Nobody Cares: PRS

Kamilah Hauptmann · May 31, 2020

Innula Zenovka said:
There's a reason, I think, why Robin Hood and his Merry Men were represented as archers in the tales, using the commoners' weapon against the aristocrats.

There's a case for the right to bear arms if I've ever seen one.

Also a warning to aristocrats, like Minneapolis Archie McArcher there got into 'crossbow' (and fist) range with a weapon he didn't appear to know how to use (when he wasn't waving a knife around), making him similar to John of Bohemia.

Or as this bright lad put it:

Dakota Tebaldi said:
Wow that was....not a good decision, holy smoke

Dakota Tebaldi · May 31, 2020

Another guy who chose poorly last night:

Social media conservatives last night ran with a video clip of this white man who got beaten quite severely by several black protesters. According to all the tweets he was a business owner who had tried to defend his store with a sword when he was brutally attacked by the looting mob. Variously they claimed that he'd been hospitalized and was either in a coma or ended up dying later.

In reality, he's a depraved right-wing loon - who has long been obsessed with his "sword" and has been musing all week on Twitter about getting to go out during the riots and use it on someone - who went out to stand in front of a bar he likes to drink at sometimes, and ended up chasing and stabbing a teenager who had been riding by on his skateboard when the crowd turned on him as a result. And although he was severely beaten, he is well enough to be able to tweet today in his typical loquacious style.

Innula Zenovka · May 31, 2020

Kamilah Hauptmann said:
There's a case for the right to bear arms if I've ever seen one.

When longbows are outlawed, only outlaws will have longbows.

Katheryne Helendale · May 31, 2020

Dakota Tebaldi said:
That sure is the same idiot, he was bound and determined to find trouble today wasn't he.

Toxic levels of testosterone combined with a profound lack of education, I'm betting.

Innula Zenovka · May 31, 2020

Dakota Tebaldi said:
Another guy who chose poorly last night:

Social media conservatives last night ran with a video clip of this white man who got beaten quite severely by several black protesters. According to all the tweets he was a business owner who had tried to defend his store with a sword when he was brutally attacked by the looting mob. Variously they claimed that he'd been hospitalized and was either in a coma or ended up dying later.

In reality, he's a depraved right-wing loon - who has long been obsessed with his "sword" and has been musing all week on Twitter about getting to go out during the riots and use it on someone - who went out to stand in front of a bar he likes to drink at sometimes, and ended up chasing and stabbing a teenager who had been riding by on his skateboard when the crowd turned on him as a result. And although he was severely beaten, he is well enough to be able to tweet today in his typical loquacious style.

Katheryne Helendale · May 31, 2020

Kamilah Hauptmann said:

Sometimes it takes a woman to settle an argument.

Dakota Tebaldi · May 31, 2020

LOL guys it didn't even occur to me to look that hard, but looking at the video of Bow Guy again

He's holding that bow upside down.

Seriously, he's holding it by the sight window, you can see the actual grip handle above his hand

The grip handle is shaped like a literal pistol grip, how can you not know that's where you're supposed to be holding the bow

I'm dying

Kamilah Hauptmann · May 31, 2020

I’ve read somewhere that a samurai who uses his sword is a lousy archer. Maybe he should have teamed up with sword guy.

Katheryne Helendale · May 31, 2020

Dakota Tebaldi said:
LOL guys it didn't even occur to me to look that hard, but looking at the video of Bow Guy again

He's holding that bow upside down.

Seriously, he's holding it by the sight window, you can see the actual grip handle above his hand

The grip handle is shaped like a literal pistol grip, how can you not know that's where you're supposed to be holding the bow

I'm dying

Stupid is as stupid does.

Innula Zenovka · May 31, 2020

Thread

Kamilah Hauptmann · Jun 1, 2020

Thread of some of the Goodest of Good Boys.

Beebo Brink · Jun 1, 2020

Makes me wonder if Chauvin makes a habit of beating up on people, including his wife. She's getting the hell out of Dodge while he's safely in jail.

Wife of Derek Chauvin, officer charged with murder in George Floyd's death, files for divorce

Kellie Chauvin's lawyer said she is "devastated" over Floyd's death.

www.cbsnews.com

Innula Zenovka · Jun 1, 2020

Some light relief

'Very Buckinghamshire': how 'society bible' Tatler fell out of royal favour

The Cambridges are thought to be taking legal action after the society magazine claimed the Duchess is ‘exhausted’, ‘trapped’ and – worst of all – ‘bland’

www.theguardian.com

The offending article

HRH The Duchess of Cambridge is crowned Catherine the Great on the July/August cover

The future Queen reigns on the cover of our bumper summer issue

www.tatler.com

Free · Jun 1, 2020

From Cambridge to all of Russia in one step. Impressive.

Innula Zenovka · Jun 1, 2020

Free said:
From Cambridge to all of Russia in one step. Impressive.

Don't mention the horse, though.

Innula Zenovka · Jun 1, 2020

Sovereignty · Jun 2, 2020

When Evidence Says No, But Doctors Say Yes

An article on how medical sausage is made.

ETA: Conversely one could talk about when evidence says yes, but doctors say no. This all falls under the topic of evidence-based medicine. Read that Wikipedia article only if you really don't want to think about riots and are thinking of a career as a medical historian--or are a medical student who goes around editing Wikipedia articles as a way of studying course material.