Posts by Sam F
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Predictable responses in the Herald letters page today - many along the lines of "where were the parents?" and how if the Camerons had dobbed their son in for tagging this unpleasantness needn't have come to pass.
I think I was most disgusted by one response to Pihema's mum saying she was "brutalised" by the killing: "What about all the people who have been brutalised by coming home and seeing her son's tag?"
Christ.
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That's a really thoughtful post there, Webster - thanks. It's a bit early in the morning for me to comment cogently but I'll try later on. Certainly it wasn't hard to predict that heads would literally roll when the scandal broke internationally.
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After Kracklite and I gave you that opening
Too much information for me, thanks. :P
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It was going in all sorts of exciting directions, but looks like this thread just rolled over and went to sleep before 10pm. How romantic...
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Should be more like Chindispanol by the numbers, or so The Great Wiki would have us believe.
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In stitches right now.
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Erm... I realise my accidental building of strawmen hasn't contributed that much to this thread, but looks like it's now gone from an enticing donkey's breakfast to a major fire hazard, and I'm out...
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Green before meat
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I'll get my coat.Oh you!
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Sad to say, but we have the technology.
The BLU-24/B "Orange" was a small air-dispensed anti-personnel fragmentation bomblet. It was centrifugally armed (by the spin induced after release from the dispenser) and fired when the spin decayed below a certain threshold. When dropped over dense jungle arreas, this arming and firing sequence ensured that the bomblets would detonate between the forest canopy and the ground.
Even more sad to say, kids in Third World nations regularly suffer the consequences of playing ball games with unexploded spin-to-arm munitions.
/depressingrealitycheck
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That's what my past is for, making people laugh.
Point taken. Sorry again :(