A fun past time, minus the Nazi shit. Many weekends I recall spending in middle of nowhere West Virginia getting hammered on weird chemicals that had just been invented 4 days prior with fully automatic weapons and my homegirl road dawg. Even more that I don't recall.
Well, my country is a shithole and I was born and raised in the heaviest gun culture on the planet. I don't remember ever actually not knowing basic firearms safety, handling and operation. Lotsa fun (imo) but I do get weird looks and reactions from people who aren't from the US and even many people who are from here.
Deep south born and raised, it's changed in the last twenty years, but guns used to be a fun tool. Most people owned long guns with much fewer handguns. Guns were for hunting, varmint management, and plinking. City folk don't really get it. Shotgun in the corner of the living room is normal.
I have an acquaintance from West Virginia that is similar. They're also a non-binary, super queer, sexually sadistic top. We met in the BDSM community.
I'm from Ohio and I met a lot of folks through that same scene with similar attitudes. My ex was armed to the teeth and unsure whether it was more because she was afraid of the state or her ex husband. Hell I've met women who'll tell you it is a gun in their pants, but they're also happy to see you.
I got issues with guns. Everyone having access to semiautomatic weapons while we undergo a radicalization crisis, and a ton of people living in fear and concealed carrying doesn't make for a good society. I grew up without guns in my household and was taught to see them in a negative light. This was partly because back in those days it was scandalous for middle class suburbanites to have guns regardless of political affiliation, and also because those were the days when gun tragedies involving kids were them shooting themselves on accident.
All that said, I still want a bolt action to blow an afternoon with
That's what I was referring to about very few handguns. It was all wood stock rifles and shotguns. And, this was among conservative rural types. We're in a very different place now.
Oh it's great. When I worked for a Japanese company a lot of the businessmen liked going shooting while in America. Like, I don't think the fun is worth the safety of people given all the mass shootings, but guns are really fun.
I don't remember ever actually not knowing basic firearms safety, handling and operation
Many weekends I recall spending in middle of nowhere West Virginia getting hammered on weird chemicals that had just been invented 4 days prior with fully automatic weapon
Yes, it's probably good fun, but he just made an excellent example of how "gun safety" is often thrown around as an oxymoron by people who don't actually practice gun safety.
In my ears it sounds like "I'm a good driver when I'm drunk."
Yeah I certainly do not recommend that anyone recreate or emulate any part of my teens through my late twenties. Lol. I was VERY reckless. Good times tho. But still, reckless AF.
I was severely exaggerating, lol. Yes, there have been lots of weekends like that, but I do actually recall all of them. I know that's not really the point, but it's all I got. I did dumb shit with my homie, hundreds of times. We survived, and never even were injured, but I do understand that injury or death was a real possibility when combining the things that we did.
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 74 pts · 177d
The Spice must flow.
massacre@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 177d
Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 177d
Bless his cumming, and bless the yellow water he gives so freely upon my face
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 177d
Nazi soldiers high on drugs going through psychosis while unloading a machine gun into a tree at night
MTZ@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 177d
A fun past time, minus the Nazi shit. Many weekends I recall spending in middle of nowhere West Virginia getting hammered on weird chemicals that had just been invented 4 days prior with fully automatic weapons and my homegirl road dawg. Even more that I don't recall.
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 177d
I live in Australia, i've never even seen a gun before mate lol
MTZ@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 177d
Well, my country is a shithole and I was born and raised in the heaviest gun culture on the planet. I don't remember ever actually not knowing basic firearms safety, handling and operation. Lotsa fun (imo) but I do get weird looks and reactions from people who aren't from the US and even many people who are from here.
Machinist@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 177d
Deep south born and raised, it's changed in the last twenty years, but guns used to be a fun tool. Most people owned long guns with much fewer handguns. Guns were for hunting, varmint management, and plinking. City folk don't really get it. Shotgun in the corner of the living room is normal.
I have an acquaintance from West Virginia that is similar. They're also a non-binary, super queer, sexually sadistic top. We met in the BDSM community.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 177d
I'm from Ohio and I met a lot of folks through that same scene with similar attitudes. My ex was armed to the teeth and unsure whether it was more because she was afraid of the state or her ex husband. Hell I've met women who'll tell you it is a gun in their pants, but they're also happy to see you.
I got issues with guns. Everyone having access to semiautomatic weapons while we undergo a radicalization crisis, and a ton of people living in fear and concealed carrying doesn't make for a good society. I grew up without guns in my household and was taught to see them in a negative light. This was partly because back in those days it was scandalous for middle class suburbanites to have guns regardless of political affiliation, and also because those were the days when gun tragedies involving kids were them shooting themselves on accident.
All that said, I still want a bolt action to blow an afternoon with
Machinist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d
That's what I was referring to about very few handguns. It was all wood stock rifles and shotguns. And, this was among conservative rural types. We're in a very different place now.
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 177d
Look ive always wanted to fire a gun though. I went to paintball once and had the best time lol
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 177d
Oh it's great. When I worked for a Japanese company a lot of the businessmen liked going shooting while in America. Like, I don't think the fun is worth the safety of people given all the mass shootings, but guns are really fun.
bstix@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 177d
Yes, I am looking at you weirdly.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 177d
Me too, but I'll be honest if I grew up thinking guns were normal and you could just have one whenever you wanted, I think I'd be up to that shit too
bstix@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 177d
Yes, it's probably good fun, but he just made an excellent example of how "gun safety" is often thrown around as an oxymoron by people who don't actually practice gun safety.
In my ears it sounds like "I'm a good driver when I'm drunk."
MTZ@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 177d
Yeah I certainly do not recommend that anyone recreate or emulate any part of my teens through my late twenties. Lol. I was VERY reckless. Good times tho. But still, reckless AF.
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 177d
seems unwise to do anything dangerous when some random ass chem undergrad from shaanxi takes you on an adventure that you'll never remember
MTZ@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 177d
I was severely exaggerating, lol. Yes, there have been lots of weekends like that, but I do actually recall all of them. I know that's not really the point, but it's all I got. I did dumb shit with my homie, hundreds of times. We survived, and never even were injured, but I do understand that injury or death was a real possibility when combining the things that we did.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 177d
Didn't the french notoriously hollow out trees and turn them into fortified turrets?
snoons@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 177d
Deep Rock Galactic has "Iron Will" that fully revives you for ten seconds after being downed.
Really it's just meth amphetamine.
Emotional_Engi@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 177d
ROCK AND STOOOONE!
snoons@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 177d
Mushroom.
Emotional_Engi@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 177d
Mushrum.
Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 177d
Snaaaake snaaaake, ooooh it's a snaaaake!
mtpender@piefed.social · 6 pts · 177d
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?! oT
legolasfanboy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 177d
Lisan Al Gaib!
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 177d
Methamphetamine was all the rage in WW2, amphetamines and other drugs are still in use today in combat (not sure how prevalent now)
They're fine for piloting a 400-million dollar jet, but not a Chevy.
it's all very complicated, citizen. Now piss in this cup while I watch (licks lips)
Hathaway@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 177d
They’re still prevalent. Just not meth.
Xanthrax@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 177d
Shout out methylphenidate
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 177d
It's more Adderall than crystal meth but yeah. 😅
notso@feddit.org · 9 pts · 177d
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 177d
Vietnam could also be described that way for at least the losing side.
marcos@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 177d
The Second World War was pretty much all done on drugs.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 177d
Hitler was a Ketamine addict just like Hitler jr (musk), right?
Photonic@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 177d
He was addicted to pervetin (meth)
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 177d
ketamine was only invented during vietnam war
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 177d
Now imagine this!
War on drugs, on drugs!
Krudler@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d
So like, the war is on drugs, or the drugs are on drugs? Halp
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d
It means you're on drugs, while you're waging an anti-drug war.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 177d
War for drugs or drugs for war?
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 177d
Yes
homes@piefed.world · 7 pts · 177d
You have changed my movie list for the night
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 177d
Remember the tooth?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 177d
tetris11@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 177d
Warrendra Rugs. Good rugs at Warrendra prices
JerkyChew@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 177d
Ass jerky don't make itself.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 177d
Give Finland some pervitin!
Thorry@feddit.org · 3 pts · 177d
Time to drink my own piss
CannedYeet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 177d
Good band
mechoman444@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d
Is this some kind of Dune reference??
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · -1 pts · 177d
That’s not how you draw a Hitler moustache
AffineConnection@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 177d
Obligatory check in. Tooth here. Carry on.