Time for another gun thread
Jul 28th 2015, 4:47 pm
#106
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Re: Time for another gun thread
Jul 28th 2015, 4:50 pm
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Re: Time for another gun thread
It's possible. But after so many years here the whole fear things has started to weigh heavily. It has just never happened to me anywhere else in the world that I'm driving along and then because I turn onto a certain street my passengers start locking their doors. .....
Mrs P is also "a door locker". 
In the case of my truck, as soon as I start to move, the doors would lock themselves anyway. The Mustang and the truck both release the locks when the interior handle is pulled. It's one of the few things I don't like about the Accord is that the doors have to be unlocked before the handle to open them works.
Jul 28th 2015, 4:56 pm
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Jul 28th 2015, 4:58 pm
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Re: Time for another gun thread
It's possible. But after so many years here the whole fear things has started to weigh heavily. It has just never happened to me anywhere else in the world that I'm driving along and then because I turn onto a certain street my passengers start locking their doors.
And no, the US most certainly does not have the monopoly on that - any time you want to waste a few hours of your life you can venture into the UKIP thread on TIO
No idea if UKIP people lock their car doors when they see immigrants though.
And no, the US most certainly does not have the monopoly on that - any time you want to waste a few hours of your life you can venture into the UKIP thread on TIO
No idea if UKIP people lock their car doors when they see immigrants though.
Jul 28th 2015, 5:02 pm
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Re: Time for another gun thread
This puppy should do it.
Free shipping!
Jul 28th 2015, 5:07 pm
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That is not universally true. America just does a good job of hiding a lot of its worst housing out of the sight of most people. Some US trailer parks I have seen are comparable with the worst housing I ever saw in the UK (the Gorbals), followed closely by Lewisham/New Cross.
Jul 28th 2015, 5:22 pm
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That is not universally true. America just does a good job of hiding a lot of its worst housing out of the sight of most people. Some US trailer parks I have seen are comparable with the worst housing I ever saw in the UK (the Gorbals), followed closely by Lewisham/New Cross.
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Jul 28th 2015, 5:57 pm
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Re: Time for another gun thread
When I get in the car, I lock the doors. Immediately. I always have, when I lived in the UK, and now here. It is a reflex, I am hardly aware I do it, and if Mrs P isn't getting in at exactly the same time, or before me, I have been known to lock her out. Mrs P is also "a door locker".
In the case of my truck, as soon as I start to move, the doors would lock themselves anyway. The Mustang and the truck both release the locks when the interior handle is pulled. It's one of the few things I don't like about the Accord is that the doors have to be unlocked before the handle to open them works.
Mrs P is also "a door locker". In the case of my truck, as soon as I start to move, the doors would lock themselves anyway. The Mustang and the truck both release the locks when the interior handle is pulled. It's one of the few things I don't like about the Accord is that the doors have to be unlocked before the handle to open them works.
What is everyone afraid of, exactly?
Apart from those who own cars where the doors fly open of their own accord I mean.
Jul 28th 2015, 5:59 pm
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Re: Time for another gun thread
Jul 28th 2015, 6:04 pm
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Jul 28th 2015, 6:13 pm
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Re: Time for another gun thread
It would not be a good thing for the doors to fly open due to a crash. You want to have as much protection as possible, and the doors are part of the crash protection.
Jul 28th 2015, 6:15 pm
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Re: Time for another gun thread
Jul 28th 2015, 6:28 pm
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Jul 28th 2015, 7:03 pm
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Re: Time for another gun thread
Meanwhile, back to the cars.
Money pit, anyone? It's in Arkansas.
http://www.triumphexp.com/registry/p..._Moore_000.jpg
Money pit, anyone? It's in Arkansas.
http://www.triumphexp.com/registry/p..._Moore_000.jpg
Hang on this isn't the car thread. Actually it is a good demonstration of how the gun debate always gets hijacked.