Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

I once read a novel whose author thanked her gun consultants in the acknowledgments. I think she got trolled cos most of the gunstuff was described all wrong.

 

Then He summoned all ye children of the unborn from the oceans and hills and they strangulated ye gun-toting moronth in their beds, praise be.

 

I never said that - it was a vision - from God/Allah.

 

@matwoolf confirmed as the avatar of God/Allah.

 

Fanks @Boss

 

I once wrote a story where one of the characters would flip the safety on their revolver just to piss off one of my gun nerd friends. When they called me out on it, I was all, "But I described it as a Webley-Foserby," and I'd watch them get confused and angry, then I left to find new friends.

 

I press 'like' before reading woolf's posts!

 

Stephen fucking King. Asks his doctor neighbor if it's possible to survive by autocannibalism, yet writes a book where the MC flips out the barrel of his revolver and loads six shots.

I think I love you....

 

Please, I was repressing those memories... In Under the Dome he can tell the troops are Marines by their shoulder patches. Since we don't wear any, well....

 

Hello Kanji my old friend.....

Seems like you never really end.....

 

I remember when I was 12 or so and found out that 9mm is .354inches, which is the actual diameter (IIRC) of both 38 Special and 357 Magnum projectiles. Naturally I assumed that a 357 could use all of the above, fortunately I didn't have the means to test my theory.

And don't forget 7.62x54R for your universal rifle

 

You don't wear any? Did it ever occur to you that just maybe, you're not really a Marine? Maybe you were kidnapped by Weird People and put through some kind of training they told you was Marine training, but was in fact lessons in embroidery and making cupcakes. Then they discharged you and called you a Marine because Hamster Master was already taken.

You never know, with Weird People.

 

Should have joined a league of Assassins ...?

 

Whaddya mean, Weird? Most of us ended up in Space Shuttle Door Gunner school, it was just folks like @Wreybies who got to sit up in the driver's seat.

 

Training must have been intense.

 

People in general. This is a bad thing as my profession is mental health counselor. Or at least it was when I was working.

 

The use of the word 'civilian' to describe anyone other than non-military persons. Not working in law enforcement doesn't make you a civilian, and neither does not being a non-military government employee or elected official.

 

I'm honestly confused, what would your definition of "civilian" be then? I googled it, and pretty much all the dictionaries have some variation of:

civilian


NOUN

• 1A person not in the armed services or the police force.
  
  ‘terrorists and soldiers have killed tens of thousands of civilians’
  
  1. 1.1informal A person who is not a member of a particular profession or group, as viewed by a member of that group.
     ‘I talk to a lot of actresses and they say that civilians are scared of them’

 

In my lexicon, only the first definition (" a person not in the armed forces") is correct.

 

Ah, I see. Misunderstood you, I thought that you were saying that someone who didn't work in law enforcement was, by definition, not a civilian. Makes sense now.

 

Ebay are currently running a spate of commercials. One has a guy sat at a table with a pair of trainers/sneakers, and he says, "Thought everything on ebay was used? I bought these brand new!"

Well, no, I didn't think everything on Ebay was used.

The new one has a woman riding her mountain bike through a forest, and she says, "I thought delivery charges were really high on Ebay, but I got these bikes with free delivery!"

Yes, that's because you paid for the fucking delivery in the purchase price, numbnut!!