Off Topic The Goodhand Arms

A friend of mine's son is at Uni in the US. He was asked to debate the college principal on gun control. He asked me for some help and I waded into the subject, providing a bundle of stats and ideas for directions and threads of debate. He sent me a long analysis of the debate and ended it thus:

This got even worse when I brought up mass shootings, I literally felt physically sick because we were talking about banning assault rifles in the country and I had already said how they were used in mass shootings and legally obtained in several high profile mass shooting cases and then one of the opposition said how he owns an AR-15 style assault rifle. He talked about how he uses it for protection and sport and lets his 8 year old child even shoot it - its only purpose is for enjoyment.

I then said to him, I'm sure Omar Mateen also got enjoyment out of it when he used the AR-15 style assault rifle, which he obtained legally. The room went quiet and then he whispered to the person next to him on the debating panel, who's Omar Mateen? and I couldn't believe what I'd just heard. It was unbelievable hearing him not even know he was, so I explained who Omar Mateen was and how he shot 102 people, killing 49 in a nightclub in Orlando of June this year using the gun your 8 year old plays with 'for fun'.

And then, the third person on the panel said "he could have been wearing Nike shoes, should we ban those too?"

These are people in charge of college education in the USA. Depressing.

Vin

 

6 found alive in the hotel in Italy . Hope they can get them out ok .

 

In the absence of Fran Really pleased to report that Dan Evans beat Bernard Tomic, the No 27th seed this morning. Another excellent win for Evans (against a player who I really can't stand)

 

Damn, just noticed that Fran posted about Evans in the correct thread

 

I'm a novice, I admit it

 

With Clem's Mrs

 

8 found now

 

You seem a generally knowledgeable bunch*. I'm looking for a UK manufacturer who could rustle me up a few thousand bar blades (bottle openers). Here's one:

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The problem I have is that nigh on two hours of research hasn't led me in the right direction - does anyone on here have experience of finding metal fabricators or whatever or even manufacturers in general? I'm not interested in sourcing from China, which is a shame as they have Alibaba as a one-stop-shop whereas here there seems to be nothing similar.

Cheers,

Vin

*always good to start with flattery

 

I know this guy very well, he makes all kinds of bespoke stuff:
http://www.construction.co.uk/c/602605/metal-artwork

He'll give you a quote anyway!

 

Just discovered that the macaroni cheese I bought for supper is cauliflower cheese.

 

Oh lovely. A little mustard on the top before you cook it Fran. Wonderful.

 

The problem was that I had nothing to eat it with. Was lovely with left over vegetable biryani....who knew?

 

where are you Bart?

 

Can't Cook, Won't Cook, Can't See.!

 

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/no-students-turned-teachers-class-202535117.html

Teacher tweets as he teaches a class where no students turns up....he begins to question his existence and wonders if he is the sole survivor of a zombie attack.

 

Just discovered the vegetable biryani that I had yesterday contained chicken....thought the texture was strange. So went perfectly with the macaroni cheese that turned into cauliflower cheese. Don't tell me that my life isn't exciting.

 

Woo we kissed

 

I'm expecting an evening invite at the very least PL....

 

Each other? Good man