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You have entirely too much time on your hands don’t you?
I live and work in Korea. The national pastimes are eating and drinking. I don’t drink, and I am not a big eater. I work, sleep, and mess about on the internet. I play squash or go fishing and that is my life. Korean women are batshit crazy. Best to be avoided in most cases.
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What’s the fishing like in Korea? Freshwater or saltwater?
Both: But there is no regulation. Carp is the most common freshwater catch. The shores are fished out. Small stuff mostly. To catch anything decent, people charter boats. I’ve been here three years and so far I have caught a fist full of three-inch mud suckers and a blow fish. Just fishing from the shore. (Continental shelf. So, it’s all mudflats.)
Should I mention the pollution around this place? There is so much runoff from farms that people will not swim in the lakes or rivers. Freshwater fish is not fit for consumption. The Han River has the 43rd highest contamination density in the world. That says nothing about all the smaller rivers throughout the country.
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I dunno, you just chuck these things out like confetti! Geddit? Chuck?
I’ll get my coat!
UK Atheist
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For us non-USians, what is the context here?
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Most republican conservatives (maga, trumpers) consider any attempt to regulate guns in any way as government trying to take away their guns. They think the constitution’s second amendment gives them a right to bear arms. Never mind that at the time it was written it took a minute or so to load even a single bullet into a gun, or that the armed militia the amendment refers to was more like today’s national guard and not the private groups that the word militia refers to today. A couple of “militias” had a big part in the January 6 storming of the capitol in an attempt to overturn the presidential election. Many politicians are beholden to the gun lobby that is well funded by gun manufacturers. Any attempt to regulate even assault rifles is met by fierce, and well funded, opposition. Ironically the same people opposed to gun regulations are often the same people who oppose abortion and call it murder. No matter how many children get mowed down in class rooms they refuse to see the connection to that and the easy availability of high powered, large capacity, assault rifles.
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OK, so the same old same old, in other words. I thought it referred to some current event that I couldn’t identify…
I’m afraid so. After Sandy Hook when 20 young children and 6 adults were killed I thought, “They’ll finally have to do something”, but no, nothing really changed and after each new shooting I can only despair. As long as corporations can make millions selling guns, and as long as people love their guns more than they love children it’s hopeless.
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The paradigm seems to be “more guns = better”, because then the good guys with guns can protect themselves and others against bad guys with guns. But this neglects the facts that the ones that shoot first (the bad guy) always have the advantage, and that in general it can be hard to distinguish a bad guy carrying a gun from a good guy carrying a gun. And obviously other factors that I haven’t considered.
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