Friday, July 11, 2025
I guess Tiny’s hemmming and hawwwing about a potential new pocket pistol, among other things. Hrrrrmmmmm.
I guess he likes it…? If I’m not mistaken JL shoots a full size variant and likes it. They must be “turds of a feather”!!! HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!!! ππ
Maybe I am just envious, bitter and twisted because I couldn’t shoot mine for shit. Size wise, my 59 was a compact a tad larger than the one in the pic and had a bobbed hammer and a fairly decent trigger. It was the first center fire pistol I ever owned. Back then St. Cooper was still alive, IPSC was the game of the day and I traded mine off on a 1911 - and never looked back. But I don’t run n’ gun, I don’t carry for social work…I’m just a gun club duffer. I punch paper and plink at cans occasionally…so serious guns are out of my wheelhouse. But…ughhh. I sure like those little PPKs. From what I’ve heard the are rude little guns to shoot.
I suppose I’d probly just get a little shithouse 9mm plastic fantastic… but it would be nice to carry something with more character.
Little Legends
Old people love nark and bitch about the kids. But, y’know… I don’t think a lot of our kids are alright. I don’t think it’s curmudgeonly orneriness or obsolescence. I think our kids are in serious, deep trouble.
100 years ago my in laws felt the same way and they’d get into the middle of our affairs and stir up shit and make the problems even worse. To this day I hate and curse them but … they meant well. Mostly. But… when they intervened and things blew up they’d sit and stare at each other stupidly and wonder how it happened. A lot of it was that they’d gotten old and stupid, and none of us realized it at the time.
If I had grandkids today - I’d keep my bloody nose as far out of their affairs as I could. I might do grandfather stuff, maybe I’d baby sit, go for the walks and talks… but I would NEVER get in between the little ones and their parents. I wouldn’t know what to do about the issues they face today, and gawd… I HATE drama that stars stupid people. The ones where everyone talks and no one listens are the worst. After what I went through with my idiot in-laws… i wouldn’t want to inadvertently do that to my kids.
That was what legends looked like in my day. Our parents would clean us off with the garden hose, then we’d go inside for soap and a rinse, and any dings got iodined and bandaided. I wonder what little legends look like today?
Stupidity Theory
I have an enquiring mind (STFU Cederq! Don’t say it!!!) One of the many subjects that has escaped the attention of my formidable intellect - is how the mechanics of stupidity actually work. But that entails the study of psychology - another subject of which I know virtually nothing.
I think everyone is born stupid to some extent or another. Is it possible that a lot of it depends on how well insulated you are from the consequences of your stupidity you are? A lot of our politicos have been stupid their entire lives. We’d all like to think that stupid people eventually run into Darwin, Murphy or God in a universe that revolves on some kind of karmic wheel… but in real life morons live out rich and rewarding lives while others pay for their imbecility - often with their lives.
I’ve come to suspect that maybe it makes sense when viewed from a couple dimensions up from ours? To effectively deal with stupidity down here in the unplumbed, unthinking depths … about the best we can do is hope to save ourselves. How many perfectly good Ukranian kids died simply because some idiot told them to?
One thing is for sure - if you need to study stupidity objectively… you have to leave your emotions out completely.
Another Celebrity BBQ At Mad Jack’s