references

Yes it is hardly cause and effect. Millions of players of Call of Duty, one killer, and not necessarily a Call of Duty player. Most scientists would deny there was a link between cause and effect. There have been claims that Aspergers are now a risk factor. Even if you eliminate anyone with a mental condition, and that can be very broad then who do you blame next?

The Myans predicting the end of the world.
That was all a storm in a teacup.
How disappointing.

Mark

Anybody but the bloke with the gun, apparently.

IIRC after the shooting of that senator (Gifford?) a while back, the secret service actually came out and stated that using games like CoD as 'practice' for shooting sprees was a myth, since the motor skills required are completely different and the games represent aiming and firing high power military style weaponry all wrong. In fact they made a public statement saying the fact the shooter in that case had played a lot of CoD was a factor in keeping the casualty rate down, as he was in fact a much worse shot because he was trying to shoot a real gun the way you do in CoD. If he'd actually gone to a gun club (you know, those places the NRA campaign to keep open and allow to keep all kinds of only-usable-for-killing-lots-of-people armaments) and had some proper training, the carnage would have been even worse.

I never thought of that aspect. The muscle skills for a Xbox controller are very different for a gun.

There are cases of people getting sacked and then going "postal" on their former work colleagues. They could be completely normal until that moment. So what will the gun lobby say then? No more sackings of people with guns?