I commend the dad who body-slammed the would-be robber. I would not have had the restraint to have stopped the beat-down and let the punk go. And yet, it was probably the correct move, from a practical legal standpoint.

The grief and trouble the legal system can bring down on innocent self-defenders when they are adults and the offending punks are minors is legendary.

P.S. Hey punk, the whole world has now heard you screaming like a little girl. Maybe you should just end your life now, since you are the poster child of ridicule for the whole Internets.

Self-hating women dumping on themselves, trying to convince themselves that they're anything but self-hating.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-covid-19-vaccination-in-poorer-nations-has-slowed-posing-global-risks-11618826934?mod=hp_lead_pos2

WSJ - Vaccinations Slow in Poorer Nations, Posing Global Risks

I find articles like this incredibly frustrating. We already have multiple documented human to animal and animal to human transmissions of COVID-19. Are we going to vaccinate every bat? Every squirrel? This is why the flu hasn't been eliminated. Migratory birds are notorious for not getting vaccinated and not stopping at border checkpoints for mandatory quarantine.

So no vaccination policies in various nations don't pose a global risk.

They won't wear masks either, BenjyBunny.

What happened with the bobcat? Any follow-up? Did they need rabies shots?

Another middle-aged man teaching a pair of dumbass kids a lesson:

https://twitter.com/Sneakiestsnakee/status/1383821980445548547

Another middle-aged man teaching a pair of dumbass kids a lesson: ~ Sixclaws at April 19, 2021 6:29 AM

Note the sheer indifference in his voice after he shot both of them. "Oh well, mine's real."

And he shot them off the cuff, one-handed. This is a guy who is well-practiced in using his gun.

What happened with the bobcat? Any follow-up? Did they need rabies shots? ~ NicoleK at April 19, 2021 6:05 AM

They and a neighbor had to get rabies shots.

Uninhabited, commenters say it's either a coffeepot or a vagina.

I would not have had the restraint to have stopped the beat-down and let the punk go. And yet, it was probably the correct move, from a practical legal standpoint.

The other kid pleading let him go like he is the aggrieved party is something else and no doubt the "right" prosecutor could make the body slammer's life miserable if he did continue the beat down. In the old days (5 or 10 years ago)the unwritten social compact was easily understood. If you risked taking part in an armed robbery and failed, your ass was going to be kicked hard. There are so many ways this robbery could have gone wrong and some righteous street justice might have convinced that kid that armed robbery is not for him. Now these little bitches are still free and will probably remain free even if arrested.

Don't hate him because he's beautiful....

Patrick, the problem, IMO, is that no one wants to acknowledge that the same wonderful 20th-century technology that made our housework - both indoor and outdoor - so much easier and safer, was also responsible for making ALL of us fatter than we would have been otherwise. Even farmers can get obese; I knew one who was born in the 1940s.

Here's what I wrote back in May of 2020:

Many would say that the "mania for exercise" got started about 50 years ago mainly because machines had made all sorts of chores too easy, and even farmers and their families could no longer cook and eat all the tempting greasy or starchy foods they might crave, since they couldn't burn off the calories as easily as they used to. (Veterinarian James Herriot wrote, with great disgust, about farmer's diets back in the 1930s.) That would also explain why, as early as 1960 or so, Peg Bracken had a bestseller when she wrote "I Hate to Cook Book." Why would you enjoy the laborious hours of cooking delicious food if you couldn't eat any of it yourself, after all?

However, even forfeiting certain foods wasn't enough to keep young people fit. (Or, they just couldn't abstain.) Hence, jogging and going to gyms.
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On top of that, no one really likes mindless exercise - but they don't necessarily enjoy exhausting volunteer work either. So they end up not exercising at all.

And here's what farming families USED to be able to eat, as quoted and analyzed by Barbara M. Walker, author of the 1979 "The Little House Cookbook" (she's still around, I think):

From "Farmer Boy": Mother sliced the hot rye 'n' injun bread on the bread-board by her plate. Father's spoon cut deep into the chicken-pie; he scooped out big pieces of thick crust and turned up their fluffy yellow under-sides on the plate. He poured gravy over them; he dipped up big pieces of tender chicken, dark meat and white meat sliding from the bones. He added a mound of baked beans and topped it with a quivering slice of fat pork. At the edge of the plate he piled dark-red beet pickles. And he handed the plate to Almanzo. Silently Almanzo ate it all. Then he ate a piece of pumpkin pie, and he felt very full inside. But he ate a piece of apple pie with cheese.)

"If this seems heavy with starches and sweets, remember that it was served to a family accustomed to hard physical labor and unaccustomed to centrally-heated houses. And that it was described by an author who ate far more cornmeal, lean game and wild fruits as a child than breads, fats, and desserts."

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You need to get some Nina Teicholz into your life— https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nina+teicholz&t=ffsb&ia=web

“Veterinarian James Herriot wrote, with great disgust, about farmer's diets back in the 1930s.)”

That was before they realized that the big killers are sugar booze, cigarettes and a sedentary lifestyle.

In fact modern dietary science still fails to recognize that the culprit isn’t bacon and eggs. (It’s a class virtue signaling thing) When everyone went vegan and woke, they lost their dietary minds, and stopped looking at the evidence.

Everyone is in favor of the homeless until they decide that your doorstep is their bedroom, and that anything you leave on your backyard belongs to them.

Not to mention that they pull the trash bags from containers and empty the contents all over over the sidewalk as they rumage through it.

https://twitter.com/BanishedBernie/status/1383743270837121025

Looks like the narrative got it wrong again. The Medical Examiner has ruled that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died of two strokes caused by a blood clot, and not from a blow to the head with a fire extinguisher.

Here's the explanation for the Deli thing linked yesterday.

On the flip side of heroism...would you believe the person who started this exchange I found in the comments under a recent Miss Manners column?

Hint: even the POLICE will tell you to yell "fire" not "help" when you're being attacked and you're outnumbered and can't run or fight back.

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"Lots of Time": Some people seem to think it's clever to yell "Fire" or "Gun" to get a quick response. To me, they deserve to be cited for false reporting for that trick.
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Yelling something isn't filling out a report. If one goes to the police department, and fills out a report that is false, that is a crime.
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You don't say there's a fire. You say someone's yelling, "fire!" That's not a false report either. I don't think you know what "filing a false report" means.
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"Lots of Time": How about inciting to riot or disorderly conduct? Just go to the police station then and file a report of harassment, theft or whatever occurred. Fire trucks and armed police would be a waste of resources. Some people love drama.
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Women have been advised that you should shout fire because no one would take any notice if you shouted rape. If you are talking about rape, assault (or murder) then "Just go to the police station then and file a report of .....whatever occurred" isn't very helpful.
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People care about fires, because a fire is potentially a threat to *them*. Somebody else being raped or beaten up isn't a blip on their radar screens, but the second they're personally at risk you have their full and undivided attention. It's an ugly aspect of human nature but it's very real.
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You really must have lots of time because you are seriously overthinking this. When we need help, right now, in the moment, we do whatever we need to - even if it means yelling Fire in the absence of a fire.. It's not drama, it's self-defense.
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You sound like a man who wants time to escape. Is that what you're going for?
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So you seriously have an issue with hearing someone yell about an emergency and you look up to find it's a different kind of emergency? The only thing I can think of is that you would take action if there was a fire but you plan on doing nothing if it's an assault or theft.

People like you are the reason that women have to yell "fire" to get anyone to notice that they're being assaulted.

It's hard to know what you Ipad people are saying because we can't tell when you're quoting a comment, citing an external authority, or offering your own thoughts. It's exhausting

People like you are the reason that women have to yell "fire" to get anyone to notice that they're being assaulted. ~ lenona at April 19, 2021 10:52 PM

The reason police advise you to yell "fire" to get attention is that "assault" or "murder" usually mean someone with a weapon is in the area and that usually causes people to run away.

Conan, bystanders who are safely indoors have little excuse not to call 911. Unless they just don't care - and have to be forced to act.

And Crid, sorry I didn't attach everyone's moniker other than the culprit's - it would have been pretty time-consuming and I never know when this particular forum is going to freeze up. (Which is something that doesn't happen elsewhere.) But, I didn't write any of the responses.

By "particular forum," I mean Amy's blog.

Responses to what said by whom?

Comprendamundo? It's impenetrable for someone who doesn't already know what you mean.

Responses to "Lots of Time."

Oh.