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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 12997951 times)

hector13

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #160245 on: July 05, 2022, 02:56:42 pm »

Looks like what brings down Boris Johnson is not two standards advisors quitting because they won’t take his advice, it’s not his inability to answer how he funded the renovation of his flat for months, it’s not graft, corruption, ministers bullying their staff to the point they quit and sue the government, nor is it when he gets fined for being incapable of following the rules he and his government came up with for Covid.

Nah, he appointed a sex pest as deputy chief whip, and a week after he groped two men (a week later!) two of his ministers quit, one of whom was also fined for attending a party during Covid lockdowns.

The other one even has the cheek to say the public expect the government to be run sensibly, despite all of the above happening over the last couple of years and more that I can’t recall off the top of my head.

Elections happening now would be very fucking interesting given the Scottish First Minister has said that, if they can’t have another legal independence referendum next year, they’d campaign the next UK election on the single issue of independence and consider it a de facto referendum.

Edit: I tell a lie. The guy who got fined said the public should expect the government to be conducted properly. One might suggest following the rules you put in place woukd be a good start, but what do I know.

Edit 2: there’s also the small matter of the leader of the opposition and their deputy being investigated for breaching Covid times too, and has said he’d resign if found to have breached them, not sure if that’s been sorted yet.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #160246 on: July 05, 2022, 08:18:44 pm »

The fact that the groping MP is named "Pincher", as well... I don't really know what to say about that.
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« Reply #160247 on: July 07, 2022, 11:49:35 pm »

Japanese ex-prime minister got shot not that long ago. Doesn’t look good at all.
I thought it was super hard to get guns in Japan?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #160248 on: July 08, 2022, 12:14:26 am »

Japanese ex-prime minister got shot not that long ago. Doesn’t look good at all.
I thought it was super hard to get guns in Japan?

Very hard. Where there's a will, there's a way, though.

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« Reply #160249 on: July 08, 2022, 03:15:55 am »

Japanese ex-prime minister got shot not that long ago. Doesn’t look good at all.
I thought it was super hard to get guns in Japan?

From photos of the scene, it was almost certainly a homemade double-barrel shotgun. Just some pipes, a couple of big ass capacitors, and a handle.
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« Reply #160250 on: July 08, 2022, 07:01:26 pm »

There are also other photos of homemade guns recovered from the home of the suspect (perpetrator?).
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« Reply #160251 on: July 09, 2022, 01:57:08 am »

From photos of the scene, it was almost certainly a homemade double-barrel shotgun. Just some pipes, a couple of big ass capacitors, and a handle.
I get all the other stuff but what are the compactors for?
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« Reply #160252 on: July 09, 2022, 03:47:52 am »

Electrical discharge ignition of the primer cap.

Reduces the mechanical complexity of the zipgun
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« Reply #160253 on: July 09, 2022, 06:53:32 am »

Probably had no cap at all. From the sound and the smoke, it was using black powder. Get your BP fine enough, and make a big enough spark, and that's enough to do the job.
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« Reply #160254 on: July 10, 2022, 03:20:44 am »

Sounds very futuristic needing electricity to fire your musket.


Guess zipguns become more complex when you don't have premade bullets to fire.
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« Reply #160255 on: July 10, 2022, 03:44:16 am »

Rumor has it he was ex-JDF. He may have had bullets, actually. Far easier to sneak off a bullet than a rifle.

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« Reply #160256 on: July 10, 2022, 03:56:31 am »

It legit feels like something out of a cartoon. Ex-soldier with home-made 9-barreled shotgun assassinates former PM. No warning.

There's a part of me I'm ashamed of that is kind of impressed.
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« Reply #160257 on: July 10, 2022, 04:27:49 am »

A 9 barreled shogun is pretty impressive especially if they all were able to fire as the more barrels you add the more complex the firing mechanism needs to be.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #160258 on: July 10, 2022, 07:18:32 am »

Rumor has it he was ex-JDF. He may have had bullets, actually. Far easier to sneak off a bullet than a rifle.

Ex-Navy was what I heard.
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« Reply #160259 on: July 10, 2022, 07:31:54 am »

It's all rumors still, as far as I can tell.
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