Appropriate line from 'Blood Simple' goes here

[hirez]

This one came steaming past on the Twitter feed. (via, I think, the gripped and sorted @ParisLees)

The 'unsettling' bit is that the captions don't match the hardware.

As far as I can tell, all the firearms pictured have been made safe. I would far rather see pictures of people who know what the hell they're doing, instead of some bollix posing with a twit-pistol held sidways.

I am actually and properly going to lose my rag over the Nerf-wars at work soon. The set of things drilled into any child who grew up around firearms involve not pointing them at people ever, not leaving the damn things lying around loaded and certainly not ever peering down the barrel while working the trigger hopefully.

Geeks who're all big talk about Glocks because they've played with one on their Eggs-Box £3.60? Hopeless mob of bastards, the lot of them. Piss off and die.

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[voidmonster.livejournal.com]

Word.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

[steer.livejournal.com]

What is it about a certain type of computer science guy and guns. Honestly, it's very weird. I mean, people whose big thrill in life is getting the brackets right in lisp but they also have a detailed knowledge of the size and muzzle velocity of every piece of automatic weaponry on the market.

I was at an otherwise excellent presentation the other day and the guy talked passionately about inserting spies into the system. The spies had a licence to kill and used lethal force with precision for exact takedowns on their target. It would have been quite depressing and had me thinking what a terrible world we live in but in fact he was talking about a fault monitoring system for computer operating systems. The whole thing was simply adding drama to what could have been phrased as "this program will detect problems with this other program and stop it running."

I guess if you spend enough time in a darkened computer lab with geeks then you can develop some funny ideas about what you'd like to do to your fellow humans.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Yep, not sure what's 'unsettling' about most of those pictures (especially the one of the cop¹). Although why you'd want a stuffed moose apparently eating out of your piano is also beyond me.

(¹ "Ooh, it's a person with the regionally accepted tools of their job!" Wonder if a photo of a carpenter holding a saw would be 'unsettling', too.)