Epic fail

What a bellend

Epic win to the Guardian for including the phrase:
Olympic bell end

in the title.

I just put my fag out in my coffee and took a sip from the ashtray

I had a similar fail the other day when I was smoking whilst talking on the phone.

You sucked on the handset and spoke into the cigarette butt?

Put the fag in his ear

Put the fag in his ear

Did someone mention ear rape?

Did someone mention ear rape?

Shameless plug (still bought the book anyway)

Legal access to guns in itself doesn't lead to increased gun crime. Most notably Canada has a much higher gun ownership than the US and a much lower level of gun crime.

We shouldn't be so quick as to dismiss america's gun problem as down to a blasé attitude toward gun ownership. They have are impassioned about their 2nd amendment rights, have rigorous licencing in most states, and have an ongoing national debate on it.

You comment regarding Canada is simply not true - Canada doesn't have more guns than the US, in total or on a per capita basis. Canada has roughly 31 guns per 100 people, the US closer to 90.

Data from here

Even Switzerland, with mandatory participation in the armed forces, and the responsibility of serving males to keep an assault rifle and 30 rounds at home and in good order, only manages gun ownership rates of about 45 per 100 people. So I think that there is clearly something about gun ownership going on in the US.

However I don't think that the issue is simply down to poor or intentionally weak regulation.

I heard that from Michael Moore I think.

^ Bulletproof fact-checking

Mm said that the number of gun owners was higher in Canada.

Canadians tend to own no more than one gun (the average was 1.3 I think) whereas gun owners in the states average 3.5 guns each.

I don't understand why hand guns or automatics should be legal.

MJB & hypes - streets of crewe (official video) - YouTube

Just seen the equivalent effort for my enz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ier8kPsYMWE&feature=context-cha

Much more passable. Northwich was pretty much Brooklyn in the early 1990s, as the backing music proves.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/opening-ceremony-shock-as-fan-accidentally-1176295

hmmm awkward

video of above... epic fail to film it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHLiWiISGU&feature=player_embedded

Camilla's face makes that video

Not often you can say that

That's the power of the Olympics

I don't understand why hand guns or automatics should be legal.

This.

Mm said that the number of gun owners was higher in Canada.

Canadians tend to own no more than one gun (the average was 1.3 I think) whereas gun owners in the states average 3.5 guns each.

I don't understand why hand guns or automatics should be legal.

That's true actually, the data I cited was about the number of guns, not number of owners. However the US is the number 1 nation by rate of ownership, whereas Canada comes in at number 13.

Actually, given the rate of gun ownership in the US, the shocking thing is that there aren't more shootings. I also can't believe that there is no central government database of gun ownership; since you have to fill out forms when you buy many firearms in order to get security vetted, why don't they simply collate that information to keep tabs on who owns what?

http://cdn.ph.upi.com/collection/pv/upi/6300/c14491793d6667fee4041a14638b7191/Cyclists-ride-at-the-London-Olympic-2012-Velodrome_3_1.jpg

^^ That's called "being organized". Something most governments are strangers to.

^Where's the fail? Fixing the track quickly makes sense so long as the riders know what's going on.

Actually, given the rate of gun ownership in the US, the shocking thing is that there aren't more shootings. I also can't believe that there is no central government database of gun ownership; since you have to fill out forms when you buy many firearms in order to get security vetted, why don't they simply collate that information to keep tabs on who owns what?

Canada just got rid of it's long gun registry, and the only province allowed to retain the gathered data was Quebec. All the rest has been destroyed. It's a Harper Thing.

http://www.cyclestore.co.uk/productDetails.asp?productID=15403

That's true actually, the data I cited was about the number of guns, not number of owners. However the US is the number 1 nation by rate of ownership, whereas Canada comes in at number 3

ftfy

According to this which isn't very up to date:
http://www.allcountries.org/gun_ownership_rates.html

Either MM had some more up to date data or he's lying or I'm miss remembering what he said... I'd say they are all equally likely.