Re: Local Life

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I don't get it. If its a clay buster classic, they should be offering a shotgun as the prize, not a rifle.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 10:00 AM
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yeah, we debated that, too. Let me go try to size down those photos!


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 10:06 AM
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why is this so hard?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 10:09 AM
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Andrew Young? I want to say you're shittin' me, but apparently not.

Yeah those photos are massive. Also, is pacing not a thing?


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 10:10 AM
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Pacing and trotting are things, different but related.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 10:28 AM
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The obvious resizing option in the html didn't change anything, and neither did re-saving them at lower res, which was the only option.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 10:29 AM
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$400 for a dinner for eight with wine? Is it shitty wine or a good deal?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 10:31 AM
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1: Shurley is a local business so I'm thinking someone knows him and he was willing to donate one of his custom jobs. Shotguns of a comparable price are easy to find but it's probably harder to find a shop willing to just give one to a school fundraiser.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 11:02 AM
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What do you customize on a rifle? Just the stock? Or can you get something really unique, like a .309.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 11:32 AM
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9: He's making the stocks himself and there's loads of exotic chamberings these days. Mostly it tends to be kind of like a custom car shop. You're paying for a pro to put something together that you hand picked the components and specs.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 11:55 AM
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That still seems like a lot of extra money for a small improvement.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 12:01 PM
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Spending that kind of money on a shotgun is easier for me to understand for reasons that boil down to classism.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 12:04 PM
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Who says it's a small change? The stock is a pretty big part of the gun, after all and there are a lot of possible changes you could make to it.


Posted by: MHPH | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 12:22 PM
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Perhaps it says something about our crowd that the gun raises eyebrows (well, mine at least) but wine doesn't.


Posted by: parodie | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 12:45 PM
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Its the brick of weed that surprised me.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 12:49 PM
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I was visiting family in a small New Mexico town this weekend and saw a sign advertising wedding rings with the kicker every wedding ring comes with a free hunting rifle.

I worry more about guns that get in the hands of people that are really rather indifferent to owning them than I do about guns that get into the hands of paranoid libertarians. The paranoid libertarians usually at least have a sense of the gravity of what they're getting themselves into.


Posted by: Trivers | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 1:36 PM
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This is my rifle, this is my gun.
One is for fighting, one is for cohabitation.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 1:45 PM
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The paranoid libertarians usually at least have a sense of the gravity of what they're getting themselves into.

Maybe, but I think that's cancelled out by the "just itching for the chance to be in a violent revolution" vibe.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 1:49 PM
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Its the brick of weed that surprised me.

Surprise!


Posted by: Mr. Blandings | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 1:54 PM
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"All the pot we confiscated from the students" seems like a perfectly reasonable prize for a school fund raiser.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 4:03 PM
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Seems unfair to me. Teachers should get first dibs on that.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 4:05 PM
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Just because they have a union doesn't mean they should get everything.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 4:10 PM
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Where's your solidarity? I people like you who get people like Scott Walker elected to things.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 4:56 PM
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Scott Walker wants everyone to share the pot.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 5:27 PM
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Scott Walker wants to bogart that shit for himself.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 5:49 PM
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Oh sure, blame the guns! You liberals never want to talk about the fatherless, mentally ill video games that are REALLY causing all the school shootings.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 6:01 PM
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Speaking of local news, I just got a message asking the neighborhood to look for a lost cat that answers to the name "Kobe." This stuck me as funny for a couple of reasons.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 6:58 PM
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You know, I bet if a copy of Grand Theft Auto V was one of the giveaways, there would be a shit-ton of controversy.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 8:07 PM
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18:

I recognize that it is entirely possible that at this point I'm just trying to distract myself from the awful truth with any rationalization I can find.


Posted by: Trivers | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 8:55 PM
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21: First dabs, surely


Posted by: Seeds | Link to this comment | 10-25-15 10:43 PM
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27. It'll turn up when they've put up 100 posters.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 10-26-15 4:25 AM
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the "just itching for the chance to be in a violent revolution" vibe.

And further to that concern, this.

Don't read the comments.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 10-26-15 2:26 PM
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