Bosun

Aha I wondered who that was sitting outside my bedroom window!

Bienvenue Pumba! Mais vous aimez Frenchi? Je pense Sonovabich sera bouleverse!

I know many people in the US support Australian style gun control so here is my two cents on the issue. When the Port Arthur shooting happened I was a Police Officer (not in that State though). After the shooting, there was a huge outcry about firearm possession in Australia, and the rules for possessing weapons were tightened quite a lot. Sounds like a fair reaction? Well here are a couple of things that happened: POLICE OFFICERS in my state were restricted in the circumstances they were allowed to carry weapons. Prior to that, every time you left the station on duty, you were armed. The change was that you were now only allowed to be armed if you were performing duties where you were likely to come into contact with offenders/suspects. So if you for example had to take some evidence or paperwork to a neighboring station, driving a marked car, you couldn't carry a firearm. And so if you were passing a bank or a gas station and a hold up alarm was activated .... lol nope just keep driving. Or you saw a drug deal going down....yep keep driving. We even had an acronym for it - FIDO (Fuck It, Drive On) Thankfully that douche baggery only lasted about a year before things were relaxed again. As part of the new regulations we had a huge gun buy back scheme - lots of weapon types were banned and you had to surrender them for a government mandated value. These weapons were sent to the State Forensic Science Laboratory for storage and ultimate disposal. One day I had to drop in to the SFSL to pick up a statement from a gunshot residue expert who had attended one of my crime scenes. Anyway, while I was walking through the firearms section, I saw an Inspector I knew who was checking serial numbers on brand new stainless steel revolvers, and then throwing them into a rubbish skip. This seemed a bit strange so I asked him what was going on. He told me that as part of the State Government drive to remove firearms from the community, these weapons had been taken from FISHERIES and WILDLIFE OFFICERS who would now be performing duty unarmed. The plan was that if they had a high risk job they would get a Police Officer to attend with them. What was interesting was that I transferred to a country town shortly after that (5 Officers, generally only one of us on duty at any time). I happened to have a suspect under arrest and had to transport him to a neighboring town when I got a call from the local Fisheries Officer requesting assistance to detain 3 suspects he had observed poaching and believed were armed. Well, I couldn't help, the Divisional Duty Officer wouldn't authorise any of the off-duty officers to be called in, so the suspects weren't detained... This is just a couple of (perhaps extreme) examples of what happened to me personally when the anti-gun brigade gets too much of a say. Don't even start me on my semi auto .308 rifles I had to surrender. Slightly off-topic, but I am going to join my local pistol shooting Club as I want to keep my skills up. I'm hoping to purchase a .38 Smith and Wesson K Frame 6" barrel (my service sidearm from back in the day) and a Glock 17 (my current service sidearm). To be able to possess these firearms I will need to be a Club member for at least 12 months, pass safety tests and examinations, and compete in at least 8 competition shoots a year with these firearms as my reason for possession will be sport/target shooting. Thanks for the rant! Bosun EDIT: Spelling

Chile is volunteering to take everyone's prostate exam for them

Never mind I found the other thread

There have been some negative comments about the weapon sights being permanently visible. On a personal note, my ping has gone up from 295 to 365 which is irritating some players - not least myself!

Shitting-? OMG too funny!

Rip, even though I am half the world away it is still in my mind too, as it is in the minds of many of my friends and colleagues. In Australia, we have something called "The Ode" (To the fallen) which is recited at certain times in relation to our fallen service men and women: "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them." Personally, I think this applies to every person who lost their life on 9/11.... Bosun

I sent a text to Wild and he just rang me back - he must be feeling lonely if he wants to pay cellphone prices from the US to Australia lolol Keep the texts going for him.

Isn't that the number that if you text they ring you back with some pre-recorded advice about impotence?

The actual bottle - 500ml and 6% alcohol ...

This is a real label from a beer brewed and sold in New Zealand. The Behemoth Brewing Company was founded by a lawyer who found his ultimate calling in life. Go 'MURICA!

FFS any day I'm under a 300 ping I'm happy!

micro-penis.

to bed

I've been using Classic Shell since I installed WIN8 - also I boot straight to the Desktop bypassing the Metro screen, but can access Metro either as an App from the start menu or from top right of desktop screen. Best of both worlds.

Well I better apply for some leave for 2016 then ... looks good ...

Well I had permission from She Who Must Be Obeyed to come to the XI Fest if it was in Vegas --- but now my daughter is getting married on October 11th so my disposable income has been repurposed for this year...

Yeah, it's cold ... a typical midwinter day here in Mackay...

Well if BobBarker says no I say yes on principle... Keres I played have played on the servers with you for a number of years and if I could vote I would say you are DEFINITELY an idiot!

I'm not going to embarrass myself by posting a picture of my 3 year old Dell laptop...

The funny thing is, that wasn't even a very broad Scots accent!

8,557 miles as the crow flies for me lol

20+ years LEO in 2 countries. Not allowed to say what I do now apart from hacking on PitBullPete on the COD4 MW2 server...oh and the mandatory FU Fuckstick lololol!