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Change.org - Petition To Hire 1,000,000 People To Put Their Fingers In The Shoot Hole Of Peoples’ Guns So They Can’t Shoot Them

mycatisnamedfrank

It’s still gonna shoot… And they’re gonna lose a finger

domozillla-deactivated20181216

No. The finger blocks the bullet. We can do this

This is a gun we’re talking about. The projectile is fired using an explosion, not by compressed air of a toy gun or the elastic forces of a sling shot. People would be lucky if they only lost their finger.

The finger blocks it

dildomuncher3000

The finger won’t block it - the shaft is only there for keeping the bullet straight, all the propulsion happens behind the bullet. The bullet would rip through the finger, not that many would actually fit without the victim being a child, and beyond.

fifty-percent-possessed-deactiv

The bullet would go forward a little and then hit the finger and stop it’s not that hard to understand

People are going to lose their hands. Go watch Mythbusters. They did an episode on this, the hand fucking exploded.

hungwy

No, the bullet would start to go but stop at the finger. Thats basic physics. Also hands dont explode normally they did something wrong.

blipblerp

Why the dingleknockers would you even consider sticking your finger in the barrel of a loaded gun?? the amount of force propelling the bullet at that close of range would shatter the finger at the very least; this is a petition for 1,000,000 people to loose the use of their hands. If a bullet explodes the back of a persons skull when they shoot it in their mouth it sure as hell will explode a finger.

gorps

No the finger would stop it

joryboi

I’m loving the idiocy of this post.

Ppl with brains: ummm finger go boom…

Others: no bullet stop. U no kno fisics >:V

foulserpent

no the finger would stop it

indianworiorprincess-blog

You guy who think the bullet would stop at the finger have never shot a gun and can volunteer to it their fingers in the barrel of my 9 mil and I’ll I’ll the trigger and see if it will stop the bullet. Dumdasses

foulserpent

the finger would stop it

meatswitch-deactivated20231107

heritageposts

date of origin: 28th of december, 2015.

petalsbleedingbeak

These fuckwits are back again? How’s it going, Nine Finger Nasty? About to turn into an Eight Finger Egghead?

@meatswitch @raptorific this is a US based site. US Americans are known for two things- obsession with guns and incredible stupidity. Had this been anyone else, I’d say they’re trying to fuck with us. But with US Americans, about 70% of them are dead serious about mangling their hands trying to stop a bullet.

meatswitch-deactivated20231107

I’ve had four years to think about it and now I think the finger would stop it

gorps

I just tested it with my buddy. It stops the bullet

several-large-churros

….Mythbusters WELDED A METAL SPIKE into the barrel of a gun to obstruct it, something heaps stronger than a human finger (and sealed the barrel better with the filler metal used to fuse the metal spike into place and prevent the explosive gases from escaping) but even that didn’t stop the bullet from doing damage.

gorps

It’s because they didn’t use a finger like I did

uncertainlys

MY FINGERS BARELY EVEN TOUCHED YOUR STUPID FUCKING AD STOP REDIRECTING ME TO THE APP STORE

larkandkatydid

One thing I’ve become a real extremist about is little girl’s clothing and hair styles because if your kid can’t get her hair wet, hang upside down, climb over a fence or run full out in the outfit/hair she is currently wearing then why not? And the answer better be both extremely fucking good and describe something temporary.

poodletrain

Hope you don't mind a story that also made me extremist about this issue.

Took my friends daughter (2.5yrs) to the park. Dressed her in practical clothing that's ok to get stained, brought an extra change of clothing. She sat in the mud at the water bank and played with rocks and mud. A little girl came over, couldn't be more than 3yrs. She was looking longingly at my friend's daughter. She has her hair in a perfect style and she's wearing a pretty dress with white socks and dressy shoes. The parents say "Sweetie don't go into the mud, you'll get your dress dirty" and pull her away, while giving me a judgmental look as they see the kid in my charge covered in mud and throwing rocks into the water. It felt really weird, like we saw eachother as aliens with completely different ideas on how to raise children. When my friends daughter was done playing, changed her into clean clothing and went back home. She had a lot of fun at the park and a day full of nature and play. The other little girl kept her dress clean.

maybeasunflower

There's a Tumblr post about someone finding out that "girls" toddler clothes are more restrictive than "boys" toddler clothes to the point that it made it harder for them to crawl, at a stage where they were learning to crawl.

impulsivelycontentious

I made one about how my toddler child couldn't climb in girl's TODDLER PANTS.

We are not a house who cares much about gendering a baby's clothes. It's a BABY. It doesn't care. So we'd take the kid to yard sales and let them pick out whatever baby clothes caught their fancy and would fit. Some were 'boy' and some were 'girl'. Kiddo loved floral prints because they're a baby (yeah my kid has always picked their own clothes).

Anyway, my kid LOVED TO CLIMB. Sometimes.

It was weird. Sometimes they were all over the sofa and the playground equipment and MY LEGS and sometimes they just. Weren't. Couldn't figure out what was going on.

Until I caught them trying to climb on rhe sofa in one of their pretty flowered pants.

They COULDN'T LIFT THEIR LEGS PROPERLY. And gave up, and did something else.

So I tested this out and... Yeah. The kid COULDN'T climb in ANY of their girl pants. Any. Put them in boy clothes and suddenly the kid is on everything again.

We stopped buying girl pants completely until they were old enough to test them and my kid is a TEENAGER now and i still make them lift their legs individually and jump if it's a girl fit.

YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO MEAN TO DO IT.

Whoever designed these clothes literally did not care if the baby could MOVE. But only if girl.

dad-friend

@support do yall know that the ads on the mobile app being 100 times more sensitive than anything else make the app unusable?

dad-friend

need yall to know that if you dont hear from me, its bc i deleted the app after making this post and when i try to use my laptop, i have to click twice to like anything and commenting/reblogging anything means typing, copying whatever i wrote, hitting comment/post, and then having to paste whatever i said and try a second time. truly baffling work, @support what is going on

matchagirl

homura

bumblebeebats

The crazy thing is, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, if you asked me on any given day "Would like to see a picture of some genitals?" my answer would be "😰 No, that's... No, thank you. I'm okay, actually." I have nothing but the utmost respect for people who do engage with the penis side of the internet, but personally, I've spent the better part of two decades doing all I can NOT to have pictures of dick and balls or sexy bikini babe buttcheeks blasted onto my retinas constantly. And yet... to be denied the penis? To have a jumped up pile of javascript tell me, a grown adult with an air fryer and an outstanding council tax bill, that I cannot be trusted to withstand the sight of a bare nipple unless I let it scan my drivers' license? I will move heaven and earth to see that fucking nipple, friend. I will walk a thousand miles barefoot on hot coals before I give you big brother bitches my passport number. A thousand miles through the desert with five VPNs just to press my face up against the glass and see the last uncensored picture of two My Little Pony Characters sixty-nining each other, and I don't even want! to look at it! But I will! I must! for the sake of our fucking democracy!

wintersoldierfell

how long could someone take to reply to you before it was weird?

no more than a few days!! text me back!!!

a week or so is fine and normal

three to six weeks (free shipping option)

a few months? i'm not really keeping track

six months to a year (gestational option)

infinity. hmu i'm always happy to hear back

depends on the medium (text, email, DM, &c)

vanilla extract / bald / another option somehow

Voting ended onMay 1

#i said a week but the real answer is infinity #a week is more for making plans or asking a question i fr need the answer to #if its a meme somebody can never respind and it doesnt bother me

@support do yall know that the ads on the mobile app being 100 times more sensitive than anything else make the app unusable?

#after the first few times i got yanked out of the app by an ad and then came back (only for it to happen again 15 seconds later)#i just stopped reopening the app. its not worth it if i can do anything #the ads take up the entire screen! you can scroll without clicking on them!

Radio station WJLX can no longer broadcast its AM programming since the incident.

“What do you mean the tower is gone? Are you sure you’re in the right place? I actually used more colorful words than that,” Brett Elmore recounted to NBC News. “He said there’s wires all over the ground and the tower is gone.”

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baenling

so this lead me down a fucking hour-long rabbit hole. i watched a video (linked on the radio station's wikipedia page) where some young guys walk through the radio tower property a week after it was allegedly stolen, and it's an overgrown jungle. looks like it's been abandoned for years. the door is hanging open and there is lichen growing on the linoleum floor inside. down in the comments there are locals saying the area is not exactly out in the boonies, either; there are people and businesses on that road. not to mention that a 200 foot radio tower is fucking gigantic. there is no crushed vegetation from dismantling the tower. no sign of any vehicles recently on the property other than the 1 set of tire tracks from the police vehicle which came to check it out when the report was received.

the tower wasn't stolen. it hadn't been there for years before the report was filed. google earth shows the tower up on site in 2022 and gone in 2023 so in all likelihood, it fell down sometime then. ALLEGEDLY, the fcc had been on them for an inspection of their am radio tower, and then a week before the fcc were scheduled to come out and inspect it, the station reported the tower missing. so. that's an hour of my life gone. you're welcome? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

galaxy-sharks-and-bottled-ships

Then how… I believe you, but how…

how had they been broadcasting

had they been?

It's easy. They WEREN'T.

Hi, so admittedly I own one of the other radio stations in the same freaking town. And by own I mean it's in my name but I leave the technical stuff to my dad and pretty much absorb my information from being around him and the station all the time.

ANYWAYS!

The guy who runs WJLX isn't actually licensed to run an LPFM he is licensed to run an AM station. The AM station is supposed to be the one he plays his music on and he can run a translator to broadcast onto the FM frequencies as well. BUT! Only if his AM is still the main station. He can't do FM only.

That means two power bills basically. Those can be pretty hefty for a radio station.

And since no one really cares about AM these days he did the worst thing possible. He LET HIS AM STATION GO OFF THE AIR. His AM station has been off the air since as far back 2013. We have video of us testing his frequencies that far back. He's been running full time as an LPFM only for at least a decade now which in his case is illegal AF and is a $10,000 per day fine from the FCC if he's ever caught.

Well, low and behold he was caught and now he's trying to claim he didn't know because his tower was "obviously stolen".

For starters, it was eventually stolen. But only after it had already collapsed to the ground and rusted for several years. Metal scrappers will take nearly anything that looks to have been abandoned long enough.

TLDR; If he'd been running his station properly then he'd have known the exact moment his tower stopped broadcasting. He'd have known the moment it fell. There are these things called silence detectors (at least that's what we call them) and their whole job is to tell us we're not broadcasting anymore.

galaxy-sharks-and-bottled-ships

no shhhh it’s haunted. between dimensions. by Carmen Sandiego.

(thank you, may your station prosper)

mymatedave10

Thank you tumblr for the mystery and the solution.

This is like an episode of Scooby Doo where there’s a mysterious event that surprises everyone but then eventually turns out to be a corrupt businessman lying about things.

It does sadly lack the mid-episode ghost/monster running and chasing scenes though, which is a shame.

pleasestopthese

thanks @galaxy-sharks-and-bottled-ships, elmore’s in deep shit, isn’t he

He would be! Except for one thing. I'll get to that in a second. Ok so without rereading to make sure I'm not repeating stuff already stated I'm just going to go ahead and start typing.

So he was given a ton of money and a set amount of time to fix it. Nearly a year later and he hadn't fixed it and the site looked much the same as the YouTuber saw it only somehow more overgrown.

Elmore had gone around telling the whole town he'd had the site cleared and fixed and bought the tower sections and was trying to find the perfect guys to actually do the build.

Little did Elmore know but my dad has his own drones. Those fancy DJI Phantom drones. With the really high quality cameras because my dad fell too old to be climbing up 600 feet just to look at antenna bays and guy wires these days.

So anyways, dad took the drones to the location and did an updated video showing the location still abandoned.

Two days later Brett Elmore drops dead from a heart attack in his favorite pizza joint in town while apparently "scrolling on his phone".

Coincidence? Maybe.

But we like to think it was the panic at the fact someone was publicly calling out his very expensive lies and he can't just clear up a tower site and make 200 feet of tower sections appear overnight. At least not cheaply and going by his very new and fancy truck we're pretty sure we know where all the donated funds went.

Anyways, it's actually been a few years (I think 2? Time is weird and has no meaning.) since he died and no one in town wants to "talk bad about the dead". Even though they all know he was scamming him at this point. They literally choose to ignore the bad he did and just praise the good. The stupid pizza place literally marked his favorite spot at the bar with a plaque and labelled it Brett's Seat.

And despite all the illegal crap Elmore's sudden demise saved his station for his equally corrupt buddies who are proceeding to run it exactly as it is. Illegally.

My family has since said screw it and moved away. We're trying to figure out what to do with the existing station in Jasper but at the moment we're much happier not dealing with the drama of the crazy town.

Now we have two new stations we lucked into in the new town because the previous owner was apparently gifted them as a wedding present from his rich wife but he wants nothing to do with them. Like, he literally told my dad "Take over running them or I'm turning them off and deleting their licenses." The dude married rich and just wants to sit back and collect sports cards and memorabilia. His wife is not pleased with him but we're now in a contract acquiring two new stations.

Even funnier is the fact that my dad used to work in these exact stations back in the 90's and he found some of his old paystubs in one of their old filing cabinets. He came out of a back storage closet laughing and holding up this dusty yellowed old paybook.

According to Dad these stations have been here since the 50's so just letting someone shut them down because he didn't know how or want to run them would have been a crime. Not a literal one. But you probably know what I mean.

So now we have two older stations to update and repair.

And in a hilarious twist of things the country music station had its 400 foot tower snatched down by a careless log truck driver and the previous owner told a scrapping company to scrap it all without even looking to see if anything might be salvageable. He also spent all the insurance claim money on sports collectibles and things.

We have the country station now broadcasting off a 100 foot tower next to the building (normally that tower sends the signal to the bigger towers to actually broadcast) while we figure out how to replace the 400 feet of destroyed and apparently scrapped sections. Lovely.

But hey! The good news is the 600 foot tower that our classic top 40 hits station uses is doing great! We just need to replace the transmitter. Apparently, the transmitter on those is like a 3,000 pound ordeal or something.

So yeah... We're not running LPFMs anymore. Actual legit commercial stations with big power and large ranges now. And massive towers and transmitters. Neglected transmitters. Dying transmitters. Luckily, my dad repairs these things for a living and has managed to keep this one limping along. For now.

Does anyone here want to climb 600 feet and help change some light bulbs by the way? Dad can't do it anymore and I'm not a tower climber. The last guy we paid climbed up 100 feet and got stung by a wasp and backed out. And also dropped the bulb.

vulpinesaint

saying "question mark?" and "however comma," out loud are game changers. punctuation on the go. and it's always the funniest thing that anyone around you has ever heard

dragon-in-a-fez

"you don't know what you have until you lose it" works for things that suck too btw. sometimes you need to experience life without something for a while to realise oh damn that was some bullshit

Well I would give a medieval peasant some spaghetti.

1. They don’t have forks. I would hand them a fork with it and see what they do.

2. They don’t have tomatoes. This is something they can never experience again

3. I would let them keep the plate because it’s a nice plate and I think they’d like it

predatory-lesbians

i love it when a post comes with its own FAQs

good-fwiend-in-wome

what the fuck do you mean they didn't have tomatoes

juh-was-deactivated19691231-dea

Tomatoes are not native to Afroeurasia and generally wouldn’t have been available on that continent before the Colombian exchange. When we refer to medieval peasants we’re usually referring to the poor of Europe and west Asia between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of what we now call the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods. A time before the so-called age of exploration and colonization brought food such as tomatoes, maize, and potatoes to Afroeurasia and domesticated animals such as pigs and chickens to the Americas. European cuisine of the poor and rich alike before the Colombian exchange would still have been tasty with their wide selection of game meat, herbs, vegetables, and grains, but tomatoes would not have been available to them and that’s why I want to give a medieval peasant a plate of Italian-American style spaghetti with marinara sauce just like dad used to make

wait so. italy? i guess it’s not called afroeurasitaly, but…so “italian” food used to not have tomatoes? until they came from the americas? and they they what, decided “hey let’s just rebuild our national identity around these tasty christmas tree ornaments”? centuries of italy were lasagna-free and i’m just supposed to accept this

ailius-suffers-through-art

They had lasagna. It just didn’t look like what we think of lasagna today. It was more like layers of flat noodles with spices and cheese on a plate that you ate with your hands rather than a baked dish.

If you look at ancient Roman food there’s certain things we’d recognize as “Italian” like olive oil or fermented fish sauce or cheese but the flavor profile is completely different and pasta isn’t anywhere to be found. They also had herbs and spices that have since become unpopular or even gone extinct.

A lot of things we view as unmovable and unchanging about certain culture’s cuisines are incredibly recent developments. Modern Indian cuisine for example can be traced back to a singular guy in the 16th century. And these days lard is considered to be integral to making tamales but that wasn’t used until the Spanish brought over pigs and cows.

Food culture is something that can change very rapidly. Sometimes within a single generation. People generally use what they have available and what’s available can change at a moment’s notice.

This feels like watching a clown get questioned by the crowd before they pull out a history textbook and proceed to whack the audience repeatedly with it