mercurymusing:

robbstark:

I had to answer a security question over the phone today and it was honestly surreal the guy asked me “okay, what’s your dream car” and for a solid ten seconds I’m thinking ‘what the fuck I can’t even drive?’ and then it hits me. I made this account in 2014. I know what I have to say. I swallow my pride and whisper into the phone:

“1967 Chevy Impala.”

There’s silence. Then, he gives me my password. Fuck you, 2014 me. Fuck. You.

I just felt the shadow of something ancient and awful brush past, like a great leviathan peeking from the waves on a moonless night far from shore.

devilishdescent:

uss-edsall:

yamatonerd2199:

uss-edsall:

You know what’s great?

Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version Of War Of The Worlds

Is that the one with the epic thunder child song?

Yes it is

The rest of it is great too

thunderchild is an incredible heart-swelling experience but shout out to horsell common and the heat ray for capturing the very soul of science fiction in the from of the following musical phrase:

https://youtu.be/mrMfrUjk7Zc?t=4m17s

The strategy game based on it was surprisingly decent too. Very ambitious.

There are no “different laws” in different places for FFLs. Federal Firearms Licenses is distributed and regulated by the federal government, not state government. If an FFL is distributing firearms without doing background checks that is a serious federal offense that could land someone in ass-rape prison

kasaron:

xaqalibre:

garrettauthor:

There are different laws in different states and areas, which are enforced in different ways. In the same way that marijuana is still federally illegal, but many states have passed laws that neuter the ability to enforce that law, many states make it easy for owners to bypass federal laws relating to firearm sales, and also protect firearm sellers from being found out or prosecuted for the same.

Can you cite your information on this, by any chance? I’m genuinely curious to know what states allow you to circumvent federal firearms laws like this.

I’m also interested. I’m not aware of any state that flouts the laws on this subject, so I’d be interested in finding an example to analyse. 

Yeah citation fucking needing pretty badly there.

a-40k-author:

grimdarkdarkgrimnessofgrimdark:

I’m torn between “give me comedic Orkz who speak like hooligans and call this wotzitz and gubbins” and “give me the terrifying Green Tide that washes away millions of innocents in an orgy of blood and death” and I don’t know if I can reconcile the two. 

It’s my life’s work to give you both. 

Orks from a human’s perspective; brute apes bred for war that are capable of going from stone-age technology to inter-system space flight within the time frame of a generation or two.

Orks from their own point of view; da komedy ladz. 

uss-edsall:

gruene-teufel:

No matter how many times I read it in books on naval history it still unnerves me when I see an author describe ships that aren’t good at withstanding heavy seas as “wet”.

The author in this book just described the Pensacola-class light cruisers as “some of the wettest ships” in the US Navy. I don’t like it.

another way of describing it is ‘big submarines’. HMS Hood, for example, was called the Royal Navy’s biggest submarine. 

laina:

tanteistefan:

zooophagous:

electoralcollege:

An interesting thing about VeggieTales is that the Bible stories it retells are mostly restricted to the Old Testament, because the creator made a promise to his mother that he would never depict Jesus as a vegetable

I demand to know what Christ’s veggiesona is

There’s a toy set that depicts nativity

Jesus is a carrot

no, you ignorant peon, that is laura the carrot’s baby brother PLAYING jesus in a nativity scene. laura is playing the angel, at the top. if you knew anything about anything at all, you would know that these are characters from the veggie tales tv show depicting the nativity. you can see larry the cucumber, pa grape, and mr. lunt are playing the wise men, you brainless sack of excrement. you absolute buffoon. you know nothing. don’t fucking try me.