how suburban was your home back when your dad used to shoot squirrels from the porch? My personal perceptions of how suburban/rural our neighborhood is factor into why I think it's sort of hilarious. : )
We lived in a housing development with tree-named lanes and a pool and a community center but plopped in the middle of rural swampland in southern Delaware (I had a loooong bus ride to school and it was a 15-20 minute drive to the grocery store). So not suburbs, since there was no urban area, but not really rural, either, since if my father aimed low, he would have taken out a neighbor's back window/cat/child. So yes, it was actually very hilarious (in hindsight. At the time it was awful because I hated squirrel and the whole endeavor drove my mom crazy).
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
xxp: Naw, you can kill small animals (maybe up to a squirrel?) with a bb gun. I think I would have heard a .22; this was right down the street.
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
xp: Okay, so that sounds like a similar dynamic as I've got here (just south of Annapolis, MD).
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
although negative props for maiming squirrels with an underpowered firearm
― his venerable escutcheon, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 13:22 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
great sentence
― Never translate German (schlump), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 13:28 (twelve years ago) link
xp probably very similar, especially given the proximity and shared swampiness!
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://dontevenreply.com/view.php?post=84
^^^^ best concealed weapons
― remy bean in exile, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
it's p disturbing seeing that because when i saw the one about the cats - http://dontevenreply.com/view.php?post=95 - i was hoping that the pics had just been sourced from some astute google image searches. but like i guess he actually has a bunch of guns around. and cages.
― Never translate German (schlump), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
The cage is a humane animal trap - v common.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
ah okay. still though. the covering it in red sauce &c, & the having a bunch of guns. idk. maybe i should just be saluting the effort.
― Never translate German (schlump), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
you should be saluting the stars and bars itt imo
― river wolf, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
My elementary school didn't care that I brought my pellet rifle to school for a 4th grade Thanksgiving play, circa 1990, along with one of my grandfather's pipes - kind of mind-boggling now, since either would probably get a kid in serious shit.
― milo z, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfWzgzby_hM
― amon, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link