Random thoughts

[Tron]

Humidity is far worse than Heat

Humidity causes "bat wings"

Bat wings is when your balls stick to the inside of your thighs

 

[Potato]

might be moving to summerlin soon

 

[bacon]

Freakin heatwave, sitting here working in a bathing suit and a wifebeater.

Winning.

 

[Mudcat]

I heard the other day - I believe it was on The Newsroom - I hope and think I have this right . . .

In the aftermath of the Kuwait War, when they were celebrating their liberation from Iraq, 20 people died as a result of falling bullets that had been fired up into the sky in celebration.

So many people are just so incredibly stupid.

 

[Matty]

20 people died as a result of falling bullets that had been fired up into the sky in celebration.

Sounds like an urban legend. I highly doubt that a falling bullet would penetrate.

 

[Matty]

I guess I'm wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire

Odd.

 

[Teela]

I was told to never fire a gun in the air for that reason. I think it was from one of the cops that I dated?

 

[Mudcat]

I guess I got the details screwed up (which is not surprising considering how fast they talk on that show sometimes). This must have been the one I was talking about


July 22, 2003: More than 20 people were reported killed in Iraq from celebratory gunfire following the deaths of Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay in 2003.[13]


This is a fun one:

October 30, 2012: Twenty-three people were fatally electrocuted after celebratory gunfire brought down a power cable during a wedding party in eastern Saudi Arabia.[15]





But no, let's keep firing guns in the air.

 

[Matty]

That's some amount of bad luck.

 

[Mudcat]

A study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 80% of celebratory gunfire-related injuries are to the head, feet, and shoulders.



By gawd that makes sense.

 

[Matty]

lol

 

[bacon]

Bullet falling on head - strange way to go. Unless you're there, then I guess not so strange since everyone is doing it. At that point I view any birds flying above being killed as more of shame due to superior intellect.

 

[bacon]

Honestly I thank all that had the conversation about people firing guns into the air for it leading to this:

Cami: I just don't know that you can adequetly, or fairly compare the intelligence of a bird to that of a human.
adequately*
me: I know ALOT of birds that would disagree with that

 

[Mudcat]

It's interesting though, as a former student of the sciences, to contemplate it. All those bullets being launched at various angles. So many flight paths with various forces acting upon them.

So much physics, so much physics.

 

[roguejuror]

might be moving to summerlin soon

A lot of wasps in Vegas?

 

[Matty]

It's interesting though, as a former student of the sciences, to contemplate it. All those bullets being launched at various angles. So many flight paths with various forces acting upon them.

So much physics, so much physics.

Assholes should always shoot straight up. Any other angle and it's a stray bullet, not really a falling bullet.

Assholes.

 

[rito]

Some little kid dies every New Years in Medellin when some idiot fires into the air.

 

[roguejuror]

How would you celebratory shoot muddy?