News Roundup

Few links today because not many of them are worth it.


Biden claims to have an alibi.


okay, I may have edited this one slightly.


fuck me, they’re smuggling in Canadians now? 


because they’ve solved all other crimes in the area, you see, and they have nothing better to do.


as the Great Cultural-Mingling Experiment continues.


and instead of firing these little shits, the Millennial bosses are caving.  I don’t know which group to despise more.


in our continuing game of “guess the ethnicity of the shooter”, one Keuntae McElroy, 21.




I’m sorry, I can’t type any more because my huge Schadenboner is getting on the way.

Thus, INSIGNIFICA:

   

And just to show that Halloween has a little upside:

   

If all that doesn’t scare you off to work, nothing will.  Although, that said, we’ll always have the classy Charlotte Hawkins and Susannah Reid:

 

Monday Funnies

Ah yes…

So here we go, trying to get off the horns, and what better way to start than to utter these heartfelt words:

 

And speaking of drinking, this is an actual headline from a newspaper…


YA THANK ????????

News Roundup

Oy… the news has been particularly awful over the past few days.  Except for this snippet:


which is newsworthy only because of its unexpectedness.

But the rest has been the customary shit show.

not to brag, but my Butterball is already in the freezer, on the advice of some old contacts in the supermarket business. Do ye all likewise.


the really awful thing is that Mummy Dearest hadn’t taught him how to spell his name before he started school.

From the Heart Of Stone Department:


and on his way to court, even, thus saving us all the cost of the formality trial.


what was the middle bit, again?

From the annals of WTF SEX?


it should be noted that the boys’ parents also need a good talking-to.


I would suggest that the old goat be tied to a chair so that he can be beaten to death by the townspeople, but someone is no doubt going to have a problem with this.

It’s All A Load Of Old Bollocks
until the next study comes out.


and he was so upset, he won the race.


and my Five Worst such books were once regarded as too over-the-top.

And now, INSIGNIFICA:

     

and if my own wife felt the same way, she’d be bonking every guy in the street, because:

Getting A Grip

While I have greatly enjoyed Othias and Mae’s “Primer” series on WWI guns, there’s something I need to mention — not as criticism, mind you, but as a technical issue.

Whenever Mae talks about the old rifles’ “ergonomics” (what we old guys used to call  “handling”), she often complains that a straight buttstock does not give her the optimum means to pull the rifle back into her shoulder, so as to mitigate the effect of recoil.  She prefers rifles to have a “semi-pistol” grip so that her hand can feel its way back into its firing position more easily.

 

I’ve never had that problem with straight stocks (as opposed to “semi-pistol grips”) myself, because I hold rifles differently from the way she does.  Here’s the difference:

Note how her thumb rests on the side of the stock.  What this means is that only her three remaining fingers can grip the stock, leading to a weaker grip than if she were to cross her thumb over to a “baseball bat” type of grip.

Which is how I hold a rifle with my right hand:

That hold gives me a good grip on the stock, and I can pull it into my shoulder quite firmly — so whether I’m using a straight stock or one with a pistol grip is irrelevant.  (When it comes to shotguns, I prefer a straight, or “English” stock, because I can slide my hand into the firing position.)

I know that a number of shooters — very good shooters, e.g. Doc Russia and the Layabout Sailor — hold their rifles the same way as Mae does, and as I said above, this is not at all a criticism, merely an observation.

Not that any of this matters much, mind you, as all the cool kids seem to be using actual pistol grips on their rifles these days:

…so once again, I’m out of step with the times.  [sigh]

Five Worst Occupations

Yup, it’s a return to a Friday feature Of Yore.

And this has nothing to do with your earnings, either, but what it says about you as a person.  Ranked in order of increasing foulness, they are:

  • Professional assassin
  • Rapper
  • TikTok Influencer
  • Sugar Baby
  • Hedge Fund Manager

Feel free to correct me, if you can think of worse.