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Open Thread for Personal Stuff, July 2014 Edition

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An open thread for personal stuff, continuing from here.

As usual for these threads: no trolls, no MRAs, no arguments.

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Howard Bannister
10 years ago

Keep in mind, the guy is claiming to be a mall cop, a Paul Blart:

I am not a ninja, merely a student of the art of Ninjitsu, and I prefer not to have status such as “Ninja” laid upon me, for as yet I am unworthy of the title. I will be completing my ninjisu training in a little over 8 months, and then I will be a Master of Ninjitsu, a true “Ninja”. But it is not my martial arts skills that make me so vital to the security of the mall, it is my tactical and strategic skills honed by years of intens on-site on the job training. My weapons skills are the envy of the squad, and I think that with my expertise I ought to be able to choose an effective and reliab;e weapon for CQC and urban combat, whicch is why I chose SW, the MP5’s are junk comparatively.

Falconer
10 years ago

My favorite bit so far is I AM A NINJATSUE MASTER I WEAR THE SPECIAL SHOES THAT MAKES THE PEOPLES CLIMB WALLS.

Howard Bannister
10 years ago

They would never use missiles. Larger than a Shrike.

kirbywarp
kirbywarp
10 years ago

I’d love to see the course that promises to make you a master ninja in a matter of a year or two… along with a super special certificate and everything.

… *quick googling*

Oh good lord.

You can get a kit with 11 (11!!!) dvds and a little black belt to wear.

LBT (with an open writeathon!)

The hell is a posing pouch?

Howard Bannister
10 years ago

I have never had to deal with bolt action sniper rifles, these punk’s tastes run to Ack-Ack guns, and I have taken away 4 stens that they probably stole from Grandaddy’s closet, a Thompson hacked short on both ends,a and more pistol-gripped AK clones than i care to count. These kids want blood, and since they will have to go through me to shed any in my mall, I am constantly doging near misses and ricochets, I have taken to doubling up on my regular regimen on Body armor, as you probaly knwo.

This mall sounds SAFE.

Howard Bannister
10 years ago

The hell is a posing pouch?

To answer this question I did a Google image search, with safesearch on.

I’m gonna need an improved safesearch.

But, anyway, you know how these guys are always posting pictures of themselves decked out in pouches with all their guns?

I counted two on the first couple of pages wearing nothing under the pouches but a banana hammock.

Don’t do that search.

Don’t be a hero.

cassandrakitty
cassandrakitty
10 years ago

This guy provides even worse PR for malls than Janet Bloomfield does for the MRM.

kirbywarp
kirbywarp
10 years ago

I think the banana hammock is the posing pouch, at least according to one image of one made out of candy necklace.

pallygirl
pallygirl
10 years ago

Can someone please tell me what a banana hammock is, because there won’t be enough brain bleach if I google that term?

pallygirl
pallygirl
10 years ago

@cassandra: except people generally need malls more than they need AVfM.

Falconer
10 years ago

Sorry, LBT, I think I picked up “posing pouch” from Red Dwarf.

It’s what bodybuilders wear so they won’t be obscene. Or, as Howard found out, a banana hammock.

kirbywarp
kirbywarp
10 years ago

@pallygirl:

I’m just guessing, but it’s probably exactly what you’d expect. (Don’t worry, totally safe for work. Or is it? 😉 )

Falconer
10 years ago

@pallygirl: A banana hammock is a male genital cover.

Falconer
10 years ago

Or, at least, without making presumptions about the gender of the person to whom said genitals are attached, a cover for penis & testicles.

Howard Bannister
10 years ago

Banana Hammock!

(totally worksafe)

(and this is actually from the post about how that strip got censored

pallygirl
pallygirl
10 years ago

LOL @kirbywarp. Given that the photo attached to this post is a bear in a hammock, that was my initial thought, but then got worried when Howard mentioned turning safe search on. Safe search == not actually that safe.

From the cartoon that @Howard posted, it looks like a male g-string, would that be a fair call?

Falconer
10 years ago

LOL @ “grape smuggler” from Howard’s second link.

kirbywarp
kirbywarp
10 years ago

@Pallygirl:

Ha, I didn’t know I was being on topic! Welp, I guess the only way forward is more things in hammocks!

Ah internet, you never disappoint. Except for high expectations about safe search, anyway.

katz
10 years ago

“Posing pouches” actually go back to the early days of gay porn. To avoid censorship, gay male porn magazines billed themselves as fitness magazines and their models wore those pouches. Box Turtle Bulletin did a piece on one of the photographers here.

LBT (with an open writeathon!)

RE: Howard Bannister

But, anyway, you know how these guys are always posting pictures of themselves decked out in pouches with all their guns? I counted two on the first couple of pages wearing nothing under the pouches but a banana hammock.

D:

D8

RE: pallygirl

Can someone please tell me what a banana hammock is, because there won’t be enough brain bleach if I google that term?

DON’T LOOK IT UP!

Falconer
10 years ago

What a wonderful discussion I have started. Sorry, everyone.

LBT (with an open writeathon!)

Oh god, I can’t stop reading Mall Ninja.

And people say femininity is artificial and performative! I feel like I’m watching a bunch of teenage boys screaming, “MY DICK IS BIGGER” “NO MINE MINE”

kirbywarp
kirbywarp
10 years ago

@Falconer:

I’d consider anything that ends with hamsters wearing tiny hats in a hammock a success.

Falconer
10 years ago

Oh god, one of our clients is having a melt down because the custody handoff went kablooie this afternoon and the father has one child and the mother has the other and the mother isn’t answering the father’s calls and apparently the mother’s boyfriend is hanging around and our client with the meltdown is worried that the mother’s boyfriend is going to try and start something when the father arrives with the other child.