Avi is a legend.
I can’t remember the details, but there is a low bar to being found guilty of domestic violence these days. I know a guy who got found guilty for slapping his wife in public, to wake her up out of her manic episode(bi polar).
He has been called far right, by certain politicians, and Antifa members. For some reason I don’t trust their opinion. Apparently he is a Jewish Nazi? But no one explains the reasons why we are supposed to believe this.
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When I bought my first set of weights, they didn’t have Olympic sized plates and the 20kg ones were much smaller in diameter. You can’t fit them on an olympic barbell. I only did “deficits” for over a year. I didn’t want to deadlift in the gym since I was frequenting a very crowded public one with ONE power rack and you had to wait for at least 20mins to deadlift.
The bar that could fit these kinds of plates ended up bent out of shape and every time I attempted anything over 4 plates, I had some kind of weird, irrational fear that it would suddenly snap right down the center and poke my eyes out lol.
I can remember it was a common sight, on the weekend in my large country town, for farmers to come into town with rifles racked up on the back of their ute’s rear window.
I always thought that was pretty cool. That was in the 1980’s. You could buy ammo from the supermarket.
You would commonly see kids walking around the burbs with slug guns, or bb guns.
No one freaked out or called the cops. The average person had common sense, not like these days.
One of my friends, a woman walked down a main Sydney street with a rifle slung over her shoulder, that she had just bought(days before registration and NFA).
Groups of guys would get on the train with their rifles and head out west, for the weekend to go on a hunting trip. No one batted an eye.
Cadets would walk to school with their rifle for practice after school.
I heard people talk about back in the late 50’s early 60’s. Cadets were given a fucking Bren guns(full auto), to take home. Left it in the corner of the classroom whilst at school(probably fully loaded no doubt). This was in Queensland, so after school they would go down to the pond and blow away cane toads, with their mates.
Not a fan of this… Though I’ll admit when I was younger I shot at a bird or two in America with a pellet gun.
The gun fiasco is insane here. In the UK gun laws are fairly strict, albeit less strict… But air guns aren’t subject to licensing and Northern Ireland’s gun laws in particular are very lax (particularly for shotguns).
You might say an air gun is nothing…
Look at this badboy. Shoots a .457 calibre projectile
Newer model generates above 600 foot lbs. @idaho how strong is something like this (newer model 600+ ft lbs) relative to a cheap, shitty say… .22lr rifle.
I’ve been shot with a .22 pellet gun once (indirect, ricochet). The rounds are certainly powerful enough to penetrate human skin.
Now slingshots, swords, switchblades etc are illegal in Aus… Insane
Ha, I never knew you were pro cane toad, you’re obviously a commie! 
It depends on what you are shooting. Are you hunting for food? Doing pest control? Big difference from indiscriminate killing, or shooting endangered species.
The airguns used in my childhood were small cal, less powerful. It wouldn’t be too hard to do what the do in other countries and class higher power ones as firearms and lesser powered as toys.
I watched a really funny cane toad documentary back in the 90s. I don’t normally enjoy invasive species success stories, but the filmmakers had a lot of fun with the situation and it made me LOL.
Has the cane toad situation improved since the mid 90s?
Edit: In case you guys were wondering, American citizens have a nearly endless array of weaponry that could be employed to curtail a hypothetical cane toad invasion force.
Any modern firearm will absolutely devastate all but the largest cane toads. A well designed modern sporting rifle could dispatch dozens of these nuisances in a matter of seconds. With prejudice.
If an American somehow forgot all of his guns on the way to the cane toad extermination rally, we’d still be able to use our trusty crossbow or trebuchet, both legal to own, operate and carry in my jurisdiction.
I don’t think we have any restrictions on optical laser beams or slingshots, and I think a lot of what you can get at the fireworks store will also work on cane toads.
It’s like our founding fathers said. A well regulated militia will be pretty cool to have and it will keep the cane toads away.
Are you meaning to tell me large frogs are firearm resistant?
I love frogs. Such poofy, squishy little creatures!
Yes, the second amendment was developed to keep frogs from over-populating American ecosystems.
There will be movies for decades to come about cane toad uprisings, and our violent attempts to mitigate frog related overgrowth!
No Improvement. They continue to spread, West from Queensland into the Northern Territory, possibly even into Western Australia. The have also come further down into New South Wales. It remains to be seen whether colder winter temperatures will deter them.
We might not have the arsenal choices that you folks in the US have, but we still have cricket bats and golf clubs…“fore”!
Not sure about the legalities of trebuchets, I haven’t seen anything that says we can’t have them.
There are several hunting groups that use an air rifle to hunt big game. I have personally seen one deer killed with an air rifle. Certain military groups have experimented with the concept because of the noise factor.
Do some research on the .22 long rifle round. This is not the thread for ammo questions, just go over to mine in Combat for gun talk. One thing to keep in mind, since its introduction in the 1880’s it has probably killed more creatures, both two and four legged , than cancer.
That would be significantly more powerful than a .22lr-around 4x.
I am no gun guy.
But AR is chambered in .223
Obviously not same round as a .22 LR. But still. Totally agree. If It were the apocalypse and I had to pick one firearm it would probably be a .22 rifle.
But my favourite rifle that I used to have and am so mad I sold. Was Remington Classical deluxe 30-06. Barrel was blued steal. Beautiful wood grain. Spent like 1200 on rifle alone from Dicks and sold it for 500 bucks.
For some reason the label “post apocalyptic” was put on the Mad Max series of films.
Upon further consideration, I think these films are better seen as optimistic tales of a freedom-loving Australian society that has eradicated cane toads.
Prove me wrong.
Mad Max is all about frogs. Mad Max 4: The downfall of Daniel Andrews… that’d be a FANTASTIC movie
Daniel Andrews government suspended parliament today @Beyond_Beyond @oglebee @twojarslave
because the twenty cases of covid we are having per day represent too much of a public health risk… Not withstanding the notion we could run parliamentary sittings online. He chose to shut down parliament
Think about that… The public ought to have a long, HARD (penis) think about why a government would shut down parliament when they don’t have to
Granted I’m sure Andrews will go down, this isn’t the first time Aus has had an authoritarian leader power.
Joh Bjelke-Petersen was a right wing authoritarian leader in QLD (as opposed to Andrew’s left wing authoritarianism). He served as premier of QLD for nineteen years through exploiting a loophole within the electoral system that allowed his party to maintain a strong foothold over the region despite receiving a fraction of the vote count relative other politicians running at the time.
" Bjelke-Petersen’s Country (later National) Party controlled Queensland despite frequently receiving a smaller number of votes than the state’s two other major parties, achieving the result through a notorious system of electoral malapportionment that resulted in rural votes having a greater value than those cast in city electorates"
During his reign he frequently used police as a tool to impose violence upon those who would dare protest against any cause he didn’t agree with
He was eventually found guilty for corruption, the police commissioner he’d appointed along various other politicians in cahoots with him were locked up; somehow he managed to slip through the cracks as he was “too old to face trial”… Meaning he got away with a looooot.
Despite being right wing vs Daniel Andrews method of left wing autocracy, I see this in the same vein as Andrew’s leadership. The difference is, Andrews can veil his power grabs as being under the guise of “public health initiatives”, Joh couldn’t; though he still had tremendous public support amongst conservative Queensland voters (albeit not conservatives around Aus). I can guarantee you the Andrews government will support the bill getting footed through that aims to disqualify minor parties with political influence from running for election. Removes criticism of the autocratic policies forced through.
I will give Andrews props for one thing though. Following the debacle of some “horrible” people having the audacity to throw an engagement party (/s), anti Semitic remarks have popped up. Andrew’s came out and said “this shit is not on”… I stand with him on that…
Joh is autocratic in a similar vein to how I find Glady’s Berijiklian autocratic, albeit Glady’s isn’t quite as bad. NSW currently - Near unlimited police powers, strip searching kids, sniffer dogs in the streets, violence against protesters, open corruption (shredding documents etc to avoid getting caught) that the public doesn’t bat an eye over. She’s probably not quite as bad as Daniel Andrews or Joh… but she’s not that far off.
Human rights advocates and lawyers alike have continually criticised Gladys’s extremely punitive, seemingly ineffective and draconian approach to policing the actions of the civilian populace
Fury Rd is not really a Mad Max film. Just a shit film, so it doesn’t count.
Take it from me, an expert on Australia. These sexists don’t represent Australian values of freedom, fast vehicles, serious Maine Force Patrols, and ambiguously gay wasteland motorcyclists beholden to BDSM warlords.
Oh now you’ve done it! Fury Road is one of the greatest pieces of cinema made in the last few decades!
Let’s meet up and fight!
Name the place and the covid safety rules 
! He he.
Masks on unless one party gets into a potential fish-hooking position!
Wait, can you even leave your country?
I think we’ll get arrested both on your home ground and mine.
Would make great headlines though.