Off Topic Chat. (MOD NOTE post# 3949 and post#5279)

Cass

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From time to time we all have a topic we want to discuss and are not sure where to ask/discuss it. While Boards.ie has a multitude of forums for pretty much every thing you would want to talk about sometimes it's nice to discuss it in your own forum with the people you regularly talk to.

As such the Mods have created this Off Topic Thread.

The premise is simple. If you have something that is not shooting related or tentatively related then post it here. The same forum rules apply and any topics that are illegal or prohibited on the main forum or the site are also prohibited here. It's also not a "work around" for the toher forums. IOW if you have a specific shooting related query or item to sell then use the main forum or for sale section.

This thread will be for general chat, shooting the breeze, and just a way to have a non specific, or specific, chat about anything you want among those you are used to talking to.

Have at it.

gunny123

"Dangerous","Unsafe", :rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnUXLRJmojk

ezra_

gunny123 wrote: »

"Dangerous","Unsafe", :rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnUXLRJmojk

I'm very surprised Courtlough supported that video. It's a slap in the face, I think, for people who have spent time teaching safe and responsible firearms practice.

Also, anyone noticed how they were loading break action shotguns for the first bird, but they ended up shooting semis?

Grizzly 45

Keep saying it,and from experiance..Stay well away from media unless you have alot of say in whats going to be produced...

Nekarsulm

Dunno, I think with a couple more sessions they would be hooked.
Its just that they are a product of their environment, and of the peer group they associate with.
Its obvious by their comments that they have been programmed with a fairly left wing liberal leaning agenda.

Sparks

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Its obvious by their comments that they have been programmed with a fairly left wing liberal leaning agenda.

.../sigh.

So I'm a lefty pinko anarcho-commie feminazi tree-hugging hippie geeky nerdish liberal*. And I'm pretty right-wing compared to most of the people I knew from target shooting growing up.

Left, right, center, over, under, doesn't really matter, most people who get into the sport have no problem with the sport and lots grow to love it (some people for some reason, tend to prefer other stupid things like cars or members of their preferred gender or jobs and mortgages or whatever).

The problem here is that Facts is a comedy channel. Not an education channel. And more people laugh at the jokes on that video than would laugh at better-informed jokes. Or at least they thought so. It's a commercial decision, not a political one.




*did I forget anyone?

Nekarsulm

Sparks wrote: »

.../sigh.

So I'm a lefty pinko anarcho-commie feminazi tree-hugging hippie geeky nerdish liberal*.



*did I forget anyone?

Fr
Yep!
You've left out the lentil loving, neck beard pulling, Clisare watching, beanie wearing, LSE graduate, Junker quoting, self affected, D6 flatlanders, Corbonistas gladhanders ,Triple A campaigners, shades at night, I'm so vainer, Social Studies up in Trinners, don't admit to lovin mammies dinners, Cubanistas-tiochioch ar la, always vote Finiann McGrath, 600 points, dontcha know, 60k or its no go, youth of today.

gunny123

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Keep saying it,and from experiance..Stay well away from media unless you have alot of say in whats going to be produced...

The problem is now, cheap very good quality cameras and youtube/vimeo/snapchat/instagram/bookface have made everyone media.

gunny123

I posted this video before but i don't think it appeared here, so i'll try again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoqb9TfgWbU

Sparks

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Yep!
You've left out the lentil loving, neck beard pulling, Clisare watching, beanie wearing, LSE graduate, Junker quoting, self affected, D6 flatlanders, Corbonistas gladhanders ,Triple A campaigners, shades at night, I'm so vainer, Social Studies up in Trinners, don't admit to lovin mammies dinners, Cubanistas-tiochioch ar la, always vote Finiann McGrath, 600 points, dontcha know, 60k or its no go, youth of today.

Ah ****e, I forgot the Corbonista! Dammit!

Grizzly 45

Also the skinny jeans wearing,lumber jack shirt and beard wearing lumber jack look,but has never used an axe or chainsaw or cut so much as a twig in their lives,double soya,ethnically grown fair tarde,double decaffinated ,extra foamy, Crushed avacado on toast sanger eating,Starbucks living Gaelic Hikayu writing,high nelly riding,majoring in gender studies,[or any other field with study tacked onto it] Fuk Trump and America[but I'm going there on my J1 visa] preaching, creature of multiple genders but really identifies as a cat! person.

Grizzly 45

gunny123 wrote: »

The problem is now, cheap very good quality cameras and youtube/vimeo/snapchat/instagram/bookface have made everyone media.

Unfortuneatly so.People had to until the advent of the camera phone and youtube and FB,had to keep all this ****e in their heads!:p

Sparks

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Also the skinny jeans wearing,lumber jack shirt and beard wearing lumber jack look,but has never used an axe or chainsaw or cut so much as a twig in their lives

/me looks at his lumberjack shirts

No, I think I'm okay there...

ethnically grown fair tarde

That'll do me They actually enforce standards in the FairTrade label system, so you know you're getting coffee instead of 20% dehydrated cat****

Crushed avacado on toast sanger eating

Nothing wrong with poor people food! (No, seriously, that's what poor people used for butter in that part of the world; avacados didn't need refrigeration, which poor people couldn't afford; hence, avacado toast (or bread or whatever you had to spread it on).

Now that marmite stuff... no. Just... no.

gunny123

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Also the skinny jeans wearing,lumber jack shirt and beard wearing lumber jack look,but has never used an axe or chainsaw or cut so much as a twig in their lives,double soya,ethnically grown fair tarde,double decaffinated ,extra foamy, Crushed avacado on toast sanger eating,Starbucks living Gaelic Hikayu writing,high nelly riding,majoring in gender studies,[or any other field with study tacked onto it] Fuk Trump and America[but I'm going there on my J1 visa] preaching, creature of multiple genders but really identifies as a cat! person.

There was an excellent programme on bbc4 the other night on hipsters, all trying to be different and managing to turn out the same. It turns out they have colonised a sizeable chunk of the east end of London. They are trying hard to be some working class throw back, but i don't think the old residents of hackney or whitechapel were vegan's with degree's from oxford selling coffee for £12 a cup. Its official, the worlds gone daft.

gunny123

Sparks wrote: »

/me looks at his lumberjack shirts

No, I think I'm okay there...






That'll do me They actually enforce standards in the FairTrade label system, so you know you're getting coffee instead of 20% dehydrated cat****


Nothing wrong with poor people food! (No, seriously, that's what poor people used for butter in that part of the world; avacados didn't need refrigeration, which poor people couldn't afford; hence, avacado toast (or bread or whatever you had to spread it on).

Now that marmite stuff... no. Just... no.

PFFT, Amateur, thats far too clean a workspace to be used. I knew an old cabinet maker, long dead, his workshop was a tip, but his work was lovely.

Sparks

They are trying hard to be some working class throw back, but i don't think the old residents of hackney or whitechapel were vegan's with degree's from oxford selling coffee for £12 a cup. Its official, the worlds gone daft.

Well. It's more that they want to see craftsmanship and artisan stuff come back, but these days there's no more manufacturing so they bring that into the service industry and you wind up getting things like really really good coffee --compared to the mass-produced crap you used to get 20 years ago-- but with the relative pricetags you used to get from handmade furniture and the like.

Thing is, we got used to the massproduced prices so we see handmade prices on consumables and it's jarring.
"That coffee cost over a fiver! When I was a lad, coffee in the hamilton cafe cost 1.50!"
"Yes, but it tasted so god-awful that the standing joke was that it was just recycled from the hamilton toilets".


I'm still gonna take the piss about those beards though Feck me, when did looking like Gerry Adams come back into style?

Sparks

gunny123 wrote: »

PFFT, Amateur, thats far too clean a workspace to be used.

You'll note I'm not panning to the left, where all the shavings land
Plus, I'd just finished shellacing the bookshelf. Shellac's lovely but you have to tidy up before you start or every piece of dust and crap around will stick to the surface and you'd be there forever with the steel wool knocking back the coat until you pretty much didn't have anything left on the wood

I knew an old cabinet maker, long dead, his workshop was a tip, but his work was lovely.

Oh, I'm nowhere near that kind of level. I putter, it does me to clear my head out occasionally. And it makes family presents a lot easier to sort out - that was a fathers' day gift for example.

Grizzly 45

Unless it involves,axes,chainsaws and wedges and cutting wood and stacking it into neat piles of firewood,I'm hopeless with wood or doing creative stuff with it.To my fammlies eternal shame,as my grandfather and father,my uncles and cousin were and are purveyors of fine veneers.:p
Am more attracted to welding or black smithing or steel work for some reason and thinking of a career change to maybe knife making or black smithing.

Sparks

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

knife making or black smithing.

Both very hipster these days

gunny123

Now were are yapping about wood. I was given a very nice sidelock shotgun, made in dublin. The locks were bent though along their length. It turns out some spanner had decided to "refinish" the stock, had sanded the bejesus out of the head of the stock and left the locks sitting proud of the wood.

To compensate, they simply overtightened the screws holding the locks together. This obviously caused issues with the mechanics of the lockwork and further butchering was done. The metal work is sorted out, but the locks stick out the side of the stock about 2mm either side.

I will get it restocked sometime i am in better funds, but for a temporary fix i was going to glue 2mm walnut veneer either side and reshape it. It will not be brilliant, but will at least allow the locks to sit in the correct place and the wood will keep the dirt out.

Where to get veneer though ? I remember in dublin as a young fella all around capel street had places that seemed to supply the woodworking trade.

Answers on a postcard please. Where to buy a small amount of walnut veneer.

Sparks

Hmmm. Online really is your best bet I'd think; you might find small bits in http://www.woodworkers.ie/ or http://www.thecarpentrystore.com/, but somewhere like http://www.thewoodveneerhub.co.uk/ is going to be more convenient and have a wider range.

gunny123

:mad::mad::mad:

http://www.thejournal.ie/man-paid-leave-central-bank-3456371-Jun2017/

:mad::mad::mad:

Grizzly 45

gunny123 wrote: »

Answers on a postcard please. Where to buy a small amount of walnut veneer.

PM incoming;)

Grizzly 45

gunny123 wrote: »

:mad::mad::mad:

http://www.thejournal.ie/man-paid-leave-central-bank-3456371-Jun2017/

:mad::mad::mad:

Bloody expensive for a gardner..Hope at least he did the weeding and mowed the lawns properly for that!:pac:

tabby aspreme

gunny123 wrote: »

Answers on a postcard please. Where to buy a small amount of walnut veneer.

What size pieces do you need , I can cut you some off a plank

Grizzly 45

Limerick well prepared to take on Islamic jihadists!!:D:D:D:D:D:D
[We all thought they were here for the knife fighting courses:D]

https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/irish-examiner/20170624/281930247985637

gunny123

Its ok i was given an old broken gunstock and the colour is close to my own. So its just a matter of cutting out the wood i need and gluing it to my own stock. I know someone into woodwork, so may ask him to do it for me.

gunny123

The hippy-dippys and drippy liberals are in melt down over kids being allowed to use training firearms on a police indoor range in the west midlands in England. I predict Owen Jones walking out of an interview in disgust over it.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-force-accused-glamorising-guns-10689635

http://news.sky.com/story/police-criticised-for-letting-schoolchildren-use-toy-guns-on-firing-range-10928420

Grizzly 45

Meantime in the Middle East.......Parents dont have that problem of their kids learning how to use guns.

http://thefederalistpapers.integratedmarket.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/imageedit_2755_3864845994.jpg

We are turely in deep trouble...

gunny123

Some gun porni-o-graphy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzKlgUUfwBY

Grizzly 45

Would you ever feel relaxed and at ease taking one of those works of art out into the hunting field?? I wouldn't..The thought of one ding or scratch on a 30k plus gun would give me palpitations.

gunny123

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Would you ever feel relaxed and at ease taking one of those works of art out into the hunting field?? I wouldn't..The thought of one ding or scratch on a 30k plus gun would give me palpitations.

I reckon most are bought as investments. Any that are used would be used from high seats or on driven shoots. But yes I would use them.

Cass

Got a giggle out of this.

https://twitter.com/LADFLEG/status/880464191504691200

gunny123

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47wLYkAN5g

tac foley

As a six-year old when I started my shooting 'career' I can only applaud the WMP and the school concerned for getting youngsters interested in how real live police use real-live guns to deadify those kind of people who so desperately yearn for it.

The more young people that I can introduce to safe shooting via our monthly guest days, the better. I start young people off on AirSoft, shooting at paper cups on sticks at 7 and 10 metres. Depending on what I have with me, that can be anything from a SIG to a full-size M249.

The moms and dads, also guests, can also get hooked on this style of backyard shooting, of course, with the UK law as it is, they can't have a 1J Airsoft gun without either joining a reenactment group, or AirSoft group, but they CAN buy a 4/5/6J pellet or BB gun that looks and feels exactly like the real thing...makes some kind of sense to somebody, I guess.

tac

gunny123

Seems like a bit of common sense, rather than the ban and hope approach of the EU

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-attacks-france-arms-idUSKBN19R1HO

tac foley

What? Taking guns away from the people most likely to use them to commit atrocities? Whatever next?

Maybe a better form of application for a firearm, or a more rigorous overview of gun club membership should be applied?

It is to be noted that apart from a couple of Asian doctors, both from Pakistani backgrounds, we have NO islamics in our gun club of more than 400 members. Both of them - a husband and wife team - a members of Medécins sans Frontiéres, and are pediatricians. Not likely ISIS followers, I would have thought.

tac

Grizzly 45

In Europe anyone can end up on these lists for just about anything.Things like liking face book posts that are not of the PC mainstream, belonging to political parties that dont fit the overall picture ,belonging to idiotic groups that think all British laws are based on British admilitary laws or think that Weimar Germany is still the real Germany and insist on Its laws being the only law.

In fact anyone of us because we are gun owners and voice our dissent on occasion about our rubbish gun laws and post about it here ARE no doubt on lists in the DOJ..:)

Also,they somehow forgot to mention that this chacter was well known to the authorthies as a radical ,and somehow they didnt bother acting on him before he went off with his "arsenal" of a Glock 17 and a semi auto Chech VZ rifle.. This one is squarely on the French authorthies door.
But they have been damn quick to ban converted semi auto belt fed machine guns of great historical value and have never been used in crime or terrorist attacks to "prevent terrorism" instead:rolleyes:

gunny123

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

In Europe anyone can end up on these lists for just about anything.Things like liking face book posts that are not of the PC mainstream, belonging to political parties that dont fit the overall picture ,belonging to idiotic groups that think all British laws are based on British admilitary laws or think that Weimar Germany is still the real Germany and insist on Its laws being the only law.

In fact anyone of us because we are gun owners and voice our dissent on occasion about our rubbish gun laws and post about it here ARE no doubt on lists in the DOJ..:)

It seems George Orwell was right in "1984", thought control, newspeak, the whole 9-yards.

Grizzly 45

1984 and Animal farm were supposed to be satire,not feckin manuals on how to run a society.Seems too many of our politicans have held onto those two leaving cert books abit too long..

gunny123

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

1984 and Animal farm were supposed to be satire,not feckin manuals on how to run a society.Seems too many of our politicans have held onto those two leaving cert books abit too long..

I kept those two books from school, but took great joy in ripping peig sayers load of cack to shreds and dumped it in the first bin i came to.

Cass

Hah. The Streisand effect in full swing. By trying to stop any mention of her she has made the story blow up.

Just as a side not what about An Gardaí if this is true? Look at what we've had in the last year alone:

• Maurice McCabe being relentlessly victimised
• The Commissioner under fire from the public and from some quarters of the Dail.
• "Loosing" her phone
• IIRC three other separate issues relating to her actions (including the promoting of her husband to Chief Super just weeks before the civilian board was due to take over that role)
• Templemore financial scandal
• Millions of fraudulent breath tests.
• Gardaí including, according to the records, a Superintendent lying under oath at the Jobstown six trial (this is actually recorded and the word used is lying)

Now it seems they are continuing in their new role as enforcers for the state. Given their actions during the water meter protests, meter installations, Belmullet, evictions, etc. they are acting on behalf of companies and now it would appear TDs all the while ignoring their true roles as mandated by their oath.

Nekarsulm

Cass, Noireen didn't just lose her phone, she has lost 6 or 7 of them.
It stinks to high heaven that (I think) 11 out of 15 official phones belonging to two highranking police officials cannot be located, and texts and calls thereon cannot be retrieved.

She's in on Thursday next in front of the PAC (her birthday!) for another session.

Last day, they couldn't lay a finger on her......

gunny123

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

1984 and Animal farm were supposed to be satire,not feckin manuals on how to run a society.Seems too many of our politicans have held onto those two leaving cert books abit too long..

Our glorious leader is now going to be issuing weekly propaganda updates, stand by your set for further instructions.


http://www.newstalk.com/Leo-Varadkar-announces-plan-for-weekly-video-messages

Sparks

Cass wrote: »

Look at what we've had in the last year alone:

• Maurice McCabe being relentlessly victimised
• The Commissioner under fire from the public and from some quarters of the Dail.
• "Loosing" her phone
• IIRC three other separate issues relating to her actions (including the promoting of her husband to Chief Super just weeks before the civilian board was due to take over that role)
• Templemore financial scandal
• Millions of fraudulent breath tests.
• Gardancluding, according to the records, a Superintendent lying under oath at the Jobstown six trial (this is actually recorded and the word used is lying)

There seems to be a bit more than that on the list, including:

• The last commissioner now stands accused by several journalists and others of personally libelling McCabe as a paedophile - an accusation which would seem to imply he had knowledge of the fake Tulsa records;
• Several, if not all of the senior management team being damned to the PAC by senior civilian Garda management (the auditors involved in the Templemore case) who said they had no confidence in them and that they had been obstructed in their audits by the senior management team;
• Several other mobile phones (not just the current Commissioners but also her predecessor's and several of those from the senior management team) going missing;
• A non-garda gmail account being used by the current Commissioner for sensitive emails, which not only breaks the Gardai rules on such things but also quite a few data protection rules on account of the data involved being personally sensitive stuff and being housed (because this is gmail) on servers outside the jurisdiction (meaning under different rules from the EU, which is a major no-no), and since the Gardai also manage state security, it kindof breaks common sense as well;
• Near-comical meetings with the new Policing Authority which verged on the Commissioner telling the Authority that she didn't have a report they were obviously going to need because the dog ate it;
• Several other whistleblowers being ill-treated in a similar manner to McCabe, if not so visibly;
• Data protection. I mean, seriously, where do you even start? PULSE records being accessed regularly by Gardai illegally and the information being handed or sold to third parties; our FCA1s going missing and turning up dumped; PULSE data itself turning out to be erroneous, inaccurate or just plain wrong -- wholly separately from the just-plain-falsified stuff now, this is where stuff gets entered wrong because the system's so broken that a Garda can't even sit down at a terminal and enter it in, he or she has to call it down a phone line to someone else to enter it in;

And that's off the top of my head, just the stuff I remember in three minutes from the last few weeks from court reporters and the like on the tweetingbox.

You should not be able to come up with a list that long that fast.

Something's so rotten here that I keep hearing people on both ends of the hippie-to-neocon spectrum saying that we're heading towards a PSNI situation.

Sparks

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Last day, they couldn't lay a finger on her......

Were we watching different meetings? She had strips torn off her. Not as badly as the PAC did, but still.

gunny123

Sparks wrote: »

Were we watching different meetings? She had strips torn off her. Not as badly as the PAC did, but still.

Yeah, but at the end of the day, what will happen ? SFA ! We have a long list of people in Ireland involved with ; the government, the law, the gardai, the church, even sport, caught with their sticky fingers in the till, or abusing their power or being corrupt in some way.

All get off scott-free with nice fat pensions. I have given up expecting any sort of justice, once you go above a certain paygrade, you are teflon coated.

Sparks

gunny123 wrote: »

Yeah, but at the end of the day, what will happen ? SFA !

Well, yeah, but if one meeting could throw the head of the police and state security forces out on her ear in the space of twenty minutes, I'd be more worried. Stuff like that should require some time and effort. One meeting should be serious enough to be noted, but not serious enough to fire the boss over, if you follow me.

The problem is, we're so far over to the wrong side of the pendulum swing that now you need way too much before people are fired, to the point that by the stage you have that much together, there's an election on and everything resets on you.

Grizzly 45

OTOH,it should also mean they are too busy with all this to cause us gunowners any hassle for a long time...Hopefully.

gunny123

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

OTOH,it should also mean they are too busy with all this to cause us gunowners any hassle for a long time...Hopefully.

OR....................., "QUICK, look over there, jihadi-paddies with cz bolt actions ar-15s and evil black plastic Walther gsp Glocks", Also chuck in a bit of "public safety", "American style gun culture", "high capacity clips" and the public eye is on us and not them and their shananigans.

gunny123

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4tzIuhmDa4