Hollowpoint bullets turned into flowers. This was done by firearm expert Andrew Tuohy. Tuohy runs a blog called Vuurwapen (the Dutch word for firearm), where he provides photos, videos and accounts of testing various gun-related gear. During one such test, Tuohy was left with jacketed hollow point bullets that resembled flowers. He even put gemstones in some of them. (Article)
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Okay no. This shit is so fucking satisfying. I can not tell you the joy it brings me when an underage kid tries to buy GTA and when I tell them they need a parent, they go get said parent, and then I say “hey, this game is rated M for these reasons” AND THE PARENTS GET SO APPALLED AND SAY “NO WAY YOU ARE NOT GETTING THAT GAME.” And the look of hatred the kids give me is so raw and pure it gives me fucking life. Damn I miss GameStop.
Keeping online matches safe from annoying 13 year olds.
OKAY FRIENDS SINCE YOU LIKE HEARING ABOUT 13 YEAR OLDS GETTING OWNED LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT ONE OF MY GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR AS AN EMPLOYEE OF GAMESTOP.
It was spring 2014, early in the week. Pretty sure it was a Tuesday, but it’s been awhile. It was so dead in our store, I hadn’t seen anyone in over 40 minutes. Eventually, in comes this mom and we start chatting. She said she was here to buy her son a game he wanted, Grand Theft Auto 5, and could I help her find it?
Now, I’m sure many of you are aware how awful Grand Theft Auto 5 is in terms of violence, gore, and sexism. But in case you don’t, the Grand Theft Auto series has always been one of the most violent series that you can buy in stores. The very first GTA was banned in Brazil and condemned in several countries, GTA 5 has a graphic torture scene that is player initiated. GTA: San Andreas had the Hot Coffee scandal which happened in 2004 when modders found unused code in the game for a sex minigame that was player controlled. And that’s only the beginning of the controversies surrounding the GTA series (click here to read more! X X X X X X X )
Anyways, back to me and the Mom. Who will now be referred to as Mom because she is that awesome. Since I was behind the counter I pulled a copy of GTA 5 from backstock and started ringing her up while making polite chitchat, the usual cashier stuff. But everything changed when I asked for her ID because of the M rating. At first Mom replied, “Oh sure thing let me grab it.” And started digging in her purse. But then what I said registered with her and she paused and looked at me.
"M rating? What does that mean?"
"Oh GTA 5 is rated M for violence, gore, bad language, and other stuff". I won’t bore you with the whole spiel I go into when I’m asked about the M rating but basically I just explain why the game is rated M, what the M rating means, and that they can go on ESRB.org to see why it got that rating.
So I tell Mom about the website and she whips out her cell phone and gets on the site and starts reading. And she got MAD. She starts telling me about how her son knows she doesn’t like this sort of game and how he is going to be in so much trouble because he knows better than to ask for this sort of thing as she doesn’t tolerate this in her house. And he is so grounded for thinking he could get away with this. Then, Mom looked me in the eye and asked me to look up several other games for her to see if he’d done this with any other games.
"Yea sure thing, which games would you like me to look up?"
"Bioshock 2."
"I can already tell you without looking that Bioshock 2 is rated M."
"MY CHILD IS SO GROUNDED FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR. What about the first Bioshock?"
"Yep, that’s also rated M."
"OH MY GOSH, what about Gears of War?"
"That entire series is rated M."
To spare y’all from another 10 rounds of that, basically take every popular M rated title from the last 5 years and insert them in the above dialogue.
Eventually, Mom says “Oh my gosh, you must think me a horrible parent. I can’t believe I let him have those games.”
"Ma’am, I don’t think that at all. The fact that you’re concerned about this tells me that you are a good parent. And just so you know instead of throwing out those games you’re more than welcome to trade them in here and get some store credit or cash back for them."
"Really? I’ll have to do that, I don’t want him playing those games anymore."
"Yea, we also take gaming consoles, iphones, and tablets too!"
"Oh that’s wonderful! Thank you for being so patient with me and telling me all about this. I’m going home and to go through his gaming collection right now!"
And off she went, leaving me bored till I finally got to leave for the night.
BUT THAT’S NOT THE END. THIS IS WHEN SHIT GETS AWESOME.
The next day I’m working again, bored out of my goddamn mind. There’s only so many times you can alphabetize the store before going insane. As I’m looking out the window I see a car pull up and Mom hops out and then pulls out two huge duffel bags and walks in.
"Hey welcome back to Gamestop! What can I help you with!"
"Oh I’m so glad you’re here! So last night I went through my son’s game collection and most of them are rated M! So I decided to teach him a lesson about why you don’t lie to your mother. Seeing as I bought him these consoles and most of the games were bought with my money, his game consoles and games actually belong to me. Therefore, I would like to trade in all this." And proceeds to pull out his XBox 360, PS3, and every game he had for both consoles (over 50!) as well all the extra controllers and headsets he had.
"Are you sure?"
"Absolutely." I will never forget her smile when she said this nor the look in her eye. This is not a woman to be crossed.
So I traded everything in and she got back over $300 in store credit for everything. And with it she bought a Wii, a couple extra controllers, and a couple games rated E. Then she looked me in the eye and asked if we had any extra boxes laying around for the XBox One and if so could she have one?
"Are you going to put the Wii in it and give it to him?"
"Yes. Along with a note saying that this is what happens when you abuse the trust of your mother. I’m going to make sure this never happens again." It is at this point that Mom ascended to God Tier status with all Gamestop employees falling to their knees for a chance to bask in her glory.
I got her an XBox One box and sent her on her way after asking her to take the survey on the receipt.
"Oh of course dear, you’ve been such a big help. Let me write down your name so I don’t forget it."
"Of course! I’m Lexi, but if your son asks my name is Deegan." (Deegan was my store’s manager at the time.
And then she left, leaving me with the best trade numbers of the month and the greatest story I’ll likely ever be apart of at GameStop. Mom, I never got your name, but you are my personal Gamestop Hero.
BOOM HEADSHOT MEGA KILL
no cough syrup
you are not ‘grape flavoured’
have you ever tasted a grape
you taste like death and the tears of small children
not fucking grape
wow what a surprise another cis-gendered white upper-middle class american male telling someone what they can and cannot identify as. why don’t you go fuck yourself
He’s 22 now
Nice
I never minded the taste of grape cough medicine. It was the BUCKLEYS I dreaded. Gag.
What the fuck is this bullshit and why was it recommended for me?
It’s not like men are involved in the creation of the baby or anything.
I mean shit, I understand that pregnancy is an extremely strenuous thing on the woman, but that doesn’t mean that a dude can’t be proud of the fact that he’s going to be a father.
Hmm. Weird how someone would want to be considered a part of the pregnancy… There goes all of my respect for Mila Kunis.
My goodness, women like this have some fucking nerve. Good luck Ashton.
Please stop.
Pregnancy is a very dangerous time for cis-women. Until cis-men are capable of nine months of pain without the ability to take painkillers, followed by hours of one of the most painful experiences a human can undergo, I agree with Mila Kunis. It is your child. Not your pregnancy. You don’t get a fucking medal for sticking your dick inside someone and impregnating them, you get a child. So no, you don’t need a fucking spotlight highlighting your months of work and pain and the fact that you can potentially die trying to bring life into the world when you have not undergone any of the physical effort.
Things you can expect during pregnancy: Anemia, urinary tract infections, constipation, mental health conditions including intense depression, hyperemesis gravidarm (basically when persistent vomiting is more than just morning sickness and requires hospitalization). Not to mention there are dozens of infections that can cause serious problems. (x) (x)
Oh and the fact that 20% of pregnancies end in miscarriages which obviously requires hospitalization for the pregnant woman and causes a lot of emotional trauma.
Or that you can’t consume alcohol, most types of fish, you can’t expose yourself to hot water (or any heat, really), or get an x-ray. You cannot eat lunch meats, raw sprouts (radishes, alfalfa, etc.), soft cheeses, anything unpasteurized is out, as are foods with raw or undercooked eggs. And caffeine can lead to miscarriages, so say goodbye to coffee, teas, and chocolate. (x) (x) (x)
About 2 million pregnancy losses occur annually in the U.S.; 6 million babies are born. 25% of pregnancies are lost.
14.5% of pregnant women will experience at least one pregnancy complication.
11% of women are diagnosed with post partum depression.
(x)
800 women die because of pregnancy-related problems in the U.S. annually. (x)
Labor can last for 36 hours or more. You’re in a room full of strangers, who are all seeing your vagina, your blood, your shit, your piss, and your agony. It’s common for tearing to occur during the delivery (x) and after the baby is born you still have to deliver the placenta (essentially an organ).
Pregnancy is terrifying, dangerous, and uncomfortable. None of you have the right to shit on Mila Kunis for telling the truth: You do not deserve the spotlight of your wife’s pregnancy. So get over yourselves. Yes, the father CAN be proud, and he should be. But it’s not his pregnancy. He is not the one who will endure it.
It is not weird that someone would want to be involved in their wife’s pregnancy. It is weird that you have the fucking nerve to lose respect for someone reminding you that the father is not the pregnant one in the picture.
So please, stop.
Today in male entitlement: now women ”have some nerve” if they remind men that they are not, in fact, the pregnant ones.
IVE BEEING SAYING THIS SINCE I KNEW WHAT PREGNANCY IS
I feel bad for anyone who has to associate themselves with men like those above
YOU ARE NOT PREGNANT. IF YOU WERE PREGNANT WE WOULD HAVE DRIVE-BY ABORTIONS FOR YA’LL
"She/he is pregnant with our baby" works yo
What the hell was the point of all this?
Does it really fucking matter if it’s a guy that says “My wife and I are gonna have a baby”?
Does it?
Could someone tell me if it does?
It offends feminists. Worse yet it makes men look relevant and that REALLY offends feminists.
Please stop offending the feminists or the terrorists win.
God I hope I actually encounter this shit in real life, hearing a feminist tell some guy that no HE and his wife are not having a baby, just so I can jump in and piss her off by congratulating him on being free and clear.
Ya know, I just love how feminazi twatwaffles shit not just all over men, but single mothers in this mentality. I wonder how many women would KILL to have a responsible, loving, caring husband (or hell, even a wife with the same mindset) that will be there to care for them while their body recovers, and to provide the economic means to support the family while the mother is, oh i dunno, TENDING TO THE NEW LIFE. I wager the reason most mature women are happy to hear the 'other half' say 'we are having a baby' is the other half professing to be there through the mother's most difficult time.
You know circumcision actually helps keep you more healthy? My friend got circumcised in middle school for that reason. Also most women (or gay men) find circumcised penises more attractive. I don't really see much of a problem.
"helps keep you more healthy"
That statement is so vague it’s worthless. The only reason someone would need to get circumcised is if they had some kind of complication. Even then, circumcision isn’t always the only option.
Besides all that, you’re still wrong:
And only in the US do people find circumcised dicks “more” attractive. In pretty much all of the EU, being uncircumcised is the norm, and that’s what’s considered attractive.
But people finding circumcised penises “more attractive” still doesn’t justify it.
IT KINDA DOES KEEP YOU MORE HEALTHY, LET ME EXPLAIN!
i was watching a documentary about this guy going to different countries to find comedians and he went to South Africa. Turns out he used his comedy to spread a awareness on social issues, in this case AIDS. You know what he said? Being CIRCUMCISED DECREASED A MANS RISK OF CONTRACTING AIDS. ( Its true! Thats why the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, have agreed to begin funding circumcision procedures in Africa as a method of AIDS prevention.) And he really got some guys to get circumcised, it was crazy.
So if you have a son, consider circumcision.
No it doesn’t.
If you’re so fucking worried about getting AIDS, maybe you should wear a damn condom instead. It’s a fuckton more effective than getting circumcised.
I often say very mean things to everyone at once, and I very rarely target specific thought groups, but, honestly, if you seriously think that making baby boys get circumcisions is a better fucking strategy for HIV prevention than condoms, I honestly hope you fucking die in a fire. Like, I’ll sit there with popcorn and watch.
And I will throw gasoline on the blaze.
lejacquelope, that’s too much. I’m promoting inactivisim, what you just said was contributing to manslaughter.
Who cares about stupid people? They’re committing manslaughter by contributing to the gene pool.
That’s not manslaughter, that’s evolution in action. I care about them because they make my life very fucking difficult on a daily basis.
Humans have been interfering with natural selection for too long, making this world safer for idiots. I’m against that.
Oh goody. I always love an opportunity to give one of my people aren’t special rants :)
So, here you go.
People aren’t special. We aren’t divine, we haven’t “evolved upwards”, we don’t exist in a special place in the universe.
We’re mostly carbon, nitrogen, and water, with some bits of other stuff thrown in for flavor.
There are no souls, there is no god watching over us, directing this or that or whatever.
Those thoughts you’re having right now? They’re simply the result of patterns of neural firing in your brain. By neurons. Which are just cells, which are constructed of the same shit as a tree or a mountain or a starfish. aka, atoms.
We aren’t the guardians of the galaxy, and the galaxy doesn’t guard us. That computer that you’re reading this on? That object is as natural as an anthill.
WE ARE NATURAL.
We’re just animals. We’re not the only animals that wear clothes, we aren’t the only ones that use tools, we aren’t the only ones with emotions, bla bla bla. That whole “natural selection” thing? There’s no other sort of selection. We make medicine? That’s the same thing that lots of organisms, some of them being what you would no doubt call “primitive” or “less evolved”, do when their bodies produce natural toxins that kill microorganisms. You know, we’re not even the first creatures on earth to travel to outer space. To the moon. To another fucking planet. No, that honor goes to a MUCH “less evolved” form of life known as bacteria.
I don’t know why I felt the need to do that. I just enjoy it sometimes. the point is, our tinkering with the ‘natural order’ is, in fact, PART of it. We’re all made of stars, when you get right down to it. From the dinkiest virus to that ridiculously tall basketball player from china, down to the very dirt that we walk on. It’s all star stuff, and none of it is unnatural.
Back onto the original topic - and to send it screaming in another direction - isnt it hiiiilarious how we never ever hear 'feminists' screaming about all the infant males forcibly abused/circumcised; yet if a woman gets the same treatment they scream bloody murder? Just puttin that out there.....
My last ex favored this particular cosplay for some reason.
Well kids? remember all that stink about Psychosian weaseling her way into game development and the claim she wasnt going to? She went one higher, arguably. People need to step up and tell Intel in no uncertain terms how badly this will backfire for them if they go through with partnering up with Psychosian. Spead the word wide and far Kids.
I'm driving home on a 4 lane divided highway, and ahead I see something black running along the left side of my direction. as I get closer, I see a red Kia dive off to the left side into the dividing ground, and I put it together - the Kia lost a wheel. So, I put my hazards on, chase down the runaway wheel, at least until it decides to cross into the oncoming traffic. As I do, I pass a ford explorer as it dives to the right; but given that a tire was loose on the highway I didnt think much of it at that moment. So, as the tire comes to a stop on the far side of the opposing traffic I stop, wait for a break in the traffic - fortunately everyone saw it coming and steered clear - and retrieved the wheel. Im then walking back carrying this wheel, and I see this same ford explorer parked opposite side of the road just behind me - and HE lost a wheel too! Fortunately for him, it didn't separate from his car, his wheel bearing just broke and the wheel went into the car. Keep in mind - Neither of these vehicles touched one another; yet both lost a wheel within 1000' of each other. Made me take a quick look over my Jeep just to be extra sure. Fortunately, due to all the drivers on the road being awake and paying attention, no one was hurt and no damages aside of the failed components occurred. Makes me wish I had a dash cam.
Sailor Moon Crystal / [ TRAILER 2 ]
RIDDLE ME THIS!!! With all the gun grabbing bullshit that has been going on on this side of the pond; WHY, praytell, hasnt the anti gun crowd LOST ITS SHIT in regards to a little girl holding holding a pistol to a teenagers head? Anyone? Anyone at all?
This is so, so important. The way adults react to a child’s passions and ambitions can often shape the way the child sees themselves. It’s crucial to encourage them wholeheartedly, especially if the child is prone to beat themselves up about the little things anyway.
Gordon Ramsey is a treasure
he comes off harsh to adults, but I respect people that respect children. I love this man.
he comes off harsh because those adults are in the culinary industry, they’re not supposed to mess up, they are trained, he understands that for these kids, this is very often a learning opportunity, so he is going to be much less harsh, and even sweet to them because its often that they dont know better when they mess up.
oh hey look something the media doesn’t want you to believe exists
That would be because their own source material disagrees with the above picture. Nice try though... well, not really actually.
Happy Holidays! Enjoy your presents. Hoping everyone has a good time over the season. 🎁 💛
...i had to.
Well, if ya know yer gonna go with a bang...
Wonder where it's from?
wow hold on let me get this
You Rang?
what. why? someone pls explain to me pls i wasnt born yet in 1999 why turn computer off before midnight? what happen if u dont?
y2k lol everyone was like “the supervirus is gonna take over the world and ruin everything and end the world!!!”
This is the oldest I’ve ever felt. Right now.
WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU WEREN’T BORN YET IN 1999.
Ahh the Millenium bug.
It wasn’t a virus, it was an issue with how some old computers at the time were programmed to deal with dates. Basically some computers with older operating systems didn’t have anything in place to deal with the year reaching 99 and looping around to 00. It was believed that this inability to sync with the correct date would cause issues, and even crash entire systems the moment the date changed.
People flipped out about it, convinced that the date discrepancy between netwoked systems would bring down computers everywhere and shut down the internet and so all systems relying on computers, including plane navigation etc. would go down causing worldwide chaos. It was genuinely believed that people should all switch off computers to avoid this. One or two smart people spoke up and said “um hey, this actually will only effect a few very outdated computers and they’ll just display the wrong date, so it probably won’t be harmful” but were largely ignored because people selling books about the end of the world were talking louder.
In the end, absolutely nothing happened.
I feel old now.
....There are people on tumblr younger than Y2K. wow.
Remember kids -- Sarkeesian - and her puppeteer, McIntosh - are sexist, homopohic, man hating individuals.
