Kroney

"reuinon"? You deserve props for keeping up that weird faux-****ney pro-wrestler dialect with excessive periods (you know you shouldn't be starting sentences/paragraphs with ellipses, right? What is it that you're omitting?) on internet forums, but really? Come on. Normally it's "live and let live" for me, but this is egregious due to the pronunciation. Once you spell it that way it sounds like some kind of dry heave, as though you just stumbled on a corpse washed up on a riverbank after a week of floating. Ah, people having a go at Sargy for his spelling. It's like 1999 all over again!

This is another reason I don't want to move. Trying to get your deposit back is like pulling teeth. But of course buying a place is pretty much out of reach unless you've got two incomes here, so I'm stuck renting. Also, lazy. Reports here say to buy a house you need a combined household income of $120,000 annually. So we would need 4 incomes. http://www.crackshackormansion.com/ Vancouverite, eh? It's not quite that bad in Edmonton yet, I think, but it's definitely out of reach for me, and it's only getting worse. Maybe if I became a rigpig for a few years I could hack it, but I'm not THAT motivated to buy my own place. You guys want to try buying in London. How does £400,000 for a one bed flat sound? That's what the flat I'm renting would go for if I wanted to buy it.

Absolutely. The nervous breakdown comes when you think you're almost done, then realise you have stuff stored in the loft space. My condolences, I moved two weeks ago. You pack up all the stuff and then the last few bits and pieces seem to take forever. Then you've got to do the reverse the other end. I hate moving. The absolute worst is having to deal with a new council, though. They all seem to do things differently and are equally arseholeish to deal with.

*cough cough* That forum was rubbish. There was hardly any gossip at all worth the ear wigging.

You posted it here. Good times. That damn HEU took me down in the semi-finals. *shakes fist* Haha. Yeah I just found some on my laptop, I don't have the 1st one I did, but I have parts 2, 3 and 4. I think #2 was the best one I never won that bitch. Blatant favouritism of the part of the referee.

I'm still saving my virginity for you. Get an inflatable doll, put my face on it. It's 90% of the real thing! ...ya fergot damn sexy... A man's got to have modesty, Sargie, otherwise he's just a braggart.

You going to accept my request to join your FB group, or what? Hop to it.

Basically everybody came together to talk about how great I was. It was a little embarrassing, but everybody has their cross to bear, you know?

Far back at the dawn of time there existed a company called Black Isle. They worked under Interplay. Interplay decided they smelled and so shut them down before going bankrupt. Some Black Islers went to Interplay, some wandered the desert. Bioware worked with Interplay on a couple of titles. The people from Black Isle wandered the wastelands for a while before consolidating as Obsidian. Bioware, remembering the names, have worked with Obsidian on a few titles. Sometimes Bioware work on a product, sometimes they farm it out to Obsidian.

Pray tell what does your wardrobe look like now ? Haha! The soft toys are no longer. There's no way I'd see that amount of cuddly toys as a visitor and think "Oh Christ, I'm about to be killed, chopped up and buried under the patio". Nope. No sir.

The top picture was something somebody's friend or relative posted on B3ta, I remember. Dunno whose friend or relation. I remember it because of the quality of the artistry. Quite a jarring recollection, actually.

Sexy, sexy Rayt

I got so old I had to swap the jackboots for some comfy slippers

I Facebook enough to get annoyed at baby pictures, food pictures and people thinking hashtags work. I occasionally rant about something.

Been here since 2003, 29 official, non-OT posts. Hero of lurking.

*looks at Ariane and rubs nads* Or whatever it was.

Well, this was nice. See you in another decade, kids!

Actually this is typical for Ukraine T64BV instead of T72s. Yet another Ukrainian propagandistic bull**** about Russian military forces at east of Ukraine. . Yep, looks like that's been confirmed, in as far as these things can be. Rebels are claiming they were lifted from a warehouse and they've been identified all over the place as T64s. Red faces all over for Ukraine. Bit humiliating to be kicked about with your own weapons. I'm still pretty convinced that if Russia's not directly supplying men and weapons, then they're providing significant financial support. The Ukrainian premier's not going to help his case by shouting baseless accusations at Putin, though.

That forum's as dead as disco, Sarge. I guess that makes it appropriate, at least.

No, sure, people often pick up T-72s from the side of the road. I've done it myself. Invaded Sussex, it was well lol.

So is anybody still doubting that Russia's arming and sending troops? Tanks now too, apparently. Haha no, I know I'm being silly. Of course you're not.

In the words of the famous philosopher "bitches be trippin'"

This is precisely what I was talking about.

Yes. This is why I said that I agree with the guns don't kill people point. I'm not sure what the point of you saying this was.

Great post Kroney. Totally disagree with most of it but it was a great post. As for this one part, I'd love to agree to disagree and let's all go our separate ways but it seems too many of the folks who don't see the point of having them are not interested in simply not having them. They want to take everyone else's away too. I'm a little guilty of playing devil's advocate to an opinion I don't necessarily agree with. I think what people are concerned about is demonstrated pretty clearly by other responses above. For my own part, I'm happy to live and let live. I think gun ownership should be regulated under some fairly strict rules. In the UK, you can actually get hold of legal weapons. Mostly if you can prove it's required for your work. Farmers carrying shotguns are pretty common, for example. The Swiss issue weapons to their adult population and their gun crime rate is negligable. The pro gun lobby is correct in saying that guns do not make killers. However, relatively free access to guns does make it easier for killers to be killers. There are, I agree, some unrealistic people in the anti-gun camp that think that the simple ownership of firearms makes you somebody to fear and that the answer is to take your guns away from you. It isn't the viewpoint of more moderate types like myself. I'm not convinced of the need to carry concealed weapons. I can see the worth in having a shottie for home defence purposes in rough areas, hunting rifles for game, pistols for sports and range shooting etc. I understand the arguments that anything can be a weapon if somebody wants to go killing. Ultimately the answer is to address the problems that makes a society violent. To an outsider, the urban US is a pretty violent society. Whether it's unfavourable media coverage or not, that is the perception and people think "how can more guns make a society less violent". Inner city Britain can be a surprisingly violent society too, with a surprising amount of gun crime, given our policy on weapons. However, it's relatively rare enough that coppers don't habitually carry firearms and muggings usually happen at knife point or, in my personal experience, mostly by a couple of lads using their fists. Basically, I think most people that want to blanket gun ownership are simply afraid of being shot. Realistically, or not. Much like, in fact, advocates of gun ownership for home defence purposes. I think you're confusing perspective with speculation; what we are doing is speculating, what your perspective *is* is actually quite subjective. For example, I know that the rates of vigilantism are not higher than the crime rates, I know that most people who carry concealed do not go around looking for criminals. But it seems that you believe differently. Yes and no, we're both guilty of speculation, that's what happens in theoretical discussions. What I mean by perspective is our attitudes to how to fix the problem. I know you were talking of self-defence. I don't happen to think that gunning down a home intruder is acceptable. I don't happen to think "He broke into my home, so I killed him" is sufficient justification.