I love Gulf of Maine Gunsmithing! Usually I'm biking past it at 5 in the morning when I'm still drowsy, and then again in the evening when I'm exhausted, and in both directions their lurid messages sink right into my defenseless psyche. I'm always anxious to see what rant they'll have next.
On an unrelated note, why is "Hildabeast" the epithet of choice? Shouldn't it be "Hildebeest", or at least "Hildebeast"?
Is it meant seriously or are they kind of kidding/trolling?
If they are kidding, they've been kidding for at least five years. If I recall, the only non-right-wing message I've ever seen on that board was a eulogy for B. B. King.
I remember thinking that was a very apt thing for a gunsmith to say. I was tired, and I don't know if that was a reasonable association to draw.
Why is it that the only people with access to billboards visible to major roads are all right-wing cranks?
Because that's who owns rural land/businesses.
When I was growing up, the John Birchers had a billboard at a main highway junction. One side said "Get us out of the UN" and the other "Stop Aid/Trade with Communists." It looked hand painted and was there for years.
Hilldabeast. Misspelling her name is the ultimate offense.
the vagenda, like all official hildabeast documents, is typeset in vulvetica.
Given the small number of retweets and likes, I have to assume ogged has an alert for "vagenda".
9: Vigilance. They can sneak up on you if you're not paying attention.
Eternal vagilence is the price of puberty.
vagendaofmanocide.com is now a working URL.
Somebody had to do it. I'm glad it was you.
The Sav-Mor Liquors folks don't seem to be right-wing cranks. Just selling liquor.
I didn't donate or anything, but I thought it was very well done.
This sign may be unique among all political expressions in that there is no one of any political persuasion who could fail to be amused by it.
1: how is the rest of your habitat?
This is maybe the only public expression of conservatism within 30 miles of Portland. The fact that it's not just out of place, but rabidly, insanely out of place, is part of what makes it so fun.
why is "Hildabeast" the epithet of choice?
Because they've glommed onto a much older epithet - a Hildabeast is or was a student of St Hilda's, an all-women Oxford (I think) college.
On reflection, the most remarkable part of the sign is that there isn't an apostrophe in "its." Usually, that type of sign does.
re: 23
I think it allows men now.** I used to teach there,* when it still was women only.
* adjunct/casual teaching, I wasn't a fellow.
** wiki says 2008 they admitted them.
I think all Oxford colleges are mixed now, although St Hilda's was the last holdout IIRC,
Since gunsmithing is the topic, this is probably a good place to note that I've always wanted to build my own muzzleloader. They have kits, reasonably priced. And then I'd have an publicly-acceptable reason for keeping black powder in the house.
Shrewsbury is/was a thinly disguised Somerville, so in the 90s sometime.
If by that you mean the gun will blow up in my face because I don't know what I'm doing, then that is also what I'm worried about. With a long rifle, it's fairly difficult to unintentionally shoot your eye.
I guess with a muzzleloader it's easier because of the potential for a misfire when you are loading.
What do muzzle loaders shoot these days? Is it still paper cartridges and mini-balls?
Whatever you can fit down the barrel. That's the beauty of it.
I want to kill a rabbit with a nutmeg seed, so it's pre-seasoned for cooking.
I never figured Moby for a prepper.
Nutmeg would get down the barrel, sure, but that can't be an optimal use of resources.
And it won't even get grated on the way out, because no rifling.
There was a Jewish prepper who lived near me. Ran for city council and then for mayor. He won the Republican primary and moved to Israel before the general election.
A muzzleloader for hunting would typically have a rifled barrel.
35: I'm reminded of the death scene in Tampopo.
I presume he was elected anyway?
If he's using a Kentucky rifle, presumably it's rifled. A long Brown Bess might be more reliable, because simpler, but no grater.
43: He lost badly, even for a Republican running for mayor of Pittsburgh.
44: You could attach a grater to barrel using the bayonet holder.
And if he hadn't he would a faced a proud citizenry, well supplied with powder and nutmeg.
47 is definitely a recipe for shooting your eyes. And I'm guessing nutmeg would burn.
46: I never asked. If it's the return of Christ, he's really bad a Judaism.
40: By Israel, you mean the West Bank, right?
I don't know. The First Coming turned out pretty rough for them.
51: He didn't leave a forwarding address. Just told the reporter who emailed him that he took a job in Israel. He did not tell anybody in a local Republican Party.
54: So, he just decided a little late that he really didn't want to be mayor of Pittsburgh.
Or that stealing everyone's campaign contributions was a much surer thing.
He didn't stand a chance of winning regardless.
He got 11% of the vote in a two-way race. Four years prior, some lawyer running as an independent got 19% of the vote running against both an incumbent mayor and Franco Harris' son (who is also called Franco Harris).
Exactly. And no extradition from Israel, right? It all makes sense.
I've looked at those muzzle-loader kits too. Some have an historical look, with the hammer on the outside, some have a modern look with the hammer centered, as on a Winchester.
I'm presuming the shotgun slug gets to use the muzzle-loading season, but I don't know. some slugs are knurled with grooves and lands so that they spin and are more accurate, approximating or so I'm told the muzzle-loader performance/accuracy.
I don't think you can use a shotgun in muzzle-loading season unless the shotgun is a muzzle-loader. In Ohio (and I assume some other states), you had to use a shotgun to hunt deer because you can't trust somebody from Cleveland with a weapon that can kill at more than 150 yards. To the best of my knowledge, the rifled slugs were near universal when you use a shotgun to hunt deer.
the vagenda, like all official hildabeast documents, is typeset in vulvetica.
If vulvetica is not available, VAG Rounded is an acceptable alternative.
63: 5 Stars! Authentic Old West atmosphere!
Unfortunately, this one does not render.
Looking at the dancer glyph samsung vs apple is surprising.
68.last Same thing between a Windows 10 laptop (black abstract) and Samsung Android (white sneakers with red laces, red shirt and white short sleeves blue jeans, distinct facial features)
"It made me enormously angry when a TV reporter asked me for my reaction about Gattine calling me a racist. It is the absolute worst, most vile thing you can call a person." Is he worse than Scott Walker? Walker doesn't bark like that, but he does bite.
The worst thing you can call someone! Do we have a standard story about this reaction? I wonder if the sting in "racist" comes down to some feeling that he's lost and the offended parties have won: that it's a standard power-stripping you-got-owned insult. What makes it feel to a racist white dude like a racial slur (i.e. the thing most reasonable people consider "the worst thing you can call someone")? I can speculate, but I only speculate in academese and I'm not typing that crap out here on a Friday.