Unnecessarily cruel

We can ask some russian citizens if they’re available. Until that opportunity presents itself, we’ll have to make do with whatever information we can access and read it with a good dose of skepticism.

Just this morning, I was looking at a tv screen when it was announced a new study had concluded nearly 68% of russians still lament the disband of the soviet union.

Propaganda as it is, even if we cut those numbers by two thirds, it’s still too many people longing by one of the most brutal totalitarian regimes that has ever existed.

As a side note: I worked for some time with a company that imported machinery from Ukraine and Belarus, in the 2000’s, and I saw the amount of graffiti with USSR simbology that was plastered on the crates. Some people don’t allow it to just shrivel and die silently.

This isn’t to say the USSR did not created good things.

I worked with a fellow from Romania and he was appalled with how bad by comparison my country’s public health care system was.

But the numbers tally a grimm story of the USSR and the wrongs vastly outnumber the rights.

I do not believe there is no other way to make use of those bananas.

So… I see a soap dispenser, a really fat rabbit, a weird vaccuum cleaner and a couple of silly putty figurines.

What am I supposed to be looking at?

That logic is completely adultered.

There is a very small percentage of individuals that take for themselves and control resources they have no need for.

Eliminate that and 90% of the problem is solved.

And what is stopping people to adopt? Pride? Or perhaps an overzealous system?

If you are unable to love a human being you conceived unconditionally, don’t have a child.

A visible weapon generates discomfort. Unless on a police agent, nobody likes to see a gun here. It’s a threat. Hence the default for concealed carry.

This just happened. Could not ask for better.

And now, for the obligatory drivel:

I live in one of the countries where more guns are owned and kept by civilians in Europe and the times I’ve seen one, it was on a police officer belt or on a museum.

Portugal (I was surprised when I learned this) has a lot of guns in civilian hands, mostly small handguns and hunting rifles, mostly shotguns and carabines.

The average hunter - I live in a somewhat rural area - stores guns empty, with trigger locks in place. And having more than one gun requires a gun safe, that is routinely inspected by police. Handguns have to be stored in lock boxes or safes unloaded. Ammunition must be stored separately and outside a minimal range of the guns.

Secret storage compartments are forbidden. Open carry is forbidden. Concealed carry is mostly standard here but manifesting it, with no reason, is a serious crime.

Gun violence is not rampant here, regardless what sensationalist news outlets and social networks desinformation campaigns try to do.

Most people never see a gun their entire life and if confronted with one will instantly call the police for safe removal.

So… I appreciate this kind of topic but it always strikes me as unnecessary for the average reality.

Quack!

Done and in the process it even fixed the hardware clock.

“I’ll show you mine, if you show me yours.”

Innuendo is nice.

Works for everyone, good mix of cheeky and bold, while not being too graphical and leaves room for escape routes.

I was the recipient of this one in my teens and it snapped into reality very quick.

Yes, I was that oblivious.

Now this is some good sound advice.

Past mistakes can’t be undone. Diferent time, diferent people, diferent way of thinking. I’m on that boat - pun intended - with you. My country started the trans-oceanic slave trade. A lot of bad juju on my ancestors tally, there.

What I do enjoy is joking with the way my country chose to settle on new lands. Most opted for iron and gunpowder, we opted for the go forth and multiply approach. The dutch were thwarted to invade Brazil because the people living there claimed Portuguese descent.

You guys could have chosen a different way to settle in those lands besides going all crazy for gold and wiping out the Aztecs in the process.

While you were doing that, my country was shipping off boats full of horny guys to fuck into existence our own settlements.

Make love, not war!

There was once a version of this comic as a risqué meme

Shit… I’ve been a tech worker all this time? Because except for the gun part, that’s me. But I prefer heavy solid objects to deliver destruction onto appliances.

Going to risk garlic bread pre-dates sliced bread. And lost again!

Don’t know and don’t care; looks fluffy and cute.

Nonetheless, I must ask: who, where, when and how?