Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 6:43 am

What's a "red pill" in the context of feminism (?) and men's rights movement (?). Urban Dictionary hasn't been very helpful.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 7:09 am

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-red- ... dit-2013-8

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 3:18 am

So, a black woman climbed the confederate flag pole in SC and took the flag down. Unfortunately, she was caught, and the flag went back up.

Two questions-

1: Shouldn't the flag be retained as evidence if they're going to charge her with a crime? Shouldn't she be released if they're not going to do that?

2: Suppose someone went and burned the flag on the pole through creative use of children's toys*? What are the potential legal ramifications assuming everything goes to plan and there is no collateral damage?

*I'm not saying I'm going to. As much as I'd like to, I'm in California.

Shady314 · Post by **Shady314** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 4:27 am

2. Im not a lawyer so I may say something stupid.
At first thought I would assume the flag is government property and thus the minimum charge is vandalizing government property. The penalty for fucking with government property?

http://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-re ... 8-usc-1361
The last sentence being most applicable as that flag is probably not over 100$.

But I have no idea if state government gets covered as an "agency or department" of the United States.

This is probably why she took the flag rather than destroy it.

tussock · Post by **tussock** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 4:39 am

1: it's their precious, they'll have cameras on it, and probably an officer given the kerfuffle. Evidence comes in many forms.

2: arson, destruction of state property, public endangerment, and entering a restricted area for the purpose of committing said arson, destruction, and endangerment. It's on a war memorial so you'd probably get some lesser stuff dealing with whatever they've got to force everyone to respect their stupid-ass history there.

Not to mention if they get creative and decide there was a reckless disregard for the life of a public officer as a politically motivated crime or something and you find yourself in Gitmo with the press full of stories about a mad firebomber with a shady history and the brave officers who risked their lives to stop the attack on the capital building where thousands of traumatised workers had to be evacuated.

Or, you know, getting shot to death by the police over a stupid flag.

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 5:31 am

Why would it need to be retained as evidence? It's not like they need to fingerprint it or anything. There's videos and witnesses.

And yeah, setting fire to something in a public place using a remote control toy (presumably)... there'd be a laundry list of charges. It wouldn't even be unreasonable to send cheer for jailtime for someone doing something stupid like that.

I read that the KKK are planning a rally to come out and support the flag, and of course will be doing a cross burning on private property. That made me feel all warm inside when I read that, imagining any potential flag supporter trying to disentangle themselves from their natural allies. You don't burn the flag. You let its supporters come into the open to show their true colors. They're the ones that burn things.

Anyway, reading quotes from people trying to justify their support of the flag as "a symbol against tyranny" overwhelmed my irony meter.

Count Arioch the 28th · Sat Jul 04, 2015 12:22 am

So, we have Aussies here. If you were going to suggest a good city to visit, what would you recommend? I was thinking Sydney, but nothing is set in stone. Hell, it might be a few years until I get down there at all.

I am not scared of the fauna but I also don't intend on pissing any off on purpose.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Sat Jul 04, 2015 2:05 am

I've lived in both Canberra and Sydney, and visted Melbourne many times. Sydney's probably the best tourist experience of all those: it's super-pretty, has a lot of historic sites, amazeballs beaches, decent public transport, lots to see and do. It's expensive, though.

Canberra is for little kids and old people, for everyone else it's boring as shit. Also, the roads all look the same, so you will get lost without GPS.

Occluded Sun · Post by **Occluded Sun** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 12:37 am

Longes wrote:What's a "red pill" in the context of feminism (?) and men's rights movement (?). Urban Dictionary hasn't been very helpful.

Maj was kind enough to provide an informative link, but you can figure it out by just applying the context of the idiom's origin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 12:19 am

How do I convince a cat that my keyboard is neither a bed nor a dance floor?

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 5:03 am

Death.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 5:14 am

Pick the cat up, hold it at table height, and drop it to the floor. Repeat until the cat stops.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 9:11 am

Lemon-juice around the area and a catnip ball outside of it.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 10:45 am

Prak wrote:1: Shouldn't the flag be retained as evidence if they're going to charge her with a crime? Shouldn't she be released if they're not going to do that?

There's no special rule that the cops have to bag up and take away everything that could conceivably be evidence. Cops take things they think they might need and things they feel like stealing. Lots of people saw her do it and she admits that she did it, so dusting the flag for prints seems pretty unnecessary.

Also, Tussock is wrong about everything, as always. In South Carolina, Arson is setting an explosion or burning a building. EDIT: Also he rambled about "whatever they've got to force everyone to respect their stupid ass-history" because he was too lazy to spend 40 seconds on google and find out she was charged with "defacing a monument."

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon Jul 13, 2015 6:03 pm

hyzmarca wrote:How do I convince a cat that my keyboard is neither a bed nor a dance floor?

I snarl and hiss at my cat, then make pawing motions like I'm going to bat her. In extreme cases I'll throw a pillow at her. With my cat you'll have to create a desire to leave on her own or the first thing she'll do is try to drive her claws into the screen to keep me from moving her.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 12:00 am

So I recently got a Gundam model kit, and one of the pieces broke. Specifically, part the mouth plate thingy.

Here's a photo of the offending part:

Any advice on what I should do?

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 12:02 am

When I was a kid, my mother used nail glue to fix at least five shoddily made action figures for me. That would be my suggestion

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 12:55 am

I've been enjoying gel superglue for my fixin needs. It's resealable, so unlike the shitty tubes of superglue, this stuff is actually good for multiple uses, over months apart. (only gel form, the liquid still turns to shit and ruins the nozzle)

I even use the stuff whenever I get knife or papercuts on my fingers. Fuck bandaids, I'll superglue it. Boys broke some toys? Superglue it. They broke it again? Oh, it wasn't meant to be *throws away toy*

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 2:18 am

One time I was at a dinner and a school principal cut his finger almost to the bone on a knife--and a registered nurse (parent of an attendee) superglued it shut to get him to the hospital.

That shit works.

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 7:15 am

Yeah, apparently the thing I had in my head where superglue was designed during the Second World War as a rapid band-aid is a myth, but after the number of times it stuck me to the table when I used to collect Chaos Marines, it doesn't surprise me that it might work as a temporary measure.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 7:29 am

Are there any instances of a human killing a mastiff bare handed? All the man vs dog attack news I can find are for german shepards and smaller.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:36 am

I can't find a mastiff story, but apparently a lunatic Brit prizefighter killed a 150-lb rottweiler.

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 9:43 am

There are examples of people fighting off and sometimes killing bears and bigs cats with their bare hands. Bears and big cats are actually fucking huge, and they have more lethal weapons built into their body than you have arms. Those fights tend to play out very similarly: you stick one arm in the animal's mouth (the animal usually does this part for you, but feel free to help the process along if the alternative is letting it munch on your neck or face) and then you use your other arm to choke it or punch it in the throat over and over and over.

Mastiffs are "merely" human-sized, and they can really only deliver significant injuries through biting. So not only does the "feed it one arm then give it the ol' punch-a-bunch with the other" technique work, it would also be possible to just hold one down and strangle it to death like one might an annoying coworker. Difficult, but possible.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 6:21 pm

Or just climb on its back and crush its fragile canine hips and spine with your weight.

TiaC · Post by **TiaC** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 7:06 am

So this came up elsewhere. Would you say that describing someone as Nubian-looking is racist?