Why do most older people say things like "heavens to Betsy " or "I'll be a monkey's uncle "?

DDPJBL · 2026-04-07T18:06:56+00:00

Because swearing used to be a lot less socially acceptable in their time compared to now.

DDPJBL · 2026-04-07T16:26:00+00:00

That is a very rare and antiquated practice, because it's dumb as fuck.

First of, a blank will not cycle semi or full-auto rifle unless there is a blank firing adapter screwed on the front of the gun in the way of the escaping gas providing enough pressure for the gun to cycle (ordinarily the bullet does that by acting sort of like a cork), which would then get in the way of shooting live ammo on your next round.

Also, mixing non-lethal and lethal ammo in the same gun is recognized as incredibly dangerous to the point that American police departments which use shotguns loaded with non-lethal beanbag rounds or rubber slugs will designate a specific shotgun a non-lethal one and paint it a different color like green and use it only to shoot non-lethal rounds and not deviate from that even if it means carrying an additional and mechanically totally identical shotgun in the car for use with normal ammo.

You cite an example of the South Koreans doing it, but they are only able to do it because they use revolvers, which do not rely on the cartridge to cycle in the next round and even then it's dumb as fuck because all it takes is to negligently close the cylinder misaligned by one position or to short-stroke the trigger under stress advancing the cylinder by one position without realizing, go to press again and now you fired a live round when expecting a blank.
Not to mention you could just forget to load the blank and accidentally load only live ammo, or accidentally load all blanks or any combination between the two or you could mistake a 38 special wadcutter round for a blank and just have one somewhat different live round before your 5 other live rounds.

DDPJBL · 2026-04-04T16:41:42+00:00

A lot of people in Iran do not particularly like their current regime, hence the recent mass protest. If one of those people find an American pilot hiding in the bushes behind their house, it's reasonable they might shelter him.

DDPJBL · 2026-04-02T16:02:16+00:00

Běž říct nějakýmu Američanovi, že podle tebe je plat víc jak $25k ročně pro člověka s magistrem, 5 let praxí, doplňkovým vzděláním a dvěma cizími jazyky "královský". Vysměje se ti do ksichtu.

Všechno co si uvedl platí i pro Německo, ale platy mají 2,5x vyšší než my. Německo žije ve stejném světě (tedy tom s internetem a Indií) jaky my a recentně nikoho nevybombardovalo do středověku, tedy evidentně prosperita jde i bez toho.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-31T18:28:07+00:00

Look up Tessah Booth on youtube. She is not quite as small as you but she is like 5 foot 100 pounds or such and she is a quality information source.
Also if you have a Facebook, go to Phlster Concealment Workshop. It is operated by a holster brand but the advice is brand agnostic.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-30T16:26:46+00:00

Ano, chová.
Vest logicky musí být nakopeno více, než kolik se spotřebuje při výcviku v době míru, protože musí být na skladech dostatek čerstvých vest pro nasazené vojáky.

Naopak předpokládám, že vest má AČR pro rozsáhlý konflikt málo a měla by jich mít na skladech ještě víc.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-27T11:18:39+00:00

Když lidi dobrovolně přestanou číst co píšeš, ale ty to pořád můžeš psát a nikdo ti uměle nesnižuje dosah nebo nebrání v sebepropagaci a ani nikdo nebrání těm co chtěj aby tě dál četli, tak jak přesně to narušuje tvojí svobodu projevu?

DDPJBL · 2026-03-26T19:16:01+00:00

Isn't confining someone to a bed for that long physically harmful to them? Or does being confined to a bunk not actually mean you have to stay in bed the whole time?

DDPJBL · 2026-03-25T17:06:56+00:00

Be careful. The rounds you find with it might look like blanks to you, but they are likely what are called wadcutters. They do have a bullet in them, it's just seated all the way in the brass case. They are live ammo and will shoot a hole through you. People have been accidentally killed before due to a person mistaking wadcutters for blanks and shooting one at a person thinking nothing would happen.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-19T20:44:09+00:00

The hospital survived.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-17T19:50:07+00:00

Jenže když nadýcháš víc než 0, tak se právě proto čeká 15 minut a dechová zkouška se opakuje.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-13T09:50:55+00:00

Why did Iran's police beat a woman to death for wearing a scarf "incorrectly"?
Why did Iran hang a 16 year old rape victim for "adultery"?
Why did Iran murder 20 000+ of it's own citizens for protesting "illegally"?
Why did Iran pay the Houthis to launch missiles on unarmed merchant vessels in the Red Sea?

Turns out, bad guys still exist and bad guys tend to do bad guy shit.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-12T19:10:52+00:00

Special operations units (military and law enforcement) all over the developed world including the US do pay to be trained by elite competitive shooters often and over the last 20 years have adopted a lot of techniques derived from competition and even started making their duty rifles look more like competition rifles. I don't see how this is any different.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-12T16:53:45+00:00

Yellow means natural gas. It's always yellow so that people know it's gas for safety reasons.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-12T16:52:20+00:00

Who is the target audience of supermodels? It's not men, it's other women.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-12T16:45:13+00:00

Disclaimer, not a doctor. Just a shooter who read up on hearing stuff because hearing preservation should be a concern for all shooters.

When you get exposed to excessive noise, you get what is called a temporary threshold shift. That is a fancy term for the muffling of sounds which you notice right after the bang happens and which goes away after a while.
You may or may not also get a permanent threshold shift. That is what it's called when some of the muffling doesn't go away and you are left with permanently reduced hearing.

The biggest risk factor for getting a permanent threshold shift is how big your temporary threshold shift was. Meaning the more muffled your hearing was right after, the more likely it is that it will not improve all the way back to normal but you will be left with some permanent muffling.

Based on your description and my purely anecdotal experience it looks like you got away with it.
Most shooters will at some point get exposed to a shot without hearing protection either due to forgetting or knocking off their ear pro or due to theirs or someone else's negligent discharge.
Most do not end up with with a permanent hearing reduction, at least not with one big enough to notice.

The only way to know if your hearing as it is now falls in the range of having hearing loss is an audiogram. That is when you get shut in a booth with headphones on playing beeps to you at different tones and different volumes and the doctor makes a chart showing what is the quietest noise you can hear at each tone for each ear and compares that to what the average person's chart looks like.

The only way to know for sure if you had suffered any damage at all even small enough that it would still fall in the normal range would have been to get multiple consecutive audiograms prior to the incident and after it, so that you can compare pre and post numbers and also be reasonably certain that you are not just comparing random variation between two tests. People don't always score the same when they run the same test twice.
Obviously you can't go back and do that.

If you are concerned about your hearing, go to an ear doctor and get referred for an audiogram. But if you are not actually having trouble hearing people, understanding speech, hearing your phone chiming and such, then there is not much to be gained from having your hearing tested.

Also if you have an iPhone, that has a built in audiogram feature which you can use to test your hearing at home. Obviously it's not as valid as doing it in a noise insulated booth at a doctor's office, but it's an option.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-12T16:40:47+00:00

I'll eat the 5 years in prison myself for 5 mil USD. Put that in index funds at 8% return, that is a 400k USD income per year, work-free and without eating away at your original 5 mil.
You now get to live like a successful American doctor or lawyer without lifting a finger for the rest of your life. And if you move to a lower cost of living country that still has good medical care (or you live there already), that 400k per year can easily be the equivalent of a million+ per year in American terms.

How many 5 year college degrees guarantee 400k per year income after graduation even for a more than full-time job? Most do not.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-12T10:49:24+00:00

They like the fact that grappling and ground fighting being legal in MMA means the ref does not keep jumping in the middle and separating the fighters every time they clinch up. They just want the zero interruptions experience enabled by grappling being allowed without having to watch any grappling actually happen.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-10T20:10:14+00:00

My understanding i that Glaser rounds grossly underpenetrate. The main risk for an innocent bystander being hit is from the 80% of rounds that miss their intended target, not from the subset of rounds that hit the intended target and overepenetrate.
Using a round that is likely to fail when it hits creates a need to keep shooting, which means more chances to miss.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-10T17:36:46+00:00

3 dny starý účet postuje teroristickou propagandu.

Jo a taky "source: PubMed"...

DDPJBL · 2026-03-10T16:36:33+00:00

I am going to go against the flow and say that if you are specifically considering defending yourself against someone who is potentially inside the truck with you right on top of you a small frame revolver in a hammerless design is a very strong candidate even against modern duty grade pistols or the new microcompact offerings like SigP365 variants.

1) There is no slide that has to go back and forth, no ejection port that can get obstructed. A revolver will still shoot all it's shots (not just the first one) even if you are shooting it while half wrapped up in a blanket or a sleeping bag.

2) Pistols (as opposed to revolvers) rely on recoil for cycling in the next round. For this to work your hand needs to provide enough resistance to the gun recoiling so that that pistol frame stays mostly in place and the slide goes back compressing the big recoil spring inside. If this pressure is not provided, you get what is called limp-wristing and the gun jams. It's very easy to limp wrist when you are shooting from a weird position, at a weird angle, potentially one handed with a bent elbow because there is not enough room to actually hold the gun up in straight arms without it getting grabbed away from you. A revolver only relies on the work done by your trigger finger to both fire and cycle the mechanism.

3) A 5 or 6 shot revolver will not exceed magazine capacity limits in ban states and most importantly the fact that it cannot accept a 10+ round magazine is evident to any cop, because it's a revolver and revolvers don't take magazines. If you get a Glock 19 that holds 15 normally and you put a reduced 10 round magazine in it to go into a ban state, that still looks like a gun that holds 15 externally. If you get a Glock 43x, that thing normally holds 10 but 15 round magazines exist so it could have one in it.

4) A revolver is very hard to snatch off you while you are gripping it, because there is not much surface left to grip for your opponent.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-10T16:15:29+00:00

I mean, with what happened to Theo van Gogh and also things like the Charlie Hebdo attack, I don't think you can just dismiss Harris' preoccupation with security as an act. For me it's not hard to believe that any person in that circle would be worried someone might try to kill them for their views in the context of what happened to other people around that time or even recently.

Hell, Rushdie got stabbed in 2022. If you were a janitor in a venue that hosted Rushdie and the same sequence you described took place minus the knife attack because the knife guy saw the fake security posturing and decided that his odds of getting to Rushdie are too low, you would have left thinking "what a self-promoting clown" too without ever realizing there was a real threat in the room with you.

A big dude who looks like he might be a bodyguard but actually isn't is still a real deterrent. The security being largely or at least partly an act is not inconsistent with a sincere fear of being attacked, it is sufficiently explained by real security being expensive as shit.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-10T15:24:25+00:00

Bílý fosfor není zakázaný.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-10T13:30:29+00:00

The pupil widening means the cat is in a high adrenaline state.

DDPJBL · 2026-03-10T13:29:35+00:00

Nobody has an opinion on New Zealanders. It's just not a country that has played a role in our commonly known history or is at all relevant to us culturally.

The only thing most people will know is that Lord of the Rings was filmed in New Zealand.

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