Jump to content
Volvospeed Forums

PyROTech

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    5,484

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    12

 Content Type 

Posts posted by PyROTech

  3. Off Topic: The Thread

    in Off-topic/Deleted Posts

    Posted

    Client: I love this photo you took, LOVE IT. Can you photoshop the background out, crop it tighter, and remove this other person?

    Me: Sure, it'll be $100 an hour to do that and take at least two.

    Client: You can't do it for free? That's absurd.

    Me: sigh.

    does it honestly even surprise you? while i can understand your frustration, but it sorta comes with any type of design or artistic work.

  9. Canada, Ohhh Things Are Always Gay

    in Political Discussions

    Posted

    http://news.national...f-defence-laws/

    "On a rainy day in May 2010, Joe and Marilyn Singleton returned from dinner to their rural acreage near Taber, Alta.

    The couple usually left the lights off to save energy. But on this night, the lights were on and a dilapidated station wagon was in the driveway. Mr. Singleton parked behind it and headed through the garage, grabbing a small hatchet used to chop kindling on his way in.

    Inside, the house had been trashed — furniture knocked over, dishes smashed, pictures torn off the wall; jewellery, cash and video games were missing.

    Mr. Singleton left his wife to call 911 and headed out into the driveway, where a burglar was trying to flee in the station wagon.

    “I told him to sit there, the police are coming, we’ll sort it out,” he recalled in his first public interview. “That’s when he put his car in reverse and smashed into our car.

    “Then he put the car into drive and it was then I thought, my God he’s going to smash into the garage door to get away and my wife was right on the other side.”

    He reached into the open driver’s side window and hit the man twice in the face with the blunt end of the hatchet. The thief ran and got tangled up in a barbed-wire fence.

    When the RCMP arrived 20 minutes later, they intercepted two more thieves who had gone to get a pickup truck because their car was too small to carry away all the stolen loot.

    If this was Hollywood, this is where Mr. Singleton’s story likely would have ended. But in a tale that has become a familiar real-life refrain, the injured thief, a 19-year-old repeat offender who was out on bail after threatening another homeowner with a crowbar, received house arrest for the burglary.

    Mr. Singleton, whose only run-in with the law was a speeding ticket six years earlier, was charged with assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm, offences that carry up to 10 years in prison."

    ----------------------------------

    me: you can read the rest of the article, including why he was charged and what changes have been suggested.

    • Upvote 1

  12. Jokes -

    in Political Discussions

    Posted

    A man and a woman were waiting at the hospital donation center.

    Man: "What are you doing here today?"

    Woman: "Oh, I'm here to donate some blood. They're going to give me $5 for it."

    Man: "Hmm, that's interesting. I'm here to donate sperm, myself. But they pay me $25."

    The woman looked thoughtful for a moment and they chatted some more before going their separate ways.

    Several months later, the same man and woman meet again in the donation center.

    Man: "Oh, hi there! Here to donate blood again?"

    Woman: [shaking her head with mouth closed] "Unh unh."

    • Upvote 4
    • Downvote 3

  22. And So It Begins!

    in Political Discussions

    Posted

    now i have to deal with these protests coming to canada, not sure what they are protesting since our big banks didnt go broke and need a bailout. Sorta ironic that the hippies like to protest things like horrible big oil so they march downtown, holding up traffic, so that it makes me idle my v8 while i blast the a/c. Then i get overly hungry, stop and buy steak and cook it non renewable gas. SEE WHAT THEY MADE ME DO!!!

×
×
  • Create New...