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[Yoink]

Guns?! But this is Australia! We aren't allowed any cool things.

[Tawa]

I finished MGS3.

That... that was beautiful.

[sprinkled chariot]

There is industrial nail shooting pistol. But if in Australia you  need 25 licenses to even take it in your hand, the  use the sling and stones.

[Baffler]

Guns?! But this is Australia! We aren't allowed any cool things.

You guys can't have airsoft/bb guns? That's just absurd.

use the sling and stones.

This would probably work.

[Rolan7]

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[GiglameshDespair]

Guns?! But this is Australia! We aren't allowed any cool things.

You guys can't have airsoft/bb guns? That's just absurd.

I looked this up because I was curious and "guns are banned!" is commonly spouted by the wrong for these sorts of things.

According to here, Australia is d in the worlin number of privately owned firearms. Here claims 25th.

They have reasonably similiar gun laws to the UK in that you need a valid reason to own a gun (target shooting, hunting, etc - self defense is not considered valid). Bit more restricted in the semi-auto front, similiar in that you basically can't get automatic, and seems to be more permissable towards handguns (here in the UK you can only possess ones of 'historical interest').

[Rolan7]

Just needed to vent, better now

[Akura]

I finished MGS3.

That... that was beautiful.

I teared up, even though I was "spoiled" on the whole story by Last Days Of Foxhound.  Heck I think I cried when I saw it there.

Spoiler: If you play Peace Walker (click to show/hide)

You'll find that The Boss went through far more than just Operation: Snake Eater.

You know how she mentions she was irradiated, but got to see space? Well, that was the mission The Boss was on, the one that seperated her from Snake. And it turns out the government was trying to assassinate her. By sending her into space. But they also tried to take the oppurtunity to one-up the Reds, so had them install a window onto the pod she was in.

The window did not protect her from cosmic radiation - the government had counted on this, since her previous irradiation during A-Bomb testing made her more susceptible to radiation poisoning, not less - and it also completely cocked up the aerodynamics of the rocket. It wasn't able to achieve orbit, meaning her report would have been far less useful than Gagarin's(who launched around the same time, and made orbit) had she been conscious to deliver it.

Worse still, the pod tumbled out of control during re-entry(because of the window), broke up, and landed in the ocean, before being recovered a week later. And The Boss survived, if barely.

[Tack]

Are they small enough for a BB gun to kill them? If they're too disgusting/poisonous (?) to handle but big enough to have a hope of hitting, shooting them and collecting them so scavengers don't eat them is how I'd do it.

1. Australia. I'd probably need a license and a very good reason, and 'To shoot cane toads' would probably violate some animal cruelty law or something.

2. They're in a pool. Either I pop them whilst they're still and happy, and get toad brains all through my pool, or I remove them forcibly from the pool, meaning that they're agitated and won't sit around for me to pewpew them.

[Mech#4]

Isn't one method putting them in a barrel with petrol and a match? I seem to remember a friend I had who stayed in Cairns mentioning that at one point.

[Tack]

Yeah, dettol apparently reacts with their poison in a very horrifying way too.
But remember, I'm trying to find a way of dealing with them which Doesn't alienate my vegetarian housemate.

Also, yeah, some are back again.
I've just taken to texting her every time, and expecting her to free them.

[BFEL]

They have reasonably similiar gun laws to the UK in that you need a valid reason to own a gun (target shooting, hunting, etc - self defense is not considered valid)

Oh nice. So you can have a deadly weapon for purposes of "I just want to shoot it at things" but "I don't want to be horribly murdered" is a no-no? That's fucking retarded on so many levels.

As for my personal sads, I am too hype for Fallout 4 and as a result I cannot sleep. Or pee. Or do anything but fucking stare unblinking at the goddamn clock for fucking midnight to roll around so I can play the game in the most miserable state I can manage.

[Orange Wizard]

They have reasonably similiar gun laws to the UK in that you need a valid reason to own a gun (target shooting, hunting, etc - self defense is not considered valid)

Oh nice. So you can have a deadly weapon for purposes of "I just want to shoot it at things" but "I don't want to be horribly murdered" is a no-no? That's fucking retarded on so many levels.

Must resist urge to drag the thread into gun politics

[hector13]

Read about a notorious DF adventurer.

Was wondering what the problem with the character was while reading all the way through it, it seemed quite similar to the kinds of things like merperson farming and Dwarven Day Care... at least until I got to the very end. It made me feel dirty.

[Baffler]

I know I'm a scrub, reposting from reddit, but this made me sad today.

Don't worry about the commentary too much, this was just the only video I could find that showed the whole incident. I have a lot of respect for the professor though. I certainly wouldn't have lasted that long.