Recent content by boogieshoes

longeyes said: i particularly hate that phrasing. that's the excuse used in various schools where football is more important than student safety to excuse the QBs' raping the girls underneath the bleachers. boys will be boys - and girls should just what? remember, bringing a gun or knife...

i think what most people are missing re serial killers starting with animal abuse is that they start *very young* with abuse of animals. like, 5 years old, or less. and there is a clear progression of more and more violent acts on harder targets until they 'graduate' to human prey. and once...

for a POV from someone who's more likely to be the host than the carrier... it'd depend on the circumstances of the visit (to my house). for most instances, i wouldn't be inviting you over at all unless i know you and trust you to some degree. emotionally, my house space = my personal space...

and last i saw, Morrigan can outshoot our beloved infantry herself. well, at least one of them. :evil: that was really quite funny, to see all those grown men wince cause she was shooting so well, and they... weren't, quite. ;) -bs

she's cute, isn't she? Oleg had another pic of this same model not so long ago with the same (i think) rifle and a purple teddy bear. so i immediately copied it to my desktop folder of photos i'd like to turn into cross-stitches someday :D at the rate i'm going, it'll only take another 30...

that's certainly a thought. like most of my family, i've always been a builder and music-maker, not a shooter. if i ever seriously got into any aspect of guns, i could see myself building a tooling historical replicas. or, you know, seeing if i could't build Leonardo da Vinci's repeating...

... i was just wondering how folks got *into* guns in the first place? did your dad take you hunting as a child? you discovered a love rifles on the range at boot camp? your hubby (or wife!) dragged you to the range cause 'you've *got* to try this!!' ? me... i have to admit i don't...

well, i *used* to want to be a SEAL.... ... and then i saw _jaws_. :evil: i'm a USAF officer's brat, and i was amazingly gung-ho when i was a kid. i used to think it would be really cool to be a navy tomcat pilot *just like* tom cruise in _top gun_. (what can i say? i had obsessive...

puts a whole new spin on 'is that a gun in your pocket, or....?' :p 'going to church' implies Christianity, or at least an arrangement where a dedicated building is used for worship services involving many many people. as a Wiccan, that completely doesn't apply to me. Wiccans create...

you don't want to glue 'em on. hooves are nails. big, honking nails. that grow, which will stress the glue bond as the hoof outgrows the shoe. and the hoof would probably end up growing 'over' the shoe'. add in a sand and dirt to abrade the glue, weather changes causing fatigue cycling in...

not all of them are. there are rubber shoes out there, but they get chewed up pretty quickly. i've also seen special shoes where there's a rubber 'sole' inserted between the hoof and the shoe before the shoe is nailed on. the big evolution in shoeing technology outside of standardized...

actually, as i learned it, farriers float teeth. horse shoers are properly titled blacksmiths. electric forgers are lighter and take up less space. the plug and play option means you don't have to carry your fuel with you to your client (most barns are wired for electricity, but don't have...

mulishness brand new member, and probably won't be very vocal :p , but just wanted to comment on mules as pack animals and their abilities. let me start off by saying that most of my experience is with horses, and so almost all of my mule-information is related to horse information. so, to...