Obinice

Don’t go to the USA.

Even if you’re convinced their jackboots will spare you. It’s not worth the risk, they’ll target you for anything they like.

Maybe you’re not quite white enough, maybe you liked a Facebook post criticising their government, maybe you’ve got an unamerican sounding name. Maybe you just weren’t deferential, weak and obedient enough when they spotted you trying to come through the airport.

They will target you and send you to their concentration camps. If you’re lucky you’ll eventually be sent home with no physical injuries and just PTSD.

Don’t go to the USA. It’s just not worth it. There are far nicer places to visit that aren’t fascist hellholes.

I’m the coming civil war, they believe the MAGA Army will use Cybertrucks, so it’s best to prepare a defence against them.

Good thing we caught all those dangerous terrorists before they could do anything evil!

Imagine if all those 474 extremist insurgents hadn’t attended a public protest, we might never have caught them. Who knows what dastardly deeds they could have wrought from deep within our own society in the shadows.

They could be your colleague, your postman, your neighbour, your cousin, or even your own wife! Trust no-one!

We must remain vigilant against this evil menace and be grateful the police anti terror squad is watching us at all times, just in case one of us should turn 🫡💂‍♀️🇬🇧

Exactly, that’s absolutely a knife. A huge one.

It may also be used as a trowel, but looks at it, that looks like something crocodile dundee would throw at someone.

A guy walking around in public with that strapped to his belt in a tactical looking holster is just asking for trouble. He was probably looking forward to the day the cops got him for it. He can’t have been so stupid to have that on and think “this is totally fine, nobody would ever be concerned by this”.

Did you see that “trowel”?

It looks like a big hunting knife. I garden, I have an allotment and grow all sorts for years, I’ve never seen a trowel that looks anything like that before.

Sure, maybe it’s some specialised sharp knife-like trowel from Asia that nobody here has seen before, but that is exactly why it’s reasonable to assume it’s a knife, first and foremost.

I also heard the guy was dressed like he was cosplaying being in the army (in camo), but that may not be the case. It would make one further suspicious of him though, if it is true.

A guy walking around with a big sharp “trowel” in (to joe public) a green tactical looking holster thingy, wearing army camo? Yeah, that doesn’t sound like a bloke going down the allotment to tend to the cabbages.

Obviously it was a misunderstanding in the end, but at the same time, I can 100% understand why the fuzz would make some safe assumptions to disarm someone of their potentially deadly weapon.

The bloke can’t have been stupid either, he was carrying the very weapon like thing visibly in public, and when the bobbies asked him to drop it he acted like he had no clue what they were on about? Come on.

I could understand buying and using a trowel that’s weird like that, if that’s what you’re into, but it’s common sense that it looks like a weapon and should obviously be concealed as to not worry joe public. Especially if you’re planning to go around wearing army clothes or whatever, but even so.

A small bit of good news in an otherwise horrid downward spiralling hellscape of nothingness.

…Might help to mention what hemisphere you’re in, or continent you’re on? Or country? Or city?

The reason for your local change in nightlife could be anything from a wide, wide range of reasons, almost all of which depend heavily on where you are.

Let’s not be like the uncouth Defaultist Americans that assume everybody in the world lives where they do. Let’s be better, and let’s provide a location when it’s key info.

The Mirror is a shit rag, fuck that newspaper.

But ya.

My TV doesn’t have a Jellyfin app, only a Plex app. I’m not buying a new TV just to use my preferred media server, sadly :-(