The I don't do, or own <insert hobby or item(s) here> so they should be banned thread.

[Puzzledtraveller]

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Pajama Jeans- Ban em

[Indydem]

1. Bedazzlers.

Seriously, what purpose do they serve.

[Puzzledtraveller]

3. Ah, thank you, I feel better already, hey my back needs scrubbing, are you busy?

[RomneyLies]

4. +1,000,000,000,000 n/t

[trumad]

5. Moran

[get the red out]

6. Knitting needles

Are just like assault rifles, ask anyone. I have many sets at home, look out world.

If there were ever a more false equivalency, I haven't seen it.

[Puzzledtraveller]

8. Jamie Lee Curtis used one to stab Michael Myers in the eye in Halloween!!

[get the red out]

38. And what other 25 people?

Did he die?

[Puzzledtraveller]

42. are you serious?

They made Halloween 2, 3, 4, H20, several more, c'mon the killer never dies. Have you seen Halloween?

[Democracyinkind]

7. Baiting threads in GD

[Puzzledtraveller]

9. Lighten up Frances.

[Democracyinkind]

18. The readers will decide which of us seems unreasonably concerned..

[1StrongBlackMan]

12. Good One.

[boston bean]

10. I love it when people who collect instruments of death are compared to persons who collect coins. nt

[OregonBlue]

54. boston, that was my exact thought. Collecting weapons of death is not the same as collecting stamps

or coins or piggy banks. On the other hand, I'm okay with people collecting guns as long as ammunition is banned.

[ananda]

11. I don't own a hissing cockroach.

But I wish I did now.

[Puzzledtraveller]

13. They can kill! as evidenced buy the man who died eating them in a contest.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/09/us/florida-roach-eating-death/index.html

[Fumesucker]

16. I'd be comfortable banning roach eating contests n/t

[Fumesucker]

14. My hobby didn't just kill twenty first graders in a scene that would put a slash flick to shame

Indeed, it never has done that.

[Puzzledtraveller]

17. My hobby is Final Fantasy Online

I don't own a gun, but I do own Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, man those are fun games.

[Fumesucker]

19. Then I fail to see any point at all to your OP

[Comrade_McKenzie]

27. He's pissed, as I am, about the calls to censor TV and games. nt

[Fumesucker]

33. My blind spot I guess, I don't really think of videos and games as a "hobby"

Thanks for clearing it up for me.

[CTyankee]

15. Would you care to explain the purpose behind your OP, please?

We'd like to know what exactly precipitated your thinking.

[Puzzledtraveller]

20. Gamers being lumped into the category of potential gun psycho.

Someone needed to defend the gamers, and it's slow at work.

[Quantess]

21. Looks like flamebait to me,

dreamed up by a gun-hugger.

[Puzzledtraveller]

23. I own NO gun(s), NONE, NON, NIET, I own some violent video games, like Fallout.

[Quantess]

24. Oh, I take it back then.

I assumed wrongly.

[snooper2]

22. radio controlled helicopters with mini cameras

BAN THEM!

[99Forever]

25. Way kewl!

Nopw we can have a whole thread full of strawman nonsense.


Isn't that special?

[Puzzledtraveller]

28. Well it's in response to video games but putting that in the title

would have made it too easy.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

26. Listening to Rush Limbaugh / Watching FOX News... nt

[Livluvgrow]

29. is it all

about you and your video games. Maybe just maybe some people cant handle playing killing simulators, but in your selfish little shell it is all about you.

[Puzzledtraveller]

30. I shoot zombies in a post apocalyptic wasteland in my spare time

I am a social worker, a volunteer firefighter, I am also active in community food drives.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

31. Am I supposed to give a fuck that some people can't handle playing them?

The problem is that they can buy a gun as easily as the game that can't be used, at all, to kill anyone.

[Puzzledtraveller]

32. That's a great point

Considering that almost all popular FPS and sims are available in other countries that have strict gun control or outright bans.

[Occulus]

34. They're the ones making it all about the games

I'm playing FarCry 3 right now. In that violent video game (and yes, it's very very violent, and stunningly beautiful, to boot), you play a twentysomething named Jason Brody, who, with his friends, went on a big vacation to a tropical island to party hard and have fun. They decided to go skydiving before one of them had to be back in Hollywood for a filming, and that's when things went horribly wrong.

The question, and the point of the game, is... what would you do? Run? Not from Vaas. He'll find you, and torture and kill you and all your friends. He murdered your brother right in front of your eyes. Could you leave them? Would you try to avenge your brother's death? Are you the sort who would only preserve your own life- or would you at least try to rescue them?

Hope you don't mind killing Vaas and his men... because that's a requirement if you're going to survive to save your friends.

Welcome to Paradise. Enjoy your stay.

THE FOLLOWING CONSISTS ENTIRELY OF IN-GAME FOOTAGE- VIEW IN 1080 HD IF POSSIBLE

Part I

Part II

[Puzzledtraveller]

35. I often find that many opposed to violent video games and video games

in general know little about them. I showed a making of "Skyrim" clip to my girlfriend, she thought it was just a few guys in a hole in the wall office that made these games. Truth is they are very advanced and complex and cost millions to make and they employ hundreds if not thousands of people in numerous disciplines. Much like Hollywood, ahem..

Thanks for your reply Occulus.

[Initech]

36. Fucking magnets.

No seriously how do they work??

[Quantess]

40. You asked for it!

[Puzzledtraveller]

41. LOL

[we can do it]

37. One more gun kook to ignore

[Puzzledtraveller]

39. Who owns the guns? Me? I dont freaking own any guns! unless you count those made

of polygons.

[Springslips]

43. I always wondered.

About Eric Harris, the columbine shooter. He was an expert on Shakespeare new the bard like the back of his hand they said.

Yet the media goes off afterwards blaming Halo, Marilyn Manson, Natural Born Killers. What did they say about Shakespeare--nothing. Even though the plays of Shakespeare (of which I am a huge fan of) are full of blood and violence.

It is obvious that people use tragedy has a way to go after what they don't understand and like. It is a form of control freaking that has no connection to reason. Sure we should look at causes and solutions to problems, but these knee-jerk reactions and control freak opportunism doesn't really help.

[Puzzledtraveller]

44. I looked at the general headlines over the weekend and saw much like this

He played video games
He was a loner
Had few friends
Was in the Tech Club

You get the picture, and thought, heck, they practically described me when I was that age and now. Troubling.

Look deeper, my parents divorced when I was 4 years old, watched my dad beat up his girlfriend bloody when I was 6, owned a BB gun and loved to shoot at cans in the backyard, eventually loved and learned to play video games, was in JROTC in high school, if you didn't know any better you would think I was still describing this Lanza character.

[Motown_Johnny]

45. Anything that endangers the life of other human beings

Also, False Equivalency

Ban 'em

[Puzzledtraveller]

46. No False Equivalency?! GD would cease to exist, LOL.

[frylock]

47. strawmen such as the OP should be banned

[Puzzledtraveller]

48. Do you know what this thread is about?

It is entirely about video games featuring violence, to mean those advocating tighter restrictions or bans probably do not own them or have ever played them and maybe they don't like them even if they had so they won't be missing anything if they go bye-bye.

[Livluvgrow]

49. so

do you feel joy when you kill someone in your killing simulator? I certainly find joy when I throw a touchdown in Madden or hit a homerun in MLB 2k.

[Puzzledtraveller]

50. Yes, the supermutants go down especially hard

and the wastelander,most of which are cannibals do not wear a lot of armor so they die quickly but what I really like is using the Fatboy, a portable nuke launcher, named after Fat Man and Little Boy, it creates a mini mushroom cloud. I also love throwing TD's in Madden, wielding swords in Skyrim, riding Chocobos in Final Fantasy, and catching pokemon on my 3Ds. My favorite snack of all time is loaded potatoe skins.

[Arkana]

51. I don't dance.

We should ban dancing. The Quakers had it right.

[Puzzledtraveller]

52. Channeling Footloose I see, where's Kevin Bacon?

[Rex]

53. Coffee

I hate the taste - therefore by stunning feats of logic - all coffee needs to be banned.