Would you keep your cool?

[Berries]

Chuck Norris came out before the last Presidential election.

Hmmmm.

I wouldn't answer the door for the next few nights if I was you. He might be a tad upset at that comment.

Archeologists in India recently uncovered a new dinosaur. It’s actually many dinosaurs but one is in the middle of all the others. The one in the middle is believed to have killed the others with a single roundhouse kick to the face. The archeologists wanted to call it ChuckNorrisaurus but the Indian government changed the name to Himotosaurous because it’s simply not possible for Mr. Norris to be killed.

[Hinny]

Right, so your trained killers are actually the PTSD suffering conscripts/draftees from the late 60's early 70's as poetically imagined by Bob Dylan in order to sell records and raise political awareness to oppose the war. Sorry, I thought you knew what you were talking about when you first raised the point.

My bad.

Certainly those people qualify.
They are also the veterans of the virtually continuous war the US has waged since it's inception (save the four year period when Jimmy Carter was President).
They are also all the people who are trained to kill people - all ex-service personnel and those trained by private individuals and organisations.

The gang-bangers driving the streets of LA a dozen years ago shooting people on the street for fun may have contemporaries.
I have no desire to personally verify that.

My point was, and still is, that The United States of America is a very dangerous place because of the training and indoctrination of a large sector of the population.
For this reason one would be prudent to be very circumspect when dealing with any hot-head getting in your face.
Simple, relevant and true.

[Smifffy]

Certainly those people qualify.
They are also the veterans of the virtually continuous war the US has waged since it's inception (save the four year period when Jimmy Carter was President).
They are also all the people who are trained to kill people - all ex-service personnel and those trained by private individuals and organisations.

The gang-bangers driving the streets of LA a dozen years ago shooting people on the street for fun may have contemporaries.
I have no desire to personally verify that.

My point was, and still is, that The United States of America is a very dangerous place because of the training and indoctrination of a large sector of the population.
For this reason one would be prudent to be very circumspect when dealing with any hot-head getting in your face.
Simple, relevant and true.

I personally have felt safer in "BAD" parts of various US cities than I have out the front of Manukau mall. True story.

[scumdog]

I personally have felt safer in "BAD" parts of various US cities than I have out the front of Manukau mall. True story.

Replace Manakau with 2 - 3 other NZ cities and I concur.

[Drew]

I've never been to the states. But I very nearly didn't get out of my car to go buy a drink, from a dairy in Otara.

It was like a scene from once were warriors! Not some where a skinny (at the time) white guy wants to do his Christmas shopping that place!