Sort your fucking life out, mate
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“I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homeopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault—you could not hit anything with it. One of our conductors practiced a while on a cow with it, and as long as she stood still and behaved herself she was safe; but as soon as she went to moving about, and he got to shooting at other things, she came to grief.”
Mark Twain
(via qsy-complains-a-lot)
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Josh Kirby cover art for Bob Shaw’s 1973 Tomorrow Lies in Ambush
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I do miss music videos like this.
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It’s very hard to care about ugly people. Looking at an ugly person is a BUMMER. Looking at an attractive person is great! Sometimes you can get an erection just by looking at an attractive person! What a gift an erection is! You can’t get an erection from looking at an ugly person! In fact, your current erection might disappear! Who knows when you’ll be able to get another one? It could be years! Before you know it, you’re crying and you start to think, ‘I can’t stop! I’m going to be crying for ever!’
All these emotions distract us from the story.
The Gift of Film
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The hero must refuse refreshments from a villain, lest the refreshments contain villainy.
The Grip of Film
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Colt Monitor R80 automatic machine rifle, early model
Designed by John M. Browning c.1917, manufactured under license by Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Co. c.1925~40′s - serial number C-103110.
.30-06 20-round removable box magazine, gas-operated select fire, Cutts Compensator muzzle break.
Although the US Army did not do much with the BAR after its brief use in WW1, both Colt and FN Herstal contributed to making it an extremely effective law enforcement firearm.
Cars were of a sturdier stock back when they were more valued than their occupants, and the only automatic firearm police forces had at the time -the Thompson submachine gun in .45ACP- could not reliably penetrate their flanks. However, with a lightened, shortened BAR, equipped with a muzzle brake and a pistol grip, the user could put a round through the engine block, the bad guy, his pocket watch and probably the rest of the car with ease.
At least one of these steel beasts was used by the posse that shot Bonnie and Clyde, where they proved extremely efficient. -
“Why does the third of the three brothers, who shares his food with the old woman in the wood, go on to become king of the country? Why does James Bond manage to disarm the nuclear bomb a few seconds before it goes off rather than, as it were, a few seconds afterwards? Because a universe where that did not happen would be a dark and hostile place. Let there be goblin hordes, let there be terrible environmental threats, let there be giant mutated slugs if you really must, but let there also be hope. It may be a grim, thin hope, an Arthurian sword at sunset, but let us know that we do not live in vain.”
— Terry Pratchett, “Let There Be Dragons” (A Slip of the Keyboard)
You know he’s not wrong.
A difference - one of them at least, from my rather dour viewpoint - between fiction and reality is that in fiction there are typically solutions. Sometimes they come at a high cost, sometimes they’re not what anyone expected, but problems do find solutions.
The real world is generally one thing leading to another worse thing and later triggering something terrible no-one saw coming. With occasional blurts of progress. Which make people cross.
But then I would say that.
(via ariellaskylark)
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Bruce Pennington