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UKers, just make sure you get ash bats, not maple. A shattered bat on the ball field is embarrassing. A shattered bat on the streets is dangerous. Likely there will be no bat boy to hand you a replacement.
Surely aluminium is the way to go?
After that, as your aluminum bat is likely rolling around on the ground, it will seem like a bad idea.
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As a recent Reddit convert who would like to follow the rules, why?
Because it is easier to create slapstick than meaning. Humor may be a part of life and discourse, but in certain cases, and especially on the internet, it distracts from the real issue at hand, as most slapstick fails to convey meaning. If you can make me laugh and then think, then more power and karma to you, but most of us are unable to produce such witty insight on the fly all the time. We try. We fail, and we spa…
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Surely aluminium is the way to go?
An aluminum bat to the head would greatly increase the chance that the person will be killed rather than just knocked out. I certainly disapprove of the looters and rioters, but I don't think they deserve to die.
The only thing you get with aluminum is a greater velocity.
That doesn't make sense, by the time you get the bat the riots should be over. Are the local sporting good stores all sold out?
50,000% increase on a riot baton with no name but five stars? It's a broken link. I think Amazon is acting on this.
Are the rioters buying these or the people and shop owners who want to protect their property?
Rioters don't buy things, they steal them.
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Well, they are supposed to be immigrants or descendants of 1st generation immigrants so your comment may not apply.
Well if anything, immigrants, who choose to move their whole lives to Britain, should love Britain and its traditions even more than random British folks who happen to be born there.
And people who choose to immigrate to a country may do so for a variety of reasons; I know a number of anglophones who hate living in Germany and are only here because of work.
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Well, they are supposed to be immigrants or descendants of 1st generation immigrants so your comment may not apply.
Well if anything, immigrants, who choose to move their whole lives to Britain, should love Britain and its traditions even more than random British folks who happen to be born there.
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I admit I laughed, but this comment belongs more on reddit than here.
Memes are the culprit, not genuinely humorous jokes. The pun and joke tangents on Reddit are the best thing on the Internet.
Memes, on the other hand, are repeated endlessly. Perhaps still funny, but it's the repetition that drives people away and dumbs down threads, because it contributes literally nothing, but it does distract. It also turns the place into an echo chamber - others were very likely thinking the same thing - and group-think is dangerous.
These loathsome people have no respect for Britain's glorious history or traditions. Real British patriots use cricket bats on their looting spree.
Well, they are supposed to be immigrants or descendants of 1st generation immigrants so your comment may not apply.