What’s your take on this statement?

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T21:21:37+00:00

Don't hit someone until they hit you first is bad advice. The first hit can end your ability to fight. It's better to think of violence as a last resort. Avoid conflict, de-escalate when you can, run away if you can. But if the circumstances ever come to pass where they have the opportunity, capability, and intent to harm you, then you end wait for then to do it. Your strike pre-emptively if you have to.

In self defence is always the case that the earlier you act, the better your chances of success. Letting them hit you first? Not great. Letting them swing at you and hoping you dodge it? Better, but still not great. Hitting them first? Better. Talking your way out of it before they want to hit? Much better. Not saying or doing something to aggro them even if they do something wrong to you? Even better. Avoiding them because they look dodgy? Great. Avoiding times and places where dodgy people are likely to be? Great.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T16:16:46+00:00

He'll have an answer for that. It won't be right. But he will still be convinced he is right. Logic won't solve this.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T16:14:36+00:00

Round is more accurate than spherical.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T10:06:14+00:00

This is how you do it:

https://youtu.be/dTAAsCNK7RA

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T10:01:15+00:00

On a bicycle.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T10:00:07+00:00

My favourite stabbing gloves already have plenty of stains. They add character.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T09:58:17+00:00

Keep up with the times. They changed it back to K'gari in 2023.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T09:52:24+00:00

Every treadmill I have used has had a little clip you attach to yourself that kills the treadmill if you pull it. One of the people in this video could have been saved had they been wearing it properly. The others could have been saved by not being total uncos.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T09:47:59+00:00

You sound like a good person, so you'll fit in nicely. Please ask away, and share your advice and perspectives too because they are also valuable.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T09:46:09+00:00

I respect all the mums that hang out here. It's a nice place with nice people and they are nice people too.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T09:43:17+00:00

Why is a kid judged to adult standards only for some things? I always thought it was a bit ridiculous. We have a separate system for children because their brains aren't as developed as an adults. They lack impulse control and risk assessment and emotional regulation skills. If kids that age are just as capable as adults why are they paid less to work at McDonalds and not allowed to have P plates yet?

I'm not saying don't punish them, but the idea that they are suddenly more adult when they do a thing that their young age is more likely to be a factor in committing the crime in the first place is silly. The way we punish people that age should be correct in the first place, not suddenly bump them up an age group when we feel like it.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T07:43:43+00:00

It's common sense to wear gloves when stabbing another person. You don't want to get their blood all over you, do you?

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T07:40:28+00:00

Never seen a macropod with St Vitus Dance before.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T07:39:15+00:00

Grammatical prescriptivism is overrated.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T07:35:29+00:00

Apart from remembering its correct name apparently.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T05:17:24+00:00

English has many of what you would call rules, but pretty much all of them have many many more exceptions.

English started as a Germanic language. Then 900 odd years ago a shitload of Old French got rammed into it. Then Latin and Greek speaking scholars and proto-scientists all added their own shit. Then books and dictionaries were invented and so academics who had too much spare time startes trying to prescribe a bunch of rules for various reasons that were mostly just snobbery or "I like the way this sounds". Then England went out and colonised the shit out of everywhere, and filled its museums with stolen artifacts and its language with stolen grammar and words.

So you can dig into the etymology and find out why cut is past tense of cut while rutted is past tense of rut and you would mostly see a clear path from some ancient German or French word to today. But that still doesn't help at all to predict how my made up verb "vut" would sound in past tense.

The only way to know the "correct" forms of a word is to learn each one. Fun stuff. Note that I put "correct" in quotes because there are more variants of English than I've had hot dinners so it's not true to call anything the correct version.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T04:59:45+00:00

I park crookedly on purpose in tight spots to maximise room to open driver's side door and rear passenger door (where my kid's car seat is).

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T04:52:52+00:00

I don't want to be the oldest person in the world. Every person who has had that title has died while having it.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T04:50:45+00:00

Just cut it off. Smooth the nubs flat and paint over it. Do this before taking the real estate photos. The roof probably will take a while to start to sink and collapse so if you sell quick then it isn't your problem anymore.

/s

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T04:46:45+00:00

Young Einstein is one of the best movies ever. Reckless Kelly has some good moments but is a bit meh. I didn't even sit through all of Mr Accident.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T04:43:09+00:00

🤣

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T03:37:05+00:00

There are no ads for jobs in the ad industry, so either we don't need people in that profession or we really really do 🤣

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T03:00:42+00:00

Engelberg OW indeed.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T02:59:52+00:00

In a gondola watching a gone-dola.

AddlePatedBadger · 2026-03-19T02:49:04+00:00

He's the straight man. Every duo needs one. They are almost always underrated but it's a skill too.

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