How do you describe a blind fisherman.

A guy that is fshng

Why did the blind guy fall into the hole in the ground?

Because he could not see that well.

Such a shame that only one person understood. :-*

So you are saying you really are all fucked? — Banno

Not "you", "them"

That no one has any balls, that leadership is dead?

Perhaps you are right. — Banno

Banno, how could you possible read all of that from my post?

All I did was try to see if anyone was available to do a job that is well worth doing.

Let's wait and see how many volunteers there are.

What would happen if I did make my fantasies more public. I think a lot of people would not want to be around me. — T Clark

That would depend on what the fantasies were, who knows you might even get offers of participation.
But if you started talking about how you would like to find out what sex with a goat was like, then yes I would be the first one out of the door.

Making that type of thing publically available and acceptable, even if it wouldn't lead to dangerous behavior (which is questionable), would probably set a tone that would make the most vulnerable people feel threatened. — T Clark

Is watching pornography a stimulant or a learning method?
Lots of people say that watching porn makes the people want to copy what they see, but would they watch something that disgusted them.
I am not a fan of watching porn but I am pretty sure that I would not want to watch something that involved violence. So I could not learn about violent sex from it.
Someone with a slightly different way of looking at sex might like a bit of rough sex, but does he/she need porn to learn from.

Kids are something else, many do use porn as a learning resource. But would they really go out and start slapping their young partners around just because they saw it in a porn film? I seriously doubt they would have many opportunities for sex if they tried it.

Enough talk. The facts are there before you. Time to act. — Banno

OK, so the majority has stated that the US of A needs to bring in stricter gun laws. Let's do the planning.
Who wants to write up the laws?
Who wants to work out how much it is all going to cost and where to get the money?

Who wants to be the one to implement the plan? You know, like going out there and start taking the guns off the people?

So, when experienced in private, are these types of fantasies moral? Ethical? — T Clark

Morality involves judgement, who will judge you? You could answer "myself", but do you really control what happens in your imagination?
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas is the saying. I think that as long as your thoughts are 100% private them no one, not even yourself should need to judge them. Being fantasies they have no realistic value.
Imagine day dreaming of solving all of your financial problems by robing a bank. You dream out all of the plans, the execution of it and then an image of someone getting shot jumps into your dream. Did you really intend for that to happen?

Granny on the curb. Part 2

Son "Agh come on pa', it ain't my fault they took her"
Dad "But it was your fault they took the god damned sofa she was lying on and I want it back"

Where was I going with this? — Baden

If you don't know, how the hell should we?

When you was born you was so ugly the doc slapped the shit out of you mama.

Dad to son, "Hey dumb ass, why you leave your ugly old granny on the curb?"
Son, "She said she wanted to see the people passing by."
Dad "So now you gotta go chase the garbage truck that hauled her ass away."

Thoughts? — Hanover

Try writing limericks?

The bus incident you refer to didn't involve the use of a firearm, though. — Ciceronianus the White

The use of firearms as a preventive method does not always require one to fire it. But the incident did involve the use of firearms. If one of the passengers had started to fight with the thief things might have ended up very different as has happened on several occasions before.

I suspect that most of the law abiding citizens carrying firearms for protection haven't spent much time being trained in their use. — Ciceronianus the White

And I suppose the bad guys are about the same, except for the practice they get attacking others.

I tried with the Napoleon joke. — praxis

OK so now it is auto-evaluation time.

On a scale from 1 to 1.1, how did you score on that joke? X-)

Make it your last. — Hanover

The thread is about the last word here, on this thread. Not the last word at the end of the world or even your life. Lighten up a bit. :D

The answer: tighter gun control. — Sapientia

The question: in what specific way should they be made tighter?

One or two would be fine, but I really don't intend that this be a limericks thread. — T Clark

OK. (Y)

I think that's a good idea, given that this is a jokes thread. — T Clark

Don't limericks that make people laugh count as jokes?

An English bobby in the early twentieth century was asked about how they dealt with criminals.
We just leave them hanging around for a while and they never bother us again.

Cool, they mention one of my favorite books Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar.

There once was a forum for the philosophical

Where members would troll things fantastical

It happened one day

In a gruesome display

That Sir2u was marked ungrammatical — praxis

Now sir, that was funny. X-)
Maybe instead of jokes we could have a limericks thread.

Someone carrying a gun always intends to use it. Why else carry a gun? Nobody carries a gun with the intent not to use it. — Ciceronianus the White

As I have already said, I agree with this. But the distinction is as you say.

They intend to use it "when necessary." The law abiding citizen, presumably, intends to use it to protect themselves or others from someone also carrying a gun. — Ciceronianus the White

The non-abiding folks are intent on using as necessary to advance their own way of life, and bugger the rest.

I'm not at all certain that a law abiding, gun-toting citizen would do a significant deal of good in a public firefight. — Ciceronianus the White

That would depend on the situation. As I have said sometimes the presence of one and the knowledge that it will be used is enough to avoid further problems. I already explained my personal experience with gun carrying.
Another example that might be pertinent happened on the same bus route I use daily. Almost everyday one of the buses would be robbed. A different man would get on somewhere at the beginning of the trip and wait for the bus to fill up. Then he would reach into his bag and pullout a gun before making everyone take of their valuables, wallets, mobile phones and once even a pair of tennis shoes.
It stopped the day three people pulled guns on him. He got off the bus after returning the few things he had already picked up and started running. But as usually happens here phones are for taking selfies and no on thought to take his picture.

The case you mention as well as others involving police are not the norm. They are if you look at the big picture very rare incidents.

:-x — Sapientia

:-x

HaHaHa, at last you said something funny. You have decided to keep quiet. Good decision.

It's not about capability. It's about spending one's time wisely. If you're having trouble figuring things out that plenty of others can easily grasp, then you have my heartfelt sympathy, but that's all you're getting. — Sapientia

See, you did it again.

Who's time are you talking about?

I don't have a lot to spare but I do at least take the time to understand you, even if you refuse to explain things. What I don't have time for is googling all of your ideas to get explanations.

Have you tried knitting? — Sapientia

Been there, done that. Lots of fun but were I live we don't need pullovers.

Any further suggestions?

Although, if your comedy is anything like your grammar... — Sapientia

Should I try poetry then?

There was once an old fart from Maryland
Who considered himself so grand
He spent his days irritating people on a forum
Which he did with little decorum
And with many a comment oh so bland

Are you telling me that you genuinely expect me to take those replies seriously? Why would I do that? — Sapientia

See, you did it again.

You were the one that said no one can dodge a bullet so I figures that the worlds military organizations and I were missing out on something.
Are you not capable of explaining your own worlds?

When you want to have a serious discussion, let me know. — Sapientia

Is this kind of answer some sort of a defense mechanism for your inferiority complex.

It seems to happen a lot. Especially when you don't have sensible answers or anything of value to add.

I'm going to count how many times you have given answers like this to people. It might make some interesting statistics.

This is only a suggestion - but you guys could try telling actual jokes. That's kind of the idea behind this discussion. — T Clark

Do you think that they actually know any?

It’s Latin for wisdom. That’s not funny? — praxis

Oh yes, that's funny.

In more ways than one. X-)

What do you mean, "innocent" or "nice"? — Bitter Crank

It was just a thought that stuck me, everyone seems to take for granted that all of the people that have died in gun incidents are people that are undeserving of dying. I have not had the time to do any research but it seems to me that a fair number of the people that have died, not in mass shootings of course, might actually have had something to do with their own death.

Some people are involved in crimes, gangs, drug dealing, and so on, and happen to get shot as they walk down the street, say by rival gang members. Are they "innocent" and "nice"? — Bitter Crank

That might be part of the total, but how many of the deaths are related to them carrying guns with intentions to use them?

It is too quiet round here, time for another question.

Has anyone bothered to check out how many of the people that died because of guns were actually innocent nice people?

What do you call an ensho painted by a sentimental latin woman?

A sappy ensha — praxis

Why?

"Prevention" is the consciously locked gate that has to be opened to get on the property. "Prevention" is silent Rottweiler's that have access to their people's bedroom as well as the property line fence. "Prevention" is the consciously locked solid wood front door. — ArguingWAristotleTiff

And on top of that, prevention should also include the idiots thinking about what kind of trouble they are going to get into.
Why does prevention always have to be part of the good peoples lives.
If the bad guys what to stop their own deaths let them be preventive as well.

and was not what my statement described - or at least meant to describe - and that should have been clear. — Sapientia

I know someone that claims to be a good grammar tutor if you are interested in improving the way you express yourself.

It's physically impossible to dodge a bullet that has been fired in your trajectory. We simply aren't fast enough. — Sapientia

So why do the military need to produce so many millions of rounds of ammunition if the are crack shots. Would it not be easier to send someone to count the enemy and send the right amount of bullets with maybe a few extras?

Is that the best that you can come up with? Disappointing. Perhaps you should think it through a bit more. — Sapientia

You say this quite often don't you. Is there some special reason why? Did you never consider the fact that saying something is wrong is not enough, that there should be an explanation there somewhere.

Please be nice and tell me what is wrong with the post.

The thought that owning a weapon would be any kind of defense against the US Department of Defense, if it came to that, is surely a ridiculous fantasy. — Wayfarer

The threat of a real bloodbath would probably forestall any military action against the people. Could you imagine the American government being called out because they sent in the military to battle with the citizens. If there were no guns it would be a completely different story.

on the other hand, if arms really were to be organised and stored in the service of a 'well-organised militia', in a proper armoury, subject to checks, controls and balances, then you might have a workable model. — Wayfarer

And who would you say should have the job of organizing it? The military possibly.

But in any case, that was hundreds of years ago. — Sapientia

Yes that's right, the English have no memories of the rights they once had. The Americans do however.

And, moreover, why should what the Americans want take precedence over what's in their best interest? — Sapientia

It's their country, if that is what they want who has the right to deny their wishes?

I'd be strongly against the reintroduction of barbaric forms of punishment, such as hanging, beheading, and being burnt at the stake, irrespective of whether or not that's what my fellow Englishmen wanted. — Sapientia

I'll bet the crime rates were low in those times though.

And the armed Americans are going to let that happen? Maybe.