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British Expats (https://britishexpats.com/forum/)
-   The Trailer Park (https://britishexpats.com/forum/trailer-park-96/)
-   -   Time for another gun thread (https://britishexpats.com/forum/trailer-park-96/time-another-gun-thread-862508/)

RoadWarriorFromLP Jul 28th 2015 4:47 am
Re: Time for another gun thread
 
Originally Posted by Lion in Winter (Post 11710253)
I wasn't referring to paranoid gun nuts. Or even normal gun nuts. That's just one extreme. I am referring to unarmed people who don't own guns for the most part just going about their normal business.
I know. And I think that you overreached with that.

Pulaski Jul 28th 2015 4:50 am
Re: Time for another gun thread
 
Originally Posted by Lion in Winter (Post 11710174)
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. .....
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. :o Mrs P is also "a door locker". :nod:

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.

SultanOfSwing Jul 28th 2015 4:56 am
Re: Time for another gun thread
 
Originally Posted by RoadWarriorFromLP (Post 11710252)
I recall walking through Belfast and being a bit astonished to see that the armored vehicle waiting at the red light was, in fact, a cop car.
Ah yes, the good old Police Land Rover ...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8373/8...60d93cec_b.jpg

kimilseung Jul 28th 2015 4:58 am
Re: Time for another gun thread
 
Originally Posted by Lion in Winter (Post 11710174)
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:blink: No idea if UKIP people lock their car doors when they see immigrants though.
We come to America with the cultural baggage that the world has hoisted upon us, and that might have been me, being paranoid, if my first job wasn't working in what is considered the dodgiest area of town, working with local youth. So now I think that the Lumpenproletariat, and such neighbourhoods of both US and UK have so much in common, with the exception of guns. The dodgy youth of America, remind so much of the scallies of Liverpool. Except the housing in American dodgy areas is so much better.

scrubbedexpat099 Jul 28th 2015 5:02 am
Re: Time for another gun thread
 
http://images.kygunco.com/AK_Revolut...olution_30.jpg

This puppy should do it.

Free shipping!

Pulaski Jul 28th 2015 5:07 am
Re: Time for another gun thread
 
Originally Posted by kimilseung (Post 11710271)
...... Except the housing in American dodgy areas is so much better.
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.

kimilseung Jul 28th 2015 5:22 am
Re: Time for another gun thread
 
Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 11710281)
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.
I am being a bit Seattlecentric and matching public housing for public housing (which doesnt really match up for social level). Here the public housing is a bit good. But yes the private sector has some crap, but very little trailer housing here.

Lion in Winter Jul 28th 2015 5:57 am
Re: Time for another gun thread
 
Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 11710260)
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. :o Mrs P is also "a door locker". :nod:

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.
Must just be me that likes to live dangerously then :blink:

What is everyone afraid of, exactly?

Apart from those who own cars where the doors fly open of their own accord I mean.

Lion in Winter Jul 28th 2015 5:59 am
Re: Time for another gun thread
 
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 11710269)
Ah yes, the good old Police Land Rover ...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8373/8...60d93cec_b.jpg
Not exactly Dixon of Dock Green, is it.

SultanOfSwing Jul 28th 2015 6:04 am
Re: Time for another gun thread
 
Originally Posted by Lion in Winter (Post 11710334)
Not exactly Dixon of Dock Green, is it.
You get used to them after a while. I suppose, from the perspective of the rozzers, when you're getting petrol bombs thrown at you, you don't want to be getting into a Vauxhall Astra.

RoadWarriorFromLP Jul 28th 2015 6:13 am
Re: Time for another gun thread
 
Originally Posted by Lion in Winter (Post 11710331)
Must just be me that likes to live dangerously then :blink:

What is everyone afraid of, exactly?

Apart from those who own cars where the doors fly open of their own accord I mean.
My German car locks the door automatically once the car has been in motion for a bit.

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.

RoadWarriorFromLP Jul 28th 2015 6:15 am
Re: Time for another gun thread
 
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 11710269)
Ah yes, the good old Police Land Rover ...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8373/8...60d93cec_b.jpg
The coating of rust is lovely. Do they not have anyone on the payroll to maintain them?

SultanOfSwing Jul 28th 2015 6:28 am
Re: Time for another gun thread
 
Originally Posted by RoadWarriorFromLP (Post 11710344)
The coating of rust is lovely. Do they not have anyone on the payroll to maintain them?
Not much point in maintaining the paint job, it's only going to end up having bricks thrown at it anyway.

Pulaski Jul 28th 2015 6:41 am
Re: Time for another gun thread
 
Meanwhile, back to the cars. :nod:

Money pit, anyone? It's in Arkansas.

http://www.triumphexp.com/registry/p..._Moore_000.jpg

sir_eccles Jul 28th 2015 7:03 am
Re: Time for another gun thread
 
Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 11710363)
Meanwhile, back to the cars. :nod:

Money pit, anyone? It's in Arkansas.

http://www.triumphexp.com/registry/p..._Moore_000.jpg
The wire wheels might be worth something.

Hang on this isn't the car thread. Actually it is a good demonstration of how the gun debate always gets hijacked.


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