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Baroque Bloke |
So simple! So effective! <snip> And enrages the EU bureaucrats! Dammit – accidentally deleted most of my post. Clicked “Edit” instead of “Quote”.  Here’s the DailyMail link again. https://mol.im/a/13200587This message has been edited. Last edited by: Pipe Smoker, Serious about crackers | ||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
And reusable. Eventually, that hank of rope is dang near free. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
That's kind of unsanitary, don't you think? Oh wait... Q | |||
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Member |
^^^ Yeah, they wouldn't want the condemned to get sick...  The piece of shit who ordered the sarin gas in the subway was hung in 2018. Considering his size, a 1ft drop was all he would have needed...or deserved.  | |||
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| Oriental Redneck |
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Get Off My Lawn |
 "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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Coin Sniper |
It's cleaner and more tidy than the method formerly used. Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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Member |
No need to find the spot to stick in the needle. U.S. Army 11F4P Vietnam 69-70 NRA Life Member | |||
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Member |
Are you sure he used incorrect grammar? I read the link of the differences. I don't think he's using the past tense but a reflexive sentence. Eta: "was hanged." I think you're right. Year V | |||
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| Freethinker |
It’s an extremely common error, to the point of probably being “Accepted usage,” but hanged is the proper past tense of the method of judicial killing. Hung refers to things like pictures on a wall. My concern about or at least notice of such things could probably be my contribution to the “weird things” thread. But then I learned it so long ago that the method might have still been used in parts of the US. ► 6.4/93.6 “ Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one’s own mind without another’s guidance.” — Immanuel Kant | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss |
 ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| Member |
Well it has been five years since he's been hanged. It's safe to say he's now no longer hung, nor is he "big-bone" anymore. | |||
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If you find it so horrifying, just don't watch it. Geez. | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
One of the advantages of this method. Potential criminals might reconsider their course of action. Serious about crackers | |||
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| Coin Sniper |
Apparently watching 3 men pull levers and the condemned disappear through a hole in the floor is a horror to watch? Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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| My other Sig is a Steyr.  |
This is the part where they are supposed to tell us that hanging is a renewable resource and better for the environment.  One of our local municipalities had a British style jail. They would take the prisoners and roll them out in a cart for all to see in the town square every day. One day they rolled two of 'em back to jail and forgot about them. They both died in the cart and began to rot until passersby noticed a fowl smell (and maybe a few buzzards) and had the sherrif check on the jail. I couldn't find any info on lawbreakers from back then, but I'm thinking that crime went down for quite some time after that. The county jail close by had indoor gallows in the attic so they could hang 'em rain or shine. | |||
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| Partial dichotomy |
I think deterrence is a very important feature here! SIGforum: For all your needs! Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>>  | |||
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Lost |
For those watching the new Shōgun mini-series, at least they're not being boiled to death.  | |||
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| Freethinker |
I have posted this before, but it does illustrate that not everyone finds hanging horrifying to watch. The original caption was that it was the last public hanging, and occurred in Kentucky in 1938.  ► 6.4/93.6 “ Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one’s own mind without another’s guidance.” — Immanuel Kant | |||
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Political Cynic |
No repeat offenders and no continuing costs for upkeep Sounds like a great system. | |||
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