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Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ May 6 2010, 11:23 AM BST

I got like a leaflet-y letter addressed to me, except it later said "Dear Resident", and I wondered just how difficult it would have been for them to set it to put my name there too. Oh well!

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Would you really want a potential government wasting money on that?

It is much more expensive than printing bulk identical leaflets.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ May 6 2010, 2:29 PM BST

So you can keep guns, but not goats?

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Or pot belly pigs..

Quote: DaButt @ May 6 2010, 2:56 PM BST

Firing into the air is unsafe.

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Aye,

What goes up at muzzle velocity comes back down at near muzzle velocity.

There have been fatalities from such bullets.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ May 6 2010, 3:25 PM BST

You could have a good, hard look upwards first.

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The danger is not in shooting planes or birds, but in the returning bullet.

Quote: billwill @ May 6 2010, 5:32 PM BST

The danger is not in shooting planes or birds, but in the returning bullet.

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Wear a suit made of seven inch thick iron, you'll be fine.

Quote: billwill @ May 6 2010, 5:32 PM BST

There have been fatalities from such bullets.

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It happens here all too often on New Year's Eve and the 4th of July. Certain ethnic groups like to fire their guns into the air in lieu of fireworks and it seems to be creeping into the more idiotic elements of the mainstream population, too.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ May 6 2010, 5:48 PM BST

Wear a suit made of seven inch thick iron, you'll be fine.

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Sigh, You are being a bit dense, perhaps as a joke, but it's extremely unlikely that the shooter is the one in danger, it's some poor innocent bystander or kid.

It's not really a joking matter.

Quote: DaButt @ May 6 2010, 5:56 PM BST

It happens here all too often on New Year's Eve and the 4th of July. Certain ethnic groups like to fire their guns into the air in lieu of fireworks and it seems to be creeping into the more idiotic elements of the mainstream population, too.

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I thought ethnics were the mainstream in most American cities?
Whities are the minorities.

Quote: chipolata @ May 6 2010, 6:11 PM BST

I thought ethnics were the mainstream in most American cities?
Whities are the minorities.

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In some cities, yes. In others, no. To a large extent, it depends which part of the country you're talking about.

Quote: David Bussell @ May 6 2010, 3:06 PM BST

Did anyone else in London see a giant Channel 4 banner being flown overhead just now? For all the expense I couldn't make out what show was being advertised but I suspect something to do with the election. Can anyone edify?

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I can see it out of my window right now, but can't tell what it is cos it's just a sillhouette now! Blooming sunset.

Quote: billwill @ May 6 2010, 5:57 PM BST

Sigh, You are being a bit dense, perhaps as a joke, but it's extremely unlikely that the shooter is the one in danger, it's some poor innocent bystander or kid.

It's not really a joking matter.

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Apologies for trying (badly) to be humourous on the forum of a website about comedy. I hadn't realised what a rife problem people getting hit and, at the very least, badly mauled by bullets that had been shot blindly into the air and then fallen on them was. Consider me chastised.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ May 6 2010, 6:34 PM BST

Apologies for trying (badly) to be humourous

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Apology accepted. But frankly it's been a long time coming.

Quote: chipolata @ May 6 2010, 6:44 PM BST

Apology accepted. But frankly it's been a long time coming.

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Quote: Matthew Stott @ May 6 2010, 6:34 PM BST

Apologies for trying (badly) to be humourous on the forum of a website about comedy. I hadn't realised what a rife problem people getting hit and, at the very least, badly mauled by bullets that had been shot blindly into the air and then fallen on them was. Consider me chastised.

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Yeah, sorry, from me too, it's a sore point with me: people being careless with firearms. I'm the son of an Army officer so went to a military families school, a great school and we did all sorts of non-academic stuff including being in the "Combined Cadet Force", so we trained to use rifles properly.

Though I wasn't on the particular exercise, one stupid or careless cadet took a live round from the firing range onto an Exercise and he fired it. Just ONE real round amidst all those hundreds of blanks fired, but he killed one of the other cadets with it!

On a night exercise that I did personally go on, I had fragments of Flash-Mortars from my own side, falling around our patrol because I couldn't get through on the radio to tell them to STOP!

Quote: chipolata @ May 6 2010, 6:44 PM BST

Apology accepted. But frankly it's been a long time coming.

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As the actress said to the bishop?

We haven't seen much of Aaron today - is he a returning officer somewhere?

Been plugging this all day

Quote: bigfella @ May 6 2010, 7:30 PM BST

We haven't seen much of Aaron today - is he a returning officer somewhere?

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He's watching porn.

Quote: zooo @ May 6 2010, 7:57 PM BST

He's watching porn.

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Well why not!