Kung fu
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It is true, beaches and rivers are full if sh1t when it rains. Also, knife attacks are on the increase. So, what should I do? walk to the corner shop with a knife and stab a person who I feel threatened by? or should I just think that person is off their head and give them a wide berth?
Don't get us wrong in the UK, we can be mean and cruel and you name it as you like. But, wel, if you are used to guns all around, then come to here and you will something pleasantly different. Remember, we set the US up; all that wild west stuff came from us, England; we know all about it. I mean. ok then. lets al ahve guns and knives and lets all go for it. Anyone who puts a foot wrong at all, let's just 'do 'em. They do it to us, we do it to them, lets all walk down to the shop. I mean, it is all ok for the bad ones when when the vast majority of people behave civil. What if the vast majority have had enough and say, ok, we'll do it the tough way, we'll start, bang, bang bang, stick 'em up on crusifixes for fifty miles, hang, draw and quarter 'em. What then? That's what happens here in England when we have had enough of being scared to walk to the shop. Maybe, let's go easy. Only 200 years ago France chopped off all the heads. So we don't want to get 'started'. Better no guns, knives, etc. It can kinda escalate. Keep a lid on it. Europe has had a lot of, well, history still not put to bed. Best not to have weapons around. US and Europe are different. Weapons too scary. Maybe, maybe, maybe.....I am surrounded by history, real atrocities all around. Maybe it is that. I am still scared. I can understand negroes who feel the enslavement of a hundred years and more ago. Britain was a scary place a few hundred years ago, it lingers. No weapons for citizens. America doesn't need a militia like it did when it was young. Guns, holding you back, but you are a young country stil, so we can wait about four hundred years. Me I'm out tomorrow, and within 20 mins I will be walking around a 12 century castle; I got my fish and chips yesterday from with 30 feet of a 1100c castle. I just don't like weapons except in the hands of the authorities, and this is how it has been. You couldn't go to Florence in say, 1524 and carry a weapon. We sorted all this out centuries ago. America is just a pup
Don't get us wrong in the UK, we can be mean and cruel and you name it as you like. But, wel, if you are used to guns all around, then come to here and you will something pleasantly different. Remember, we set the US up; all that wild west stuff came from us, England; we know all about it. I mean. ok then. lets al ahve guns and knives and lets all go for it. Anyone who puts a foot wrong at all, let's just 'do 'em. They do it to us, we do it to them, lets all walk down to the shop. I mean, it is all ok for the bad ones when when the vast majority of people behave civil. What if the vast majority have had enough and say, ok, we'll do it the tough way, we'll start, bang, bang bang, stick 'em up on crusifixes for fifty miles, hang, draw and quarter 'em. What then? That's what happens here in England when we have had enough of being scared to walk to the shop. Maybe, let's go easy. Only 200 years ago France chopped off all the heads. So we don't want to get 'started'. Better no guns, knives, etc. It can kinda escalate. Keep a lid on it. Europe has had a lot of, well, history still not put to bed. Best not to have weapons around. US and Europe are different. Weapons too scary. Maybe, maybe, maybe.....I am surrounded by history, real atrocities all around. Maybe it is that. I am still scared. I can understand negroes who feel the enslavement of a hundred years and more ago. Britain was a scary place a few hundred years ago, it lingers. No weapons for citizens. America doesn't need a militia like it did when it was young. Guns, holding you back, but you are a young country stil, so we can wait about four hundred years. Me I'm out tomorrow, and within 20 mins I will be walking around a 12 century castle; I got my fish and chips yesterday from with 30 feet of a 1100c castle. I just don't like weapons except in the hands of the authorities, and this is how it has been. You couldn't go to Florence in say, 1524 and carry a weapon. We sorted all this out centuries ago. America is just a pup
I'll tell ya about Kung-Fu! I've beat up Bruce Lee many times. Let me tell you how. I have a friend from childhood and every time he gets high (weed, nothing crazy) he gets possessed by Bruce Lee. He even has a Bruce Lee haircut! He'll start talking like Bruce Lee with the out of sync words and will proceed to do kung-fu moves on everyone around him. At first it was funny but it quickly gets old, so I 'Beat the Lee' outta him. Last time it was with a switch from a tree. I freaking hate Bruce Lee now and will continue to Beat the Lee out of him every time he gets possessed by that man.
J.R.
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Cliff Palace (Arizona)1100 BC
Great swaths of the US do not have, need or want a police department, including where I live. Never lock our vehicles, windows and often doors open at night to let the cool air in.
My suggestion? Stay away from tabloid news and cable news. BTW I'm almost entirely Cornish. Maybe drive on down to the small villages in Cornwall. Ask them how safe they feel and you might get a sense how safe we feel in middle America.
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tomjasz
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That bit your ass and sent your goofy red coats home...
Well, in the English civil war 1640ish, the parliamentarians won and cut the kind's head off. In the ten years thereafter, the interregnum, parliament struggled to find a situation that would work, so they reinstated a new king, Charles 2nd.
I think it was something to do with this: that with a royal FAMILY as head of state, it ment that the country couldn't be taken over by big business or whatever, as they could always be removed by the monarch, and this is why other countries have her has their figure head. The US is different, i don't know just how they ensure this, and I wonder if that is why there are still guns around, that the people could rise up if someone got in who needed to be removed. I don't know.
JR...yes, of course, I'm sure. But guns just scare the heck out of me, and it gives the perception, which I can't help, and as for saying the US is still a pup, well I mean that, whilst US has old unwestern/modern cultures, as a western modern culture it is still very young when compared to Europe. You see, the reminders of yesteryear are all around and what they did stays in our DNA.......hangings, beheadings, brandings, etc, regarding crime and punishment. And whilst all that has gone, it's memory is still there, somehow, keeping people in line even today, centuries of it, and it has an effect, still. I wonder what changes the US will undergo as it matures. Maybe there will be periods unimaginable, as there was in Europe. One can hardly go out of the house here without finding yourself in some dungeon or something, passing the spot where the last sheep rustler was hung, or being reminded there were 200 crimes for which you could be hung.
I'd be happy to tell you about the the UK if you are going to visit, so you can get what you want and want you don't want, and a more efficient use of your time and money.
J.R.
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As I previously said I am of Cornish descent, a history of minors, fisherman and farmers that has continued since we came here in the 1860's. I am proud of that heritage. I'm also proud of my country and its heritage. The Americas were always here, very much like Germany, which has only existed since 1871. Countries change. History has been a constant passion of mine.
Guns are a complicated topic, not one for an ebike forum in my opinion. The only point I would make is that both sides of the issue have their facts and figures. The media always follows the money and if it bleeds it leads. The vast majority of the US doesn't have gun issues. I've worked in some of the largest cities in the mid Atlantic and I've toured by motorcycle more than half of North America (not counting island nations) and I've never witnessed a shooting of any kind. Anecdotal yes, but there's never a story in the news of nothing happened. All's quiet on the western front.
tomjasz
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Q. Jg ypm
you’re kidding on the square? Right? If not, well, London Bridge IS in Arizona. Seems you fellas could sell us a bridge…
6zfshdb
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My great grandfather was a shipwright from Liverpool so I also have family ties to the UK.
Like J.R., I also live in a rural community with no local police department. I've travelled extensively all over the US and have never personally witnessed any gun violence. Unless you were to visit high crime areas in some of our larger cities, it is likely you wouldn't either.
Similar to your kind offer to harrys, I'd be glad to recommend places in the US to visit, should you decide to skip over the pond.
Nvreloader
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GUNS, GUTS & GOD made America................Get used to it.
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