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[Yoink]

Some driver waiting at the lights next to the bus stop just started blasting Welcome To the Jungle. I'm not complaining.

[heydude6]

Hehe... Now, of course, the funny thing about both that and the rings to some extent, is that it's going to wreck your hand at least as much as you hurt the other guy.

Bit like putting nails on a shotgun buttstock, or decorating your airbag with crystals.

Those aren't even crystals, they're semi-precious stones. I can at least recognize Jade among the bunch.

[redwallzyl]

Hehe... Now, of course, the funny thing about both that and the rings to some extent, is that it's going to wreck your hand at least as much as you hurt the other guy.

Bit like putting nails on a shotgun buttstock, or decorating your airbag with crystals.

Those aren't even crystals, they're semi-precious stones. I can at least recognize Jade among the bunch.

I think the finer points of geology are lost one someone who glues rocks to their airbag and thinks said rocks are magic.

[smjjames]

Hehe... Now, of course, the funny thing about both that and the rings to some extent, is that it's going to wreck your hand at least as much as you hurt the other guy.

Bit like putting nails on a shotgun buttstock, or decorating your airbag with crystals.

Those aren't even crystals, they're semi-precious stones. I can at least recognize Jade among the bunch.

That’s besides the point, and there’s one that seems to have a spike sticking outwards. No idea how messing with the airbag cover like that will affect airbag deployment either.

[scriver]

Spoiler: pic from link (click to show/hide)

Lol the mechanicus girl has gears for shoulder padding.  Its so cute, because they tried to keep it kid-safe.  Just give her the bionic arm; thats exactly the kind of play kids would engage in anyway.  In fact, it looks like her upper arm is in fact a tube thats painted the color of her flesh, that kind of morphs back into a human arm to make a hand.   So that she can use her pip-boy, apparently.



P:

A real kid's story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybq-eP0Uq8M

To me it looks like a mechanical enhancement of a decrepited arm, not a flesh-painted pipe.

Which is honestly a lot more cooler and gritty than just having a bionic replacement of the whole arm.

[hops]

Tom Huddleston

Isn't that the guy who played Loku, God of Muschuef??

[Kagus]

Tom Huddleston

Isn't that the guy who played Loku, God of Muschuef??

Yep, the very same unduvudual.

[Mathel]

So, according to Norwegian law, it is strictly illegal to own or use weapons such as blowpipes (for the firing of darts or other objects), slingshots (particularly funny because the Norwegian word for such can be directly translated to "bouncy pea"), electroshock weapons like Tasers (ranged or touch), pepperspray, "fighting gloves" (not sure what this means, specifically), shuriken, any sort of knvies, etc. etc... "Or any other particularly harmful weapon that does not have an 'honorable' use or can be seen as being violent articles (lit. 'violence products')".

...Except crossbows. You can own and operate a crossbow if you fulfill the standards of age, sobriety and responsibility, and get permission from your local police chief.


Also, technically you can kind of loophole it by carrying a tool of some sort, since it fills an "honorable" use. Bouncers and doormen (almost wrote doorknobs) seem to go for those nice heavy MagLite flashlights for their improvised weapons. So, wooden self-defense pocket sticks or some pepperspray? Illegal. Steel wrench? Yeah, sure.
(note: As with most laws here, there's a lot of interpretation being done by the legal system... If you're out on the town with a hammer in your pocket, nobody's going to let you off because it "serves a purpose". Probably).

Laws, man...

So, If I ever go to Norway, I should get a tanto. The most common weapon, with which was Seppuku (honorable suicide) commited.
Or a bat'leth, or epee for honor duels. Wait, do swords count as knives?

Or I could just get any melee weapon and claim that self-defence is honorable use. Defining "honorable" is dificult.

Edit: Wait, it is illegal to own any sort of knives? How are you supposed to cut food?
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[Teneb]

So, according to Norwegian law, it is strictly illegal to own or use weapons such as blowpipes (for the firing of darts or other objects), slingshots (particularly funny because the Norwegian word for such can be directly translated to "bouncy pea"), electroshock weapons like Tasers (ranged or touch), pepperspray, "fighting gloves" (not sure what this means, specifically), shuriken, any sort of knvies, etc. etc... "Or any other particularly harmful weapon that does not have an 'honorable' use or can be seen as being violent articles (lit. 'violence products')".

...Except crossbows. You can own and operate a crossbow if you fulfill the standards of age, sobriety and responsibility, and get permission from your local police chief.


Also, technically you can kind of loophole it by carrying a tool of some sort, since it fills an "honorable" use. Bouncers and doormen (almost wrote doorknobs) seem to go for those nice heavy MagLite flashlights for their improvised weapons. So, wooden self-defense pocket sticks or some pepperspray? Illegal. Steel wrench? Yeah, sure.
(note: As with most laws here, there's a lot of interpretation being done by the legal system... If you're out on the town with a hammer in your pocket, nobody's going to let you off because it "serves a purpose". Probably).

Laws, man...

So, If I ever go to Norway, I should get a tanto. The most common weapon, with which was Seppuku (honorable suicide) commited.
Or a bat'leth, or epee for honor duels.

Or I could just get any weapon and claim that self-defence is honorable use. Defining "honorable" is dificult.

You should train until your fists become weapons unto themselves.

[Yoink]

I'm reading a book, set in Australia and by an Australian author, and he just misspelled chockers as "chokkas". WTF is a chokka? Is it in the same ballpark as a quokka or what? It's a good thing there was enough context for me to figure out what slang term the author actually meant, or I'd probably still be puzzling over it. Bloody Sydney folk.

You should train until your fists become weapons unto themselves.

Isn't the most elegant solution to simply carry enough of an arsenal that nobody dares to enforce such silly rules?   

[Draignean]

I'm reading a book, set in Australia and by an Australian author, and he just misspelled chockers as "chokkas". WTF is a chokka? Is it in the same ballpark as a quokka or what? It's a good thing there was enough context for me to figure out what slang term the author actually meant, or I'd probably still be puzzling over it. Bloody Sydney folk.

You should train until your fists become weapons unto themselves.

Isn't the most elegant solution to simply carry enough of an arsenal that nobody dares to enforce such silly rules?   

Only when everyone has a personal Nuke on a deadman's switch will the world be safe.

[ChairmanPoo]

So, according to Norwegian law, it is strictly illegal to own or use weapons such as blowpipes (for the firing of darts or other objects), slingshots (particularly funny because the Norwegian word for such can be directly translated to "bouncy pea"), electroshock weapons like Tasers (ranged or touch), pepperspray, "fighting gloves" (not sure what this means, specifically), shuriken, any sort of knvies, etc. etc... "Or any other particularly harmful weapon that does not have an 'honorable' use or can be seen as being violent articles (lit. 'violence products')".

...Except crossbows. You can own and operate a crossbow if you fulfill the standards of age, sobriety and responsibility, and get permission from your local police chief.


Also, technically you can kind of loophole it by carrying a tool of some sort, since it fills an "honorable" use. Bouncers and doormen (almost wrote doorknobs) seem to go for those nice heavy MagLite flashlights for their improvised weapons. So, wooden self-defense pocket sticks or some pepperspray? Illegal. Steel wrench? Yeah, sure.
(note: As with most laws here, there's a lot of interpretation being done by the legal system... If you're out on the town with a hammer in your pocket, nobody's going to let you off because it "serves a purpose". Probably).

Laws, man...

But crossbows were banned by the pope! You'd be excommunicated if you used one! Checkmate!

[Descan]

But how are you supposed to get hammered on your night out if you don't carry a hammer?

With a screwdriver.

* Memories of Cataclysm: DDA intensify

[Mathel]

So, according to Norwegian law, it is strictly illegal to own or use weapons such as blowpipes (for the firing of darts or other objects), slingshots (particularly funny because the Norwegian word for such can be directly translated to "bouncy pea"), electroshock weapons like Tasers (ranged or touch), pepperspray, "fighting gloves" (not sure what this means, specifically), shuriken, any sort of knvies, etc. etc... "Or any other particularly harmful weapon that does not have an 'honorable' use or can be seen as being violent articles (lit. 'violence products')".

...Except crossbows. You can own and operate a crossbow if you fulfill the standards of age, sobriety and responsibility, and get permission from your local police chief.


Also, technically you can kind of loophole it by carrying a tool of some sort, since it fills an "honorable" use. Bouncers and doormen (almost wrote doorknobs) seem to go for those nice heavy MagLite flashlights for their improvised weapons. So, wooden self-defense pocket sticks or some pepperspray? Illegal. Steel wrench? Yeah, sure.
(note: As with most laws here, there's a lot of interpretation being done by the legal system... If you're out on the town with a hammer in your pocket, nobody's going to let you off because it "serves a purpose". Probably).

Laws, man...

But crossbows were banned by the pope! You'd be excommunicated if you used one! Checkmate!

Which is a moot point if you are not catholic. And according to the wiki 71.5% Norwegians are Lutheran.

The worst part about weapon restricting laws is, that they tend to be contraproductive.
In order for such law to be effective either:
A) The weapon being restricted has to be difficult to obtain illegaly.
or
B) The sentence for owning it has to be worse than the sentence for crimes commonly commited with its use.

If neither is true, then people intending to commit crimes have no reason not to get it. If they get caught with it, it will not be much worse than getting caught without it in those circumstances.

On the other hand, people, who intend to obey the law will not have such weapon and will be at a disadvantage against someone with it.

Oh, and "particularly harmful" weapons with no use other than fighting can be created pretty easily.

[TD1]

Or the weapon controlling laws don't exist primarily to penalise you for having the weapon, but rather prevent you from gaining one.