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Iced tea is not tea, it is an abomination drank by those traitors located in hot countries. The true brew should melt your stomach and go down like tar.

Not so sure about the tar bit. Most of the stuff I habituate is th'knockoff eastern stuff, though, which is usually fairly smooth. Have't actually had much European tea, and I don't actually like iced tea... at all. Wrong kind of sweet. Shit be nasty, and that coming from someone who regularly ends up with tea that tastes like children's chewable aspirin.

Now, those abominations I create by boiling sodas and using that as a base... that's the right kind of sweet. Sugar magma, the really smooth and quick moving kind. Liquid glass, only tasty and not innards destroying. Or, at least, not short-term innards destroying. When it turns out right, anyway. Everything involving soda seems to end up tasting like children's aspirin when it goes wrong, for some ungodly reason.

Heeeeeyyy. Rengar looks kinda' like Mundo, t'me. Dat bolo (cleaver), dat q (masochism). Dat oddly placed (much better ratio) AP scaling AoE w/ buff (spinnies). Dat MS boost wit' resource gain ult. Obviously different in some key ways, but what I'm saying is if dat bolo is a long-ish range skillshot, Frumple thinks Frumple likey.

More than five... less than, what? Seven, eight? Pish. You need to go higher. No, no, not days, not weeks. Higher than that. Count your endless European march in moon phases.

Then, and only then, you will have begun the process toward righteousness. Your journey will not be complete until you are done.

Out of curiosity, what are the positive things that come out of the right to arms?  I can't think of a reason for owning a gun that doesn't involve killing something.

Mostly hunting, which can be a pretty heavy food supplement for a fair number of families -- I'm part of one, even though I'm not venison eater, the availability of the meat has helped out parts of my family get through some tough times a bit healthier and better fed. It's definitely less expensive over a long period, especially if it involves grandfathered in weapons.

Lastly, I see there is a strong anti-gun sentiment among many of you. I understand, really! But I would like you to know that shooting for hunting or sport is much more common than you probably realize. You might even be surprised to see who you know has a gun! In fact, I know a lot of gun owners who don't even vote republican (though I'm not gonna lie, there's some right-wing nuts too and if you visit a gun show you'll definitely see a republican majority).

I'll bite on this, though, heh. I'm quite heavily in favor of much stronger gun regulation -- as a gun owner, as someone that has been through a concealed carry program (though yet to send in the paperwork, due to the processing fee), and as someone that stands to inherent probably a good dozen or so more firearms within the next decade.

Living as I have, in the area I'm in, and going through those programs... there are people out there, in substantial number, that have no goddamn right to have their hands on a weapon, and the only reason the death toll isn't higher than it is, is sheer damned luck. As it is, irresponsible gun ownership claims too many lives, and we really do have the lackadaisical controls we have on who gets them to blame.

Got nothing against sport shooting, nothing against hunting, nothing, t'be upfront, against firearms for house defense. Completely support gun ownership for people who can demonstrate reason and responsibility. My problem is with handing the damn things out like candy to any drunken blindfolded idiot* that sleepwalks through the (might as well be frakking nonexistent) regulations we've supposedly got vetting gun owners.

A lot of that just has to do with being in Florida, though. There might as well not be any controls on the damned things down here, from everything I've seen on the ground.

Most of th'rest of what you said I'm on board with, though, 'cept the bit with only criminals getting powerful guns part. Think that line of thinking's been addressed in the thread already.

*Edit: Okay, a bit of hyperbole here. I never have seen anyone that was blindfolded manage to purchase a firearm. Legally blind, yes, but not blindfolded. Drunk and stupid stand, both concurrently and not.

iPad. All crashes. All the goddamn time. Swear to fornication if this piece of crap wasn't the closest thing I have to reliable Internet access right now I'd use it as a freaking skeet shooting target.

The mentally ill can purchase firearms in any state of the union. It's only those who have been diagnosed that can't. I know at least a couple of clinical-in-all-but-the-paperwork paranoiacs that are quite well armed, all over the table.

Of course, it's difficult to manage anything better than that, I guess, but so far as I know the states don't even make the attempt at it. Certainly Florida doesn't.

I don't see them replacing the metaphorical limbs they rip off businesses with robot ones, so, no.

More like a parasite, really. One of those ones that induce temporary benefits (increased metabolism, reduced resource requirements, whatever) in exchange for causing the host to die shortly thereafter.